BOSTON — The tomatoes were sliced with great care. First in half, then one half was itself halved, and then one quarter was cut into bite-sized hunks.
As the scent of fresh tomato filled the Boston Public Market on Wednesday, judges prepared to sample the various shapes, sizes and colors of tomato in an effort to pick the cream of the crop.
Sept. 1 is traditionally the busiest moving day of the year in Boston, and the Department of Conservation and Recreation and the State Police are reminding college students and their parents not to drive overheight moving trucks on Storrow Drive, Memorial Drive, and Soldiers Field Road.
The roads, which hug the Charles River, have numerous low bridges and traffic is subject to vehicle height restrictions. Despite the restrictions and posted signs, there have been at least 25 recorded height restriction-based incidents on the roads since 2007 with a concentration around college move-in and move-out dates, according to DCR.
