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Swan Boats Return To Boston Public Garden

Matthew McDonald

Saturday, April 13 is day one of the 143rd Swan Boats season on the lagoon of Boston Public Garden.

The Paget family has been operating the Swan Boats, wooden paddle boats with a fiberglass swan in the bow, since 1877. The approximately 10-minute ride circumnavigates the two islands in the lagoon.

Around New England

One Year After Cape Cop Shot To Death, Little Has Changed

Matthew McDonald

A year after a Yarmouth police officer was shot and killed by a multiple-repeat-offender he was trying to arrest, several bills designed to make it easier to hold dangerous criminals haven't even gotten a hearing in the state Legislature.

Sergeant Sean Gannon was shot April 12, 2018 in Marstons Mills on Cape Cod by a man wanted on a warrant who had previously been charged with crimes 75 times.

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