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Tailgaters partied outside of Joe MacDonald’s storage unit at Guardian Self Storage in Foxborough.

The best tailgating at Gillette? It’s a half a mile away, at a self-storage facility.

On home-game days, Guardian Self Storage turns into a tailgating hotbed.

Patriots quarterback Mac Jones is ruled out for Sunday’s game vs. Packers Patriots’ attempt at a guessing game on starting QB was uncalled for, and other thoughts

Hurricane Ian

Ian lashes South Carolina as Florida’s death toll climbs
The powerful storm terrorized millions of people for most of the week, battering western Cuba before raking across Florida from the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean, where it mustered enough strength for a final assault on South Carolina.

A pedestrian walked through the rain in Boston earlier this month.

New England will have unsettled weekend weather thanks to Ian

It’s our first weekend in October and the weather is going to feel a bit different around here.

People walk on a flooded street at a trailer park following Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers, Florida, US, on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022.

For once, the hurricane shark was real

To professional fact-checkers who sort fact from fable on social media, Hurricane Shark has been a longtime nemesis.

Plymouth woman charged with stealing $200,000 from Scituate restaurant where she worked

Maureen M. Graham, 55, was indicted Friday by a Plymouth County grand jury on four counts of grand larceny over $1,200, two counts of forgery, and three counts of tax evasion, according to a statement from the Plymouth district attorney’s office.

New nasal spray vaccines might reduce COVID infections, but the money is still missing

New nasal spray vaccines might reduce COVID infections and cut off transmission, but data supporting the approach, and funding for clinical trials, is scant.

One Mass. county has high community COVID-19 level, 10 have medium levels, CDC reports

Biden calls on world to punish Russia for attempt to annex Ukrainian land
Hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a speech asserting Russian control over four eastern Ukrainian regions, President Biden called the action a “fraudulent” violation of international law.

Children’s winter viruses strike early, filling ICUs

Brie, Camembert cheeses recalled after listeria cases in multiple states, including Massachusetts

Rock climber injured after falling from cliff in New Hampshire

Alex Verdugo, shown earlier this season, is hitting .283 and approaching 40 doubles, but he hasn't enjoyed the postseason success that Mookie Betts has with the Dodgers since they were traded for each other in 2020.

Alex Verdugo feeling blue as Dodgers race toward postseason and Red Sox blanked by Blue Jays

Alex Verdugo has been a useful player for the Red Sox, but after another deflating AL East loss, it's hard not to look to Los Angeles for what could have been.

Luke Holden (left), a lobster supplier and businessman, provides a key ingredient to Amber Boutiette and Patrick Breeding for their skin cream.

Lotion made from lobster goo? Oft-discarded byproduct fuels business dreams of Maine couple.

Marin Skincare is among the latest ventures to emerge from a scrappy, Maine startup culture that prizes innovation, sustainability, and less waste.

North Atlantic right whale “Snow Cone” spotted south of Nantucket on Sept. 21, 2022. (taken under NOAA permit #25739)

Snow Cone, the North Atlantic right whale, seen suffering from yet another severe entanglement

A research assistant who was recently flying 15 miles south of Nantucket with the New England Aquarium’s aerial survey team spotted the North Atlantic right whale known as Snow Cone and concluded: she’s a dead whale swimming.

Opinion

Superintendent of Boston Public Schools Mary Skipper spoke to reporters at Trotter Elementary School in Dorchester on Sept. 26, 2022.

The latest Mission Hill report is an early test for Boston’s new schools superintendent

The BPS chief said she wants to rebuild trust in Boston’s schools. That starts with accountability.

MARCELA GARCÍA

The other country building a border wall

Emerson Clauss III

The state can ease its housing problem by building more starter homes

There’s already a blueprint for helping migrants. Let’s invest in it.

A good start to fixing the off-the-rails MBTA pension system

Black Progress Index | Donna M. Owens

Entrepreneur who charted her own Great Migration finds purpose, place in Florida
Carol Thompson-Finn has thrived in Collier County, a locale identified by the Black Progress Index as a top county for Black well-being, and and whose Black community boasts a long, rich history.

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150 years of The Boston Globe

Scenes from a century and a half, as covered by the Boston Globe.

Spotlight investigation

Part 1

A celebrated surgeon, a trail of secrets and death
Dr. Yvon Baribeau set a record for malpractice settlements, and many colleagues tried desperately to stop him. But hospital executives let him go on and on.

Timeline: What the public didn't know about Dr. Yvon Baribeau Video: What the Spotlight Team’s investigation discovered about Dr. Baribeau N.H. hospital promises review after revelations about doctor with 21 malpractice settlements

Dr. Yvon Baribeau

A crisis of conscience, with lives on the line

Alarmed doctors at Manchester's Catholic Medical Center tried to get a troubled colleague barred from surgery. But hospital leaders resisted. Then came the "summer of death."

