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2,301 confirmed cases, 40 deaths, 72,612 vaccinations. See today’s COVID-19 data from Mass.

The DPH said 28,810 people were estimated to have active cases of the potentially deadly virus, and 622 confirmed coronavirus patients were in the hospital.
The latest COVID-19 numbers from Massachusetts COVID-19 vaccine news, resources, and guidance These 32 Massachusetts communities are at high risk for COVID-19, an increase from 20 last week

Mass. residents work around the clock to score slots for people they’ve never met

The state’s vaccine rollout has birthed an army of “vaccine angels” — people so upset by what they are witnessing that they’re up at all hours of the night booking appointments for strangers.

Beverly Cleary signed books at the Monterey Bay Book Festival in Monterey, Calif., in April 1998.
Beloved children’s author Beverly Cleary dies at 104
Beverly Cleary, beloved children’s author whose characters Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins enthralled generations of youngsters, has died.

State officials are investigating senator, wife for potential campaign finance violations

A politically powerful Massachusetts couple is asking a judge to temporarily stop the state’s top campaign finance regulator from referring an investigation into them to state prosecutors, marking an extraordinary turn in what had been a private state probe.
A rendering of 1000 Boylston with John Fish (left inset) and Stephen and Adam Weiner (right inset).

In Back Bay condo project gone bad, Fish sues lawyers, too

The chairman of construction giant Suffolk on Friday filed suit in Suffolk County Superior Court against law firm Goulston & Storrs, claiming one of the firm’s senior partners committed “legal malpractice."
Governor Charlie Baker, left, and House Speaker Ronald Mariano at the signing ceremony Friday for the climate measure.

After a veto, Baker signs landmark climate bill

The measure establishes one of the nation’s most far-reaching efforts to reduce planet-warming carbon emissions.
Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge made his moves after he "sensed some discouragement" around the team.
dan shaughnessy

Why Thursday wasn’t so great for the Celtics, and other thoughts

The Celtics probably got a little better at the trade deadline, but one of their chief Eastern Conference rivals outdid them.
The Celtics made a run at All-Star center Nikola Vucevic, but will now focus on Andre Drummond
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Craft brewer Trillium Brewing Company will reopen its Fenway, Fort Point, and Canton locations next week starting on Thursday.
Trillium announces it will reopen three locations next week, starting with Fenway on April 1
Craft brewer Trillium Brewing Company will reopen three locations next week as it joins the growing list of restaurants gearing up for spring as the Baker administration loosens COVID-19 restrictions imposed last year as the pandemic worsened.

Forecast | Dave Epstein
Unseasonably mild conditions continue on Saturday.
This weekend will have both spring sunshine and spring showers
Saturday will be a mild, lovely March day, so get outside while you can. Sunday brings lower temperatures and downpours the likes of which we haven't really seen so far this year.

Garrett Whitlock, back pitching after Tommy John surgery, has continually impressed the Red Sox with his professionalism as much as his performance.
Garrett Whitlock, who last pitched in Double A, officially makes Red Sox Opening Day roster
The Rule 5 pickup from the Yankees is seen as a legitimate bullpen option who could evolve into a starter despite his having no experience above Double A.

The blueprint: Dodgers’ balanced approach in team-building is exactly what the Red Sox aspire to Red Sox’ total value is put at $4.8 billion, second in majors to Yankees

BC NOTEBOOK
Tight end Hunter Long stood tall during Boston College's Pro Day on Friday.
Tight end Hunter Long puts his multiple talents on display during Boston College Pro Day workout
The Eagles redshirt junior, who says he's always prided himself on being well-rounded, showcased his versatility in front of 35 NFL scouts and coaches.

John Lynch (left), the 49ers' general manager, chats with Dolphins head coach Brian Flores before an October game.
49ers trade for Dolphins’ No. 3 overall pick in April’s NFL draft
The Niners traded their No. 12 pick, plus three others in later drafts, to move up.

Dinner with Cupid
Carolyn and Jonathan on their Zoom blind date.
Blind date: ‘She came prepared with a lot of questions’
Will these two hikers head out into the wild together?

