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Boston celebrates second COVID-era St. Patrick’s Day

Taylor Brokesh March 17, 2021
South Boston’s traditional St. Patrick’s Day Parade was canceled for the second year in a row.
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EDITORIAL: The Boston Marathon continues to unite the city, overcome challenges

Editors March 4, 2021
The marathon demonstrates how Boston traditions continue to persevere and connect us during a time of severe isolation. Perhaps it can also inspire us to fight against the COVID-19 fatigue and keep us Boston Strong through the last stretch of the pandemic.
Boston, from buzzing to bunkered

Boston, from buzzing to bunkered

Angela Yang April 29, 2020
Much of the bustling city of Boston is on self-enforced lockdown. Daily life is in a state of transformation as residents learn to live in homebound isolation. How did we get here?
Boston businesses prepare for the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in South Boston on Sunday. PHOTO BY CHLOE GRINBERG/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston celebrates St. Patrick’s Day traditions with local businesses

Josee Matela March 22, 2017

Thousands of Boston residents joined together to celebrate community at the 116th St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The streets of South Boston came alive with seas of green attire, recurring choruses of...

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EDITORIAL: St. Patrick’s Day Parade needs to adapt to social change

Editors March 12, 2017

Three years ago, Boston made history by allowing a group honoring gay and transgender military veterans to march in the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in South Boston. The group, OUTVETS, went on to...

The Veterans for Peace local chapter march in the St. Patrick's Day Peace Parade last year. PHOTO COURTESY OF PAT WESTWATER-JUNG

Veterans for Peace, ACLU file complaint, seek approval for St. Patrick’s Day parade

Felicia Gans February 19, 2015

Just over a month before the city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, the local chapter of Veterans for Peace and the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts filed a complaint on Feb....

The OutVets, a gay veterans group, will be allowed to march in the Boston St. Patrick's Day parade for the first time in March. PHOTO BY TIM PIERCE/FLICKR

First LGBT group to march in South Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade

Gabriela Arriaga December 20, 2014

The South Boston Allied War Veterans Council decided Monday in a 5-4 vote to include the veterans group OutVets in the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade scheduled for March 15, 2015, marking the first...

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