

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.
More than 150 teenagers from across Suffolk County gathered at UMass Boston last Tuesday (July 28) for Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden’s annual Basketball for Peace tournament.

The Crew Love basketball tournament returns to the courts of Harambee Park in Dorchester this weekend featuring top-notch talent from Boston’s neighborhoods and rounds of rivalry games.

Barbara A. Dulin is a mother of three, grandmother of ten, and a great-grandmother of fourteen. The Grove Hall native is also a mentor and maternal figure to scores of other young people thanks to a non-profit she founded in 2014

Codman Square Health Center will launch a month-long “Barber Shops & Blood Pressure” tour this week, offering free screenings at neighborhood barber shops in Dorchester and Randolph.

The annual Neponset Day festival on the banks of the Neponset River last Saturday morning and afternoon at the Neponset II Park on Hill Top Street brought out a large gathering to enjoy a great summer day.

While the City of Boston’s workforce is projected to shrink this year, its personnel spending isn’t slowing to match, according to a new analysis from Boston Municipal Research Bureau.
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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