Irish pub that plans live music approved in Adams Village
September 24, 2026
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.
Merchants in a newly formed group in Codman Square say that while they are trying to beautify the shopping district, they are running head-on into heavy street construction that seems endless.
The Codman Square Health Center commemorated International Overdose Awareness Day on Aug. 31 with a ceremony at a newly installed vending machine outside its facility on Washington Street that dispenses free items such as Naloxone (known as Narcan, the opioid overdose reversal nasal spray), hygiene kits, socks, snacks, and water to those who might need them.
Thousands of union members turned out in Boston’s Back Bay on Monday morning for a Labor Day parade and rally in Copley Square. Traditionally, union officials placed more focus on the annual Labor Day breakfast, a formal affair that typically takes place at the Park Plaza Hotel and features speeches from elected officials, while SEIU locals, which represent security guards, janitors and other service workers, have taken to the streets to bring attention to strikes and ongoing labor disputes.
Daniel Adams, a Dorchester resident and human rights officer at Leonard Morse Hospital in Natick, has been inducted into the Tenet Healthcare Heroes Hall of Fame.
The Oliver Wendell Holmes K-6 School in Dorchester hosted Dr. Christina Grant, a board member of the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), as the keynote speaker for its teacher and staff back-to-school day on Aug. 31.
Last Wednesday (Sept 2.) Rita Steele and her mother, Hilarie Jackson, crammed into the Gilman Chapel at Cedar Grove Cemetery with about 100 other observers and listened closely as the names of 133 Black women interred beneath two vague markers in the burial ground were read out loud. As the 35th name was announced, “Sarah Smith,” the two women cheered.
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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