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With shutdown on, war of words heats up

Parties point fingers, but no talks
Democrats make their stand By Jim Puzzanghera ops, selfies, and scripted talking

on protecting health care and Tal Kopan

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WAshingTOn — As the first

points is over,” minnesota rep-
resentative Tom Emmer, the
third-ranking house republi-
By Sam Brodey made the gOp pay for proposing day of the federal government can, said in the bright sunshine
gLOBE sTAFF those plans, running a health- shutdown dawned Wednesday, with the Washington monument
WA s h i n g T O n — W h e n care-focused effort that netted top republicans and democrats as a backdrop at a gOp leader-
democrats began drawing their 40 seats in the house. seemed to be talking to everyone ship press conference. “The time
battle lines against republicans now, with Trump and repub- but each other as they dug in for for deliberate action is now.”
over an impending government licans back in charge, democrats what could be a long fight. But there was no such action
shutdown, it was perhaps inevi- are refusing to approve a gOp They blanketed morning Tv. Wednesday because of a funda-
table that they would center bill to fund the government, They held dueling news confer- mental problem. republicans
their fight on the cause that fu- which shut down Wednesday, ences. And senators delivered say they’ll negotiate once the
eled their comeback the last without major concessions on their talking points to throngs of democrats agree to reopen the
BrEndAn smiALOWski/AFp viA gETTy imAgEs
time donald Trump was presi- health care — chief among them reporters peppering them with government; democrats say
dent: health care. extending subsidized tax credits A member of the National Guard patrolled at the questions in the capitol hall- they’ll reopen the government
in 2017, democrats success- for AcA premiums that are set to Lincoln Memorial, which remained open Wednesday. ways. once republicans agree to nego-
fully harnessed public backlash expire at the end of the year, af- But when the question was tiate.
to block republicans’ repeated fecting roughly 20 million peo- how will the shutdown end, the “here’s what we hope: now
attempts to repeal the Afford- ple. A bad day to be a tourist answer was unequivocally: Ask that the republicans have seen
able care Act. And in the 2018 still struggling to find their visitors to Boston-area historical sites and attractions were the other side. they don’t have the votes . . . they
congressional midterms, they ACA, Page A7 greeted by signs reading ‘closed.’ B1. “The time for staged photo- SHUTDOWN, Page A7

‘We must find

funding sources sox lose their eDge
beyond gas and
electric ratepayers
for these programs
to really serve
everyone.’
Amy BOyd rABin,
vice president of policy
at the Environmental League
of Massachusetts

Mass Save
forced to
temper its
ambitions
By Sabrina Shankman
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Early this year, the state’s na-

tion-leading energy efficiency
program adopted a broader
strategy to encourage more low-
income households and tenants
to tap into its benefits for heat
pumps, insulation, and other
measures that would save them
money while helping the envi-
ronment.
The intent was to make up
for years of not reaching those
populations — a failure high-
dAniELLE pArhizkArAn/gLOBE sTAFF
lighted this week in a new report
by the state auditor’s office, Trevor story had a big night for the red sox with a homer and three rBis, but it wasn’t enough as the sox blew their chance to finish
which found that low-income off the yankees with a 4-3 loss in game 2 of the wild-card round. sox starter Brayan Bello didn’t last long and was yanked in the third
residents are paying more for inning, leaving the bullpen to cover the rest of the game. The decisive game 3, with the winner moving on, will be tonight at 6 or 8. C1.
mass save through surcharges
on their energy bills but not get-
ting much in return.
yet the response from those
customers has so far proved so
popular that mass save is quick-
Jane Goodall 1934-2025
lodging prices
ly reaching it budgeted amounts
for the cycle and now has to tem-
per ambitions. it is also colliding
seeing chimps for what they really are on rise as P-town
struggles to
with another reality: the state is By Emma Brown
under pressure to keep already WAshingTOn pOsT

high energy bills in check, espe- Jane goodall had no scientific training, not even a col-
cially after the budget-busting
charges of last winter. And the
first thing they targeted for cost-
lege degree when, at 23, she saved up money to visit a
friend in kenya. she was a London secretary and some-
times waitress with a restless spirit and romantic fixation
retain its charm
savings was the surcharges on on animals and Africa based mostly on the “doctor dolit- By Sarah Rahal
energy bills that underwrite the tle” and “Tarzan” novels of her childhood. gLOBE sTAFF

