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Halifax has been operating with a one-man Select Board since August, with Jonathan Selig running the show.

Abrupt resignations leave one man running the Halifax Select Board on his own

Since August, when a day of resignations rendered him the only administrative official in Halifax, Jonathan Selig has been running the Select Board’s weekly meetings solo. He moves a motion, seconds that motion, and approves it all by himself with a unanimous vote.

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Bruins’ justifications for signing Mitchell Miller are not convincing
General manager Don Sweeney cast Miller's misbehavior as a moment of misguided youth, a teenage mistake, but the victim said the cruelty went on for years.

‘I was on the fence:’ Patrice Bergeron says he was consulted before Bruins signed abuser Mitchell Miller Bruins sign Mitchell Miller, who admitted to bullying, racial abuse of a developmentally disabled peer

Jeneé Osterheldt

Twitter and what it means when violence has a megaphone
From Ye and Kyrie to Elon Musk and David DePape, we have to denounce hate and recognize truth.

Musk’s Twitter layoffs include some in Boston office

Kyrie Irving was suspended for at least five games by the Nets.

Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

Kyrie Irving appears to be his own worst enemy, and the mess in Brooklyn continues to spiral

His stubbornness has only gotten him suspended, and honestly, on the verge of being out of the NBA.

Nike splits with Kyrie Irving amid antisemitism fallout

Suffolk prosecutor suspended as wrongly convicted man alleges misconduct

Robert Foxworth, who was exonerated in 2021, served an additional nine years in prison after prosecutor Mark Lee learned in 2007 from a federal informant that Foxworth was innocent, according to a complaint filed Thursday with the Board of Bar Overseers.

One teen dead, another injured in Swansea car crash
A 17-year-old passenger was also injured and taken to a local hospital for treatment.

Man killed Friday night in South End shooting

The man was shot and killed near the area of the MBTA Back Bay station. He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Boston police.

Midterm Elections

‘The last election’: In Arizona, the guardrails of democracy may be about to fall
In Arizona, the rise of Kari Lake and other election deniers has already changed elections.

Analysis: As midterms draw near, the ‘balance of power’ takes center stage. So why does it matter? Biden, Obama, Trump to make final midterm push in Pennsylvania

N.H. school officials push back after Bolduc repeats hoax about kids using litter boxes

As a statewide Democratic sweep looms, can Republicans hold on to their last two district attorneys?

What’s going on with the UN climate talks

Tufts Medical Center fires doctor charged with attempted sex trafficking

Bobby DeFeo (9) congratulated Wakefield teammate Steven Woish (8) after he hauled in a clinching 52-yard reception to lock up a 21-12 Division 3 first-round victory over Masconomet Friday night, keeping the Warriors unbeaten at 9-0.

High school football playoffs: Here are the highlights from Friday’s first-round games

The Massachusetts high school football playoffs kicked off Friday night with teams in all eight divisions going head-to-head. Check out some highlights.

Friday's high school football scoreboard

The oldest coach in the NFL, Seattle's Pete Carroll is proving that his methods aren’t getting stale.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Counted out by many, the Seahawks are flying high with Geno Smith and Pete Carroll

The Seahawks finished 7-10 in 2021, their first losing season in a decade, and their offseason was highlighted by major subtractions.

Sam Fuld joined the Phillies in 2017 as their player information coordinator, and was promoted to general manager three years later.

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

Once a finalist to be Red Sox manager, New Hampshire native Sam Fuld making his name as Phillies GM

Fuld fit all of the qualifications chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom was seeking in a replacement for Ron Roenicke after the 2020 season, but the decision was made to bring back Alex Cora.

Best TV Shows bracket

Readers voted over two weeks for the best TV show of the last 50 years.

As the credits roll, 5 closing thoughts on our Best TV Show bracket

Only one show out of 64 made it to the end, but the choices voters made through all six rounds offered some interesting revelations along the way.

