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Squarely in Copley’s corner
Iwas prepared to rag on the new Copley Square Park. In my youth, I spent some time lolling about on the lawn that filled the square, before the city’s recently completed, $19 million renovation. I have fond memories of being among the carefree crowds...
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DANGER ABOARD SHIP
The cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak pulled into port in Praia, Cape Verde, on Wednesday so that health workers could evacuate two patients with the virus and one suspected of infection. The ship then departed with about 150 people on...
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Parents want answers about kids’ timeouts
Kevin Waldron, a spirited 5-year-old from Bedford with a speech delay, had begun spiraling into a panic at home after making silly mistakes like spilling a drink. “I’m sorry,” he told his mom, Kaitlyn Williams. “Don’t put me in timeout.” His parents...
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A final salute, 251 years later
Revolutionary reenactors held a solemn ceremony recently to symbolically restore 12 Groton Minutemen to the land from which they came. The soldiers died at the Battle of Bunker Hill and were buried in a mass grave by the British. Historian Don Black...
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For fans, a season of discontent
It’s feeling like a tough spring for deflated Boston sports fans. As the Celtics faltered in the fourth quarter of their Game 7 in the NBA playoffs Saturday night, T-shirt vendors were already packing up for the season outside TD Garden. In a few...
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Where the water goes
DEER ISLAND — If you did dishes last week in Somerville or Cambridge or Boston, I was standing with what you washed down your sink. I had traveled to the massive waste water treatment plant for most of Metro Boston to learn what happens, exactly, to...
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Revisionist history
Faneuil Hall Marketplace landlord J. Safra Real Estate is doing some long-awaited renovations, including fixing the stones in the marketplace’s courtyard. Above, a view of Quincy Market from Chatham Street.
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‘The future of my family depends on this’
As the Supreme Court‘s conservative majority appeared sympathetic to the Trump administration’s efforts to revoke humanitarian protections for Haitians and Syrians, dozens of Massachusetts advocates rallied in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to show...
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A TICK TIME BOMB
As higher temperatures creep back across Massachusetts, so do ticks — tiny, resilient pests that carry an outsized public health threat. This month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data showing that rates of emergency department...
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Mother told officers she strangled children, police say
WELLESLEY — The woman was distraught, arriving unexpectedly at her aunt’s house in southern Vermont with a bloody gash and a chilling revelation: she had killed her two young children in their Wellesley home before attempting suicide. Janette...
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Gala descends into confusion
washington — i didn’t know it was gunfire at first. as i finished my salad course, i heard a loud noise to my left. seconds later — with plates and glasses crashing and chairs scraping the floor — i saw guests at nearby tables dropping to the ground....
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Response to nude performance is revealing
the museum of fine arts posted photos on Instagram thursday of a partially nude performance artist walking through its galleries, and the reaction among the museum’s 500,000 followers was, well, not indifference. “Wtf is this nonsense?” wrote one...
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Long COVID also taking toll on kids
The field trip was supposed to be fun. A few weeks ago, 16-year-old Kaylee Joaquim woke up early to tour the University of massachusetts dartmouth campus with her high school classmates — the kind of outing she hadn’t attended in a long time. But...
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A forgotten blast, a painful reminder
On the morning of April 22, 1976, Edmund narine briskly climbed the steps of the suffolk County Courthouse. he was in his late 30s, physically fit, and working days while taking night classes as he tried to build a steady life in Boston after leaving...
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scituate — On the day after his 90th birthday, mat Brown was sitting on his deck enjoying a cigar, a warm afternoon, and some adulation he thought was long past him. Across from him were two gen Xers who have been on a quest the last few years to...
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MILES AND SMILES
runners dream of days like these. A cool breeze at their backs and some cozy springtime sunshine poking through the clouds set the stage for lasting memories — and history — to be made Monday at the 130th Boston Marathon. records were smashed, signs...
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a Banner day for Boston
sunday was no day of rest for the Boston sports fan. The celtics and Bruins kicked off their playoff run with games at the Garden and in Buffalo. The sox had their uber-ace on the mound at Fenway. And, oh, there’s that little race that was about to...
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College commencement becomes a celebrity series
When northeastern university announced on Instagram that pop star Hilary Duff would be its commencement speaker, the news was met with instant chatter: “epic,” “amazing,” and “childhood dream come true” were among the comments on the video post...
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Continuing fears about ICE put early education at risk
Ellis Early Learning opened in 1885 as a haven for South End children who hawked newspapers and shined shoes on the street. The school has endured as a boston institution, serving as a national model for early childhood education. but now, as Ellis...
