Pedro Martinez calls Hall of Fame induction ?a great honor?

National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Pedro Martinez speaks during an induction ceremony at the Clark Sports Center on Sunday, July 26, 2015, in Cooperstown, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

The legendary Red Sox righthander was among four who were enshrined in Sunday?s ceremony in Cooperstown.

The top half of Pedro Martinez?s Hall of Fame plaque before going through the final stage of the manufacturing process.

Here?s what it says on Pedro Martinez?s Hall of Fame plaque

The 100 or so words on the plaque aim to capture the speed and accuracy of Martinez?s pitches.

Pedro Martinez is the second Dominican Hall of Famer, joining Juan Marichal.

On the field and off, Pedro Martinez truly one of a kind

The righthander gave us matchless talent and revolutionized Boston?s baseball culture.

David Minehan performed with Scuffy the Cat at T.T. the Bear?s Place Saturday.

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Music Review

T.T. the Bear?s finale a suitably Scruffy occasion

There was never a question that owner Bonney Bouley wanted Scruffy the Cat to be the last band standing on stage at her club.

Emily Norton (above, on right) purchased her childhood home in Newton from her mother, Sally Fleschner.

Address

Yes, you can go home again

In the Boston suburbs, returning to one?s hometown is often a solid bet.

DANTE RAMOS

Has inequality doomed small, private colleges?

In higher education, as in the rest of society, the divide between the weakest and the strongest keeps on widening.

Fireseed Arts cofounder Patino Vazquez, an artist and musician, gives Moby Disc a bath. The 6,000 ?scales? on the 30-foot-long sculpture, which makes its home at the Wayland town dump, are discarded compact discs.

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Three small businesses try to make money going green

Three companies ??one run by artists, another by entrepreneurs, and a third by environmentalists???hope to make green efforts pay.

Solar panels on a garage near a house in Marshfield.

What you should know about installing solar panels

Contracts known as power purchase agreements are largely responsible for the boom in residential solar panels. But are they good deals?

An on-site seasonal food truck operated by Truro restaurant Blackfish.

New England Travel

Food truck era lands on the Cape

Fasten your seat belts. Cape Cod has just recently come out of its shell as a contender in the fast-evolving food truck scene.

Visitors waited in line at the Sampson Chapel of The Acres in Springfield for the wake of Thomas Sullivan on Sunday.

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Hundreds pay respects for Springfield Marine slain in Tenn.

A steady line of visitors streamed into a Springfield funeral home Sunday to mourn Thomas Sullivan, killed in Chattanooga.

Lawsuit against state trooper ends in damages

A federal jury found a state trooper had probable cause to arrest Beth E. Shea, but used excessive force.

?I don?t consider myself a hero because I got shot down. . . . I was a survivor,? said Charles A. Brown Jr., a US Air Force captain and former prisoner of war.

Among former POWs, Trump strikes a chord

Some former Vietnam POWs say Trump?s insult mirrors their own misgivings about a label they have long worn uneasily: hero.

USOC increases pressure on Walsh, Baker to back bid

Neither politician appears ready to satisfy the USOC, which raises new questions about the fate of the bid.

Degelis Tufts, a Nahant native, has started a company that offers temporary metallic tattoos called TribeTats.

Taking tattoos to a different (and non-permanent) level

Nahant native Degelis Tufts launched TribeTats as the ?intersection of jewelry, tattoos, and body art.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/07/16/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Boghosian_19Kosciuszko18_MET.jpg A way out of the city?s rotary from hell?

Kosciuszko Circle is confusing and congested, and Olympic organizers say they have a fix in mind.

Randall Lints, 26, was arraigned this past week in Western Worcester District Court. Lints was charged with assault and battery on a child with substantial injury, among other counts.

Yvonne Abraham

A 7-year-old?s agony and pain

It?s hard to fathom how a Hardwick boy ended up in that run-down building by the railway line in the first place.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/07/09/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Tlumacki_umassmedicalcenter_metro037.jpg UMass Medical School seeks to bolster profits from science

The school has hired a venture capitalist to help catapult discoveries out of the lab and into the commercial world.

The Big Picture

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Big Picture

Flying over surf and sands on Cape Cod

Photographer David Ryan provides a visual respite of the shoreline during an assignment in a fixed-wing Cessna.

BetaBoston

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/07/24/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/beta.jpg Cambridge company born in Internet?s ?big bang? has lasting impact

Viaweb played a pivotal role in the evolution of e-commerce, and the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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JOHN L. ALLEN JR. | ALL THINGS CATHOLIC

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/07/26/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/allen.jpg Religious persecution, by both oppressors and the oppressed

India showcases the maddening complexity of religious persecution.

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