The Boston Globe
The surprise and fury of Hurricane Bob
Thirty-five years ago, New England learned a lesson that meteorologists still talk about today: It only takes one storm. Nearly all of the hurricane models had been forecasting calm seas. A rather quiet year. But as the Atlantic season was nearing...
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Once a campsite, it’s now grounds for a court case
Summer after summer, s’more after s’more, a 95-acre plot of woods along the shore here was a second home for generations of girls. Camp Menotomy, as it had been called since 1939, once crackled with life around this time of year. Before it shut down...
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In darkest days of cancer, hope flickers
Lazar Mandinov stared at the small plastic bag containing three white pill bottles. “It’s a miracle,” said Mandinov, 67, on a Friday earlier this month. He had waited two weeks for this visit to Mass General Brigham, where he’s been receiving care...
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LOOKING FOR BALANCE ON DUXBURY BEACH
DUXBURY — As Andrew Marshall drives up to the barrier on Duxbury Beach, he shakes his head. In front of him is miles of open sand. For generations, the quintessential image of summer in this town was to see the shoreline of this 7.5-mile barrier beach...
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Taking The pop out of pickleball
MASHPEE — For years in this quiet coastal town, the thwacking sound of pickleball has caused an uproar. This summer, a nearby neighbor who had long complained about the pinging noise celebrated a long-awaited victory — a new rule requiring muted balls....
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Staying on top of the shark problem
SCARBOROUGH, Maine — A surge in white shark activity around Maine has closed various swimming areas, but one beach south of Portland is determined to stay open, thanks to some high-tech tools. At Scarborough Beach, two drones surveil the water,...
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DESPITE CANCER, THEY CAN STILL HOPE FOR CHILDREN
Shortly after her wedding four years ago, Jenilee Crowley felt ready to start having kids. Then the 38-yearold found a lump in her breast that upended all her future plans. Chemotherapy, radiation, and other cancer treatments come with a slew of side...
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A uniquely Vt. agony, as dairy sites close
ENOSBURGH, Vt. — By mid-july, employees on the production floor of Franklin Foods were working on borrowed time. They were still packaging cream cheese for Panera Bread restaurants but were using equipment that had largely been auctioned off and that,...
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Once stellar, this line is now giving T riders the blues
The Blue Line, believe it or not, was a “huge part” of why Jennifer Scholl opted to move to East Boston. When she lived near Boston College, she envied how quickly it ran and trusted it would dependably deliver her to work at Salem State...
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Mass. limits out-of-state therapists
When Tisha Bailey moved to Massachusetts from Maine in January, she’d hoped her therapist of a year and a half would be able to continue seeing her through telehealth. But Massachusetts law bars residents from making virtual appointments with...
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FLOWER POWER
It hasn’t exactly been the greatest week to be on vacation, assuming you don’t love rain and cold in July, but it’s been great for the vegetation. The Public Garden is in its glory now, particularly the celosia (right).
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The makeovers of their lives
SOMERVILLE — Women rebuilding their lives, some after incarceration, sat in brown leather salon chairs, wearing shirts that read “Seen. Valued. Worthy,” as stylists dressed in all black arranged their hair and painted their makeup at a salon on Monday...
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A BATTLE IN THEIR WAKE
FAIRLEE, Vt. — To Emily Doe, there was nothing quite like being out on the lake on a hot summer day surfing a 2-to-4-foot wave thrown up by a wake boat. “It’s like snowboarding, but on the water,” she said of the specialized boats that generate a wake...
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A day of horror, relived in courtroom
PLYMOUTH — Patrick Clancy took the stand Monday at the murder trial of his former wife, Lindsay, facing her for the first time since she killed their three children in 2023, as he described how their family life unraveled. Clancy said his then-wife...
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Policy shift frustrates RIDE users
For a decade, Lillie Bryan could count on the MBTA’S paratransit service, The RIDE, to get her from home to the supermarket and food pantry with a full load of groceries every month. But lately, the 79-year-old Dorchester resident has rationed her...
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A WAVE OF EMOTION
Judy Lake, 73, of Hull, returned to shore after spending time in the water at Nantasket Beach on Friday. Although she has arthritis and uses a cane, the ocean is “my passion,” she said. Lake lost her partner of 28 years, Jimmy Loring, two years ago....
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IN THE ‘FOURTH TRIMESTER,’ MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES
As jurors prepare to weigh whether Lindsay Clancy is guilty of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children, a second question hangs over her trial: Can women with severe postpartum mental health symptoms get the full range of care they need in...
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A streak to remember
Jaylen Brown was a member of the Celtics the last time the Red Sox lost a game. Taylor Swift was not yet married to Travis Kelce, and Graham Platner was still campaigning for the Senate in Maine. The astonishing win streak reached 15 games Wednesday...
