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Massachusetts is almost halfway to the governor’s vaccination goal. But a big challenge lies ahead

State officials will face their biggest test yet, starting Monday, when about 1.7 million more residents ages 16 through 54 become eligible for shots as the COVID-19 vaccination drive enters its fifth month and its most pivotal phase.
Who is eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccine in Massachusetts? Having trouble securing a COVID-19 vaccination appointment in Mass.? Here are some tips See more COVID-19 vaccine news and resources
A line for COVID-19 vaccine shots outside the Hynes Convention Center earlier this month.

State e-mails some residents Sunday allowing them to book vaccination appointments starting Monday

As Mass. expands vaccine eligibility, experts and advocates urge greater equity in distributing doses

Suspect on the run in fatal shooting of three in Texas, police say

A manhunt was underway Sunday for a former sheriff’s deputy wanted in the fatal shooting of three people in Austin, Texas, as an official said it wasn’t known if the suspect was still in the city.
Suspect apprehended in fatal shooting at Wisconsin tavern Vigil, ‘peace walk’ in Chicago after police shooting of boy

Demonstrators marched down Massachusetts Avenue demanding justice for Daunte Wright.
Protesters march from Cambridge to Boston, demanding justice for Daunte Wright
More than a hundred protesters marched from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge to Boston Common calling for justice for Daunte Wright on Sunday, a week after the 20-year-old Black man was killed by a police officer in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center.

Pembroke mourns deaths of 2 former high school hockey stars

Needham officials hope to block Amazon facility from prominent Route 128 site
Mark Wahlberg, executive producer of the HBO series "Entourage," and his mother Alma pose at the HBO party after the 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards, in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Jan. 16, 2005.

Alma Wahlberg, mother of Mark, Donnie Wahlberg, dies at 78

Alma Wahlberg, the mother of entertainers Mark and Donnie Wahlberg and a regular on their reality series “Wahlburgers,” has died, her sons said on social media Sunday.
The FedEx facility where eight people died and at least seven more were wounded in a mass shooting carried out by a former worker, in Indianapolis, April 16, 2021.

FedEx shooter legally bought guns used in shooting, police say

The former employee who shot and killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis legally bought the two rifles used in the attack despite red flag laws designed to prevent such purchases, police said.
Sikh community calls for gun reforms after shooting
An artist's rendering of the Fenway Center project, being built with air rights above the Massachusetts Turnpike.

Approaching Boston from the west will never be the same: Long-planned Fenway Center’s about to rise

The Fenway Center project will put a two-acre deck, followed by a 350-foot tower, above the Massachusetts Turnpike between Brookline Avenue and Beacon Street.
School Vacation Week | April 19-23
Maddyn Wise from Needham searched for clown fish at one of the New England Aquarium's exhibits.

The kids are about to be home (again). Here’s how to fill the time
Drawing of a young girl with a net trying to capture butterflies or something.

15 last-minute ideas for things to do with kids during April school vacation

Nikolay Silkina, 7, checked out "Where the Questions Live" at Peabody Essex Museum.

10 ways for youngsters to find a little bliss (finally)
Nibble Kitchen is part of Bow Market in Somerville.

10 kid-friendly patios for April vacation dining
Mass. coronavirus at a glance |
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Shirley Leung
At a “Fight Anti-Asian Hate” rally in Quincy early this month, Doris Zui, 7, displayed a sign.
Elderly Asian Americans are living in fear as assaults, confrontations soar. A retiree worries: ‘If people beat me, I can die right away’
If white seniors had been the victims, this country would have declared a national emergency by now.

THE FINE PRINT
An extended warranty to cover vehicle repairs could end up costing more than the repairs.
Is an extended car warranty worth it?
Ads for CarShield are ubiquitous on cable television, making the case that it makes economic sense to buy an extended warranty to cover the cost of expensive car repairs. But does it really?

bruins 6, capitals 3
Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand celebrated a goal during Sunday's game against the Capitals.
In a scuffle with Capitals, Bruins extend winning streak to four games
Three unanswered goals from the Bruins in the second period gave them the edge. Patrice Bergeron, David Krejci, and Brad Marchand scored two goals apiece.

