

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.

Nicholas Ariniello, Boston’s departing assessing commissioner. Courtesy photo

Giovanni ‘Gio’ Bala, 22, shot dead in a municipal parking lot on Bowdoin Street early last Friday (May 22). Courtesy photo

Z. Andy Warot salutes during the National Anthem while his granddaughter, Aniela Warot, places her hand over her heart. Andy served in the US Army during Vietnam shortly after immigrating from Poland. Seth Daniel photo

Bobby ‘BK’ Kilduff called a hero, and a ‘Jake’s Jake’

A person was shot to death last night on Bowdoin Street in Dorchester.

Small landlords spoke out against the effects of rent control on smaller investors during a State House event last week.
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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