A member of the Friends of Christopher Columbus Park, Meredith Pisotelli, came up with a plan for FOCCP to stand in solidarity with the people of the Ukraine. Meredith Pisotelli designed a tree near the entrance of the park from…
Daffodils Line Marathon Route and Columbus Park Trellis
The entire root of this year’s Boston Marathon was aligned with thousands of yellow daffodils. The trellis at Christopher Columbus Park was lined with hundreds of them as well. Placing daffodils along the route is a way to remember the…
North Washington Street Bridge Construction Look-Ahead Through May 14
This is a brief overview of construction operations and impacts for the North Washington Street Bridge Replacement Project. MassDOT will provide additional notices as needed for high-impact work and changes to traffic configurations beyond those described below. Traffic Signal Work…
Alcohol Is Still #1
Americans have been dying prematurely at unprecedented levels in the past two years from a number of causes. COVID-19 has taken away almost one million of our fellow Americans, with the number still rising daily for the foreseeable future. Fatal…
Is Nuclear War Inevitable in Ukraine — and Beyond?
We don’t want to sound like alarmists, but in our opinion, the escalation both in military weaponry and rhetoric by the Western powers and the Kremlin is bringing us closer and closer to the brink of nuclear warfare in Ukraine.…
Guest Op-Ed: Let Us Never Forget Our Solemn Pledge
By Joseph Reagan On Memorial Day, 1945, the war in Europe had ended but the fighting in the Pacific continued, Lt. Gen. Lucian Truscott voiced remarks at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery at Nettuno, Italy. Turning his back on the assembled…