To the editor, In honor of National Volunteer Week, April 15-21, 2012, 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 over Continue reading >>>

A coalition of Bay State business groups from outside Greater Boston — representing more than 11,000 companies statewide — is fighting an effort by the Patrick administration and some Boston-based development organizations to consolidate control over the state’s community colleges. A recent compromise effort in the Legislature failed to satisfy leaders of the rebellion, organized by regional business leaders, including David McKeehan, executive director of the North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce. “Those parts of the overall proposal would have control of the community colleges Continue reading >>>

Song and dance legend Mitzi Gaynor made her name in the movies — starring in 17 feature films including 1958’s “South Pacific,” for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination — but her lasting success has come in television and from her decades as a celebrated nightclub headliner. “I loved being a movie star, but I’m not sure I was all that good. The camera always got in my way. I was never as comfortable making a film as I am on television or on stage in front of a live audience,” explained Gaynor by telephone recently from her home in Beverly Hills. Gaynor was a fixture Continue reading >>>

Song and dance legend Mitzi Gaynor made her name in the movies — starring in 17 feature films including 1958’s “South Pacific,” for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination — but her lasting success has come in television and from her decades as a celebrated nightclub headliner. “I loved being a movie star, but I’m not sure I was all that good. The camera always got in my way. I was never as comfortable making a film as I am on television or on stage in front of a live audience,” explained Gaynor by telephone recently from her home in Beverly Hills. Gaynor was a fixture Continue reading >>>

Home / Citybiznews / General Business / We Recommend... Outreach Council helps pregnant mother and two daughters move from a shelter to a home of their own CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Heading Home, Inc., one of the Boston Continue reading >>>

By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff Boston-based RSA Media Inc. said it will donate $2 million worth of billboard space to the Greater Boston Food Bank. According to RSA Media, the signs that will support the food bank’s hunger relief efforts include some of the most desirable billboards in the company’s inventory. Those billboards are visible from such major thoroughfares as Interstate 93 in Braintree, the Southeast Expresway in Dorchester, and the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway in Boston. Another billboard is located about a mile from Gillette Stadium. The Greater Boston Continue reading >>>

Friday, April 20, 2012, 11:05am   The Greater Boston industrial property market had a positive start to 2012, with many properties seeing occupancy gains over the prior period, as conditions continued to improve for industrial tenants.The findings were released in "indSTATus - Spring 2012," Richards Barry Joyce Partners' quarterly research publication highlighting Greater Boston's industrial market. The Continue reading >>>

Boston Boilermakers JaJuan Johnson and E'Twaun Moore conducted a question and answer session for sixty Continue reading >>>

It is hard to believe how much has happened within our Boundless Way Zen project since we first began what would become this community of practice about a dozen years ago.We can now announce the beginning of the Greater Boston Zen Center, our first group with a dedicated space in the Boston area.The grand opening will be on Tuesday evening, May the 15th, 2012.My senior student Josh Bartok is the guiding teacher, and will in due course be installed as abbot. It combines the efforts of two preexisting sitting groups, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Zen sangha Spring Hill Zen. Also connected, but, I understand, Continue reading >>>