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Georgia Linehan, 7, a second-grader, waited in a socially distanced line for school to open as she returned Monday to full-time in-person learning in Malden.

In Malden and statewide, mixed emotions as elementary schools resume full-time in-person learning

The goal was a return to normalcy, as most elementary schools in Massachusetts resumed full-time, in-person learning Monday. But for many parents and teachers statewide — and in one midsized, diverse city north of Boston — the day felt anything but normal.

A view of the University of Massachusetts Boston campus. Admissions officers there have managed to reach underserved students through an aggressive outreach program, the school said.

Selective colleges see surge in applications from first-generation students

Large, selective private colleges are seeing a dramatic rise in the number of first-generation and low-income applicants, as well as applicants of color this year, following the decision by most schools to make standardized tests optional.

Becker College in Worcester said it would close because of financial difficulties.

After years of struggle at Becker College, the pandemic was one hurdle too many

The sudden announcement last month that Becker College in Worcester would close put a renewed focus on the financial challenges that small colleges face, made even more dire by the coronavirus outbreak.

A look at small colleges in New England that have closed or merged in recent years

State’s new COVID-19 eligibility rules open the flood gates for people to seek vaccinations

New state eligibility rules for COVID-19 vaccinations effectively flung the doors wide open to the vast majority of residents, allowing immediate shots for people who are even slightly overweight or smoked as few as 100 cigarettes in their lifetimes.

I’m newly eligible for a COVID vaccine. Now what? See more vaccine news, resources, and guidance CDC updates COVID-19 guidance on cleaning and disinfecting homes and workplaces

RED SOX 11, RAYS 2

Signs of life: Red Sox batter Tampa Bay for first win of 2021

Needing any sign of life after a weekend drubbing by Baltimore, the Red Sox routed the defending American League champions behind 16 hits.

Peter Abraham: Outfielders Hunter Renfroe, Franchy Cordero, and Alex Verdugo led Red Sox offensive outburst

NCAA men's Final Four | Baylor 86, Gonzaga 70

Baylor captures first NCAA men’s basketball title in impressive win over Gonzaga

Baylor captured its first NCAA title at the expense of a Gonzaga team that was seeking a perfect ending to its season.

FLYERS 3, BRUINS 2 (OT)

Bruins stumble in overtime, suffer costly loss to Flyers

Karson Kuhlman and Patrice Bergeron scored for Boston, and Dan Vladar made 29 saves, but couldn't stop Travis Sanheim's game-winner on the breakaway.

ESPN fires Celtics legend Paul Pierce

Pierce, an NBA analyst for the network since 2017, posted videos of himself smoking, drinking and cavorting with scantily clad women on Instagram Live Friday.

A year into the pandemic, DCF workers visiting only about half of children in-person

Workers in Massachusetts’ child welfare agency are seeing only about half of the children under their watch in-person each month, state data show, illustrating the state’s heavy reliance on remote check-ins during the pandemic even as schools, day cares, and others have returned mostly to face-to-face interactions.

DEREK CHAUVIN TRIAL

Derek Chauvin violated department policy in kneeling on George Floyd’s neck, Minneapolis police chief testifies

Continuing to kneel on George Floyd’s neck once he was handcuffed behind his back and lying on his stomach was “in no way, shape or form” part of department policy or training, “and it is certainly not part of our ethics or our values,” Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said.

Welcome to Somerville’s socialist revolution

Long known for its progressive politics and left-wing activism, Somerville would seem a natural place for socialists to make electoral inroads.

‘Jeopardy!’ guest host Aaron Rodgers needled about NFC Championship loss to Tom Brady

In preparing for his debut as the host, Rodgers said his goal was to honor Alex Trebek’s legacy. After Trebek’s death in November, Rodgers said getting to meet Trebek was one of the “few moments in life I’ve been starstruck.”

‘We all have a lot of work to do’ to overcome Boston’s reputation as a racist city, Janey says

Acting Mayor Kim Janey expressed hope Monday that a new campaign promoting neighborhoods of color to tourists will help alter the perception of Boston as a racist city, saying that “we all have a lot of work to do” to improve the situation.

Shirley Leung: Can Boston’s new ‘All Inclusive’ tourism campaign help change its racist image? Spotlight report: Boston. Racism. Image. Reality

Bad luck, a bad back, and some badly needed compassion

At 17, when Robert Romano applied for a driver’s license, he found out his immigration status was unclear.

Law firm concludes sexual assault allegations made against prominent BC theology professor were false

An outside law firm BC hired to investigate allegations that the professor sexually assaulted a woman when they were both graduate students at Notre Dame has concluded the accusations were false, the school said Monday in a statement.

