Nectir Inc., an emerging national network of staffing firms, announces that it will be opening a branch location in Boston, Massachusetts. Nectir Boston will provide contingent staffing, contract-to-hire services, direct-hire services and rapid deployment staffing for local and regional companies in Boston and the surrounding cities. The branch is expected to be opening by Fall 2013. We are excited about opening a Nectir branch in Boston, Massachusetts. As Nectir continues to expand nationwide, we will leverage the talents and relationships of our local branch managers to help build the Nectir Continue reading >>>

Retired U.S. Rep. Barney Frank wants you to know two things: He has a Netflix subscription, and he has no plans to drift quietly into the Maine wilderness.The Newton Democrat, who splits his time between Vacationland and Greater Boston, wrote a column in last Sunday’s edition of the Portland Press Herald, skewering the Netflix series “House of Cards” for what he called a “fictional misrepresentation of political reality.”Frank, who has said in retirement he planned to write more, was as glib and thoughtful as you may remember him from his decades on Capitol Hill.“ ‘House of Cards,’ ” Continue reading >>>

India Day on move to AndoverAug 22, 2013 (Menafn - Andover Townsman - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --Security costs in Boston have led a popular annual cultural event to relocate to Andover next month.Andover High School's Collins Center will play host to the India Association of Greater Boston's annual India Day on Sunday, Sept. 8, from 4 to 8 p.m.The annual event celebrating India's independence from British colonial rule has drawn thousands to the Esplanade in Boston for many years.But costs to continue staging the celebration at the Hatch Shell became prohibitive this Continue reading >>>

WALTHAM — Walter McCarty’s education as a coach came from a very unpopular voice here in Boston. But without it, the former Celtics reserve forward might not be answering questions as a new assistant for Brad Stevens.McCarty — who was hired by Stevens to fill out the Celtics coaching staff with Ron Adams and Micah Shrewsberry, along with holdovers Jamie Young and Jay Larranaga — spent three seasons, starting in 2007, as an assistant coach at the University of Louisville under his former C’s coach Rick Pitino. It was there where he learned the intricacies of what a coach does behind the Continue reading >>>

SOUTH BOSTON -- Parishioners from across the Greater Boston area gathered across the street from their now burned-out place of worship, St. John the Baptist Albanian Orthodox, to commiserate about their past and wonder about the future. Some of those gathered, like Sophia Andon, planned on spending the day in lawn chairs on the sidewalk across from their beloved church. Andon recalled how her father, an immigrant from Albania, was involved in the founding of the church in 1934 and expressed concern about would could be saved from the rubble. "I heard that they're gonna try to save the steeple, Continue reading >>>

Panera Bread Saugus and 15 other participating Panera Bread of Greater Boston bakery-cafes will help support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. During the month of August, buy a candy cookie and 10 cents of the purchase price will go to St. Jude. Plus, you can donate a $1 at the register to benefit St. Jude. No family ever pays St. Jude for anything. St. Jude research discoveries are in communities everywhere. Your dollar provides children help and hope. Discover more about St. Jude at http://www.stjude.org/whysupport. For participating Panera Bread locations: http://www.panera-boston.com/locations.html. Continue reading >>>

Curbed Comparisons is our map of similarly priced homes around the region. This go-round it's 10 condos asking $359,000—interestingly enough, one of the most active price-points in the region right now sales-wise (in fact, some of these have found buyers, though no deals have closed). The 10 include a 1-BR in Brighton and a 3-BR in Dorchester and a goddamn ocean-view spread in Quincy. Get. Continue reading >>>

People from across the country are expected to converge on the nation’s capital on Aug. 28 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. But here in Greater Boston, a group of interfaith leaders is hoping to use the occasion to make its own statement about civil rights. The Memorial March for Peace will be held on Aug. 28 – the same day as the anniversary of the 1963 march. But this gathering will take its route from Boston to Newton Centre to show that more needs to be done, according to Sarah Mausner, one of the organizers of the march. "While there Continue reading >>>