Whole Foods Market® Acquires Leases to Six Johnnie’s Foodmaster Locations Company to expand presence in Greater Boston to 26 stores  Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ:  WFM) today announced an agreement to purchase six leases from Johnnie’s Foodmaster, a family-owned grocery chain based in Chelsea, Massachusetts. The transaction is expected to close November 30, 2012.  Johnnie’s Foodmaster will close all six locations prior to the closing date. The six leases include South Weymouth, Arlington, Charlestown, Brookline, Melrose and Somerville and average 31,000 square feet in size. Whole Continue reading >>>

Sources say Harvard University is negotiating the sale of Arsenal on the Charles to athenahealth. Thomas Grillo Real Estate Editor- Boston Business Journal Email In what could be the one of the biggest real estate deals of the year, Harvard University is negotiating the sale of Arsenal on the Continue reading >>>

Whole Foods Market has purchased six leases from Johnnie’s Foodmaster for an estimated cost of $30 million. Thomas Grillo Real Estate Editor- Boston Business Journal Email Whole Foods Market (Nasdaq: WFM) has an agreement to purchase six leases from Johnnie’s Foodmaster, the Chelsea, Continue reading >>>

Like the Barenaked Ladies said in their hit song, "If I Had Million Dollars... ...I'd be one of 42 taxpayers in Arlington who made at least a million dollars in 2010." OK, so those weren't the actual lyrics of the song. But they are the actual numbers in a searchable database in the Boston Business Journal. Greater Boston’s suburbs to the west are among the state’s wealthiest, the Boston Business Journal reported, citing state tax data on millionaire filers in 2010. Weston tops the list with a millionaire filer for every 27 residents.  Arlington's number of millionaire filers is ranked 118th Continue reading >>>

The Medford High Mustang Cheerleaders are the Medford Transcript Athletes of the Week. The Mustangs won the Greater Boston League title during Medford’s Annual Spooky Halloween Cheer/GBL Tournament, Sunday, Oct. 21, at Medford High. It is the team’s ninth GBL title since 1998.

There’s nothing like a serial to keep people coming back. The idea has worked in literature, on movie screens, and on TV. It hasn’t been seen much onstage, but last February, Greater Boston got its own theatrical serial, “Blood Rose Rising,” the story of a local history professor, his lawyer girlfriend, and his other girlfriend, who just happens to be a ghost from the Victorian era. The brainchild of former Actors’ Shakespeare Project artistic director Ben Evett, with a script co-written by local theater veteran Steve Barkhimer, “Blood Rose Rising” debuted at the Davis Square Theatre Continue reading >>>

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By Jeremy C. Fox, Town Correspondent The anti-poverty agency Action for Boston Community Development is marking a half-century of serving low-income residents of Greater Boston with a gala celebration at Boston Marriott Copley Place. The Nov. 2 event will include a performance by Grammy Award-winner Natalie Cole and the posthumous induction of Peace Corps founder Sargent Shriver into the ABCD Hall of Fame. Bianca de la Garza, a co-anchor at WCVB-TV, will host the event. “It is always a privilege for me to be a part of helping those in need,” Cole said in a statement released by ABCD. “I Continue reading >>>

SUNDAY: Jane Kohuth (“Duck Sock Hop�) will read at 11 a.m. at Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, Newton … B. A. Shapiro (“The Art Forger�) reads at 3 p.m. at the Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord … Andrew Goldstein (“The Bookie's Son�), Madeline Miller (“The Song of Achilles�), and Justin Torres (“We the Animals�) read at 3 p.m. at the Fowler Library, 1322 Main St., Concord … Hank Phillippi Ryan (“The Other Woman�) reads at 3 p.m. at Book Ends, Winchester MONDAY: Phillip M. Vitti (“The Continue reading >>>

One of our ongoing teen programs, the Keystone Club, is a leadership development program that meets every other week to plan community service projects, fundraisers and social activities. During the past several weeks this group has volunteered at the Rodman Ride for Kids, served at a Food Pantry with The Greater Boston Food Bank, attended our recent Financial Literacy Night and this past Saturday, took part in a Leadership Training with the Dale Carnegie program. Upcoming projects include a Canned Goods Drive for the month of November, a second Food Pantry (11/7) at the Condon School in South Continue reading >>>