

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.

Last Saturday (May 16), the annual yard sale celebrated 46 years of dozens of locations selling or giving away unwanted items for bargain prices – with some bartering occasionally necessary.

Eighth graders at the Conservatory Lab Charter School (CLCS) used their waning days at the Columbia Road school to blend music with mission in hosting the first-ever Legacy Concert to raise money for Mattapan’s Immigrant Family Services Institute (IFSI).
Two men who’d just gotten out of a Dorchester court hearing on gun charges got into a brawl with two other men and a teenager while still in the courthouse Wednesday morning.

A popular city-funded street festival program will go forward this season, but without an event on Dot Ave.

A Suffolk County grand jury has indicted Boston Police officer Nicholas O’Malley, 34, on a charge of voluntary manslaughter in the March 11 shooting death of Stephenson King Jr., 39, of Dorchester.

The event raised $400,000 to support BGCD’s youth development programs.
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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