Boston, MA
Large crowd converges on Boston Common for ‘Hands Off!’ protest
The crowd quickly grew Saturday morning as protestors gathered around the Parkman Bandstand in Boston Common for a “Hands Off!” rally and march. Organizers said they expected 25,000 people to attend.
The Boston event was one of more than 1,200 “Hands Off!” demonstrations planned nationwide in opposition to President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, and the administration’s actions on government downsizing, the economy, human rights and other issues.
“We are here to protect our immigrant neighbors, to protect transgender family kin, and to really say we believe in true democracy,” said Claire Carl Miller, who helped organize Boston’s protest as part of the Unitarian Universalist Mass Action Network.
“It’s incredibly important to send a message to everyone across this nation that we can come together, united, and be inspired, hold joy for a vision of true democracy,” Miller added.
Phillip Martin
GBH News
Participants’ motivations to come out Saturday were wide-ranging.
Patricia Cooney drove down from Andover with a sign that read, “hands off our social security.” She told GBH News she is worried how the administration’s actions are going to impact her family.
“I have a disabled daughter who’s on Supplemental Security Income, and my husband and I are grandparents raising a grandson and he’s on MassHealth,” she shared. “My husband and I both still work, and we’ve created the structures necessary to support the situation in our family and this is very impactful for us.”
Protester Kate Merritt O’Toole said she was fortunate to retire after working for 40 years as an operating room nurse in Boston hospitals, including 12 years at a VA hospital. Now she is concerned about what her retirement will look like, and whether the people she used to care for will have enough support.
“Social Security is a concern,” she said, then adding to her list, “Medicare, reimbursement for research, care for our veterans, shutting back on programs for our veterans who are vulnerable and have mental health issues.”
Robert Goulston
GBH News
The protest began at 11 a.m. with Massachusetts AFL-CIO president Chrissy Lynch speaking to demonstrators at the Parkman Bandstand.
A sea of protest signs seemed endless as protesters then marched out of the Common, down Tremont Street and into Boston City Hall Plaza.
Outside City Hall, U.S. Sen. Ed Markey joined Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll and other political figures and activists in giving remarks to the crowd. The protest also included a performance from the Dropkick Murphys.
Robert Goulston
GBH News
Corey Sung, holding a Federal Unionists Network banner, marched alongside a coalition of federal workers. He works at Boston’s State Department passport office.
“For us, individual agencies are under attack all across the country,” he said. “Recently, we lost our collective bargaining rights. And this affected both our office here and over a million federal workers all across the country, so it’s time for us to start taking a stand against what’s happening against our services that we provide our communities.”
Maya Debettencourt, a college student studying in South Carolina, came with her mother.
“I’m really inspired by the amount of people who are out here today. Lots of really good signs. And I think it’s especially a good demonstration of what democracy really is,” Debettencourt said.
Janice Maloof, of Marshfield, said she is in a same-sex marriage, and they are teaching their two children to be accepting and inclusive.
“If everybody’s kind, I don’t think we would have a lot of these problems,” she said.
Boston, MA
Person stabbed in Mattapan, Boston police say
Boston police are investigating a reported stabbing Saturday night in the city’s Mattapan neighborhood.
Officers responded around 8:40 p.m. to the area of 95 River Street, according to police, and a victim was taken to a local hospital with unknown injuries.
No arrests have been made.
An investigation is active and ongoing.
Boston, MA
Snow briefly stops planes at Boston’s Logan airport
The snow hitting the Boston area Saturday has temporarily impacted travel at Logan International Airport.
A ground stop was issued in the afternoon for snow and ice at the airport, at least briefly grounding flights headed to Boston while departing planes were being deiced, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Flight delays were expected along with the ground stop, which was set to be reevaluated at 2 p.m.
The city was expected to get 3-6 inches of snow by the end of the day, though parts of the North Shore had already gotten about a foot of snowfall before noon on Saturday.
