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With out of town guests visiting the cradle of the Revolution over the Fourth of July holiday, Bostonist made the pilgrimage down the red bricked freedom trail. In the North End near the Old North Church the fountain at the Paul Revere Mall was dormant. Dormant and disgusting. Full of nasty greenish stagnant water that sat in the pool without any flow whatsoever. It seemed an inviting pool for West Nile and EEE carrying mosquitoes to breed. The fountain makes the list of circulating fountains, those that recycle their water rather than continuously pump new water through the system and spitting in the eye of conservation efforts, even if it wasn't turned on yesterday. more ›

Um, because we dropped the ball when we should have been telling you about the upcoming Boston Winter Festival, in which the City's Parks Department teams up with various Vermont ski mountains and Toyota to put lots of fake snow on the Common and provide free snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, and other stuff. Lodrina, of course, knew this and helpfully sent us an excerpt from the Boston.com story. more ›