Irish pub that plans live music approved in Adams Village
September 24, 2026
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.
The annual Hidden Heroes and Sheroes Celebration will be held on Sat., Nov. 21, from 4 to 8 p.m. at Southline Boston in Dorchester.
Dorchester’s Dr. Lianne Hughes-Odom, the principal at Dorchester’s Oliver Wendell Holmes K-6 Innovation School, will be honored by the Alnoba Lewis Family Foundation on Wed., Oct. 21 at an event in Kensington, NH, where she will receive the Harriet R. Lewis Gutsy Young Leader award for her work at the school.
Runners and walkers alike will gather at Franklin Park Playstead in November for the third annual EmpowerHer 5K, a community-focused race celebrating movement and wellness.
If Angel Monét Ledbetter-Glaude can’t say it with music, her puppets will fill in the gaps. Monét, 58, and her son, Dominic, 26, are just hitting their stride with two puppets named ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Boogie’ coming off their fourth successful House of Inspiration (HOI) Family Music and Arts Festival in Almont Park this summer.
Mayor Michelle Wu visited UMass Boston’s Dorchester campus on Monday to launch a partnership between the school’s Urban Public Health Department and the city’s Public Health Commission (BPHC) that is aimed at improving the health and well-being of all Boston residents— particularly its teenagers.
Critics of the plan as its stands argue that city and state officials have overstated the number of customers who would benefit from the faster commutes.
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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