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Boston, Worcester schools allowed to delay return to full-time classroom instruction

Boston Public Schools will return to full-time in-person instruction for all K-8 students by April 26, and K-8 students in Worcester will return by May 3, State Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley told district leaders in separate letters, which were obtained by the Globe.

1,865 confirmed cases, 54 deaths, and 62,563 vaccinations: See today’s new COVID-19 data from Mass.

The DPH said 27,374 people were estimated to have active cases of the potentially deadly virus, and 628 confirmed coronavirus patients were in the hospital.
441 cases of the British coronavirus variant detected in Mass. Massachusetts relaxes visitation, activity rules at nursing homes

Brighter outlook for US as vaccinations rise and deaths fall

Seventy percent of Americans 65 and older have received at least one dose of the vaccine, and COVID-19 deaths have dipped below 1,000 a day on average for the first time since November.

Dave Maimaron took over as Duxbury head coach in 2005.
Duxbury football coach fired after team’s use of anti-Semitic terms in recent game
Dave Maimaron, who took over as head coach in 2005, did not coach in Duxbury's most recent game after Holocaust-related terms were used by his players on March 12.

Read Duxbury’s letter about the firing of football coach Dave Maimaron, ongoing investigation into anti-Semitic terms Duxbury football game vs. Hingham is canceled

What we know about the Duxbury football team’s Holocaust-related play calls

Players were heard using the words "rabbi," "dreidel," and "Auschwitz" to call audibles during a March 12 game.
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Justin Herron was honored as a Good Samaritan this week by the Tempe police.

Patriots’ Justin Herron intervenes to stop sexual assault in Arizona park

Herron and a Phoenix resident broke up an attack on a 71-year-old woman and detained the suspect.
Carefully painted and maintained, tiny summer cottages in Oak Bluffs on the island of Martha's Vineyard off the Cape Cod coast of Massachusetts are adorned with colorful hanging geraniums.

Two Mass. beach towns beat out most East Coast waterfronts on a new Conde Nast list

Can you guess which ones?
Masterpieces of Egyptian Sculpture from the Pyramid Age at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
MURRAY WHYTE

At the MFA, new galleries bring visitors eye to eye with ancient Egypt

The museum just opened the first phase of a long-awaited do-over for its storied collection.

Cambridge-based artist Miles McAlpin created a fake box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch with shrimp tails after a story about a man finding shrimp bits in his cereal went viral.
Custom toy hobbyist creates Cinnamon Toast Crunch with shrimp tails artwork after viral story about box of tainted cereal
As the saga unfurled on Twitter, leaving cereal fans gagging, the Cambridge-based artist seized the viral moment. On Monday, he went to work on a custom “bootleg toy” that resembled a box of the popular brand, complete with bits of faux shrimp tails, landing his creation an appearance in the New York Times.

Moncef Slaoui, the former head of GlaxoSmithKline's vaccine division.
Ex-Operation Warp Speed head to take leave of absence from professional roles following sexual harassment allegations
This includes Slaoui's post at Cambridge-based Centessa Pharmaceuticals where he was named chief scientific officer and adviser last month.

The Senate confirmed Rachel Levine to be assistant secretary of health on Wednesday.
A first: US Senate confirms transgender doctor for key post
Voting mostly along party lines, the Senate on Wednesday confirmed Rachel Levine to be the nation’s assistant secretary of health. She is the first openly transgender federal official to win Senate confirmation.

appreciation | ty burr
George Segal (pictured in Los Angeles in 1997) died Tuesday at 87. Yes, the actor played banjo, too.
George Segal: a point man for his times
The actor, who died Tuesday, at 87, helped transform stardom in the ‘60s and ‘70s.

First dogs Champ and Major Biden on the South Lawn of the White House on Jan. 25.
President Biden’s dogs are back at the White House after biting incident
The dogs, Champ and Major, left Washington, D.C., earlier this month to spend time at the Bidens’ home in Delaware after the younger dog, Major, caused a “minor injury” to someone he didn’t know.

