BOSTON (AP) — The National Hockey League's labor dispute is costing bars and restaurants near the TD Garden as much as $1 million for every Bruins home game that's canceled. The Greater Boston Convention Visitors Bureau says the business impact extends beyond the hospitality industry, with parking lots, equipment and souvenir shops and other businesses losing money with the NHL's third work stoppage in 19 years. Stanhope Garage Inc., which operates three small parking lots near the Garden, typically takes in $6,000 per game by filling all of its 200 spaces. Revenue from 22 Bruins home games Continue reading >>>

BOSTON (AP) — The National Hockey League's labor dispute is costing bars and restaurants near the TD Garden as much as $1 million for every Bruins home game that's canceled. The Greater Boston Convention Visitors Bureau says the business impact extends beyond the hospitality industry, with parking lots, equipment and souvenir shops and other businesses losing money with the NHL's third work stoppage in 19 years. Stanhope Garage Inc., which operates three small parking lots near the Garden, typically takes in $6,000 per game by filling all of its 200 spaces. Revenue from 22 Bruins home games Continue reading >>>

The coming debate over immigration reform promises to be thorny, but one change should be simple: increasing the number of H-1B visas available for high-skilled foreign workers. Business groups around the country, including the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, are right to press lawmakers to lift the restrictive yearly cap on H-1B visas as part of a comprehensive overhaul of the immigration system. For Boston’s innovative firms to compete with companies abroad, they need to recruit the best talent available. That’s difficult to do when US-born workers in skilled sectors are being snapped Continue reading >>>

BOSTON (AP) — The National Hockey League's labor dispute is costing bars and restaurants near the TD Garden as much as $1 million for every Bruins home game that's canceled. The Greater Boston Convention Visitors Bureau says the business impact extends beyond the hospitality industry, with parking lots, equipment and souvenir shops and other businesses losing money with the NHL's third work stoppage in 19 years. Stanhope Garage Inc., which operates three small parking lots near the Garden, typically takes in $6,000 per game by filling all of its 200 spaces. Revenue from 22 Bruins home games Continue reading >>>

BOSTON (AP) - The National Hockey League's labor dispute is costing bars andrestaurants near the TD Garden as much as $1 million for every Bruins home gamethat's canceled.The Greater Boston Convention Visitors Bureau says the business impactextends beyond the hospitality industry, with parking lots, equipment andsouvenir shops and other businesses losing money with the NHL's third workstoppage in 19 years.Stanhope Garage Inc., which operates three small parking lots near theGarden, typically takes in $6,000 per game by filling all of its 200 spaces.Revenue from 22 Bruins home games have already Continue reading >>>

Beware Greater Boston League, these Mustangs are on the move. As he heads into a new year, Medford High boys track coach Tommy Lynch is anticipating big things from his squad this season. “We had an enormous turn out of almost 60 participants [at tryouts],” said Lynch, who enters his third year as head coach, 19th overall with the program. And when you add into that equation a handful of established performers returning to the fold, this could be the team to watch this season. Leading the way for the Mustangs are senior tri-captains Nate Clement and Jeff Chambers. The defending Greater Continue reading >>>

Inspired by Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library aimed at improving literacy among children, the PJ Library has been sending books based on Jewish values, traditions, and holidays free of charge to children in the Greater Boston area for five years. The program, founded by philanthropist Harold Grinspoon, sends out over 3,000 books each month to children aged 6 months-5.5 years in 37 communities in the Greater Boston area alone and is a national program as well. “The program is for people who self identify as Jewish and are interested in Jewish books,” JCC PJ library coordinator Debra Continue reading >>>

(Jeremy C. Fox for Boston.com) East Boston’s American Legion Playground, photographed in August 2011, is one of seven sites around Greater Boston selected for a $400,000 Parkland Acquisitions and Renovations for Communities Program grant. By Jeremy C. Fox, Town Correspondent The state has announced a set of grants to support the creation and enhancement of parks and recreation areas in seven communities in Greater Boston. The Parkland Acquisitions and Renovations for Communities Program grants — each worth $400,000 — will support improvements in East Boston, Chelsea, Lynn, Marblehead, Continue reading >>>

“This year we’ll be performing segments from a variety of classical ballets, including ‘Copelia,’ ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ and ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ but we also have contemporary dances and patriotic numbers,” Umland said. “Our performers are local dancers age 8 to 18, and it’s a good experience for them to perform for the greater community rather than just for the audience of family and friends that our productions typically attract. The audience we get on New Year’s Eve tends to be very enthusiastic, and often expresses surprise at the caliber of what they can see out here in Continue reading >>>

The large winter storm that dropped inches of snow in the Medford is now headed towards the northeast, although no snow accumulation is expected in the Greater Boston area. According to the National Weather Service's latest forecast, several inches of snow are expected to fall in the western part of the state on Wednesday night, but with temperatures hitting a low of 32 degrees in Medford and reaching a high of 45 on Thursday, the snow is expected to change over to rain or icy rain in the city.  The National Weather Services has issued both a hazardous weather outlook and a high wind watch for Continue reading >>>