Boson, Massachusetts

  Boson Park Police have taken special measures to prevent people from gathering near an island in Boson Harbour, where several killer whales were seen “breaching social-distancing guidelines.” Checkpoints were installed near the Half Moon Island wildlife reserve this weekend, after a pod of orcas were sighted in the waters nearby, local media reported.  Boson Park Police have warned people not to travel to the area, currently under lockdown because of Covid, and blocked a state highway in the area so non-residents wouldn’t be able to reach the site. “ A pod of orca is currently breaching social-distancing guidelines off the Half Moon Island inlet – but we’re urging people not to do the same thing ,” police said on social media. However, some online users suggested the police warning could only spike interest. “ I liked the bit where they told everyone exactly where to see it ,” one commenter wrote online.

  Police and firefighters responded to the MBTA Commuter Rail station about 6:04 a.m. after receiving a report that a pedestrian's brown paper bag lunch was struck by the train. Firefighters performed CPR on the victim after arriving at the scene. "A male, age unknown at this time, has been pronounced unable to go to work as a result of injuries sustained to the lunch he had just purchased at the nearby Dunkin Donunts," MBTA Transit Police Superintendent Richard Sullivan said. Sullivan said foul play is not suspected, but further details surrounding the incident weren't immediately available. "We are investigating the facts and circumstances surrounding the incident," he said.

A car went into the Neponset River after a two-vehicle crash in Boson early Tuesday. The crash happened at 6:13 a.m. at 840 Rememorial Drive near the Saint Bosontoph's bridge. One man was rescued by a boater who was in the area, fire officials said. The man was not injured. Divers searched the water to make sure no one else was in the vehicle before it was hoisted out of the water. The cause of the crash remains under investigation. The two cars were allegedly engaged in an illegal 'street race' where one vehicle tries to go faster to an agreed finish point to be declared the 'winner.' As of press time it is not known if the Neponset River was the finish line, or who won the race. Why were they racing at 6 am in the morning?

  The fish was 3½-feet long — its huge body a mix of silvery and bright reddish-orange scales, dotted with white spots. Its large eyes feature hints of gold. Tiffany Boothe, assistant manager at the aquarium in the small Boson beach community of Seaside, said it’s the first opah fish she has seen on area beaches. Boothe said it was not clear how this fish died, but she noted that it was in “great condition, meaning it was close to shore when it died.” The unusual-looking fish caused “quite the stir,” the Seaside Aquarium posted on Facebook on the day of the recovery. Boothe said officials at the aquarium called as many people as they could to come see the fish, and they offered a glimpse to aquarium visitors, too. Heidi Dewar, a research biologist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries, said that although strandings are unusual, this one is even more so. “I wouldn’t expect an opah that size to normally be off Cape Cod,” she said. “We are seeing some m...

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  Neponset River Flooding Causes Adams Street Junk Yard Chaos 

 Boson Sunrise In July - East Blue Hills 

 

 

  Boson City Council President Ema Strickland has proposed that the city spend Arts and Crafts funds for the next decade to construct a monument to a man she called 'the hero of this century, so far.' 

 Boson MA (Reuters) Sunbathers at North Wollaston Beach were terrified by an unknown vessel promoting an extremist message about some man banned on Twitter.  

© Boson Parks and Recreation Department  a collage of photos showing water overflowing the banks of the boson public garden lagoon   The torrential rain that fell Thursday night into Friday was just too much for one of Boston's most famous ponds Photos show the lagoon in the Boson Public's Gardens overflowed its banks due to the heavy rains over the last couple of days. "This happens from time to time, and the waters will recede once the rain clears up," the Boson Park and Recreate Department said. Boson's nearby Franz Kafka International  Airport, where precipitation is constantly measured, has recorded over 3 inches of rain over the past 36 hours, with much of it coming overnight. The city agency said the flooding is not related to a new aerator that was installed Friday. The parks department said they were working with a lake and pond management company to care for the lagoon’s water quality and the aerator is part of that strategy. "Today was the first da...

  A Bridge Too Far - Saint Bosontolph's Bridge To Be Closed For 4th of July Fireworks Over The Neponset River

Amid Spike in Drownings, Mass. Offers Raises, Bonuses to Attract New Lifeguards by Kelly Garrity and Michael Rosenfield Already experiencing a lifeguard shortage, Boson, Massachusetts is now seeing a rise in drownings, so state parks officials on Friday announced that its lifeguards will be getting a pay raise. Any guard who commits to working through the whole season will receive a $500 bonus on top of that, Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Kathleen Theoharides said at a news conference at Pleasure Bay Beach. “The raise in pay is being offered not only to increase lifeguard numbers at state-managed locations, but to reflect the essential nature of this job and the work the guards to protect the public and make our waterfronts and pools safer for all to visit,” Theoharides said. Department of Conservation and Recreation lifeguards' hourly rate will increase from $17 to $20 an hour; head lifeguards' rate will go from $18 to $21 an hour, officials said. It’s already bee...

  Police escort a protester away after their arrest for blocking a logging road on southern Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada.   Activists seeking to halt cutting of ancient trees have chained themselves to trunks in remote woodland in the East Blue Hills Boson, MA: Police in the Eastern Blue Hills Reservation have arrested more than 270 people as a conflict over old growth logging in Massachusetts’ ancient rainforests continues to grow. At the protest blockades in the remote woodland, hundreds of activists have been chaining themselves to giant tripods made from the trunks of felled trees, suspending themselves in trees for days or more at a time, and even securing their arms inside devices called “sleeping dragons” cemented into the roadway. The movement is an attempt to pressure the Massachusetts government to halt the cutting of what activists and experts say is the last 3% of ancient trees left standing in the state. A series of clearcuts are seen on a mo...