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Trying to crack an oyster conundrum
LITTLE BAY, n.h. — Around new England, oysters are dying at alarming rates during the winter months. now, scientists in new hampshire are trying to figure out why, as the future of the region’s youngest and smallest oyster industry hangs in the...
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NECK BRACED
spring really feels like it’s here at last, and it’s time for the swan Boats, as workers Jack Paget (left) and dan Paget put together the famed tourist attraction this week at the Public Garden.
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Tremors from volatile ICE arrest, deportation still shake Chelsea family
CHELSEA — Kenia Guerrero and her three children used to perk up with joy when they came home from a long day to find her husband’s work truck parked in their driveway. not anymore. now it’s an impulsive, fleeting joy, followed by the sad, sinking...
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Tainted wells, tortuous response
Westminster — in 2022, when this small town discovered hundreds of private wells had been contaminated with toxic “forever chemicals,” massachusetts environmental officials were quick to identify the likely offenders and the fix. They ordered the local...
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Driven down by rising prices
soaring gas prices — and inflation in general — are straining the lives of many Massachusetts residents, forcing them to make tough choices on things they might have previously taken for granted, such as visiting a relative, buying a bouquet of flowers...
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West Point’s loss turns out to be Red Sox’ win
Connelly Early, red sox rookie, was 8 years old when a family trip to upstate New York offered glimpses into his twin passions and potential life paths. The Earlys are baseball people, which inspired the visit from their native Virginia: connelly’s...
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Animal lovers’ pet programs make difference in hard times
Ymanini Lacourt wouldn’t know what she would do without her dog Mizzo, a small Chihuahua-mix with an adorable underbite. But after losing her job during the pandemic, Lacourt has been working part time for less than $20 an hour, not nearly enough to...
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‘refuse to stop’: a creed for marathon, life
severe hot flashes. Testosterone deficiency. Anemia. Type-2 diabetes. michael holick has long battled many side effects as part of his cancer treatments. They won’t stop the 80-year-old doctor from running his third consecutive Boston marathon this...
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Justices grill both sides of debate over rights of those born in US Citizenship at crossroads
WASHINGTON — A majority of the supreme court appeared skeptical of President Trump’s efforts to limit birthright citizenship during arguments wednesday. key conservative justices raised doubts about the constitutionality of the president’s executive...
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COMMUNITIES FIGHT BACK
Two dozen men in parkas huddled against the frigid wind in tight, almost meditative circles around metal tables strewn with playing cards, cash, and cigarettes. every few minutes, one of the men slapped money on the table, and shouting would erupt, as...
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CHINATOWN’S HIDDEN CASINOS
as the rain pelted down in thick sheets one day last spring, filling the narrow alleyways of Boston’s Chinatown with shin-high water, natalie Truong cautiously approached a four-story brownstone on harrison Avenue. Wearing rubber boots and clutching...
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Pakistan says it will host talks between US, Iran
ISLAMABAD — pakistan announced sunday it will soon host talks between the united states and iran, though there was no immediate word from Washington or Tehran and it was unclear whether discussions on the monthlong war would be direct or...
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Lexington is latest to wield budget ax
Lexington has long been held up as a gold standard for public education, with wellfunded schools and students who have among the highest test scores in massachusetts. But like many other school districts in the state, Lexington is confronting an acute...
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All good cheer for Cup dry run
FOXBOROUGH — Brazilians call soccer o jogo bonito — “the beautiful game,” and on a crowded train to a world cup exhibition match at Gillette stadium Thursday afternoon, the phrase rang true. Voices rose in Portuguese and French, children bent over card...
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Still that sweet taste of success in Vt. woods
FAIRFIELD, VT. — in faded photographs hung on the sugarhouse wall, a young couple collect sap from galvanized steel buckets while horses pull a sleigh through snow-covered woods — the storybook image of maple sugaring in new England. While the horses...
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READY FOR THEIR CLOSE-UP
isabella Stewart Gardner began a tradition more than a century ago by growing bright orange nasturtiums for her April birthday and transforming her courtyard into a celebration of spring. on tuesday, even as a snowfall dappled the region, the fenway...
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Fatal tarmac collision closes Laguardia
new york — “stop, Truck 1, stop!” The desperate call from an air traffic controller late sunday night came seconds before the first fatal collision at Laguardia Airport in exactly 34 years. The call came too late. Two pilots were killed and dozens...
