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Federal officials question Mass. oversight of special education

The review comes after parents, teachers, and advocacy groups accused the state of not fulfilling its supervisory role.

James Pindell | ANALYSIS

Stop saying no Republican can effectively serve as House speaker. There are two obvious paths.
The moment Kevin McCarthy became the first House speaker voted out came the hand-wringing analysis that at such a fractious moment in the Republican party, no one could possibly do the job. That's not the case.

‘Don’t ... bring your liberal [expletive] to my state’: N.H. GOP voters perceive Mass. negatively, poll shows

The most prevalent view among likely Republican presidential primary voters in New Hampshire is that too many Massachusetts residents are moving to their side of the border.

N.H. GOP voters don’t see protecting abortion access as important in 2024 presidential race Poll shows Trump’s lead in N.H. holds

Here are the top 20 frequent flyers and biggest carbon polluters out of Hanscom Field, report says

A new report identified these 20 top frequent flyers out of Hanscom Field, accounting for 10 percent of all private jet activity at the airport, and 14 percent of its private jet emissions.

Billionaires are responsible for large amounts of climate pollution from Hanscom, report finds Opinion: Massport’s plan to expand private jet space at Hanscom is a climate debacle

Paul Pierce shows up at Celtics practice, and he intends to be a presence around the team this year

The Hall of Famer recalled when legends like Bill Russell and John Havlicek visited with his teams. "I think it kind of continues the brotherhood," said Pierce.

President Biden praises Dianne Feinstein as defender of American values at San Francisco memorial
The service will mark the end of two days of events in the city that launched Feinstein’s political career.

Boston College buys Mount Alvernia High School campus in Newton for $40.5 million

The sale was completed Tuesday, fewer than four months after the Catholic girls school for grades 7 through 12 closed its doors for lack of enrollment.

2,577 confirmed cases and 20 deaths in a week. See the latest COVID-19 data from Mass.

Once a ticket to travel and to socialize, paper COVID-19 cards are going away State launches new respiratory illness dashboard to track COVID-19, flu, and RSV

House unveils revised gun control bill, plans to move forward without Senate consensus

Healthy Jonathan Taylor back at practice for Colts

Two men charged with murder in death of pregnant woman’s baby in Holyoke

Cambridge church to remove 302-year-old golden rooster weathervane

The pair of office buildings at 33-41 West St. recently sold for just a quarter of what they fetched seven years ago.

From $16 million to $4.1 million: What a downtown office building sale signals about Boston’s real estate market

The sale could be a warning of the possible distress facing much of the city’s older office stock.

The St. Regis Residences condo building at 150 Seaport Blvd.

St. Regis developer looks to jump-start lackluster condo sales

After a slow start, the developer has lined up new financing and brought in a high-powered marketing firm.

Lost in a world of words

Students at Donovan Elementary improve their reading skills by using phonemic awareness exercises

Kids at Donovan Elementary learn to read using phonemic awareness exercises. (Randy Vazquez/ Globe Staff) ( Randy Vazquez )

More than half of Mass. third-graders can’t read proficiently. The state is failing its neediest learners.

Learning to read is the greatest gift a school can give a child. And yet here, in the birthplace of public education, outmoded teaching methods leave thousands of students struggling to gain this critical skill.

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Winchester, MA — 5/17/2023 - A first grader reads during class at Lincoln Elementary School. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

What reading curriculum did your district use last year? Look it up here.

Nearly half of all districts were using a curriculum last year that the state has deemed “low-quality,” the Globe found.

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Project takeaways

Thirty-five years ago, Karen Allen fell in love with the Berkshires. Today, it’s her creative haven.
Starring now in Shakespeare & Company's "Lunar Eclipse" in Lenox, the actress also teaches, directs, knits, and owns a store.

Chris Freeman, left, executive director of The Parlor Room, a local nonprofit music venue that is purchasing longtime Northampton music venue Iron Horse Music Hall, talks with Parlor Room staffers (from left) sound engineer Jared Libby, development and marketing director Em Ayres, staffer Kathleen Page, and Clara Stokes, the talent coordinator who is also a senior at Smith College.

