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Boston Wire (Page 8)

Comprehensive News Feed for Boston, MA.

Results 141 - 160 of 82,954 in Boston, MA

  1. A look at the Giants, Jets, Bills campsRead the original story

    Thursday | PressConnects.com

    ... go: Take Interstate 88 to Interstate 90 east to Exit 24. After the tollbooths, proceed onto Interstate 90 east toward Boston. Take Exit 2 (Washington Avenue), right onto the University at Albany campus. Follow University Drive (heading south) ...

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    Related Topix: Hempstead, NY, Pittsford, NY, Albany, NY

  2. Student achieversRead the original story

    Wednesday | Hometown Life

    ... Birmingham has completed a two-year training program in preservation carpentry at the North Bennet Street School in Boston. She will begin her career working in historic preservation for the National Park Service in Fredericksburg, MD. Founded in ...

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    Related Topix: Birmingham, MI, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Valparaiso University, Dartmouth College

  3. Bolster a gift that invests in BostonRead the original story

    Jun 23, 2008 | Boston Business Journal

    Boston's Dudley Street corridor is a living, thriving example of the transformational power of a community that believes in itself.

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  4. Our view: Taxpayers have reason to be restiveRead the original story

    Thursday | SalemNews.com, Salem, MA

    Will it be Peabody's "dozing dispatcher" or the "disabled" bodybuilder from the Boston Fire Department that becomes the poster boy for this fall's tax-repeal effort? Both are worthy candidates with good lawyers ...

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    Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Wildfire, Fire, Opinion

  5. Local comics to battle it out SaturdayRead the original story

    Thursday | SalemNews.com, Salem, MA

    ... Oregon and Iowa for acting and comic gigs. Maria Ciampa, a Beverly native who performs stand-up and improv in Boston clubs, will appear in "The Battle of the Comics" on Saturday and participated in the "The Battle of the Improv" show last year. ...

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  6. A trip well worth guzzling gas forRead the original story

    Thursday | Rankin Ledger

    ... Delaware and the Hudson, and a little too much of the Massachusetts Turnpike. We stayed with friends in Maine, toured Boston and visited friends in Scranton, Pa. It's not hard to understand our culture's fascination with the road; it's almost ...

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    Related Topix: Rankin County, MS, Opinion

  7. - I'd like to know about the aviator Earle Ovington.'Read the original story

    Thursday | Santa Barbara Independent

    ... history. Ovington began to develop a reputation as a pilot of rare skill. He was the first aviator to overfly Boston; he won events worth $2,500 and $10,000 in Ohio and Massachusetts, respectively, and was a money winner in a major aviation meet in ...

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    Related Topix: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York Metro

  8. Prodigy Lawrence Fields comes home for CWAH Jazz BrunchRead the original story

    Thursday | St. Louis American Newspaper

    ... Bistro to benefit Community Women Against Hardship. St. Louis' own Lawrence Fields, a prospective August 2008 grad of Boston's prestigious Berklee School of Music, will be back in town July 27 to join saxophonist Jeffrey Anderson, trumpeter/fluegle ...

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    Related Topix: St. Louis, MO, Entertainment

  9. When life hangs by a tubeRead the original story

    Thursday | The Boston Globe

    ... sleep lightly, always aware of the machine's gentle wheeze. When Leahy read in the newspaper last week that an East Boston teenager living on a ventilator had died during a power outage, it was a sharp reminder of her own child's fragile existence. ...

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    Related Topix: Newton, MA

  10. Strathmere's complaints not unique, official saysRead the original story

    Thursday | Press of Atlantic City

    ... its boat ramps are hard to navigate, they should try putting a boat in at Beesleys Point, he said. "Only the smallest Boston whalers can get out at low tide. If you put in at high tide, don't plan on coming in at low tide, because you're not getting ...

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    Related Topix: Sea Isle City, NJ, Strathmere, NJ

  11. Surrogate moms fulfilling parenthood dreamsRead the original story

    Thursday | Pretoria News

    ... as something so weird or strange," said Sanford Benardo, president of the Northeast Assisted Fertility Group from Boston, Massachusetts. "More and more people are doing it," said Bernardo, whose company has clients from Asia to the Middle East and ...

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    Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian

  12. Pol sparks battle of sexesRead the original story

    Thursday | Boston Herald

    ... Carol Hardy-Fanta, director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston, begged to differ. "It's as if women don't count," Fanta huffed about the current practice. "Some people will say this is a ...

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    Related Topix: Groton, MA

  13. Suspect shot in drug bustRead the original story

    Thursday | Boston Herald

    tate and city cops wrapping up an undercover heroin buy in East Boston last night shot one of the suspects they had pulled over on Princeton Street, police said. The suspect was described by police sources as a man about 18 years old. He was treated ...

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    Related Topix: East-Boston, MA, Medicine, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Drugs

  14. Lights out for 2 suspects in BrightonRead the original story

    Wednesday | Boston Herald

    ... lights and were subsequently arrested, police report. Joseph Dyer, 36, and Antonella C. DeLuca, 32, both of Boston, were arrested and charged with prostitution-common nightwalking late Monday night in the South End, police report. Police said that ...

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    Related Topix: Brighton, MA, Brighton (Boston, MA), South End (Boston, MA)

  15. A first for Habitat: 'solar saltbox'Read the original story

    Wednesday | Boston.com

    ... for everyone involved, said Dyer, whose day job is working as a principal land surveyor for Cubellis Inc., a Boston design firm. Dyer and other construction professionals who've worked on the Braley Road house have gotten acquainted with new ...

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  16. Union hammers out office planRead the original story

    Wednesday | Boston Herald

    ... - and eye-catching - display down the line. The 24,000-member labor group recently acquired the Archdiocese of Boston's one-time laundry facility at 750 Dorchester Ave. The group plans to renovate and expand the vacant building. The new headquarters ...

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    Related Topix: South Boston (Boston, MA)

  17. Dormont DogsRead the original story

    Wednesday | Pittsburgh City Paper

    ... bun; Jason can attest that the kind that come eight to a pack don't hold up so well to this treatment. The beans were Boston-style, but not too sweet, which helped them complement the sophisticated flavors of the dogs. The potato salad, flavored ...

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    Related Topix: Dormont, PA, Dining, Life, Dining

  18. All Boston, all the timeRead the original story

    Wednesday | Universal Hub

    Boston Police report arresting a local guy and a Tewksbury resident on robbery and assault and battery charges shortly after 11 p.m. yesterday in Chinatown.

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    Related Topix: Tewksbury, MA, Allston (Boston, MA), Chinatown (Boston, MA), Brighton (Boston, MA)

  19. Local designers make art of the old cotton standbyRead the original story

    Wednesday | Boston Globe

    ... beautiful, dark, and intricate designs from really talented graffiti and street artists." Inspired by the success of Boston T-shirt magnate Johnny Cupcakes, Boston has become a hotbed of fresh-out-of-art school painters, sculptors, and graphic ...

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    Related Topix: Graphic Design, Arts, Massachusetts College of Art

  20. Downtown condo sales slide 15%Read the original story

    Wednesday | Boston Globe

    A slowdown in the number of available modern condominiums contributed to a 15 percent decline in sales in the downtown Boston real estate market during the second quarter of this year.

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    Related Topix: Housing, Foreclosures