The Swellesley Report is filing dispatches from the front lines of a war that's erupted in normally bucolic Wellesley between people who just want to do some sledding and a gardening group that is trying to keep them off a prime hill to protect the tulips and other plantings at the bottom of the hill. Read more.
Patrick McMahon spotted a sledder on Boston Common today.
Jessica Burko spotted a ton of sledders at Fallon Field in Roslindale: Read more.
Since we couldn't get to the gym yesterday we did a modified late night workout at Hynes.
A bill, sponsored by state Senator Steven Panagiotakos of Lowell, is pushing for mandatory helmets for children, 12 and under, while sledding. This is being spurred on primarily by press coverage of two teenaged girls who have died in upstate New York in the past couple of weeks. In both cases, the sledders were sledding in locations that were marked for no sledding and one of the two trespassed in order to go sledding where she struck a tree on the hill of a golf course. But won't we all think of the children?
Arlington and Lexington have already announced schools are closing between 10AM and noon tomorrow, 19-Dec. What towns are next?
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