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Irish Star
The Irish woman who was the last 'witch' to be hanged during the Salem Witch Trials
Ann "Goody" Glover was an Irish Catholic washerwoman executed in Boston in 1688 — four years before the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Her case, driven by religious prejudice against Catholics, language barriers, and unsubstantiated spectral evidence, helped lay the groundwork for America's most notorious witch-hunt
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South End's Banyan Bar + Refuge Won't Reopen, Closing Books on 10-Year Run
Banyan Bar + Refuge, the South End gastropub known for its raw bar and treelike sculptures, has permanently closed and will not reopen following a kitchen fire that struck the restaurant last year. The closure ends a 10-year run at 553 Tremont St. for a South End restaurant. The decision...
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Boston Lights lantern show back at Franklin Park Zoo
Boston Lights: A Lantern Experience has returned to Franklin Park Zoo for its sixth year in a row, allowing animal lovers to get an extra glimpse of their favorites after hours. Many people over the years have been dazzled by the Boston Lights in Franklin Park Zoo. According to the...
miltonscene.com
Last week in Milton Neighbors: Blue Hills hunting zones, leaf blowers and Halloween trick-or-treat tips
Last week in Milton Neighbors: Blue Hills hunting zones, leaf blowers and Halloween trick-or-treat tips. Members of Milton Neighbors were busy last week, with 91 posts, 350 comments and 699 reactions between Sunday, October 25 and Saturday, October 31. A conversation about November hunting zones in the Blue Hills (99 comments, 199 reactions, 860 views) led the week’s new posts, followed by a question about Saturday morning leaf blowing (22 comments, 67 reactions, 341 views) and a Halloween night search for the best place in Milton for trick-or-treating (17 comments, 36 reactions, 4,816 views).
Patriot Ledger
Blue Hills deer hunt runs Nov. 2-25; hiking remains open
The annual archery deer hunt is underway at Blue Hills Reservation , with the park remaining open to hikers. Hunting runs Mondays through Thursdays from Nov. 2 through Nov. 25 in designated areas, with visitors advised to wear blaze orange. Bow hunters will be allowed in Blue Hills Reservation this month in an effort by the state's Department of Conservation and Recreation to decrease the area's white-tail deer population. The state issued up to 250 access permits to licensed archery hunters. The state introduced its first limited archery hunting season at the Blue Hills Reservation in November 2015 to reduce the overpopulation of deer. It has become an annual event each November spanning about 15 days. When is the 2026 Blue Hills deer hunt? Archery deer hunting at Blue Hills for 2026 is allowed from a half hour before sunrise to a half hour after sunset Monday through Thursday from Nov. 2 through Nov. 25, according to DCR. It will end the day before Thanksgiving. Where is hunting allowed in Blue Hills? The permitted hunting during the 15-days this year will include the following areas: Fowl Meadow, Little Blue, Great Blue, Brookwood Farm, Unquity Tract, Houghton's Pond, Lower Houghton's Pond
Caught in Southie
Does Your Dog Have What It Takes to Be South Boston’s Dog of the Year?
Calling all Southie dog owners! The South Boston Allied War Veterans Council is looking for the 2027 St. Patrick’s Day/Evacuation Day Dog of the Year, and your four-legged friend could take home the title. The fundraising contest officially kicked off on November 1st and runs through February 19th, 2027....
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Sprucing Up School Food With Gleaned Produce
Produce gleaned from local farms has been an ingredient staple at CommonWealth Kitchen (CWK) in Dorchester, Massachusetts since its founding days in 2009. A 2018 BioCycle article that featured CWK (scroll to end of post) reported that CWK processed over 2 tons of surplus Massachusetts apples purchased from the Boston Area Gleaners into 400 gallons of applesauce for Boston Children’s Hospital and the Boston Public Schools. That project helped lay the groundwork for CWK to collaborate with local gleaners to supply nutritious food to school districts in its region. Its facility in Dorchester houses a commissary kitchen that offers recipe development, ingredient preparation, cooking, packing and labeling and freezing if needed.
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The Lobster Rolls At This Massachusetts Harbor Shack Deserve A Place Among New England Favorites
Live lobsters and crabs wait in a water tank right inside the door, and the lobster rolls come out from behind the counter piled with meat. That’s how this harbor shack says hello. No fancy sign-off needed. The family business has been selling lobster on the waterfront since the...
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Pet of the Week: The amazing Todd
He once was lost, but now he’s found, and yes, Todd is pretty amazing. This 5-year-old Chihuahua-mix came to Broken Tail Rescue as a stray, and he’s currently being fostered in Charlestown. He weighs just 17 pounds and has a lot of confidence around people. Volunteers report, “his...
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Massachusetts Thrift Hunters Keep Coming Back To This Savers In West Roxbury, So Bring An Empty Trunk
About 5,000 fresh items hit this sales floor every single day. That’s not a typo, and it changes how you think about a quick thrift run. The store keeps nearly 100,000 secondhand finds out at any given time. Clothing, books, electronics, furniture, and dinnerware all share the space. That...
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harlemworldmagazine.com
Harlem-Born News Anchor Jim Boyd, Who Became A Boston Broadcasting Legend, Dies At 84
Jim Boyd, a Harlem native who built a celebrated broadcasting career in Boston and became a trusted face in New England television news, has died at 84. Boyd died Oct. 27, following health issues, according to the Boston Globe. His official cause of death has not been disclosed. The longtime...
The Enterprise
Hidden sign at Venus Cafe in Whitman sparks nostalgia and debate
Peter Drosos thought he knew what was behind the aging wood panels on the side of Venus Cafe. Brick, certainly. His family had plans to freshen up the exterior of the Whitman restaurant, including new signs and lighting. The old siding was showing its age, and Drosos had a vision for what would replace it. But on Oct. 17, when workers began removing the panels, something unexpected emerged. Beneath the blue siding was a painted Venus Cafe sign that had been hidden from public view for decades. What started as a routine renovation soon became a conversation about history, nostalgia and change. Longtime customers began sharing memories, while others questioned whether the past should dictate the restaurant's future. And for Drosos, the general manager of the family-owned business, the discovery presented an unexpected dilemma. A piece of restaurant history resurfaces The Enterprise learned of the discovery through a Facebook post in a group dedicated to South Shore bar pizza. A photograph showed workers removing siding to expose the old lettering painted across the brick exterior. By Oct. 23, the post had generated hundreds of reactions and tons of comments. Venus Cafe , located at 47 South Ave., was opened in
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classical-scene.com
Lights Out at the Gardner
Alarm Will Sound, one of New York’s premiere new music chamber orchestras, performed in the Thursday Night Music series at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Calderwood Hall, October 29th, 2026. Rather than presenting a concert of multiple works, conductor Alan Pierson lead AWS through Georg Friedrich Haas’s towering 2000 work in vain, one of the most talked-about pieces of the Spectralist catalogue. Heavily inspired by the work of Tristan Murail, the concert-filling 70-minute work also famously requires changes in the hall lighting to reflect its programmatic material, plunging the hall into darkness, even sans stand lights for performers and conductor, forcing musicians to memorize the music and play in the dark.