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Kosmas Smirnioudis worked behind the counter of his family-owned business, The Windmill Restaurant, in Concord, N.H. We can’t live in fear,” he said.

Uncertainty surrounding double murder investigation keeps Concord, N.H., residents on edge

One week after the bodies of Djeswende and Stephen Reid were found in the woods of New Hampshire’s capital, residents remain nervous — and in the dark.

Dan Shaughnessy

Celtics could end our championship ‘drought,’ and other thoughts
It won’t be easy, but it’s realistic to imagine the Celtics beating the Bucks, Heat, and Warriors for their 18th title … and our first since 2019.

Bobby Dalbec is briefing high school buddy Derrick White on what life is like during a playoff run in Boston

NFL Draft

CHAD FINN

Bill Belichick has been right before about this kind of draft pick, so let’s wait and see
Taking guard Cole Strange wasn't what Patriots fans or draft experts expected, but Belichick's history demands that we give him some leeway.

Meet Cole Strange, the Patriots’ first-round draft pick who rocks a crossbar face mask and no gloves Live Updates: Follow along with Day 2 of the 2022 NFL Draft

Bill Belichick and the Patriots have 10 more picks in the 2022 NFL Draft.

Ben Volin | On Football

Once feared, the Patriots are now a laughingstock

Taking a guard like Cole Strange in the first round of the draft is a safe move, but it also might be the least impactful starting position on the field.

3,199 confirmed cases and 7 deaths. See the latest COVID-19 data from Mass.

Here’s a look at the latest coronavirus numbers in Massachusetts, including case numbers, deaths, demographics, and more.

These six charts show the current state of COVID-19 in Mass.

Wu says city to step in, provide support for children allegedly responsible for attacks
The children, some of whom are as young as 11 years old, are allegedly responsible for attacks in Boston Common, Downtown Crossing, and a McDonald’s restaurant in Roxbury.

Holyoke Soldiers’ Home deaths are an enduring tragedy

The tragedy and travesty at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home — in which 76 military veterans lost their lives to COVID — stands as one of this state’s most chilling losses in the pandemic.

New report criticizes oversight of Holyoke Soldiers’ home official who presided over COVID outbreak

Dow closes over 900 points down Friday, with S&P falling 3.6 percent

The benchmark S&P 500 finished April with an 8.8 percent loss. The Nasdaq had its worst month since 2008.

Trump, fighting contempt fines, says he doesn’t have records
Seeking to reverse their client’s $10,000-per-day contempt fine, he provided a New York judge Friday with an affidavit in which the former president claims he didn’t turn over subpoenaed documents to the state attorney general’s office because he doesn’t have them.

Everett city councilor Jimmy Tri Le at his swearing-in ceremony.

Everett city councilor faces judge after female councilor accuses him of indecent assault

Councilor Jimmy Tri Le did not respond to requests for comment from the Globe.

Inside Porter Square Books: Boston Edition, which shares a space with GrubStreet in the Seaport District of Boston, at 50 Liberty Drive.

Where to celebrate 2022 Independent Bookstore Day in Greater Boston

The booksellers seek to call attention to their unique benefits to their communities.

Days after two cars crashed into JP storefront, Papercuts Bookstore to reopen

Good Harbor Beach in Gloucester made Travel + Leisure's list of the best beaches in the US.

These 3 New England beaches were named among the best in the US by Travel + Leisure

Stretches of sandy paradise in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont made this year's list.

Just as 19th-century antislavery publications reframed and amplified the quest for abolition, The Emancipator centers critical voices, debates, and evidence-based opinion to reframe the national conversation on racial equity and hasten a more racially just society.

Black wealth series | Part 1

Black grads aren’t making bad decisions about student loan debt

It’s the loans that are the bad idea.

Opinion

Students arrive at the Mission Hill School in Jamaica Plain in October. The overarching question remains: Why did BPS let so many warnings go unheeded?

MARCELA GARCÍA

What took so long for BPS to act on Mission Hill School?

The scope of the longtime complaints against the Jamaica Plain pilot school is breathtaking.

IDEAS | STEPHANIE INVERSO

The real way to read an atlas

Blueprint for a coup comes into focus

Robinson Lalin’s family deserves answers about the Red Line accident

IDEAS | TONNY ONYULO

Upending the sex-for-fish economy in Kenya

The Globe turns 150

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150 YEARS OF THE BOSTON GLOBE

Scenes from a century and a half, as covered by the Boston Globe. We revisit some of the most impactful stories Globe journalists have covered, look back at 150 significant front pages, reflect on how the newsroom and Boston have changed, and much, much more.

