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  ❤️ Donate Friday, July 3, 2026 ☀️ Friday is sunny, with a high of 100. Saturday is also sunny, with high of 96. Click here for a detailed Fourth of July weekend forecast from meteorologist Danielle Noyes. Good Morning Boston, July is the busiest time of year for a pyrotechnician. But this summer, the stakes are higher and the stage is bigger for the ones behind the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular . Not only is it the Fourth of July, but also the nation’s 250th anniversary — and that combo is expected to draw a record crowd of 500,000 people to the Charles River Esplanade. (That’s more than the total population size of Worcester, Springfield and Cambridge combined.) With that in mind, you’d expect any fireworks producer to feel insurmountable pressure to make this year’s show one for the ages. But Matt Shea, regional manager of Pyrotecnico Fireworks and the producer for this year’s show in Boston, said he's thinking of it as just another year. “If this was 1998, I would'...

  THE SATURDAY SEND Welcome back to the Saturday Send, a weekly digest of stories from  CommonWealth Beacon  that you may have missed.  In this week's roundup: The Supreme Judicial Court protects Massachusetts licensing laws for non-resident gun owners, Jennifer Smith reports, finding that the state’s strict gun laws can still hold up to scrutiny under this lax period of Second Amendment jurisprudence.   Plus: The impact of new federal emissions rules, a spat over the state seal, and new potential challengers for Mayor Michelle Wu.  Check out those stories below, and as always, thanks for reading.  - The  CommonWealth Beacon  team SJC gives a Second Amendment win to Mass. lawmakers looking to license non-residents by  Jennifer Smith The Supreme Judicial Court protects Massachusetts licensing laws for non-resident gun owners, Jennifer Smith reports, finding that the state’s strict gun laws still hold up even after the ...