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Home cooks get the word out and new customers eat it up
Not long ago, Kevin Park quit his corporate finance job and took a shot at his lifelong dream of cooking and selling his own homemade Korean food. His first move: a post on Facebook Marketplace. The 23-year-old doesn’t have the means to establish a...
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Cyclospora-wary shoppers turn to farmers markets
For health-minded grocery shoppers, the farmers market holds appeal. But lately, an uptick of cyclospora — a parasite found on fresh produce that can cause a chronic symptom notoriously referred to as “explosive diarrhea” — may be one more reason to...
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IN A SHAKEN BIDDEFORD, GRIEF SPIKED WITH FURY
BIDDEFORD, Maine — Bloodstains darkened the pavement where an ICE agent shot and killed a young father from Colombia last Monday, a startling act of violence that has left a raw, indelible mark on this small former mill town, residents say. Friends...
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with AN ASSIST, from The Governor
A dedication ceremony for a bridge named after Boston Celtics’ legendary guard Bob Cousy was held at the College of the Holy Cross Friday. Governor Maura Healey presided over the event. The Interstate-290 bridge over Southbridge Street in Worcester is...
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The latest pre-wedding ritual: A course of GLP-1S
When Laura Patnaude stepped into her wedding gown for her first fitting last month, she asked her seamstress, “How much weight is too much to lose before the dress is in danger?” “About 40 pounds,” her seamstress responded. Patnaude, a former beauty...
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Area beaches among cleanest, but still not always open
LYNN — Growing up here, state Senator Brendan Crighton doesn’t remember visiting the city’s only sand beach. For as long as he can recall, people in Lynn knew King’s Beach was often not safe for swimming. Then last summer, for the first time, Crighton...
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Hope-filled journey for a better future cut short
BIDDEFORD, Maine — He dreamed of a prosperous future. A robust education for his young daughter. Opportunities he hoped to find in America. Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero left behind his native Colombia and settled in southern Maine. He was building a...
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Man fatally shot in Maine during an ICE operation
BIDDEFORD, Maine — An ICE agent shot and killed a man Monday morning while attempting to serve a deportation order in this small coastal city, authorities said, sparking angry protests over the latest fatal encounter in the Trump administration’s...
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FINDING SUPPORT ONE CONTACT AT A TIME
A decade ago, Priscilla Bessa left a teaching career and a full life in Brazil to move to Massachusetts, where she knew almost no one. Bessa immigrated so her 1-year-old daughter, Anna Luiza, could receive cuttingedge treatment at Boston Children’s...
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ABOARD A BIT OF HISTORY
ABOARD THE N.S. MIRCEA — The wind finally had freshened to a sail-swelling 17 m.p.h. Thursday when a Romanian training officer pumped his fists, paced the deck, and exhorted dozens of naval cadets in a sharp, staccato voice to do what doesn’t come...
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World Cup: half full, half empty?
FOXBOROUGH — It’s game day, and like he has for the past 37 years, Cal Davis is waiting for you to drive onto his lawn and pay cash for the privilege. His house is situated a little more than 1 mile from where, in a few hours time, tens of thousands...
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Nurses strike at Brigham
After staging the largest strike of nurses in the state ever, thousands of Brigham and Women’s Hospital nurses plan to return to work Thursday, but expect they will not be allowed back until next week. Brigham’s 4,000 nurses planned to strike for just...
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WORKING OUT THE BUGS IN EFFORT TO SLOW WARMING
Scientist Kathleen Savage leaned out from the basket of a boom lift, a red safety helmet perched on her head. She sealed a few needle-covered stalks from an Eastern Hemlock tree inside a clear plastic cylinder and pulled out her phone. On the screen,...
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In Cambridge, a little lost among the variables
CAMBRIDGE — Ask parent Janina Matuszeski what she has valued most about her twins’ experience in the Cambridge Public Schools, and she is quick to cite the diversity and teacher quality. If the schools have fallen short anywhere, it has been in...
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STUCK AT HOME, WITH MANY NEEDS, LITTLE HELP
TIVERTON, R.I. — When Michaela Hillyard was born in 2020, doctors said her prognosis was grim. Her parents were somewhat prepared for the news. Two days before Christmas the previous year, when Abaigeal Hillyard had an ultrasound at 18 weeks, she and...
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Nest-kept secret
The eaglet was getting hungry. Nested 100 feet up a white pine tree on the Ottauquechee River, its chirps grew louder and louder as it waited for its parents to deliver food. The 6-week-old bald eagle was all alone. Sort of. There were devoted fans...