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UN works to broker civilian evacuation from Mariupol
The mayor of Mariupol said the situation inside the steel plant that has become the southern port city’s last stronghold is dire, and citizens are “begging to get saved.”

FBI arrests Stoneham police officer and brother for allegedly paying kickbacks to get $36m in MassSave contracts

Stoneham Police Officer Joseph Ponzo and his brother, Christopher, were arrested Friday by FBI agents on charges they paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks to obtain $36 million in lucrative MassSave contracts for insulation and electrical companies they own.

Love, loss, and the family who rallied to get an 800-pound, Egyptian-style statue out of a Quincy home
It was $2,000, but Paul Turowski had to have it, even if it cost more than that to ship it from California and have a crane company hoist it up to the second floor of the house he shared with his wife, Katie Turowski. Which it did.

The North End outdoor dining fight is over, and al fresco seating opens Sunday
The city has approved at least 50 applications from restaurants to set up al fresco seating, starting Sunday.

Judge upholds Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking conviction
But she also gave Maxwell a legal victory by concluding that three conspiracy counts charged the same crime and she can only be sentenced for one.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I was nervous beforehand and almost backed out’
Will this dater and a carpenter see themselves building a future together?

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From rock climbing to race car driving, let an expert be your guide for a New England adventure

Under the care of an expert, beginners can get instruction and more experienced travelers can learn something new.

The best way to explore Maine’s Acadia National Park is by bicycle Four great places to learn to surf in New England. Yes, New England.

After spate of Mass. and Cass stabbings, authorities clear Atkinson Street, close engagement center
According to police reports, at least five stabbings were reported in the area between late Sunday afternoon and Tuesday afternoon.

HOMELESSNESS

He and his young family were once homeless. Now he works for the agency that helped them.
The tower manager of Crossroads Rhode Island knows exactly what it’s like to have no where to go. “You’re in this situation that you never thought you’d be in,” he said.

Lawmakers see ‘rapidly closing window’ to reform a 19th-century law that fueled the insurrection
Can Congress put new safeguards in place to save American democracy from another insurrection attempt — this one perhaps successful? The clock might be running out.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Philip Guston, "Web," 1975, The Museum of Modern Art.

The MFA recast artist Philip Guston amid a nationwide racial reckoning — here’s the result

Dafna Krouk-Gordon and her husband, Les Gordon, at Fine Arts Theatre Place in Maynard.

Could buying an old movie theater be the perfect retirement gig? This Lincoln couple is about to find out.

I fell in love with classical music thanks to video games

Projectionist Adrianne Jorge adjusts the focus at the beginning of a screening of "Broken Arrow" on 35mm film at the Somerville Theatre on April 26, 2022. “We often joke that we're, like, the man — or woman — behind the curtain," said Jorge.

In Boston, the craft of film projection is staging a bit of a cultural comeback

Special Projects

Paul Gunter.

Spotlight Team investigation

Unfinished Justice

The state’s high court in 2017 struck down a murder law that had condemned men who never killed to die behind bars. But what about those already facing that dire penalty? They are waiting.

Into the Red illustration.

Into the Red: How the Globe will cover climate change

To report on the most pressing issue of our time, the Globe’s climate team is expanding and rethinking its coverage.

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

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

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Joan Wickersham

Some thoughts on ‘emerging’

Unlike Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, not only could I not sink a buzzer-beating skyhook in an NBA playoff game, I certainly did not act in the funniest movie ever made (Abdul-Jabbar played copilot Roger Murdock in “Airplane!," here with pilot Peter Graves), or run a foundation to promote STEM education among inner-city schoolchildren.

They’re all better than me!

An electronic highway sign on on Interstate 93 in Boston in 2014: “Changing Lanes? Use Yah Blinkah.”

Observations from a Tocquevillian tour of post-pandemic America

The current Supreme Court justices, seen in 2021. Stephen Breyer has announced his intention to retire this summer.

IDEAS | RICHARD M. RE

Here’s a way for Justice Jackson to reform the Supreme Court on her first day

Russian President Vladimir Putin at an Orthodox Easter service last Saturday.

