Trea Lavery

2 days ago | masslive.com | Trea Lavery

A nonprofit chain of grocery stores aiming to address food insecurity in the Boston area will close all four locations this month. Daily Table, which opened its first store in Dorchester in 2015, said on its website Friday that it would be closing its doors “within the next few days.” The chain also operates stores in Roxbury, Central Square in Cambridge and Salem. “This was not an easy decision,” the Daily Table board wrote in a blog post.

6 days ago | masslive.com | Trea Lavery

An attorney who has worked in City Hall for more than 15 years is bidding to become mayor of Boston. John Houton, who has served as assistant corporation counsel for the city’s Treasury Department since 2011, according to his LinkedIn page, is gathering signatures to be added to the ballot, according to a report by Commonwealth Beacon. He previously served in the same position in the city’s Law Department from 2007 to 2011.

1 week ago | masslive.com | Trea Lavery

Less than half of low-income tenants in Massachusetts who hold state-funded housing vouchers can consistently afford their monthly rent, according to a Boston Foundation report released Wednesday. The report, which studied the efficacy of the Massachusetts Rental Voucher Program (MRVP), revealed that 44% of voucher holders were always able to afford rent, while 33% said they could afford it most of the time and 16% said they could only afford it sometimes.

1 week ago | masslive.com | Trea Lavery

A Massachusetts automation company has announced plans to lay off hundreds of employees at a facility it purchased from Walmart earlier this year. Wilmington-based Symbiotic LLC, which develops automated warehouse technology, will cut 400 jobs at the Andover location by June 27, according to a Massachusetts Workers Adjustment Retraining Notice filed with the state on April 29. Symbiotic acquired the Andover robotics unit from Walmart for $200 million, according to a Jan.

1 week ago | masslive.com | Trea Lavery

A piece of pipe that fell on a car parked in a Portland, Maine parking lot, damaging it, Wednesday may have fallen all the way from a passing airplane, authorities say. Cam Malette, a deckhand on a Casco Bay Lines ferry, told the Portland Press Herald that a coworker called him around 10 p.m. that night to tell him that the rear windshield of his Volkswagen Jetta, parked in the ferry line’s lot on Commercial Street, had been shattered.