Love Letters: Unsure about the relationship after a miscarriage

Opinion

A Duxbury High School athlete stretches on a fence that surrounds the football field on March 24.
EDITORIAL

Lessons from Duxbury High: A never again moment

Curing the ignorance at the root of prejudice should be a job for schools and educators.
Coal is transported via conveyor belt to the coal-fired Jim Bridger Power Plant that supplied by the neighboring Jim Bridger mine outside Point of the Rocks, Wyoming, in 2014.
Sharon E. Burke

The high cost of achieving net zero
Joan Wickersham

Messages from my mother
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

The Boston Public Schools are in crisis. Harvard (or BC or MGH) can help.
A courtroom sketch of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, center, with his defense attorneys as his death sentence was read on May 15, 2015.
JEFF JACOBY

Death is the right penalty for Tsarnaev

Recommended reads

THE GREAT DIVIDE
Fredy Solís, a recent immigrant from Guatemala, spent the last year trying to learn from home. The Globe followed Fredy's 11-member Spanish class at Boston International Newcomers Academy through the pandemic, to better understand how school closures have affected the city's most vulnerable students.
A year of grit and despair: For one class of immigrant students, the pandemic threatens to upend their educational dreams
To understand the remarkable forces and obstacles newcomers to America have to contend with, a Globe team closely tracked one class at Boston International Newcomers Academy — BINcA for short — for most of a year.

More cases tied to scandal-plagued drug lab could be tossed in ‘nightmare scenario’ for state’s criminal justice system

The Middlesex DA wants the Supreme Judicial Court to investigate and potentially invalidate a decade’s worth of drug tests.

Diversity expanding within the growing Black American population, new data show

Blackness in the United States has long encompassed a wide range of communities, and in the past two decades as the Black population overall has grown, so too has diversity within it, a new report from Pew Research Center says.

A ‘Not Haunted’ sign was placed outside of a home for sale west of Boston — and people have questions

Margot Bloomstein has some questions about a home in her neighborhood that recently hit the market. Thousands of other people online also had some queries.

Does WeWork still work after the pandemic? A $1.3b deal says yes

One of the biggest operators of office space in downtown Boston will go public through a SPAC.

metro

Ryan and Stephanie Fattman.

State officials are investigating senator, wife for potential campaign finance violations

A politically powerful Massachusetts couple is asking a judge to temporarily stop the state’s top campaign finance regulator from referring an investigation into them to state prosecutors, marking an extraordinary turn in what had been a private state probe.

After confrontation in Quincy, State Police shoot, kill armed robbery suspect who allegedly stole Rockland cruiser, officials say
Forecast | Dave Epstein

This weekend will have both spring sunshine and spring showers

Sports

Michigan coach Mel Pearson said he was “devastated” for the players and called having to drop out unfortunate.

Michigan drops out of men’s NCAA hockey tournament because of COVID

The Wolverines are the second team to drop out because of the virus; Notre Dame bowed out Thursday.

Leonard Fournette agrees to one-year deal to stay with Buccaneers
BC NOTEBOOK

Tight end Hunter Long puts his multiple talents on display during Boston College Pro Day workout

business

Thousands of garments are stored on a three-tiered conveyor system at the ThredUp sorting facility in Phoenix.

Secondhand clothes site ThredUp jumps after $168 million IPO

Piracy fears mount as ships take long way around Africa to avoid blocked Suez Canal

In Back Bay condo project gone bad, Fish sues lawyers, too

politics

President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House.

Biden blasts Georgia elections law as ‘Jim Crow in the 21st Century’

Georgia lawmaker arrested as governor signs sweeping voting law

Romney gets Profile in Courage Award for impeachment vote

Living Arts

Wellesley College's outdoor labyrinth is made from trees recovered from campus.
COMFORT ZONE

Walking in circles is healthy at these four local labyrinths

At Legacy Place, free postcards make for ‘positive ripples of connection’ in the pandemic

Unsure about the relationship after a miscarriage

education

School buses left after dropping students off at the Mattahunt elementary school in Mattapan in mid-December.