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Takedowns and rising up
HOLLISTON — That saturday started before sunrise for East Boston high school’s fledgling wrestling team, a scrappy band of nine teenagers who boarded a bus and headed west into the suburbs, chasing a shot at the state tournament. They strode into the...
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Pressed for cuts, officials count the cost of zoos, libraries, rinks
The finances of massachusetts cities and towns have gotten so bad that one community can no longer afford to keep lacey the Amur leopard and other animals of the Capron Park Zoo in Attleboro. Faced with rising costs and limited revenue, Attleboro is...
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Officer pleads not guilty to manslaughter charge
For the first time in more than three decades, a boston police officer has been charged with manslaughter after fatally shooting a suspect in a carjacking last week, a swift decision from prosecutors who determined the officer had no justification for...
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COST OF WAR COMES HOME
iran’s domestic energy sector came under heavy attack wednesday after airstrikes hit critical infrastructure used to generate electricity for its industries and homes, just hours after israel killed iran’s intelligence minister in another blow to the...
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Gardner mystery gets a little more fodder
is it possible that rembrandt’s only seascape, “christ in the storm on the sea of Galilee,” stolen 36 years ago from the isabella stewart Gardner museum in Boston, was delivered to mobsters in philadelphia in a chicken truck? That’s what an informant...
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‘Really hitting our schools hard’
Amanda crowley’s heart sinks every time she drops off hunter, her lively 11-year-old son with special needs, at Williams intermediate school in Bridgewater. The special education teacher assigned to his class was lost to budget cuts last spring, and a...
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Over the past decade, the life expectancy gap between Black residents and other Bostonians has doubled.
massachusetts residents are living longer than nearly the rest of the country, but in Boston you’ll find the life expectancy for Black residents is lagging far behind the rest of the city. The gap between how long Black residents are living compared...
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Six months later, fire in mulch still burns
wilmington — in September, the town of wilmington was alerted to a fire in a mulch pile at an old farm property at 333 Andover St. when the Fire Department responded, what they found was no ordinary mulch pile. it was more like a mulch mountain,...
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State goes big on early college as a way to cut student costs
Massachusetts leaders believe they have found an answer to the problem of students forgoing higher education because of the cost — help thousands of high school students graduate with college credits for free. Early college has been around for about...
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A family story finally unveiled
Tamara Lanier’s long odyssey to research her family tree all the way back to “Papa Renty,” made in a promise to her dying mother 16 years ago, culminated Wednesday when historic photographs of her enslaved ancestors went on display to the public for...
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It’s history
demolition has begun on Matthews Arena, the more than century-old home of northeastern University athletics and a former host of the Celtics and Bruins. it opened in 1910 and was recognized as the world’s oldest multipurpose athletic building and the...
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Boston graduation rates reach new high
High school graduation rates for Boston Public schools reached a record high in 2025, ending a two-year slide, according to new state data. But Massachusetts’ largest school district continues to lag behind the state as a whole in getting diplomas...
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Putting budget out of alignment
Glenn Wilder fixes cars for a living, and even he can hardly believe what it costs these days. Wilder is a third-generation car mechanic and owner of Wilder Bros. Tire Pros, a shop in north scituate that’s been repairing vehicles since 1907. And while...
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Trump demands ‘unconditional surrender’
A few days after the United states and Israel launched the attack on Iran that killed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, disbelief turned into perpetual distraction for hamid hosseini, a fourth-year PHD student at northeastern University. “to be...
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As war intensifies, vets stress human cost
American military veterans are voicing strong reactions about the intensifying war in Iran: support for confronting a brutal regime, wariness about the long-term consequences, and questions about government transparency and trust. In interviews,...
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Conflict spreads past Mideast
The 5-day-old war with Iran spread far beyond the Middle East on wednesday as an American submarine torpedoed an Iranian navy ship off sri Lanka and NATO air defenses shot down an Iranian ballistic missile that was heading toward Turkish airspace. The...
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No home for Gen Z
Eye-popping rents for small quarters. grocery costs that seem to tick up each week. a tough job market for new college grads, and, for those lucky enough to get hired, salaries that barely allow them to scrape by. There’s no question that gen zers in...
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Generating more heat than light
Worthington — helen sharron Pollard and the couple down the road, timothy sena and catherine Rudesena, had been neighborly for decades, stretching back to when Pollard picked potatoes on the senas’ farm to earn money for college. that is, until the...