‘All in the Family,’ a sitcom that has stood the test of time, is our readers’ choice for TV’s best See the complete bracket

Opinion

Lawmakers’ dereliction of duty on the issue of tax reform has at least caused a small flurry of promises to correct the omission next year.

Tax relief gets short shrift on Beacon Hill

Lawmakers dropped the ball on a $3.8 billion spending bill. Better believe they’ll be held to promises to do better next year.

IDEAS | TOM SHEEHAN

Salutes of a special kind

A chorus of concerns ahead of Nov. 8

MARCELA GARCÍA

Biden’s purported plan to send Haitian asylum seekers to Guantánamo is racist history repeating itself

Sarah A. Font and Naomi Schaefer Riley

Massachusetts’ policies failed Harmony Montgomery

Emancipator road trip. Photo Illustration by Alex LaSalvia.

The Emancipator

The Great Election Road Trip

Join us in a tour across the country highlighting activists, issues, and races ahead of next week’s midterm elections.

High Med. Low

Select a county:

Special reports

Photo illustration

A celebrated surgeon, a trail of secrets and death

Dr. Yvon Baribeau set a record for malpractice settlements, and many colleagues tried desperately to stop him. But hospital executives let him go on and on.

Part 2: A crisis of conscience, with lives on the line Timeline: What the public didn't know about Dr. Yvon Baribeau

The Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts 2022

The Women’s Edge and Globe Magazine celebrate the state’s leading companies and nonprofits run by women.

See the full Women & Power issue from Globe Magazine

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Celebrating 150 years of The Boston Globe

We’re marking the Globe’s 150th year with a look back through 15 decades of coverage. Explore 150 of the most significant front pages, revisit classic sports moments, try a crossword from 1917, and more.

Play this Boston Globe crossword puzzle from 1917 150 years, 150 front pages

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The Hispanic History I Carry With Me: Ayodele Casel
A Beautiful Resistance celebrates Hispanic Heritage and Latino joy, as told to Jeneé Osterheldt.

Motorcyclist flown to Boston hospital after crash in Salem

The crash occurred around 5:45 p.m. Friday on the James Ayube Memorial Bypass Road, which runs parallel to Bridge Street. The motorcyclist was in critical condition at a Boston hospital, according to Salem police.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs to acquire cannabis operations in Worcester, Leicester, Greenfield

The $185 million deal, which must be approved by both state and federal authorities, includes retail locations in Worcester, Leicester, and Greenfield, as well as a production site in Leicester.

Ch. 5 reporter Janet Wu announces retirement
The legendary television news reporter will retire from her job at WCVB-TV at the end of the year, capping a nearly five-decade run at the heart of the station’s political coverage that vexed corrupt lawmakers and captivated audiences.

North Korea fires more missiles as US flies bombers over South
North Korea added to its recent barrage of weapons demonstrations by launching four ballistic missiles into the sea on Saturday, as the United States sent two supersonic bombers streaking over South Korea in a dueling display of military might that underscored rising tensions in the region.

First participant in test of custom gene editing therapy dies
Terry Horgan, 27, was signed up for an experimental treatment aimed at correcting a genetic mutation that caused his muscular dystrophy.

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A note to my realtor: My front door may be dated, but my home is full of family memories.

If a buyer objects, tell her the beveled glass casts rainbows on the stairs that her toddler will follow as the sun rises.

TRENDSPOTTING

A pandemic trend that seems to be sticking around: walking the world
Companies that offer walking tours report big spikes in business compared to before the pandemic. And some destinations are blazing ambitious new walking trails to attract travelers.

Photos: Harvest time in the cranberry bogs is a Mass. tradition
The cranberry harvest is a scene that has played out in Massachusetts bogs for generations.

After hard lessons learned from Alex and Ani, Carolyn Rafaelian comes back with Metal Alchemist
Two years after she was pushed out of the jewelry company she founded, the business woman is back in control, creating American-made products and sticking firmly to her Rhode Island roots.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Mikhail Baryshnikov in "The Orchard," sharing the stage with a robotic arm.