How many coronavirus cases have been reported in Mass. schools? Check our map
La Gran División

Un año de lucha y desesperación: la pandemia amenaza con poner fin a los sueños de una clase de estudiantes inmigrantes
THE GREAT DIVIDE

A year of grit and despair: For one class of immigrant students, the pandemic threatens to upend their educational dreams

rhode island

Eleanor Slater Hospital in Cranston, R.I.
RI HEALTH

R.I. can start billing the feds for its state-run hospital again
RI CRIME

R.I. AG wants to charge the East Greenwich road-rage suspect with a hate crime
RI NEWSMAKERS

Breaking the cycle of abuse, from Providence to Madagascar

Newton

video

Comfort Zone

NAMES
Leonard Nimoy did his famous hand gesture after receiving an honorary degree at Boston University in 2012.
With a new sculpture, Leonard Nimoy’s legacy will ‘live long and prosper’
A hand-shaped memorial will stand outside the Museum of Science, just blocks from where the actor grew up.

COMFORT ZONE
Wellesley College's outdoor labyrinth is made from trees recovered from campus.
Walking in circles is healthy at these four local labyrinths
Find your way to relaxation with these outdoor spots around Boston.

COMFORT ZONE
Lily King's latest novel is "Writers & Lovers"
Lily King’s ‘Writers & Lovers’ will be adapted for film and directed by Toni Collette
The Mass.-native's best-selling novel, about an aspiring writer, is set in Boston

ART AUCTION
Before the auction begins, visitors will be able to attend free preview parties.
MassArt’s annual auction, virtual this year, supports student scholarships
Holding live and silent auctions virtually means no space constraints and the potential for much wider reach.

Gloria Steinem in her New York apartment
For her 87th birthday, Gloria Steinem opens her apartment to visitors, online
The virtual tour lets you see where the feminist icon has lived since 1966.

Special Projects

The Globe launches Project Takeout, an effort to help restaurants make it to the other side of this pandemic.
PROJECT TAKEOUT | DEVRA FIRST

Project takeout: Get takeout. Save restaurants you love.

Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.
See the full project

On the Street

A man repacked the food he got from a food pantry on Broadway in Chelsea. Chelsea has been one of the places in Greater Boston hardest hit by the pandemic.

In tackling the pandemic, Chelsea finds new strength
A mural on the side of the Mayor Bill Carpenter Garage in Brockton.

Brockton offers a gateway to a new generation
Evening light sets upon stores and restaurants on Hancock Street in Quincy Center.

This time, Quincy Center’s revival looks legit

See more from our business series ‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

More

Jeneé Osterheldt
A Beautiful Resistance
Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

Boston Globe launches ‘Fresh Start’ initiative: People can apply to have past coverage about them reviewed
Similar to “right to forget” programs that have cropped up across the country, the undertaking is meant to address the lasting impact that stories about past embarrassments, mistakes, or minor crimes, forever online, can have on a person’s life.

Globe Spotlight Investigation
Last Words: Is death the great equalizer?
Quite the contrary, a Spotlight investigation shows. Death exposes in high relief the layers of inequities, in race and income, care and opportunity, that shape life down to its final hours. It is a truth the pandemic has only underscored — one hard to see, because it is so much easier to look away.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

The Rose Kennedy Greenway featured Yinka Shonibare's "Wind Sculpture" in August 2020.
Renée Loth

From gripes to gratitude on the Greenway
Nery Martinez and Saviel Mieses, right, hold signs outside La Colaborativa while preparing for a protest in Chelsea, MA on March 16, 2021. More than 100 demonstrators rallied at City Hall to protest the amount of federal aid earmarked for the hard-hit city of Chelsea in the $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus package. Led by staff and volunteers of the nonprofit La Colaborativa, protesters marched from the organization's Sixth Street food pantry, chanting in English and in Spanish their demands for more federal relief.
EDITORIAL

Congress failed Chelsea in COVID-19 relief law
Boston Marathon bombing survivor Celeste Corcoran stands on the marathon finish line in 2016 as she waits for runners in her running group, 50 Legs, to cross. Celeste lost both legs in the 2013 marathon bombing. Officials let her stand there to watch the runners.
Kimberly Atkins

