

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.

SCORE Boston hosted a free sports day at Garvey Park last Sunday (Aug. 9) and 35 or so girls ages 6 to 14 accepted the invitation to play hockey, lacrosse, and rugby alongside Boston-based Olympian and professional athletes.

The 4th-generation company now services hundreds of independent customers, many of them family-owned businesses, fiber artists and small wool-processing mills.

Sen. Nick Collins faces a challenge from Wu-backed candidate Latoya Gayle to hold the First Suffolk seat in the State Senate.

US Rep. Ayanna Pressley visited Dorchester’s First Parish Church this afternoon (Aug. 12) to join with Boston neighborhood activists to call for a end to the war in Iran and to re-direct defense spending to domestic needs she says have been neglected under the Trump administration.

The Ward 13 Democratic Committee will host a virtual candidate forum on Aug. 20 for voters in the First Suffolk State Senate district.

Bethel Tabernacle Pentecostal Church celebrated the completion of a 20-year mission to convert the former St. Leo’s campus into its own expansive service center and worship space.
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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