Nonprofit buying Iron Horse Music Hall — once the beating heart of Northampton’s live-music scene

The Parlor Room is set to purchase the club, a deal that could usher in a new chapter for the city’s musical life.

Cambridge Water Department Ranger Timothy Puopolo holds up one of the fliers that was posted and subsequently taken down at Fresh Pond, asking visitors if they too had encountered a giant serpent-like creature in the water.

Mystery solved: Cambridge officials reveal identity of Fresh Pond’s so-called ‘Loch Fresh Monster’

Some visitors to Fresh Pond in Cambridge claim to have spotted a mysterious creature out in the water, which they’ve dubbed the “Loch Fresh Monster.” But Cambridge officials say they can explain what it is.

Stoughton’s Fred Richard makes history with individual bronze medal at World Gymnastics Championships

Richard, 19, is the youngest individual world medalist in US history.

This Stoughton teen with 360,000 followers on TikTok is a rising gymnastics star, and he’s out to flip his way into stardom

The Snow family appeared at Fenway Park in 2021 (and took a selfie with Red Sox president Sam Kennedy), with Chris throwing a ceremonial first pitch.

tribute

‘He never faded away’: Kelsie Snow pays tribute to her husband, Chris, and his valiant battle with ALS

The Snow family chose to live life with ALS in the public eye so people could see the devastation of a disease that many look away from, writes Chris's wife, Kelsie.

Tim Wakefield (left) and Dan Duquette at Red Sox spring training in 2000.

tara sullivan

Tim Wakefield was all about service over self, as Dan Duquette can attest

"He lived a life of service," said the former Red Sox GM. "One of those rare guys, uniquely talented but he thought of the team first and himself second."

Opinion

Former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador Nikki Haley spoke during the second Republican presidential primary debate at the Reagan Presidential Library in California on Sept. 27.

SCOT LEHIGH

GOP presidential campaign in New Hampshire shows signs of life

Nikki Haley has overtaken Ron DeSantis in the race for second place in the Republican presidential nomination.

NEWSLETTERS

No good news about how the media covers Black people and their communities

EDITORIAL

Democrats won’t miss Kevin McCarthy. Probably.

IDEAS | Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

If your dog could speak, would you like what it said?

banned books

Banned Books Week: ‘Between the World and Me’ by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Hispanic Heritage Month

Jose Masso stands next to "The Embrace" monument on Boston Common. His name is one of 69 inscribed on the 1965 Freedom Plaza that encircles the sculpture.

On the air and off, Jose Masso has been heard

Four girls at an athletic field in Roxbury, at a recreational sporting event sponsored by La Alianza Hispana.

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

Dr. Pablo Rodriguez, a long-time public health advocate and Latino radio host who has launched Rhode Island’s first Spanish-language health website, nuestrasalud.com.

During Hispanic Heritage Month, doctor says R.I. can do better: ‘Taco Tuesday is not progress. It is appeasement.’

Owner Edner Ttrente Et Un at Viva Mi Arepa, a Venezuelan restaurant in West Roxbury.

DEVRA FIRST

10 restaurants that capture the spirit of Hispanic Heritage Month

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‘This is our Super Bowl’: Black-owned businesses, allies to gather at 5th Mass. Black Expo
The Mass. Black Expo, scheduled from Friday to Sunday, will bring together businesses, organizations, and allies to discuss wealth-building opportunities in the state.

A Brockton hospital recently treated four people for tuberculosis; city has about 10 active cases, officials say

Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton has recently treated four people for tuberculosis, and there are about 10 active cases of the disease among city residents, officials said Thursday.

Fourth human case of West Nile virus detected in Norfolk County, officials said.

Bradley Cooper plays Bernstein, Almodóvar unveils a queer cowboy movie, and more from the New York Film Festival
This year’s NYFF slate is "unnervingly obsessed with adults in illicit, illegal sexual relationships," our film critic writes.