efficiency measures that mass An encounter in nairobi with the eminent paleoan- prOvincETOWn — On a summer after-
save wants more people to take. thropologist Louis Leakey altered the course of her life, noon, commercial street is humming with
The mass save program is de- setting her on an unlikely path to becoming the world’s tourists, the briny air smelling of fresh fudge
signed not just to help home- foremost primatologist. her startling observations about and fried clams. drag queens in sequin dresses
owners and renters lower their chimpanzee behaviors — from making tools to making sashay past strollers and leashed dogs, weaving
utility bills through energy effi- war — revolutionized not only scientific understanding through the slow crawl of cars that yield to the
ciency, but also to be a critical of the capabilities and inner lives of our simian cousins, crowd of pedestrians and cyclists.
component of the state’s efforts but also long-held notions about what it means to be hu- For many, a trip to this destination on the tip
to achieve its legally mandated man. of cape cod begins when they step off the ferry
targets to tackle climate change dr. goodall, whose research prompted a transforma- and check into one of the town’s boutique, own-
by reducing greenhouse gas tion in the ways scientists study social behavior across er-run inns where innkeepers greet guests by
emissions. species, has died at 91. her death was announced name and cook them breakfast.
JEAn-mArc BOUJU/AssOciATEd prEss/FiLE 1997
mass save operates on three- Wednesday by the Jane goodall institute, which said she For Josh scaturro and stan cottner, running
year cycles, and a $5 billion bud- Jane Goodall worked to publicize the plight of was in california for a speaking tour. an inn isn’t just a job — it’s a way of life. The
MASS SAVE, Page A10 dwindling chimpanzee populations. GOODALL, Page C9 couple recall drunkenly stumbling out of the
Boat slip resort and Beach club in 2014, spot-
ting a building for sale, and, within a few
months, leaving their lives in key West, Fla., to
vOL . 308, nO. 94
*
on the up and up A dozen states, including four in New
England, sued Homeland Security Sec-
the body of a 15-year-old boy who was
beaten to death five decades ago. B1.
launch the Queen vic guest house — a 10-
room inn where they also live.
suggested retail price Thursday: Sunny, brisk. retary Kristi Noem over funding reduc- They keep operations lean: cottner handles
$4.00 High 59-64. Low 46-51. tions by the Trump administration. B1. The Pentagon plans to impose nondis- reservations and cooks breakfast, while scatur-
Friday: Warming up. closure agreements and polygraph test- ro takes care of laundry and gardening. “it’s just
High 71-76. Low 52-57. Coffee drinkers have gotten a rude ing for people in its headquarters. A2. Josh and me. it’s a lifestyle,” cottner said. “i get
High tide: 7:50 a.m., 8 p.m. shock from the closing of a number of why it’s hard if you have to pay a manager, but
Starbucks stores in the Boston area. D1. The huge influx of Palestinians into the too often places cut corners — offering a $5 cof-
Sunrise: 6:42 Sunset: 6:24 south has further strained humanitari- fee voucher and calling it breakfast. you can’t
Weather and Comics, D5-6. Authorities in Swampscott exhumed an services, aid groups say. A3. PROVINCETOWN, Page A10
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The Nation
US to withhold $18b for NYC transit projects
Freeze seems geared to push Democrats on shutdown and the gateway project or other
initiatives as well.
By Matthew Haag al contracting processes.” threats to freeze and claw back new York attorney general
nEw YoRk timES the review was in response federal funds from states and cit- letitia James, along with a coali-
nEw YoRk — the trump to President trump’s executive ies that promote diversity initia- tion of other attorneys general,
administration announced orders this year targeting diver- tives or do not cooperate with it won a court order this week halt-
wednesday that it would with- sity, equity, and inclusion pro- on federal immigration enforce- ing the trump administration
hold $18 billion in federal funds grams, Duffy said, and following ment, new York has been a main from cutting funds to antiterror-
previously awarded to new York a rule issued by the department target, with hundreds of mil- ism and public safety projects.
City for two of the largest infra- tuesday that forbids recipients lions of dollars withheld. Former president Joe Biden’s
structure projects in the country. of federal transit funds from But this funding freeze is the administration awarded the
the two projects — the ex- mandating race- and sex-based largest yet in new York and mta $3.4 billion in federal fund-
pansion of the Second avenue contracting requirements. could have potentially wide- ing in 2023 to extend the Q line
subway line and new commuter t he substantial funding spread effects, disrupting a re- on Second avenue from the Up-
train tunnels under the Hudson freeze targeting the two projects gional economy dependent on per East Side into Harlem and
SEtH wEnig/aSSoCiatED PRESS
River — are aimed at improving also appeared to be intended to the movement of residents and East Harlem, an expansion of a
travel for millions of travelers pressure Democrats to join Re- commuters. New York had already been a main target of the Trump project that has been in the
and daily commuters and are publicans in reopening the gov- like other effor ts by the administration, with hundreds of millions of dollars cut. works for more than a century.
both underway. in fact, con- ernment. with Department of trump administration to with- the first phase of the Second
struction has already begun on transportation employees fur- hold or delay federal funding to ment. “we’re reviewing their an additional $100 million in avenue subway line opened in
the tunnels, a $16 billion project loughed, the review could not new York, the decision is likely tweets and press releases like ev- counterterrorism funding in 2017 after a decade of construc-
known as gateway that sits at begin, and federal funds could to be challenged in court. eryone else. For now, it looks like new York, following an earlier tion, adding three stations on
the center of the busy northeast not be released for work already the decision has caused con- they’re just inventing excuses to reduction of $87 million. the Upper East Side in one of the
Corridor. underway. fusion among the agencies over- delay one of the most important “they’ve decided to put their most expensive transportation
in a statement, Sean Duffy, while federal funding for seeing the projects, including infrastructure projects in ameri- own interpretation of proper projects ever.
the transportation secretary, transit projects across the coun- the metropolitan transportation ca.” culture ahead of our needs, the the extension would add two
said, “the department is focus- try could now be at risk, the de- authority, which is managing Duffy said that the review needs of a nation,” Hochul, a additional stations into East
ing on these projects because partment chose first to single the subway extension project would be “quick” but could not Democrat, said at a news confer- Harlem.
they are arguably the largest in- out projects in the backyards of that was expected to be open in yet begin because of the govern- ence to discuss another topic in- and at a Senate hearing in
frastructure initiatives in the Representative Hakeem Jeffries, 2032. ment shutdown. volving washington, the federal may, Duffy told Senator kirsten
western Hemisphere.” the Democratic House minority “the federal government governor kathy Hochul of government shutdown. gillibrand of new York that he
Duffy said that funds for the l e a d e r, a n d S e n at o r C h u c k wants to immediately ‘review’ new York described the an- “ You can’ t make this up, would not cancel federal grants
two projects would not be dis- Schumer, the minority leader, our compliance with rules they nouncement as the trump ad- folks. Just keeps getting worse that had been awarded for the
tributed while the transporta- who have sparred with trump told us about moments ago,” ministration’s latest salvo in its and worse.” two projects.
tion Department reviewed what over the shutdown. John J. mcCarthy, the chief of war on the state and its values. it was not immediately clear “if you’re asking me if i plan
it described as new York state’s as the trump administration policy and external relations at Earlier this week, Hochul said whether the $18 billion involved on canceling those grant agree-
“discriminatory, unconstitution- has begun carrying out its the authority, said in a state- that the administration had cut just the Second avenue Subway ments, i do not,” he said.

