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Beacon Street upgrade faces two-year delay
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BROOKLINE -- When Frederick Law Olmsted designed Beacon Street in
the 1880s, he didn't anticipate the need for multiple lanes for
automobile traffic, parking for sport utility vehicles, or wheelchair
ramps at MBTA stops.
Today, it seems, the town is paying the price for his excusable
lack of foresight. Residents have fought and compromised on a
roughly $6.5 million improvement plan that attempts to integrate,
safely and harmoniously, all the streets' modern-day users.
Improvements, however, scheduled to start this year, have been
delayed at least two years. Town officials say the delay ...
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; ...spread destruction along a section of Beacon Street on Wednesday, July 7, 1824. The conflagration...alarming rapidity to the houses on lower Beacon Street as well as on Charles. Many of the...of the city. On the Common side of Beacon Street, a line of trees caught fire from the...
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REMEMBER when ... THE AMERICAN BAKERY WAS ON BEACON STREET
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TOO OLD FOR TOYS, TOO YOUNG FOR BOYS 'BEACON STREET GIRLS' BOOKS, SET IN BROOKLINE, OFFER TRUE-TO-LIFE STORIES FOR READERS AT AN IN-BETWEEN AGE
; LEXINGTON - Like any other devotee of the Beacon Street Girls, Addie Swartz is leaning forward...believable seventh- graders, the "Beacon Street Girls" series is a literary alternative...or Paris. By welcome contrast, the Beacon Street Girls rely on a combination of smarts...
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Beacon Street Girls are going global, with publisher's help
; The Beacon Street Girls are going global, thanks to...in Brookline. B*tween also runs a Beacon Street Girls website and markets an array...will help boost the value of the Beacon Street Girls brand. "There's a huge opportunity...
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New Beacon Street Girls Book Released.
; ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-9 June 2008-New Beacon Street Girls Book Released(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia...com B*tween Productions, home of the Beacon Street Girls, announced the release of the...called Time s Up and is among the first Beacon Street Girls (BSG) books to be released in...
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Beacon Street Mourning
; ...as the main character. Dianne Day's "Beacon Street Mourning" has all the elements of a...prefers her middle name to her first. Beacon Street Mourning is the first book in which...San Francisco to her family home on Beacon Street between Charles and Arlington streets...
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CHECK IT OUT: The Beacon Street Tavern
; ...close to Fenway Park, aptly named The Beacon Street Tavern, I was mildly intrigued. The skinny: The Beacon Street Tavern follows the trend of reasonably...visiting again. And with the spacious Beacon Street Tavern the interior walls were painted...
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Bank heist on Beacon Street
; CAMBRIDGE TRUST COMPANY AT 65 Beacon Street was robbed Tuesday, September 7, at...parked near the Hampshire House on Beacon Street. A patch of the red dye, from a pack...fingerprints on the back of a Jeep Cherokee on Beacon Street)
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ON BEACON STREET, THEY GO TALL TO STEM THE FLOOD TIDE
; ...twin edifices arose in the center of Beacon Street like wood cabins, a bizarre installation...to contain flooding, excavation on Beacon Street is slated to continue until July. At...very deep." Before it's complete, the Beacon Street Drainage Improvements Project will...
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