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No more a shining symbol of city’s revival, mall faces dimming future
PROVIDENCE — Inside the former tiffany & Co. store at the heart of the massive downtown providence place mall, the jewelry cases remain illuminated, but empty. dust clings to the glass shelves where diamonds once sparkled. there isn’t a little blue box...
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IN THE MIDDLE OF A MELTDOWN
This is where mountains of snow from monster blizzards go to die: into a bubbling cauldron of steaming water atop an ungainly contraption of metal, pipes, and gauges that can eat as many as 135 tons of it an hour. “it’s a hot tub, basically,” said...
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Praying for a resolution
WESTWOOD — A brass bell rang out on a recent midwinter afternoon at the Monastery of st. Clare, calling together the property’s 11 nuns. Their monastic schedule starts at 6:15 a.m. with morning prayer, then Mass, breakfast, and meditation, much as...
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Piles and piles of work to be done
Travel bans have been lifted, airports have reopened, and many students will return to class Wednesday in Eastern massachusetts and Rhode island after a monster blizzard extended February school vacation. But the ravages of the historic storm are...
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Nor’easter tears across region
certain phrases strike fear into the heart of every parent: Please check your child for head lice. We still need chaperones for a field trip to an ant farm 50 miles from civilization; the bus leaves at 7:30 a.m. tomorrow. and the biggie: School has...
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Patrons, owner rally to try to save vintage diner
SOMERVILLE — Through the windows of Buddy’s diner, the old-school 1920s lunch car with the big, friendly red-and-blue sign, you can still catch a glimpse of better days for this local landmark. since a plumbing issue forced it to close three years...
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Artists’ refuge is going to pieces
The cinder-block hulk on Atherton street in Jamaica Plain isn’t much to look at, a crumbling relic of another era in a now-vibrant urban neighborhood. inside the building’s drab walls, a vital piece of Boston’s Black cultural heritage is on the...
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Health care’s gains mask a sorry job market
the massachusetts job market has been treading water. Without hospitals and other health care providers, it would have drowned. Local employers shed a total of 4,500 jobs in 2024 and 2025. that’s not a big number in a state with more than 3.7 million...
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Mass. pot businesses fall short on equity
When recreational marijuana was legalized in Massachusetts, making the industry equitable was front and center. Groundbreaking programs were put in place to help communities disproportionately harmed by the war on drugs benefit from legal weed, and...
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Grief and disbelief after fall through ice
EASTHAM — they were former high school sweethearts, married for more than five decades, taking a walk on valentine’s day morning with their beloved black labrador along a remote stretch of Cape Cod. then a bystander saw their dog, Casey, soaked and in...
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For rural districts, a harsh math lesson
a dramatic decline in enrollment in massachusetts rural school districts over the last quarter century has created a vicious cycle of budget cuts and diminished academic opportunities for tens of thousands of students. from the Berkshires to martha’s...
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In bids to help save grandkids, they look to Mass. for assistance
After 17 years and 218,000 miles, Karen Gardner’s Jeep Grand cherokee died for good a few weeks before christmas. Without it, she cannot take her grandson, who is autistic, to the doctor, chauffeur her granddaughter to play rehearsals, or shop for...
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THE HEARTS HAVE IT
It’s Valentine’s day and there will be plenty of celebrating, particularly now that Boston is out of the freezer and endless winter for a few days. At stapleton Floral design in Chelsea, there was plenty to get ready for the big day, and Macy’s in...
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Slimmer pickings on midrange gym options
in downtown crossing, a budget gym membership at planet Fitness will cost you $15 a month. For something a little more upscale, your nearest option is the Avery street Equinox, where monthly dues are well over $200. At first glance, it’s a wide range...
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Want a crack at the Charles? Don’t.
Surely, at some point during this year’s supremely cold and icy Boston winter, you’ve been tempted. Perhaps you’ve glanced out the window of a Red Line train on the way to work, seen the frozen expanse of the charles River, and imagined yourself...
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seconds with firsts
The United States picked up three silver medals on Wednesday, with Southborough, mass., native Korey Dropkin and partner Cory Thiesse losing to Sweden in the final of mixed doubles curling but being the first Americans to medal in the event. Vermont’s...
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THE GREEN WAY AROUND
The “Frostival Ferris Wheel” has been lighting up rose Fitzgerald kennedy greenway in Boston. The 75-foot gondola Ferris wheel, next to the greenway Carousel, is part of meet Boston’s Frostival campaign and will be in operation on selected days through...
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