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An environmental group wants to make Harvard allow public access to its boathouse docks. The university is pushing back.

The Charles River Watershed Association says the university's exclusive use of two swaths of waterfront property needs to come to an end.

‘Person of interest’ in slaying of N.H. couple was investigated in fatal stabbing four years ago

Logan L. Clegg, described by police as a “highly dangerous” transient with no local ties, claimed self-defense in the Spokane, Wash., death and wasn’t prosecuted.

Brookline police chief fired after investigation into sexual harassment allegations

Ashley Gonzalez, the chief of the Brookline Police Department, was fired Friday by a unanimous vote of the town’s select board following an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment.

Chris DiPaola, owner of WBLQ and the ‘voice of Westerly,’ dies at 49
Radio station owner remembered as a “guy who gave his whole heart to his community and his family.” DiPaola had been seeking a lease extension from the town for the station’s AM tower.

Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker.

Walker barrels into Georgia debate and meets a controlled Warnock

boston marathon

2021 Boston Marathon champion Diana Kipyokei is provisionally stripped of title for doping

Senator Elizabeth Warren hosted a Senate hearing at the JFK building on T Safety and Leadership Failures on Friday.

Warren, Markey put MBTA officials in hot seat over safety incidents

The senators questioned the leaders of the transit agency and its regulator in an aggressive style typically seen during congressional examinations of Wall Street titans and chief executives of technology companies.

The shutdown was supposed to make the Orange Line faster. It’s slower, data show. Tell us about your recent travels on the Orange Line

$1.2 billion Channelside development approved for Fort Point neighborhood
The project would bring housing, a lab building, and office space to what’s now parking lots on the banks of the downtown waterway.

COMMENTARY

Soup, ‘Sunflowers,’ and a sad stunt
‘Simple-minded public theater serves no one,’ writes the Globe’s art critic, after Van Gogh's famous painting was targeted by climate protesters.

Bill Belichick's fashion statement en route to Super Bowl LII was a tip of the hat to a couple of iconic NFL coaches and his father.

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Bill Belichick has some historic NFL ties (and hats), and other thoughts

The NFL coaches Belichick admires most are the legendary Paul Brown and George Halas, and he crossed paths with both.

Patriots upgrade Mac Jones to questionable for Sunday’s game Browns QB Jacoby Brissett, a former Patriot, has come full circle to face his old team

The Natick Mall time capsule was opened 28 years later on Wednesday.

‘Friends’ merch, VHS tapes, lots of big hair. Natick Mall time capsule from 1994 reveals quirky throwbacks.

A Natick Mall time capsule sealed in 1994 was reopened earlier this week, revealing a raft of mementos that defined local and pop culture at the time, along with hundreds of letters and essays speculating on what life would be like in 2022.

Fall colors frame a red barn near Brookline, N.H.

Photos: New England in Autumn

Globe staff photographers captured the splendor of the changing leaves in Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.

Watch: Drone operators capture stunning scenes of New England fall foliage from above Where to go apple picking in Massachusetts 🍎 Six perfect New England towns for a fall getaway

Opinion

Give Beacon Hill time to rework tax refund law, Governor Baker

Unless lawmakers revise the 1986 law, the biggest beneficiaries of Massachusetts’ tax refunds will be the state’s wealthiest households — while the poorest residents stand to get nothing.

Assault on American democracy

The Jan. 6 panel throws a gauntlet at Trump’s feet

MARCELA GARCÍA

Media and tech companies still aren’t doing enough to police non-English language misinformation

With threats of nuclear weapons and warnings of ‘Armageddon,’ lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis

Joanna Schroeder

The Emancipator

A letter to my White sons

Joanna Schroeder on the talk she has with her White sons breaking down the red flags of White nationalism.

Museums in Focus

"Greetings From Boston, Massachusetts," postcard, c. 1940. Tichnor Brothers Collection.

From maps to manuscripts to matchcovers, 12 highlights from the BPL

A look at what’s inside the Boston Public Library’s Special Collections Department and available online.

Clockwise left to right: Horace D. Ballard, associate curator of American art at the Harvard Art Museums; Stephanie Hueon Tung, curator of photography at the Peabody Essex Museum; Jami Powell, curator of Indigenous art at the Hood Museum of Art; and Michael J. Bramwell, curator of folk and self-taught art at the MFA.

4 Boston museum curators who are shaping what we see next, and how we see it

From the MFA to the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth, museums are looking at their collections through new eyes.

John Durant is director of the MIT Museum, which has moved into new quarters in Kendall Square.

Welcome to the MIT Museum’s ‘spiffy’ new digs in Kendall Square

The museum’s director, John Durant, talks about the new location and what makes the institution such a special place.

Candice Lin, "Memory (Study #2)," 2016, detail.

