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Baker and CDC director Walensky to tour vaccination site at Hynes Convention Center

Governor Charlie Baker will tour the mass vaccination site at the Hynes Convention Center on Tuesday with CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky and other officials, one day after Walensky, a physician-administrator with deep Boston ties, warned of a feeling of “impending doom” over rising numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths nationwide.

Acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey.
Acting Mayor Janey says Boston’s COVID-19 cases are rising again with more young people getting the virus
“More than half of the new cases in the past two weeks have come from Bostonians under the age of 29,” Janey said at a City Hall briefing Tuesday.

Former Boston police captain, 62, arrested for alleged overtime fraud
A former Boston police captain was arrested Tuesday on federal charges alleging he pocketed more than $12,395 in fraudulent overtime payments for hours he didn’t work between 2015 and early 2019, authorities said.

Boston police overtime projected to be $15 million over budget for this fiscal year Editorial: Boston police overtime still out of control

Bedford, Mass., woman murdered on beach in Maine was attacked from behind by boyfriend, police say
Rhonda Pattelena was standing on a beach in York, Maine, with her boyfriend Jeffrey Buchannan, when he allegedly attacked her from behind, striking her in the head in view of at least two horrified eyewitnesses, according to Maine State Police.

Bedford woman who was beaten died on her favorite beach in Maine
Defense attorney Eric Nelson, left, and former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, right, listened as Assistant Minnesota Attorney General Matthew Frank, questioned witness Donald Williams on Tuesday.
Chauvin Trial

Teen who shot George Floyd video testifies he was ‘begging for his life’

Darnella Frazier said she was walking to a convenience store with her younger cousin when she came upon the officers, and sent the girl into the store because she didn’t want her to see “a man terrified, scared, begging for his life.”
Watch live: Day 2 of the trial of Derek Chauvin, ex-cop charged with the murder of George Floyd
In 2019, Izzy Arbeiter, a Holocaust survivor from Poland, showed Malden High School students the identification tattoo he received on his arm while at Auschwitz.

Duxbury football anti-Semitism shows need for mandatory Holocaust education, antihate groups say

In Massachusetts, state education officials urge public schools to teach students about the Holocaust, but don’t require it, and bills mandating Holocaust education have been pending in the State House for two years.
Cannabis advocate and attorney Kim Napoli held her daughter Gianna outside the Hempest store on Boston's Newbury Street in this 2013 file photo.

Prominent executive at NETA parent company fired after husband opens competing marijuana store

The parent company of NETA, the largest marijuana operator in Massachusetts, has fired a prominent executive and longtime advocate after her husband opened a competing cannabis store.
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CHAD FINN
Alex Verdugo's 2020 production, stretched across 162 games, would've meant 49 doubles and 190 hits. How close will he come to matching it in a 162-game season?
Nine thoughts on the new-look Red Sox ahead of Opening Day
Some early breaks could offer a little optimism after a lost year, as would Bobby Dalbec channeling a historic slugger, but what about that outfield?

A safe call at Fenway: Red Sox do some remodeling to welcome fans back

The Ever Given on Monday after it was partially refloated in Egypt's Suez Canal.
Here were some of the best memes about the ship stuck in the Suez Canal
Few news cycles in perhaps the bleakest of years in recent memory have inspired — and churned out — such a rapid production of memes as the situation that unfolded this past week when a fully laden 220,000-ton vessel was lodged in Egypt’s Suez Canal.

With container ship now freed, investigation into Suez Canal blockage begins

Senator Graham says he owns an AR-15 in case there’s a natural disaster, and he has to defend himself from a ‘gang’

While Democrats continue to push for stronger gun control measures in the wake of two mass shootings that occurred within less than a week of each other, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham shared his personal opposition to such proposals. His comments quickly drew backlash.

Stretch, the new robot from Boston Dynamics, is designed to load and unload trucks at warehouses.
Boston Dynamics’ latest robot is a warehouse workhorse
"Stretch" is designed to load and unload trucks at warehouses.

