BOSTON – With spring in the air – for now, at least – many animals in the wild, including black bears, are getting ready to emerge from their lairs in search of food both for themselves and their newborn broods.
Massachusetts is the third most densely populated state in the country, with roughly 6.7 million people inhabiting about 5 million acres. Despite the crowds, the state's black bear population has been increasing in both numbers and distribution over the past 35 years.
BOSTON – Boston's historic Old North Church is uncovering ornate paintings unseen in more than a century with an $8 million renovation that started earlier this year – the church's third major renovation in its nearly 300-year history.
Part of the work on the North End neighborhood structure – known best for the tower where Paul Revere's two lamps were placed to signal the British army's movements toward Lexington and Concord on April 18, 1775 – will be to undo an earlier paint job.
