Results tagged “novascotia”

• No Christmas shopping season is complete without a list of unsafe toys like the SupaSplat SplatBlaster. [WCVB]

• The Boston Police offered college students some tips on holiday safety like locking your dorm or off campus housing before heading home for Thanksgiving. [BPDNews.com]

• The city's Christmas Tree has arrived from Nova Scotia. [CBC News]

• Local food pantries are short of supplies for Thanksgiving meals given to those in need. [Herald]

Walking to work today, Bostonist saw two people a day early in their full-out St. Patrick's Day Irish gear (green paper hat, "all about drinking and Irishness in a hard-drinking, heavily Irish town. But part of us clings to the belief that if people only knew more about Evacuation Day - commemorating an actual Revolutionary War victory in Boston (unlike Bunker Hill Day) - they would embrace it as we do. To that end, some... more ›

Nothing can ever go off without a twist of irony in this city, can it? It seems that there is some issue with the tree lighting ceremony scheduled for this Thursday night at the Boston Common. For the last 63 years, the city of Boston has lit a big Christmas tree in the city and for the last 34 years, the white spruce has been sent as a gift from our friends in Nova Scotia.... more ›