Newton voters think that they should have veto power over the sale of city-owned land, and that local communities should have more say on affordable housing projects, according to the results of two nonbinding Election Day ballot questions. In other communities across Greater Boston, voters registered their nonbinding support for legalizing marijuana, putting more controls on nonhospital abortion providers, and requiring municipal utilities to adopt fair policies for homeowners who install solar panels. Continue reading below While the governor’s race and other Continue reading >>>

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Continue reading below Massachusetts municipalities keep track of the tonnage of trash and recycling their programs collect each year. Here are the trash and recycling tonnages for Greater Boston suburbs with more than 8,000 households that reported the data to the state in 2012. DATA: Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs Continue reading >>>

NORTH ANDOVER — With a name like Connor Hurley, it’s easy to become a popular figure in the Greater Boston area.Last night, before a packed Lawler Rink crowd of 2,549, the Notre Dame freshman center gained a bit of notoriety after he collected his own rebound in front and deposited the winning goal at 1:44 of overtime to lift the Fighting Irish to a well-played 3-2 victory over Merrimack.Hurley took a pass in the low slot from classmate Jake Evans and, with a Warriors defender draped on him, fired a quick wrist shot that was stopped by Merrimack goalie Rasmus Tirronen (22 saves). Hurley then Continue reading >>>

Time to put on the feedbag – and take some notes. Tonight, we’re hitting some of the newer entries on the Greater Boston food scene, from a re-born diner serving what it calls “elevated” comfort food to a burger joint that’s serious about sliders. We’ll also grab some enchiladas and guacamole (tableside, of course), order up a hanger steak, and chow down on something new to us, an aqua pizza.

■ ReServe Greater Boston — http://reserveinc.org/greaterboston Connects older adults with stipended, part-time work in nonprofit and public sectors Continue reading below ■ Encore Fellowships — www.escne.org/index.aspx Finds paid fellowships for skilled professionals in nonprofits ■ Mature Caregivers — www.maturecaregivers.com Trains and matches people 50+ as certified in-home elder-care providers ■ Generations Inc. — www.generationsinc.org Places senior volunteer adults in school and after-school literacy programs ■ Small Business Administration Continue reading >>>

The sleepy town of Westminster, Massachusetts made waves this week when it proposed a ban on the sale of tobacco products, including cigarettes. That got Greater Boston host Emily Rooney thinking: what else needs to be banned in Boston? She joined Jim Braude and Margery Eagan this week for another installment of her weekly list of obsessions and observations, "Emily's List," and gave us her thumbs-up or thumbs-down on some of the most notorious bans in the area. Cigarettes sales: thumbs-up. "Until tobacco is illegal, you got to be able to sell it," Emily said. Plastic Continue reading >>>

An affiliate of GID Investment Advisers LLC of Boston has sold the 240-unit Windsor at Brentwood apartment complex in North Providence, R.I., for a total deal price of $25.8 million. This and more in today's Around the Region. A summary of recent transactions and personnel news within Greater Boston's real estate community.An Continue reading >>>

When you’ve hosted a show as long as I have, you meet a lot of interesting people with interesting perspectives. And so as I wind down my duties here on Greater Boston, we’re inviting some of our standout guests back on the show. We’re calling it a version of my weekly radio segment known as "Emily’s List." Stephen Freyer goes way back with me. I was news director at Channel 5 in the early 1990s, and he was representing several of our sportscasters, including Mike Lynch. Now he's the president of Freyer Management Associates, which represents media personalities and professional athletes.  Continue reading >>>

This week, we're taking on ourselves. Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh doesn’t think Emily Rooney was tough enough on Obamacare Architect Jonathon Gruber, who was caught on tape calling the American people stupid. Talk radio yakker Howie Carr has signed off at WRKO. Where will he land next? Pointergate: A local ABC affiliate got lambasted for turning an innocuous gesture into something menacing. To name or not to name? Our panel hashes out whether the media should identify a person of interest in the case of a missing Swampscott woman. Rants Raves: What our journalism Continue reading >>>