Boston, MA
Woburn company proud to make Banner 18 for Boston Celtics
WOBURN – New England is still buzzing over the Celtics 18th NBA title win. There are currently 17 green and white banners flying high in the TD Garden with plans to raise the 18th in the fall.
A Woburn company will be tasked with making it as New England Flag and Banner has been creating custom banners for more than 130 years. It has never been more exciting for company owner Ned Flynn. “It was fantastic after the game was over, I couldn’t go to bed I was wired,” said Flynn. “For us to be able to immortalize for them and for the fans their accomplishment is a great thing for us.”
Banner will be ready for opening night
They are one of the few companies in the country still making hand sewn banners and flags with 25 highly skilled employees who will soon be at work making number 18 for the Celtics to hang on opening night next season.
They do it for the pros and for colleges which are the championship banners they are working on right now. Flynn says it’s very labor intensive. “It’s really two banners sewn back-to-back, and each one of those banners takes roughly 22 hours to make,” he said.
Any fans watching the duck boat parade may see the team holding smaller replicas of the banner which Flynn drove to Boston himself on Tuesday right after the win. “We got to the Garden and the person working the gate said to me, ‘what are you doing here?’ and I said ‘look in the backseat.’ He goes, ‘yes sir we’ll let you right in,’” Flynn said.
The tradition with the Celtics started in 1957 with a call from Red Auerbach for a championship banner.
Lucky penny in every banner
Flynn doesn’t want to jinx it but hopes the wait won’t be too long for banner 19. That’s why they sew a lucky penny beneath the company name on every product, for good luck going forward.
Celtics fans, like Lakisha Hicks, can’t wait to see it unfurled from the rafters. “I’m going to be in attendance. For me and my family we love to see the history we’re making right now,” she said after buying Celtics gear at the TD Garden pro shop.
“As fans you go through the journey with the team, everything is connected, and when they hang it, the fans get the satisfaction as well,” said fan Michael Gonda.
No more satisfaction than Ned Flynn and his employees who know every cut, every stitch that will make the banner hang proud.
Boston, MA
First oyster farm on Boston’s South Shore now selling to chefs around the country
DUXBURY — An oyster farm south of Boston is shipping their harvest around the country.
Island Creek Oysters of Duxbury was the first oyster farm on the South Shore.
“We spawn oysters, so people get blown away by that process. We’re creating oysters here,” boat captain Dave May told WBZ-TV.
Growing oysters
“They’re grown on the bottom in the mud and so they have an earthier taste to them,” May said. “There’s really cold, nutrient-rich water out there and when the water here goes out, six hours later it comes back in, it’s new water. And so the oysters are never really sitting in the same water for more than a day.”
Different oyster varieties are grown at three separate farms in Duxbury, but the originals are the Island Creek.
The popular “Row 34” oysters are grown six inches off the bay’s floor in the Aunt Dotty in a farm a little further away.
“They get the first taste of the cold Atlantic water as it rushes on the tide cycle,” May said. “They’re a little brinier, little sweeter.”
The oyster-growing process begins in the hatchery. First they start in a lab, then they’re fed algae before they’re moved to Duxbury Bay to finish growing in cages.
National oyster business
But the oysters aren’t just popular locally. They’re sold to businesses as far away as Napa, California.
Island Creek’s CEO Chris Sherman said that they “distribute now to 700-800 chefs around the country.”
From Island Creek’s raw bar, restaurants, tours and shucking lessons, the farm has established a name for itself locals have trusted for almost 30 years. They run tours from May to September.
“Coastal communities is really at the heart of what we do,” Sherman told WBZ. “It’s our mission as an organization to grow thriving coastal communities.”
Boston, MA
Creighton's Baylor Scheierman selected 30th overall by Boston Celtics in NBA Draft
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – Creighton’s Baylor Scheierman was selected 30th overall by the Boston Celtics in Wednesday’s NBA Draft.
The Aurora, Nebraska native celebrated with over 100 friends, family and teammates gathered at Let It Fly Sports Bar in downtown Omaha.
Scheierman averaged 18.4 points, 9.0 rebounds and 3.9 assists for a Bluejays team that reached the Sweet 16 in his fifth season of college basketball. He also became the first player in NCAA Division I history to score 2,000 points, and tally 1,000 rebounds, 500 assists and 300 three pointers in a career.
As impressive as Scheierman was in his Bluejays career, his draft stock took off after his performance at the NBA Draft Combine in Chicago. The 23-year-old turned heads with not only his shooting ability, but his passing skills and defensive flashes, prompting ESPN’s Jonathan Givony to declare him ‘the best player on the floor’ in his first combine scrimmage.
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