

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.

Councillors peppered the city’s interim Chief of Streets, Nick Gove, with questions about delays to road and street improvement projects that some argued could result in the loss of substantial federal funding.

A development team that includes the Archdiocese of Boston’s Planning Office for Urban Affairs has filed plans for a 105-unit affordable housing project in Mattapan.

Susan Burke, 79, is OFD and has no desire to leave the neighborhood that she’s always called home. Thanks to Harbor Health’s Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) on Morton Street, she can plan on staying put.

An updated proposal to build a large condominum complex on Washington Street in Lower Mills was one of two development projects reviewed and debated at a civic association meeting last Tuesday evening (April 21) at St. Gregory’s auditorium.

The parade is Sunday, June 7, but there’s many other events to keep track of this season!

The proposed change, which passed an initial signature threshold to make the November ballot, but must first be taken up by the Legislature, would only apply to state and county races, not city elections.
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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