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Mass. reports six new COVID-19 deaths, 91 cases, 17,819 vaccinations Saturday

Millions in the state have gotten shots, and experts and public officials say the protection offered by the vaccines is making a difference in the fight against COVID-19.
The latest COVID-19 numbers from Mass.

Local officials say Baker is failing to invest in state’s broken public health system

Champ was photographed on the South Lawn of the White House on March 31.
Bidens announce that their dog, Champ, has passed away
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden said Saturday that Champ, their dog who they've had for 13 years, had died.

Arcane voting maps leave some Boston voters waiting in long lines while others zip through

Even as Boston’s population has swelled and shifted, the city hasn’t overhauled its voting precincts in decades.

TY BURR | MOVIES
Groucho Marx in "Duck Soup."
Life with father — at the movies
Going to the movies with dad is a lasting memory for many people, providing a window into the world and a window into a man. And there is definitely a Dad Movie Hall of Fame.

The Negro League Baseball Museum in Kansas City was founded in 1990 by a group of former players.
Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

Negro League players gain modern-day relevance as their history is revealed

The move was a result of MLB recognizing Negro League players as major leaguers. Tetelo Vargas of the 1943 New York Cubans is now credited with the single-season batting average record of .471.
The 18th green and the clubhouse at The Country Club in Brookline, which will host the 2022 US Open golf tournament.

Next on the tee for the US Open: The Country Club of Brookline

TCC has undergone renovations in preparation for a major championship in the Boston area for the first time in 34 years.
Tina Garabedian and Simon Proulx-Sénécal have been skating partners 2015, training together in Montreal, where they live.
Tara Sullivan

Armenian figure skaters were robbed of competing in Worlds because of a false COVID test. What can be done about it?

Tina Garabedian and Simon Proulx-Sénécal were hoping to represent their country in the 2022 Winter Olympics, but had a chance to compete at the World Championships stolen by a testing error.
Mass. coronavirus at a glance |
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YVONNE ABRAHAM
Lenox Memorial High School graduates wait to process into graduation exercises on the soccer field at the school in Lenox, Mass. on Sunday June 13, 2021.
After a bizarre year, school’s out
Congratulations, kids! You’ve finally made it to the end of this bizarre, terrifying, mystifying, exhausting school year!

Shark sighting temporarily closes water to swimmers at Truro beach

The water at Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro is temporarily closed to swimmers after a great white shark was spotted close to the shore Saturday morning, according to a report on the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app.

MIAA DIVISION 2 SOUTH TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Hingham 06/19/2021: Stoughton's Jordan Emile crosses the finish line and places 1st in the 110 meter hurdles during the MIAA Division 2 track finals at Notre Dame in Hingham. Photo by Debee Tlumacki for the Boston Globe (sports)
Bishop Stang’s Jacob Cookinham makes most of his final shot; Stoughton boys capture team title
The top-rated sophomore in the nation overcame two earlier fouls with a throw of 60 feet, 10 inches to easily clear the competition.

From left: Keon Foy, Dexter Foy, and Jamel Shaheed.
Homeless for five years, All-Scholastic guard Jamel Shaheed earned his diploma from Brighton High and focuses on college basketball
With help, Shaheed received his high school diploma at Fenway Park, and will soon begin college at Keene State.

Staying up too late? Welcome to revenge bedtime procrastination
Behind every episode of revenge bedtime procrastination is a story, and it typically involves a life that’s not quite in balance, a taskmaster (a boss, maybe, or a baby or even yourself), and a yearning for a sweet breath of joy before going to sleep and starting the whole schlep over.

Daniel Kurtrz, 7, and his sister Lauren, 9, look at the bounty of strawberries they picked at Wards Berry Farm in Sharon.
Picking strawberries? Here’s where to go and what to make
The season for good local strawberries doesn’t last long in New England. So what are you waiting for? Find strawberry picking near you.

Opinion

The author and his father, Leonard Nimoy, in 1967.
IDEAS | ADAM NIMOY

I absolutely adored Spock. Loving Dad was much more complicated.

A son of Boston, Leonard Nimoy was also my father.
A sign reading "No circus election" at a rally in Costa Rica by Nicaraguans who are living there and protesting the government back home.
IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

The unreal has become reality in Nicaragua
Young men registering for military conscription, New York City, June 5, 1917.
JEFF JACOBY

Women don’t register for the draft, and men shouldn’t either
Natanael Monroy takes part in a November 2019 protest march by Cosecha Massachusetts. Participants walked from East Boston to Winthrop to build support for the Work and Family Mobility Act.
Larry Fish and Atsuko Fish

Legislature should approve driver’s licenses for undocumented residents
The Harvard College campus in 2013.
EDITORIAL

The Harvard affirmative action case has already been decided

Recommended reads

Connections | Magazine
Titi, a 6-year-old rescue dog, gazes adoringly at the writer’s husband, actor Chris Cooper, in their Massachusetts home.
A father’s soothing ways
The energy that draws our rescue dog to my husband is the same gentleness and patience that surrounded our son when he was alive.