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A hot spot for all the wrong reasons
WORCESTER — It was cooler in the shade. But here, on one of the hottest blocks on one of the hottest streets in one of the hottest neighborhoods in Massachusetts, there is little shade to be had: there are no trees, and plenty of pavement. That...
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AUDIENCE OF NONE
Sarah Darling has been playing violin and viola professionally in Boston for over two decades. In that time, she’s stood on a lot of stages and looked out over a lot of audiences — and she can’t remember when she started noticing so many empty...
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OUR TURN NOW TO CATCH A BIG WAVE OF HEAT
It’s about to get really hot here, but it’s been even hotter in Europe. The continent’s record heat wave sparked wildfires in German forests, closed hundreds of British schools, and led dozens seeking respite in cooler waters to drown in France....
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Three dead after car plunges into R.I. river
PAWTUCKET, R.I. — Josue Gomez says he received a frantic call from his wife Sunday night. She was out teaching their daughter how to drive, Gomez told the Globe in Spanish on Monday. Their 2-year-old granddaughter was also in the car. On the phone,...
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What time erases, she painstakingly restores
Emily Galvin stands before a tall gravestone in a shady corner of Roslindale’s Mount Calvary Cemetery. Made of pale gray granite, the angled monolith stands 5½ feet tall and bears the name “Ford,” with a carved cross embellished with Celtic...
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With extended bar hours, city gives the late-night life a whirl
It was just after 2 a.m. and dozens of dancing feet rattled the hardwood floor to the bumping rock music. Purple and red hues blanketed the sweating crowd as beer pints and mixed drinks slid across the counter. This was way past normal last call in...
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‘I don’t see any hope’
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration has the authority to revoke an immigration program that allows some 330,000 Haitians, including thousands in Massachusetts, to live and work legally in the United States on humanitarian...
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ON VERGE OF GRADUATION, THEY GET NO BREAK FROM ICE
FRAMINGHAM — Nine days before graduation, Edison Sinchi Taipe traveled to New Hampshire to work as a roofer so he could buy a dress for his mother to wear to the Framingham High School ceremony. Before receiving his diploma, however, the 19-year-old...
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GIVING THEM THE SLIP
At all hours of the day, all year long, the tall metal tube calls to them. Tourists walking the Freedom Trail line up for a chance to launch down its twists and turns. Boston Marathon runners cross the finish line, then descend it, still wearing...
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Cup has done us a world of good
They’re marveling at our gas stations. They’re swooning at our big box stores. They’re tasting clam chowder and corn dogs and ranch dressing and nearly losing their minds. As throngs of World Cup fans from abroad have descended upon the US, many are...
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Massive amounts of food and drink — and a few small surprises
After the week Boston just had, there’s certainly a landfill somewhere glistening with thousands of empty Corona bottles and greasy pizza boxes. But there was little evidence of that indulgence on our streets, save for a few rogue traffic...
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Emails show how ballot question on tax fell apart
In emails last August, a top lawyer in Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s office traded proposed wording for a summary of a ballot question to cut Massachusetts’ state income tax with an attorney representing the authors of the proposal. At Assistant...
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A testament to hope
CHICAGO — Former president Barack Obama formally opened his presidential center in Chicago on Thursday with a call to defend democracy as three former presidents joined him on stage in an extraordinary event featuring politicians, A-list celebrities,...
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PLAID TIDINGS: SCOTS BRING PARTY TO BOSTON
Since they swaggered into town last week for the World Cup, they seem to be everywhere: kilt-clad throngs singing, chanting, and marching to the skirl of bagpipes. They even raised the roof at Fenway Park, no easy feat these days. They are the very...
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They fell in love in college. They married in his hospice room.
On April 15, exactly eight years after Robbie Fox and Kelli Peters met during their freshman year at Elon University in North Carolina, their closest relatives gathered in Boston for their wedding. The ceremony was intimate, with just seven people...
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FOR HIM, A DIPLOMA IN DETERMINATION
Until age 9, Deibyn Orozco lived in a silent world of his own. Born deaf in rural Guatemala, Orozco did not have anywhere that could help with his disability, much less teach him sign language. He communicated with his mother in rudimentary ways,...
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INSIDE A REVILED BEHEMOTH: SPLENDOR AND, MAYBE, HOMES?
The Boston Government Services Center, a bleak behemoth of stippled gray concrete, was probably a mistake. A stony fortress with studded ramparts rising 40 feet above Staniford Street, it imposes its will on the streetscape for blocks around. Since it...
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Pitch perfect fan fest
Beneath a thick blanket of humidity, thousands of soccer faithful poured into City Hall Plaza on Friday, turning the brick expanse into a sea of vibrant soccer jerseys, national flags, and a crescendo of soccer chants. With that energy, the crowd...
