

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.

Reflecting on his 10-point primary win over first-time candidate Latoya Gayle on Tuesday, state Sen. Nick Collins says his success with voters in the First Suffolk District was powered by his long-standing work on multiple fronts his strong working relationships with colleagues in government.

A developer plans to build a 4-and-a-half-story, 20-unit condo complex at 2062 Dorchester Ave. The building would replace a currently unoccupied two-family home.

The highly regarded portrait and landscape artist Vincent Crotty has shared his talents with the Dorchester community since settling down in the neighborhood in the 1990s, and this summer has been no exception.

A new study published last week shows that the number of Massachusetts residents with Caribbean heritage is close to 800,000, or 11 percent of the state’s population.

City councillor says “noise cameras” that can locate offending properties or vehicles and lead to fines as a way to crack down on trouble spots.

Wandaly Ortiz Guerrero hopes to open for business in the former Kay’s Oasis building, using licenses for liquor and entertainment that she and a group of business partners secured for a different location in Dorchester two years ago.
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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