Part of Jessica RInaldi's winning photographer of the year portfolio in Boston Press Photography's Pictures of the Year: Matt Tauro held onto roses to give out to family members at Holy Cross Cemetery for Annette Nazzaro's funeral who lived to be 100 and died of coronavirus in April 2020.
Globe photographers win international, national and regional awards
Bill Greene, the Globe’s director of photography, congratulated the photo staff and said the recognition is a “huge achievement.”

Opinion

Mayoral candidate and City Councilor Andrea Campbell attended a rally against a rent increases at Grant Manor in Boston on March 13.
Joan Vennochi

A new day in Boston, and a new fight against racism

Is Boston ready to make history by electing a mayor of color whose agenda is a push for the kind of deep, systemic change needed to address the roots of racism?
Pre-K teacher Kristen Hovey reads to students at the Children's Village at the Mill in Lowell.
IDEAS | KELLY HORAN

Good listening boosts kids’ literacy? We’re all ears.

A 15-year-old participating in Moderna’s teen COVID-19 vaccine trial receives a shot in Houston on Feb. 5.
Zoe Campbell

Why I’m participating in Moderna’s teen COVID-19 vaccine trial
JEFF JACOBY

Does the GOP have a problem with the vaccine?
A Soviet poster from 1918 that urged women to work on cooperative farms.
IDEAS | Marcel Fafchamps

Was the Soviet Union an idea ahead of its time?

Announcing: The Emancipator

A collaboration between BU's Center for Antiracist Research and The Boston Globe's Opinion team.
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Recommended reads

Claudia Thompson of Malden is getting ready for the end of the coronavirus pandemic restrictions. After drinking a lot of tea during the shutdown, she has started whitening her teeth.
‘I’m not ready for prime time.’ Appearance anxiety is mounting as we emerge from our bubbles
Teeth are being whitened. Personal trainers are being retained. Wrinkles are being Botoxed. With the vaccine rollout accelerating, many people feel the race is on to prepare themselves for social life.

‘Surprise, here’s a pandemic’: For the second time, their birthdays fall during COVID

Sure, things are looking up — the weather’s improving, businesses are reopening, and more people are getting vaccinated by the day — but for the second straight year, many birthdays passed with hardly a hint of fanfare.
Globe Magazine

How a college dropout in New Hampshire found a Shakespeare secret all the PhDs missed

Dennis McCarthy, a self-taught scholar working from his dinner table, is challenging decades of scholarship on the origins of the Bard’s greatest work.

Spring fever is real. And it’s a mess

With the clocks moved forward an hour and daylight stretching past 12 hours, the annual phenomenon has arrived in full, fidgety force.

Chart: How much money will each Mass. town receive from the American Rescue Plan?

Massachusetts is set to receive more than $2 billion in direct aid. Where is that money going?

metro

The University of Rhode Island published a statement on its website Tuesday condemning a professor for alleged anti-transgender statements and publications.
RI EDUCATION

URI says it does not support professor’s statements that ‘espouse anti-transgender perspectives’

Gender and Women’s Studies Professor Donna Hughes calls the university’s criticism “an egregious affront to my free speech and academic freedom rights.”
YVONNE ABRAHAM

The deadly price of ‘freedom’
RI HEALTH

Kitchen at Eleanor Slater Hospital shut down after fire marshal inspection finds unsafe conditions

Sports

The Yankees' Brett Gardner ducks from an inside pitch during a spring training game Wednesday.

Major League Baseball increasing ball monitoring to suppress foreign substances

Team leaders may be held responsible for violations by staff, the league said.

Patriots’ Justin Herron intervenes to stop sexual assault in Arizona park

Natick and Milton reschedule football game to allow community to mourn ‘Gio’ Taboh

business

Moncef Slaoui, the former head of GlaxoSmithKline's vaccine division.