10 must-see museum shows from Mass. to Maine

Critic Murray Whyte highlights the exhibitions you should see across New England.

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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.

Catholic Medical Center trustees hire firm to investigate its operations after Globe Spotlight investigation New Hampshire keeps patients in the dark about their doctors’ malpractice, disciplinary records Timeline: What the public didn't know about Dr. Yvon Baribeau

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

Rams in ‘uncharted territory’ as Cam Akers departs defending Super Bowl champions
Running back is not injured and practiced Wednesday, but not since, leaving coach Sean McVay short at the position going into Sunday's game against the Panthers.

Actor Robbie Coltrane, who played Hagrid in the ‘Harry Potter’ movies, has died
Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane, who played a crime-solving psychologist on TV series “Cracker” and the half-giant Hagrid in the “Harry Potter” movies, has died.

Stellar weekend on tap with rain’s departure
Fall activities and brilliant foliage will be accompanied by lovely seasonal temperatures.

Death toll rises to 40 in Turkey coal mine explosion
The death toll from a coal mine explosion in northern Turkey rose to at least 40 people Saturday, officials said.

Observations from a lively exhibition finale in Montreal, which ends with Jayson Tatum ejected and Celtics beaten in overtime
Before a boisterous crowd of nearly 22,000 in Montreal's Bell Centre, defense was largely optional and the teams played down to the wire.

Millionaires’ tax debate pivots on who, exactly, would end up paying new levy
At the dispute’s center is the prospect of many so-called one-time millionaires — the small business owner or retiree finally selling their company or home — suddenly eating a higher tax bill, all because of a measure being touted as a way to make our tax system fairer.

Early voting in Massachusetts: What you need to know

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Leaders of Massachusetts business groups are increasingly sounding the alarm about the state's economic competitiveness.

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS

Is Massachusetts losing its competitive edge? Business groups say they’re worried.

Business groups warn housing costs, the rise of remote work, and tax policy could harm the Massachusetts economy.

Catholic Medical Center trustees hire a firm to investigate its operations after Globe Spotlight investigation
Facing criticism from patient families, their own medical staff, and state legislators in the wake of the stories about Dr. Yvon Baribeau, CMC’s trustees announced on Thursday that Horty, Springer & Mattern would conduct an “independent, external review.”

‘The system is strained’: Greater Boston’s support networks struggle to keep up as thousands of migrants surge into the area
The new migrants, by and large, have come to the state after crossing the border in Texas and then bouncing between detention centers, shelters run by nonprofits, or friends’ living rooms throughout the country.

Can’t poop when you go on vacation? Here’s why.
We asked an expert to explain what’s happening — and not happening — and what we can do about it.

Quebec City’s got an excrement exhibition, and there’s a lot to digest

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Culture & Lifestyle

Author Veronica Roth and the cover image of her new book “Poster Girl”.

Veronica Roth on her new dystopian mystery novel, ‘Poster Girl’

A scene from Tom Stoppard's "Leopoldstadt."

Dramas call the tune on Broadway: A quartet of must-see productions kicks fall season into gear

Tenderoni's pizzas.

Tiffani Faison will open Tenderoni’s in the Fenway, replacing Tiger Mama

Cate Blanchett in "Tár."

‘TÁR’: Cate Blanchett delivers powerhouse performance as world-renowned conductor with dark past — and present

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

IDEAS | ABDALLAH FAYYAD

How the language of social justice is used to protect the status quo

Swedish scientist Svante Pääbo posed with a replica of a Neanderthal skeleton at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany,, Oct. 3. Pääbo was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries on human evolution.

Bina Venkataraman

The unexpected beauty of studying Neanderthals

A demonstrator waved a flag during a rally for the legalization of marijuana outside of the White House in 2016. President Biden is pardoning thousands of Americans convicted of “simple possession” of marijuana under federal law, as his administration takes a dramatic step toward decriminalizing the drug and addressing charging practices that disproportionately impact people of color.

Pardons for pot offenders? Groovy. But Biden needs to do more to bring marijuana out of the shadows.

Democratic Governor Janet Mills participates in a gubernatorial debate Oct. 4 at the Franco Center in Lewiston, Maine. Mills is being challenged by Republican Paul LePage and independent Sam Hunkler.

Janet Mills has shown Maine what a serious governor can do

Boston, MA - 10/12/2022: Members of the Boston Police Department investigate the scene in Franklin Park where 91-year-old Jean McGuire was stabbed while walking her dog the previous night in Boston, MA, October 12, 2022. McGuire, the longtime leader of the Metco program and the first woman of color to be elected to the Boston School Committee, is recovering Wednesday after being attacked and stabbed multiple times while walking her dog in the park on Tuesday night, officials said.

A painful day for Boston

A Democratic nominee for Congress, Joseph Alfonso, knocks on doors around downtown Plainwell, Mich.

IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

‘What the hell are we doing?’: Democrats are letting beatable election-denying Republicans cruise to reelection

Metro

‘Person of interest’ in slaying of N.H. couple was investigated in fatal stabbing four years ago

Logan L. Clegg, described by police as a “highly dangerous” transient with no local ties, claimed self-defense in the Spokane, Wash., death and wasn’t prosecuted.

Warren, Markey put MBTA officials in hot seat over safety incidents

The senators questioned the leaders of the transit agency and its regulator in an aggressive style typically seen during congressional examinations of Wall Street titans and chief executives of technology companies.

Which Mass. governor candidate will ‘protect a woman’s freedom?’

In their first televised debate in the race for governor, Attorney General Maura Healey went right after Republican legislator Geoff Diehl on abortion.

Chris DiPaola, owner of WBLQ and the ‘voice of Westerly,’ dies at 49

Radio station owner remembered as a “guy who gave his whole heart to his community and his family.” DiPaola had been seeking a lease extension from the town for the station’s AM tower.

Sports

Trent Grisham rips a solo homer in the fourth inning, what proved to be the deciding run of Game 3.

NLDS: Padres 2, Dodgers 1

Blake Snell, Trent Grisham lead Padres over Dodgers to take 2-1 NLDS lead

San Diego can clinch its first trip to the NL Championship Series since 1998 with a win on Saturday night.

Jayson Tatum tries to drive by Toronto's O.G. Anunoby during Friday's exhibition finale in Montreal. Tatum played just 29 minutes in the game, ejected for a second technical late in the third quarter.

RAPTORS 137, CELTICS 134 (OT)

Observations from a lively exhibition finale in Montreal, which ends with Jayson Tatum ejected and Celtics beaten in overtime

Before a boisterous crowd of nearly 22,000 in Montreal's Bell Centre, defense was largely optional and the teams played down to the wire.

The King Philip defense was fierce Friday night forcing a fumble from Milford quarterback Evan Cornelius (13) in the Hockomock League matchup.

HS FOOTBALL | KING PHILIP 19, MILFORD 7

With grit and a powerful finish, No. 2 King Philip makes its point in Hockomock win at No. 5 Milford

King Philip coach Brian Lee: “It felt like KP football tonight. That’s what I told the boys. Look, we don’t win pretty. The uglier the game can be, it behooves us.”

HS FOOTBALL | AMESBURY 30, NORTH READING 27

With one pass, Amesbury topples Cape Ann rival North Reading to extend unbeaten run

Bruins notebook

Trent Frederic swaps in for injured Jake DeBrusk for Bruins

HS CROSS-COUNTRY NOTEBOOK

Cross-country: Talented junior Madelyn Germain setting the standard — and the pace — for the Norfolk Aggie girls’ team

Business

Head of zero-emission truck venture found guilty of fraud

At trial, the government had portrayed Milton as a con man while his lawyer called him an inspiring visionary who was being railroaded by overzealous prosecutors.

Supermarket giants Kroger and Albertsons announce plan to merge

The deal would unite the country’s two largest supermarket chains, which have been forced by rising costs and competition from Walmart and Amazon to choose between cutting into their profit or their customers’ wallets.

‘Friends’ merch, VHS tapes, lots of big hair. Natick Mall time capsule from 1994 reveals quirky throwbacks.

$1.2 billion Channelside development approved for Fort Point neighborhood

magazine

Forget Wordle. Here are 5 secrets to living better, longer.

I picked up the guitar later in life. Here’s what I learned about its effects on the brain.

This week's daters: Jack and Brandon

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘After absolutely destroying an Oreo McFlurry, I felt much better’

Spicy Korean-Style Fish Stew

Recipes: Three stews to warm you as the weather gets cooler

metro

A puddle from heavy morning rain formed on City Hall Plaza.

Stellar weekend on tap with rain’s departure

Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology praised as a model for inclusive, innovative science programs

Jury finds R.I. corrections officer guilty of having sex with 2 female inmates

sports

Wild-card homer hero Oscar Gonzalez was at it again in New York, this time bringing home the go-ahead run with a bloop single to right field.

Guardians give extra effort to produce a win against the Yankees that ties their AL Division Series

At the bye week, here are five telling statistics about Boston College football

Rams in ‘uncharted territory’ as Cam Akers departs defending Super Bowl champions

business

Dolly Parton performs at Austin City Limits Live during Blockchain Creative Labs' Dollyverse event during the South by Southwest Music Festival on Friday, March 18, 2022, in Austin, Texas.

Dolly Parton donation strategy: ‘I just give from my heart’

Kroger seeks to create grocery giant in $20b bid for Albertsons, parent company of Shaw’s and Star Market

National Grid, Woburn startup team up to develop new power lines that carry more electricity

politics

Senator Elizabeth Warren hosted a Senate hearing at the JFK building on T Safety and Leadership Failures on Friday.