Daily Briefing
Pentagon plans
polygraphs, more
to stanch leaks
Proposal called required other than to intimi-
date the workforce and ensure
unnecessary by tighter control.”
the Pentagon rankled the
former officials white House earlier this year af-
ter it had begun using poly-
By Alex Horton, Tara Copp, graphs to search for people leak-
and Ellen Nakashima ing information to the news me-
waSHington PoSt dia. a political appointee and
waSHington — the Penta- Hegseth adviser, Patrick weaver,
gon plans to impose strict non- complained to white House offi-
disclosure agreements and ran- cials this spring with concerns
dom polygraph testing for scores that he and members of his team
of people in its headquarters, in- could soon be ordered to submit
cluding many top officials, ac- to a polygraph test. the white
cording to two people familiar House intervened to temporarily
with the proposal and docu- end the practice.
ments obtained by the washing- the Pentagon’s proposed
ton Post, escalating Defense Sec- nDa prohibits personnel from
retary Pete Hegseth’s war on providing any information that
leakers and internal dissent. is not public “without approval
all military service members, or through a defined process,”
civilian employees, and contract which aligns with language the
workers within the office of the Defense Department is currently
Defense Secretary and the Joint requiring reporters to sign to
Staff, estimated to be more than maintain their Pentagon press
EDUaRDo mUnoz alvaREz/aSSoCiatED PRESS
5,000 personnel, would be re- credentials.
People looked at part of a building that collapsed in the Bronx. The falling bricks buried a sidewalk but did not injure anyone. quired to sign a nondisclosure it is one of many policies be-
agreement that “prohibits the re- ing rolled out by Hegseth — in-
Residents of NYC tower escape harm after massive chimney collapses lease of non-public information
without approval or through a
cluding new limits on the mili-
tary’s independent service in-
nEw YoRk — a massive news conference. when she heard a large noise dows by the falling bricks. defined process,” according to a spectors general and equal
brick chimney running 20 sto- mayor Eric adams con- like a bomb. news helicopter footage draft memo from Deputy De- opportunity offices — that may
ries up the side of a new York firmed no injuries or deaths “and the building was shak- showed a rescue dog bounding fense Secretary Steve Feinberg. ultimately reduce the number of
City apartment building col- were reported in the collapse of ing a lot. i was so scared,” she over the huge pile of bricks at a separate document also avenues service members or de-
lapsed after an explosion the chimney, which rose up the said, feeling like it was “the end the bottom of the building, from Feinberg would establish a fense personnel have to point
wednesday, sending tons of de- side of the building from the of the world.” sniffing for anyone who might program to randomly polygraph out potential problems in the
bris plummeting to the ground. boiler room. authorities olivo heard another loud be buried under the rubble. those officials. the documents Pentagon without going through
the falling bricks buried a learned of an explosion just af- noise and then her sister-in-law, olivo didn’t know when she do not prescribe a limit on who their chain of command.
sidewalk, landed on the play- ter 8 a.m. and were trying to who lives across the street, told might get back into the build- would be subjected to these “the protection of sensitive
ground of the public housing determine if there had been a her to get out of the building ing, or whether she wanted to. agreements and tests, suggest- information is paramount to our
building, and sent a cloud of gas leak. because of the collapse outside. “i don’t feel safe to go in ing it could include everyone national security, the safety of
dust billowing over the block in the mayor noted that oct. 1 luckily, her daughters had left there,” she said. “i’m scared, su- from four-star generals to ad- our warfighters, and the preser-
the Bronx, but amazingly did is typically the first day that for school. per scared.” ministrative assistants. vation of critical decision space
not injure anyone. heating systems are turned on the mound of debris was lit- City officials in charge of the efforts are part of a wider for our senior leaders,” Feinberg
“we avoided a major disas- for the season. tered with air conditioners, public buildings said they were strategy by the trump adminis- wrote in the nDa policy memo.
ter here,” said Bronx Borough one resident, merlyn olivo, which appeared to have been investigating. tration and the Pentagon to fer- Failure to comply, he said, could
President vanessa gibson at a said she was in her apartment ripped out of apartment win- aSSoCiatED PRESS ret out officials deemed insuffi- result in punishment, including
ciently loyal or who provide in- through the military’s justice
formation to reporters. system for service members who
County to pay $20m in torture suit Storms claim homes on N.C. coast Pentagon spokespeople did
not return a request for com-
do not sign it.
Federal law makes it a crime
PalmDalE, Calif. — los time he was born because his Six unoccupied houses cal station 13news now, the ment. for personnel to disclose classi-
angeles County will pay $20 mother had been accused of along north Carolina’s outer homes tuesday teetered on Former officials and national fied information to unauthor-
million to the family of a 4- fracturing his half-sister’s skull. Banks have collapsed into the stilts, battered by the waves security lawyers pointed to al- ized individuals. Federal regula-
year-old boy who was tortured the los angeles times re- ocean as Hurricanes Humber- before plunging into the surf, ready existing restrictions and tions further bar personnel from
to death by his parents six ported the department had ig- to and imelda rumble in the clogging the seashore with de- penalties for unauthorized re- disclosing sensitive but unclassi-
years ago in a case that nored a court order giving it atlantic, the latest private bris, two-by-fours, cushions lease of information, indicating fied information, which can re-
brought scrutiny of the re- 10 days to get noah away from beachfront structures to fall as and an entire home as wave af- these new measures were meant sult in administrative or crimi-
gion’s child welfare system. his parents and seen by a doc- sea levels rise due to global ter wave rolled in. to further frighten and deter per- nal punishment.
noah Cuatro died at a hos- tor after multiple reports of warming. the post said that more col- sonnel. the unsigned and undated
pital in 2019, days before his neglect and abuse. Five of the homes, once lapses are possible given the “this seems to be far more di- document is still in the delibera-
fifth birthday, after being the child welfare depart- propped on high stilts, col- ocean conditions, and urged rected at ensuring loyalty to tion stage and has not yet been
found motionless at the fami- ment said since noah’s death it lapsed tuesday afternoon in visitors to avoid an area DoD [the Department of De- approved, said one of the offi-
ly’s apartment in Palmdale. has hired thousands of social Buxton, a community on the stretching for miles south of fense] and the trump adminis- cials, who like others spoke on
His parents, Jose maria Cuatro workers to decrease caseloads string of islands that make up the collapses, to stay clear of tration leadership rather than the condition of anonymity due
Jr. and Ursula Elaine Juarez, and has retrained staffers on the outer Banks, said mike the debris. countering any foreign espio- to the sensitive nature of the
later pleaded no contest to interviewing techniques and Barber, a spokesperson for the ocean overwash on tues- nage,” said mark zaid, a lawyer documents.
murder and torture charges. use of forensic exams. national Park Service. a sixth day also prompted the state who has represented multiple another document outlines
the boy’s great-grandmoth- County Supervisor kathryn in Buxton collapsed overnight, transportation Department to whistle-blowers and govern- the establishment of a “random
er, Eva Hernandez, sued the Barger, whose district includes the park service said on its close a portion of north Caroli- ment officials targeted by the polygraph program.” lie detec-
county’s Department of Chil- Palmdale, said she hopes the website. na Highway 12 on ocracoke is- trump administration. “there tor tests every few years are stan-
dren and Family Services in settlement announced tuesday no injuries had been re- land. the ferry connecting oc- are reasons why individuals dard procedure in the intelli-
2020, alleging the agency will provide “some measure of ported tuesday, the Cape Hat- racoke and Hatteras islands al- were not required to take poly- gence community to retain a se-
failed to keep noah safe. Cua- support” to help noah’s family teras national Seashore said in so was suspended tuesday, the graphs before. and i would curity clearance, but the use of
tro had been under depart- members heal. a post on social media. department said. question why now the polygraph random polygraphs at the Penta-
ment supervision from the aSSoCiatED PRESS in videos shown by the lo- aSSoCiatED PRESS and an overbroad nDa is being gon would be new.
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The World
Gaza exodus overwhelms relief efforts
Daily Briefing

