Page 8 - Boston Post News Today

Merlyn S. Pitzele (rhymes with ritzily), labor editor of Business Week,has insomnia. To while away the sleepless hours one night last winter,he wondered about the…

When my daughter came to me and said, “Mom, did you know there was a flood of molasses in 1919 that killed a lot of people?” I thought she had

One of the all-time great newspaper promotions was the Boston Post Cane. It spawned a tradition in hundreds of towns around New England, including Foxboro and several others in the

WINCHESTER — When Maribel Vinson Owen wrote her book, The Fun of Figure Skating, she advised, "You must have a good opening and a good finish, in other words, a

It’s the 150th anniversary of the birth of both the master of atonal music and the fierce editor of ‘The Torch.’ Vienna’s Arnold Schönberg Center brings the two together in a magnetic exhibition that commemorates their defiance of convention

WEST HAVEN, Connecticut (WFSB) — A man faces charges for stealing a truck in West Haven that carried $30,000 worth of ice cream.Police identified the<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/man-arrested-for-stealing-truck-with-30k-worth-of-ice-cream-in-it/">Read More</a>

For more than a century, when selectmen here honored the town’s oldest resident, the title came with a distinctive trophy: a gold-topped, ebony walking cane, engraved with the town’s name, that was theirs to keep for as long as they might live.

Richard Bradford Parks, a 99-year-old veteran of World War II and former lobsterman, woodcarver, game biologist, and state conservation official, is officially Harpswell’s eldest resident. Harpswell Select Board Chairperson Kevin Johnson presented Parks with the town’s Boston Post Cane during a ceremony at the Town Office on Thursday, Jan. 25. Parks’ son and daughter-in-law attended […]

Waterford ― The Planning and Zoning Commission on Tuesday unanimously approved construction of a 122-room hotel on Boston Post Road despite concerns by some commissioners and residents about the proje...

A string of ATM thefts have forced police to issue warnings to numerous Westchester, New York businesses.