Snow began falling in Boston early Saturday, and it could drop half a foot in places around the area, with a winter storm warning is in place north of the city. Here’s the latest forecast — plus a look at the frigid temps on Super Bowl Sunday.
Boston, MA
Vermont men’s hockey takes down Boston College
CHESTNUT HILL – The Boston College men’s hockey team got ensnared in a Beanpot trap.
On the eve of a historic encounter, No. 11 Boston College was ambushed 6-1 by the Vermont Catamounts in a quantifiable trap game upset on Friday night at Conte Forum.
The Eagles fell to 15-9-1 overall and 10-6-0 Hockey East in their dress rehearsal for the 300th Battle of Commonwealth Ave. against crosstown nemesis Boston University, a rivalry that dates back 108 years.
“Probably,” said BC coach Greg Brown when asked if he thought his players were looking ahead to Monday. “We talked about this game a lot, for league standings, for national standings, everything is important and we weren’t sharp enough.
“We have to get over this in a hurry. We will take a look at it, regroup so we can be sharper. We know we can’t make those kinds of mistakes and win games.”
The timing of the milestone match could not have been scripted any better. BC and BU will play for the 300th time in the championship game of the 73rd annual Dunkin Beanpot Tournament on Monday night (7:30) at the TD Garden.
The defending champion Terriers will engage the Eagles for the 24th time in the title match. BU is going for its record 33rd Beanpot title while BC looks to secure its 21st. BU leads the overall series, 141-137-21.
BC advanced to the Beanpot title game with a 5-1 victory over Harvard. Boston Bruins 2025 first round draft pick and Hobey Baker Award nominee James Hagens had two goals and an assist against the Crimson.
BU scored two shootout goals after three-on-three overtime to beat Northeastern in the other semifinal. The game went into the books as a 2-2 tie with BU winning in the shootout. The No. 9. Terriers beat the No. 1 Eagles 4-1 in last year’s championship game.
“The timing just adds more excitement to it for everybody,” said Brown. “We know they are a great team and we have to play better than we did tonight.
“We have to play faster and execute at a higher level. It is going to be a fun game. I think both teams are capable of playing a lot of good hockey. It will be exciting to see who can execute better.”
BC showed early signs of being embroiled in a trap game when Vermont scored two unanswered goals in the first period. Top line center Colin Kessler forced a neutral zone turnover, broke in on the left flank and backhanded the puck around BC goalie Louka Cloutier at 1:20 for his fourth of the season. Vermont made it 2-0 when sophomore left wing Ethan Burroughs beat Cloutier top shelf on the glove side for his third of the season at 8:24.
“I thought it was a complete game from head to toe from our guys,” said Vermont coach Stephen Weidler. “I certainly felt like from the net all out we were dialed all the way into what our identity is and what our system needs to be.
“We were just playing our version of hockey. BC had their pushes and we didn’t get bored with being simple. We knew we had our hands full but for us it was about our process and staying focused on the first task at hand.”
BC attempted to dispel the notion of a trap game on the power play 47 seconds into the second period. The Eagles cut the lead to 2-1 when Hagens redirected a Lukas Gustafsson slapper from the point for his 15th of the season.
Vermont appeared to take a 3-1 at 7:20 but the replay revealed that defenseman Caeden Herrington kicked the puck into the net. Undaunted, Vermont went up 3-1 on the power play at 12:40 when Herrington set up junior defenseman Sebastien Tornqvist for his fourth of the season.
Vermont went up 4-1 at 2:27 of the third on a scenario that added injury to insult. On the same play that senior left-wing Massimo Lombardi netted his fifth of the season, BC freshman center and Bruins’ draft pick Will Moore left the game in pain with an apparent right shoulder injury. Vermont freshman right wing Matteo Michels scored on a breakaway to make it 5-1 at 5:39.
“There is no update on (Moore) at all,” said Brown. “It looked like he got caught in an extended position but hopefully he is okay.”
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