Mayo Group seeks to increase housing units

Telegram & Gazette - Thu Nov 19

The Mayo Group will once again use a formula that the company has used successfully to develop buildings that it owns around Worcester Common.

Feeney, Yoon clash over term limits proposal

Dorchester Reporter, Dorchester MA - Thu Nov 19

Outgoing City Councillor At-Large Sam Yoon says he has the votes to pull his proposal to set mayoral term limits out of a City Council committee, setting up a clash with a fellow Dorchester councillor.

Comedians offer contrasting styles at Fireside

Sun Journal - Thu Nov 19

Dan Boulger, the 2006 Boston Comedy Festival winner, will perform Saturday, Nov.

Feathers fly over man's rescue of poisoned pigeons

Boston.com - Thu Nov 19

Edwin Alexanderian holds a pigeon with a broken wing in his backyard in Brookline, where town officials have cited him for lacking the proper permits to keep the birds.

Black Falcon to get $8m check-in area

The Boston Globe - Thu Nov 19

Nearly 300,000 travelers passed through the Black Falcon terminal this year. Passengers at Black Falcon Cruise Terminal in South Boston will be waiting for their ship to come in at a new $8 million check-in area by the end of 2010 after a renovation that will expand the terminal by 40 percent.

Boston unveils plan for ailing schools

Boston Globe - Thu Nov 19

Teachers and staff members gathered in the lobby for breakfast with the headmaster at English High School in September 2007.

Shooting at Dorchester school leaves one injured

Cw56.com - Wed Nov 18

A shooting inside a school gymnasium in Dorchester has left one person hurt. Gunfire erupted in the John Marshall School gymnasium after school hours Tuesday afternoon.

Pets can pose with Santa, too

EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA - Wed Nov 18

Pets are part of your family, so why shouldn't they have a photo taken with Santa? This weekend, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty at 400 Broadway, is offering do just that.

City takes aim at a dozen lagging schools

Boston.com - Tue Nov 17

At least a dozen Boston schools - many in neighborhoods with high rates of crime, poverty, and teenage pregnancy - are being targeted for dramatic overhauls, reinvention, or closing, under a plan that Superintendent Carol R. Johnson is scheduled to present at tonight's School Committee meeting.

Hub EMTs team to deliver baby

Boston Herald - Tue Nov 17

Bill Clapp, a Boston EMS veteran since 2000, and partner EMT Frank Abbatangelo helped a new Dorchester mother deliver a healthy baby girl in the back of their ambulance at 7:47 a.m. yesterday as it was backing into the Brigham and Women's Hospital ER.