THE NEXT COURSE
At the Barking Crab in Boston, Alexandra Morris at the makeshift takeout window she built by hand for the pandemic. Restaurant owners have moved ahead after a year of COVID with many new ideas to serve customers.
Barking Crab could have gone belly up, save for an ingenious plan
The decades-old seafood restaurant turned into a hole in the wall. Literally.

Baylor head coach Kim Mulkey.
Baylor coach calls for end of COVID-19 testing at NCAAs
Baylor coach Kim Mulkey thinks the NCAA should do away with COVID-19 testing for the Final Four and implied Monday night that players should be able to participate in those games even if they’re infected with the coronavirus.

Opinion

Act on Climate gives us the chance to fix the 2014 law and become climate leaders once again.
Timmons Roberts

Top 10 reasons Governor McKee’s first big signing ceremony should be for Act on Climate

Signing the bill into law will improve the health of residents, help secure a viable future, and bring a series of benefits such as green jobs and healthier air for Rhode Island.
A Lebanese health worker prepares a shot of the COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine in Beirut on March 29.
EDITORIAL

No more drama in communicating about vaccine effectiveness
Vaccines are readied at the Hynes Convention Center.
Joan Vennochi

Don’t let the anti-vax ‘Flu-You’ crowd rule Massachusetts
It’s a huge challenge for the public schools to effectively spend these new federal dollars, which amount to about one-third of BPS’s annual budget. That comes down to an astonishing $9,500 extra per student, with few strings attached.
Marcela García

Boston Public Schools are getting more than $400 million in stimulus dollars — how should the money be spent?
The US government has a responsibility to protect Americans, but sitting on stockpiles does nothing to provide that protection — and may increase the risks for Americans by allowing highly transmissible, virulent, and /or vaccine-evading variants to develop.
Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Govind Persad

US should share vaccines it’s not using with the world

Recommended reads

The Battle for the GOP
Missouri Senator Josh Hawley gestured toward a crowd of supporters of then-President Donald Trump gathered outside the Capitol to protest the certification of Joe Biden's Electoral College victory on Jan. 6.
Josh Hawley became a pariah in Washington after the insurrection. Does it matter?
A total freeze out from nearly half the Senate might raise the danger of being seen unable to deliver for the voters back home. But in a world in which hundreds of Trump supporters mobilized to ransack the US Capitol, becoming a pariah inside its marble walls isn’t necessarily a political liability with the GOP grassroots.

To stay in their homes, tenants are unionizing

Newly created tenants unions have sprung up across Boston, a local response to massive unemployment caused by COVID-19 and a widespread fear of eviction.

A look at how COVID-19 cases are increasing on Cape Cod

Cases of COVID-19 are rising on Cape Cod, causing alarm from local health officials and illustrating the continued threat posed by the virus and its variants even as vaccination efforts become widespread across the state.
Jeneé Osterheldt

‘Lean into the joy’: COVID, racism, and how we mentor girls of color

A year after coronavirus arrived, a year after the murder of Breonna Taylor, and after a year of anti-Asian violence, mentoring Black girls and girls of color looks different. As it should.
Analysis

Four extremely important political developments that have nothing to do with Washington

There are four developments happening in the states right now that are definitely worth paying attention to, even if they are not necessarily getting constant national attention.

metro

Governor Charlie Baker.

Watch live: Baker gives a COVID-19 update

Governor Charlie Baker is set to give an update on COVID-19 in Massachusetts on Tuesday afternoon after touring the mass vaccination site at the Hynes Convention Center with CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky and other officials.

Boston mayoral candidates find new ways to reach an audience amid a pandemic

Acting Mayor Janey says Boston’s COVID-19 cases are rising again with more young people getting the virus

Sports

Brandon Carlo suffered with blurred vision, mood changes, and memory loss but said he is fine now.
bruins

Brandon Carlo, Brad Marchand to return to Bruins lineup vs. Devils Tuesday

Carlo has been out since March 5, when an aggressive hit by the Capitals' Tom Wilson sent him to the hospital. Marchand said he returned a false-positive COVID-19 test.
red sox

Red Sox’ Matt Barnes, out of COVID protocol, is ‘very relieved’ to be cleared for Opening Day
CHAD FINN

Nine thoughts on the new-look Red Sox ahead of Opening Day

business

The entrance to DraftKings' headquarters in Boston.

