[This story first appeared on Boston Restaurant Talk.]
Three new dining spots have come to a food hall in Boston.
According to a press release, Cini’s Pasta Bar, Bati, and Adriano’s are now open at Hub Hall by North Station in Boston…
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State health regulators to meet to discuss Steward Health
State health regulators will be discussing Thursday the Steward Health Care‘s decision to sell-off its physician network in Massachusetts.
Steward is trying to sell the network to OptumCare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group.
This proposal drew sharp criticism from Sen. Elizabeth Warren and House Speaker Ron Mariano.
The Health Policy Commission meeting Thursday will also include a vote on establishing a 2025 health care cost growth benchmark.
State health care officials received notifications last month in connection with the proposed sale of Stewardship Health Inc. and the contracting Steward Health Care Network to OptumCare.
Stewardship Health Inc. is the parent of Stewardship Health Medical Group Inc., which employs primary care physicians and other clinicians across nine states, according to the Health Policy Commission.
Boy rescued after being trapped in a chimney in Whitman
A boy was stuck in the top of a chimney at a home in Whitman, Massachusetts, Wednesday afternoon.
Photos showed the moments when firefighters got to the child, who was trapped in the chimney at the Harvard Street home.
The boy wasn’t injured and was quickly reunited with his family.
It wasn’t immediately known how he got stuck.
Boston-based Vertex makes $4.9B acquisition, largest in its history
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. has agreed to buy a Seattle-based biotech developing a drug to treat kidney disease for $4.9 billion, the biggest acquisition in the Boston company’s history.
The drug giant said on Wednesday after the close of markets …
Funeral services scheduled for former Red Sox exec Larry Lucchino
The Boston Red Sox community will say a final goodbye to former executive Larry Lucchino.
Lucchino died last week at the age of 78.
A funeral for Lucchino will take place at 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Cecilia Roman Catholic Church in Boston.
Lucchino served as the team’s president and CEO for 14 years, from 2002 through 2015, a period during which the Red Sox won three World Series.
He helped bring together the group led by John Henry and Tom Werner that purchased the team in 2001. He most recently served as chairman and principal owner of the Worcester Red Sox.
He also served as chairman of the Jimmy Fund, the philanthropic arm of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He was a three-time cancer survivor.
Lucchino is survived by his brother Frank J. Lucchino, nephew F.J. Lucchino and niece Jennifer Lucchino, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as well as a younger nephew David L. Lucchino, who lives in Boston.
He also is survived by seven grand-nieces and grand-nephews.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Larry Lucchino Family Fund at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund, P.O. Box 849168, Boston, MA 02284, or online at danafarber.jimmyfund.org/goto/LarryLucchino.
Questions set to be answered on Chelsea migrant shelter
The migrant shelter crisis in Massachusetts is once again in the limelight, as the former Chelsea Soldiers’ Home is set to be turned into a new temporary shelter.
The shelter can accommodate about 100 or so families when up and running, Secretary of Veterans Services Dr. Jon Santiago noted in a statement last month, and it’s supposed to be opening this month.
The state is working with the local migrant support organization La Colaborativa — or the Collaborative in English — to make this happen.
The Chelsea Soldiers’ Home was slated for demolition but given the need for additional space in strategic locations, the Healey administration believes this conversion is a no brainer.
The plan was made at the end of March and while announcing it, the Healey administration also said it will begin enforcing new eligibility rules for migrants staying in shelters.
One of those is as of May 1, migrants staying at safety-net sites will need to show they’re working on getting authorized or trained to work in the country, apply for jobs, take English classes or search for housing every month in order to stay at the housing sites.
The policy doesn’t apply to United Way of Massachusetts Bay-run sites.
If they don’t produce those documents monthly, they will not be able to stay in a state-run shelter.
A meeting will take place at about 6 p.m. at the Chelsea Senior Center on Riley Way near Bellingham Square.