Odie Henderson review | ★★

‘The Exorcist: Believer’: No sympathy for the devil
The demon Pazuzu gets a two-for-one deal in this "requel," featuring Leslie Odom Jr. and Ellen Burstyn.

School bus driver, monitor charged in case involving abuse of 10-year-old in Methuen
A school bus driver and a bus monitor are facing criminal charges in connection with the alleged physical abuse of a 10-year-old in Methuen, police said.

Bodies of two divers recovered at beach in Rockport

The first body was discovered in the area of Front Beach on Wednesday afternoon and the second body was recovered in the early evening by the State Police Dive Team, according to a statement from the Essex District Attorney.

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A greyhound racing magnate needed to sell the old Brockton Fairgrounds. The city made an offer.

After several failed attempts at a revival, the family who has controlled the Brockton Fairgrounds since the 1950s, the Carneys, put the 66 acres up for sale.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

JetBlue has launched a Boston-to-Amsterdam route. The catch: It may not last long.
Schiphol is the first mega airport in the world to begin reducing flights to mitigate carbon emissions. JetBlue executives now fear a cap on takeoffs and landings in 2024 will put the new route in peril.

YVONNE ABRAHAM

At the Shattuck, good intentions collide
Turning the old hospital at the edge of Franklin Park into a desperately needed refuge for those battling addiction and homelessness is no simple proposition.

A developer proposed nearly 500 apartments on South Shore Plaza. Then residents killed it.
A plan for what would have been Braintree’s largest apartment project ran into a buzz saw of neighborhood opposition.

Culture & Lifestyle

It’s Banned Books Week. Now what?

Jazz Along the Charles to honor Boston’s legacy of women composers and musicians

Marshall W. Mabry IV in "Fat Ham" at the Huntington Theatre.

‘Fat Ham,’ at the Huntington, updates ‘Hamlet’

Seu Jorge goes back to bossa nova with Antônio Carlos Jobim’s grandson

Special Projects

Boston thrives off the dreams of young people. But can they make it here?

Baby boomers and Gen Xers benefited from economic conditions that do not exist for millennials. And by many measures, the path ahead for Gen Z is even more fraught.

Boston, MA—12/14/2022 - Commuters wait for the T to arrive at Ruggles Station. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

Brittany Tee, Soomaiiah Quraiishi, and Reina Morales Rojas are among thousands of people thought to be missing from Massachusetts.

How the missing become the uncounted

Inside the government’s flawed approach to finding missing persons.

Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

EDITORIAL

Abuse at residential schools for autistic children calls out for accountability, transparency

President Biden welcomed Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House Sept. 21.

JEFF JACOBY

The real reason an ‘America First’ mindset dominates the Republican base

Melissa Gomes watched her 6-year-old daughter, Melyahni, bounce on the trampoline outside her home in Malden. Many suburbs have erected barriers to the kind of income-restricted, multibedroom housing that families with kids need.

EDITORIAL

The Boston suburbs’ cynical ploy to keep poor families out: Use seniors as a shield

An Alberta, Canada, Department of Public Health venereal disease poster from 1925.

IDEAS | ANNE ZINK

Syphilis, the ‘Great Pretender,’ is back

Residents fled their homes to escape clashes between armed gangs in the Carrefour-Feuilles district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Aug. 15.

EDITORIAL

Giving Haiti a fighting chance

A dog named Ducky demonstrated FluentPet's communication buttons during the Pepcom Digital Experience before the CES tech show in January.

IDEAS | Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

If your dog could speak, would you like what it said?

Metro

Judicial inquest clears Cambridge police officer in fatal shooting of 20-year-old college student

The shooting of a 20-year-old Sayed Arif Faisal by a Cambridge police officer in January was “justified and does not constitute a criminal act,” Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan announced Thursday.

Bodies of two divers recovered at beach in Rockport

House unveils revised gun control bill, plans to move forward without Senate consensus

The original bill was filed in June, sparking loud pushback from gun groups and a protest from Senate Democrats, who fought with the House over which committee should hold a public hearing on the bill.