Visa rules eased

in Caribbean Hospitals at max
poRt-oF-SpAin, trinidad — capacity; food
Four Caribbean nations are
making it easier for their citi- deliveries delayed
zens to pack up and move to
neighboring countries to start a By Liam Stack
new life without the need for vi- nEw YoRk timES

sas or work permits. tEl AViV — As israel’s full-

Barbados, Belize, Dominica, scale assault in gaza City began
and St. Vincent and the grena- last month, khitam Ayyad fled
dines signed a free movement from her home there barefoot
agreement that went into effect and without her possessions,
on wednesday. heading to an area in southern
officials said that when citi- gaza that the israeli military
zens from any of the four partic- had designated as a “humani-
ipating countries travel to an- tarian zone.”
other participating country, the military said that tents,
their passports will be stamped food, and medical care would
or a digital record will be made, be provided to those fleeing the
indicating indefinite stay is al- fighting in the north.
lowed. But when Ayyad reached the
with crime a major problem southern city of khan Younis,
in several Caribbean countries, one of the humanitarian areas,
authorities in Barbados said she said she found it overcrowd-
proper guardrails and vetting ed with desperate people who
systems are in place to keep were being offered little help.
criminals out.
ASSoCiAtED pRESS ºPeril, possibility for Blair
in Gaza peace plan role. A4
pHotoS BY ABDEl kAREEm HAnA/ASSoCiAtED pRESS

Internet restored “we are exposed to the sun

and the heat,” she said. there
Smoke rose following an Israeli military strike in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, Wednesday.

