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A chance to shape Blue Hills’ future

The top of Buck Hill in the Blue Hills Reservation offers a panoramic view of downtown Boston. The top of Buck Hill in the Blue Hills Reservation offers a panoramic view of downtown Boston. (Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff/File 2006)
By Robert Knox
Globe Correspondent / September 17, 2009

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Charged with planning for the future of the state’s parklands, officials ranked all of its recreation properties and concluded that their number one priority was the Blue Hills Reservation. The 7,000-acre woodland park, which traces its origins to the creation of Boston’s Emerald Necklace in the 1890s, is number one with the people who use it regularly, too. (Full article: 877 words)

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