(NECN: Alysha Palumbo, Boston) - A group of 16 year olds from around the Greater Boston area just returned home from a month-long tour of Israel they will never forget. "We still got to go to Messada, we still got to go to the Dead Sea, we were in Jerusalem for the first week so we got to get everything in that was really meaningful and important and I'm happy about that," Ben Goldberg of Needham, Massachusetts, said. "I still feel like we saw everything we were supposed to," Max Gross of Marblehead said. But the Dor L Dor Leadership trip Continue reading >>>

According to new research from Zillow. Although many of Boston’s neighborhoods are experiencing a real estate boom at the moment, prices in the larger metropolitan area remain depressed, according to data released on Monday by Zillow. According to the Zillow Home Value Index, the median estimated home value in the Boston region is $365,100, up 8.6 percent over just the past year but still down by more than 5 percent from its peak in 2005. Zillow analysts expect that prices will continue to rise between now and next summer—by 2.5 percent—but will not completely recover Continue reading >>>

CBD Energy Announces $300,000 in Residential Solar Loan Approvals Visit http://www.cbdenergy.com for further information Installations garnered within three weeks following soft launch in single U.S. market Submitted on 07/23/14, 02:28 PM NEW YORK----CBD Energy Limited (NASDAQ: CBDE) today announced it has obtained approximately $300,000 of loan approvals for residential solar systems under its solar installations brand, Westinghouse Solar, within three weeks of operation following a soft launch in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts. CBD Continue reading >>>

BOSTON, MA –– Phillip Megna, President, EMCOR Services Northeast, Inc.; Robert Gallagher, President and CEO, J.C. Higgins Corp.; and James Lane, Regional VP and General Manager, Building Technology Engineers, Inc., presented a $10,000 check to be donated to the National Center for Missing Exploited Children during ceremonies at the EMCOR In Greater Boston 7th Annual Golf Charity Golf Event held Monday, July 21 at Pleasant Valley Country Club in Sutton, Massachusetts. Leading mechanical services, mechanical, and facilities services contractors in the Greater Boston Continue reading >>>

The Frozen Four will return to Boston in 2015 for the first time since 2004. Hosted by the Hockey East Association, the NCCA Division I Men’s Hockey Semi-Final and Championship games will take place on Thursday April 9 and Saturday April 11 at TD Garden. Boston has played host to the Frozen Four on six previous occasions, with TD Garden as the site of the event in 1998 and 2004. Despite the long term success that Boston-area teams have had contending for the NCAA National Championship, holding the tourney in the Greater Boston area has not provided local schools with a great home-ice advantage, Continue reading >>>

Thunderstorms could rattle Eastern Massachusetts tonight, bringing the potential for localized heavy downpours, the National Weather Service said. The storms “should be reaching the northwest suburbs of the Greater Boston Area somewhere between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.,” said Alan Dunham, a National Weather Service meteorologist. Continue reading below Heavy downpours brought by the thunderstorms will be localized, not widespread, Dunham said. “You could have heavy rain on one street, and a quarter mile away, very light rain,” he said. Localized flash flooding from poor drainage in urban Continue reading >>>

One of Greater Boston's most beloved summer traditions, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's (CSC) "Free Shakespeare On The Common," presents the Bard's classic comedy of love in disguise Twelfth Night tonight, July 23 - August 10, 2014. Performances are free and open to the public and held Tuesdays thru Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm; with one matinee on Saturday, July 26 @ 3pm. (Press performance is Wednesday, July 30 at 8pm). For reserved "Friends Section" chairs, special events and more information visit online at www.commshakes.org or call (617) 426-0863. Twelfth Night follows the journey Continue reading >>>

WASHINGTON — J Street withdrew from a pro-Israel rally in Boston because it did not feel the rally would address all the group’s concerns. The liberal Jewish Middle East policy group, a constituent of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston, explained its stance on the July 17 solidarity rally in a letter by its Boston director, Shaina Wasserman, to the JCRC’s executive director, Jeremy Burton, that was posted Monday on J Street’s website. J Street had agreed at first to co-sponsor the rally for Israel in its current conflict with Hamas Continue reading >>>

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