More recent stories

Celtics

In signing veteran Blake Griffin, Celtics hope they’ve found the depth they need
Griffin is not the player he once was, but without Robert Williams (out 2-3 months), someone will need to relieve 36-year-old Al Horford.

Tesla robot walks, waves, but doesn’t show off complex tasks
The basic tasks by the robot with exposed wires and electronics were a long way from CEO Elon Musk's vision of a human-like robot.

On abortion, intimidation is in the eye of the beholder
Conservatives want a 1994 law protecting reproductive health care providers to protect antiabortion pregnancy centers too.

Price of Cambridge biotech’s new ALS drug criticized by watchdog group
It says the $158,000 annual cost per patient isn’t justified, based on the medicine’s effectiveness.

‘Cheers’ fans clink glasses on 40th anniversary of the TV show’s premiere
Although Sam, Diane, Carla, Norm, and Cliff weren’t there, “Cheers” fans from all over the world made toasts at the Boston pub of the same name on Friday, the 40th anniversary of the sitcom's premiere.

A cancer survivor walks to keep her friend’s memory alive
"Together we’ll be the greatest team there’s ever been."

Recommended reads

Ivanka Trump, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 10, 2018. Trump considered firing Kushner and his daughter Ivanka via tweet, according to a forthcoming book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman.

Book excerpts: The Trump era

Trump wanted to fire Jared and Ivanka by tweet, assumed staffers of color were waiters, Haberman book says

Snippets from several new books about the Trump administration provide an inside look at explosive encounters between members of Trump’s Cabinet and White House officials on a variety of topics.

Deeply divided, can Boston’s city councilors repair relations?
A highly charged August meeting laid bare what has become a raw rift that had been months in the making.

‘It was disgusting’: There’s a cellphone junkyard at the bottom of the Charles River
When an Andover man dropped his smartphone in the Charles River, he dove in after it and found 11 more. None were his.

Retired clarinetist donates $100 million to rename Boston University’s medical school after his friend
Retired clarinetist and philanthropist Edward Avedisian's friend refused to have his name on the school alone, and the two men reached a compromise in honoring both.

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Culture & Lifestyle

An image from the title sequence of "Severance."

12 great TV show title sequences that stand out

The MIT Museum will open its new 56,000-square-foot, purpose-built home to the public on Oct. 2.

New MIT Museum glimpses the future and examines school’s past

An Airbnb rental in Danvers looks like the witches' cottage in "Hocus Pocus"

To celebrate ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ release, book a stay at ‘The Hocus Pocus Cottage’ in Danvers

The Topsfield Fair runs from Sept. 30-Oct. 10.

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

Special Projects

Back to Boston

Welcome Back to Boston

Consider this our love letter to the city, a celebration of all it has to offer visitors and locals alike.

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2022

A guide to 36 Greater Boston communities where demand — and prices — are surging.

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

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

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

An e-bike, seen in Key Biscayne, Fla., in 2021.

IDEAS | ROBIN CHASE

The joyful and planet-friendly mobility of e-bikes

President Richard Nixon bowls with the winners of the Seventh World International Bowling Federation Tournament in the Executive Office Building bowling alley on Sept. 17, 1971.

Robert D. Putnam and Terry Babcock-Lumish

The White House bowling alley is a symbol of what’s wrong with US politics

Mayor Wu's staffing changes to the Zoning Board of Appeals doesn’t solve the larger issues that she was so intent on solving — providing diversity of professional backgrounds and skills without leaving board members open to charges of insider dealing or even intentional insider obstructionism.

Wu cleans house at zoning board

The author, her husband, and their four foster children enter the Edmund D. Edelman Children's Court in Monterey Park, Calif., for their adoption finalization hearing.

IDEAS | GEORGENE SMITH GOODIN

I love my children enough to wish I had never met them

Protesters shout slogans as they hold photos of Iranian Mahsa Amini during a protest outside the Iranian Embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus on Sept. 27. pm, T

Tara D. Sonenshine

The women of Iran need the world to protest with them

Four girls at an athletic field in Roxbury, at a recreational sporting event sponsored by La Alianza Hispana.

IDEAS | OMAR VEGA

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

Metro

New nasal spray vaccines might reduce COVID infections, but the money is still missing

New nasal spray vaccines might reduce COVID infections and cut off transmission, but data supporting the approach, and funding for clinical trials, is scant.

