The Boston Globe
When the water isn’t there
WALTHAM — In a persistent drizzle, the rocky moonscape was stark: Where a large body of water should have been lapping at a tight shoreline, there were only boulders, ducks, a great blue heron, and mud — a mucky, exposed bottom land that stretched into...
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A welcome, yet feared, development
Skye Warren grew up just off Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan, within walking distance of a roller skating rink and a pizza place. Her short one-way street was the site of blow-out block parties where she and her friends performed dance routines and bands...
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NO MORE MAGIC FOR SOX
September is over and so is Red Sox season. NESN’S wildly hyped “Soxtober” playoff coverage never made it to the 10th month. Boston baseball’s 2026 thrill ride came to a sad and sloppy conclusion Wednesday in the Bronx as the Yankees completed a...
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When the glass was half empty
It was known as the plywood palace. Before the John Hancock Tower was an architectural marvel — a gleaming rhomboid stretching nearly 800 feet above Back Bay — it was architectural mayhem, remembered most vividly for the wooden slabs plugging the...
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A MOUND MAESTRO, WITH A MADCAP TWIST
One thing you learn when working on a Payton Tolle story: Everybody has a Payton Tolle story. “I’ve got one,” Red Sox manager Chad Tracy said last week. Tolle pitched his first game for Triple-a Worcester on Aug. 10 last season, a significant career...
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Nor’easter whips up more winds, waves
A nor’easter lashed Massachusetts with drenching rain and heavy winds over the weekend, flooding some areas and knocking out power for thousands as the storm dumped several inches of badly needed rain on a region still gripped by drought. The...
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Storm preparation gears up as off-season nor’easter bears down
Southern New England braced Friday for a powerful weekend storm by pulling out an emergency playbook for nor’easters that’s typically reserved for winter. Following forecasts of heavy, soaking rain and dangerous, gale-force winds, millions of...
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Ratting them out
There is, among the trained killers and thinkers assembled here this week for the nation’s premier anti-rodent event, some begrudging respect for the rat. Here is a creature that has thrived alongside us for thousands of years, gnawing through our...
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New tone in ICE surge
NEW BEDFORD — They could have been scenes from last year’s immigration enforcement surges: Roofers arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents outside Cumberland Farms. Workers grabbed near the seafood processing plants downtown. Someone...
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In South Boston, the line is drawn
In a 1-mile stretch of South Boston, the city’s vast income disparities collide. The shimmering high-rises of the Seaport stand at one end, and just across West Broadway, block after block of three-story brick housing developments are on the...
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Once safe in immigration courts, minors now face deportations
CHELMSFORD — The 17-year-old girl sat before the immigration judge, her hands fidgeting nervously. She had come to the United States by herself earlier this year from Guatemala, where she’d left school after fifth grade to work in the fields and often...
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Call it gritty and a bit ugly. Call it, also, a victory.
FOXBOROUGH — The Patriots’ home opener served as yet another reminder that the pixie dust that dotted last season’s run to the Super Bowl is gone, swept up into the dustbin of the past. It’s a new season and a new struggle for New England’s favorite...
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ON THE STREET
As the warm days wind down, Summer Street still offered signs of the season this week. From top: A jogger passed a mural titled “More LOVE is OK”; people walked through a shaft of light; a couple shared a moment during the morning commute.
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Getting serious about play time for students
CAMBRIDGE — A handful of times a day, groups of kids at the Baldwin School trudge across the crosswalk to the Alden Play Area to kick balls on a blacktop or scale a spiderweb of ropes to a long, snaking slide. Or they head to a field where they can...
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A little problem — or a big one
Newton has its fair share of neighborhood spats — headaches over leaf blowers, overnight parking bans, and tricolored street lines, to name a few. But its latest flare-up is a bit smaller. To be precise, miniature-horse-sized. A longtime resident is...
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In the alley, resentment runs deep
This is a story about a big puddle, yes, but it’s about much more than that: historic marginalization, public health, and city services in a neighborhood that has served as a beachhead for immigrants for more than a century. But first, the puddle:...
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Reaping Technology, sowing seeds
Greater Boston is considered the vanguard of biotech, but what if Western Mass. could forge a similar frontier for food? That’s what the University of Massachusetts Amherst is banking on with its just-launched, $120 million Future of Food...
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US getting a cold shoulder from Canada
At a time when most people were still deep in the hazy, halcyon days of summer vacation, Jay Peak Ski Resort general manager Steve Wright was back in work mode last month, anxious about the winter ahead. The Vermont resort enjoyed a 2025-2026 season...
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Amid tears, a vow to remember
Solemn pageantry, remembrances of the lost, and impassioned calls for national unity marked the state’s commemorations Friday of the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. On a beautiful, sunlit morning that recalled the day two...
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But so was the hard and Beautiful work of living.
On a bright morning in August, Haleema Salie was sorting through boxes of old family photos and papers at her apartment in Framingham when the sight of a 25-year-old ultrasound — and the unmistakable outline of an infant boy — brought her to a sudden...