‘We have failed everyone down here’: For Boston’s mayoral rivals, ‘Mass. and Cass’ becomes a campaign issue

The battle against the opioid epidemic at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard in Boston has emerged as a central issue in the mayoral race, with multiple major candidates releasing plans that would dedicate more resources to the area.

‘Unprecedented’ blood shortage forces hospitals to delay or reschedule surgeries

A surge in demand has collided with a slowdown in blood collection — both trends exacerbated by the pandemic and expected to last for weeks or months.
FOOD & TRAVEL

We asked Globe readers about their favorite lobster rolls. They did not disappoint

Turns out people have very strong feelings about hot butter vs. cold mayo, how much they’ll fork over for a good seafood sandwich, and whether dill really needs to be involved. (No.) Read on for more answers.

Baker, at odds with Legislature, looks to spend half of $5b stimulus windfall with a focus on housing

The governor’s announcement marks the latest twist in a tango between the second-term Republican and the Democratic-led Legislature over how to spend the state’s share of the federal cash. The measure would set aside $2.8 billion of federal aid to address a variety of Governor Charlie Baker's key priorities.

metro

During Salem High School’s first Week of Giving, students made posters for Pride Month, which were displayed in the main lobby.

Salem High School seniors celebrate Pride through community service, compassion

Salem High School’s senior class came together at the end of May for a week of giving back to their school and community before graduating.

Boston-area revelers celebrate Juneteenth in its first year as a national holiday

Burlington boil water order lifted

Sports

Red Sox manager Alex Cora has been searching for a suitable leadoff hitter to get on base for (from left) Alex Verdugo, J.D. Martinez, and Xander Bogaerts.
Red Sox notebook

The Red Sox’ best leadoff man remains out of Alex Cora’s reach

The Red Sox have the worst on-base percentage at the leadoff spot (.284) in the major leagues, yet they are third in runs scored.
Baseball notebook

After eye injury, Gio Urshela sees way clear to deliver Yankees a win
NBA Roundup

Once buried in a sordid history, Clippers crashing Western Conference Finals for first time in 51 years

business

A shopper looked at greeting cards at a New Jersey Target store.

E-cards are back, thanks to the pandemic

No Uber, no problem. How to navigate the city when hailing a ride seems impossible

Wormtown Brewery’s ownership steps back amid allegations of workplace misconduct

politics

Champ was photographed on the South Lawn of the White House on March 31.

Bidens announce that their dog, Champ, has passed away

How Republican states are expanding their power over elections

Targeting Biden, Catholic bishops advance controversial communion plan

Living Arts

Groucho Marx in "Duck Soup."
TY BURR | MOVIES

Life with father — at the movies
TRAVEL

Two New England lakes named top destinations by U.S. News & World Report

Taylor Swift surprises fans by announcing that ‘Red’ will be her next re-recorded album

education

At the Otis Elementary School in East Boston, second graders Sky Feliz, left, and her friend, Malak Mariane, held each other as they left school.

Photos: The last day of school in Boston

School this fall will look ‘a lot more like it did before the pandemic,’ Baker says

Where were coronavirus cases reported in Mass. schools during the 2020-21 school year? Check our map

rhode island

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

Disability rights advocates note that Eleanor Slater Hospital review isn’t really independent
THINGS TO DO

What to do in Rhode Island to celebrate Juneteenth 2021
RI POLICING

‘Defund the police’ was a rallying cry after George Floyd’s murder, but police budgets have mostly gone up in R.I.

Newton

Special Projects

EDITORIAL

Future-proofing the presidency

Donald Trump brought our democracy to the brink and exposed its weak spots. Here’s how to thwart the next American tyrant.

On the Street

The MBTA commuter rail overpass frames the mural “The Stories of Lynn” by David Fichter, Yetti Frenkel, and Joshua Winer in Central Square.

North of Boston, an old industrial city gets a second look
A bicyclist made his way across Dorchester Avenue in Fields Corner.

Known for its diversity, Fields Corner now must make room for development

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

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.

Here’s your official summer reading list
These are the 70 best books of the season to pop into your travel bag.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting
Blind Spot
An 11-month Globe investigation found that people nationwide are dying in crashes caused by drivers who should have had their licenses suspended. One in 10 US drivers has at least one offense — from speeding to vehicular homicide — that isn’t reflected on their driving record.

video

Comfort Zone

COMFORT ZONE
18-year-old Brandon Greenstein of Lynnfield, who creates music under the name The BreakBomb Project, is working on his second album.
An EDM whiz kid from Lynnfield cracks a million streams on Spotify
Brandon Greenstein has been creating music under the moniker The BreakBomb Project since he was 15.

