Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is visiting Nova Scotia this week to spotlight a seamless partnership with the Canadian province that started after an explosion that passed off there in 1917 in Halifax Harbor, killing roughly 2,000 individuals.
Nova Scotia supplies town with its Boston Widespread Christmas tree annually as a thank-you for sending medical support and reduction provides following the explosion. Wu will change into the primary Boston mayor to attend and take part within the Boston tree-cutting ceremony within the Canadian province, the mayor’s workplace stated.
Wu, contemporary off her reelection final week, will go to Nova Scotia from Sunday to Wednesday along with her household. The mayor will return to Boston on Wednesday.
Her journey will embrace a go to to the Port Innovation, Engagement and Analysis with management from the Halifax Port Authority, a tour of the Health Innovation Hub, and a gathering and exchanging of presents with Halifax Mayor Andy Filmore.
“For well over a century, Boston and Nova Scotia have shared a special bond of neighborly care and friendship,” Wu stated in a press release. “I’m honored this year to visit our neighbors to the north for the first time and deliver a personal thank you on behalf of the people of Boston for continuing this partnership and connection that transcends boundaries and generations.”
The town’s official 2025 Christmas tree — a 45-foot-tall white spruce from Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia — will arrive at Boston Widespread by flatbed truck at 11 a.m. Tuesday.
Frank Baker’s Metropolis Council bid on ice, however will not be lifeless
U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s potential problem for Ed Markey’s Senate seat may present a pathway for former Councilor Frank Baker to return to the Boston Metropolis Council, a chance that was created by his fifth-place end within the election.
Metropolis Council President Ruthzee Louijeune topped the ticket for a second straight election final week, resulting in additional political chatter about whether or not she plans to make a run for Congress, ought to Pressley’s Home seat open up with a Senate bid.
Louijeune, like Pressley, is a well-liked progressive Democrat, and gave a prolonged speech on election night time — at a celebration she co-hosted with Mayor Michelle Wu within the Seaport — that extra carefully resembled a marketing campaign pitch than celebratory remarks.
The mid-term election is subsequent November. Louijeune, an at-large councilor, didn’t reply to a Herald inquiry on the matter.
As for Baker, town constitution dictates that at any time when there’s a councilor-at-large emptiness, the fifth-place finisher can be elevated to the Council, if that defeated candidate is “eligible and willing to serve.”
Wu labored for months to get Councilor-at-Massive Henry Santana, her ally and former worker, reelected to the Metropolis Council, and subsequently block a comeback bid from Baker, a conservative Wu critic supported by former Mayor Marty Walsh.
The mayor was unsuccessful, nonetheless, in conserving Baker from ending decrease within the race, which might have prevented that fast pathway to the Council for him, ought to any of the 4 at-large councilors select to depart mid-term.
Together with Louijeune and Santana, Wu supported Alexandra Valdez, a Metropolis Corridor worker who completed sixth in final week’s election.
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The Boston Widespread Christmas Tree for 2023. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald)
