Newton-Wellesley Hospital announced that a baby girl Ahaana Prem was born at 12:08 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2013 — putting her in the running as the first baby born in the Greater Boston area in 2013.

Her mom is Sameeta Bilgrami and her father is Prem Ramasamy. Ahanna will take her father’s first name as her last.

The family lives in Waltham and Ahanna is their first child. She weighed 6 pounds, 15 ounces.

BOSTON (AP) — The National Hockey League's labor dispute is costing bars and restaurants near the TD Garden as much as $1 million for every Bruins home game that's canceled. The Greater Boston Convention Visitors Bureau says the business impact extends beyond the hospitality industry, with parking lots, equipment and souvenir shops and other businesses losing money with the NHL's third work stoppage in 19 years. Stanhope Garage Inc., which operates three small parking lots near the Garden, typically takes in $6,000 per game by filling all of its 200 spaces. Revenue from 22 Bruins home games Continue reading >>>

BOSTON (AP) — The National Hockey League's labor dispute is costing bars and restaurants near the TD Garden as much as $1 million for every Bruins home game that's canceled. The Greater Boston Convention Visitors Bureau says the business impact extends beyond the hospitality industry, with parking lots, equipment and souvenir shops and other businesses losing money with the NHL's third work stoppage in 19 years. Stanhope Garage Inc., which operates three small parking lots near the Garden, typically takes in $6,000 per game by filling all of its 200 spaces. Revenue from 22 Bruins home games Continue reading >>>

BOSTON (AP) — The National Hockey League's labor dispute is costing bars and restaurants near the TD Garden as much as $1 million for every Bruins home game that's canceled. The Greater Boston Convention Visitors Bureau says the business impact extends beyond the hospitality industry, with parking lots, equipment and souvenir shops and other businesses losing money with the NHL's third work stoppage in 19 years. Stanhope Garage Inc., which operates three small parking lots near the Garden, typically takes in $6,000 per game by filling all of its 200 spaces. Revenue from 22 Bruins home games Continue reading >>>

10:00AM - MFA - the first 300 button-wearers get free admission to the MFA. This is a great of an excuse as any to check out my top recommended Postcards exhibit if you haven't already. Also, according to the MFA site, they'll be doing their first screening of the Festival of International Short Films, if you want to catch it then. 11:00 - Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - likewise, you can sneak into the Gardner for free too, if you can make the earlybird special (first 300 button-wearers). 12:00-12:45 - Festival of International Short Films (MFA) - This year's program features such curiosties Continue reading >>>

BOSTON (AP) — The National Hockey League's labor dispute is costing bars and restaurants near the TD Garden as much as $1 million for every Bruins home game that's canceled. The Greater Boston Convention Visitors Bureau says the business impact extends beyond the hospitality industry, with parking lots, equipment and souvenir shops and other businesses losing money with the NHL's third work stoppage in 19 years. Stanhope Garage Inc., which operates three small parking lots near the Garden, typically takes in $6,000 per game by filling all of its 200 spaces. Revenue from 22 Bruins home games Continue reading >>>

BOSTON (AP) — The National Hockey League's labor dispute is costing bars and restaurants near the TD Garden as much as $1 million for every Bruins home game that's canceled. The Greater Boston Convention Visitors Bureau says the business impact extends beyond the hospitality industry, with parking lots, equipment and souvenir shops and other businesses losing money with the NHL's third work stoppage in 19 years. Stanhope Garage Inc., which operates three small parking lots near the Garden, typically takes in $6,000 per game by filling all of its 200 spaces. Revenue from 22 Bruins home games Continue reading >>>

The coming debate over immigration reform promises to be thorny, but one change should be simple: increasing the number of H-1B visas available for high-skilled foreign workers. Business groups around the country, including the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, are right to press lawmakers to lift the restrictive yearly cap on H-1B visas as part of a comprehensive overhaul of the immigration system. For Boston’s innovative firms to compete with companies abroad, they need to recruit the best talent available. That’s difficult to do when US-born workers in skilled sectors are being snapped Continue reading >>>

BOSTON (AP) — The National Hockey League's labor dispute is costing bars and restaurants near the TD Garden as much as $1 million for every Bruins home game that's canceled. The Greater Boston Convention Visitors Bureau says the business impact extends beyond the hospitality industry, with parking lots, equipment and souvenir shops and other businesses losing money with the NHL's third work stoppage in 19 years. Stanhope Garage Inc., which operates three small parking lots near the Garden, typically takes in $6,000 per game by filling all of its 200 spaces. Revenue from 22 Bruins home games Continue reading >>>

BOSTON (AP) - The National Hockey League's labor dispute is costing bars andrestaurants near the TD Garden as much as $1 million for every Bruins home gamethat's canceled.The Greater Boston Convention Visitors Bureau says the business impactextends beyond the hospitality industry, with parking lots, equipment andsouvenir shops and other businesses losing money with the NHL's third workstoppage in 19 years.Stanhope Garage Inc., which operates three small parking lots near theGarden, typically takes in $6,000 per game by filling all of its 200 spaces.Revenue from 22 Bruins home games have already Continue reading >>>