DAD'S DAY OUT
Comedian Dave Chappelle is coming to Foxwoods. And what dad with a good sense of humor wouldn't want to go see Dave Chappelle?
Step away from the house and into the fun zone with one of these father-friendly outings
We have some ideas for what to do with dad this Father’s Day.

BOOKS
Boston Book Fest held a Lit Crawl in the Back Bay in 2019.
The Boston Lit Crawl pops up in Central Square
Mingle with poets, writers, and scientists at this roving party in Cambridge.

Podcast
Ibram X. Kendi launches "Be Antiracist" podcast
Ibram Kendi’s new podcast, ‘Be Antiracist,’ encourages listeners to help build a ‘just and equitable society’
"It’s about each of us entering these conversations not only with an open mind but also in openness to transform ourselves."

MURRAY WHYTE
James Turrell's "C.A.V.U." reserves its best show for dawn and dusk.
At twilight, Mass MoCA’s new Skyspace becomes a roller coaster for the eyes
James Turrell's "C.A.V.U." reserves its best show for dawn and dusk.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Paperbark maple (acer griseum) at the Arnold Arboretum.
Renée Loth

Out on a limb — endangered plants and their protectors
House Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina celebrates with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and members of the Congressional Black Caucus on Thursday after passage of the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act.
RENÉE GRAHAM

A Juneteenth holiday is symbolic. Don’t confuse it with racial justice.
Ñ Solwazi Browne-Vargas, 7, of Boston, gives his mother a thumbs-up after Black legislators raised the Juneteenth flag on Wednesday to commemorate Massachusetts' first observation of the holiday.
Jemar Tisby

The unintended consequences of making Juneteenth a national holiday
Terry Miller, No. 4, who is transgender, competes in a high school indoor track meet in New Haven. Conn., on Feb. 22, 2020.
KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

Gorsuch’s words give Biden the edge in defending transgender rights
The author and his father, Leonard Nimoy, in 1967.
IDEAS | ADAM NIMOY

I absolutely adored Spock. Loving Dad was much more complicated.
Roca educator Sutton Bradbury-Koster (right) pauses with program participant Alexis Feliciano outside the organization’s office in Lynn. Roca is using a version of cognitive behavioral therapy to teach young people how to recognize and stop self-destructive behavior.
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

A cure for violence

STAT

Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Transmission electron micrograph of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle (UK B.1.1.7 variant), isolated from a patient sample and cultivated in cell culture. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: NIAID
We know a lot about Covid-19. Experts have many more questions
More than two dozen virologists, epidemiologists, and others responded to STAT's question about what they still most wanted to know.

Boston, MA -- 03/16/21 -- The cover of the summary report of the review hearing for Jospeh Messere, is seen on March 16, 2021, provided by his attorney David Apfel.(Kayana Szymczak for STAT)
Cement Head’s last fight: He was denied parole six times — until he was about to become a Covid-19 statistic
In lawyers' view, the Department of Correction was trying to make it seem like it had fewer Covid-19 deaths on its hands than it really did.

JAMA illo
Troubling podcast puts JAMA, the ‘voice of medicine,’ under fire for its mishandling of race
Critics say editors have asked authors to scrub the term racism from their articles even as they publish others that include racist notions.

SCT illo
Despite resistance, researchers investigate the possibility of a new mental health disorder
Many researchers say the study of sluggish cognitive tempo, which is still in its early stages, can’t yet support a formal diagnosis.

magazine
A child runs across a field at Bug Light Park in South Portland, Maine.
On the cover

Is there something wrong with the air in this Maine town?

Lucio Perez in Springfield, after his years in sanctuary.
Immigration

Lucio Perez found sanctuary in a Mass. church. He'd live there for over 3 years
Allison and Ben on their Zoom blind date.
Dinner with Cupid

"I went through the classic Zoom routine of trying to unmute myself"
Panzanella with fresh mozzarella.
Connections

Recipes: 3 salads that give new life to leftover bread

sports

Jarren Duran has already homered 11 times for Triple-A Worcester this season, more homers than he'd hit in all of 2018 and 2019 combined.

Red Sox star prospect Jarren Duran took his father’s advice, hit the gym, and became a different hitter

Bishop Stang’s Jacob Cookinham makes most of his final shot; Stoughton boys capture team title

Lowell’s Terance Mann scores 39 to drive Clippers’ comeback, eliminate Jazz

metro

In Chinatown, more than 7,000 voters must share a single polling place.

Arcane voting maps leave some Boston voters waiting in long lines while others zip through

Milkha Singh, India’s ‘Flying Sikh’ ace runner, dies at 91

Consuewella Dotson Africa dies; mother of children killed in MOVE bombing

Nation

Flames from the Palisades Fire glowed in the distance in Topanga, northwest of Los Angeles, last month.

