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Developer wants Quincy pub closed. Bar owner suing while paying big rent increase
QUINCY – A small Irish pub in Quincy Center is suing its landlord, one of the city's largest developers, for $1.32 million, according to court filings. Gerry Hanley and his wife, Diane Hill, owners of Paddy Barry's Ales and Spirits at 1574 Hancock St., claim that their landlord, a subsidiary of real estate developer LBC Boston, violated their lease by rejecting their five-year lease extension option and ordering them to vacate the premises by June 1...
Exit rates at emergency shelters show slight improvement amid ‘huge challenge' of capacity
It was a first for one of the state’s emergency shelters housing migrant families: a family from Haiti moved out of the shelter and into their new home. But thousands still fill the shelters and hundreds more are in need. Recent data for shelter exit rates show slight movement...
Keohan ousted from Community Preservation Committee
The Select Board on Tuesday voted to remove Bill Keohan from the Community Preservation Committee, which he has chaired since its inception in 2002. It also ousted committee member Allen Hemberger, a supporter of what Keohan has characterized as an effort to keep recommendations on spending Community Preservation funds independent of town politics.
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