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(Courtesy Photo) Steve Murakishi (left), owner of JP’s Fire Opal boutique, presents a $748 check to Deborah Re, CEO of the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston, at the store on Feb. 1. The donation came from Fire Opal’s holiday gift-wrapping program. Big Sister provides mentors to 73 JP girls. JP resident Diane Ivey recently was named the organization’s Big Sister of the year. <!--/* * The backup image section of this tag has been generated for use on a * non-SSL page. If this tag is to be placed on an SSL page, change the * 'http://d1.openx.org/...' * Continue reading >>>

Home / Real Estate News / We Recommend... BOSTON - Ready to undertake a $25 million renovation, the YMCA of Greater Boston has retained Jones Lang LaSalle as project manager for the retooling of its 100-year-old building at 316 Huntington Avenue into a contemporary, Continue reading >>>

The Wellesley Youth Hockey Pee Wee A2 team defeated the Brookline Warriors 6-1 to win the Greater Boston League championship on Sunday. The victory followed a 3-1 win over Somerville in the semifinals on Saturday.  The championship game pitted two evenly matched teams and Wellesley defense, led by Shahen Hagen, Will Jackowitz and Justin Allinson, kept Brookline at bay until the offense could get on track. When Wellesley’s offense did get going it was Brendan Dolan that spearheaded the attack as he netted a hat trick. Teddy Darcey was brilliant in goal in turning away 22 shots. Liam Moran Continue reading >>>

Fidelity Investments' [profile] Johnson family will be inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Bostonians next month. The Johnsons will be honored at the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce's 103rd Annual Meeeting Dinner on April 24, the Boston Herald reports. "The entire Johnson Family has demonstrated extraordinary business and philanthropic leadership in this region and across the world since Fidelity was founded 65 years ago," the pub quotes chamber president and CEO Paul Guzzi as saying. The Boston Globe and Boston Business Journal.nbsp Stay ahead of the news ... Sign up Continue reading >>>

Beer lovers have a new destination in Boston. The Yard House, a chain of restaurants with huge draft lists, opened its latest location, near Fenway Park in Boston, last week. I had a chance to go to the grand opening on Friday night and had a great time. The draft list is huge, and the food is good. And the location, phenomenal. The Yard House always has a huge draft list, and the Boston location is no different – they have 180 beers on draft. I’m pretty sure that is now the largest beer selection in greater Boston, at least on draft. The choices are also good. They have house beers (brewed Continue reading >>>

Mar. 18 will kick off Boston’s biannual food festival: Restaurant Week 2012. Put on by the Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau, Restaurant Week is a communal effort by the restaurants of Boston, over 200 of which participate and create fixed price menus at significant discounts to patrons. A two-course lunch is available for $15.12, a three-course lunch for $20.12, and a three-course dinners for $33.12 (12 cents are added as a reference to the year and many vendors remind patrons that these do not include beverages, tax, or tip). The tradition began in 2000, and has seen Continue reading >>>

On Feb. 4, Melrose Veterans Memorial Middle School hosted the annual MathCounts competition. More than 200 middle school students from Greater Boston to Melrose to compete. Out of the 28 teams that participated, MVMMS’s team of 10 students came in ninth, placing Melrose in the top third. This year, MVMMS advanced to the MathCounts state competition, which was planned for March3 at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. Four of the math team members will represent MVMMS. MVMMS’s math team, headed by teachers Dana Fowler and Laurie Pereira, also competes in the Intermediate Math Continue reading >>>

“What we’ve heard from customers — some customers, not all — is that they’d rather pay a little more than see their service cut, so that’s a place where [we] are focused,’’ Davey said, addressing reporters after an unusually charged T board meeting.Inside the meeting, between airhorn honks, harmonica blasts, and call-and-response cries, riders described the pain that cuts and fare increases would inflict on their families and society’s most vulnerable. Others said the changes would be a grave mistake for the region’s economy, environment, and quality of life, and a blow to the Continue reading >>>