POSTED: 5:05 pm EDT March 29, 2012
UPDATED: 5:09 pm EDT March 29, 2012

Patch will be starting collecting entries for our Video Battle of the Bands contest starting on April 9. The contest will pit bands from nearly three dozens communities in Greater Boston, the North Shore, Merrimack Valley, South Shore and Cape Cod and the Islands. The contest will work this way: We’ll ask local bands to upload a video of themselves performing an original song starting on Monday, April 9. We’ll collect entries over two weeks. On Monday, April 23, we’ll kick off a regional competition across Eastern Massachusetts. Voters will be able to comment and tell us their favorites. Voting Continue reading >>>

Two years after the Great Recession of 2008 started turning around, local food pantries and their primary provider, the Greater Boston Food Bank, are still straining to meet the needs of chronically long lists of clients – among them, retirees on fixed incomes, part-time workers, and families with children.

The competition will include a total of 13 teams from Arlington, Bedford, Brookline, Concord-Carlisle, Lincoln-Sudbury Regional, Lowell, Scituate, and Sharon high schools, as well as Lawrence Humanities and Leadership Development High School and Notre Dame High School, also in Lawrence.

Home » World News SEP presidential candidate Jerry White campaigns in Boston By Kate Randall 29 March 2012 SEP presidential candidate Jerry White campaigned Tuesday in Boston, Massachusetts. A team joined White at Ruggles station in the afternoon, where the candidate had the opportunity to speak with high school students, workers and other commuters passing through the busy MBTA stop. Jerry White with students from O’Bryant School of Math Science in Roxbury The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is Continue reading >>>