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With the fans here at last, the party is definitely on
World Cup fever finally arrived in Boston on Thursday in an early-morning burst of bagpipe music, colorful soccer jerseys, and kilts. Lot and lots of kilts. By midmorning, the area around Faneuil Hall Marketplace was packed with Scottish soccer fans...
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Enough work, time to play
After a brief outage a few weeks ago, the official FIFA countdown clock outside Faneuil Hall Marketplace is working again, ticking off the hours and minutes to the start of what has been, for Boston, a lessthan-smooth walkup to the world’s biggest...
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Reconfiguring special education
When Julian Whyte gets off the school bus in Mattapan to head home in his wheelchair, he waves goodbye to his friends. The 10-yearold can’t talk much, but he is a social butterfly, posing for selfies and flipping his baseball cap backward for...
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From menace to delicacy
The carolina skiff bounced across the chop in duxbury Bay as it approached a bright green buoy marking scott connor’s traps. if his catch from the day before was any indication, there was no need to guess what connor was about to haul up. This trap...
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NURTURING A NATURE TRAIL
Guides were released this week for a new hiking path, Boston Boundless Trail, that runs through the city and 13 surrounding communities. The walking trail network uses “green spaces, built environments, and walkable connections between them,” said...
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For Haitians, it’s much more than a game
In a dimly lit basement bar in Boston’s Back Bay last week, the song was belted out in Haitian Creole: “Grenadye, alaso!” The refrain loosely translates to “Grenadiers, charge,” and it’s a World Cup rallying cry for the Haitian national soccer team,...
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HISTORY REEMERGES
Standing atop the Bunker Hill battlefield in Charlestown, Joe Bagley held a small, smooth sliver of flint in his hand, slowly turning it over and over and tracing his finger along its thin, curved edge. “It’s crazy. This hasn’t seen the light of day...
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JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF KENDALL SQUARE
CAMBRIDGE — On a recent Thursday, I was in a wildly disorienting spot: several stories under — yes, under — the high-tech heart of Kendall Square, walking around what will be the country’s largest underground electrical substation. There, I decided to...
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For firefighter, A final salute
They formed a sea of blue under gray skies. Thousands of firefighters donned their navy dress uniforms on a cloudy Monday morning and poured into Boston’s South End, lining Washington Street ahead of a funeral Mass for their fallen brother, Robert T....
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CAPPING OFF A TUMULTUOUS TIME
MILFORD — Marcelo Gomes da Silva grabbed his red cap and gown Sunday morning and made that same drive, the one he’ll never forget. As the graduating senior steered his family’s silver Volkswagen Golf to Milford High School, he remembered the harrowing...
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ALL TEED UP AND READY TO GO
The T was first to go down. No, not the transit system. The central letter in Boston’s famed Citgo sign, which began its six-month, $8 million refurbishment and relocation on Friday. The 125,000-pound structure will be taken apart piece by piece,...
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A joyous day at a different Harvard
CAMBRIDGE — With a mix of nostalgic quips and political barbs, comedian Conan O’brien delivered Harvard’s 375th commencement address on Thursday, urging graduates to demonstrate humility and empathy in their lives while mocking the Trump administration...
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‘I just don’t feel it here in New England’
MEDFORD — On a recent balmy Sunday evening, the bright spring sun accentuated the grass of Hickey Park, where soccer players of different generations and varying skill levels came together to enjoy a pickup game. Each of the players, who were mostly...
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Taking a harder look at the new Copley Square
The new Copley Square, to officially open on Wednesday with a mayoral ribbon-cutting, has its moments. Wandering in from the corner of Boylston and Clarendon Streets is pure delight: A footpath angles away from the urban grid into a leafy glade cast in...
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Reseeding a piece of N.E.’S past
BENSON, Vt. — On a warm spring morning last week, amid tall grass dotted with dandelions gone to seed, rows of gangly young trees with freshly unfurled leaves stretched as far as the eye could see. These are American elms, saplings of the magnificent...
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Firefighter remembered as ‘heart of the firehouse’
The day after a veteran Boston firefighter died after falling from a third-story window during a three-alarm blaze in Dorchester, his crew and friends remembered him as “the heart of the firehouse” who devoted his life to helping others. Robert...
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Fit for a fairy tale
Like many high school seniors, Jailene Acosta spent hours dreaming about her prom, scrolling through glossy Instagram photos of glittery gowns and flashy limos. “I wanted everything to be perfect,” said Acosta, a 18-year-old from Roxbury. “But I knew...
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PLAYING FOR KEEPS IN THE SEAPORT
How many boozy adult playgrounds can one neighborhood take? In the Seaport, the question is gaining urgency as yet another “competitive socializing” venue opens. You could spend an entire day doing a Seaport crawl — except instead of bars, you’d...
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