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BOSTON – Snowflakes magically fell onto elders who filed into Boston's World Trade Center Wednesday and entered an exhibition hall packed with tables offering celebratory New Year's Eve hats and noisemakers. A barbershop quartet provided music for dancing and general conviviality. "This is the hottest event
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BOSTON – If the cold weather isn't enough to keep you cool, Jerod Mayo's signature frozen treat from Shake Shack restaurants around the Hub could do the trick, and all the proceeds of Mayo's LineShacker sales will benefit the Boston Medical Center. The New England
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BOSTON – New flood-zone maps put out by the Federal Emergency Management Agency expand the boundaries of parts of Boston at risk of being inundated and that may require thousands of property owners to buy flood insurance for the first time. The new maps reassess the risk of flooding in coastal
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BOSTON – Boston's pipeline to create affordable housing last year reached its highest level since record-keeping began, according to City Hall, which also said more than 28,000 city households would qualify for the units if enough existed. Even so, the city said the proportion of housing that is
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BOSTON – Fare hikes and other actions proposed for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority will be the focus of 10 public meetings set to gather input from people across Greater Boston. The meetings will take place through Feb. 11 to give the public a chance to voice their concerns, objections or
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BOSTON – Layered in cloaks, hats and scarves, customers brave the cold inside to sip icy cocktails prepared at the Frost Ice Loft above Quincy Market behind Faneuil Hall. Popular as a tourist destination, this unique bar serves up drinks chilled to below freezing in a room furnished and decorated entirely
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BOSTON – Sia, Disclosure, and Robyn will headline the seventh annual Boston Calling music festival, event organizers announced Thursday. It will take place Friday through Sunday, May 27-29, at Boston's City Hall Plaza. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. The 23-act lineup includes an array of
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BOSTON – Boston Police rejoiced Thursday as their "SWAT Cat," who had been missing for more than a month, sauntered back to the Roxbury station she left in November. "The officers are just happy that she was safe all this time," the department said in a statement