Ex-Operation Warp Speed head to take leave of absence from professional roles following sexual harassment allegations

Facebook, Twitter, Google CEOs split over social media’s shield

Happy tail: Maine lobstermen crack a good year despite virus

politics

A 7-year-old girl from Honduras, left, walked with Fernanda Solis, 25, center, also of Honduras as they approached a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing center to turn themselves in while seeking asylum moments after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border on March 21 in Mission, Texas.
Analysis

The situation on the southern border is Biden’s first political crisis as president ― whether he wants to admit it or not

Biden taps Harris to lead response to border challenges

Democrats vow vote on gun bills; Biden says ‘we have to act’

Living Arts

George Segal (pictured in Los Angeles in 1997) died Tuesday at 87. Yes, the actor played banjo, too.
MOVIES

George Segal: a point man for his times
MURRAY WHYTE

At the MFA, new galleries bring visitors eye to eye with ancient Egypt
TELEVISION

Arkin’s gone, but ‘Kominsky Method’ still has a lot going for it

education

Kim Janey, Boston’s acting mayor.

Watch live: Acting Boston mayor Kim Janey is sworn in

Government data show race, region disparities in school reopening

The state board of higher education is pushing community colleges to offer more in-person classes this fall

rhode island

The University of Rhode Island published a statement on its website Tuesday condemning a professor for alleged anti-transgender statements and publications.
RI EDUCATION

URI says it does not support professor’s statements that ‘espouse anti-transgender perspectives’

RI HEALTH

Kitchen at Eleanor Slater Hospital shut down after fire marshal inspection finds unsafe conditions
RI CRIME

Rhode Island massage parlor operator linked to fraud of Mass Blue Cross

Newton

video

Comfort Zone

ARTS
Julie Weitz’s “Golem v. Golem” photo installation graces the façade of Beacon Hill's Vilna Shul Jewish center.
In Beacon Hill, the Golem rises as ‘a protector of all people’ for Passover
Julie Weitz’s “Golem v. Golem” photo installation graces the façade of Beacon Hill's Vilna Shul Jewish center.

The documentary follows the work of break dancer, skateboarder, and artist Bill Shannon over two decades.
‘Crutch’ star went straight from walking to moonwalking
The documentary follows the work of break dancer, skateboarder, and artist Bill Shannon over two decades.

COMFORT ZONE
Ted Danson and Shelley Long in "Cheers," the durable sitcom that lives on through streaming services.
With vast streaming libraries, what’s old is new again
The streamers know that if they have a solid catalog of old series, they are more likely to attract — and, more important, keep — subscribers.

COMFORT ZONE
Columbia employee Katy Tassmer and one of her "Page Turner" reading selections.
By reading (and stretching, and walking, and cooking), employees are rising to the challenge
Columbia, a North Reading construction management firm, is among many companies setting wellness goals for their workers.

COMFORT ZONE
Lauren Weintraub moved from Sudbury to Nashville to pursue a career as a singer-songwriter.
Sudbury singer-songwriter Lauren Weintraub on her Nashville dreams and the ‘random thing’ that got everyone’s attention
The TikTok of her singing “She’s Mine,” recorded in her car, has been viewed over 1.7 million times.

Special Projects

The Globe launches Project Takeout, an effort to help restaurants make it to the other side of this pandemic.
PROJECT TAKEOUT | DEVRA FIRST

Project takeout: Get takeout. Save restaurants you love.

Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.
See the full project

On the Street

A man repacked the food he got from a food pantry on Broadway in Chelsea. Chelsea has been one of the places in Greater Boston hardest hit by the pandemic.

In tackling the pandemic, Chelsea finds new strength
A mural on the side of the Mayor Bill Carpenter Garage in Brockton.

Brockton offers a gateway to a new generation
Evening light sets upon stores and restaurants on Hancock Street in Quincy Center.

This time, Quincy Center’s revival looks legit

See more from our business series ‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

More

Jeneé Osterheldt
A Beautiful Resistance
Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

Boston Globe launches ‘Fresh Start’ initiative: People can apply to have past coverage about them reviewed
Similar to “right to forget” programs that have cropped up across the country, the undertaking is meant to address the lasting impact that stories about past embarrassments, mistakes, or minor crimes, forever online, can have on a person’s life.

Globe Spotlight Investigation
Last Words: Is death the great equalizer?
Quite the contrary, a Spotlight investigation shows. Death exposes in high relief the layers of inequities, in race and income, care and opportunity, that shape life down to its final hours. It is a truth the pandemic has only underscored — one hard to see, because it is so much easier to look away.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Pre-K teacher Kristen Hovey reads to students at the Children's Village at the Mill in Lowell.
IDEAS | KELLY HORAN

Good listening boosts kids’ literacy? We’re all ears.