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With enough drive, he makes ends meet
One in an occasional series exploring how the workers who make the Boston area the place that it is navigate the astronomical cost of living here. The worker: Chris Conveniencia, 25, is an operator on the Green Line. The job: Conveniencia, who grew up...
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SEPT. 11 SCARS WILL ALWAYS RUN DEEP
Twenty-five years after the terrorist attack on the United States, events will be held this week across the country to mark Sept. 11. On Tuesday in New York City, people visited the North Pool at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, where first...
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A gooey invasion spreads
The spotted lanternfly, an invasive insect that can imperil certain kinds of trees and create headaches as its sticky excrement mists down onto patios and cars, has now been found in almost 150 communities in Massachusetts, about triple this time last...
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CLIMATE CONTROL: CITY STRUGGLES TO ADD SHADE
As climate change pushes summer temperatures ever higher, trees are some of the best cooling agents cities have to help overheated neighborhoods. They provide shade and pull heat from the air, lowering urban temperatures by as much as 10...
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Mistrial but no end in Clancy case
PLYMOUTH — After 38 hours of deliberation over seven days, a mistrial was declared Friday in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial after jurors alerted the judge they were hopelessly deadlocked over whether she is criminally responsible for killing her three...
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Towns near the Quabbin Reservoir have long lived with the fact that the water goes to Greater Boston. But now, as drought takes its toll, they’re fighting for more help — much more — from the east.
WENDELL — Robert Bowers was surprisingly upbeat for a man who, just recently, lost his house to a fire. “What can you do?” he said with a smile and a shrug as he surveyed what remained: charred walls, scarred beams, his younger son’s high school...
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UNCOVERING THEIR NAMES FROM A LONG-BURIED PAST
At Cedar Grove Cemetery in Dorchester, there are two burial sections side by side for deceased residents of Beacon Hill homes for “aged women”: one for elderly white women and one for elderly Black women. But there is a striking difference between...
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A convincing win for Markey
Senator Ed Markey, the 80year-old progressive champion who has for years resisted the political gravity that’s felled other members of the Democratic Party’s old guard, on Tuesday handily beat back Representative Seth Moulton and his calls to pass the...
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Senate rivals challenge voters to tune in
The outcome of Massachusetts’ Democratic Senate primary, which winds to a close on Tuesday, may hinge on whether it’s hit with a late injection of something the race has so far lacked. Urgency. Since the beginning of the race, Democratic voters have...
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In hidden underground realm, history and mysteries lurk
Most Rhode Islanders have seen the East Side Transit Tunnel, which buses use to climb College Hill from downtown Providence. But there’s another tunnel that’s become part of local lore: an abandoned railroad tunnel that runs for a dark, dank mile...
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The six competing for the Sixth
There are just days until the Sept. 1 election, which means it’s anything-goes season in the Sixth Congressional District. The six Democrats running for the state’s only open congressional seat have been carrying floating lanterns, singing karaoke,...
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MORE THAN JUST A JOB, IT’S THEIR CROWNING MOMENT
GLEN, N.H. — As the clock strikes 10 a.m., Becca Collins and Jordan Tisdale sit opposite each other in the Story Land changing room, gluing their signature blond wigs into place in unison. The outfit is a familiar one: a blond updo matched with a...
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ROOM SERVICE
Most first-year students moving into Boston University’s Sleeper Hall on Monday wrestled large blue rolling bins full of stuff into elevators as a marching band played “I’m Shipping Up to Boston.” Not Zara Mody, an 18-year-old freshman from San Jose,...
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Football takes a big hit
Head trauma has increasingly become an existential question for football. But just how common brain damage is among players was an open question until Tuesday, when an alarming newly published study found that one quarter of former NFL players who died...
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For T riders once more: It’s off the beaten/soldered/replaced track
In the relative quiet of July, once the World Cup ended and the tall ships sailed away, the MBTA embarked on a slate of improvement projects that closed part of the Red Line, then the Green, and now the Orange. The parade of shutdowns has disrupted...
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LATEST SCOURGE FOR FARMERS: FUEL COSTS
Melissa Maxwell has been searching for ways to reduce her small farm’s dependence on two diesel- and three gas-powered tractors, with fuel costs remaining abnormally high and no hint that they might return to normal. On a farm, that’s obviously...
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A shift on Harvard Ave.
The onetime home of Allston’s legendary Great Scott music venue is now a Taco Bell. The former Twin Donuts is becoming Boston’s newest Blank Street Coffee. On Harvard Avenue, decades-long tenants of the Gordon building are fleeing steep rent...
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‘Bearing witness’ for, by mothers
PLYMOUTH — Each day the trial of Lindsay Clancy resumes, a small group of spectators, mostly women, settles among the gallery to bear silent witness on behalf of mothers who have struggled with their mental health after giving birth. Some work in the...
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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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