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Boston renaming bridge for late Celtics legend Bill Russell
“Bill Russell showed us on and off the court that, to deliver a brighter future, you have to reckon with the past. He knew he had a platform, and he used it to push for a better world,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said
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Workers received threats after shutting down Norwood boy's ice cream stand, town says
A shuttered ice cream stand fundraiser has become a major success story for a young boy trying to raise funds for his brother’s hockey team, but officials say it’s also caused friction and threats to town workers who were just trying to do their job protecting public health. Danny Doherty, a 12-year-old from Norwood, Massachusetts, started selling homemade ice...
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Life begins at Dunkin' – for this newborn baby, anyway
There was a very special delivery on Route 6 in Brewster, Massachusetts, earlier this month. A young family welcomed their baby into the world on the side of the highway. And in true Massachusetts fashion, they waited for first responders in a Dunkin’ parking lot. On August 8, Rebecca and Danya Mahota were headed to the hospital when Rebecca’s water…
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New research finds proof this area is a major white shark hot spot
Enough white sharks are now visiting Cape Cod that researchers are calling it one of the world’s largest hot spots for the apex predator. About 800 white sharks swam through the Cape Cod area from 2015 to 2018, according to the new research, published Thursday in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series. It used a first-of-its-kind population survey for white…