in Afghanistan was no space for her to build a closed the Zikim crossing on that fighting had rendered four
shelter, she added, and “no Sept. 12, days before the gaza hospitals in the north unusable
internet access was restored proper food or water.” City operation began, cutting over the past month.
across parts of Afghanistan on the israeli military has said off an important entry point for Before the gaza City offen-
wednesday, two days after a that its ground assault to take aid and goods. sive, UniCEF delivered special-
sudden nationwide shutdown control of gaza City, which be- when asked about the clo- ized treatment for malnour-
paralyzed the economy, ground- gan Sept. 16, is an effort to rout sure, the israeli military said ished children to northern gaza
ed planes and led to swirling ru- one of the last remaining Hamas the entry of aid trucks through twice a week, but it has deliv-
mors about the reasons behind strongholds in the gaza Strip. Zikim was “subject to opera- ered only one since the offen-
the blackout. Before the operation, the tional considerations.” sive began, said tess ingram, a
the internet outage, coupled military said the humanitarian the Un said israeli authori- spokesperson for UniCEF.
with a suspension of cellphone infrastructure in southern gaza ties had also denied or impeded the Un said that 73 percent
services, deepened a sense of was prepared for “the expected about half of its attempts to of the aid entering gaza in Sep-
dread and uncertainty for mil- population volume moving bring aid from the south to the tember had been stolen from its
lions of Afghans who were al- from northern gaza.” Palestinians mourned during the funeral of relatives killed north of gaza in recent weeks. trucks by desperate civilians or
ready feeling isolated under the this week, the military said in an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza on Wednesday. that, Cherevko said, had severe- armed gangs. Some of that pil-
drastic restrictions on individual 780,000 people had left gaza ly hampered the work of com- fered aid is then sold in local
freedoms imposed by the tali- City since an evacuation order stated that “full aid” would be zone showed and palestinians munity kitchens in the north, markets across the territory for
ban government. was issued Sept. 9. sent “immediately” to gaza and aid groups said in inter- meaning they were able to pre- inflated prices.
As of wednesday, most Af- the huge influx of palestin- once the plan went into effect, views. they said the facilities pare about a third of the meals in gaza City, some markets
ghans still did not know what ians into the south has further but it remained unclear if there were far from sufficient. they had before the offensive. had stayed open in the earliest
had happened. many Afghan of- strained humanitarian services Hamas would accept the deal. “the hospitals are complete- the israeli military said in a days of the israeli ground offen-
ficials either didn’t respond to that aid groups say were not the israeli military agency ly overflowing,” Cherevko said. statement that aid deliveries sive as vendors tried to off-load
requests for comment or said sufficient even before the arriv- that coordinates aid to gaza, “the water production is at from southern to northern gaza their stocks before they fled.
they could not explain either the al of thousands more people. known as CogAt, reiterated some of the lowest levels that were “facilitated through inter- But residents said many mar-
shutdown. olga Cherevko, a spokesper- that the humanitarian facilities we’ve ever seen. there’s all nal coordination” between itself kets now appeared to be closed
the shutdown came a few son for the United nations’ hu- in the south were prepared for kinds of diseases.” and aid groups, and that the de- or picked clean.
weeks after the country’s leader, manitarian office who is work- the new arrivals. “Accordingly, Since the ground offensive in livery of aid “continues on an Amani al-Hessi, 40, a jour-
Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundza- ing in a designated humanitari- the transfer of food, medical gaza City began, aid agencies ongoing basis.” nalist for Al madina, an Arabic-
da, ordered a crackdown on the an zone, said there were equipment and shelter supplies say, efforts to alleviate a worsen- israel’s ground offensive in language newspaper based in
internet. “hundreds of people just sitting has been increased,” CogAt ing humanitarian crisis across gaza City has also devastated israel who was sheltering in a
nEw YoRk timES on the side of the road looking said in a statement on Sept. 25. gaza have been plunged into health care there. badly damaged house in gaza
shell-shocked, without any- “Steps have been taken in the chaos. on wednesday, the Red City, said there was nowhere
thing.” fields of water and medical re- in the north, where hun- Cross said it would suspend op- left to buy food in her area.
British firm fined o n m o n d a y, p r e s i d e n t
trump and prime minister Ben-
sponse in the southern gaza
Strip.”
dreds of thousands of people
are still sheltering in gaza City,
erations and move its staff out
of the city, days after Doctors
“i went yesterday to what
used to be the market in Shati,
over COVID pact jamin ne tanyahu of israel But two weeks into the of- the delivery of food and aid has without Borders, a medical but no one was selling a thing
backed a proposal to end the fensive, there appeared to be lit- been severely disrupted, aid charity, announced a similar there,” she said, referring to one
lonDon — A British High war, which was ignited by a tle sign of that infrastructure, a agencies say. move saying that israeli forces of gaza City’s neighborhoods.
Court judge ruled wednesday Hamas-led attack on southern visit by a new York times pho- the Un’s humanitarian of- had “encircled” their facilities. “we have food enough for one
that a company repay the gov- israel on oct. 7, 2023. the plan tographer to the humanitarian fice said the israeli military over the weekend, the Un said more week at best.”
ernment more than $163 mil-
lion for breaching a contract to
supply 25 million surgical
gowns during the coronavirus
pandemic.
in an 87-page ruling, Justice
Pope Leo wades into US political controversies
Sara Cockerill found that ppE
medpro had “breached the con- Says rhetoric on of governance meaning to show than 40 years in Congress, 28 as
tract” and that the Department strength, so as to pile up pres- a senator. He is retiring from
of Health and Social Care was military, abortion sure. let’s hope this works and the Senate after his current
“entitled to the price of the that there isn’t war. one always term ends in January 2027.
gowns as damages,” though not ‘concerning’ needs to work toward peace.” leo - who was born in illi-
to the cost of storing the gowns. leo, however, also called the nois and became a priest in
the judge said the gowns, By Victoria Craw trump administration’s pro- 1982 before working as a mis-
which had been manufactured and Anthony Faiola posed peace plan for the gaza sionary in peru and rising to be-
in China, “were not, contractual- wASHington poSt Strip “realistic” and said he come bishop of Chiclayo - said it
ly speaking, sterile, or properly RomE - making a rare foray hoped it would be “accepted.” is important to look at “many is-
validated as being sterile.” into US politics, pope leo XiV marco politi, a senior Rome- sues” regarding the teaching of
ASSoCiAtED pRESS described the blustery talk by based Vatican watcher, said: “i the church.
president trump and Defense think it is the sharpest criticism “Someone who says, ‘i am
Secretary pete Hegseth at a - until today - toward the against abortion,’ but says, ‘i am
Germany arrests meeting of military command-
ers on tuesday as “concerning,”
trumpist ideology. [But] leo is
balanced. He supported the
in favor of the death penalty,’ is
not really pro-life,” he said.
3 in terror plot and he called out those who de- trump peace plan for gaza.” “Someone who says that, ‘i am gREgoRio BoRgiA/ASSoCiAtED pRESS