Warren, Markey put MBTA officials in hot seat over safety incidents

Justice Department seeks end to arbiter’s review of Trump docs

Jan. 6 panel votes to subpoena Trump as it wraps up its case

Nation

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game said that it had canceled the winter snow crab season in the Bering Sea for the first time because of a decline in the crab population.

Alaska cancels snow crab season amid population decline

Walker barrels into Georgia debate and meets a controlled Warnock

Teenager kills 2 in Raleigh, N.C., neighborhood, 3 more along walking trail, police say

World

Ambulances and firefighters arrive at the site of an explosion that occurred at a coal mine in Bartin, northern Turkey, on Oct. 14.

Death toll rises to 40 in Turkey coal mine explosion

N. Korea fires missile, artillery shells, inflaming tensions

UK government reverses course on fiscal plan that rattled markets

opinion

How the language of social justice is used to protect the status quo

Fueling the war machine

Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor aren’t letting the Supreme Court go down without a fight

lifestyle

Author Veronica Roth and the cover image of her new book “Poster Girl”.

Veronica Roth on her new dystopian mystery novel, ‘Poster Girl’

Is it the right time to tell my friend I have feelings for her?

10 family-friendly Halloween activities

food & dining

Tenderoni's pizzas.

Tiffani Faison will open Tenderoni’s in the Fenway, replacing Tiger Mama

Little Whale Oyster Bar takes over for Grand Tour

Iggy’s Bread will open a croissant-only cafe in Huron Village; a mini-golf restaurant comes to the Seaport

travel

Kimpton Marlowe Hotel has partnered with Link, The Smart Pet Wearable with real-time GPS tracking capability that you can use during your stay.

A pet package in Cambridge, Halloween events, and a super-luxe Galapagos sail

The Peloponnese peninsula is Greece’s best-kept secret

American Airlines cancels flight and charges an extra $1,147

Arts

A photo issued by Just Stop Oil of two protesters who have thrown soup at Vincent Van Gogh's famous 1888 work "Sunflowers" at the National Gallery in London, Friday, Oct. 14, 2022. The group Just Stop Oil, which wants the British government to halt new oil and gas projects, said activists dumped two cans of Heinz tomato soup over the oil painting on Friday. London’s Metropolitan Police said officers arrested two people on suspicion of criminal damage and aggravated trespass.

Soup, ‘Sunflowers,’ and a sad stunt

4 museum curators around Boston who are shaping what we see next, and how we see it

MFA’s Victoria Reed is a leading voice in debate over looted artworks — and what to do with them

Books

Mountains of the damned

On making — and keeping — reading a daily habit

New stories by a modern master

Movies

Robbie Coltrane arrived in Trafalgar Square, central London, for the world premiere of "Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2," the last film in the series, in July 2011.

Actor Robbie Coltrane, who played Hagrid in the ‘Harry Potter’ movies, has died

‘TÁR’: Cate Blanchett delivers powerhouse performance as world-renowned conductor with dark past — and present

Director Mat Whitecross explores the sonic side of Bond in ‘The Sound of 007′

Television

Jon Hamm (pictured last month at a "Confess, Fletch" special screening in West Hollywood) will be in the cast of the next season of "Fargo."

Looking for clues regarding season 5 of ‘Fargo’

‘Bad Sisters,’ great villain

In ‘Magpie Murders,’ double plots double the mystery

music

On Thursday night at Symphony Hall, Colombian-born conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada and the BSO accompanied Emanuel Ax in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 18.

At BSO, orchestral Technicolor and Mozartean grace

Ed Sheeran announces second summer 2023 stop at Gillette Stadium

Dolly Parton donation strategy: ‘I just give from my heart’

Theater/Dance

A scene from Tom Stoppard's "Leopoldstadt."

Dramas call the tune on Broadway: A quartet of must-see productions kicks fall season into gear

Look inside the Huntington Theatre’s brand new $55 million renovation

How Nina became Edna: Andrew Levitt’s improbable leap from ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ to ‘Hairspray’

globe local

Community members demonstrate against antisemitism to reclaim the bridge over Route 114 in Danvers that neo-Nazis tarnished on the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

‘This is my community’: North Shore residents reclaim Danvers bridge tarnished by hate speech

We need to find ways to carry on in our changed world

Aspiring police officer gets a special visitor

Obituaries

Robbie Coltrane arrived in Trafalgar Square, central London, for the world premiere of "Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2," the last film in the series, in July 2011.

Actor Robbie Coltrane, who played Hagrid in the ‘Harry Potter’ movies, has died

Art Laboe dies at 97; DJ served as conduit among generations, ethnic groups

Angela Lansbury, star of ‘Gypsy’ on stage and ‘Murder, She Wrote’ on screen, has died