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BOSTON – With hot summer days ahead, the Frog Pond spray pool on Boston Common will soon offer a place for children of all ages to cool down. Beginning with an 11 a.m. ceremony on June 24, the wading pool and fountain will reopen amid a celebration of the landmark
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BOSTON – The award-winning Huntington Theatre won a reprieve from a looming shutdown, as officials on Thursday announced an agreement to let it remain in the Boston University Theatre building, its longtime home near Symphony Hall. A change in ownership of the property had raised the likelihood that the not-for-profit theater
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BOSTON – With the first day of summer just a few weeks away, the number of fun outdoor events and activities in Boston is growing strong. With a forecast calling for mild weekend weather, there are few excuses not to get outside during your off hours. Of course, this being New
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BOSTON – It turns out the new Boston Public Library president has been doing the job for almost a year, taking over long before first choice Jill Bourne rejected the post. Shortly after Bourne, the city librarian in San Jose, California, declined for personal reasons, the Boston Public Library Board of
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BOSTON – A divide separates older Bostonians from younger city residents in terms of access, while there are also distinct differences in needs between those in late middle age and those past 70, according to a report released Thursday by the Commission on the Affairs of the Elderly. Other major concerns
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BOSTON – Older adults in the Bay State fare much better in terms of their overall health compared with the rest of the nation. Moving up from sixth place, Massachusetts ranked first in a recent survey of the health of older residents, according to the state Health and Human services office.
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CAMBRIDGE – Hugh Herr, a leading developer of bionic limbs, won a Spanish prize for medical research on Wednesday for his work improving the lives of people who have lost arms, hands, legs and feet. Herr leads the Biomechatronic Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, where he developed
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BOSTON – City Hall is about to get even more data-driven as Boston Mayor Marty Walsh named Andrew Therriault, a Democratic National Committee employee, as his first chief data officer. Therriault, the director of data science at the DNC in Washington, will lead Walsh's data analytics team, which combines