(West Roxbury YMCA)A rendering of the planned project. By Matt Rocheleau, Town Correspondent The state will allocate $500,000 to help pay for a multi-million-dollar project to overhaul and nearly double the size of the 62-year-old West Roxbury YMCA. West Roxbury Democrats state Senator Mike Rush and state Representative Ed Coppinger will visit the YMCA of Greater Boston's West Roxbury branch Monday afternoon to formally announce the state funding allocation, the organization said. Rush and Coppinger, both former Y members, also plan to discuss the plans with current Y members, staff and executives, Continue reading >>>

‘My Summer in the City’ grants highlight Boston Foundation summer investments for youth in 2013 Boston – The Boston Foundation, Greater Boston’s community foundation, has announced that it is investing more than $600,000 in funding for summer programs in and around the city of Boston in 2013, providing much needed opportunities for youth to build skills, retain learning and gain employment during the summer months. The investment includes more than $325,000 in grants for ‘My Summer in the City,’ a network of nearly 30 programs providing activities and summer jobs for youth in Continue reading >>>

Description SB Nation Fan Communities BloggerSoDear.com and BCInterruption.com announced today a fan initiative for Wake Forest and Boston College fans that will benefit Boston's Greater Boston Food Bank and Northwest North Carolina's Second Harvest Food Bank. Between July 26 and Aug. 24, fans can donate money on the popular crowdsourcing site, Crowdtilt.com. The winner of the Boston College and Wake Forest football game on Sept. 6 also determines which food bank wins 51% of the donations collected. The "losing" side will receive 49%. SOURCE LINK to the full article: http://www.ajc.com/feed/sports/bc-interruption-blogger-so-dear-launch-initiative/fTzLd/ Continue reading >>>

Highlights from boston.com/hive, Boston’s source for innovation news. Where is Greater Boston’s next innovation hub? GrabCAD marketing guru Rob Stevens says his money is on Davis Square, where his growing company moved a few months ago. “Davis is the new Kendall Square,” Stevens said last week in GrabCAD’s spacious new digs on Cameron Avenue in Somerville. The start-up, which helps engineers share computer-aided design files, spent the previous year renting space on Third Street in Kendall Square. Feeling squeezed — literally, by cramped quarters, and figuratively, by high prices Continue reading >>>

The start-up, which helps engineers share computer-aided design files, spent the previous year renting space on Third Street in Kendall Square. Feeling squeezed — literally, by cramped quarters, and figuratively, by high prices — the GrabCAD team took the operation four stops up the Red Line in April.

SB Nation Fan Communities BloggerSoDear.com and BCInterruption.com announced today a fan initiative for Wake Forest and Boston College fans that will benefit Boston's Greater Boston Food Bank and Northwest North Carolina's Second Harvest Food Bank. Between July 26 and Aug. 24, fans can donate money on the popular crowdsourcing site, Crowdtilt.com. The winner of the Boston College and Wake Forest football game on Sept. 6 also determines which food bank wins 51% of the donations collected. The "losing" side will receive 49%. The competition builds on a faux "feud" developed by Blogger So Continue reading >>>

Photo by Michael Rizza"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.".....Henny YoungmanOn a Friday night in 1978 a young woman at Faces near Fresh Pond is captured double barreling beers at the Martignetti brothers successful parquet paradise that hosted Greater Boston dancers from the mid 70's until its closure in 1990. Subsequently, and for many years after, Faces was forgotten--but not gone. Finally demolished last year to make way for more condos, the Dirty Old Disco has finally attained the more honorable 'gone but not forgotten' status.Miller, Schlitz, Bud, Michelob for the Continue reading >>>

Paula Delaflor, a 74-year-old Foxborough resident, owned a vacant gas station in Groveland. James F. McCarthy, a self-employed contractor who worked at sites all over Greater Boston, asked whether he could rent the space, and she agreed. In September 2011, he moved in. But the agreement they reached quickly turned sour.

Lucia Audate, Khatisia Goode and their families officially became neighbors Saturday as the Greater Boston Habitat for Humanity turned over their new homes to them, a two-unit duplex on Bradeen Street in Roslindale. The duplex is the first completed building in the Red Rose Condominium complex Habitat is building. The name comes from Fred and Rose Salvucci, who owned the site and were going to develop it into a for-profit rental complex when they decided to donate it to Habitat, building permits and all. Construction started in the fall of 2011, according to Lark Palermo, Continue reading >>>