On Wednesday afternoon, Kings in Dedham donated 100 turkeys, weighing 12 to 14 pounds each, to the Dedham Food Pantry as part of the Bowl-a-Turkey program. Between November 1 and 21, King’s would donate a turkey for every turkey that was bowled. A turkey is when a bowler rolls three strikes in a row. Whenever the achievement occurred, whoever bowled the turkey would have a certificate hung on the wall. The annual event, now in its second year, was just in time for Thanksgiving and Director of Marketing Doug Warner said that it was a win-win situation for everyone. “It’s a fun event and our Continue reading >>>

Mary O’Connor for The Boston Globe Jayce Plante, 4, of Sutton, chatted with Globe Santa at Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston yesterday. “Rattlin’ Around the Christmas Tree” is the theme of a Globe Santa Fund benefit to be held Wednesday night at the Rattlesnake Bar and Grill at 384 Boylston St. There will be jazz music by the Rollo Tomasi Quartet, a special fashion presentation by the Dawn Mostow Models, and live and silent auctions conducted by auctioneer Jim Wells. Another highlight of the evening will be a Southwest Tasting prepared Continue reading >>>

Last year, $1,413,668 was raised and 56,190 children discovered presents from Globe Santa under their tree. Because so many people like knowing they helped make a child happy, 31,263 families enjoyed the wonder of Christmas morning rather than a difficult day.

While many backyard Turkey Bowls pit brother against brother, this Thanksgiving marks the first time in NFL history that brothers will face off against one another as coaches. While most kids were wrestling with wishbones over turkey dinners, the Harbaugh brothers were busy cracking football's wishbone. That's right. Football is a family affair in the Harbaugh household as Jim and John's father, Jack, was a college coach with his own stops at Michigan, Stanford and Western Michigan. To gear up for the inaugural "Har-bowl," Page 2 has a tale of the tape: Personal Jim Harbaugh: 6-foot-3, 215 Continue reading >>>

Consumers are shrugging off the slow economy and packing shopping malls from one end of Greater Boston to the other this Black Friday as the holiday-shopping season officially gets under way. “I have to say it’s been the busiest opening I’ve seen in a long, long time,” said Vicki Bartkiewicz of Braintree’s South Shore Plaza, where some stores opened shortly after midnight. “I’m seeing some people with five, six — seven bags of gifts.” Some 600 people were queued up outside of the mall’s Macy’s store when it opened at 12:30 a.m., while a line stretched hundreds of feet outside Continue reading >>>

New London Shopping Center - New London, NH Chris Angelone, CBRE Bill Moylan, CBRE New London, NH The Boston office of CBRE's National Retail Investment Group (NRIG) brokered the sale of New London Shopping Center, a 107,310 s/f Hannaford Bros. supermarket-anchored shopping center. Located along Rte. 11, New London's primary means of access from I-89, the property is fully occupied and is home to the only supermarket within a 13-mile radius."New London Shopping Center is a unique property with a captive customer base and strong demographics," said CBRE's Chris Angelone. Continue reading >>>

Desmond DiGiovanni hands rice to volunteer John Garcia during a Thanksgiving effort coordinated in part by the local United Way. Mary Moore Reporter - Boston Business Journal Email Heads Continue reading >>>

Print this Article Email this Article A new craft store, The Holiday Boutique, will open today featuring quality crafts and seasonal dcor by local Cape Cod crafters.The boutique is located where the former Second Glance Thrift Shop was, behind George's Pizza on Route 28 in Harwich Port. The boutique is sponsored by Cranberry Jewelers. After the holidays, the store will remain open and be a year-round craft boutique shop. For more information, call 508-430-2255 for directions.recognitionNorthland Residential Corp. Continue reading >>>

Calls to United Way’s help line have doubled since 2008, with nearly 100,000 people so far this year looking for a way to make rent, put food on the table, or keep the power on. Catholic Charities, which five years ago distributed 5,000 pounds of food each month, is now up to about 48,000 pounds.