Jan 29, 2025 · Staff Report Josh Kraft, president of the New England Patriots Foundation and former CEO and president of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston, will be a candidate for mayor of Boston in the 2025 election. Kraft, who is the… Read more →

Month: December 2024 Healey, Driscoll, GM Eng Celebrate Removal of Slow Zones on ‘T’ for the First Time in 20 Years

The City Of Boston celebrated New Year’s Eve with First Night events throughout Downtown. A parade marched from City Hall to the Public Garden culminating with a fireworks show on Boston Common. The city welcomes 2025. Above, The Greater Boston Chinese Cultural Association marches in the parade. Right, Kara Casey marches with The Puppet Free Library. See pages 6 and 7 for more photos.

Dec 5, 2024 · Special to the Patriot-Bridge The National Parks of Boston will host a gathering of remembrance at the USS Constitution Museum followed by a wreath-laying ceremony on the World War II-era destroyer USS Cassin Young to remember and honor those who perished in the December 7, 1941 attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. USS Cassin Young was named in honor of U.S. Naval Commander ...

Boston Mayor Michele Wu and Police Commissioner Michael Cox, along with Isaac Yablo, a senior city advisor for public safe-ty in the mayor’s ofice, held a press conference at Boston Police Dept. (BPD) headquarters this past Friday to highlight the signif-icant reduction in the murder rate and shootings in the city in 2024. Cox began the session by …

Jan 30, 2025 · The U.S. presently ranks among the most obese nations in the world and the trend had been predicted to climb upwards. However, for the first time in decades, obesity rates among Americans declined in 2024, reversing decades of our unhealthy collective weight gain as a nation. (The average American male today weighs 30 pounds more than he did in 1960 and the average American female today weighs ...

DiDomenico’s energy siting bill signed into law Special to the Patriot-Bridge mental advocates and constituents on this legislation to ensure com-This past fall, the Governor munities like those in his district signed a climate omnibus bill into have more control over which law, S.2967, which includes key energy projects get developed in language from Senator Sal DiDo- their neighborhoods ...

Nov 28, 2024 · Winter Fest, a large-scale, immersive winter experience has transformed Hood Park in Charlestown into a dazzling wonderland featuring a breathtaking festival of lights. From December 5th through January 25th, guests can enjoy ice skating, an Après Ski Veuve Clicquot Gondola Lounge, charming shopping vendors, festive food & beverage, and a life-size ice castle adorned in twinkling lights ...

Jan 2, 2025 · It’s hard to believe that another year has passed and that 2025 is here — and that we now are entering the second quarter of the 21st century. For those of us who are close to three-quarters of a century in age, as we look back at the quarter-century markers of our lifetime, we realize that when we were young, everything from the past seemed like very, very long ago. For example, when we ...

Jan 15, 2025 · Special to the Patriot-Bridge This summer, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) opens the 2025 Watershed season with Chiharu Shiota: Home Less Home, on view May 22 through Sept.1, 2025. The exhibition features two large-scale installations by the Berlin-based, Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (born 1972 in Osaka, Japan), including the debut of a new commission made for the ICA ...