Boston and the Marathon bombing survivors can’t shake Tsarnaev — unless Biden acts now
A coal miner near Wylo, W. Va.
IDEAS | SUSANNE BROOKS & DANIEL RAIMI

Give former fossil fuel workers a stake in the clean energy future
New research indicates that when cold viruses are circulating widely, COVID-19 case counts could be lower than would otherwise be expected.
IDEAS | VERONIQUE GREENWOOD

The common cold could inhibit COVID-19 — and what else?
IDEAS | LINDA RODRIGUEZ MCROBBIE

Just what is the BettyLab cooking up for girls?

STAT

Road ahead illo
The Road Ahead: Charting the pandemic over the next 12 months — and beyond
In this project, STAT describes 30 key moments, possible turning points that could steer the pandemic onto a different course or barometers for how the virus is reshaping our lives.

Ahoskie Mayor Weyling White, left, and Hertford County Magistrate Deborah Morrison, right, pose for a portrait on railroad tracks that divide the predominantly White and predominantly Black parts of town in Ahoskie, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. (Photo © Landon Bost 2020)
From a small N.C. town to big-city hospitals, how software infuses racism into U.S. health care
The racial bias can produce huge differences in assessing patients’ need for special care to manage conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, or depression, a STAT investigation found.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 12: People walk through the snow and sleet in Manhattan on February 12, 2019 in New York City. New York City, in a winter that has been light on snow this season, is expected to receive two inches of snow before the storm moves later this evening. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Covid-19’s wintry mix: Dry indoor air helps the virus spread
The worry is not just that people might mingle more closely inside, but that the air they breathe will make the virus more dangerous.

Boston, MA -- 06/04/2020 -- Yoldana Desir displays a photograph of her late sister, Marie Deus, who died of Covid-19, after contracting it as a food service worker at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts. (Kayana Szymczak for STAT)
In the Covid-19 death of a hospital food worker, a microcosm of the pandemic
The hospital's first employee to die of Covid-19 was a kitchen worker named Marie Deus — and her illness sparked a question. Why weren't bedside clinicians getting sick at the highest rates?

magazine
A ball of dry brown garden grass.
Perspective

Lawn care for the lazy: Turns out being eco-friendly can be the easy way
MISS CONDUCT

Following current events can be upsetting. Is it OK to stop paying attention?
Savory Bread Pudding With Mushrooms, Gruyère, and Tarragon.
Cooking

Make-ahead recipes for Easter brunch
An illustration of William Shakespeare peeking through writing quills.
On the cover

How a college dropout in New Hampshire found a Shakespeare secret all the PhDs missed

sports

BYU quarterback Zach Wilson threw in the school's Pro Day workout for NFL scouts.

Top quarterback prospect Zach Wilson shines in passing drills at BYU pro day

Cavs buy out Andre Drummond, center eyes signing with contender

Garrett Whitlock, who last pitched in Double A, officially makes Red Sox Opening Day roster

metro

Craft brewer Trillium Brewing Company will reopen its Fenway, Fort Point, and Canton locations next week starting on Thursday.

Trillium announces it will reopen three locations next week, starting with Fenway on April 1

R.I. can start billing the feds for its state-run hospital again

How many coronavirus cases have been reported in Mass. schools? Check our map

Nation

Alysia Shanahan-Belisle stood for a portrait outside of her Pembroke home. Of her work booking vaccines, she said: “We’re so small in the universe, if we’re not helping each other out, what are we doing?”

Mass. residents work around the clock to score slots for people they’ve never met

Beloved children’s author Beverly Cleary dies at 104

Explainer: What does Georgia’s new GOP election law do?

World

This photo provided by the North Korean government, shows what it says a test fire of newly developed new-type tactical guided projectile by the Academy of Defense Science, at an undisclosed place in North Korea on Thursday. Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via Associated Press

North Korea confirms missile tests as Biden warns of response

North Korea confirms missile tests as Biden warns of response

Giant ship blocking Suez Canal could take ‘days, even weeks’ to free

politics

President Joe Biden departed his news conference at the White House in Washington on Thursday.

