

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.

Elisa M. Speranza will appear at the Adams Street Branch Library in Dorchester on Wed., June 10 at 6 p.m. as part of a book tour for her new novel, “Triage.”
Boston Police are investigating a late-night stabbing incident near Ashmont MBTA station that has a man fighting for his life this week.

Marchers step off from the corner of Richmond Street and Dorchester Avenue at 1 p.m. and follow a 3.2- mile route up Dot Ave to Columbia Road.

The winners of the Dot Day Essay contest have their say.

Gage Vieno, a 21-year-old Dorchester resident and journalism student at the University of Mississippi, was named as the inaugural recipient of the Thomas F. Mulvoy Jr. Scholarship.

Scenes from the Future of Local News event on May 28.
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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