Summertime Fireworks Returning to Boston Harbor

Independence Day is over for another year, but the sky over Boston Harbor will light up again before summer’s end.

Mayor Thomas Menino and Summer on the Waterfront organizers announced on Wednesday that summertime public fireworks will be returning to the waterfront on Saturday, Aug. 31, part of the city-sponsored “(ähts): The Boston Arts Festival,” being held at Christopher Columbus Park in the North End throughout Labor Day weekend.

“We’re looking forward to bringing public fireworks back to Boston Harbor to celebrate our annual arts festival,” Menino said in a press release. “It will be another great Labor Day weekend in the city of Boston with something for everyone to enjoy.”

The fireworks are scheduled for 9 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 31 and will be launched from a barge set up in the Harbor between South and East Boston, the press release states. The fireworks can be viewed from Christopher Columbus Park, among other locations in the city.

The 10th annual Boston Arts Festival will kick off the city’s arts season and showcase “more than 40 juried visual artists exhibiting and selling one-of a-kind paintings, sculpture, ceramics, pottery, jewelry, fine glasswork, woodwork, mixed media and photography,” as well as performing and interactive arts, according to the press release.

Learn more at www.cityofboston.gov/arts.