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Rob Gronkowski caught a pass in the first half.

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Aaron Rodgers took aim at a receiver.

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Green Bay?s Sam Shields was tackled after a first-down run.

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Fans at Lambeau Field before the game.

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Patriots close in on Packers? lead

New England?s offense picked up steam in the second quarter, scoring two touchdowns against Green Bay.

Thanks to a split tax rate, residential property taxes remain low in Bellingham.

location, location, location

What is it like to live in Bellingham?

Near the Rhode Island border, Bellingham boasts low tax rates, but lies about an hour?s commute away from Boston.

Hinge of History: Two lives shaped by busing

Busing in Boston

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/11/17/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/20141116bussing_marsha_01.jpg For Hyde Park student, a life rerouted by school busing

When busing polarized Hyde Park High School, Marsha-Joan Galvin found herself in a lonely place: the middle.

Busing in Boston

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Beaten by a mob in South Boston, a young teacher learned to overcome humankind?s darkest impulse.

Luthier Mark Blanchard.

Brainiac

Are modern guitars the best ever made?

A new book looks at modern complications for makers of handcrafted guitars.

Noah Aldrich II, who died in 1848 and was laid to rest in a cemetery on a picturesque hill on his property, is now interred at the base of that hill.

Moving a cemetery unearths old anxieties in Vermont town

A land owner wanted to relocate graves of former farmers to build a house, setting off a dispute with neighbors.

Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse in South Portland, Maine, on the breakwater in Casco Bay.

Travel

How the offseason has stretched into January, beyond

From Provincetown to Newport to Nantucket to Bar Harbor, summer destinations are steadily stretching their offseasons.

Kelly Foley, Debbie Winslow, and Ann Rich used a smartphone to look at a competitor's prices while shopping shortly after midnight on Black Friday at a Target, in South Portland, Maine.

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Thanksgiving weekend shopping loses speed

The number of people who shopped in stores and online during the four-day weekend fell, and the amount they spent is expected to decline.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/11/30/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/deval_patrick_8x10-7748--90x90.jpg Patrick says he wanted indictment in Mo. shooting

Governor Deval Patrick said ?the transparency of a trial would be good for the community? of Ferguson, Mo.

Police and National Guard members stood outside the Edward Jones Dome before the start of an NFL game between the St. Louis Rams and the Oakland Raiders Sunday in St. Louis.

Ferguson officer won?t receive severance package

Darren Wilson resigned Saturday and won?t get any further pay or benefits, the mayor of Ferguson, Mo., said.

The Rev. Jeffrey L. Brown spoke at Twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury Sunday.

Boston churches mull lessons in Michael Brown?s death

In Roxbury, congregants said they were frustrated, though not surprised, by the grand jury decision in Ferguson, Mo.

Officers were at 1 Hutchinson St., in Nashua, N.H., Saturday where a man was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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Nashua standoff ends with one man, one woman dead

A woman was found dead on a bridge in Nashua, N.H., and the man was later found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Alicia Munnell.

Top economist says many face an old age of less money

Former Fed economist Alice Munnell says retirement security means working longer, saving more, and passing fewer assets on to heirs.

Opinion

DANTE RAMOS

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Even if a Boston startup doesn?t succeed in bringing this level of workplace transparency into the mainstream, someone else will.

The Big Picture

Nia Richardson, 16, of Roxbury, wets the reed of her saxophone as she prepares for practice in Jamaica Plain Nov. 19.

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English High?s marching band

The marching band at English High brings back a tradition that has been dormant at Boston public schools for about 40 years.