Joe Christopher, an original Met who was Amazin’ in ’64, dies at 88

Joe Christopher, an original New York Met who achieved an unusual feat of competence in that often-bumbling, last-place franchise’s third season when he batted .300 in 1964, died Tuesday in Edgewood, Maryland. He was 88.

Sports

BASEBALL

Mets GM Billy Eppler, superseded by David Stearns, quits to offer new boss ‘clean slate’

Owner Steve Cohen had long talked about hiring a president of baseball operations above Eppler and had said baseball operations leadership had become too large a job for one person.

Mac Jones and the Patriots have been unable to sustain drives in the first quarter.

Patriots notebook

Is this the week the Patriots finally get off to a fast start?

Through four games, New England has scored just 6 first-quarter points.

Called up to the varsity as an eighth grader on a program struggling with numbers, Fielding Mayhugh is now a hard-hitting junior tri-captain for 10-2 Weston.

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS' VOLLEYBALL NOTEBOOK

Fielding Mayhugh’s growth and maturation is reflected in the emergence of the Weston girls’ volleyball program

The 6-foot-1-inch junior hitter leads a trio of captains that make the 18th-ranked Wildcats (10-2) one of the top teams vying for a Division 3 championship.

NFL notebook

Healthy Jonathan Taylor back at practice for Colts

GOLF

Hospitality structure burns at Ryder Cup host course

Joe Christopher, an original Met who was Amazin’ in ’64, dies at 88

Business

Biden memo directs US agencies to restore ‘healthy and abundant’ salmon runs in the Northwest

In a move that conservationists and tribes called a potential breakthrough, President Biden has directed federal agencies to use all available authorities and resources to restore “healthy and abundant” salmon runs in the Columbia River Basin.

Russian strike on village kills 51, Ukrainian officials say, as Zelensky seeks more Western support

A Russian rocket blast turned a village cafe and store in eastern Ukraine into rubble Thursday, killing at least 51 civilians in one of the deadliest attacks in the war in months, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky and other top officials in Kyiv.

China’s EV threat: a carmaker that loses $35,000 a car

Mortgage rates reach highs last seen in 2000

magazine

MISS CONDUCT

My co-workers' jokes about suicide leave me rattled

Jazz Along the Charles, set for October 7, will feature 100 Boston-based musicians.

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, Oct. 2 - Oct. 15

A social studies classroom at Kingswood Regional High School in Wolfeboro.

The Education Issue

The 'anti-woke' legislation making N.H. teachers nervous

The Education Issue

Mass. schools are among the best. Except for financial literacy.

metro

Dr. Robbie Goldstein, Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health, received shots for COVID and influenza on Wednesday.

State launches new respiratory illness dashboard to track COVID-19, flu, and RSV

Best things to do in Rhode Island this week: Oct. 6-13

A Brockton hospital recently treated four people for tuberculosis; city has about 10 active cases, officials say

sports

Paul Pierce pumped up the TD Garden crowd before Game 7 of the Eastern finals against the Heat last May.

Paul Pierce shows up at Celtics practice, and he intends to be a presence around the team this year

Is Jrue Holiday the ‘missing piece’ for a Celtics championship? Paul Pierce thinks so.

Stoughton’s Fred Richard makes history with individual bronze medal at World Gymnastics Championships

business

St. Regis developer looks to jump-start lackluster condo sales

Nonprofit buying Iron Horse Music Hall — once the beating heart of Northampton’s live-music scene

Humanoid robots may finally be coming to the business world — starting in warehouses

politics

President Biden delivered remarks during a meeting on Ukraine in the Oval Office on Thursday. The Republican meltdown on Capitol Hill this week highlighted a sharp decline in GOP support for continuing to send aid to Ukraine and how opposition to helping Kyiv has become a litmus test for the far right.

