One of the items being auctioned at Greater Boston PFLAG’s annual fundraiser Thursday is a Celtics No. 98 jersey signed by Jason Collins, the NBA player who recently acknowledged that he’s gay. In his Sports Illustrated story, Collins revealed that he chose #98 for the C’s (and later the Washington Wizards) because 1998 was the year University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was kidnapped and tortured in an attack that cost him his life and galvanized the gay community. “My one small gesture of solidarity” was to wear #98, Collins wrote. Thursday’s event in the Kelleher Rose Garden Continue reading >>>

Month-long in-store fundraising campaign in Boston-area CVS/pharmacy locations raises more than $650000 to support victims of Boston Marathon attackCVS Caremark's private foundation previously donated $100000 to The One Fund BostonPR NewswireWOONSOCKET R.I. May 14 2013WOONSOCKET R.I. May 14 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CVS Caremark announced today that a month-long in-store fundraising campaign at CVS/pharmacy locations throughout Greater Boston raised over $650000 in donations from customers to The One Fund Boston which was established by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino Continue reading >>>

Falmouth High School student Saer McCliment is one of six recipients of the 2013 Elsie Frank Scholarship Award from Greater Boston PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) for her work on LGBT issues. Here, she speaks with The Bulletin.   Describe your coming out experience at Falmouth High School and how you were received by both your peers and educators. While I’ve been openly queer for years, I came out as transgender in the eleventh grade. I went to my GSA advisor, Mrs. Thompson, and asked her to email my teachers and inform them of my pronoun Continue reading >>>

LEOMINSTER -- Philanthropist Ronald M. Ansin, whose foundation office is in downtown Leominster, was honored with the Greater Boston Federal Executive Board's Sen. Paul E. Tsongas Award for Exemplary Community Service at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston last Wednesday. Tsongas' widow, U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas, nominated Ansin for the award. Ansin was a friend of Paul Tsongas dating to the 1970s, and he has stayed in touch with his widow over the years. Tsongas' twin sister, Thaleia Schlesinger, introduced Ansin before the award was presented. "Those things really made it very, very Continue reading >>>

After months of negotiations, the administration has ironed out a tentative lease with project developer John Rosenthal, who will pay $226 million in rent to build the complex on 4.5 acres of state-owned land and air rights over the Massachusetts Turnpike.

Southeastern Massachusetts remains a tricky bet for casino companies even after a ban on commercial development was lifted, specialists say, citing disadvantages that could discourage investors and chill competition. As the last of the state’s three regions to enter the bidding for a casino license, Southeastern Massachusetts is at least months behind Greater Boston and Western Massachusetts, where facilities are expected to open first. “You are not only late to the game, but conceivably there could be two other casinos up and running,” said Carl Jenkins, managing director at the financial Continue reading >>>

  The Boston Globe Magazine identifies Swampscott as a community on the "upswing." Seaside Swampscott was one of 13 Eastern Massachusetts communities the Boston Globe spotlighted in its 2013 "Top Places to Live" feature.  Citing the importance of home buyers wanting to "feel confident that they’re making a good investment" when purchasing a home, the Globe identified 13 communities "all on the upswing, with the biggest single-family home price increases in Greater Boston from 2011 to 2012." Swampscott also has the highest tax rate of those 13 towns and cities. Lauded for its promimity to Boston Continue reading >>>

In honor of National Volunteer Week, celebrated in April, we would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank and celebrate the 420 volunteers whose steadfast dedication and commitment enable Hospice of the North Shore Greater Boston to fulfill its mission: to enrich the quality of life for terminally ill patients and their families. Our volunteers’ selfless acts of kindness and compassion, both large and small, allow our patients the comfort, companionship and dignity that make all the difference at a critical turning point in their lives. Our volunteers provided Continue reading >>>

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Matthew L. Brown Reporter- Boston Business Journal Email  | Twitter TD Bank has promoted 10-year bank executive Kevin F. Malone to market president of its “Boston metro south” and Rhode Island region. In his new role, Malone will cover Greater Boston, the South Shore, MetroWest, Southeastern Mass., Cape Code and all of Rhode Island. He’ll report to Mark Crandall, the bank’s Southern New England Continue reading >>>