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Off Beat: The election is over, rats!
Plus: The Boston.com Turkey Tracker is live. You’re reading Off Beat, Boston.com’s collection of oddities, absurdities, and other only-in-New-England news. Sign up for the free weekly newsletter. Have an Off Beat story to share? Email it to [email protected]. We have weathered another election week, and what a...
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New Online Exhibit focuses on Natick’s Post Office Mural
On Oct. 17, a standing-room only crowd gathered at Natick Historical Society for the presentation of a new online exhibit about the mural John Eliot Speaks to the Natick Indians, located in Natick’s Post Office at 15 Common St. Painted by local artist Hollis Holbrook in 1937, the mural depicts the forced removal of the Indigenous inhabitants of Natick in 1675 during Metacom’s Rebellion, also known as King Philip’s War. They spent the winter on Deer Island in the Boston Harbor, where nearly half perished from starvation, disease, and exposure.
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Harvard event with Yo-Yo Ma, Stephen Colbert cut short by fire alarm amid student union demonstration
The Harvard Graduate Students Union denied having anything to do with the disruption at Thursday’s speaker event. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and comedian Stephen Colbert’s talk at Harvard University, which striking graduate student workers picketed at, was cut short Thursday when a fire alarm was pulled inside the venue, according to the student union.
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Somerville meetings, Nov. 9-16: Parking permits for people with driveways and seeing new school designs
These are just some of the municipal meetings and civic events for the coming week. More are on the City of Somerville website. City Council Traffic and Parking Committee, 6 p.m. Monday. This committee run by city councilor Naima Sait considers issuing parking permits just for car owners with driveways that would cost less and forbid street parking overnight and during street cleaning or snow emergencies; and talks about a review of traffic flows and enforcement practices around schools during student drop-off and pickups. Watchable by Zoom videoconferencing.
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Antidivestment councillors miss the point
When I saw the topic of divestment from companies tied to Israeli actions in Gaza cross my desk, I was sure we’d had the debate before, at the same time last year. Turns out, we did, in Somerville. Let’s look at an essay by Cambridge city councillors Patty Nolan and E. Denise E. Simmons (“Cambridge and its residents need one standard for human rights,” Oct. 27) about orders seeking divestment and a boycott.
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Dan Hurley on national championship rematch with Michigan: ‘It’s a lot better than playing a second-straight buy game at home with a 50-point spread’
BOSTON – It’s a rarity nowadays for a defending national champion to face off with the team they beat in the national championship in the same calendar year, with Friday’s tilt being just the second rematch of this caliber in the last 16 seasons (with the other being Michigan vs Villanova in 2018). But a rematch of that magnitude was on the docket Friday night at the TD Garden in Boston.
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Newton Weighs Reinstalling Four Parking Spaces on Florence St. Due to Safety Concerns
Newton’s Public Safety and Transportation Committee met Wednesday to discuss potentially reversing the Traffic Council’s decision to remove four parking spaces on Florence Street, spaces that some argue make the road safer. “I know there were options for temporary removal and then reverting back, but I feel that...