A Soviet poster from 1918 that urged women to work on cooperative farms.
IDEAS | Marcel Fafchamps

Was the Soviet Union an idea ahead of its time?
Boston City Council President Kim Janey will soon become Boston's acting mayor.
Kim Janey

Hello, Boston — it’s a new day for the city
Boston mayor Marty Walsh in 2017.
Martin J. Walsh

Goodbye and thank you, Boston
A police cruiser parked outside the Boulder Police Department was covered with bouquets in tribute to an officer, who was one of the victims of a mass shooting at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colo. on Monday.
EDITORIAL

A new window for gun reform
IDEAS | LINDA RODRIGUEZ MCROBBIE

Just what is the BettyLab cooking up for girls?

STAT

Road ahead illo
The Road Ahead: Charting the pandemic over the next 12 months — and beyond
In this project, STAT describes 30 key moments, possible turning points that could steer the pandemic onto a different course or barometers for how the virus is reshaping our lives.

Ahoskie Mayor Weyling White, left, and Hertford County Magistrate Deborah Morrison, right, pose for a portrait on railroad tracks that divide the predominantly White and predominantly Black parts of town in Ahoskie, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. (Photo © Landon Bost 2020)
From a small N.C. town to big-city hospitals, how software infuses racism into U.S. health care
The racial bias can produce huge differences in assessing patients’ need for special care to manage conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, or depression, a STAT investigation found.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 12: People walk through the snow and sleet in Manhattan on February 12, 2019 in New York City. New York City, in a winter that has been light on snow this season, is expected to receive two inches of snow before the storm moves later this evening. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Covid-19’s wintry mix: Dry indoor air helps the virus spread
The worry is not just that people might mingle more closely inside, but that the air they breathe will make the virus more dangerous.

Boston, MA -- 06/04/2020 -- Yoldana Desir displays a photograph of her late sister, Marie Deus, who died of Covid-19, after contracting it as a food service worker at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts. (Kayana Szymczak for STAT)
In the Covid-19 death of a hospital food worker, a microcosm of the pandemic
The hospital's first employee to die of Covid-19 was a kitchen worker named Marie Deus — and her illness sparked a question. Why weren't bedside clinicians getting sick at the highest rates?

magazine
An illustration of William Shakespeare peeking through writing quills.
On the cover

How a college dropout in New Hampshire found a Shakespeare secret all the PhDs missed
Stacey Kokaram, the clinic manager for a vaccination site at the Reggie Lewis center, checks on the booths where the shots are given.
Globe Magazine

Inside the effort to build trust in COVID vaccines
Jennifer and Manuel on their Zoom blind date.
Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I told him to ignore any weird snoring cause my dog was sleeping’
Saxophonist Tim Hall gives a free online performance on Sunday.
Your Week Ahead

Five things to do online, March 22-28

sports

Nelson Agholor had career highs of 896 receiving yards and eight touchdown catches last season for the Raiders.

How Nelson Agholor is enjoying getting to know some of his new Patriots teammates

Bolton’s International Club, America’s longest golf course, is getting shortened

Patriots agree to terms to bring back defensive lineman Lawrence Guy

metro

Grace Kwon, 57, of Lincoln, R.I.

Rhode Island massage parlor operator linked to fraud of Mass Blue Cross

Should Massachusetts school districts eliminate February vacation?

Spring rains jumpstart breeding season for spotted salamanders

Nation

The Senate confirmed Rachel Levine to be assistant secretary of health on Wednesday.

A first: US Senate confirms transgender doctor for key post

Haunted by mass violence, Colorado confronts painful history

1,865 confirmed cases, 54 deaths, and 62,563 vaccinations: See today’s new COVID-19 data from Mass.

World

Likud party supporters wave flags bearing the party's leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at their party's campaign headquarters in Jerusalem Tuesday after the end of voting in the fourth national election in two years.