Donald Junkins, poet who led UMass Amherst creative writing program, dies at 89

A poet who published more than 20 books, Mr. Junkins formerly directed the MFA program at UMass Amherst.

Nathan Murray, a medic and pastor, checked in with his team prior to their shift at the Smoky Mountain Event Center's COVID-19 vaccination site.
‘One person at a time’: A Baptist pastor tries to vaccinate his deeply conservative N.C. hometown
Vaccine skepticism runs highest among white evangelicals and conservatives, according to polls. So, Nathan Murray, a Baptist pastor as well as a paramedic, is waging an exhausting battle to convince his neighbors to get inoculated.

41-year-old Hull man’s body pulled from bay

State Police pulled a man’s body from Hull Bay about 3 p.m. Sunday, a Hull police spokesman said, hours after he confirmed that authorities were continuing to search the bay for a 39-year-old man who ran into the water, allegedly to avoid police during a disturbance call late Thursday.

Opinion

A Smithfield Foods pork processing facility in Missouri, before the pandemic.
IDEAS | COURTNEY HUMPHRIES

The uneven rise of the healthy workplace

While office buildings are getting cleaner air, work environments whose shortcomings were exposed by the coronavirus are in danger of being left behind.
An Amtrak Acela train sits at Union Station in Washington, D.C. January 2019.
EDITORIAL

New Amtrak funding should be directed to the places that use train travel the most
Reverend Erika Wilson, from the Awakening Spiritual Community of San Antonio, speaks at the Whole Women's Health clinic in 2019.
Mary Ann Sorrentino

The chipping away of a woman’s right to choose
Law enforcement officers cleared an area of demonstrators outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department during a protest on April 14 over the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright during a traffic stop.
Dean A. Strang and Nancy Gertner

Supreme Court rulings on traffic stops reinforce structural racism in policing
In an interview, Boston City Councilor and mayoral candidate Michelle Wu didn’t have concrete answers to some of the most controversial questions about BPS.
MARCELA GARCÍA

Can Michelle Wu fix Boston Public Schools?

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yvonne abraham
Groups of mourners cry while gathering for a prayer vigil at Olivet Missionary Baptist Church April 17, 2021 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
For too many of us, living in this country is like living in a state of war
Atlanta, Boulder, Chicago, Brooklyn Center, Indianapolis: In this America, the battlefield is everywhere.

Cheating allegations engulf Dartmouth medical school

More than a dozen students are accused of accessing online course materials while taking a test on a different software platform. At least nine of the accused say that they are innocent, and that Dartmouth doesn’t understand how its own software platforms work.

Former state lawmaker’s fraud scheme relied on elected office — until indictment ended his career

David Nangle’s gambling habit, which lived largely in the shadows through his two decades in public office, motivated years of fraud, with the lawmaker scrambling for money wherever he could find it.
Bruins

John Peirson, former Bruins player and broadcaster, dead at 95

Peirson enjoyed a 10-plus-year NHL career, all as a member of the Bruins, and was a noted broadcaster.

Boston has empty office space, yet new high-rises are going up. Who will lease those towers when they’re finished?

Many businesses are re-thinking how much pricey real estate they will need, even as developers of tower projects are in the hunt for tenants. How these efforts play out in the coming months and years will say much about the appeal of downtown Boston as a business hub following the COVID-19 pandemic.

metro

Demonstrators marched down Massachusetts Avenue demanding justice for Daunte Wright.

Protesters march from Cambridge to Boston, demanding justice for Daunte Wright

More than a hundred protesters marched from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge to Boston Common calling for justice for Daunte Wright on Sunday, a week after the 20-year-old Black man was killed by a police officer in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center.

