Debbie RamboThe Rodman Ride for Kids Print Email Comment Posted: 8/17/2012 It's that time of year again as bicyclists throughout Greater Boston are readying themselves for the Rodman Ride, including Catholic Charities Laboure Continue reading >>>

At the end of June, 14 students from Wayland and Natick took part in Good Shepherd Parish’s Boston Summer Service and Immersion Trip. It was a great experience for everyone involved. During our trip, we volunteered at a number of places in and around Boston – Noonday Farm (a self-sufficient organic farm that provides food for service agencies), Haley House (a Catholic worker house with locations in the South End and Roxbury providing many services including a soup kitchen, food pantry, low-income housing, job training and a cafe), Pine Street Inn (the largest center for homeless services Continue reading >>>

TRURO — A man bitten by a great white shark last month while swimming off a Cape Cod beach has returned to the scene. But he did not go in the ­water. The Cape Cod Times reported that Christopher Myers, whose legs were injured in the July 30 attack, was greeted by several people who recognized him at Ballston Beach in Truro. Myers, a native of Greater Boston who lives in Denver, has been visiting relatives before returning home. He chatted with well-wishers and had his picture taken at the beach he has called his favorite. Jennifer Beke of Westfield, N.J., snapped a picture of Myers with Continue reading >>>

Posted: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 3:39 pm Uber Gets The Green Light In Boston, With Support From The Massachusetts Governor's Office Ryan Lawler - TechCrunch The Chronicle | 0 comments Yesterday, we reported that Uber had came under fire from Continue reading >>>

Tobey Maguire was at the WGBH studios Wednesday, but, alas, not to sit down with Emily Rooney on “Greater Boston.” The actor was there to shoot a scene for “Labor Day,” director Jason Reitman’s film based on Joyce Maynard’s book. Maguire filmed a scene with actor Gattlin Griffith, who plays the younger version of Maguire’s character. We’re told the crew cleared out in time for Rooney to tape Wednesday’s episode of “Greater Boston.”

Yesterday, we reported that Uber had came under fire from the Division of Standards of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, receiving a cease and desist letter that sought to shut down its operations in the Greater Boston area. The issue has since been resolved, with an amended decision saying Uber was “not out of compliance with state law” and free to continue operating. At the heart of the dispute is Uber’s use of GPS location technology to pick up riders and determine appropriate fares. The Standards Division initially ruled that since the National Institute of Standards Continue reading >>>

On Sept. 10, 2001, WGBH's Emily Rooney interviewed Julia Child at her Cambridge home before she left the Boston area for California. Jared Bowen was the producer on the segment and shares this remembrance. Greater Boston reairs the interview on Aug. 15 at 7 p.m. The medium-sized grey house on Irving Street in Cambridge was remarkably regular: small driveway, unassuming front door, smallish yard. I suppose I assumed that the house Julia Child lived in — and more importantly cooked and filmed in — would be as striking as her outsized spirit. But that was my only disappointment on a sunny late-summer Continue reading >>>

By Martine Powers, Globe Staff About 20 members of the Student Immigrant Movement gathered on Friend Street this morning to commemorate a historic day: The first day young people living in the United States illegally can apply for a work permit and a reprieve from the threat of deportation. But the gathering also had a more nuts-and-bolts objective: to provide much-needed information on the application process. Isabel Vargas, who came to the United States from the Dominican Republic when she was 8 years old, told others at the meeting, held inside the offices of Greater Boston Legal Continue reading >>>

by SPAR Point Group staff August 15, 2012 BEVERLY, Mass. - Meridian Associates announced this week it has received a Small Business of the Year award from the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. Now in its 28th year, the Chamber’s Small Business of the Year awards honor the Top 10 small, high-growth businesses in the Greater Boston region. These for-profit companies have gross revenues of more than $1 million and display strong financial performance, achievement Continue reading >>>

BOSTON (CBS) – It’s a question that frustrates tenants across the state:  why are rents so high? In fact, rents in the Greater Boston area are among the highest in the country. By one estimate, it takes $1,700 to get a unit in the suburbs and $3,000 in downtown Boston. “This season has been extraordinary.  Rents are super high.  I think the vacancy rate is 3-percent right now,” said Tim Schmidt of ReMax Destiny in Cambridge. That vacancy rate is second only to San Francisco. Schmidt believes one reason for the high rents is good news.  The region’s job market is stronger than Continue reading >>>