Hospice of the North Shore Greater Boston, a leading nonprofit hospice provider in Massachusetts, is pleased to announce its new volunteer manager, Sheryl Meehan of Lawrence. Meehan has a rich history of community service, according to Hospice, serving on the board of directors for several organizations including the Haverhill Rotary Club, Lawrence YMCA, Family Services Inc. and the Greater Haverhill Chamber of Commerce. Her past positions include manager of volunteer services for Merrimack Valley Hospice, president of CPR Technologies Inc. and director of the Wilmington Continue reading >>>

When Hale Reservation received bib numbers as part of the Boston Athletic Association’s Charity Program, they knew it was a great opportunity. But, where would they find 15 runners who could raise money and train for a marathon? Interested runners came from all over and many were very close to Hale.  “We had several people who were interested in running Boston—after all it is the world’s oldest continuous marathon,” said Paula McLaughlin, director of development and community relations for Hale Reservation. “I had inquiries from all over the world and determining Continue reading >>>

When Hale Reservation received bib numbers as part of the Boston Athletic Association’s Charity Program, they knew it was a great opportunity. But, where would they find 15 runners who could raise money and train for a marathon? Interested runners came from all over and many were very close to Hale.  “We had several people who were interested in running Boston—after all it is the world’s oldest continuous marathon,” said Paula McLaughlin, director of development and community relations for Hale Reservation. “I had inquiries from all over the world and determining Continue reading >>>

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Campus • Lifestyle Culture By Cecilia Weddell • Apr 8th, 2013 Between 8 p.m. Saturday and 8 p.m. Sunday, twenty Boston improv comedy groups, hundreds of BU students, and one Boston University Dean of Students found themselves laughing or performing in BU Central. One constant in the twenty-four hours of comedy was Liquid Fun, a BU improv comedy group. This was their eighth annual 24-hour comedy marathon benefiting the Greater Boston Food Bank. The event brought many Boston comedy groups to the dimly-lit space, where students and Boston residents alike were invited to drop in Continue reading >>>

“I go to school in Boston.”Eyes downcast, feet shuffling, we’ve all uttered this evasive response to that most innocent of questions, “Where do you go to college?” to avoid dropping the H-bomb and inciting  judgment from new acquaintances.To say that Harvard students live in Boston is a lie, some would argue, pointing to that unfathomable chasm between Eliot House and Allston, the mighty Charles. Muddy rivers and municipal limits aside, they are wrong. Geographically, Cambridge is a part of Greater Boston, and culturally, Harvard as an institution Continue reading >>>

Location: MarlboroughAcquired by: IBM September, 2010 Terms: About $1.7 billion “Netezza will expand IBM’s business analytics initiatives to help clients gain faster insights into their business information, with increased performance at a lower cost,” IBM said in a statement. Founded in 2000 as Intelligent Data Engines Inc., Netezza went public in 2007 and had clients from Estee Lauder, Marriott, NYSE Euronext and Virgin Media, the Wall Street Journal reported at the time of the acquisition. The company “provided software and servers– those giant black things crammed in a loud, Continue reading >>>

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SUNDAY: David A. Kelly (“Miracle Mud: Lena Blackburne and the Secret Mud that Changed Baseball”) reads at 1 p.m. at Bestsellers Cafe, 24 High St., Medford … Anthony di Mari and Nora Yoo (“Operative Design: A Catalog of Spatial Verbs”) read at 1 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … William Martin (“The Lincoln Letter”) reads at 2 p.m. at Duxbury Free Library, 77 Alden St., Duxbury … Ellen Zachos (“Backyard Foraging”) reads at 2 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith … Elizabeth Graver (“The End of the Point”) reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord … Daniel L. Everett Continue reading >>>

One of the two companies competing to provide Greater Boston’s commuter rail service is threatening to drop out if the MBTA does not provide key information by Friday, potentially leaving the state with only one bidder for the largest contract in Massachusetts history. The MBTA had promised to create an even playing field in the competition for the $1 billion-plus commuter rail contract, even though one of the bidders, Massachusetts Bay Commuter Rail, currently runs the system and has close personal ties to state transportation leadership. But the only other bidder, Keolis America Inc., said Continue reading >>>