The Boston Symphony Orchestra will perform a free concert in Milford Town Hall at 3 p.m. Oct. 13. The event is part of the BSO’s Community Chamber Concert series, which provides “high-quality, relevant, and engaging’’ music programs in Greater Boston communities with limited access to the ensemble based on distance or economics, according to an announcement on its website. The approximately hourlong concert will be followed by a coffee and dessert reception for the audience and musicians. Free tickets and more information about the program are available at the BSO website, www.bso.org, Continue reading >>>

The data suggest there ought to be bargains aplenty in many communities in Massachusetts. But the view from the street is much different: huge swaths of Greater Boston are experiencing the kind of hot sellers’ market that is driving buyers further out of the area for affordable homes. In Medford, for example, single-family homes are still selling at prices just below the market peak level back in 2005, according to the most recent compilation from the Warren Group, which tracks real estate data in Massachusetts. The current median selling price, or midpoint sale price, in that community Continue reading >>>

The heat keeps getting turned up on Massachusetts hospitals and health insurers as rising health care prices eat deeper into the budgets of working families, small businesses, and governments. While other states will start insuring more residents this fall under the US health care overhaul, Massachusetts — which expanded health insurance access through its 2006 law — has moved past enrollment to grapple with an even more intractable health care problem: exorbitant costs. State lawmakers passed a cost containment law in 2012 that attempts to limit medical expense increases to the Massachusetts Continue reading >>>

Highlights from the Boston Real Estate Now blog. It has been a crazy roller coaster ride over the last eight years for home prices. After soaring into the stratosphere during the housing bubble, prices came crashing down with the Great Recession. Now prices are back again. Cities all but left for dead after the crash, like Las Vegas, are seeing prices skyrocket again, while blue-chip areas like Greater Boston, New York, and Washington, where prices fell but never collapsed, are now experiencing double-digit increases. Not surprisingly, more than a few buyers are wondering what’s next and Continue reading >>>

Name: Lance DalyAge: 35Street: School StreetFamily: SingleEmployment: Health Outreach Worker at Commonwealth Community CarePolitical and community experience and involvement:• Board of Directors, River House- Programs Committee, Chair- Governance Committee• Economic Restructuring Committee, Beverly Main Streets• Solid Waste Management Committee, City of Beverly• 30 Main, Beverly Main StreetsWhy are you running for City Council?Boston Globe Magazine recently named Beverly one of the top places to live in Greater Boston. Not news to us, right? We choose to call Beverly home because we Continue reading >>>

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DANCE VIDEOS VIDEO: Corbin Bleu, Amber Riley Draw Praise on DWTS Premiere VIDEO: Valerie Harper Wows the Crowd, Judges on DWTS Premiere STAGE TUBE: NYC Ballet Dances in 9/11 Tribute to NEW BEGINNINGS VIDEO: The Royal Opera House Presents Chroma Extract STAGE TUBE: Sneak Peek at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's ONE THOUSAND PIECES STAGE TUBE: Behind the Scenes with NYC Ballet's Ashley Bouder and Sara Mearns of SWAN QUEEN STAGE TUBE: Sneak Peek at Australian Ballet's 2014 Season VIDEO: Principal Guest Artist Carlos Acosta Discusses DON QUIXOTE at the Royal Ballet STAGE TUBE: Sneak Peek at NYC Ballet's Continue reading >>>

Get ready for custom-fit running shoes.Greater Boston Running Company is nearing the finish line with the opening of its new store in Swampscott at Vinnin Square on Paradise Road.Greater Boston spokeswoman Caitlin Schwager expects, if all goes well, that the store will open for business at the month's end.Patch will have more information as the opening date approaches.On Friday crews were installing electrical connections.. Several racks were up and awaiting stock.The store is located next to Panera Bread. Continue reading >>>

(Photo by Carl Setterlund) By Carl Setterlund, Globe Correspondent Beacon Hill residents and other interested parties got a potential glimpse of the future Wednesday night as the City of Boston presented a plan to insert a two-way cycle track around its historic Public Garden. Locals and cycling enthusiasts from across Greater Boston trekked to the firehouse at 127 Mt. Vernon St. as a standing-room audience heard an initial proposal made by Boston Bikes, an initiative introduced by Mayor Thomas Menino in 2007 to push the city toward becoming more bicycle-friendly. Boston Bikes provided two Continue reading >>>

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