Charity collects just desserts

- Sheila Swanwick was three hours and several hundred pumpkin pies into her volunteer shift yesterday as a quality inspector and packer for the Pie in the Sky charity fund-raiser. So many pies, and still she was impressed.

Much to savor in nation’s oldest race

- Some 600 students, faculty, alums, and invitation-only guests will run for both pride and apple pie in the Northfield Mount Hermon School’s Bemis-Forslund Pie Race.

35 cents will be the price for a slice at Pizzeria Regina

- On Sept. 8 you can celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Regina Pizzeria with a slice that will cost you … 35 cents from 11-11:35 a.m.

Pi Day is a big deal for Raytheon

- Hundreds of apple pies are being delivered to math and science teachers at public middle and high schools located within a 3.14-mile radius of Raytheon Co. headquarters in Waltham. That’s because today is Pi Day, as in March 14 (3/14), and Pi, the mathematical constant, is equal roughly to 3.14. 

On the culinary calendar —- Jan. 23 is National Pie Day. And that’s a reason for 21-gun salutes at the Omni Parker House, which plans to celebrate this culinary festival by honoring the dessert that it pioneered —- the Boston cream pie.