As Mass. expands vaccine eligibility, experts and advocates urge greater equity in distributing doses

State e-mails some residents Sunday allowing them to book vaccination appointments starting Monday

Sports

Alex Bowman stands on his car after winning the NASCAR Cup Series race in Richmond.
NASCAR

Alex Bowman denies Denny Hamlin with swift late move at Richmond

Bowman slipped past Bowman with 10 laps to go to notch his third career victory.
RED SOX NOTEBOOK

Garrett Whitlock preparing to get a longer look with Red Sox
High school FOOTBALL | PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

EMass football: Watertown’s JP Riley headlines Players of the Week

business

Demand for comfort increased L.L. Bean’s revenue five percent last year. Above, its store in Boston’s Seaport.

‘There will be extraordinary spending’: Retailers anticipate a post-pandemic consumption boom

Approaching Boston from the west will never be the same: Long-planned Fenway Center’s about to rise
THE FINE PRINT

Is an extended car warranty worth it?

politics

Former President George W. Bush and Laura Bush arrive in the Crypt of the US Capitol for President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration ceremony on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021 in Washington.

In an interview, former president George W. Bush talks of ‘compassionate conservatives,’ his belief in unification

Half of US adults now have received at least one COVID-19 vaccination shot

One America News Network stays true to Trump

Living Arts

Volunteer Coordinator Carol Carlson will read “Carl and the Meaning of Life” by Deborah Freedman and “Trees Make Perfect Pets” by Paul Czajak and Cathy Gendron at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
COMFORT ZONE

Eight Earth Day events for the whole family
COMFORT ZONE

Take a free Bluebike to your COVID-19 vaccine appointment
COMFORT ZONE

How houseplant propagation kept some Bostonians well-rooted through the pandemic

education

Students passed through a hallway at Blue Hills Regional Technical School.
THE GREAT DIVIDE

Mass. education commissioner recommends vocational school admissions changes to boost fairness

Plaintiffs seek emergency injunction to halt Boston exam school admission decisions as they pursue appeal

How many coronavirus cases have been reported in Mass. schools? Check our map

rhode island

In this June 23, 2004, file photo, President Bush presents Vartan Gregorian with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil award, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Gregorian, the noted scholar and philanthropic leader who has led the Carnegie Corporation of New York since 1997, died Thursday, April 15, 2021, after being hospitalized for stomach pain. He was 87.
RI NEWSMAKERS

Vartan Gregorian, former Brown University president and savior of the New York Public Library, dies at 87
RI HEALTH

McKee administration puts hold on plans for major changes at Eleanor Slater Hospital

AROUND RI

Welcoming spring at Bristol’s Audubon Nature Center and Aquarium

Newton

video

Comfort Zone

Families can immediately purchase timed tickets for Saturdays and Sundays next month, with extended hours arriving in June.
Boston Children’s Museum brings back play with reopening in May
Families can immediately purchase timed tickets for Saturdays and Sundays next month, with extended hours arriving in June.

This "Postcards from Allston" image features a man walking by an Allston construction site.
‘Postcards from Allston’ photographer captures a changing neighborhood and its residents
Edward Boches set out to document "one of the most authentic communities in Boston.”

Actors perform scripts created from Revolutionary-era depositions and interviews, including testimonials from white women.
With a gallery revamp, Concord Museum summons forgotten voices of 1775
The Battle of Lexington and Concord is reframed to include the contributions of white women and people of color.

NAMES
Beane performs on stage as "American Idol" gets closer to crowning a winner.
Two performers with Boston ties advance to ‘American Idol’ Top 12
Watch and vote Sunday night on ABC.

COMFORT ZONE
A man leaps into the air to try and touch "20 Knots: Daffodils for Boston", an installation originally created to celebrate the Boston Marathon made of twenty 20-foot-tall flowers made to work in concert with the wind displayed in the Seaport in June 2020.
The marathon is canceled, but Boston’s yellow daffodils still stand tall
Thousands of flowers have been gifted to Boston area medical workers, plus there’s a towering Seaport art installation.

Special Projects

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.
See the full project Follow @abeautifulresistance on Instagram

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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PROJECT TAKEOUT | DEVRA FIRST
The Globe launches Project Takeout, an effort to help restaurants make it to the other side of this pandemic.
Get takeout. It’s your civic duty.
Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.