scribe themselves as “pro-life” the pope was also asked by a against abortion but i am in Pope Leo arrived for his weekly general audience in St.
BERlin - german authori- for opposing abortion but do journalist from US broadcaster agreement with the inhuman Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Wednesday.
ties arrested three men suspect- not reject the “inhuman treat- Ewtn news about the decision treatment of immigrants who
ed of being members of Hamas ment ” of migrants and the by the archbishop of Chicago, are in the United States,’ i don’t statement, adding that the leo is the first US-born pope,
and of procuring weapons to death penalty. Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, to give know if that’s pro-life. So they’re award was to be presented “spe- and, while he has been viewed
carry out attacks on Jewish or Since becoming pope, leo Senator Dick Durbin, Democrat very complex issues.” cifically in recognition of his as a church leader in the mold
israeli institutions in germany, has largely kept his distance of illinois, a lifetime achieve- “i don’t know if anyone has singular contribution to immi- of Francis, who embraced mi-
the country’s federal prosecu- from the news media. But in an ment award for his work on im- all the truth on them, but i gration reform and his unwav- grants and the poor and sought
tor’s office said wednesday. unusual interaction late tues- migration, given Durbin’s sup- would ask first and foremost ering support of immigrants, to build an inclusive church,
the men, identified by au- day outside his Castel gandolfo port for abortion rights. that there be greater respect for which is so needed in our day.” leo has so far been less willing
thorities as Abed Al g., wael F. residence in italy, the pontiff Durbin was due to be hon- one another,” he continued, Cupich also warned that to publicly engage in battles of
m. and Ahmad i., have been fielded several questions from ored nov. 3 at a “keep Hope “and that we search together bishops had a duty to “promote words with the US administra-
charged with membership in a reporters, including one about Alive” event held by the archdi- both as human beings, in that unity,” and he had seen divi- tion.
foreign terrorist organization the extraordinary, hastily con- ocese of Chicago’s immigration case as American citizens or cit- sions deepen within the church in a biography published
and preparing an act of anti- vened meeting of senior mili- ministry. However, the decision izens of the state of illinois, as during his decades as a leader. last month that has offered
state violence. they will go be- tary leaders in the United States sparked backlash from bishops well as Catholics, to say we need “the tragedy of our current sit- leo’s most extensive reflections
fore a judge thursday to deter- that day, at which trump and within the church, who argued to really look closely at all of uation in the United States is since becoming the leader of the
mine whether they will be held Hegseth gave highly partisan Durbin’s position on abortion these ethical issues and to find that Catholics find themselves world’s 1.4 billion Catholics in
in detention before trial. speeches. leo shook his head in could not be overlooked. the way forward as a church.” politically homeless,” he wrote, may, leo said he wanted to
police seized weapons includ- apparent distaste. Switching to English, the the church’s position on adding that many are divided avoid partisan politics and doc-
ing an Ak-47 assault rifle and “this way of speaking is con- pontiff said while he was “not such issues was “very clear,” leo along partisan lines. trinal change. He instead posi-
several pistols, as well as ammu- cerning, because it shows, every terribly familiar with the partic- added. leo’s direct comments on US tioned himself as a listener who
nition, while arresting the men time, an increase of tension,” ular case,” it was “very impor- on tuesday, Cupich an- politics are notable, as the typi- wants to take down the temper-
in Berlin, the prosecutor’s office leo said in italian. “this word- tant to look at the overall work a nounced Durbin had decided cally media-shy pontiff is seen ature of political debate.
said. it said two of the men are ing, like going from minister of senator has done during, if i am not to receive the award at the as better versed in the political “i’m trying not to continue
german citizens; the third was defense to minister of war. let’s not mistaken, 40 years of ser- november event. “while i am divisions that have riven US to polarize or promote polariza-
identified as lebanese-born. hope it’s just a figure of speech. vice in the United States Sen- saddened by this news, i respect Catholics in recent years than tion in the church,” he said in
wASHington poSt of course, there you have a style ate.” Durbin has served more his decision,” Cupich said in a his predecessor, pope Francis. the book.
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Trump taps ex-UK prime minister for Gaza peace plan

