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Stuff-A-Truck for the Greater Boston Food in Dedham on Friday

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WCVB-TV Channel 5 and Stop Shop are joining forces on Friday, Sept. 21, to encourage Bay Staters to Stuff-A-Truck with canned goods and other non-perishables for The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) and other hunger relief agencies in the region.  Throughout Friday, NewsCenter 5 will share stories about the increased need for emergency food assistance in our area and will air live shots from the collection site during the EyeOpener, Midday and early evening newscasts.  Chronicle, WCVB’s award-winning, nightly newsmagazine that airs at 7:30PM, will explore the changing face of hunger and show Continue reading >>>

Andrew Ference Announces He’ll Play in Czech League, Offers to Buy …

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Andrew Ference Announces He'll Play in Czech League, Offers to Buy Bostonians a Beer Listen up, Bostonians. Andrew Ference is willing to buy you a beer. All you have to do is join him in the Czech Republic, which is where the Bruins' defenseman will be playing during the NHL lockout. Ference announced on Twitter Wednesday that he'll be heading overseas on Oct. 7 -- barring a new CBA. He'll be joining Ceske Budejovice of the Czech Extraliga, which Continue reading >>>

Mayor Menino’s Boston Moves For Health Joins Forces With Lose It! To Help …

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 Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced today that Boston Moves for Health, an ambitious initiative to improve the health and wellness of the city by increasing access to free and low-cost physical activities and healthy living resources, will partner with the Hometown Wellness Showdown to help residents get healthy, get active, and lose weight. The Hometown Wellness Showdown, sponsored by Lose It!, Boston.com, and the Greater Boston YMCA, starts this week and runs through October 12, 2012.  Participants can sign up for free at http://showdown.loseit.com, and earn points for logging exercise, Continue reading >>>

Blue Cross CEO Dreyfus: Break down divides to lower health costs

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Julie M. Donnelly Reporter- Boston Business Journal Email Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts CEO Andrew Dreyfus, in remarks delivered at a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce breakfast, outlined a four-point prescription for transforming the Massachusetts health care system to one with better quality and lower costs. “If health care reform is a marathon, we are already at mile 22 - Cleveland Circle - on (health care) Continue reading >>>

Sen. Brown rejects forum in Roxbury – The Boston

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Peter Van Delft   On September 26, a political forum will be held inside the Roxbury Community College Media Arts Center that will offer constituents the chance to solidify or perhaps even reconsider their intentions about which candidate they will select to represent them in Congress this election day.  The forum is hosted by the New England Area Conference (NEAC) and co-sponsors include: ABCD (Action for Boston Community Development), the Black Ministerial Alliance, Community Change, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI), the Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston, the Madison Park Continue reading >>>

Blue Cross CEO: Cooperation, innovation needed to cut health costs

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The Bay State may have moved from “aspiration to action” in passing sweeping health-care reform, but there are four “substantial, interrelated steps” the Commonwealth needs to consider taking to wipe out high health-care costs for its constituents, Blue Cross Blue Shield President and CEO Andrew Dreyfus said today. “If health-care reform is a marathon, I believe we are probably already at mile 22 — past Boston College. On the coverage issue, and quality, we’re probably at about that mile 15, crossing Wellesley at Route 16, but with those steep Newton hills still ahead,” Dreyfus Continue reading >>>

Local photographer featured in ’30 under 30′ exhibit

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Robyn Day, an Ashland photographer, is one of the artists whose work is part of arsenalARTS’ “30 Under 30” exhibit. Billed as a fresh, dynamic exhibition of young artistic talent in the Greater Boston area, the show opens on Thursday, Oct. 4, and will run until Nov. 10. A reception is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 18, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Sunday, noon to 6 p.m. The exhibit is free to the public. “30 Under 30” presents a diverse look at emerging artistic talent in Massachusetts: 30 artists 30 years old or younger. With a large variety of media Continue reading >>>

East-West Culture Clash? Boston, San Francisco See Happiness Differently

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By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 09/18/2012 04:52 PM EDT on LiveScience When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed up at a meeting with Wall Street investors in May wearing a hoodie, his sartorial choice sparked a flurry of headlines contrasting Silicon Valley's laid-back culture with the East Coast's insistence on formality. Now, new research finds that this West Coast-East Coast culture clash isn't just media stereotyping. In fact, people living in the east coast city of Boston closely link Continue reading >>>