Boston Scenes

The members of the Madison Park High School boys’ basketball team are all smiles after beating the squad from O’Bryant, 69-65, at Madison Park to win the City League championship on Friday, Feb. 20, 2009. (Patrick O’Connor photo)

James Watson (right), principal of the Washington Irving Middle School in Roslindale, presents the first prize trophy to sixth-grade student Thatiana Bellamy of Roxbury at the school’s science fair, held last month. (Photo courtesy of Boston Public Schools)

Rose O’Brien, R.N., holds the American Diabetes Association’s Recognition Award as she stands with the diabetes education team at the Bowdoin Street Health Center. Bowdoin’s Diabetes Self-Management Education Program recently became one of only three city health centers to receive recognition. (Photo courtesy of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)

State Treasurer Tim Cahill (left), chair of the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) and MSBA Executive Director Katherine Craven (third from left) present Boston Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Carol R. Johnson (right) with a $42,428,028 check to Mayor Thomas M. Menino for the newly renovated Jeremiah E. Burke School in Dorchester during a ceremony held Friday, Feb. 27, 2009. The payment came in addition to more than $157 million already reimbursed to Boston school construction projects throughout the city. (Photo courtesy of the Office of State Treasurer Tim Cahill)

Gov. Deval Patrick (center) is flanked by J. Keith Motley, chancellor of the University of Massachusetts-Boston (left) and Eric Turner of the Massachusetts Black Business Alliance (MBBA) at a Black History Month celebration of black entrepreneurial achievement organized by the MBBA at UMass-Boston on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009. Patrick spoke before more than 200 entrepreneurs at the gathering. (Don West photo, www.donwestfoto.com)

Capt. Rachelle Jones (left) and First Officer Stephanie Grant, along with flight attendants Diana Galloway and Robin Rogers (not pictured), last month became the first all-black, all-female flight crew in American history when they took an Atlantic Southeast Airlines flight from Atlanta to Nashville, Tenn. (Photo courtesy of Atlantic Southeast Airlines)