BOSTON – Public spaces targeted by a City Hall design competition seeks ideas that would "reimagine" their appearance, Mayor Marty Walsh announced Friday.
"This competition serves as a great opportunity for Boston's talented and creative community to show us how we can use pilot projects to improve the functionality and attraction to our public spaces," Walsh said in a statement.
BOSTON – A trio of Marines who fought at Iwo Jima during World War II were honored Friday morning by officials who included Secretary of Veterans Services Francisco Urena.
Urena, a Marine himself, praised the vets at a ceremony in Memorial Hall to mark the 71st anniversary of the start of the bloody action, which took the lives of almost 7,000 members of the service. The five-week battle, the first on one of Japan's home islands, cost 21,000 Japanese lives by the time it ended on March 26, 1945.
