GLOUCESTER — Dan Ryan looks at an empty plate the same way a painter considers a blank canvas: a starting point for something delectable. But what was once an exciting moment for the chef is now a symbol of anxiety. He constantly worries that he cannot put food on the table.After being diagnosed with advanced melanoma in 2010, Ryan, 48, a former chef at The Franklin Cafe in the South End and Gloucester’s Franklin Cape Ann, underwent several surgeries and chemotherapy that drained his family’s savings and forced him to quit his job. He and his wife, Tammy, slashed Continue reading >>>

More and more services are making its way over to the Greater Boston Area. We recently had Postmates, Drizly, GrubHub, and many more. Now we can add DoorDash, the West Coast delivery startup to the list.They recently launched in Boston in mid-September but added Cambridge to their service following announcement today, according to BetaBoston.There’s a TON of other services that do same thing, but “the company says it is different from anything else on the market because it delivers from restaurants that don’t offer their own delivery services”, reports BetaBoston.Isn’t that the point?Here’s Continue reading >>>

More and more services are making its way over to the Greater Boston Area. We recently had Postmates, Drizly, GrubHub, and many more. Now we can add DoorDash, the West Coast delivery startup to the list. They recently launched in Boston in mid-September but added Cambridge to their service following announcement today, according to BetaBoston. There's a TON of other services that do same thing, but "the company says it is different from anything else on the market because it delivers from restaurants that don't offer their own delivery services", reports Continue reading >>>

Citizens Bank is donating a total of $400 thousand to The Greater Boston Food Bank and six other food banks in the area. PHOTO BY AMELIA WELLS/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF Seven Massachusetts nonprofit organizations received grants to better serve the community as a result of a $400,000 total pledge from Citizens Bank, according to a Tuesday press release. Through its Citizens Helping Citizens Fight Hunger initiative, the bank will help the organizations provide emergency meals and nutritious food to families throughout the Commonwealth, said Andrew Hoglund, a spokesman for Citizens Bank. “Our Continue reading >>>

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Continue reading below Glassybaby votive holders hold the power to help heal. They are h andblown in a Seattle glass studio in 400 colors with nostalgic names like Crème Brulée, Little Bear, and Frog Hunting, and 10 percent from each sale goes to people in need. Now the company, founded by three-time cancer survivor Lee Rhodes, has taken its mission on the road (www.glassrootstour.com), and Boston is the 10th stop. They’ll be at SoWa Open Market Sunday, and sales generated will be donated to the Greater Boston Food Bank. Glassybaby at SoWa Open Market, 460 Harrison Continue reading >>>

Wynn Resorts, which won the Greater Boston casino license last month, will join other local license holders in a statewide campaign against repeal of the casino law, the company said Friday.The addition of Wynn brings another rich and powerful voice into the Coalition to Protect Mass Jobs, a procasino political group backed by organized labor and casino companies Penn National Gaming and MGM Resorts, according to campaign finance reports. Continue reading below The coalition is fighting Question 3, the November referendum that would repeal the state’s 2011 expanded Continue reading >>>

It is sad to see architects collaborate with Urban Land Institute members to come up with such puny solutions to the climate change-related threat of sea level rise and storm surges (“Ideas for a Hub beset by rising seas in 2100,” Page A1, Sept. 30). The magnitude of the floodwaters is far greater than the solutions proposed in the report as summarized by the Globe, and the huge costs of the various ideas proposed would be mostly wiped out when a Sandy-like storm hits even now, well before the impact of sea level rise aggravates the problem. The solution that needs Continue reading >>>