Newton, MA, July 17, 2013 --(PR.com)-- The Awning Guy, Inc. today announced the launch of www.AwningGuyMA.com as an informational portal with educational resources and other helpful tips on awnings, patio covers and retractable screens for the Greater Boston Area community. Development of other community minded features for www.AwningGuyMA.com are already underway, and new user awareness guides from expert technicians are already being added on how to choose the right awning or patio cover for your property, financial benefits of installing a commercial awning for your business, to what everybody Continue reading >>>

Here’s one to lift your spirits. Boston is playing host to a new kind of performing arts festival – Outside the Box.  It’s nine days of free entertainment on Boston Common and City Hall Plaza, as well as other venues across the city. Shea Rose, one of the many acts set to take the stage joined Greater Boston along with Outside the Box organizer Ted Cutler.  The festival features theater performances, as well as bands such as the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Bearstronaut. It lasts through Sunday, July 21.  View the festival lineup Continue reading >>>

Matthew L. Brown Reporter- Boston Business Journal Email  | Twitter Bank of New York Mellon Corp.'s second quarter net income rose 81 percent to $833 million from $466 million a year ago thanks to an equity investment and improved fee revenue. Overall revenue at the custodian bank was up 11 percent to $4.1 billion and total fee revenue jumped 14 percent to nearly $3.2 billion. An equity investment Continue reading >>>

The MetroWest YMCA announced today it has purchased Clearbrook Swim Club on Parker Road from the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston. “With the need for outdoor recreational space and places for families to spend time together and meet others, the MetroWest YMCA is preserving and enhancing this hidden gem for the area community to enjoy. It was great to work with the JCC to make this happen,” Richard A. MacPherson, president and CEO of the MetroWest YMCA, said in a press release.. Mark Sokoll, president CEO of JCCs of Greater Boston said his organization is Continue reading >>>

Overseas medical technology companies continue to stream into Greater Boston, lured by the area’s famous ecosystem of researchers, startups, and potential collaborators. One company that flew in under the radar was Qiagen N.V., a Dutch holding company with corporate offices in Germany, which quietly acquired two privately held Massachusetts companies last year and may—or may not—be expanding its foothold in the Boston area. Qiagen bought Intelligent Bio-Systems Inc. of Waltham, a next-generation sequencing startup, and AmniSure International LLC, a Boston maker of women’s health Continue reading >>>

ZS Genetics, developer of a Third-Generation DNA sequencing platform, and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) are pleased to announce the official opening of the company’s new office in the Greater Boston area. ZS Genetics’ management team, as well as representatives from the MLSC, MassBio and state Rep. Paul Brodeur, D-Melrose, cut a ribbon last week to mark the grand opening of the company’s new facility in Wakefield. The opening of the Boston-area office and laboratory facility is a significant milestone in the company’s transition from research and Continue reading >>>

BOSTON — Childhood obesity has been a source of deep concern for at least a generation. But after years of widening bike lanes and forcing jicama on elementary school kids, public health officials seem to be making progress. The national childhood obesity rate has leveled off in recent years. And in some parts of the country, research suggests, a decline is underway. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has rounded up the regional studies and found waistlines shrinking from Vance County, N.C., to Anchorage, Alaska. But the most dramatic — and, perhaps, least scrutable Continue reading >>>

(From left) Deputy Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Arthur Jemison, Secretary Greg Bialecki, Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria Jr., and developer Andy Montelli at the former Charleston Chew factory in Everett. By Kathy McCabe, Globe Staff As Everett waits to find out if a resort casino will be located in the city, a $90 million project to convert the former Charleston Chew candy factory into 328 luxury apartments could become a sweet spot in the Greater Boston housing market, the state's top business official said Tuesday. "It seems like this was a development just waiting to happen," Continue reading >>>

For decades, Casey Sherman, the nephew of the Boston Strangler's last victim, doubted that Albert DeSalvo was the man who killed his aunt, Mary Sullivan. Sullivan lived in an apartment on Charles Street and was 19-years-old when she was raped and killed in 1964.  But, after a recent investigation revealed that there was a likely match between DeSalvo's DNA and that which was found on Sullivan's body at the crime scene, Sherman told Greater Boston that the turn of events has changed his mind.  Continue reading >>>

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