Seems somebody sawed of a tree branch hosting a giant hornet's nest at Fresh Pond and now the city wants it back - city park rangers who had been videoing it were planning to remove it this week to study the unusually large nest, Cambridge Day reports.
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Frank Solensky watched the sun go down over Fresh Pond in Cambridge this evening. He wasn't the only person to look up: Read more.
Steve Owens wandered along the banks of Fresh Pond in Cambridge late this afternoon.
Shoppers at Whole Foods stores across the Boston area are reporting serious shortages tonight - not of milk, eggs and bread, but of some fruits and green vegetables. Read more.
RoadTrip New England watched the (almost full) Harvest Moon rise over Fresh Pond in Cambridge tonight.
Near Fresh Pond, Wicked Local Cambridge alerts us. But don't worry:
There have been no reports of fisher cats attacking a person or domestic animal in Cambridge.
Ed. note: This is not the Fresh Pond fisher cat. This is the fisher cat Kevin Cosby hit with his car, then had stuffed and mounted.
Cambridge Day reports a city proposal would limit medical-marijuana dispensaries to the Fresh Pond area at one end of the city and NorthPoint at the other.
Andy Watson watched the sun go down over Fresh Pond in Cambridge.
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After several days cooped up inside, Ben takes his dog over to Fresh Pond for a romp. She's enjoying a tussle with another dog when a runner comes around a bend and trips over them:
... I then got a speech, interspersed with head shakes, sighs, long drawn out staring at his hands (that had gravel on them), and sounds of disgust. ...
Kurt in Boston went for a run around Fresh Pond one sunny morning when the mist was rising off the water and the dogs were everywhere. It inspired him to compose a haiku for the dogs of Fresh Pond.