Above is a clip from Traces of Trade, a 2008 PBS documentary that helped Unity Breakfast keynote speaker James DeWolfe Perry earn an Emmy nomination. By Jaclyn Reiss, Town Correspondent Watertown will celebrate its 12th Unity Breakfast on Monday, Jan. 16, bringing together a diverse crowd of hundreds of people, to remember Martin Luther King, Jr. The breakfast, which has become a Watertown tradition, will focus on the legacy of slavery in New England. Attractions include two local musical groups, essays by middle and high school students on the meaning of the day, and the annual Unity Award, Continue reading >>>

The Central Mass. Mail Processing Center in Shrewsbury. (Photo: Molly McCarthy)By Molly McCarthy, Contributing Writer Shrewsbury – Hundreds of supporters of the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) Central Mass. Processing and Distribution Center, located in Shrewsbury, attended a meeting Jan. 5 at the Marlborough Holiday Inn to discuss the future of the center.In September 2006, Postmaster General/CEO Patrick R. Donahue proposed that the center, which employs about 500 people, the majority of whom reside in Worcester County, be put on the list for potential closure.Recently the Greater Boston District Continue reading >>>

The Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), the regional planning agency for more than 100 Greater Boston communities, has picked Framingham-based Ameresco Inc. to help 14 member communities save on their energy costs.The MAPC and Ameresco hosted a series of kickoff meetings this week in Boston and Framingham to introduce the program. Ameresco will work with each of the 14 communities to audit and assess municipal-owned buildings and infrastructure. The communities include Ashland, Framingham, Sherborn, Sudbury and Wayland in Central Massachusetts. Continue reading >>>

This piece is excerpted from the January 2012 issue of Library Technology Reports. You can purchase the full issue on the ALA Store. Google “smartphone user.” Click on Images. What do you see? When I tried this, I saw some graphs, pictures of devices (many of them BlackBerrys), and a bunch of white people, mostly men, using smartphones, often to do business. The problem: This is a lie. It doesn’t represent the devices people use nor who’s using them or how. As I did research for my Library Technology Report, I discovered that many of the assumptions I had about smartphone use—based Continue reading >>>

01.13.2012 EBSB Begins 2012 with the Addition of Several New Employees EAST BOSTON - The new year began with East Boston Savings Bank announcing the addition of new team members fulfilling key positions within the organization. Richard J. Gavagnano, Chairman and CEO of EBSB welcomed the following personnel to the staff in January. Scott True has joined EBSB as the Vice President of Business Banking. Mr. True came to the Bank from Danversbank where he has worked since 2001. He will work with the Bank's Corporate Continue reading >>>

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' Developers from MGM Resorts International today promised to build a “world-class resort” and create 3,000 direct jobs while having little impact on this small community. James J. Murren, chairman of the board and CEO of MGM Resorts International, said the company is dedicated to the Brimfield site, and is working to gain the trust of residents who would have to approve a gaming facility in their town.“If locals don’t choose to support the project, we won’t be here,” Mr. Murren said at a news conference.But he believes the proposal is solid, and said the 300 Continue reading >>>

This year, NHPR's GOP primary coverage took on a strong national flavor, broadcasting to listeners all over the country. Among the network's expanded audience were WNYC listeners in, well...NYC. And in the spirit of inter-station cooperation, the good folks at WNYC and Patchwork Nation used AP polling data to put together a county-by-county map of election results. What interested StateImpact about this map is that it also classified each county according to its main economic drivers. Before we get rolling, though, just one brief note about the map. To see statewide totals, move your cursor Continue reading >>>