Bud LaCava is returning to lead KPMG's Boston office, after a three-year stint as a regional managing partner for the accounting firm. Bud LaCava is rejoining KPMG’s Boston office as managing partner after serving as regional managing partner for the firm’s East region, the audit, tax and advisory service provider said on Monday. LaCava, 56, is a member Continue reading >>>

Bud LaCava has been named managing partner for the Boston office of KPMG, an audit, tax and advisory services firm. KPMG, which recently announced a new office in Cambridge to serve emerging technologies and life-science companies, has roughly 700 employees in Greater Boston. LaCava has held this post before. His previous tenure was from 2003 to 2009. Most recently, LaCava served as regional managing partner for KPMG’s East region. In the Boston post, LaCava succeeds Pat Canning, who was named managing partner of KPMG’s Chicago office. Try BostonGlobe.com Continue reading >>>

I just thought I'd share an interesting moment I experienced this morning.I lead an early morning practice group at the Greater Boston Zen Center. We are next door to the Cambridge DPW and in the morning the workers and drivers gather for morning assignments just outside our windows.Two people discussing what I took to be union or department politics right below the open window at my back.Just as I hit the last note of the start bell for zazen one man shouts "I don't exists!"So I sat and saw if experience confirmed it! I won't say if it did, try it yourself! Continue reading >>>

Celebrate July 4th with these fireworks displays scheduled in the Greater Boston area and North Shore of Massachusetts.

June 25, 2012 Successful Hospice event in Marblehead Anonymous The Salem News The Salem News Mon Jun 25, 2012, 04:30 AM EDT To the editor: It was a glorious weekend for Hospice of the North Shore Greater Boston’s 18th annual auction and regatta on June 15 and 17. This year’s event was the most successful in history, raising more than $355,000 to support the expert and compassionate care provided by Hospice of the North Shore Greater Boston. The festivities at Eastern Yacht Club, which included the auction on Friday and the regatta on Sunday, were attended Continue reading >>>

Congregation Beth Israel was incorporated in May 1918, and construction of its new synagogue began that summer. The cornerstone was laid at 33 Grafton St. on July 4, 1918, and the building was dedicated on Sept. 1. It served European immigrants who worked in the shipyards, and at its peak, during the 1940s and ‘50s, had 200 families and a vibrant Hebrew school. Dwindling membership led to its closure around 2007.

Youth football leagues in Greater Boston will sharply limit head-to-head contact during practices this year, following new rules by the national Pop Warner organization designed to cut the chance of concussions. Beginning in August, Pop Warner teams will only be allowed to have contact for one-third of practice time. Also, to limit a running start for blocking and tackling, drills that involve full-speed, head-on blocking that begins with players more than 3 yards apart will not be permitted. Pop Warner, the country’s largest youth football organization, is taking Continue reading >>>

Where are Fourth of July fireworks displays near Salem? Click on the links for more information about each event: Thursday, June 28 Somerville: Trum Field. Live entertainment beginning at 6 p.m. Fireworks at 9:15 p.m. (Rain date July 5.)  Saturday, June 30 Wilmington: Town Common. 7 a.m.-10 p.m. "Family Day." Fireworks at 9 p.m. Tuesday, July 3 Andover: High School. Fireworks at dusk. Lynn: Red Rock Park. Fireworks at 9 p.m. Danvers: Plains Park. 5-10 p.m. Fireworks at 9:15 p.m. Gloucester: The Boulevard. 5-10 p.m. Fireworks at 9:30 p.m. Needham: Memorial Park. 5-10 p.m. Fireworks after dark. Manchester: Continue reading >>>

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Pop Warner, the country’s largest youth football organization, is taking the steps after research showed that most of the hardest hits in youth football occur during practice, not in games. The rule change represents a big change for youth football leagues, which have roughly 80 franchises in the Boston area, and comes amid mounting concern about concussions and other head injuries all the way up to the professional level, especially in football.