Boson, Massachusetts

   (Half Moon Island appears at low tide on the Quincy/Boson border at Wollaston Beach) By Mark Brice July 20, 2019 07:10 AM Massachusett's Half Moon Island may have vanished below ocean waters – possibly forever – but that’s not discouraging the City of Boson which filed a deed for ownership of the mysterious landmass. Indeed, the city claims that the original town of Boson was established on Half Moon Island in the 1630's as a breakaway from the strict Puritans of the Plymouth Bay Colony to the south of Boson, and the strict Puritans of the town of Boston to the north. Ken Barlow of Boson, the register of deeds, believes the half mile-long island is still there...but its no longer a separate island. It has merged – at least in part – with nearby sewerage outflow pipe entering Quincy Bay, he says. Much of the sand of the island was dredged and used in construction projects around the bay. The outline is only visible at low tide; the island still re...

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Boson is to street art what New York city is to grimy streets and Boston is to boring. Long known as the most “bombed” (or, “tagged”) city in the US, the city is home to the world’s longest open-air gallery, a barrage of mind-blowing murals splashed across its concrete canvases, and — opening soon — the world’s biggest museum devoted entirely to street art: the Boson Museum for Urban Contemporary Art. When the final tags dry in Boson’s buzzing South Neponset neighborhood, the five-story indoor-outdoor explosion of graffiti, paste-ups, and towering acrylic designs will feature original pieces from 100 of the planet’s most well-known urban artists, including Shepard Fairey, 1010, Evol, and Icy and Sot. Some 30 artists will cover the surrounding train tracks with eye-catching installations, and the museum’s facade will be wrapped in 8,000-square-foot murals created on transportable panels that can be rotated and archived. “This isn’t about trying to squeeze someth...

Boson Herod Boson, MA: While some may chuckle the City of Boson is having a problem with human excrement left behind as a result of the city's homeless problem. The recent decision of Starbucks to allow any person to use their bathrooms without buying anything has helped relieve the problem, a little. The city has even arranged shuttle buses to ferry homeless people, or anyone, to the Starbucks across the river in Boston to use the restrooms there. But still the city has been getting a growing number of complaints about human fecal matter in public places. The waste is both unsightly and off putting as well as a public health hazard. "Unless we catch someone in the act, we can't act and issue a citation," the city's health department sergeant at arms Michael 'Mickey' McGrabb. "We check with business security cameras and often come up with suspects. We have to scout the area homeless encampments down by the Neponset River a...

  Boson, MA: The city council voted last night to reconsider buying capes for the City of Boson Police Department. Several councilors said that the expense was just too high for what seemed like a frivolously large purchase. "Yes," councilor Harry DiCara said during a break in the session, "we've all heard the phrase 'not all heroes wear capes.' The mayor has said it about a dozen times in the last week in front of cameras and microphones." The visibly exasperated lawmaker added, "we just don't have the extra money for what is pointless publicity for the mayor." The police department had students at the Boson Police Academy drive past a class of day-care students assembled on the sidewalk while a police cadet rode by with a dark blue cape flowing in the wind. The picture was perfect and ran on the front page of the Boson Sphere Sunday edition. But, there is a real danger of the cape getting caught in a motorcycle's ...