Israel vote deadlock: Netanyahu appears short of majority

Hong Kong suspends Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines over packaging defects

White House: North Korea conducted short-range missile test

politics

Texas Senator Ted Cruz listened during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Tuesday on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Cruz accuses Democrats of playing ‘political theater’ for proposing gun safety measures ‘every time there’s a shooting’

Democrats refuse to back nominees until Biden taps more Asian Americans

Dr. Vivek Murthy, newly confirmed surgeon general, to focus on COVID-19, opioids

business

The nonfungible token, or NFT, for the digital artwork "Everydays: The first 5000 days," by the artist Beeple, was auctioned off by Christie's for $69 million.

NFTs (nonfungible tokens) are a weird new way to buy and sell digital assets

More women are leading Boston area startups. But still not nearly enough

Tesla will accept Bitcoin as payment, Musk says

lifestyle

Learn how to design solutions to real-life problems — just like engineers and computer scientists do — in a fun, hands-on exhibit at the Museum of Science.

Solve real-life problems at the Museum of Science, get married in a hot-air balloon, and read about women explorers

Help! Lufthansa canceled our tickets but kept our money

Boston has a long tradition of Asian women chefs and restaurateurs. Here are eight standout businesses to support

marijuana

Five White House staffers have been fired because of their past use of drugs, including marijuana.

Five will exit White House over past use of marijuana

Marijuana-infused ice cream is coming to a dispensary near you, just in time for summer

A green wave? Mexico’s marijuana market may be middling

opinion

Mayoral candidate and City Councilor Andrea Campbell attended a rally against a rent increases at Grant Manor in Boston on March 13.

A new day in Boston, and a new fight against racism

America’s gun control argument

Good listening boosts kids’ literacy? We’re all ears.

food & dining

Asia Mei, owner of Moonshine 152 in South Boston.

Boston has a long tradition of Asian women chefs and restaurateurs. Here are eight standout businesses to support

Recipe: A juicy braised chicken with crispy skin is a festive Seder dish or a mid-week Passover dinner

From Bundt to bunnies

travel

A rendering of the pool bar at the Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport.

Arriving this summer in the Seaport: an Omni hotel with an outdoor pool deck, a posh sports bar, and loft-like rooms

Jay Peak, a mountain with soul

Solve real-life problems at the Museum of Science, get married in a hot-air balloon, and read about women explorers

Books

Lily King's latest novel is "Writers & Lovers"

Lily King’s ‘Writers & Lovers’ will be adapted for film and directed by Toni Collette

From Bowie to Beyoncé, Berklee authors look at musicians as models of innovation

Recalling a medium’s first ladies in ‘When Women Invented Television’

Movies

George Segal (pictured in Los Angeles in 1997) died Tuesday at 87. Yes, the actor played banjo, too.

George Segal: a point man for his times

‘The Human Voice’: an Almodóvar marvel, short on length, long on everything else

Together again, still not getting along, in ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’

Television

Although Alan Arkin, left, will not return for the final season of "The Kominsky Method," Michael Douglas will have several familiar faces around him.

Arkin’s gone, but ‘Kominsky Method’ still has a lot going for it

Wit and heart are well represented in ‘Call My Agent!’

With vast streaming libraries, what’s old is new again

music

Lauren Weintraub moved from Sudbury to Nashville to pursue a career as a singer-songwriter.

Sudbury singer-songwriter Lauren Weintraub on her Nashville dreams and the ‘random thing’ that got everyone’s attention

Strike up the band! Live music will return to Tanglewood this summer

The era of genius worship must end with James Levine

Theater/Dance

Jonathan Katz

‘Dr. Katz’ returns for some comedic therapy on Zoom

‘Crutch’ star went straight from walking to moonwalking

‘The Conjurors’ Club’ is not quite magical enough

globe local

Should Massachusetts school districts eliminate February vacation?

Spring rains jumpstart breeding season for spotted salamanders

Police are called when customers misbehave

Obituaries

Mr. Segal was nominated for an Oscar for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?''

George Segal, durable veteran of drama and TV comedy, dies at 87

Charley Hill, art detective who found ‘The Scream’ and studied the Gardner heist, dies at 73

George Bass, archaeologist of the ocean floor, dies at 88