Opposition to Ukraine aid becomes a litmus test for the right

President Biden praises Dianne Feinstein as defender of American values at San Francisco memorial

Biden says he had to use Trump-era funds for the border wall. Asked if barriers work, he says ‘No.’

Nation

FILE - This photo shows the Ice Harbor dam on the Snake River in Pasco, Wash, Oct. 24, 2006. In a move that conservationists and tribes called a potential breakthrough, President Joe Biden has directed federal agencies to use all available authorities and resources to restore “healthy and abundant” salmon runs in the Columbia River Basin. (AP Photo/Jackie Johnston, File)

Biden memo directs US agencies to restore ‘healthy and abundant’ salmon runs in the Northwest

Gun deaths rising sharply among children, Mass. researchers find

2,577 confirmed cases and 20 deaths in a week. See the latest COVID-19 data from Mass.

World

On Thursday, in one of the deadliest attacks on Ukrainian civilians since Russia began its war, a Russian missile struck a village in Hroza, Ukraine, killing at least 51 people. Mourners were left waiting to hear the fate of a loved one in the aftermath of the attack.

Russian strike on village kills 51, Ukrainian officials say, as Zelensky seeks more Western support

Norwegian author receives the Nobel Prize in literature

Putin claims Russia successfully tested a nuclear-powered missile

opinion

Giving Haiti a fighting chance

In the conservative crackdown on sex, ‘parental rights’ could be a smokescreen

The real reason an ‘America First’ mindset dominates the Republican base

lifestyle

Turns out, there’s an age gap

Monday is Indigenous Peoples’ Day in Boston. Here’s how to celebrate it.

06Monsters

food & dining

A lychee martini at Hanami Sushi Bar and Grill in Belmont.

At Belmont’s new Hanami, a sprawling menu of sushi and small plates

Eastern Standard to reopen next week in new location

Fall food guide: 12 often overlooked best places to eat and drink in Rhode Island this fall

travel

View Boston in the Prudential Center offers 360-degree views of the city skyline and series of new murals, including a colorful geometric mural by Boston artists Ryan and Rachel Adams, “Serendipitous, 2023” (pictured here), with a central heart image in Ryan’s signature “gem” style surrounded by Rachel’s quilt motif depicting iconic local landmarks such as the Zakim Bridge, Citgo Sign, and Charles River.

Artsy views from Boston to Brattleboro, plus the bottom line on comfortable seating

Author Caroline Kepnes on pillowcases, peppermint patties, and the passenger from hell

Passport wait times are getting shorter

Arts

Isaac Scott, "Rua Do Poço Dos Negros," 2023.

Preserving Portuguese history and culture in ‘Mouros’

In Renaissance Italy, women artists quietly persisted

When seeing is believing meets believing as seeing

Books

James Frankie Thomas is the author of 'Idlewild,' a coming-of-age new novel set at a Quaker school.

James Frankie Thomas writes a queer ‘elegy to a bygone era of the internet’ in ‘Idlewild’

Watertown Zine Fest celebrates marginalized voices through DIY publishing; new poetry anthology commemorates demolition of Salem power plant; Brattleboro Literary Festival opens on Friday

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Federal officials question Mass. oversight of special education

‘Don’t ... bring your liberal [expletive] to my state’: N.H. GOP voters perceive Mass. negatively, poll shows

Here are the top 20 frequent flyers and biggest carbon polluters out of Hanscom Field, report says

Paul Pierce shows up at Celtics practice, and he intends to be a presence around the team this year

President Biden praises Dianne Feinstein as defender of American values at San Francisco memorial The service will mark the end of two days of events in the city that launched Feinstein’s political career.

Boston College buys Mount Alvernia High School campus in Newton for $40.5 million

2,577 confirmed cases and 20 deaths in a week. See the latest COVID-19 data from Mass.

House unveils revised gun control bill, plans to move forward without Senate consensus

Healthy Jonathan Taylor back at practice for Colts

Two men charged with murder in death of pregnant woman’s baby in Holyoke

Cambridge church to remove 302-year-old golden rooster weathervane

From $16 million to $4.1 million: What a downtown office building sale signals about Boston’s real estate market

St. Regis developer looks to jump-start lackluster condo sales

Lost in a world of words

More than half of Mass. third-graders can’t read proficiently. The state is failing its neediest learners.

