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‘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.
Least vaccinated US counties have something in common: Trump voters

ames Hill paused at a roadside memorial for Joey Berolini and Billy Hickey, two hockey players who graduated from Pembroke High School in 2016 and were killed in a car crash on Elm Street at the intersection of Mountain Ash Lane. Hill went to elementary and middle school with Joey Berolini and Billy Hickey and said he had just seen them a few days before the crash.
Pembroke mourns deaths of 2 former high school hockey stars
Joseph Birolini and William Hickey, both 23, who graduated from Pembroke High in 2016, died from injuries suffered in the crash early Saturday morning on Elm Street, officials said Sunday.

Will a passport be required? As more people get their shots, the thorny issue of whether to prove coronavirus vaccination is growing

As the number of people vaccinated rapidly climbs and we plan for a return to “normal,” a difficult question is emerging: whether employers and managers of other public places can or should require COVID shots for entry and, if so, how best to verify someone has been vaccinated.

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

The government announced Sunday, half of all adults in the US have received at least one COVID-19 shot, marking another milestone in the nation’s largest-ever vaccination campaign but leaving more work to do to convince skeptical Americans to roll up their sleeves.

Three dead in wrong-way crash on I-84 in Sturbridge
Troopers responded to a report of a wrong-way driver traveling eastbound near Exit 6B at 6:04 p.m., State Police said.

Dr. Anthony Fauci spoke before a House panel on Thursday.

US will likely move to resume Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine this week, Fauci says

The United States will likely move to resume Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine this coming week, possibly with restrictions or broader warnings after reports of some very rare blood clot cases, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday.
Massachusetts state Representative David Nangle, center, left the federal courthouse in Boston after his initial appearance on Feb. 18, 2020.

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.
Canada's Meaghan Mikkelson (12) and Marie-Philip Poulin (29) defends against Hilary Knight of the United States during an exhibition between the teams in Hartford, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2019. Knight is on the 25-player roster trying to earn the US a sixth straight title at the IIHF Women's World Championships in May.

Salisbury native Bob Corkum quits as US women’s hockey coach due to opposition with COVID-19 protocols

Corkum, who played for Triton Regional and the University of Maine before a 12-year NHL career, is yielding to his assistants less than a month before this year's world championships.
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

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Weekend Arts

Boston-based artist Niu Raza released her debut album, "Mm-hmm," in late January. The native of Madagascar is a Berklee School of Music graduate.
MUSIC

Nine albums by local artists that have gotten this year off to an exciting start

On "Best Friend," Laufey pairs a swinging, jazzy lope with a mechanical drum-machine beat.
Album Reviews

The sound of our town in nine new singles

A scene from “A Very English Scandal,” starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw.
MATTHEW GILBERT

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

Elisabeth Moss and Max Minghella in Hulu's "The Handmaid's Tale"
MATTHEW GILBERT

At last, 9 returning TV shows to look forward to this spring and summer

Three adults are fatally shot in Austin, Texas; no suspect in custody, officials say
Authorities in Austin, Texas, said they were responding to an active shooter. They said the incident appeared to be domestic-related and that there was no threat to the public.

Authorities search Hull Bay for man who ran into water to avoid police

Police responded to a home late Thursday for a report of a dispute over a family vehicle. A 39-year-old man fled before police arrived, but was later located by police. He went into Hull Bay to avoid officers, police said.

Liverpool and Real Madrid, seen here in an April 14 match, are two Champions League teams that could potentially be part of a European super league.
Top European soccer clubs in talks to form ‘super league’
The Boston-owned Liverpool Football Club joined 11 other European powerhouse soccer clubs. A formal announcement is expected on Monday. UEFA and FIFA have condemned the league's formation.

STARTS & STOPS
A sign in 2016 hailed the Green Line expansion into Somerville and Medford that is just about complete.
The new Green Line will be ready in the fall. Paying for a ride, however, will be a little tricky
The long-awaited Green Line extension looks like it will beat the MBTA's new fare system to the punch — complicating fare collection.

FedEx gunman bought two rifles after police seized his shotgun, chief says

Brandon Hole, the 19-year-old man who the police say fatally shot eight people at a FedEx facility Thursday night, legally purchased two semi-automatic rifles he used in the attack just a few months after the police seized a shotgun from him, the chief of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said Saturday.
Sikh community calls for gun reforms after shooting

One America News Network is available to about 35 million households in the United States.
One America News Network stays true to Trump
Months after the inauguration of President Biden, One America News Network has continued to broadcast segments questioning the validity of the 2020 presidential election.

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?

