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Workers remove the “Emancipation Group” statue from its pedestal in Park Square. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) It's not a sight you see every day. On Tuesday morning, a towering crane lifted an approximately 2,800-pound statue off the granite pedestal it's occupied since 1879. Inch by inch, its two bronze, human forms rose above Boston's Park Square swaddled in bright blue movers' blankets. Wrapped over the figures' heads, the coverings resembled executioner's hoods. A small crowd gathered on the sidewalk below to witness the city of Boston following through with its promise to remove the historic ...

Updated Dec 29, 2020 Boston Removes Statue Of Slave Kneeling Before Lincoln The statue was to be placed in storage until the city decides whether to display it in a museum. William J. Cole A statue of Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave appearing to kneel at his feet — optics that drew objections amid a national reckoning with racial injustice — has been removed from its perch in downtown Boston. Workers removed the Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Emancipation Group and the Freedman’s Memorial, early Tuesday from a park just off Boston Common where it had stood since 1879. City ...

Funding distribution I READ the D&S article “One town focus on PM’s cycle funding” (D&S Times, Dec 4) about North Yorkshire County Council’s decision to allocate the vast majority of its £2bn funding for walking and cycling in one town with growing incredulity and mounting anger, echoing Cllr Parson’s view this decision is “absolutely appalling “ and “beggars belief" on a number of counts. The decision to go ahead with such a maldistribution of public funds represents blatant inequity and clearly negates the council’s responsibility to ensure parity of infrastructure ac...

By Jenna Garrett on March 27, 2014 Jennifer Layton, Devon. Developed severe tinnitus and then insomnia and heart palpitations after a next door neighbor in her terrace had wi-fi set up in their home. She is photographed at a friend’s home on the edge town. She felt more at ease here away from the ‘electro-smog’. Damian May, Reading, Berkshire. May is a skilled cabinet maker and runs a property maintenance company. He discovered he suffered from EHS after buying a Nintendo Wii for Christmas. His electrosensitivity has made it very difficult for him to run his company as he finds it painf...