In a matchup featuring the two best pitchers in the state, someone would have to step up and make a play. Milford catcher Taylor LeBrun stepped up and made two. LeBrun came through with an RBI single in the bottom of the second inning, and in the seventh the freshman backstop gunned down a would-be base stealer to help Milford earn a 2-0 victory against top-ranked King Philip in a nonleague clash yesterday at Milford High. The loss was the first for King Philip (3-1) since the 2010 regular season, a 1-0 loss to Milford that was avenged in that year’s Division 1 state final. “Obviously you Continue reading >>>

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GOP Congressman Key Speaker At ‘We Will Not Be Silenced By Faggots’ Tea Party RallysnipRepublican U.S. Congressman Louie Gohmert was the keynote speaker Sunday at a Patriots Day Tea Party rally in Boston, Massachusetts, that featured scheduled speakers from not one but two certified anti-gay hate groups. The Massachusetts Tea Party Coalition’s rally was expected to be so toxic that the Greater Boston Tea Party urged members to avoid it. And while Boston Police were on hand, they are now the subject of an investigation after charges of police brutality against a pro-LGBT rally that Continue reading >>>

NEW MEMBERS JOIN SALES RECRUITING TEAMS HARTFORD, Conn. – April 16, 2012 - VLink today announced a significant increase in hiring for its sales and marketing teams. Given the high demand for contract consultants, especially for project staff augmentation, VLink has added over five recruiters and three salespeople to its staff during the first quarter of 2012. Sales positions were added to increase coverage in the greater Boston/New England region, the Connecticut/Rhode Island market and the greater New York City/Northern New Jersey area. VLink recruiting team members were added in the Continue reading >>>

Young baseball and softball players from all over the Silver Lake school district came together on Good Friday to help “Strike Out Breast Cancer.” The second annual event, held at the Pottle Street Fields in Kingston, was put together by the Kingston Youth Baseball and Softball League and the Bay State Bulldogs AAU baseball team. Last year campers were asked to bring canned goods to the training session. The people responded with more than 3,000 cans that were donated to the Greater Boston Food Bank. This year the focus turned to cancer research as campers were encouraged to help “Strike Continue reading >>>

Home / Real Estate News / We Recommend... Grubb Ellis has released its first Quarter 2012 Industrial Market Trends Report for the Boston market.HIGHLIGHTS• Greater Boston's overall industrial market began 2012 on an upbeat note, registering 520,000 square Continue reading >>>

Track season was over and Jack McDonald, a senior miler at Boston College, was cleaning out lockers as part of his work-study job in May 1973 when the athletic director called him to his office.A group of track athletes from Oxford and Cambridge in England were in Boston to compete in Continue reading >>>

In 1975, Boston’s Jewish population was 195,000, with demographic studies showing a migration to the suburbs, including Sharon, along with a drop in synagogue membership and a rise in intermarriage among those under 30. By 1985, the Jewish population in all of Greater Boston, including the southern suburbs, had dropped to 170,000. However, a 2006 Brandeis University study found that a high percentage of children in mixed-faith households were being raised in the faith, bringing the number of Jews in the Boston area to about 210,000, or 7.2 percent of the population, four times the percentage Continue reading >>>

1895: The Federation of Jewish Charities of Boston is established April 25. It soon renames itself Federated Jewish Charities to indicate a broader mission, then switches to Associated Jewish Philanthropies in 1930, and becomes Combined Jewish Philanthropies in 1960. Original member organizations include the United Hebrew Benevolent Society, the Hebrew Ladies Sewing Society, and the Leopold Morse Home for the Aged and Infirm Hebrews and Orphanage.