What reading curriculum did your district use last year? Look it up here.

More from the project

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Mystery solved: Cambridge officials reveal identity of Fresh Pond’s so-called ‘Loch Fresh Monster’

Stoughton’s Fred Richard makes history with individual bronze medal at World Gymnastics Championships

‘He never faded away’: Kelsie Snow pays tribute to her husband, Chris, and his valiant battle with ALS

Tim Wakefield was all about service over self, as Dan Duquette can attest

GOP presidential campaign in New Hampshire shows signs of life

No good news about how the media covers Black people and their communities

Democrats won’t miss Kevin McCarthy. Probably.

If your dog could speak, would you like what it said?

Banned Books Week: ‘Between the World and Me’ by Ta-Nehisi Coates

On the air and off, Jose Masso has been heard

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

During Hispanic Heritage Month, doctor says R.I. can do better: ‘Taco Tuesday is not progress. It is appeasement.’

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A Brockton hospital recently treated four people for tuberculosis; city has about 10 active cases, officials say

Bradley Cooper plays Bernstein, Almodóvar unveils a queer cowboy movie, and more from the New York Film Festival This year’s NYFF slate is "unnervingly obsessed with adults in illicit, illegal sexual relationships," our film critic writes.

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School bus driver, monitor charged in case involving abuse of 10-year-old in Methuen A school bus driver and a bus monitor are facing criminal charges in connection with the alleged physical abuse of a 10-year-old in Methuen, police said.

Bodies of two divers recovered at beach in Rockport

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House unveils revised gun control bill, plans to move forward without Senate consensus

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Mets GM Billy Eppler, superseded by David Stearns, quits to offer new boss ‘clean slate’

Is this the week the Patriots finally get off to a fast start?

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Hospitality structure burns at Ryder Cup host course

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Biden memo directs US agencies to restore ‘healthy and abundant’ salmon runs in the Northwest

Russian strike on village kills 51, Ukrainian officials say, as Zelensky seeks more Western support

China’s EV threat: a carmaker that loses $35,000 a car

Mortgage rates reach highs last seen in 2000

President Biden praises Dianne Feinstein as defender of American values at San Francisco memorial
The service will mark the end of two days of events in the city that launched Feinstein’s political career.

Thirty-five years ago, Karen Allen fell in love with the Berkshires. Today, it’s her creative haven.
Starring now in Shakespeare & Company's "Lunar Eclipse" in Lenox, the actress also teaches, directs, knits, and owns a store.

‘This is our Super Bowl’: Black-owned businesses, allies to gather at 5th Mass. Black Expo
The Mass. Black Expo, scheduled from Friday to Sunday, will bring together businesses, organizations, and allies to discuss wealth-building opportunities in the state.

Bradley Cooper plays Bernstein, Almodóvar unveils a queer cowboy movie, and more from the New York Film Festival
This year’s NYFF slate is "unnervingly obsessed with adults in illicit, illegal sexual relationships," our film critic writes.

Odie Henderson review | ★★

‘The Exorcist: Believer’: No sympathy for the devil
The demon Pazuzu gets a two-for-one deal in this "requel," featuring Leslie Odom Jr. and Ellen Burstyn.

School bus driver, monitor charged in case involving abuse of 10-year-old in Methuen
A school bus driver and a bus monitor are facing criminal charges in connection with the alleged physical abuse of a 10-year-old in Methuen, police said.

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At the Shattuck, good intentions collide
Turning the old hospital at the edge of Franklin Park into a desperately needed refuge for those battling addiction and homelessness is no simple proposition.

A developer proposed nearly 500 apartments on South Shore Plaza. Then residents killed it.
A plan for what would have been Braintree’s largest apartment project ran into a buzz saw of neighborhood opposition.