Kevin Smith talks fast food ahead of his Boston pop-up restaurant ribbon-cutting

House of Blues Boston will transform into a pop-up Mooby’s, the fictional burger chain that appears in various Smith movies

Boston Globe columnist wins News Leaders Association opinion prize

Boston Globe culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt has been awarded a prestigious prize from the News Leaders Association for her opinion writing.

Opinion

A suit by Officers James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby alleges that Donald Trump was guilty of “intentional, wanton and reckless conduct” as he “spurred” a violent crowd “already primed by his months of inflammatory rhetoric” to cause grave damage and injury to property and persons, including the two Capitol Officers, on Jan. 6.

Laurence H. Tribe

Capitol police have the best case against Trump for the insurrection

A no-frills lawsuit filed by two Capitol Police officers holds the greatest promise of making Trump pay for directing the violent mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.

A rendering of Don Chiofaro's proposed tower. It doesn’t seem fair for developers to negotiate with the city for years and then find out all that time, energy, and money mean nothing because one state entity wrongly deferred decision-making to another.

Boston needs believers like Don Chiofaro

The kids are not OK

Mary Beth Tinker in 2013. Tinker was just 13 when she spoke out against the Vietnam War by wearing a black armband to her Iowa school in 1965. When the school suspended her, she took her free speech case all the way to the US Supreme Court and won.

It’s ‘Bong Hits 4 Jesus’ all over again

White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci listen as President Trump speaks at a coronavirus briefing at the White House on March 20, 2020.

Let’s hear the truth, for once, from former Trump officials

Recommended reads

A history of Black candidates running to be Boston’s mayor

In the past half-century, a little more than a dozen Black Bostonians have run for the post. Only two made it to the general election.

Here's who is running for mayor of Boston

‘We’re all waiting’: Businesses affected by car inspection pause hoping system gets fixed soon

Businesses that provide vehicle inspections in Massachusetts are “anxious” to resume offering the service, amid an ongoing problem with a Registry vendor that has shut down inspections for the past week in the Commonwealth and several other states, a trade group leader said Monday.

Books by Steinbeck, Alexie among those objected to in 2020

The American Library Association reported more than 270 challenges to books in 2020, from Toni Morrison's “The Bluest Eye” to Harper Lee's “To Kill a Mockingbird,” compared to 377 the year before.

This Google ad during the Final Four made more than a few pandemic-weary viewers cry

The Google advertisement was first aired during the Final Four game Saturday and some on social media were quick to make note of its emotional effects.

State has hopefully struck a fatal blow to Springfield power plant

The Department of Environmental Protection on Friday revoked its approval of the Springfield biomass-fired power plant, citing an overlong interruption in its construction.

metro

People entered the Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center COVID-19 vaccination site in Boston.

State’s new COVID-19 eligibility rules open the flood gates for people to seek vaccinations

New state eligibility rules for COVID-19 vaccinations effectively flung the doors wide open to the vast majority of residents, allowing immediate shots for people who are even slightly overweight or smoked as few as 100 cigarettes in their lifetimes.

In Malden and statewide, mixed emotions as elementary schools resume full-time in-person learning

A year into the pandemic, DCF workers visiting only about half of children in-person

Sports

Red Sox outfielders (left to right) Franchy Cordero, Hunter Renfroe and Alex Verdugo celebrate following the final out of Boston's first victory of the season.

Peter Abraham | On baseball

Outfielders Hunter Renfroe, Franchy Cordero, and Alex Verdugo led Red Sox offensive outburst

In all, the outfielders had a hand in eight of the runs the Sox scored after a discouraging three-game sweep at the hands of the Baltimore Orioles.

NCAA men's Final Four | Baylor 86, Gonzaga 70

Baylor captures first NCAA men’s basketball title in impressive win over Gonzaga

MLB

MLB to relocate All-Star game to Coors Field in Denver

business

Castle Island brewery founder Adam Romanow, at the Norwood brewery.

Castle Island Brewing to open a taproom in Southie, home to the company’s namesake

Biden boosted by Senate rules as GOP bucks infrastructure

Dozens of America’s biggest businesses again paid no federal income tax

politics

The entrance to the Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas. More Americans disapprove than approve of how President Biden is handling waves of unaccompanied immigrant children arriving at the US-Mexico border, and his efforts on larger immigration policy aren’t polling as well as those on other top issues.