DraftKings acquires sports betting media company VSiN

Boston Dynamics’ latest robot is a warehouse workhorse

With container ship now freed, investigation into Suez Canal blockage begins

politics

Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Blinken ends Trump human rights plan promoting conservative agenda in foreign policy

Biden announces diverse first slate of judicial nominees

Senator Graham says he owns an AR-15 in case there’s a natural disaster, and he has to defend himself from a ‘gang’

Living Arts

"Dirty Bulgur with Roast Chicken" from the cookbook "Sumac: Recipes and Stories from Syria" by Anas Atassi.

Recipe: In this ‘dirty’ version of Syrian bulgur with chicken, a cookbook author turns the traditional dish on its head

Bevin O’Gara is named interim artistic director at New Rep
GETTING SALTY

In the Fenway and in West Roxbury, Yeanie Bach follows her culinary dream

education

In 2019, Izzy Arbeiter, a Holocaust survivor from Poland, showed Malden High School students the identification tattoo he received on his arm while at Auschwitz.

Duxbury football anti-Semitism shows need for mandatory Holocaust education, antihate groups say

Massachusetts pool coronavirus testing in schools finds 0.7 percent positivity rate since February

Becker College to close this spring as pandemic deals final blow, officials say

rhode island

Eduardo Birbuet of Providence received his COVID-19 vaccine last month at Central Falls High School in Rhode Island.
CORONAVIRUS

Starting today, if you’re an adult living in one of these eight ZIP codes, you can sign up for a vaccine
RI EDUCATION

How Rhode Island’s takeover of Providence schools unraveled before it really got started

COVID-19 vaccine information for every city and town in Rhode Island

Newton

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Comfort Zone

COMFORT ZONE
Antonia Gentry as Ginny and Brianne Howey as Georgia in Netflix's "Ginny & Georgia."
The idyllic New England town of Wellsbury from ‘Ginny & Georgia’ is closer than you think
While the show takes place in the fictional town of Wellsbury, Mass., the filming was done in Ontario. However, publications and fans alike are naming the town of Wellesley as the top contender for the inspiration.

COMFORT ZONE
Ellie Biscoe.
One South Boston woman brings her antiquing journey to TikTok, 60 seconds at a time
Ellie Biscoe set off on a journey to visit as many of the New England’s antique stores as she could. As of mid-March, her TikTok follower count had grown to 12,100 with her videos garnering more than 55,000 likes.

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

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

Justice Stephen Breyer in 2018.
Renée Graham

It might be time for Stephen Breyer to retire from the Supreme Court
Sophia Moon sits with her four-year-old daughter Ariana Sophia Crowson on her first day of remote learning as a Boston Public Schools pre-kindergartener in September.
EDITORIAL

The path to universal pre-kindergarten
A social distancing classroom at the Mildred Avenue K-8 in Mattapan on Sept. 9.
Brenda Cassellius

A renewed vision for Boston Public Schools
Kim Driscoll

Legislature should not be exempt from Open Meeting Law
Practicing COVID-19 safety protocols, a Market Basket in Nashua posted signs directing shoppers in April 2020.
Mary Ann D'Urso

The Grocery Stories: A year in my life from the aisles
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
Illustration highlighting popular home renovation trends, including touchless faucets and backyard putting greens.
Globe Magazine

Most-wanted COVID-19 home renovations: More space, touchless faucets, and ... putting greens?
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

Baylor head coach Kim Mulkey.

Baylor coach calls for end of COVID-19 testing at NCAAs

At Fenway this year, players will abandon the suite life and get back in the clubhouse

In a jumbled season, Boston Pride appreciate their fantastic finish in Isobel Cup

metro

Acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey.

