By Matt Goisman, Globe Correspondent Masconomet senior Brooke Stewart scored a game-high 24 points with 10 rebounds, and the Chieftains shot better than 50 percent to beat the visiting Somerville Highlanders, 80-41, in Thursday’s opening round of the MIAA girls’ basketball playoffs. Senior teammate Danielle Davis scored 19, while Somerville’s Indira Evora and Melissa Baptista each scored 12. The Chieftains’ prolific and accurate shooting set a pace early in the game that the Highlanders just couldn’t match. Already down 9-3, Highlander Maria Koutsoubaris grabbed an early offensive Continue reading >>>

Here's an excerpt from the Fed report: Sales of single-family homes and condominiums increased in New England in January, with most reports indicating low to moderate growth in sales compared to a year ago. Contacts say recent sales growth reflects market activity more accurately than in previous reports, when year-over-year increases were distorted by the expiration of the tax credit in mid-2010. Meanwhile, the median sale price of homes in First District markets declined compared to a year ago, which contacts attribute to distressed property sales. Concerns surrounding the impact of labor market Continue reading >>>

By Globe Staff Scituate's "bustling harbor" earned the town a spot on the “Best Places to Live” in Boston magazine's March issue. Scituate was included in a group of 14 Greater Boston communities that aren't especially well-known and don't typically makes these types of lists, the magazine said. According to the magazine, “A wave of development on Scituate Harbor, including retail, office, and condo projects, has suddenly energized the waterfront. In 2009 three local families reopened the 29-room Inn at Scituate Harbor, and its Dogwatch bar attracts weekend crowds.” The median home Continue reading >>>

As the Bay State makes its way out of the housing slump, developments are starting to take shape everywhere. Gone are the days of sprawling “McMansions” — now developers are focusing on transit-oriented developments. Driving the trend toward such developments is frustration with traffic congestion and a growing desire for more walkable, energy-efficient lifestyles. “With rising gas prices, people are realizing that affordability is not just about housing, but about being close to work and shopping. There is a huge unmet market out there for homes that are not too large, easy to maintain, Continue reading >>>

FORT MYERS, Fla. - New England Baby Boomers know what I’m talking about. The photo was always there. Go into a home, or even an establishment of commerce, and there would be an image of John F. Kennedy somewhere on the wall. Sometimes JFK would be flanked by Pope John XXIII or perhaps Richard Cardinal Cushing. It was a universal truth in the world in which I was raised. Now we have something new. Something from the world of sports. Something from the Biblical baseball season that forever will be the greatest sports story ever Continue reading >>>

One of Boston’s leading Jewish charities assailed yesterday a full-page ad in The New York Times that urged readers to ask why the organization is “funding bigotry and anti-Israel extremism’’ by two left-leaning groups. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz also castigated the ad by the Emergency Committee for Israel, which he said quoted him without approval and distorted the funding role of Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston. The Emergency Committee for Israel, a critic of President Obama’s policy in that Continue reading >>>

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