

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.
Two teens pleaded guilty Tuesday for their role in a deadly 2024 shooting near Bowdoin-Geneva that left a father dead and his son wounded.

On Monday and Tuesday from 8 a.m. on, community members lined up along the boards and chain-linked fence of Garvey Park’s O’Sullivan Street Hockey Court to cheer on kids ages 6 to 12 in the annual Mayor’s Street Hockey Tournament.

A team of workers led by City Archaeologist Joe Bagley spent two days last week digging for traces of Native American artifacts at a River Street parcel that is slated to become an urban farm.

VietAid’s second large affordable housing project on Bowdoin Street will receive $3.3 million in city funding to move forward, Boston housing officials and Mayor Wu announced last week.

Born and raised in Kenya, sisters Najma and Naima Mohamed have brought East African coffee culture to Dorchester with the launch of their mobile coffee shop, Espresso East Coffee & Co.

A gathering at the Mattapan Teen Center (MTC) on Fri., April 10, night that was billed as community meeting was actually a surprise party to salute the center’s director Rick Aggeler on his 20th year of work anniversary.
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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