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• Communications reveal meetings between Walsh advisers, Boston ...

  

  Two City Hall advisers, including Mayor Martin J. Walsh’s policy chief, were in contact or attended meetings with Boston Calling organizers and tourism chief Kenneth Brissette at the same time federal prosecutors say Brissette was strong-arming festival officials to hire union laborers, according to newly released emails.Those emails show Joyce Linehan, Walsh’s chief of policy, and Tim Sullivan, a longtime union hand and current City Hall adviser, were looped in on discussions between Brissette ..

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• Boston Calling calls on Allston for new venue

  

  The popular Boston Calling Music Festival, which opened its seventh edition on City Hall Plaza yesterday, is moving to a new Allston venue next year, with plans to increase its music and comedy offerings and expand to include film and visual art.Festival producers Crash Line Productions said yesterday the 2017 Boston Calling will be staged next May on the fields of Harvard University’s Athletics Complex, and that it will drop its September shows this year to make the festival a once-a-year event..

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• Red Sox move Clay Buchholz to bullpen

  

  TORONTO — Clay Buchholz has officially lost his place in the Red Sox starting rotation.One day after the righty's latest miserable outing, manager John Farrell said Friday Buchholz will move to the bullpen and Eduardo Rodriguez will move into the rotation and start on Tuesday. "The bottom line is the results, and there's been a strong precedent set with that," Farrell said. "I can tell you that Clay understands the decision, but probably doesn't like it, which I can respect. But at the same tim..

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• Burlington College closes under unwanted spotlight

  

  BURLINGTON, Vt. — Burlington College, once a thriving school for artists, now looks abandoned and bereft. The huge red-and-white sign congratulating graduates remains, but faculty name placards have been pulled from the walls. Empty nails line the corridors, and the front doors are locked. After 44 years of operation, the college closed for good on Friday. And the timing couldn’t be worse: As they salvage artwork and pack up classrooms, former students and faculty are under an unwanted national..

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• Schilling throws heat at Obama over Japan visit

  

  Former Red Sox pitcher and broadcaster Curt Schilling, known for his controversial remarks, said he was sickened by President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima to “apologize” for the 1945 atomic bombing of the city.“It makes me sick. It makes me sick to my stomach that anybody would apologize for the things that we’ve done as a nation since the 1940s,” Schilling said yesterday on Boston Herald Radio’s “Morning Meeting” show.“The fact of the matter is nobody in the world would take up the mantle. Nobody..

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• Family challenges 'characterizations' about hiker who died

  

  Dorothy Boynton Rust via AP Geraldine Largay. The family of Geraldine Largay, whose body was found last fall after she died while hiking the Appalachian Trail in 2013, issued a statement challenging “characterizations made by the media” that she was unprepared and possibly suffering from an anxiety disorder.Largay, 66, of Tennessee, became lost on July 22, 2013, while hiking a densely wooded section of the Appalachian Trail in Redington Township, Maine. She wandered for a day or two befor..

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• Boston Latin student draws portraits of every graduating senior

  

  Boston Latin student draws portraits of every graduating senior BOSTON (WHDH) - A graduating student artist has decorated the halls at Boston Latin School with portraits of every member of his Class of 2016. Phillip Sossou decided to draw a portrait of all 411 seniors, which now hang in the school’s hallway. It took Sossou four months to draw all of them. Sossou said a few parents and students were very touched when they saw all the portraits hanging up and were moved to tears. He said he di..

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• Emails warn Hub at risk of blacklisting over union tactics

  

  A livid TV production staffer warned a city tourism official that Boston was at risk of being blacklisted over heavy-handed union tactics, according to newly released emails.The scores of emails, obtained by the Herald in a public records request, show the inner workings of the Boston Office of Tourism, Sports and Entertainment that was headed by Kenneth Brissette.Federal authorities arrested Brissette, 52, last week on union-related extortion charges, accusing Mayor Martin J. Walsh’s hand-picke..

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• Pact ends Verizon's US strike

  

  Verizon workers are set to 
return to work next week now that the nationwide strike has come to an end 
after the telecom company and unions reached an initial agreement.“The only way to take on a big corporation is to affect their business,” said Andrew Skinner, a 15-year technician for Verizon who has been picketing.“I felt very rudderless, but I knew I was on the right side of this. So I stayed with it.”Outside a Verizon Wireless store in Downtown Crossing yesterday, strikers cheered and appl..

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