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.

Boston Globe Spotlight Report
Boston’s hospital chiefs moonlight on corporate boards at rates far beyond the national level
Hospital chiefs and trustees defend this as boosting public-private partnerships, but critics say these board positions — some paying millions of dollars — raise troubling issues of conflict of interest and hospital priorities.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Anne Bernays

Throw Shakespeare from the train
In this image made from a Windsor Police video, a police officer uses a spray agent on US Army Lieutenant Caron Nazario on Dec. 20, 2020, in Windsor, Va. Nazario is suing two Virginia police officers over a traffic stop during which he says the officers drew their guns and pointed them at him while he was dressed in uniform.
SCOT LEHIGH

Police must be guardians, not warriors
Tigrinyan refugee women prepared bread for their family in Umm Rakouba refugee camp in eastern Sudan in December 2020. President Biden is on track to admit fewer refugees than any president has since 1980.
EDITORIAL

Biden’s delay on refugees
A Ukrainian serviceman walks along a trench on the front line with Russia-backed separatists near Gorlivka, Donetsk region, on April 15.
EDITORIAL

Biden’s mission: Stand up for Ukraine
Worcester Red Sox players held a scrimmage at their new Polar Park stadium on April 8.
Mike Stanton

Rhode Islanders, don’t go to Polar Park
ideas

The Future of Work

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
Drawing of a young girl with a net trying to capture butterflies or something.
School Vacation

15 last-minute ideas for things to do with kids on school vacation
MassArt student Bobbi Colburn wearing a face mask she created.
College & COVID

‘There’s so much beautiful work that’s come out of this’: College art students in the COVID era
MISS CONDUCT

Advice: How do you handle shower invitations for pandemic-style weddings?
Authors Live in Your Living Room features Adrian Miller, author of "Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue," on April 15.
Your Week Ahead

Five things to do, April 12-25

sports

Italy's Andrea Agnelli is chairman of Juventus, one of 12 European soccer clubs threatening to break away from the Champions League.

Rival league proposal puts European soccer at crossroads

Michael Kopech, Yoan Moncada temporarily add insult to injury, but Chris Sale trade still worth it for Red Sox

Perseverance paid off in the end for Plymouth South’s pandemically-challenged football team

metro

Mr. Junkins, on the deck of the family home on Swan's Island, Maine. Permission: His son Dan Junkins provided verbal permission for free use of the family photo.

Donald Junkins, poet who led UMass Amherst creative writing program, dies at 89

Rev. Liz Walker among 4 honored with RFK Embracing the Legacy award

Massachusetts is almost halfway to the governor’s vaccination goal. But a big challenge lies ahead

Nation

National guard soldiers posted on a street corner near downtown as the city prepares for reaction to the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial on April 15, 2021 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Attorneys at Derek Chauvin trial in George Floyd death set to make closing arguments

Who is eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccine in Massachusetts?

Biden administration to push for more Americans to get vaccinated

World

“It is all our jobs to ensure no other child, no other family, no matter who they are, suffers the same trauma and heartbreak that was all too common on all sides of this island and beyond,” said Mary Lou McDonald, shown in 2020. “I am happy to reiterate that on the weekend that your queen buried her beloved husband.”

Sinn Fein leader apologizes for 1979 killing of Prince Philip’s uncle

Prince Philip is remembered for ‘courage’ and support for the queen at funeral

Myanmar’s protesters face down the military with slingshots and rocks

politics

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis greeted then-Vice President Mike Pence upon his arrival at Tampa International Airport on Thursday, July 2, 2020, in Tampa.

GOP White House hopefuls move forward as Trump considers run

‘One person at a time’: A Baptist pastor tries to vaccinate his deeply conservative N.C. hometown

Fundraising surged for Republicans who sought to overturn the election

business

An Amazon Prime truck at a warehouse in Dedham. Warehouses have recently been appearing in higher-profile locations to speed deliveries.

