Celtics into their community program as a “Hero Among Us”. Coryn, wife of Babak Bina of Lala Rokh and Bin 26 Enoteca in Beacon Hill, has worked with many non profits, which is how she and Babak met. She was honored for her...

By Dan Murphy Bernard Borman, who served as president of the Beacon Hill Civic Association board of directors from 1971 to 1974 and spearheaded the successful campaign to save Park Plaza from redevelopment in the ‘70s, died at Massachusetts General Hospital on Dec. 13. He was 85. Raised in Belleville, Ill., a small city...Even after hundreds of years, wood framing remains the method of choice for building construction in the United States and many other parts of the world. However, the forest economy has within the past two decades turned from an emphasis on harvesting huge old growth trees to much smaller plantation grown trees. Much of this plantation stock has been grown from genetically improved seedlings selected for rapid growth, high density, and many other desirable heritable characteristics. Along with the change in the nature and size of logs, sawmilling has also evolved into mills that can rapidly process the smaller trees into lumber. Many mills now use chipper-canters which first convert wood along the sides of the logs into pulp chips and leave a cant with parallel sides of