Record-breaking pumpkin takes top prize at Topsfield Fair

The pumpkin entered by Tyngsborough’s Jamie Graham weighed in at 2,480 pounds. That number, according to fair spokesman Dave Thompson, cleared the fair’s previous record of 2,294.5 pounds, set by Alex Noel of Abington, Conn., in 2019.

Children’s winter viruses strike early, filling ICUs

Immunity to common viruses may have decreased during the pandemic.

On abortion, intimidation is in the eye of the beholder

Conservatives want a 1994 law protecting reproductive health care providers to protect antiabortion pregnancy centers too.

Sports

Luis Torrens and the Mariners assured themselves of a wild-card berth on Friday night, becoming the last of six teams to earn a spot in the American League playoffs.

Watch: Mariners end two-decade playoff drought with walk-off homer

Cal Raleigh, pinch-hitting for Luis Torrens, hit a 3-2 pitch just inside the right-field foul pole at T-Mobile Park, sending the home fans into delirium and cementing the sextet of teams in the American League playoffs.

Anaheim teammates huddled around former Bruins defenseman Urho Vaakanainen after crashed into the end boards Friday night.

Former Bruins defenseman Urho Vaakanainen leaves ice on stretcher after scary crash into boards

The Finnish defenseman, traded to Anaheim last March for Hampus Lindholm, was conscious and alert with full movement in his extremities, the Ducks said.

Milton's Luke Sammon (center) celebrates with teammates Michael Fulton (right) and Dillon Mackenzie (left) after hauling in a 40-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Owen McHugh to give the Wildcats a 7-0 lead in the second quarter of Friday night's 28-14 victory over Walpole at Brooks Field.

HS FOOTBALL | MILTON 28, WALPOLE 14

No. 16 Milton remains unbeaten with an emotional win for its grieving coach over No. 17 Walpole

After his 83-year-old father, Henry, passed away from cancer on Sunday, Milton High coach Steve Dembowski found some sanctuary on the sideline as he presided over the Wildcats' 28-14 home victory over Walpole.

HS Football | Shawsheen 20, Greater Lawrence 14

Shawsheen delivers Al Costabile his 200th coaching win in victory at Greater Lawrence

BLUE JAYS 9, RED SOX 0

Alex Verdugo feeling blue as Dodgers race toward postseason and Red Sox blanked by Blue Jays

It’s official: Revolution eliminated from MLS playoff chase

Business

Tesla robot walks, waves, but doesn’t show off complex tasks

The basic tasks by the robot with exposed wires and electronics were a long way from CEO Elon Musk's vision of a human-like robot.

New nasal spray vaccines might reduce COVID infections, but the money is still missing

New nasal spray vaccines might reduce COVID infections and cut off transmission, but data supporting the approach, and funding for clinical trials, is scant.

‘Cheers’ fans clink glasses on 40th anniversary of the TV show’s premiere

Stocks end September down 9.3 percent, worst month since March 2020

magazine

From left: Grade 9 students Dehlen Rabb, Marlon Benjamin, and Jose Jimenez.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

‘The Mary Lyon way’: A Boston inclusion school’s successful approach to re-engagement

Schools should teach the forgotten history of the Pledge of Allegiance

Why it’s time to stop leaving voice mail messages

The writer’s baby sitter, Miss Anderson, in 1957.

My baby sitter sent me into the woods to look for butterflies

metro

Luke Holden (left), a lobster supplier and businessman, provides a key ingredient to Amber Boutiette and Patrick Breeding for their skin cream.

Lotion made from lobster goo? Oft-discarded byproduct fuels business dreams of Maine couple.

The best tailgating at Gillette? It’s a half a mile away, at a self-storage facility.

In Puerto Rico, Central Falls mayor and Elisha Project co-founder bring aid and comfort

sports

Wakefield quarterback Javin Willis (11) celebrates his touchdown pass to Steven Woish (8) in Friday night's 28-6 home victory against Stoneham. It was one of four TD passes Willis had on the night, and one of two to Woish.

Javin Willis (4 TD passes) delivers for Wakefield in a Middlesex League win over Stoneham

Patriots-Packers game won’t be a mismatch, but it sure looks like one on paper

“Grateful” Garrett is questionable to play for the Browns just days after flipping his Porsche

business

The proposed changes have sent jitters through the real estate development industry, with some wondering about the kind of impact further electrifying commercial and residential real estate would have on the state’s power grid.

Boston’s net-zero emissions zoning code raises concerns among developers

Could an Olmstead plan solve part of R.I.’s homeless problem?

