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A Look Back At Mary Hirsch, Who Opened The Door For Female Trainers At Derby Sponsored by: Mary Hirsch holding a horse named Jack Horner, with Max Hirsch looking on When Vicki Oliver takes Hidden Stash to the saddling paddock on Saturday, shell join a select group of trainers in Kentucky Derby history. Oliver will be the first female trainer to start a Derby runner in six years, and only the 17 th in the races 147-year history. In interviews on the subject, Oliver has made it clear sh...

The site is surrounded and even intersected by flood potentials—Sales Creek runs through the middle of the former racetrack, Chelsea Creek runs alongside it, there’s an adjacent tidal marsh, and, perhaps most significant, the Atlantic Ocean is less than half a mile away. These are known risks, and some measures have already been taken to prevent floods, including the use of tide gates and a 40-year-old pump station. The developers knew these preexisting protective infrastructures had limits...

Feeling, more than ever, the weight of a police badge Share One of my most treasured possessions is an old police badge. It was given to me by my grandfather, a Boston cop, more than 60 years ago. Topped by a majestic eagle, its only markings are the words “Police Department” and the number “615,” leaving me to forever wonder if he wore it as a lieutenant detective in Boston’s Chinatown, where they once named him honorary mayor. Or maybe as a security guard in his retirement at Suffol...

The docuseries points again to aging reputed mobster Robert Gentile, of Manchester, as...

Netflixs This Is a Robbery director reveals more mysteries, theories about Gardner art heist FacebookTwitterEmail When you think of the “biggest art heist in the world,” your mind likely fills with romantic images of slinky cat burglars, "Ocean’s Eleven" schemers in three-piece suits or Tom Cruise dropping down from a glass ceiling. In all likelihood, you did not immediately think of seedy car repair shops and a bunch of mafia guys named Bobby. But that’s the portrait painted by “This...

Netflixs This Is a Robbery director reveals more mysteries, theories about Gardner art heist FacebookTwitterEmail Netflix/Courtesy When you think of the “biggest art heist in the world,” your mind likely fills with romantic images of slinky cat burglars, Ocean’s Eleven schemers in three-piece suits or Tom Cruise dropping down from a glass ceiling. In all likelihood, you did not immediately think of seedy car repair shops and a bunch of mafia guys named Bobby. But that’s the portrait pai...

Local Alliances Put Some Cities on the Fast Track to Recovery Economic development agencies have created comeback plans for cities like Austin, Texas, and Tucson, Ariz., positioning them to rebound from the pandemic quicker than others. Sun Corridor, a regional economic development agency, sponsored a revitalization plan for Tucson, Ariz.Credit...Rebecca Noble for The New York Times April 6, 2021, 9:00 a.m. ET As vaccination rates increase and businesses start to reopen, cities across the count...

100% About three-fifths of that new parking (up to 6,760 spaces) and nearly two-thirds of the housing (7,150 apartments) would be concentrated in East Boston as part of the Suffolk Downs development, which boasts direct access to two MBTA Blue Line stations. That project is expected to be built out in phases over the coming decade. Outside the Suffolk Downs project, the BPDA approved 4,402 parking spaces, 5,197 new housing units, and 5 million square feet of space for com mercial, institutional...

A federal appellate court on Wednesday killed a case filed by the former owner of Suffolk Downs racecourse in East Boston, that accused Wynn Resorts of racketeering in its pursuit of a casino license in Massachusetts. Steve Wynn enthuses over a scale model of the proposed Encore Boston Harbor in 2016. (Image: Boston Herald) A panel of judges from the First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an earlier district court dismissal of the $3 billion lawsuit by Sterling Suffolk LLC. The suit claimed the ...

Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Democrat Ben Downing at Belle Isle Marsh Reservation in East Boston. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) The race for governor of Massachusetts has begun — even though Election Day is still more than a year and a half away. The incumbent, Republican Charlie Baker, hasnt said if hell seek a third term, but Democrat Ben Downing is already running. The 39-year-old former state senator, who announced his candidacy in the 2022 gubernatorial race last month, has defied the poli...