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Still, they left enough of an impression from the bars of Back Bay to the stands at Fenway Park that Boston’s hottest accessory this summer might just be a set bagpipes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
“There’s a reason that younger people tend to have high-deductible health plans, and obviously it’s affordability,” Robert Jeter, a financial adviser with Back Bay Financial Planning and Investments, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2025
Under that scenario, the streets of Boston's Back Bay we are gazing out across at would become capillaries of the Charles River.
From Salon ● May 20, 2023
But following them from Hopkinton to Boston’s Back Bay on the third Monday in April are 30,000 others who are not in it to win it, or maybe not even to achieve a personal best.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 13, 2023
The child of a well-heeled, status-oriented Back Bay family of antique dealers, she was far out of the league of a jockey with a seventh-grade formal education and no fixed address.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Army Corps of Engineers have proposed a massive $16 billion plan to address back bay flooding along the shore.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2021
The Army Corps is expected to release recommendations this summer for back bay flooding reduction measures, including elevating houses, building man-made and nature barriers, and other measures.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 4, 2021
Redfish and speckled trout will be found in the back bay around shell and marsh and are good on shrimp.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 8, 2020
Inside Elizabeth Turk’s airy, sunlit studio overlooking the back bay in Newport Beach, the artist is hard at work on her latest creation, “The Shoreline Project.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2018
The plane then coasts out over the back bay, Balboa Island, and the Newport Peninsula before the pilot pushes the engines back to full and resumes the climb-out.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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