Sprucing up city before big party

Hub in mad dash to repave streets, retouch fixtures

By Donovan Slack

Globe Staff / July 1, 2004

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Boston has launched its most extensive makeover of the core city in 20 years, repaving major roads, festooning Boylston Street with lampposts and flowers, restoring historic paintings and monuments, hanging banners, and laying new bricks. George Washington and other statues that have been missing their swords will get new ones. (Full Article: 941 Words)