

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.

A dozen young athletes from the Modern Taekwondo Center on Gallivan Boulevard competed in the 2026 US Taekwondo Championships in North Carolina this month.

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell is leading a coalition of attorneys general calling on Congress to extend Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and create stronger legal protections for immigrants enrolled in the federal program.

JustBook-ish will host a busy calendar of literary, cultural, and family events throughout August.
The Codman Square Health Center plans to launch a free, around-the-clock public vending machine offering naloxone and other essential health supplies outside its main entrance next week.

The team that hopes to redevelop the shuttered Carney Hospital campus filed its most detailed plan to date this month with the Boston Planning Department.

A new storefront gallery space at 969 Dorchester Ave., is owned by Romard Myers, a 31-year-old Roxbury native who has contributed to a range of curated exhibitions and underground showcases since 2018.
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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