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Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Honoring a historical holiday: My experience spending Patriots’ Day in Lexington

Alicia Hamm April 19, 2023
Although the marathon seemed to be the star event, I decided to spend the day taking a trip down history lane in Lexington.
Haley Alvarez-Lauto | Graphic Artist

Give Jewish Students a Break | All Politics Are Local

Yonah Gross October 11, 2022
Because BU does not take off for Yom Kippur, many students have to go through the hard decision of choosing between religious practices and academics.
boston marathon 2022

126th Boston Marathon brings energy, community back to Patriots’ Day

Daily Free Press Staff April 19, 2022
More than 28,000 runners from all 50 states raced from Hopkinton to Boston for the 126th Boston Marathon this Monday.
Heather Abbott Foundation Boston Marathon watch party

Boston Marathon runners raise money for customized prosthetics foundation

Stella Tannenbaum April 19, 2022
The Heather Abbott Foundation held a Boston Marathon Watch Party Monday while runners raised money for the foundation.
daffodil planted in a garden

Daffodils line Boston’s path toward spring, healing

Colbi Edmonds April 20, 2021
Marathon Daffodils delivered thousands of daffodils to frontline workers at Boston-area hospitals.
boston red sox players xander bogaerts, rafael devers and alex verdugo wear city connect uniforms

Red Sox to debut new uniforms for Patriots’ Day Weekend

Anna Stjernquist April 12, 2021
The “City Connect Series” uniforms were designed to celebrate Boston's unique culture.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: We need more ‘Wellness Days’ to keep students motivated and mentally healthy

Editors February 1, 2021
If BU wants to make sure its students are staying safe and healthy, it must take into consideration our mental health and provide us with significant breaks that are comparable to, or even more supportive, than our absent Spring Recess.
A runner at the 2017 Boston Marathon. For the first time since 1897, the Boston Marathon will not take place in person and will instead take on a virtual mode this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. PHOTO BY MADDIE MALHOTRA/DFP FILE PHOTO

Runners race in first ever virtual Boston Marathon

Katarzyna Jezak September 9, 2020
This is the first year without an in-person marathon since the inaugural race kicked off in 1897. 
Chefs serve lobster to a line of students at the Warren Towers Dining Hall in 2019. Lobster Night at Boston University is an annual tradition. ALI AUDET/ DFP FILE

Campus traditions to partake in

Cameron Morsberger June 12, 2020
In the last few months, students and colleges have undergone extreme change in response to the pandemic and social activism worldwide. But with the promise of on-campus courses this Fall, there are some practices that will persist through time.
7th Inning Stretch: A Patriots’ Day like no other

7th Inning Stretch: A Patriots’ Day like no other

Jacob Gurvis April 29, 2020

I have always loved Patriots’ Day. It marks the unofficial beginning of spring in Boston and the holiday is as integral to the identity of the city as clam chowder, the Freedom Trail and “pahking cahs...

Off the Post: Patriots' Day Perspective

Off the Post: Patriots’ Day Perspective

Chad Jones April 21, 2020

Massachusetts experienced Patriots' Day under unusual circumstances on Monday. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the holiday was without many of its annual events.  Since 1897, The Boston Marathon has...

Fans cheering on their friends or family members participating in the Boston Marathon by holding up big orange signs with letters on them.
SOPHIE PARK/ DFP STAFF

BAA hosts first Marathon Fan Fest

Evelyn Bergman April 16, 2019
The Boston Athletic Association hosted its first Marathon Fan Fest over the weekend for competitors and fans of the Boston Marathon. The events leading up to the Patriots Day race began on Friday afternoon and continued through Sunday evening, as Boston locals and international visitors alike took part in the festivities.
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