Wednesday, April 17, 2013
The Chinese national was studying statistics at Boston University. She was killed in Monday's bombing at the Boston Marathon.
A Chinese newspaper has identified the third Boston Marathon bombing victim as Lu Lingzu, a Boston University graduate student, according to the Associated Press. Lu, from Shenyang, China, was studying statistics in Boston. A second Chinese national and BU student, Zhou Danling, was also injured in the blasts. She is listed in stable condition in a Boston hospital, according to Chinese officials. Lu's death has led to an outpouring from friends, family and concerned neighbors in China. Lu's Sina Weibo page already has 20,000 comments from shocked and upset friends (Sina Weibo is a Chinese social media service that combines Twitter- and Facebook-like features). A former neighbor in China was elegiac when talking about Lu on his Sina Weibo …
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Boston TV icon hosted a children's show in the 1950s-1970s. Do you have any photos from back in the day?
Rex Trailer, a Boston TV icon who had been recovering from pneumonia recently, has died. Trailer hosted “Boomtown,” a children’s show with a Western theme on WBZ-TV from 1956-1974. How did a Western cowboy make his mark in Boston? According to Wikipedia, his corporate overlords gave him a choice of Cleveland or Boston. But he's remembered for more than his cowboy get-up. The Boston Globe wrote in an editorial last year: Kids adored Trailer’s rodeo tricks. But mostly they adored him for his consistent kindness and competence. Trailer was 84. A funeral is being planned, but no date has been set yet, according to his website. Meantime, what are your memories of Rex Trailer? Did you ever meet him or have your picture taken with him? If…
Friday, December 7, 2012
Christopher Weigl, who had been pursuing a master's degree at Boston University, was killed in a bike accident on Thursday morning on Commonwealth Avenue.
The cyclist who was fatally injured in a collision with a tractor-trailer truck on Commonwealth Avenue on Thursday morning has been identified. Christopher Weigl, 23, was struck by a 16-wheeler truck around 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, in the intersection of Commonwealth Avenue and St. Paul Street near the Agganis Arena. The truck had been making a right-hand turn onto St. Paul Street as Weigl traveled east on Comm. Ave. He was reportedly heading to class when the incident occured. The accident is still being investigated by the Boston Police Department. A Southborough, MA native and recent Skidmore College graudate, Weigl had been pursuing a master's degree in photojournalism at the Boston University College of Communication. He was already …
Friday, September 28, 2012
The longtime Boston University president and political figure in Massachusetts passed away on Sept. 27, 2012.
John R. Silber, who served as president at Boston University for more than two decades and was an influential--and controversial--figure in Massachusetts politics, died on September 27 of kidney failure at his home in Brookline. He was 86-years-old. Dr. Silber is credited with bringing Boston University from a commuter school to new levels of academic excellence, and was nearly elected governor of Massachusetts in 1990, losing narrowly to Bill Weld. Dr. Silber began at Boston University in 1971, served as president until 1996, then as University chancellor until 2003. During his tenure at BU, Dr. Silber expanded the university's campus, recruited accomplished professors and faculty, and improved BU's reputation considerably. Dr. Silber …
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Vote in our Patch Poll on the legacy of Neil Armstrong's historic first steps on the moon.
His family called him "a reluctant American hero,' who was just doing his job. But Neil A. Armstrong, who died Saturday of complications from heart bypass surgery, certainly was a hero. He was just shy of his 39th birthday when he lumbered down the ladder from the Apollo 11 spacecraft and stepped onto the stark lunar landscape on July 20, 1969. "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," he said, as Americans around the country watched in awe at the live footage from dark space, so far away. That step fulfilled a challenge President John F. Kennedy issued in the early 1960s —to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Armstrong began his career as a Navy fighter pilot and test pilot before being tapped for a highly …
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Former Patriot and Brookline resident passed away over the weekend. Share your memories of his presence in town.
