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There’s a Smorgasbord of Boston Food Festivals Happening This Weekend
It’s sunny outside, the temperature is rising, and spring is in full swing around the city. To celebrate, get outside and check out one of the multiple food festivals happening around town this weekend, from the long-awaited return of Japan Festival Boston to the Big Queer Food Fest in Downtown Boston. Check out details on everything below:
Another cold start, but milder temperatures expected for the weekend
We had another widespread hard freeze across all of New England with freeze warnings Friday morning in southern New England and along the coast. Temperatures dropped to the 20s in many more spots compared to Thursday morning. This afternoon will be nice and sunny again thanks to high pressure settling in.
Police find worker dead behind business Saturday
FRAMINGHAM — Police are investigating an apparent homicide outside a Framingham business Saturday night, officials announced. Framingham police were notified to a business on Worcester Road around 10 p.m. Saturday night where a 30-year-old man was found dead in the trash area behind a building, police said. The man, a current Framingham resident whose identity was not disclosed in the report, had suffered physical trauma.
Why beavers are essential to improving the climate and preventing wildfires
STOW - Beavers are small, but mighty creatures, but they are often given a bad rap as destructive. Commonly cutting down trees to build their homes.But beaver dams also help create environments that can actually improve our climate.Beavers create wetlandsDuring an outing with the Department of Conservation and Recreation's Dave Wattles in Stow, WBZ's Jason Mikell walked through the woods to find a beaver dam."They're really seen as a keystone species because of the way they create these wetland systems," says Wattles."By having these wetland suites, it creates an environment for a variety of wildlife species. amphibians, our reptiles, our...
$1M Powerball Lottery Ticket Bought In Medway
A player from Medway has won $1 million in the Powerball lottery. The AED Nominee Trust claimed on Thursday, April 25, the seven-figure prize from the April 3 drawing. The jackpot topped $1.08 billion. Related: Meet The Man Who's Won The Lottery More Than 50 TimesThe ticket was pur…
Triston Casas clarifies nature of injury, likens it to ‘car crash’ inside body
BOSTON — Triston Casas does not, in fact, have a fractured rib, but rather some fractured cartilage which connects his ribcage to his sternum. “No ribs were fractured, so it’s not a bone thing. It’s more a cartilage thing. The way that the doctors explained it to me,” offered Casas, “is one isn’t better than the other. If it was. muscle or a bone or cartilage, they’re all similar timetable schedules. It’s not like one’s better than the other, Everything in the midsection takes a long time to heal and mend and there’s a lot of torque and rotation that happens during your swing that needs to be perfect. As of right now, it’s just a lot of rest to help it heal. But no real rehabilitation process to go through for this type of injury.
Two new MBTA operators talk about their trips to the driver’s seat
Peterson Desir has been riding the Red Line since he was a kid, and for the last several months, the 33-year-old Dorchester native has had the best seat on the train — the driver’s chair. He is one of 23 new heavy rail drivers who have been hired and trained by the MBTA as part of a larger push to fill open jobs throughout the agency.
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