Tony Blair offers has to be give-and-take; it can’t in 2015, however, he had ceased
be all take,” said monica mcwil- to be much of a presence in a
detente expertise, liams, an academic and former peace process that was, in any
politician who was involved in event, moribund.
as well as baggage the good Friday negotiations, “the Palestinians said, ‘good
which grappled with some of the riddance,’” said khaled Elgindy,
By Mark Landler same challenges, from gover- a visiting scholar at the Center
nEw YoRk tImES nance to the disarming of mili- for Contemporary arab Studies
L o n D o n — w h e n to n y tants, that are at issue in gaza. at georgetown University, who
Blair published a how-to book But mcwilliams added, “I of- wrote a critical study of the
for newly elected leaders last ten asked myself how much Quartet in 2012.
year, one of his Blair learned from northern Ire- “now, to parachute in as the
NEWS tips was to tend land after he made the disas- viceroy or high commissioner of
ANALYSIS to their legacies trous decision to go into Iraq.” this colonial project in gaza?”
while still in of- For Blair, the backlash over Elgindy said. “that’s not going
fice — something he said he ne- Iraq has hung over his post-gov- to go over well at all.”
glected in his 10 years as Brit- ernment life. on the day he Iraq should serve as a warn-
ain’s prime minister. stepped down as prime minister ing to Blair, according to ana-
now, Blair is seizing another in 2007, he was named as special lysts. the interim authority that
chance to define his legacy, in a envoy for the Quartet, and set he and trump envision for gaza,
region that has preoccupied, about trying to repair the foun- they said, has many of the char-
even tormented, him since he dational rift in the middle East acteristics of the Coalition Provi-
anDREw tESta/nEw YoRk tImES
backed President george w. — between Israel and the Pales- sional authority, established in
Bush’s war in Iraq 22 years ago. Tony Blair, the former prime minister, has focused for years on a post-conflict plan for Gaza. tinians. Iraq by the US after its troops
with a central role in President working out of rooms at the toppled Saddam Hussein.
trump’s new plan to end the war months and had been a candi- power of artificial intelligence, he has broad ties from his seven american Colony Hotel in east Lacking legitimacy with the
in the gaza Strip, Blair could re- date for a leadership role, ac- and who remains a polarizing years as the envoy of the Quar- Jerusalem, Blair dug into issues Iraqi people, that transitional
shape a narrative that was tar- cording to people familiar with figure on middle East issues. tet, a diplomatic group com- like dismantling Israeli check- government failed to stabilize
nished by Iraq and unredeemed the process. But in a last-minute and yet, it is entirely in keep- posed of the United States, the points in the west Bank and nur- the country, which fell into a
by a frustrating stint as a middle twist, trump took the chair’s ing with Blair’s statesmanlike United nations, the European turing a more vibrant Palestin- bloody insurgency. It is remem-
East peacemaker after he left seat. ambitions. Union, and Russia, which was ian economy. bered mostly for financial mis-
no. 10 Downing St. “good man, very good man,” “tony’s been at this issue for trying to advance the Israeli-Pal- But Blair’s Iraq history seed- management and a disconnec-
His odds of success are peril- trump said of Blair on monday, a long time, proposing ideas, estinian peace process. ed suspicions of him in the re- tion from the population that
ously slim. trump’s persever- after meeting with Prime minis- sometimes having those ideas Blair’s office declined to dis- gion. He also never shook the drew comparisons to an arro-
ance as a peacemaker is unpre- ter Benjamin netanyahu of Isra- thrown back at him. He wants to cuss the plan. perception among Palestinians gant colonial-era administra-
dictable. If Blair thrusts himself el. He said nothing about Blair’s keep trying,” said David m. Sat- Few people have the former that he was tilted in Israel’s fa- tion.
into gaza as a colonial viceroy, responsibilities or his contribu- terfield, a US diplomat who prime minister’s credentials in vor. Far from being a force multi- Blair’s plan for a gaza Inter-
critics warn that it will only in- tions to the plan. served as the Biden administra- resolving a seemingly insoluble plier in brokering a deal between national transitional authority,
flame tensions. Far from ending Still, if the plan gains traction tion’s special envoy for humani- conflict. In 1998, he helped ne- the two sides, the Quartet was a copy of which was obtained by
the war, he could find himself — a major if, given the unremit- tarian issues in gaza in 2023 gotiate the good Friday agree- often a bystander to those talks. the new York times, tries to
stuck in the middle of another ting hostility between Israel and and 2024. ment, which ended decades of Blair is nevertheless proud of avoid some of those traps. It calls
intractable conflict. Hamas — Blair would be one of Satterfield recalled meeting sectarian violence in northern his work in the middle East. In for the creation of a Palestinian
much of trump’s plan reflects those most responsible for deliv- Blair in Israel in January 2024, Ireland. allies of Blair said that the London offices of the tony executive authority that would
ideas in Blair’s own 21-page ering it. It is a striking turn for a when diplomats from several experience, in which he won the Blair Institute for global provide services like health, edu-
blueprint for peace in gaza, in- 72-year-old retired politician, countries began shaping the trust of both Irish republicans Change, he keeps a signed photo cation, and policing. It says the
cluding a high-level transitional who has since built a lucrative concept of an interim authority and unionists, would be invalu- of himself with John kerry, the interim government should co-
board, on which Blair will serve business advising governments, for gaza. Blair, he said, was a able in forging a settlement be- former secretary of state, thank- ordinate with the Palestinian
as a member. He drew up the banks, and other clients on is- regular visitor to Jerusalem, as tween Israel and Hamas. ing him for his efforts. By the authority on the sensitive issue
plan over the past several sues like the transformative well as to arab capitals, where “tony Blair learned that it time he stepped down as envoy of disarming militants.

