Giant bronze hands holding each other has been selected as the winning design for a 22-foot-high memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King slated for Boston Common.
Called "The Embrace," the monument is expected to take 12 to 18 months to build and to cost between $3 and $4 million, according to the BU Daily Press.
Voters in the western Massachusetts town of Heath have rejected a proposal by the town's selectmen to sell a closed school for $250,000 to a business that wants to use it to cultivate marijuana.
The proposal required a two-thirds majority at Town Meeting, but got only a simple majority, 95-77. (That's 55 to 45 percent and 20 votes short of two-thirds, but a local news story in the Greenfield Recorder describes the result as "just shy.")
