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Is the City of Quincy featuring out of state trees in Quincy Center this year?
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Three sore thumbs parked at Star Market
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Early on a dark and rainy Saturday morning, Quincy Quarry News’ Mobile One while on a supplies run to the Quincy Center Star Market happened upon three eighteen wheelers hauling suspected to be large cut Christmas trees parked in Star’s parking lot.
While this Quincy Quarry news team was sorely under-caffeinated at the time, these newshounds still manged to smell a likely story and so took pictures if for no other reason that when it comes to breaking badly bad news© in Quincy as well as most elsewhere, things tend to happen in threes.
Or at least as far as newsworthy events are typically reported by Quincy Quarry News anyway.
A long way from homebase in North Carolina …
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive image
Particularly odd was how these three trees were being hauled by a modestly-sized trucking company out of Newland, North Carolina, not to mention that the trailers had Tennessee plates.
Then on Sunday the Quincy Quarry newsroom received a tip that the tops of cranes could be seen over roof tops as well as that these cranes looked to be in the general vicinity of City Hall.Â
While the City Editor all but immediately figured out what was likely up, Quincy Quarry’s weekend news team was gathered around the Quarry’s wall of TV flat screens watching Sunday’s football games as they had a lot of financial skin riding these games.
A Quarry Photo Recon Team Six member in action
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As such, the City Editor tasked Quincy Quarry’s fabled Photo Recon Team Six to put on their camo and head out under the cover of darkness Monday evening with state of the art night vision equipment.
In turn, as well as all but invariably, mission accomplished by Quincy Quarry News’ Photo Recon Team Six.
Then again, whenever the Koch Machine is the target, not only is Photo Recon Team Six so motivated, the pickings are thus easy.
Wicked easy.
So easy that team members were back to their barracks and in their civvies to then head out to catch most of Monday Night Football Game upset of the previously unbeaten Philadelphia Eagles by the variously woeful Washington Commanders.
Kinda of a scraggly tree this year …
A QQ Photo Recon Team Six night vision image
In addition to the featured photo of a cut Christmas tree near the Generals statuary plaza within the lightly used other than by a few junkies but still well past merely immaculately maintained sprawling Generals Park at the terminus of the Generals Bride, Photo Recon Team Six also scored night vision photos of two other temporary Christmas trees set up elsewhere in Quincy Center.
One tree was found in front of City Hall.
And the other was found in the middle of Kim Jong Koch Plaza between Old City Hall and the Church of the Presidents.
Another scraggly or at least lopsided tree.
A QQ Photo Recon Team Six night vision image
Needless to say, Douglas Fir on the Quarry’s arboreal desk has been tasked with discerning if the trees are of the same species as well as if they are also a species common enough in Eastern Massachusetts.
In the meanwhile, however, all indications suggest that this year’s City of Quincy Christmas trees are at least perhaps likely to be not local trees.
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OMG, Mayor Koch went all out this year! Great-looking trees!
These may be the most beautiful city Christmas trees ever! I can not wait for the Mayor’s experienced elves to finish decorating the trees!
Also, the holiday decorations along Hancock Street already have me humming Christmas carols while driving along.
No need to be a Grinch, enjoy the merriness 🙂
The Massachusetts Christmas Tree Association (MTCA) is not merry over Quincy Mayor Koch’s apparent decision to purchase expensive trees from out-of-state growers and pay insane shipping costs instead of doing business with one or more of the over forty-eight local Christmas tree farms in the Massachusetts and Merrimack Valley region. Many local growers offer free delivery for large trees.
F*cken racist Mayor! Three trees for Catholic Christmas, but not one Muslim or Buddhist tree holiday celebrated all year! Does city hall REALLY need three outside Catholic Christmas trees? How many Menorahs’ will the Mayor be displaying around city hall this Hanukkah?
And, F U Porkchop ?
Only a climate denier like Koch would have giant trees trucked to Quincy.
The title should read, “Tree Killing Quincy Mayor Displaces Out Of State Wildlife Before Winter Holidays.”
Agree, crappy-looking trees!
What happened to the scam of having city residents “donate” the trees? This is typical Koch — trying to get something for nothing. The other side of that coin is that he has absolutely no qualms about spending ridiculous amounts of taxpayer dollars on items and projects that are ridiculously overpriced, overwrought and unnecessary.
I would have sold him a bridge but some hustler got to him first and he took the deal hook, line and sinker.
The city’s lame Christmas trees remind me of John Fetterman.
Let the unsheltered charge their phones from these giant electrified trees.
After all, it’s Christmas. ?
Jolly,
You will be pleased to know that the main library in Quincy Center has long had a multiple cell phones at once recharging kiosk. Also, someone put a charger brick into an out of the way and lid covered outside electrical outlet at my church and we leave it be. My church has also long hosted Father Bill’s annual Thanksgiving Dinner.
The city should use some of the Fed COVID money it has received to purchase, cook, and deliver 25 lb turkeys along with three fantastic side dishes as well as dessert to every less well-off family in Quincy.
Too late — they pissed it away on the Munroe Building and the Town Riveer Marina and the Bridge to nowhere that nobody uses and, and, and . . .
The city should have spent that Christian tree cash on more inclusive things.
Quincy will not be winning any awards for best-looking Christmas Tree. Honestly, I chuckled at first glance, thinking the kids at the Quincy Quarry must have photoshopped the tree picture – but not! Great picture!