US outlines plan for long-term baby formula imports

politics

A sign in the parking lot of West Virginia's only abortion clinic, Women's Health Center of West Virginia, cautions patients about an antiabortion center located next door in Charleston, W.Va. The abortion clinic put up a row of trees in their parking lot blocking the view of Woman's Choice Pregnancy Resource Center, which has been located next to the abortion clinic for years. (AP Photo/Leah M. Willingham)

On abortion, intimidation is in the eye of the beholder

US hits Russia with sanctions for annexing Ukrainian regions

House approves bill to avert government shutdown, aid Ukraine, sending it to Biden to sign

Nation

Debris from destroyed buildings lies amidst damaged homes, two days after the passage of Hurricane Ian, in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., on Sept. 30.

Ian lashes South Carolina as Florida’s death toll climbs

New nasal spray vaccines might reduce COVID infections, but the money is still missing

Dozens dead from Ian, one of strongest, costliest US storms

World

Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin during a ceremony to sign the treaties for four regions of Ukraine to join Russia, in Moscow, on Sept. 30.

Russia accused of ‘kidnapping’ head of Ukraine nuclear plant

Biden calls on world to punish Russia for attempt to annex Ukrainian land

At least 19 killed, mostly girls, in attack on Afghan education center

opinion

Football practice is held on the Charlestown High School turf field with the Tobin Bridge in the background.

Playing fields are straining under the weight of so much use

It’s a moment to praise Mitch McConnell

The joyful and planet-friendly mobility of e-bikes

lifestyle

Derrick Young Jr., cofounder and executive director of Leadership Brainery, photographed at the Boston Public Library as part of "Portraits of Pride." The public art exhibit featuring LGBTQ+ community leaders photographed by Manchester-based John Huet will be on display through October for LGBT History Month.

‘Portraits of Pride’ celebrates truth and love for LGBT History Month with new public art exhibition

I can’t date someone who is average looking

For many women, getting a mammogram is a mental health trigger

food & dining

Kevin and Kathy Statia, of Ontario, Canada, take a photo in front of the Cheers sign on Friday, the 40th anniversary of the TV show's premiere.

‘Cheers’ fans clink glasses on 40th anniversary of the TV show’s premiere

Ballard’s Beach Resort ordered to remove canopies, tiki bar, stage, other structures by CRMC

It’s National Coffee Day. Here’s where you can find the deals.

travel

A couple walks along Menemsha Public Beach in Chilmark on Sept. 23, 2022.

A fondness for shoulder season

Keep that summer vibe going: 10 reasons to head to Martha’s Vineyard now

Where to find a workspace when you’re on vacation in the Berkshires

Arts

John Thomson, "Curio Shop," 1868–1872

When the camera has an imperial power

At Wellesley’s Davis Museum, a colonial misappropriation gets a 21st-century makeover

Sofía Córdova eyes the other side of apocalypse

Books

A brief era of brutality and change in ‘American Midnight’

Linda Ronstadt can’t stand ‘boring writing’

On the shimmering border between truth and fiction

Movies

Luke Macfarlane (left) and Billy Eichner in a scene from "Bros."

When Bobby met Aaron: ‘Bros’ is a meet cute that hits the mark

‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’: It’s a strange brew

In new Sinead O’Connor documentary, no one compares 2 her

Television

Kevin and Kathy Statia, of Ontario, Canada, take a photo in front of the Cheers sign on Friday, the 40th anniversary of the TV show's premiere.

‘Cheers’ fans clink glasses on 40th anniversary of the TV show’s premiere

Untitled upcoming NBC show has local ties

12 great TV show title sequences that stand out

music

Death Cab For Cutie plays the Leader Bank Pavilion Saturday.

Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard is feeling anxious for all of us

Wang joins BSO to tackle (and record) Shostakovich piano concertos

A new hall of fame at the Wang brings Boston’s musical history into view

Theater/Dance

Maria Hendricks rehearses a scene from "Dracula: A feminist revenge fantasy, really" at Umbrella Stage Company in Concord. Hendricks plays Dr. Van Helsing.

A feminist take on ‘Dracula’ that bites back

Steve Sweeney opens a cozy comedy club in Quincy

With a few clanks, ‘Ada and the Engine’ offers an eye-opening ride through computer history

globe local

Cyclists from the Charles River Wheelers along the Battle Road Trail in Lincoln. The group is among many taking their bikes off the road and onto gravel paths as a safer alternative to street riding.

The asphalt exodus: Bicyclists and runners turn to gravel trails as a safer way to ride and run

The Argument: Should Massachusetts impose an additional tax on income above $1 million?

Discovering there’s no quit on the volleyball court

Obituaries

Coolio attended the 2015 ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Awards in Beverly Hills.

Coolio, ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ rapper, dies at 59

Hilaree Nelson, 49, top ski mountaineer, is dead in Nepal avalanche

Bill Plante, CBS News correspondent for a half-century, dies at 84