Mikhail Baryshnikov explores ‘The Orchard’ anew, with robot in tow

Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in a scene from the 1944 movie "Double Indemnity" (Photo by Donaldson Collection/Getty Images)

‘It’s a bitter little world’: Noirvember in Boston

Andre Strongbearheart. Gaines Cultural Steward of the Nipmuc Tribe, took a minute to rest while burning a traditional mishoon (canoe) at the Charlestown Little Mystic Boat Slip. Organized by leaders in in the Nipmuc and Massachusett tribes, it is the first burn and launch of a traditional mishoon in the city limits of Boston in countless generations.

Indigenous tribes hold Boston’s first mishoon burning in more than 300 years

A crowd turns out for a performance by rapper Entellekt at the Drake in Amherst. The town’s first-ever dedicated music venue, with a capacity of 250, opened in May.

In Western Mass., a vibrant music scene gets a makeover

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Back to Boston

Welcome Back to Boston

Consider this our love letter to the city, a celebration of all it has to offer visitors and locals alike.

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2022

A guide to 36 Greater Boston communities where demand — and prices — are surging.

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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Venezuelan migrants arrive at Canaán Membrillo village, the first border control of the Darién Province in Panama. The perilous journey through the Darién Gap typically takes five or six days and puts migrants at the mercy of many hazards: bad weather, venomous snakes, impassable swamps, and drug traffickers who use the same routes to move cocaine into Central America.

IDEAS | MARCELA GARCÍA

A 6,000-mile trek to limbo

An area of forest on fire near a logging area in Humaita, a municipality in the Brazilian state of Amazonas on Sept. 17. President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva promised to reverse a surge in deforestation in the Amazon rain forest.

Saving the Amazon requires change in Brazil but also in the US and Europe

Right before Congress broke for August recess, many Republicans joined forces with Democrats to pass the Respect for Marriage Act.

Elissa Asch and Laurie Essig

GOP didn’t unite to ban gay marriage like it united on abortion

Voters lined up to put their ballots in the voting machine during the New Hampshire primary on Sept. 13 in Bedford, N.H.

Taking the political pulse of purple New Hampshire

Don Bolduc, center, during a campaign appearance at the American Legion in Laconia, N.H., on Sept. 10.

IDEAS | ABDALLAH FAYYAD

The extremist in New Hampshire who might flip the Senate

Metro

A Beautiful Resistance | Jeneé Osterheldt

The Hispanic History I Carry With Me: Ayodele Casel

A Beautiful Resistance celebrates Hispanic Heritage and Latino joy, as told to Jeneé Osterheldt.

Suffolk prosecutor suspended as wrongly convicted man alleges misconduct

Robert Foxworth, who was exonerated in 2021, served an additional nine years in prison after prosecutor Mark Lee learned in 2007 from a federal informant that Foxworth was innocent, according to a complaint filed Thursday with the Board of Bar Overseers.

Ch. 5 reporter Janet Wu announces retirement

The legendary television news reporter will retire from her job at WCVB-TV at the end of the year, capping a nearly five-decade run at the heart of the station’s political coverage that vexed corrupt lawmakers and captivated audiences.

Acton police locate vehicle that allegedly struck and seriously injured a 13-year-old boy

Detectives located the vehicle and were working to seize it Friday night, Acton police said.

Sports

Noel Buck (third from left) plays for the Revolution but he got together with former youth soccer teammates who play for Arlington High (from left to right): Will Hogan, Arno Huet, Buck, Aidan Sheehan, Gus Kathan, Barnabas Kiss, and Jamie Ellis.

boys' high school soccer

Noel Buck plays for the Revolution but finds time to cheer on his childhood friends at Arlington High

Buck played seven games this season and became the second-youngest goal scorer in Revolution history. His rise to hometown hero playing for the local team has galvanized the community.