Watch live: Janey gives a COVID-19 update

Vaccines will continue at Whittier Street Health Center in Roxbury despite car crash into building

Baker and CDC director Walensky to tour vaccination site at Hynes Convention Center

Nation

Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Blinken ends Trump human rights plan promoting conservative agenda in foreign policy

Teen who shot George Floyd video testifies he was ‘begging for his life’

Biden announces diverse first slate of judicial nominees

World

China's top legislature approved amendments to Hong Kong's constitution on Tuesday that will give Beijing more control over the make-up of the city's legislature.

China sharply reduces elected seats in Hong Kong legislature

Here were some of the best memes about the ship stuck in the Suez Canal

Virus origins remain unclear in WHO-China inquiry

politics

In this Jan. 20, 2021, file photo, former vice president Mike Pence spoke after arriving back in his hometown of Columbus, Ind., as his wife Karen watched.

Pence reemerges, lays groundwork for 2024 run

Biden wants $4 trillion infrastructure package approved over summer

Four extremely important political developments that have nothing to do with Washington

business

Claudia Juech, chief executive of the Cloudera Foundation, and Vilas Dhar, president of the McGovern Foundation.

McGovern Foundation merges with Silicon Valley nonprofit to bring tech to philanthropy sector

Software startup HYCU raises $87.5m, plans to hire 100 employees in Boston

With ship now freed, a probe into Suez Canal blockage begins

lifestyle

Food from Feather & Wedge in Rockport.

3 places we supported this week

Barking Crab could have gone belly up, save for an ingenious plan

At Urbano, a scholar connects young artists with ‘deeply local’ educators

marijuana

Cannabis advocate and attorney Kim Napoli held her daughter Gianna outside the Hempest store on Boston's Newbury Street in this 2013 file photo.

Prominent executive at NETA parent company fired after husband opens competing marijuana store

New York lawmakers agree to legalize recreational marijuana

Can landlords really ban marijuana edibles? Usually not, but that hasn’t stopped them from trying

opinion

Act on Climate gives us the chance to fix the 2014 law and become climate leaders once again.

Top 10 reasons Governor McKee’s first big signing ceremony should be for Act on Climate

A nightmare that never ends

A welcome change

food & dining

"Dirty Bulgur with Roast Chicken" from the cookbook "Sumac: Recipes and Stories from Syria" by Anas Atassi.

Recipe: In this ‘dirty’ version of Syrian bulgur with chicken, a cookbook author turns the traditional dish on its head

In the Fenway and in West Roxbury, Yeanie Bach follows her culinary dream

He recorded the recipes of his Syrian heritage to keep them alive

travel

In one of many small touches, the hotel library features books curated by the Boston Public Library.

Rooftop restaurant, larger guest rooms: The former Taj Boston gets a new look

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

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

Books

Author Dav Pilkey at the premiere of "Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie" in Los Angeles in 2017.

‘Captain Underpants’ book pulled for ‘passive racism’

Caught in between in ‘Of Women and Salt’

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

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

“Shtisel,” an Israeli drama about an ultra-Orthodox family in Jerusalem, has returned for a third season on Netflix.

This week’s TV: A new ‘Law & Order,’ the story of ‘Mahalia,’ and a Netflix interface fail

Watch Maya Rudolph play Beyoncé, Kamala Harris, and more on ‘SNL’

‘We’re so close to the end, let’s ruin it!’: ‘SNL’ mocks spring breakers in Miami amid pandemic

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

Bevin O'Gara and son Henry Michael Dunn.

Bevin O’Gara is named interim artistic director at New Rep

On April Fools’ Day, The Jar will keep it light

Broadway In Boston plans a November return to the Opera House; season opens with ‘Hadestown’

globe local

Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins.

State Ethics Commission clears Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins in alleged road rage incident

Watch live: Governor Baker signs climate legislation

Newton Youth Commission reaches out with mental health campaign

Obituaries

Mr. Buczko served as judge after 16 years as state auditor.

Thaddeus Buczko, former state auditor and judge, dies at 95

Marie Mongan, who popularized hypnobirthing, dies at 86

Howard Schnellenberger, 87, Miami, Louisville coach, dies