IDEAS | FRANCINE HIRSCH

Putin’s Russia has crossed a threshold: It now looks like 1933 Germany

IDEAS | CHARLES M. SENNOTT

The story of their lives

Metro

R.I. issues license for sixth new medical marijuana dispensary

The office of Cannabis Regulation granted a license to Mother Earth Wellness Ltd. in Pawtucket, for a zone that stretches down the East Bay and into Newport.

RWU students chart COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on R.I. economy

Data show a 28 percent drop in the hospitality industry’s gross domestic product between 2019 and 2020.

Connecticut lawmakers send vehicle emissions bill to Lamont

The party-line 95-52 vote comes days after the General Assembly passed legislation that officially sets a target of 2040 for having a carbon-free electricity supply.

Holyoke Soldiers’ Home deaths are an enduring tragedy

The tragedy and travesty at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home — in which 76 military veterans lost their lives to COVID — stands as one of this state’s most chilling losses in the pandemic.

Sports

Cole Strange (center) was introduced as the Patriots' first-round pick on Friday at Gillette Stadium.

Follow along with Day 2 of the 2022 NFL Draft

The New England Patriots hold three picks in Rounds 2 and 3, which begin at 7 p.m.

Chris Paul had a perfect shooting night Thursday as the Suns eliminated the Pelicans.

Chris Paul had historic shooting night as Suns move into Round 2, where the Mavericks await

Paul was 14 for 14 from the field, 4 for 4 from the foul line and had 33 points in the 115-109 Game 6 clincher Thursday.

Rich Hill owns a 3-0 record and 2.25 ERA in 15 career games (five starts) against the Orioles.

Red Sox at Orioles | 7:05 p.m. (NESN)

Game 21: Red Sox at Orioles lineups and notes

Rich Hill will be on the mound Friday night when the Red Sox open a three-game series with the Orioles at Camden Yards.

BRAD JOYAL | HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS

Caroline Schulson’s strong return game has been perfect for Newburyport girls’ tennis

Bill Belichick has been right before about this kind of draft pick, so let’s wait and see

MLB suspends Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer for two seasons

Business

Elon Musk fans solicit Twitter jobs by tweeting at him

Considerable turnover is likely, at least based on Musk’s twitter feed, which is often critical of leadership. So Musk’s followers are taking their shot.

White House pushes for accountability on infrastructure spending

President Biden met with internal federal agency watchdogs Friday, enlisting inspectors general to guard against waste and fraud as the government spends money from the $1.2 trillion infrastructure package.

Dow closes over 900 points down Friday, with S&P falling 3.6 percent

Whole Foods set to close up shop in Brookline

magazine

From rock climbing to race car driving, let an expert be your guide for a New England adventure

The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst is expected to reopen this summer.

A great time to visit Amherst is after the students clear out

I can’t tell if my boss wants to date me or if she’s just flirty

Artichoke Tart With Gouda and Herbs

Recipes: A brunch menu to impress mom on Mother’s Day

metro

The Eleanor Slater Hospital in Cranston, R.I.

Eleanor Slater Hospital sees uptick in COVID-19 cases

Wu says city to step in, provide support for children allegedly responsible for attacks

Wish one of the last Tuskegee Airmen a happy 100th birthday

sports

Boris Becker was accompanied by Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro at Southwark Crown Court for sentencing in London on Friday.

Former tennis great Boris Becker sentenced to prison time for bankruptcy offenses

Red Sox designate Travis Shaw for assignment, call up Franchy Cordero from Worcester

Meet Cole Strange, the Patriots’ first-round draft pick who rocks a crossbar face mask and no gloves

business

California subpoenas ExxonMobil in probe of plastics waste

National security surveillance in US dropped in 2021, following trends

First case of human bird flu infection confirmed in Colorado

politics

Communal workers are at work to clean debris around a damaged building in Kyiv on Friday amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Former US Marine killed fighting in Ukraine, his family says

Lawmakers see ‘rapidly closing window’ to reform a 19th-century law that fueled the insurrection

Jan. 6 panel schedules prime-time public hearings

Nation

Ghislaine Maxwell in 2013.

Judge upholds Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking conviction

Connecticut lawmakers send vehicle emissions bill to Lamont

White House pushes for accountability on infrastructure spending

World

Wealthy elites in Russia have begun to break under the economic repercussions of the ongoing invasion, some speaking out against the conflict and others fleeing Russia entirely, as President Vladimir Putin, pictured in this 2009 file photo, has clung to officials and tightened restrictions on speech regarding the war.