The Nets have assembled a dysfunctional group that has looked good on paper, but doesn’t mesh too well when the ball gets thrown up.

It’s fair to label the Nets franchise as tortured, and not just because they haven’t won an NBA title

What do you expect from a franchise named after a piece of equipment?

The Astros celebrated after beating the Phillies in Game 5 of the World Series Thursday night in Philadelphia.

Chad Finn | Sports Media

When Houston-Philadelphia World Series and NFL games squared off Thursday night, baseball won

The Astros’ 3-2 win over the Phillies in a taut Game 5 averaged a 7.0 rating and 12.77 million viewers nationally on Fox, making it the most-watched game of the World Series to that point.

Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

Kyrie Irving appears to be his own worst enemy, and the mess in Brooklyn continues to spiral

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

Once a finalist to be Red Sox manager, New Hampshire native Sam Fuld making his name as Phillies GM

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Counted out by many, the Seahawks are flying high with Geno Smith and Pete Carroll

Business

French far-right party elects new leader to replace Le Pen

An ambitious 27-year-old is vying against a longtime heavyweight in France’s main far-right party to replace Marine Le Pen as leader of the resurgent National Rally in a contest culminating Saturday at a party congress.

Twitter slashes its staff as Musk era takes hold on platform

Twitter began widespread layoffs Friday as new owner Elon Musk overhauls the company, raising grave concerns about chaos enveloping the social media platform and its ability to fight disinformation just days ahead of the US midterm elections.

Jeneé Osterheldt

Twitter and what it means when violence has a megaphone

First participant in test of custom gene editing therapy dies

magazine

Designer Hannah Guilford reinterpreted the kitchen’s color scheme, adding touches of brass, copper, and wood, and adjusted the layout so it functions smoothly for cooking, eating, and accessing the yard.

Kitchens and Baths

A designer remakes a Maine kitchen in a 1920s-era palette that’s fresh and family ready

I froze my eggs. Now I’m in the middle of the abortion fight.

‘My sister-in-law has mandated that we not exchange Christmas presents this year’

Savory Kale and Two-Cheese Scones

Recipes: Fresh breads and scones for breakfast

metro

Twitter and what it means when violence has a megaphone

Motorcyclist flown to Boston hospital after crash in Salem

How abortion rates changed after Dobbs

sports

Celtics forward Jayson Tatum, who was on the floor for 22 of 24 minutes in the first half against the Bulls though he made just 4 of 13 shots.

Jayson Tatum was aggressive and relentless, and that paved the way for a Celtics payback victory

‘I was on the fence’: Patrice Bergeron says he was consulted before Bruins signed abuser Mitchell Miller

This was a game the Celtics would have lost last season. Instead, it was an example of Joe Mazzulla’s ‘winning’ formula.

business

Center Plaza in Boston, where Twitter's office is located.

Musk’s Twitter layoffs include some in Boston office

Claire Cheney is reinventing the spice trade with Curio Spice Co.

Bold Types | With Curio Spice Co., Claire Cheney is reinventing the spice trade

politics

Campaign signage is shown outside the Cumberland County Republican Committee headquarters prior to an event for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz on Nov. 4 in Carlisle, Penn.

Biden, Obama, Trump to make final midterm push in Pennsylvania

Jan. 6 panel extends deadline for Trump to produce documents

How abortion rates changed after Dobbs

Nation

Scenes of devastation are visible in all directions along Lamar County Road 35940, west of State Highway 271, after a massive tornado hit the area, causing extensive damage and destroying an unknown number of homes on Nov. 4 in Powderly, Texas.

1 dead, dozens hurt as tornadoes hit Texas and Oklahoma

Study shows new booster improves protection for older people, Pfizer says

Biden will campaign for Governor Hochul in New York on Sunday

World

In this handout photo released by the Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service, firefighters try to extinguish a fire at a cafe in Kostroma, Russia, on Nov. 5.

