Month: May 2020

New Rangers

Photo by Steve Kruszkowski
The Boston Park Rangers welcomed a new class of seasonal Rangers with a ceremony held at Franklin Park on May 15 within proper social distancing guidelines.   This year’s class includes Brighton residents Tyler Bowman, Alexander Hartgrove, and Michael Materia, Dorchester residents MIchael McRae and Randall Pinkham, Jamaica Plain residents Eli King and Emily Wright, and Connor Decarlo of South Boston. The new seasonal Boston Park Rangers receive their certificates presented by Boston Parks Commissioner Ryan Woods and Chief Boston Park Ranger Gene Survillo in a properly socially-distanced ceremony in Franklin Park on May 15.  

Obituaries 05-22-2020

Carol Ann SenterLoving daughter, sister, aunt and great aunt Carol Ann Senter passed away at the age of 70 on May 3.  Carol was born in Quincy, the daughter of Shirley A. Senter and the late Arthur I. Senter.  She…

Letters to the Editor 5-22-2020

On Forest Hill Cemetery Dear Editor,   I thought it was only me who was shocked, disappointed and frankly more than a bit miffed by what seemed to me a little mean-spirited of  Forest Hills Cemetery’s all-of-a-sudden squishing visiting hours…

Memorial Day, 2020

This will be a Memorial Day unlike any that Americans have known. Ever since the official inception of the holiday on May 30, 1868, when the practice of decorating the graves of the fallen Union soldiers with flowers, wreaths, and…