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Brush fires break out across Mass.

A high number of brush fires ignited this weekend, and officials warned there will be a heightened risk for more.

Will Middlebrooks celebrated in the dugout after hitting a home run off Dave Bush in the seventh inning, his third of the game.

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Red sox 13, Blue Jays 0

Middlebrooks’ 3 homers help Sox to victory

The Red Sox’ Will Middlebrooks had three home runs against the Blue Jays, and Jon Lester pitched seven scoreless innings.

Celtics 107, Wizards 96

Celtics beat Wizards as Garnett, Pierce return

The Celtics and their fans received a glimpse of a lineup that Boston hopes will carry it through a prosperous playoff run.

Representative Stephen F. Lynch (left) and Representative Edward J. Markey

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Markey, Lynch rivalry strains ties among Democrats

The Senate primary is causing tensions in the state’s all-Democrat delegation, with an awkward choice between Edward Markey and Stephen Lynch.

Current and former employees from the newsroom of The Boston Herald gathered at the old building on Harrison Avenue.

Current, former Herald staffers recall South End headquarters

The old Boston Herald building will stand for a few more days, but former and current employees said the memories that filled it will have a much longer shelf life.

Among the exhibits at the Cambridge Science Festival are (clockwise from top left): The Physics of Billiards; Visual-Eyes Art, a multimedia exhibit that explores animal vision and perception; and Sidewalk Astronomy, on the moons of Saturn.

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Cambridge Science Festival, by the numbers

The seventh Cambridge Science Festival runs Friday through April 21, bringing knowledge to more than 50 sites in Cambridge, Boston, and surrounding towns.

A police honor guard carried Officer Forbes McLeod’s casket after a service at St Joseph’s Church in Needham in February 1934.

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The Needham job

A homegrown documentary tells the story of three men who were executed after a 1934 bank robbery that left two officers dead.

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Tiger Woods

Christopher L. Gasper

Tiger Woods needs to win a major
Guests gathered last September for a dinner in a field at Pete’s Greens in Greensboro, Vermont; it was organized by Outstanding in the Field, which puts on farm dinners across North America.

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Find a farm dinner and pull up a chair
The project has raised concerns about traffic on the quiet island and the environmental impact on Wasque Point.

Photo gallery

Trying to save a house from erosion
Rob Gronkowski, seen before the Patriots’ playoff game with the Texans in Foxborough Jan. 13, may need more surgery.

Gronkowski has infection, could need more surgery

TOM KEANE | Boston’s broken cabs

Change is coming, and it’s with smartphone apps
South Boston politicians have fought to keep preserve the Marine Industrial Park for manufacturing, fish processing, and other blue collar work.

Quiet deal done on Boston’s last frontier
Jason Walker of CyPhy

Drone firms struggle for acceptance
Syrian rebel fighters posed for a photo after several days of intense clashes with the Syrian army in Aleppo, Syria, in October.

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Should America let Syria fight on?
Some of Mark Rappaport’s film materials are stored in the office of Ray Carney’s lawyer.

BU caught in middle as filmmaker, professor feud
The Schifters plan to move their buildings back from the shore in a never-ending battle with erosion.

Money can’t buy a break from nature’s fury
Former Montreal Expos baseball player Warren Cromartie is part of an effort to bring back Major League Baseball to Montreal.

Sunday baseball notes

Montreal is exploring a major league return
Calle Cronk waits anxiously at her Norwell home for visiting nurse Pat Hayes (left) to draw blood and do other routine health checks.

Hope for Caroline | Norwell

Town rallies behind ill 5-year-old

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David Ortiz was with the Red Sox before their Opening Day game at Yankee Stadium.

Ortiz scheduled to play extended game

David Ortiz, who is rehabbing a tendon injury, will play and extended spring training game Monday and could be with Pawtucket on Thursday.

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Bill Walczak brings a different sort of resume to a race thus far dominated by candidates who hold elected office.

Bill Walczak jumps into race for Boston mayor

The community organizer becomes the fifth major declared candidate in the race to replace Mayor Menino.

Columnists

Yvonne Abraham

An eloquence born of pain

JEFF JACOBY

Boston’s taxi industry deserves better

JOANNA WEISS

Left’s money play on the environment

Amazon’s same-day service is just the beginning of a new wave of experimentation.

Innovation Economy

Delivering a new threat to retailers
Tiger Woods

Christopher L. Gasper

Tiger Woods needs to win a major
Steve Lynch is right — he is not the pick of the Democratic party establishment.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Lynch, the party outsider

Bob Ryan

Frozen Four breaks from tradition
Maria Rindenello plays harp with Boston’s Discovery Ensemble.

RENÉE LOTH

The millennial generation, in A flat
Courtney Lewis, 28, is the music director and conductor.

JOAN WICKERSHAM

Discovery Ensemble keeps the music alive
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino

Lawrence Harmon

No salvation for anyone on the wrong side of Menino
Coach Norm Bazin has goaltender Conor Hellebuyck and the UMass-Lowell team in the Frozen Four.

Kevin Cullen

UMass-Lowell hockey is soaring

SCOT LEHIGH

What are Markey, Lynch promising to interest groups?

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Secretary of State John Kerry, left, spoke during a news conference with Turkish Foreign Mininster Ahmet Davutoglu in Istanbul.

Kerry mourns ‘selfless, idealistic’ US diplomat

Speaking in Istanbul, Secretary of State John Kerry railed against an attack in Afghanistan that killed five Americans, including a young diplomat.

Politics

POLITICAL NOTEBOOK

President Obama

Obama says plan for budget is practical

The president said his soon-to-be released budget is not his “ideal plan” but offers “tough reforms.”

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Fay Donohue, Susan Windham-Bannister, and Helene Solomon.

Career-defining moments of three top women executives

The Globe asked women business leaders to recount the decisions that made their careers.

Family Entertainment | Arts & Movies

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In “Tappin’ Thru Life,” Maurice Hines looks back on a passion for tap that began when he was tiny.

Maurice Hines reflects on past in ‘Tappin’ Thru Life’

The show traces Hines’s six decade-plus career and is a tribute to his brother Gregory, who died in 2003.

Travel

Essay

The author’s sons, Brendan, Aidan, and Evan Glenn, wearing the national dress, and the family’s driver, Kezang, right, head for school.

Shangri-la or not, Bhutan leaves you smiling

With weather that can freeze, soak, and bake you all in a day, Bhutan is a place of seeming contradictions.

Books

Book review

James Salter .

‘All That Is’ by James Salter

The book follows a man’s tumble through life from the deck of a destroyer to the deck of a weekend house in Long Island.

Magazine

The cover for the April 7 2013 issue

The complete guide to Boston’s food trucks
The cover for the March 31 2013 issue

A living room design for grown-ups

The cover for the March 24 2013 issue

Azores, a perfect destination for Boston travelers
The cover for the March 17 2013 issue

Could rookie Jared Sullinger be the next Kevin Garnett?

Opinion

“No one imagines that City Hall should decide the number of bookstores or florists Boston needs; an official ceiling on the number of cabs is no less irrational.”

Jeff Jacoby 

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No matter how the fans are feeling about the Red Sox, devotees fill Fenway excited to cheer on the home team for the first game of each year.

Ideas

“Tax season doesn’t have to feel like a root canal. According to a group of tax scholars, Americans could just as easily take pride in paying our share, and the government ought to be trying to help get us there.”

Leon Neyfakh, on the joy of taxes