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Sunday Road Closures
The following announcement was sent in by a devoted reader: Area road closures on Sunday, Sept. 26 from 7 am to noon The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) will close several roadways in Boston on Sunday, Sept. 26 to accommodate the thousands of riders expected for the Hub on Wheels charity bicycle ride through [...]
News Notes – September 24
Children’s Hospital gets help from Kohl’s Globe Staff – September 24, 2010 Children’s Hospital Boston said that the Kohl’s department store chain helped it raise $458,000 for a hospital program that seeks to reduce childhood obesity in the area’s lower income families. The donations were collected from Kohl’s stores in the Boston area, Children’s Hospital [...]
News Notes – April 9 – Appomatox, 1865
Playing back her dramatic fire rescue – ‘I was just lucky, so lucky,’ she says By Milton J. Valencia – Globe Staff / April 9, 2010 They found her engulfed in black smoke, on her knees, her face against a door, as if she were gasping for any air she could get through an opening. [...]