Russia cafe blaze kills at least 13 people, injures 5

French far-right party elects new leader to replace Le Pen

Power blackouts across Ukraine amid Russian shelling

opinion

Venezuelan migrants arrive at Canaán Membrillo village, the first border control of the Darién Province in Panama. The perilous journey through the Darién Gap typically takes five or six days and puts migrants at the mercy of many hazards: bad weather, venomous snakes, impassable swamps, and drug traffickers who use the same routes to move cocaine into Central America.

A 6,000-mile trek to limbo

On Boston Common, dreams and responsibilities

Children in crisis need care, but from where?

lifestyle

This breakup has me wondering: Am I a terrible person?

How much should we really worry about MCAS scores?

Indigenous tribes hold Boston’s first mishoon burning in more than 300 years

food & dining

Claire Cheney believes that her North Cambridge-based company, Curio Spice Co., is doing its part to bring a sense of wonder back into the world of spices.

Claire Cheney is reinventing the spice trade with Curio Spice Co.

Gael Greene and Julie Powell changed food writing forever

In Inman Square, Bom Dough is a worthy successor to the East Coast Grill

travel

South Portland-based Brant & Cochran makes two hand-forged portable axes — the Allagash Cruiser and Dirigo Belt camp axes — that are perfect for chopping wood for smokeless fire pits or taking on canoeing and camping adventures.

A power outage party, belly laughs in N.Y., and axes made in Maine

Lufthansa canceled my flight a year ago. Where’s the refund?

A pandemic trend that seems to be sticking around: walking the world

Arts

Marc Swanson, "A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco," at Mass MoCA, 2022.

At Mass MoCA, dead deer and disco lights elegize a dying world

Jemila MacEwan’s ‘Human Meteorite’ surveys a scarred planet

Anukriti questions who gets to be godly in ‘A Temple for Timeless Beasts’

Books

A nurse practitioner talks to a patient and holds her hand while a doctor administers an IV at Roseland Community Hospital in Chicago in 2020.

A doctor examines his profession, and his choices

The loss of their mother tests sibling bonds in ‘Flight’

Chuck Wendig finds comfort in horror

Movies

Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in a scene from the 1944 movie "Double Indemnity" (Photo by Donaldson Collection/Getty Images)

‘It’s a bitter little world’: Noirvember in Boston

When Opportunity (and Spirit) knocked, NASA knew just what to do

Jennifer Lawrence gives a career-defining performance in ‘Causeway’

Television

David Letterman, pictured interviewing former president Barack Obama on "My Next Guest Needs No Introduction" in 2018, most recently traveled to Ukraine to interview that nation's president, Volodymyr Zelensky.

Letterman-Zelensky interview will air by year’s end

As the credits roll, 5 closing thoughts on our Best TV Show bracket

What’s it like to be on ‘Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions’? A Cambridge resident calls it an ‘amazing experience.’

music

Twitter and what it means when violence has a megaphone

Strauss’s ‘Alpine Symphony’ keeps the BSO running up that hill

Taylor Swift adds third show at Gillette Stadium for her new tour

Theater/Dance

Tyson Ali Clark in William Forsythe's "Approximate Sonata," as part of the Boston Ballet's "As Anticipated."

Boston Ballet rises to the challenge of Forsythe

Dancing to the good vibrations of Carol Kaye, trailblazer

In ‘Six,’ the ill-fated wives of Henry VIII are re-imagined as pop divas

globe local

Boston City Councilor Julia Mejia addresses the council.

City inching towards reparations commission

Back on the home front

The Argument: Should Massachusetts eliminate the subminimum wage for restaurant workers?

Obituaries

Rabbi Philip Hiat, left, and others in New York on April 27, 1981, examined Torah scrolls salvaged from Polish synagogues that were destroyed during the Nazi occupation.

Philip Hiat, rabbi who forged bonds with other faiths, dies at 95

George Booth, New Yorker cartoonist of sublime zaniness, dies at 96

Ray Guy, the only punter elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, dies at 72