SUNDAY: Ilie Ruby (“The Salt God's Daughter”) reads at 3 p.m. at Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord MONDAY: Hilary Weisman Graham (“Reunited”) and Kristen-Paige Madonia (“Fingerprints of You”) read at 7 p.m. at the Harvard Coop … Madeline Miller (“Song of Achilles”) reads at 7 p.m. at Porter Square Books … Nassir Ghaemi (“A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness”) reads at 7 p.m. at Harvard Book Store TUESDAY: Harlow Giles Unger (“John Quincy Adams”) reads at 6 p.m. at the Jones Room at Tufts Library, 46 Broad St. Weymouth Continue reading >>>

Just take a look at year-to-date sale prices in the many neighborhoods that make up Boston proper. Only Mattapan, Allston and Roslindale bucked the trend, with prices up in August in Charlestown, South Boston, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, East Boston, Brighton and Dorchester, according to The Warren Group, publisher of Banker Tradesman. Median sale prices range from $637,500 in Charlestown to $256,000 in Dorchester. Meanwhile, condo prices in downtown Boston - including Back Bay, South End, North End, Beacon Hill and the Fenway - are positively soaring. The median downtown condo price Continue reading >>>

Each independent land-use decision can seem like a wonky event, interesting only to neighbors, developers, and the occasional housing economist. The developer has pecuniary reasons to want the project, the neighbors resist significant changes, and the economist’s complaint — that limiting supply makes our unaffordable region even more expensive — seems overblown in discussions of a single development.But these individual decisions add up and collectively shape our region. In effect, our metropolitan planning is being implemented at the sidewalk level, by abutters who see the downside of every Continue reading >>>

  Settlements have been reached with a temporary staffing firm and its client company to resolve allegations they failed to properly pay more than 1,200 workers at a Woburn facility, Attorney General Martha Coakley announced Sept. 5. The companies will together pay more than $649,000 in restitution as well as civil penalties to the Commonwealth. The settlements were achieved with significant assistance from the Chelsea Collaborative and Greater Boston Legal Services, both of which provided information to help identify violations and facilitated communication with the workers. “Our office Continue reading >>>

Boston radio station WTKK 96.9 FM said Tuesday it has expanded its offerings to include live newscasts every 30 minutes, and traffic and weather reports every 15 minutes, 24 hours a day. The news and weather reports will be available on the radio station, online , and via apps on Apple and Android mobile devices. The station, which has a talk radio format, is now branding itself as “News Talk 96.9.” The expanded news programming is based on a partnership with Total Traffic Network, a national news service owned by radio giant Clear Channel Communications Inc., located in San Antonio. The news Continue reading >>>

Boston radio station WTKK 96.9 FM said Tuesday it has expanded its offerings to include live newscasts every 30 minutes, and traffic and weather reports every 15 minutes, 24 hours a day. The news and weather reports will be available on the radio station, online , and via apps on Apple and Android mobile devices. The station, which has a talk radio format, is now branding itself as “News Talk 96.9.” The expanded news programming is based on a partnership with Total Traffic Network, a national news service owned by radio giant Clear Channel Communications Inc., located in San Antonio. The news Continue reading >>>

MARLBOROUGH (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren both took part in Marlboro’s Labor Day parade. The parade stepped off at noon on Monday at the Marlboro Fire Station. Earlier Monday, Warren spoke at the Central Massachusetts AFL-CIO Labor Day Breakfast in Worcester and the Greater Boston Labor Council Breakfast in Boston. Warren had a similar message at both venues, saying Brown has supported policies that hurt working people, and it was time to send him home from Washington. Brown has said the policies he supports, such as lower taxes, Continue reading >>>

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—It’s being called an event with an extreme purpose. The late Rev. Haroutiun (Randy) Dagley and his wife Yeretsgin Patty (Sarkisian) Dagley with their two children, Sona and Sarkis, during happier times. Members of the Greater Boston community and beyond will gather for a memorial dance to benefit two children who were left parentless after subsequent deaths over the past decade. The loss of Rev. Haroutiun (Randy) Dagley and his beloved Yeretskin Patty (Sarkisian) to unrelated illnesses left a distinct void in the Armenian church. Among the immediate survivors Continue reading >>>

(Source: Marie Szaniszlo Boston Herald (MCT) — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren yesterday raised the level of attack on GOP rival U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, drawing cheers as she blasted Brown for portraying himself as an everyman while he voted to block President Obama’s nominee to the National Labor Relations Board and voted against the president’s jobs bill. “I don’t care what kind of truck he drives or what kind of barn coat he wears,” Warren told union members and supporters at the Greater Boston Labor Council Labor Day breakfast. “I care about how he votes.” Brown Continue reading >>>