

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.

The family of Stephenson King Jr. has retained Benjamin Crump, whose previous clients include the families of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

The Supreme Judicial Court peppered lawyers for the city of Boston and plaintiffs suing over the White Stadium project with questions in a hearing this morning.

A push is on to re-name the Ruggles station in Roxbury for Phillis Wheatley (depicted in this statue) or another prominent person not connected to the slave trade.

Despite some modest gains, Blacks and Latinos in Massachusetts are trailing whites in homeownership, business ownership, and wealth accumulation, state officials said during a State House hearing held last week.

Boston Emeralds won inaugural ‘Dot Derby’ over Dot City FC, 2-1 on Easter Sunday.

The spending proposal calls for an operating budget of $4.9 billion, Boston’s smallest increase since the depths of the “Great Recession” in 2009.
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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