Hospitals Deliver Healthy Meals in Attempt to Reduce Patient Readmission

The Rolling Stones rolled into Boston June 12 for their 50 Counting tour to celebrate five decades of performances.   The band played their first Boston-area show the summer of 1966 at the Manning Bowl in Lynn and in the 1990s made a habit of starting their American tours here.  Music journalist Stephen Davis went to many of those shows and wrote a biography of the band in 2001. He tells us about the memorable ones, and Emily Rooney shares her favorite Stones songs.  Continue reading >>>

To mark the start of the James "Whitey" Bulger trial, Greater Boston dug into its archives to present a 40 minute special on Bulger's decades-long crime spree, the people who associated with and protected him, and his victims.  Watch Emily Rooney's interviews with former Bulger associates Kevin Weeks and John Shea; the mother of Bulger's only known child, Lindsey Cyr; and former FBI agent John Connolly, who is serving a 40-year prison sentence for second-degree murder.  Continue reading >>>

A Beacon Hill resident was recently part of the "Step Into Summer" fundraiser that helped raise both money and awareness for the Greater Boston Food Bank. Sarah Biller, who lives on Beacon Hill and is the president of Capital Market Exchange, is one of three chairs of GBFB's "Kitchen Cabinet," which hosted the Monday event at the Harpoon Brewery Beer Hall. Spokeswoman Dianna Curry said Monday's event was attended by over 100 people and was able to raise enough money "to provide more than 23,000 nutritious meals for those in need throughout eastern Massachusetts." According to their website, Continue reading >>>

As opening statements get underway in the James “Whitey” Bulger trial Wednesday, Emily Rooney examines the decades long saga of Boston’s most notorious gangster on Greater Boston. For the families and victims of Bulger’s decades-long criminal spree the trial is a moment in justice long overdue. Tonight, Greater Boston takes you through Bulger’s criminal enterprise – a record that spans some 70-years, but began in earnest in the 1960’s. The feature will excerpt the 2001 documentary, The Outlaw and the Lawman; interviews Emily has conducted with Continue reading >>>

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DANVERS, Mass. High Liner Foods, the leading value-added frozen seafood supplier in North America, today announced a partnership with The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) to donate the use of dock space at its Peabody, MA facility. GBFB, the largest hunger-relief organization in New England with an objective to distribute enough food to provide one meal a day to those in need, is committed to increasing its food distribution in 2013. High Liner Foods’ donated dock space will be used to facilitate food deliveries in northeastern Massachusetts. Continue reading >>>

While he’s not a huge sports fan, Gov. Deval Patrick has agreed to the proverbial friendly wager between ranking elected officials on the eve of the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals pitting the Boston Bruins against the Chicago Blackhawks. But Patrick and Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn are deviating from the traditional setup in which governors agree to exchange food and beverages indigenous to their states. Instead, the governor of the losing team’s state will volunteer at the food bank of the winning governor’s choice. If the Bruins win, Quinn will volunteer at the Greater Boston Continue reading >>>