Needham officials hope to block Amazon facility from prominent Route 128 site

Alma Wahlberg, mother of Mark, Donnie Wahlberg, dies at 78

European soccer split: elite clubs threaten breakaway league

lifestyle

A man walks a pair of dogs past a Yoshino Cherry tree in the Public Garden in Boston, MA on April 14, 2021.

Experts offer ways to banish anxiety about your post-lockdown looks

This designer wants to bring back the joy of playing dress-up

How do we solve the intimacy problem?

marijuana

Jennifer Flanagan speaks during a meeting of the commission in Worcester in February 2020.

Cannabis Commissioner Jennifer Flanagan to resign from state marijuana board

Mass. cannabis commission launching online catalog of marijuana products

Marijuana store sues Haverhill, saying steep ‘impact’ fees are not justified

opinion

Respiratory therapist Angelika MacClellan, left, talks with nurse Natasha Cacciatore through a door in the Special Pathogens Unit ICU at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston in this April 27, 2020, file photo. The hospital converted the cardiovascular center into a COVID-19 intensive care unit.

Pandemic affected work lives in many ways

New Amtrak funding should be directed to the places that use train travel the most

Fully functioning commuter rail could make all the difference

food & dining

A beer from Night Shift Brewing.

Crave comes to Allston, breweries launch beer gardens, and the South End welcomes a brasserie

Baseball packages, New England rail travel, and a food lover’s road trip

Cicada Coffee Bar: a restaurant, a cafe, a community

travel

People wait in line at National rental agency in the Miami International Airport Car Rental Center on April 12, in Miami. Customers are finding that car rental agencies have limited or no supply of vehicles as people begin traveling again after being locked down during the pandemic.

Why your next rental car might cost more than a plane ticket

All is not lost at The Lost Kitchen, as chef Erin French adjusts and reinvents, yet again

Chris Wallace on ear plugs, his Globe years, and that time he went to Russia right after a tough Putin interview

Books

Brave women fighting Nazis in ‘The Light of Days’

For Ruth Ware, it was the year reading ‘got squeezed into odd corners’

This thing called life in Elizabeth McCracken’s ‘The Souvenir Museum’

Movies

When the Oscars broadcast begins April 25 on ABC, there won’t be an audience. For the producers, the challenges of COVID are an opportunity to, finally, rethink the Oscars.

The pandemic has upended the Oscars. Good, producers say

When Orson Welles doesn’t make the cut

Doc Talk: bearing witness, creating Oz, watching whales

Television

Camille Cottin plays Andrea, the character on whom the "Call My Agent" film spinoff will focus.

‘Call My Agent’ gets a fifth season — and more

Cold? What a perfect excuse to spend the day watching TV

In HBO’s ‘Mare of Easttown,’ Kate Winslet is investigating a murder — and maybe her own life

music

Mark Sandman (left) with bandmates Mike Rivard and Tom Halter (partially shown) at a Hypnosonics show at the Middle East in 1987 or 1988.

On two new releases, fans can hear Mark Sandman’s ‘secret band’ in full

Amplifying the Black composers who brought spirituals to classical music

Gil Shaham kicks off GBH concerts for German classical streaming service

Theater/Dance

Screen shot of Seth Rudetsky in "The Seth Concert Series."

Theater without theater

Huntington Theatre announces a full 2021-22 season of indoor productions

ART’s Diane Borger is stepping down

globe local

Caitlin Harding was arraigned via Zoom Friday in Middlesex Superior Court.

Former Hudson middle school teacher charged with raping student

To cut paper waste, Belmont entrepreneurs sell reusable cloth gift wrap

Lexington confronts history of slavery in liberty’s birthplace

Obituaries

Mr. Junkins, on the deck of the family home on Swan's Island, Maine. Permission: His son Dan Junkins provided verbal permission for free use of the family photo.

Donald Junkins, poet who led UMass Amherst creative writing program, dies at 89

Vartan Gregorian, transformative civic leader and tireless educator, dies at 87

Donald Ryder, architect of Black heritage sites, dies at 94