Harrington Earns Zabilski Defensive Award from Gridiron Club of Greater Boston Rockland, Mass., junior linebacker is first Stonehill student-athlete to receive top defensive award for Division II/III in New England, will be honored at Gridiron Club's Bob Whelan College Football Awards Night on January 9 Gridiron Club of Greater Boston Announcement EASTON, Mass. (December 6, 2013) – Stonehill College junior linebacker Brian Harrington (Rockland, Mass./Rockland) has been named the 2013 Joseph P. Zabilski Defensive Player of the Year, presented annually to the top college Continue reading >>>

Tapping into their competitive spirit, students at five of Harvard’s graduate Schools challenged each other in a competition to collect canned food and other dry goods for the Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB). The Schools had three weeks to rally staff members, faculty, and students. They plastered colorful posters in public spaces and sent email blasts to listservs, and — pretty soon — boxes started to fill with pasta, tuna, cereal, and oatmeal. After three weeks of prodding their respective Schools to bring in canned and dry goods, the challenge resulted in 1,899 items and enough Continue reading >>>

Next week, Dec. 11 to be precise, Lyndon “LB” Byers and Anthony “Spaz” Parziale, of WAAF(FM)’s “Hill-Man Morning Show,” will literally “rise-up” against hunger in “WAAF’s Rise Up Against Hunger” campaign. The duo will do remotes, separately, from lifts — one on Boston and one in Framingham, Mass. Show host Greg Hill will be in studio running the show. The aim is to raise money the Greater Boston Food Bank, Worcester County Food Bank and New Hampshire Food Bank. The goal is to beat last year’s $80,000. Byers will be at the Continue reading >>>

SUNDAY: Hank Phillippi Ryan (“The Wrong Girl”) reads at 1 p.m. at Tatnuck Bookseller, Westborough Shopping Center, 18 Lyman St., Westborough … Ellen Larson (“In Retrospect”) and Maida Tilchen (“She’s Gone Santa Fe”) read at 1:30 p.m. at the Somerville Public Library, 79 Highland Ave., Somerville … Ben Bradlee Jr. (“The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams”) reads at 2 p.m. with Bob Ryan at the John F. Kennedy Library, Columbia Point, Boston … Steven Pavlos Holmes, Tara L. Masih, Sydney Landon Plum, and Audrey Schulman (“Facing the Change: Personal Encounters with Global Continue reading >>>

(NECN) - It has been a busy week on the Boston business front.Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Paul Guzzi joins NECN to discuss the top stories.The first nonstop flights between Boston and Beijing, China will begin next year."China is the second largest economy in the world," "For those of us who have made the flight before, 18-20 hours, this now is direct for 13 hours. But we have a lot of world class assets ... This is going to mean a lot in terms of increased revenues to Massachusetts in general, and to Greater Boston Continue reading >>>

CHICAGO NEW YORK — Veolia Energy North America, a leading provider of sustainable energy services, and I Squared Capital, a global infrastructure investment firm, entered into an agreement with NRG North America LLC, an affiliate of NRG Energy, Inc. to purchase its 256-megawatt Kendall Station, located in Cambridge, Mass.The Kendall Cogeneration Station uses natural gas as a primary fuel source to produce electrical and steam energy. A planned reconfiguration of the facility, including completion of Veolia’s additional 7,000-foot steam pipeline Continue reading >>>

Welcome to Triple-Decker Thursday, a feature on that Greater Boston institution, the three-level apartment building. Click here to view the full photogallery. Seven Tuckerman Street in Southie was seriously renovated after trading for $515,000 in March. The redo left two 2-BR, 2-BA units and one 2-BR, 3-BA unit over 4,263 square feet. There's a W/D, too, and a roof deck with city and water views. And! There was a price-chop almost exactly a month ago of $90,000. Originally listed on Nov. 4 for $1,550,000, 7 Tuckerman as of Nov. 6 was (and is) asking $1,460,000. Continue reading >>>

BOSTON (CBS) – The right plane for the right time. That was the message delivered by Governor Patrick, Massport’s CEO Tom Glynn and Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce President Paul Guzzi as they officially welcomed Hainan Airlines to Boston. The event took place in the afternoon at The State House before a large crowd of tourism officials. The new flights to Beijing, China will begin with four flights a week on June 20th of next year. Governor Patrick and Massport officials have been meeting with Hainan since 2007. The startup was delayed because of delivery problems with the new Boeing Continue reading >>>