AP-NORC poll: Border woes dent Biden approval on immigration

Yellen calls for minimum global corporate income tax

Supreme Court nixes Alex Jones’ appeal in Newtown shooting case

Living Arts

Love Letters

Our long-distance conversations have become dry

COMFORT ZONE

The Wang stage isn’t too big for 9-year-old Louie Phipps

ASK MATTHEW

Look behind the scenes for some great TV shows

education

Georgia Linehan, 7, a second-grader, waited in a socially distanced line for school to open as she returned Monday to full-time in-person learning in Malden.

In Malden and statewide, mixed emotions as elementary schools resume full-time in-person learning

Selective colleges see surge in applications from first-generation students

After years of struggle at Becker College, the pandemic was one hurdle too many

rhode island

Elvin Toro, 26, a former Army medic, organized his syringes before administering the next dose at Central Falls High School in Rhode Island.

More than 7,000 vaccine appointments will become available in R.I. Tuesday morning

RI HEALTH

The director of the agency that runs Rhode Island’s ‘hospital of last resort’ resigns

RHODE MAP

Rhode Island’s most vaccinated cities and towns

Newton

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Comfort Zone

COMFORT ZONE

5 boardwalks to elevate the hiking experience

These trails are accessible, kid-friendly, and just a skip from Boston.

TELEVISION

3 singers with Boston ties advance to ‘American Idol’ all-star duets

Locals will sing April 4 and 5 with Joss Stone, Josh Groban, and Tori Kelly.

CraftBoston permanently hangs its sign online

A forever version of the popular expo kicks off with an online earrings show.

FIRST PERSON

Even in a year of staying put, I’ve gone far and wide — and even learned to folk dance

I’m taking full advantage of the virtual content that organizations have been offering during the pandemic. And it has gotten me through what would otherwise be a lonely time.

Martha Stewart wants to help you turn up the charming

The gorgeous "Martha Stewart's Very Good Things" is packed with lovely little lifehacks for your home.

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

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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

Mary Beth Tinker in 2013. Tinker was just 13 when she spoke out against the Vietnam War by wearing a black armband to her Iowa school in 1965. When the school suspended her, she took her free speech case all the way to the US Supreme Court and won.

It’s ‘Bong Hits 4 Jesus’ all over again

A report from the MBA urges Governor Charlie Baker to adopt new guidelines that would prioritize clemency for victims of domestic violence, those convicted at a very young age, and those who are now elderly, frail, or chronically ill.

State parole board, clemency process need reform

A woman is administered the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine by a medical technician in Bates Memorial Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky.

Tamara Rushovich and Sarah S. Richardson

The intersection of Black women, COVID, and death rates

Amazon headquarters in Seattle.

IDEAS | BRIAN ALEXANDER

If you think the health care industry is unhealthy now, just wait till Amazon gets in deeper

White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci listen as President Trump speaks at a coronavirus briefing at the White House on March 20, 2020.

Let’s hear the truth, for once, from former Trump officials

Bystanders watch as demonstrators march against anti-Asian violence in New York City on March 27.

IDEAS | NOAH Y. KIM

The power and the perils of an Asian American political awakening

STAT

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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.

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.

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.

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

Malcolm Cawthorne at Brookline High School.

The exhaustion of being a Black teacher in a school when you’re one of too few educators of color

Illustration of someone shoveling piles of money.

The costs of a secretive ‘wealth defense industry’ of shell companies, offshore tax havens, and empty luxury condos

An illustration of a pair of scissors cutting through a pair of blue and white checked boxer shorts.

What would it take to teach my son not to leave his boxers on the bathroom floor?

Rigatoni With Roman Broccoli Sauce.

Recipes: Pasta dishes that take a break from red sauce

sports

Alex Verdugo broke a 0-for-12 to start his season with a third-inning double, one of five extra-base hits for the Sox on Monday.

Signs of life: Red Sox batter Tampa Bay for first win of 2021

Bruins stumble in overtime, suffer costly loss to Flyers

‘Jeopardy!’ guest host Aaron Rodgers needled about NFC Championship loss to Tom Brady

metro

A view of the University of Massachusetts Boston campus. Admissions officers there have managed to reach underserved students through an aggressive outreach program, the school said.

Selective colleges see surge in applications from first-generation students

After years of struggle at Becker College, the pandemic was one hurdle too many

Bad luck, a bad back, and some badly needed compassion

Nation

The flowers grew by the hour on Tuesday, March 23, 2021. They were left by multitudes of mourners for the 10 people killed at the Boulder King Soopers in Boulder, Colo.

Probe wraps up at Colorado supermarket where 10 were killed

Capitol officer was killed by car striking him, D.C. police say

Mayor demands to know how teen killed by Chicago cop got gun

World

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended the hearing for his corruption trial at district court in Jerusalem Monday.

