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 Boston Police Department reports a man who somehow crashed his car on Blue Hill Avenue at Woodhaven Street in Mattapan around 2 p.m. on Saturday, got out, carjacked another car, then started a blocks-long chain of destruction that left a woman who was walking across Blue Hill Avenue dead.
Dianne Wilkerson, a former state senator, points to an envisioned Orange Line extension going from Ruggles to Mattapan Square they would like to see instead of the proposed center-running bus lane along Blue Hill Avenue.
Seth Daniel photo
It’s rare that 24 hours click off the clock without Bill Richard’s shadow casting its lean frame onto the 2.5-acre construction site of the Fieldhouse+ on Mount Vernon Street in Dorchester.
Ciria Gibbons, contestant No. 68 on Food Network’s “100 Cooks” on the set of the show.
The Penguin Coast, a state-of-the-art habitat for critically endangered African penguins located just beyond the park’s Zebra Entrance, officially opened on Thursday, June 11.
Approximately 200 immigrants from around the world took the Oath of Allegiance and officially became citizens of the United States during a naturalization ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum last Tuesday (June 8).
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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