Biden assails Republicans over voting rights and defends record on border

Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany credits Trump for US vaccination rate with tweet that gets called out for typo

‘My plan is to run for reelection’ in 2024, Biden says

business

A banner displayed "Boston Hope" at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, which housed the Boston Hope Field Medical Station in April 2020. The convention center will welcome thousands for a volleyball competition in May.

South Boston convention center will welcome thousands for a volleyball competition in May

COVID-19 vaccine testing turns to kids

Does WeWork still work after the pandemic? A $1.3b deal says yes

lifestyle

A mourner leaves a flower at a memorial for the victims of a shooting at King Soopers, in Boulder, Colo.

How to talk to kids about gun violence

Peeps and Pepsi have teamed up to make a marshmallow soda, just in time for Easter

She loves Paris, pastries, and ‘Women Who Rock’

marijuana

New York reaches deal to legalize recreational marijuana

Five will exit White House over past use of marijuana

Marijuana-infused ice cream is coming to a dispensary near you, just in time for summer

opinion

A Duxbury High School athlete stretches on a fence that surrounds the football field on March 24.

Lessons from Duxbury High: A never again moment

The high cost of achieving net zero

The Boston Public Schools are in crisis. Harvard (or BC or MGH) can help.

food & dining

Paul Barker, owner of Pauli's North End sub shop, posed for a portrait with his 14-ounce "Lobsta Sub" on April 24, 2013.

Free sandwiches after COVID-19 vaccines, Easter specials, and more

At The Farmer’s Daughter in Sudbury, brunch is the main attraction

Boston has a long tradition of Asian women chefs and restaurateurs. Here are eight standout businesses to support

travel

Susan Wilson feeds pigeons on the Seine in Paris.

She loves Paris, pastries, and ‘Women Who Rock’

It’s all about nature at these four family-friendly New England resorts

Excerpt from Mia Bay’s ‘Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance’

Books

Caught in between in ‘Of Women and Salt’

New books about life in our galaxy, and beyond it.

C. Pam Zhang on reading books to start each day

Movies

Sir David Attenborough in London's Richmond Park.

Species threatened, corporations ascendant, death discussed

George Segal: a point man for his times

‘The Human Voice’: an Almodóvar marvel, short on length, long on everything else

Television

Stanley Tucci (left, with Colin Firth) in a scene from "Supernova."

Stanley Tucci: from busy man to ‘Inside Man’

The streaming services’ 10 best original shows, ranked

Bo Burnham as Larry Bird? He will be in upcoming HBO series.

music

Elton John after performing "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again," at the 2020 Oscars. John is celebrating his 74th birthday on Thursday — and he's sending fans a very rare present. Six deep cuts have been made available on streaming and digital formats for the first time.

It’s Elton John’s birthday, and he’s got rare music for fans

Sudbury singer-songwriter Lauren Weintraub on her Nashville dreams and the ‘random thing’ that got everyone’s attention

Strike up the band! Live music will return to Tanglewood this summer

Theater/Dance

Faith Soloway

With ‘Banned in Boston,’ Urban Improv keeps the Faith

New PBS documentary illuminates choreographer Twyla Tharp’s expansive, trailblazing career

With delightful studio performances, Boston Ballet celebrates the classical art form

globe local

Gov. Charlie Baker held a press conference at the State House on March 25, 2021 to provide updates on COVID-19 vaccination in Massachusetts.

Watch live: Governor Baker signs climate legislation

Newton Youth Commission reaches out with mental health campaign

Art reflecting our world: Peabody Essex Museum launches exhibits that portray today’s concerns

Obituaries

Mr. McMurtry, at the start of an event to auction off much of the stock from his four-building literary mecca, Booked Up, in Archer City, Texas, in 2012.

Larry McMurtry, chronicler of an unalloyed American West, dies at 84

George Segal, durable veteran of drama and TV comedy, dies at 87

Charley Hill, art detective who found ‘The Scream’ and studied the Gardner heist, dies at 73