Recommended reads

Jamill Martinez, the director of network marketing at Lawrence Community Works.
Vaccination disparities across race and ethnicity persist in Mass. communities most affected by COVID-19
Despite efforts to ensure the COVID-19 vaccines are distributed equitably across Massachusetts, predominantly Black and Latino communities, where the risk of infection is greatest, still have among the lowest inoculation rates in the state, according to a new analysis.

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.
Billy Baker

How a lockdown game became a monthly treasure hunt with a cult following

Ryan Collins created “Happy Hunting” to distract himself and his friends. Now, his intricate puzzles have a growing fan base of devotees who race around the state each month looking for his hidden treasures.
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.
Analysis

Obama talked about a ‘pivot to Asia.’ Biden is actually doing it

Years after the Obama administration, the pivot to Asia is finally happening. But the person doing it is Obama’s vice president, Joe Biden.

metro

ames Hill paused at a roadside memorial for Joey Berolini and Billy Hickey, two hockey players who graduated from Pembroke High School in 2016 and were killed in a car crash on Elm Street at the intersection of Mountain Ash Lane. Hill went to elementary and middle school with Joey Berolini and Billy Hickey and said he had just seen them a few days before the crash.

Pembroke mourns deaths of 2 former high school hockey stars

Joseph Birolini and William Hickey, both 23, who graduated from Pembroke High in 2016, died from injuries suffered in the crash early Saturday morning on Elm Street, officials said Sunday.

Janey addresses police accountability, reform in MSNBC interview

Three Boston men arrested for Newton burglaries

Sports

Liverpool and Real Madrid, seen here in an April 14 match, are two Champions League teams that could potentially be part of a European super league.

Top European soccer clubs in talks to form ‘super league’

The Boston-owned Liverpool Football Club joined 11 other European powerhouse soccer clubs. A formal announcement is expected on Monday. UEFA and FIFA have condemned the league's formation.
white sox vs. red sox | 1:10, 5:10 (nesn)

Games 15 and 16: White Sox at Red Sox lineups and notes

Celtics 119, Warriors 114

Jayson Tatum outduels Stephen Curry as Celtics win a thriller at TD Garden

business

Liverpool is one of a handful of Premier League soccer teams aiming to form a breakaway league.
soccer

European soccer split: elite clubs threaten breakaway league

Jasiel Correia, ex-mayor of Fall River, to face jurors in fraud, bribery case

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

politics

Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is held by pharmacist Madeline Acquilano at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn. U.S. on March 3, 2021.

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

One America News Network stays true to Trump

GOP White House hopefuls move forward as Trump considers run

Living Arts

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

LOVE LETTERS

How do we solve the intimacy problem?

education

Leaders of civil rights, community, and education advocacy organizations and attorneys who intervened in the recent lawsuit challenging Boston Public Schools’ updated admissions process held a press conference Friday morning.

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

Federal judge upholds Boston exam school admissions policy

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 projectFollow @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

New England Revolution defender Andrew Farrell (2) flips back to kick the ball during the first half of an MLS soccer match against the Chicago Fire in Chicago on Saturday.

Revolution Opening Day disappointment continues in tie with Fire

Salisbury native Bob Corkum quits as US women’s hockey coach due to opposition with COVID-19 protocols

Report: Indiana would’ve given Brad Stevens $70 million to woo him to Hoosiers

metro

The Green Line's B line cruises past the Pleasant Street station after making a stop on Feb. 15.

MBTA Green Line service changes start for BU stops

Lynn rally decries anti-Asian hate

Protesters in Boston remember those killed in violent encounters with police

Nation

Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is held by pharmacist Madeline Acquilano at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn. U.S. on March 3, 2021.

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

Least vaccinated US counties have something in common: Trump voters

COVID vaccines may affect women differently

World

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II sat alone during the funeral of her husband Prince Philip at Windsor Castle on Saturday.

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

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

Britain’s goodbye to Philip: A pared-down funeral, minute of silence and a solitary queen in a chapel

politics

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

Fundraising surged for Republicans who sought to overturn the election

Biden vows to ‘do more’ to end gun violence but rejects calls to appoint a czar

business

A Peloton Interactive Inc. Tread exercise machine for sale at the company's showroom in Dedham, Massachusetts, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021.

Peloton fights federal safety recall after its treadmills left one child dead, others injured

BPDA OKs re-do of Jamaica Plain’s Mildred Hailey complex

Harvard Club, developer plan 11-story building along Mass. Pike

lifestyle

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

‘Postcards from Allston’ photographer captures a changing neighborhood and its residents

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

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

Vartan Gregorian in New York City in October 2020

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

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

‘Peaky Blinders’ actor Helen McCrory dies of cancer at 52