Defendant number one or next prime minister? Netanyahu divides Israel

As climbers return to Everest, an already dangerous ascent becomes extra perilous

US looks to build on secret portions of Taliban deal to reduce violence

politics

The Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

Supreme Court dismisses case over Trump and Twitter critics

Biden’s big infrastructure plan hits McConnell, GOP blockade

Biden steps up federal efforts to combat domestic extremism

business

Wayfair said it has committed $30 million to social impact investing, including $20 million for a development fund managed by the Local Initiatives Support Corp.

Wayfair joins companies investing in Black economic fund

Supreme Court rules for Google in closely watched tech copyright case

Yellen seeks minimum corporate tax rate wordlwide, warns slow pace of vaccinations may hurt economy

lifestyle

Lauren E. Banks last year in Los Angeles.

How Lauren E. Banks used ’90s Boston history to prepare for ‘City on a Hill’ season 2

David Ortiz’s Weston home sold for $3.5 million. Take a look inside

As Boston ice cream shop J.P. Licks celebrates its 40th anniversary, expect ‘flavors from the vault’

marijuana

New York legalizes recreational marijuana

Prominent executive at NETA parent company fired after husband opens competing marijuana store

New York lawmakers agree to legalize recreational marijuana

opinion

A rendering of Don Chiofaro's proposed tower. It doesn’t seem fair for developers to negotiate with the city for years and then find out all that time, energy, and money mean nothing because one state entity wrongly deferred decision-making to another.

Boston needs believers like Don Chiofaro

Capitol police have the best case against Trump for the insurrection

The intersection of Black women, COVID, and death rates

food & dining

Kevin Smith at a Mooby's pop-up.

Kevin Smith talks fast food ahead of his Boston pop-up restaurant ribbon-cutting

As Boston ice cream shop J.P. Licks celebrates its 40th anniversary, expect ‘flavors from the vault’

Breweries team up for a Travis Roy tribute beer

travel

The author’s son, Sam Wright, 9, explores a wintery landscape while hiking along the Nooksack River in Washington’s Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, during a winter camping trip in February.

Reflecting on a winter of snow camping and its many peaceful pleasures

Love animals? Here are some things not to do on your next vacation

When she needs a break, she zips down to the Cape for a lobster roll

Books

This combination photo shows authors Harper Lee, left, and Toni Morrison, whose books, “To Kill a Mockingbird" and "The Bluest Eye” were among the more than 270 challenged books in 2020.

Books by Steinbeck, Alexie among those objected to in 2020

A new biography presents the unvarnished Philip Roth, revealing a complex man

Andrea Lee on living in Italy, and reading in English

Movies

Michelle Pfeiffer in "French Exit."

Michelle Pfeiffer on making an entrance in ‘French Exit’

Ken Burns: many hours, special moments

Oscar shorts nominees; madame, he’s Adam

Television

Jeffrey Tambor, Penny Johnson Jerald, and Gary Shandling in "The Larry Sanders Show."

Look behind the scenes for some great TV shows

This week’s TV: ‘Hemingway’ arrives, ‘Shameless’ leaves, and ‘Game of Thrones’ heads to the stage

Daniel Kaluuya highlights racism in Boston during ‘SNL’ debut

music

Louie Phipps, 9, has the stage to himself during a taping of a live performance at the Wang Theatre.

The Wang stage isn’t too big for 9-year-old Louie Phipps

Maxwell’s slow-burning debut still simmers after 25 years

Rickie Lee Jones, memoirist: candid, cosmic, and so cool

Theater/Dance

The renowned Shakespeare & Company theater group in Massachusetts plans to resume live, in-person performances this summer with a production of “King Lear,” starring Christopher Lloyd (pictured). The organization said in a statement this week that “King Lear” will run July 2 through Aug. 29.

Shakespeare & Company to resume live, in-person performances this summer

From the lived experiences of scientists, Melinda Lopez crafts ‘Young Nerds of Color’

Reagle Music Theatre founder Robert J. Eagle to retire after 52 years

globe local

Fire crews from Somerville, Cambridge, and Malden battled a four-alarm fire in Somerville, near Davis Square.

Four-alarm fire in Somerville quickly extinguished

‘Death didn’t have the final say’: Easter delivers a message of hope after a year filled with despair

Should Massachusetts require auto insurers to refund premiums with people driving less during the pandemic?

Obituaries

This Jan. 1990 file photo shows playwright Arthur Kopit in Los Angeles.

Arthur Kopit dies at 83; playwright was a Tony nominee, Pulitzer finalist

Constance Demby, prominent New Age composer, dies at 81

Michael Friedlander, urban architect of offbeat designs, dies at 63