Cracks emerge in Russian elite as tycoons start to bemoan invasion

Powerful explosion at Kabul mosque kills at least 10 people

US citizen Willy Cancel is killed fighting in Ukraine, family says

opinion

Nadege Massillon finished her training to be a nurse assistant in November but has waited months for a date to take the test for certification.

Facilities also hit by nurse aides’ certification obstacles

Court case over coach’s prayers brings back high school memories

The new oath

lifestyle

Inside Porter Square Books: Boston Edition, which shares a space with GrubStreet in the Seaport District of Boston, at 50 Liberty Drive.

Where to celebrate 2022 Independent Bookstore Day in Greater Boston

Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with these 7 Boston-area spring events

‘There’s still tire tracks on the floor.’ Days after two cars crashed into JP storefront, Papercuts Bookstore to reopen

food & dining

School of Mom founder Sarah Harmon will lead a group decompression session on World Maternal Mental Health Day.

Therapist Sarah Harmon led a primal mom-scream at the height of Omicron. Now, she’s ushering in a season for healing.

In a new location, Hei La Moon lives on

Serafina Seaport replaces Babbo; Eva moves into the former Cafeteria space

travel

Good Harbor Beach in Gloucester made Travel + Leisure's list of the best beaches in the US.

These 3 New England beaches were named among the best in the US by Travel + Leisure

A Brutalist beauty, the power of picture books, and an intimate Alaskan cruise

Chef Spike Mendelsohn’s recipe for a great trip includes margaritas, plenty of sleep, and his GoPro camera

Arts

Rixy, whose exhibition "Enter the Cúcala" is up at Simmons University's Trustman Gallery through May 13.

In Rixy’s world, cardboard beats canvas and the femmes are fierce

The figure as foundation in ‘You Had Me at Hello’

Mechanic finds paintings in Conn. dumpster, sparks appreciation for a forgotten artist

Books

Exposing mysteries of a small seaside town in ‘Vigil Harbor’

Reading when you’re looking for a challenge

Money, legacy, family, and lies all matters of ‘Trust’

Movies

Fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces in Syrian Kurdistan in "The Will to See."

Willing ourselves to see; looking back at Marilyn Monroe; and listening to John Wayne Gacy

In Boston, the craft of film projection is staging a bit of a cultural comeback

In ‘Petite Maman,’ a small-scale tale of childhood shifts into a fairy tale of sorts

Television

James Corden

James Corden’s decision to step down opens door to diversify late-night TV time slot

Creative opening sequences give shows a head start

CNN host John Berman tells viewers about medical emergency he suffered while running Boston Marathon

music

Boston Symphony Orchestra principal cellist Blaise Déjardin performing Saint-Saens's Cello Concerto No. 1 with the orchestra at Symphony Hall, with BSO music director Andris Nelsons conducting, on April 28, 2022.

BSO closes out Symphony Hall season with a hometown special

Streaming station Oh, Hello Boston plays homegrown music past and present, 24/7

I fell in love with classical music thanks to video games

Theater/Dance

Alvin Ailey's "Revelations" from 1960 closes out each of the Boston performances.

Even the oldest work on Alvin Ailey’s programs feels contemporary

World premieres from William Forsythe and Jorma Elo highlight Boston Ballet’s ‘MINDscape’ program

After a three-year absence, Alvin Ailey returns to Boston April 28-May 1

globe local

Instructor Keirsten Frair works with Clark Walker at the Salem YMCA.

Making it safe for kids to take the plunge

The Argument: Should regular commuter rail service be restored to Hyannis?

Episode 10: Black business owners and leaders share their experiences at ‘How to Boston While Black’ summit

Obituaries

FILE Ñ Earl Devaney, the inspector general of the Interior Department, in his office in Washington, March 2, 2009. Devaney, who began his career as a Secret Service agent guarding President Richard Nixon and rose to become one of the U.S. governmentÕs most aggressive and feared internal watchdogs, died on April 15, 2022, in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 74. (Brendan Smialowski/The New York Times)

Earl E. Devaney, scourge of government waste and corruption, dies at 74

Kenneth Tsang, veteran Hong Kong actor, dies at 87

Geraldine Weiss dies at 96; blazed a trail for women in investing