‘If you move out here, you make a deal with nature’: Life in a fire-prone canyon

Scenes From Juneteenth: America’s Newest Holiday, 156 Years in the Making

Major damage to Alabama mobile home park amid tropical storm

World

Doses of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine in boxes.

U.S. Sending 2.5 Million Doses of Moderna’s Vaccines to Help Taiwan

Iranian hard-liner Raisi wins presidential vote

Inside the ‘deadly serious’ world of esports in South Korea

politics

Former vice president Mike Pence and his wife Karen wave after he spoke during the Road to Majority convention at Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in Kissimmee, Fla.

Pence heckled during speech at conservative conference in Florida

Biden promotes milestone of 300 million vaccine shots in 150 days

Watch live: President Biden discusses the COVID-19 vaccination campaign

business

Renderings of new redevelopment plans for Quincy. An aerial rendering shows how the planned projects might change the west side of Quincy Center.

Quincy Center development set to accelerate with plans for Hancock Street high-rises

Hiring remains slow in Massachusetts; state added only 9,200 jobs in May

OneUnited to host conference on closing racial wealth gap

lifestyle

What’s the best advice you’ve ever gotten from your dad?

The best advice Dad ever gave

Picking strawberries? Here’s where to go and what to make

Seltzerland, a hard seltzer festival, will bubble up in Massachusetts this July

marijuana

Steven Hoffman, chairman of the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, listens during a meeting of the commission in February 2020.

Massachusetts regulators fine marijuana firm TILT Holdings $275,000 over license scheme

Paul Pierce to launch ‘Truth’ marijuana brand in Massachusetts

Taunton microbusiness makes state’s first-ever recreational marijuana delivery — to founder’s house

opinion

Natanael Monroy takes part in a November 2019 protest march by Cosecha Massachusetts. Participants walked from East Boston to Winthrop to build support for the Work and Family Mobility Act.

Legislature should approve driver’s licenses for undocumented residents

Women don’t register for the draft, and men shouldn’t either

Guardrails for the presidency, after the demolition derby of Trump

food & dining

Daniel Kurtrz, 7, and his sister Lauren, 9, look at the bounty of strawberries they picked at Wards Berry Farm in Sharon.

Picking strawberries? Here’s where to go and what to make

Seltzerland, a hard seltzer festival, will bubble up in Massachusetts this July

Revolution Hall is the food court of the future

travel

Sunset sail on Lake Champlain.

Two New England lakes named top destinations by U.S. News & World Report

10 Boston-area spots to be a kid again

Sheena Collier on feeling changed by Ghana, trying french fries everywhere, and giving in to relaxation

Books

Local histories, rewritten

Poet Michael Robbins on reading while walking

Writerly delusions in ‘Dream Girl’

Movies

Groucho Marx in "Duck Soup."

Life with father — at the movies

In ‘The Sparks Brothers,’ meet the best British band ever to come out of America

Hollywood past, Hanover present

Television

Netflix reportedly paid more than $500 million for the international rights to all 180 episodes of "Seinfeld." Pictured: Castmates Michael Richards, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jerry Seinfeld, and Jason Alexander in 1997.

Old series’ staying power can be seen on streaming services

TV’s newest heroines are a reply to all the Kevins who can [expletive] themselves

A family on the brink: this is ‘Us’ on ‘Masterpiece’

music

Taylor Swift shocked fans Friday when she announced her next re-recorded album would be "Red," her 2012 foray into pop music.

Taylor Swift surprises fans by announcing that ‘Red’ will be her next re-recorded album

Mark Volpe looks back at 23 years of running the BSO

Dorchester Art Project’s spin on Tiny Desk amplifies big voices

Theater/Dance

Katori Hall, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for drama for "The Hot Wing King," is also the showrunner for the Starz TV series "P-Valley."

Black women playwrights claim a leading role

The Boston Center for the Arts returns with live dance performances

In ‘Tiny Beautiful Things,’ hard-earned words of wisdom

globe local

A poster memorializing K-9 Kitt was placed at the entrance to the Braintree Police Department.

Memorial service for fallen Braintree K-9 to be held at Gillette Stadium

A fathers’ group forms to share life with an autistic child

In Concord, a museum preserves signs of the times

Obituaries

In this June 20, 1961, file photo, Milkha Singh started the 400 meters in the Janusz Kusocinski Memorial Track and Field Meeting in Warsaw.

Milkha Singh, India’s ‘Flying Sikh’ ace runner, dies at 91

Consuewella Dotson Africa dies; mother of children killed in MOVE bombing

Audrey Cooper, who ‘represented the best of Newton,’ dies at 97