📸🧵: For #NationalDogDay, we've rounded up some of the best pup photos from the Globe’s archives.
These are good dogs. ⬇️
College students, left to right, Izzy Hendry, Molly Hitchens, Cassidy Gruning, and Madison Ricardo, and dog Wrigley, soaked up the sun in the Boston Common in shorts on this warm February day in 2020. (@SuzanneKreiter /Globe Staff)
This 2019 photo shows two service dogs, Syd (left) and Luna (right), meeting at a cannabis rally in front of the Massachusetts State House. (@SuzanneKreiter/ Globe Staff)
These Bruins dogs came dressed to the nines for Fan Fest, outside of TD Garden, ahead of Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals in 2019. (Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff)
In Framingham, pitbull Noggin is seen playing with pitbull puppy Kisses. (@keithbedford/ Globe Staff)
Jill Conway and her then six-month-old dog Teddy, met with other dog owners for coffee and a puppy romp in the Boston Common on a sunny Monday morning in 2016. (@dinarudick/ Globe Staff)
From the archive: In 1987, Nicolas Chimi, then nine, mimics his shar pei Rip Van Winkle at the Puppy Parade held at Caddy Memorial Park in Quincy across from Wollaston Beach. (Tom Herde/Globe Staff)
John Eason, of Dorchester, was joined by his dog Tiny while fishing off a pier at Carson Beach in Boston on August 10, 2019. (Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff)
Weymouth police officer Jen Pompeo gets a big greeting from her department's new golden retriever community resource dog in January 2020. (John Tlumacki/Globe Staff)
Globe correspondent @LaurenDaley1 rounded up the best Boston-area activities and treats, including doggy ice cream, dog-friendly hotels, and cruises for canines. bos.gl/DkaTrAC
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In 1974, a young woman’s mutilated body was found in the dunes in Provincetown. It was a terrible, grisly crime; her hands were missing and her head was nearly severed.
The mysterious case baffled investigators for nearly 50 years. trib.al/hAekAVN
It was one of the oldest cold cases in Mass. She was nicknamed “The Lady of the Dunes” because no one knew her real name— until today. She is Ruth Marie Terry. And here is a photo that the FBI released of her. trib.al/OL9zEdH
For decades, investigators attempted to solve the mystery of who this woman was. Her body, buried in St. Peter’s Cemetery in Provincetown, was exhumed in both 1980 and 2000 in an attempt to ID her. trib.al/mbTdeK7
Of the 51 million tons of plastic waste US households produced in 2021, just 2.4 million tons (5 percent) were recycled, new research shows.
The findings show that plastic recycling is a “myth,” says the analysis by environmental nonprofit @greenpeaceusa. trib.al/hLhzaC5
Plastic, which is made from fossil fuels, is notoriously difficult to recycle.
A major reason: There are thousands of varieties of the material, each with its own chemical makeup, that require meticulous sorting to be processed. trib.al/hLhzaC5
Hundreds of millions of tons of plastic are produced each year, which is a major problem for the climate:
“If plastics were a country, they would be the fifth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world,” said Lisa Ramsden, senior plastics campaigner for @greenpeaceusa.
There are 14 luxury “survival” condos in an undisclosed location in Kansas, and they are available now to cash buyers only.
The price? $2.4 million for a full-floor unit; $1.3 million for a half floor, plus condo fees from $2,625 to $5,250 monthly. trib.al/64GeXN0
Built between 2010 and 2013, the condos generated interest from the start. By 2020, it finally got a test run, when families showed up from across the country and hunkered down, most for several weeks, when the pandemic struck. trib.al/64GeXN0
Some of the underground community’s amenities include:
- Saltwater swimming pool
- Rock climbing wall
- Movie theater
- Dog park
- Volcanic ash scrubber (to clean the air in case of a catastrophic eruption 900 miles away at the Yellowstone calderas) trib.al/64GeXN0
Diana Kipyokei, the women’s winner of the 2021 Boston Marathon, was provisionally suspended by @aiu_athletics after an investigation found she violated the world’s track and field doping policies with a sample taken on Oct. 11, 2021 — the date of her win. trib.al/R1Rjiqp
Kipyokei’s first-place finish in the race will be disqualified if she fails to prove herself innocent in the appeals process, @BAA said on Friday. trib.al/R1Rjiqp
Kipyokei is facing two charges from @aiu_athletics, which is the independent body that combats doping in the world of track and field. trib.al/R1Rjiqp
Can’t poop while traveling? Advice columnist Meredith Goldstein gets it.
She reached out to Alain Veilleux, a researcher at Université Laval who specializes in metabolism and intestinal microbiota, to explain what’s happening — and not happening. trib.al/EPwtjd6
🧻 We’re dehydrated.
“When we take a plane, the air is very dry ... and sometimes we drink less,” Veilleux said. trib.al/EPwtjd6
Veilleux said that unless we prepare, we might avoid water because it would mean going into a place to buy it.
Boston city officials are hoping to revamp the country’s oldest public park over the next decade.
A grand reimagining calls for both ambitious new projects and more subtle improvements, with a goal of making the Boston Common more inviting and navigable. trib.al/1o00Q6F
A few of the proposed changes:
° Triple the size of the playground.
° Revamp the Frog Pond to include multiple fountains.
° Add a soccer pitch to the athletic fields.
° Install more restrooms.
° Offer a place to drink a glass of wine. trib.al/1o00Q6F
Those are just a few of the big changes that could be coming over the next decade to the park, according to a new master plan for the Common released by the city and Friends of the Public Garden on Wednesday.