Columbus Day

A statue of Christopher Columbus in the second largest city in Massachusetts was splashed with red paint overnight, the second time it has been vandalized in 16 months. The Telegram & Gazette reports that a public works crew was on the scene Wednesday cleaning the paint off the 8-foot statue. The statue was doused with red paint and defaced with…

Monday’s federal holiday dedicated to Christopher Columbus is highlighting the ongoing divide between those who view the explorer as a representative of Italian Americans’ history and those horrified by an annual tribute that ignores the native people whose lives and culture were forever changed by colonialism.

President Joe Biden has issued the first-ever presidential proclamation of Indigenous Peoples’ Day

The second Monday in October, celebrated for years as Columbus Day, will be recognized as Indigenous Peoples Day in Boston starting this year, Mayor Kim Janey has announced. It’s an effort to recognize and celebrate the Massachusett Tribe, who lived where Boston now stands before colonizers arrived, as well as the neighboring Wampanoag and Nipmuc tribes. “Observing Indigenous Peoples...

A Republican congressional candidate in Massachusetts who confronted two women at a Columbus Day rally in support of President Donald Trump said she was kicked in the head and fractured a leg bone during an ensuing scuffle. Rayla Campbell, who’s mounting a write-in campaign against Democratic U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, told the Boston Herald that Monday’s rally in New...

As the mythology around Christopher Columbus has been corrected, many are pushing to replace Columbus Day with a celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. A cultural strategist and diversity expert, Lauren Wesley Wilson, joined LX News to discuss the importance of recognizing the oppressed rather than celebrating their oppressors.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo marked Columbus Day by unveiling a statue of the Italian-American saint known as Mother Cabrini in lower Manhattan. The dedication of the statue on Monday comes a year after Cuomo announced that the state would commission a monument to the Roman Catholic nun who was canonized in 1946. That decision came after a commission led…

A Christopher Columbus statue in Rhode Island has been vandalized for a second time in recent weeks

It’s the first time that Maine celebrated the holiday since state lawmakers moved away from Columbus Day in the spring.

Six municipalities across Massachusetts celebrated Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead of Columbus Day on Monday. According to The Boston Globe, those municipalites were Amherst, Northampton, Brookline, Cambridge, Somerville and Great Barrington.

Maine is observing a new holiday. Monday marked the first Indigenous People’s Day in the state after Maine lawmakers replaced Columbus Day in the spring.

Sunday: Decreasing clouds. Pleasant. Highs in the mid 60s. Sunday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s to around 50. Columbus Day: Morning showers, then partial clearing. Highs in the 60s. Cape Cod Forecast: Sunday: Few clouds. Sun is back! Highs in the low 60s. Sunday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows around 50. Columbus Day: Early showers, partly cloudy afternoon. Highs...

The sun is back this Sunday with temperatures rising into the mid-60s, great weather for outdoor activities. Take advantage of this wonderful day because it will come to an end Monday, as an area of low pressure develops to our south and it brings showers overnight with an increase in clouds on Columbus Day. Monday starts out with showers followed...

New England’s second-largest city won’t be hosting a Columbus Day parade this year for the first time in more than a century. The Telegram & Gazette reports the committee that organized the Worcester parade was dissolved in December. Columbus Day is Monday.

Saturday: Drizzle, clouds early. Still breezy. Peeks of afternoon sun. Highs around 60. Saturday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s and 50s. Sunday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Columbus Day: Morning showers. Afternoon sun. Highs in the 60s. Cape Cod Forecast: Saturday: Mostly cloudy, morning showers. Then drizzle. Gusts up to 30mph early. Highs in the 50s....

Overnight Thursday Night: Showers and drizzle, dry north. Lows in the 40s. Friday: Windy showers, rain and drizzle for most of Southern New England. Highs in the 50s. Cape Cod Radio Forecast Overnight Thursday Night: Windswept rain. Lows in the 50s. Friday: Showers, rain and drizzle. Northeast wind gusts to 45 mph. Beach erosion with high surf. Highs in the 50s.

The nor’easter continues to spin to our south, bringing waves of rain and wind to southeastern New England.

Wednesday: Showers expand, ramp up to rain. Becoming windy. Highs in the 50s. Overnight Wednesday Night: Windswept, torrential rain. Lows around 50. Thursday: Windswept, heavy rain. Some power outages with northeast gusts to 45 mph, higher Cape. Highs in the 50s.

“Columbus enslaved, colonized, mutilated, and massacred thousands of Indigenous People in the Americas,” Council Member David Grosso said in a statement.

The much anticipated nor’easter has developed over the waters south of New England and will continue strengthening over the next 24 hours. This storm center is fueled by all the classic ingredients for storm development: atmospheric energy provided by the jet stream winds aloft, cool air surging south from Canada and warmth over the Gulf Stream waters of the Western...