

The Boston Licensing Board on Thursday approved plans by Frank Delaney and Teresa Murphy to replace the short-lived Scobie’s, 782 Adams St. in Dorchester, with the Session House, which will feature Irish pub grub accompanied by Irish seisiún music – much of it by local musicians.
Funding is tight in Boston’s public schools (BPS), with budget cuts forcing layoffs for more than 500 teachers as rising costs, flat revenues, and the loss of federal funding has put a hole in the city’s budget.

Boston residents who use the curbside food waste pickup program learned this week that the program will move from a weekly to a bi-weekly schedule starting on Oct. 5., meaning that those who participate in the “green bin” program will have to hold their food waste for two weeks between collections.

Funding is tight in Boston’s public schools (BPS), with budget cuts forcing layoffs for more than 500 teachers as rising costs, flat revenues, and the loss of federal funding has put a hole in the city’s budget.

Jill Jamieson used the waters of Dorchester Bay at Carson Beach and Castle Island to train for long-distance swimming competitions.

A project that will create 72 new affordable apartments on Centre Street next to the Shawmut MBTA station was the subject of good news from state officials last week.

A frantic search for Milly, a 17-year-old blind and deaf dog who had wandered away from her fenced-in yard on Ashmont Hill home on Monday, ended happily on Monday.

He will remain at UMass Boston after a sabbatical, returning to the faculty and concentrating on research, writing, and teaching focused principally on climate resilience and the ethical use of artificial intelligence.

New plan keeps center-running buses, shifts bike lanes to west side of road, creates new parking and mainly keeps two lanes of traffic each direction.

“Massachusetts is famous for having uncontested races, and because of that, people really settle in because they think no one is watching,” Gayle told The Reporter.
Police say the armed suspect drove at officers and struck a cruiser while trying to flee a traffic stop last evening.
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