Jeremy C. Fox for Boston.comThe Wang YMCA of Chinatown is one of 13 branches of the Greater Boston YMCA offering free Get Summer memberships for teens. By Jeremy C. Fox, Town Correspondent The YMCA of Greater Boston is encouraging teens to get active this summer, offering free memberships at all 13 branches around the city, it announced Wednesday. Young people 13 to 17 are eligible for the free access, offered as a part of the Y’s Get Summer program. The program seeks to engage students while school is out through arts, college admission tutoring, community service projects, dances, field Continue reading >>>

The Metropolitan Area Planning Council will present an update on the Hubway bike share program and introduce a new Web app that helps connect residents to the many parks and open spaces available in Greater Boston during a Brown Bag Lunch event on Thursday. “As Hubway’s third season gets rolling, we will take a look back at the results of the first two seasons. Does Hubway make it easier for people to get around? Are Metro-Boston residents getting more exercise because of Hubway? Who is using Hubway, and who isn’t? We will look at these questions and more, including the environmental and Continue reading >>>

Joan Parker, of Cambridge, is a social activist, former educator, and wife of the late author Robert B. Parker (who wrote "Spenser for Hire"), also of Cambridge. Parker's sons are David, 54, a dancer/choreographer in New York, and Daniel, 49, an actor in Oregon. (Photo: Dina Rudick/The Boston Globe) How they came out to her: Daniel was 20 and away at college when he told her in a coffee shop. Parker's response? She said, "I think it's just dandy." David's story was more complicated, she said, because he almost married a woman. She suspected he was gay, so three weeks before the wedding, Parker Continue reading >>>

WOONSOCKET, R.I., May 15, 2013 /3BL Media/ --CVS Caremark announced today that a month-long, in-store fundraising campaign at CVS/pharmacy locations throughout Greater Boston raised over $650,000 in donations from customers to The One Fund Boston, which was established by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino to raise money for victims and families who were affected by the attack on the Boston Marathon. The in-store donation campaign at more than 260 Boston-area CVS/pharmacy stores ran from April 19 to May 11, during which customers could add $1, $3 or an amount of Continue reading >>>

PanARMENIAN.Net - As part of its Dr. Michael and Joyce Kolligian Distinguished Speaker Series, Holy Trinity Armenian Church of Greater Boston hosted a May 7 lecture by CNN national security analyst and journalist, Peter Bergen, who shared his first-hand experience of meeting al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, The Armenian Mirror-Spectator reported. Bergen, best-selling author of Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Osama Bin Laden — From 9/11 to Abbottabad, gave a talk titled “The Awakening: The Remaking of the Middle East” to an audience of more than 120 people in the church’s Charles and Continue reading >>>

Eleven South End chefs will join over 100 top chefs from the Greater Boston and Cambridge area to raise $1 million for The One Fund at Fenway Park on Wednesday night, through the culinary event Boston Bites Back.  The event is spearheaded by celeb chefs Ken Oringer and Ming Tsai, the Boston Red Sox, Governor Patrick, Mayor Menino, and ARAMARK. The idea is to bring Bostonians together to eat, drink and demonstrate Boston’s unrelenting spirit, while raising money for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, according to organizers. “BBB is an opportunity for the city to join as one and acknowledge Continue reading >>>

WOONSOCKET, R.I., May 14, 2013 -- /PRNewswire/ -- CVS Caremark announced today that a month-long, in-store fundraising campaign at CVS/pharmacy locations throughout Greater Boston raised over $650,000 in donations from customers to The One Fund Boston, which was established by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino to raise money for victims and families who were affected by the attack on the Boston Marathon.(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090226/NE75914LOGO )The in-store donation campaign at more than 260 Boston-area CVS/pharmacy stores ran from Continue reading >>>

One of the items being auctioned at Greater Boston PFLAG’s annual fundraiser Thursday is a Celtics No. 98 jersey signed by Jason Collins, the NBA player who recently acknowledged that he’s gay. In his Sports Illustrated story, Collins revealed that he chose #98 for the C’s (and later the Washington Wizards) because 1998 was the year University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was kidnapped and tortured in an attack that cost him his life and galvanized the gay community. “My one small gesture of solidarity” was to wear #98, Collins wrote. Thursday’s event in the Kelleher Rose Garden Continue reading >>>

Month-long in-store fundraising campaign in Boston-area CVS/pharmacy locations raises more than $650000 to support victims of Boston Marathon attackCVS Caremark's private foundation previously donated $100000 to The One Fund BostonPR NewswireWOONSOCKET R.I. May 14 2013WOONSOCKET R.I. May 14 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CVS Caremark announced today that a month-long in-store fundraising campaign at CVS/pharmacy locations throughout Greater Boston raised over $650000 in donations from customers to The One Fund Boston which was established by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino Continue reading >>>

Falmouth High School student Saer McCliment is one of six recipients of the 2013 Elsie Frank Scholarship Award from Greater Boston PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) for her work on LGBT issues. Here, she speaks with The Bulletin.   Describe your coming out experience at Falmouth High School and how you were received by both your peers and educators. While I’ve been openly queer for years, I came out as transgender in the eleventh grade. I went to my GSA advisor, Mrs. Thompson, and asked her to email my teachers and inform them of my pronoun Continue reading >>>