Former Patriots Defensive Back, and a former Selectman and former School Committee member here in Brookline, Thomas Hennessey, died at age 70. According to his Legacy.com obituary, Hennessey passed on July 22 after a battle with cancer. He was born February 15, 1936 in Boston, and attended Brookline High School, where he was an All-state football player before graduating to the College of the Holy Cross in 1959. Per the Brookline High Alumni association says he was added to the High School's Hall of Fame in 1994. A statement from Holy Cross College describes him as a "standout quarterback," and adds that he won the 1963 Holy Cross Crusader of the Year award. After graduation, he taught at a high school in Brighton. "Tommy was a great guy…
Friday, July 20, 2012
A small gathering of family and friends celebrated the life of 60 Minutes star Mike Wallace this afternoon
Yesterday, Mike Wallace’s ashes were interred in a cemetery on Main Street in Vineyard Haven near his former home on Hatch Road. The small, informal gathering started at 4 pm and friends and family of the "60 Minutes" star gathered in the shaded cemetery near the home that was so import Wallace to remember the man who was so important to many. Wallace who made a name for himself as a relentless interrogator on “60 Minutes,” owned a home on West Chop where he and his family summered. Wallace spent his Island days among friends Art Buchwald, James Reston, and novelist William Styron. He died this past April at the age of 93 in New Caanan, Connecticut. Many notable friends attended the ceremony today including Rose Styron, Sissy Yates, …
Friday, June 15, 2012
Emma Blumstein, 24-year-old woman originally from Brookline, died in a crash in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning. No charges have been filed in the crash.
On Tuesday, June 12, a Brooklyn cycling crash took the life of a 24-year-old woman originally from Brookline, Emma Blumstein. Her obituary on the Levine Chapels website says she graduated from Brookline High School in 2006, and from Tufts in 2010 with a degree in English and a minor in Film Studies. Her family writes in the obituary, "Most of all Emma was wonderful person. Her extremely broad group of friends from every part of her life saw her as warm, considerate, loyal, supportive, fun and very funny with her quirky sense of humor. She was the best companion, buddy and confidant. We, her parents and sister, miss her beyond our ability to express our feelings of loss." CrownHeights.info, a local news site, reports that she was …
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
The 21-year-old West Newton resident and Boston College student tragically drowned in the Chestnut Hill Reservoir. His funeral was held earlier today in Chestnut Hill.
"He was my teddy bear." As Boston College student Katherine Corteselli shared memories of her best friend Franco Garcia, young college students sat alongside professors, priests, police officers and family members, dabbing tear-filled eyes with each recollection. "He gave the absolute best hugs...what I'm going to miss the most are those hugs," Corteselli said during today's funeral Mass for Garcia. Hundreds of people -- whether they knew Garcia or not -- flooded a St. Ignatius Church in Chestnut Hill this morning to say one last goodbye to the Boston College student whose life was tragically cut short when he drowned in the Chestnut Hill Reservoir. Garcia, 21, was a West Newton resident, a chemistry major and member of the school's …
Monday, April 9, 2012
Mike Wallace's hardball style was tempered by a side which some Brookline residents experienced. Share your stories.
Though he may be remembered for an aggressive interview style, Mike Wallace, journalist and Brookline native, had a softer side as well. Among Wallaces interviews are people like Alduous Huxley and Salvador Dali--to name just a few. The Boston Phoenix Blog described some of his exploits as Chuck Norries-esque, positing that he may be the journalistic equivalent of the martial arts star. However, today's Boston Globe obituary described the softer side of Brookline-native Myron "Mike" Wallace, who graduated from Brookline High in 1935 by way of the Runkle School, and summered on Martha's Vineyard. In the piece, he is described as "a pussycat" and "a good guy" by Brookline residents who met him. Wallace's Stepson, Eames Yates, told the …
Robert Thacker
9:23 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
I remember Boomtown well and can still sing the theme song, but does anyone remember that Rex hosted a Saturday afternoon bowling show from Bowlers World in Framingham.( RT 9 east at the current site of Legal Seafood) in the 60's. I was thrilled to appear on the show. It is difficult to imagine now, but bowling was huge in Massachusetts in the 50s and 60s. Rex's show was 10pin, but Candlepins … more ›