Protests regarding
Morocco’s spending
on World Cup spiral
Demonstrators capital, an associated Press re-
porter saw hundreds of masked
cite lack of funds youth — mostly teenagers —
torching cars, banks and shops,
for public services smashing windows, and looting,
with no police in sight.
By Sam Metz the chaos came despite
aSSoCIatED PRESS warnings from authorities, polit-
RaBat — anti-government ical parties in government and
demonstrators in morocco filled the opposition, and the organiz-
the streets for a fifth straight ers themselves. In a statement
night, as protests over the state published on Discord, the gen z
of public services once again de- 212 protest movement earlier on
scended into violence and de- wednesday implored protesters
struction. to remain peaceful and blasted
the demonstrations, orga- “repressive security approach-
nized by a leaderless movement es.”
dominated by internet-savvy “the right to health, educa-
youth, have taken the country by tion, and a dignified life is not an
surprise and emerged as some of empty slogan but a serious de-
morocco’s biggest in years. By mand,” the organizers said.
midweek, they appeared to be “with protests scheduled to
spreading to new locations de- continue, we urge authorities to
spite a lack of permits from au- engage with the legitimate de-
thorities. mands of the youth for their so-
those participating in the so- cial, economic, and cultural
EzRa aCaYan/gEttY ImagES
called “gen z protests” decry rights and to address their con-
what they see as widespread cor- cerns about corruption,” amnes- Rescue workers searched for survivors under the rubble of a collapsed residential building on Wednesday in Bogo.
ruption. through chants and ty International’s regional office
posters, they have contrasted the
flow of billions in investment to-
ward preparation for the 2030
said on tuesday.
Pointing to new stadiums un-
der construction or renovation
Rescuers search after Philippines earthquake
world Cup, while many schools
and hospitals lack funds and re-
across the country, protesters
have chanted, “Stadiums are
At least 69 dead; office of Civil Defense deputy
administrator Bernardo Rafael-
wednesday.
“It’s hard to move in the area
spite intermittent rains.
Cebu and other provinces
main in a dire state. here, but where are the hospi- damaged roads ito alejandro IV said in a morn- because there are hazards,” said were still recovering from a
But chants were fewer as vio- tals?” and alleged rampant cor- ing news briefing in manila, the glenn Ursal, another disaster tropical storm that battered the
lence broke out in several cities ruption at the expense of every- impede efforts country’s capital. “there are mitigation officer, who added central region on Friday, leaving
on wednesday evening, follow- day people. additionally, the re- still many reports of people who that some survivors were at least 27 people dead, primari-
ing days of mass arrests in more cent deaths of eight women in a By Joeal Calupitan were pinned or hit by debris.” brought to a hospital from the ly due to drownings and falling
than a dozen cities, particularly public hospital in agadir have and Aaron Favila the epicenter of the earth- mountain village. trees, knocking out power in en-
in places where jobs are scarce become a rallying cry against the aSSoCIatED PRESS quake — set off by movement in Deaths also were reported tire cities and towns, and forc-
and social services are lacking. decline of morocco’s health sys- Bogo, Philippines — Rescu- an undersea fault line at a dan- from the outlying towns of me- ing the evacuation of tens of
In Sale, the poorer city just tem. ers used backhoes and sniffer gerously shallow depth of 3 dellin and San Remigio, where thousands of people.
across the river from morocco’s as morocco prepares to host dogs to look for survivors in col- miles — was approximately 12 three coast guard personnel, a Schools and government of-
soccer’s africa Cup of nations lapsed houses and other dam- miles northeast of Bogo, a firefighter, and a child were fices were closed in the quake-
later this year, the link has aged buildings in the central coastal city of around 90,000 killed separately by collapsing hit cities and towns while the
drawn attention to the enduring Philippines on wednesday, a people in Cebu Province, where walls and falling debris while safety of buildings was checked.
BOSTON GLOBE MEDIA deep disparities in the north af- day after an earthquake killed about half of the reported trying to flee to safety from a more than 600 aftershocks have
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metrics, many moroccans feel the death toll was expected the Philippine government the quake, town officials said. stitute of Volcanology and Seis-
The Boston Globe (USPS061-420) disillusioned by its unevenness, to rise from the 6.9 magnitude is considering seeking help the earthquake was one of mology director teresito Bacol-
is published Monday–Saturday. with regional inequities, the quake that hit at about 10 p.m. f r o m f o r e i g n go v e r n m e n t s the most powerful to batter the col said.
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Perkins Braille &Talking Book Library at tal reforms as part of a meeting vors were found. and boulders, Bogo city disas- refused to return home and the ocean. the archipelago is al-
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Oktoberfest reopens after threat
Munich site traps due to a family dispute and
then fled the scene. police pur-
ing house, but a test confirmed
he was the father.
closed during sued the suspect before he killed With their search complete
himself with a homemade weap- by late afternoon, authorities
police search on near Lake Lerchenau, author- said the festival and beer taps BECOME A VIP
ities said. could reopen. “the police have
By Kate Brady
and Aaron Wiener
the man was carrying a
backpack with an explosive de-
reviewed the situation and have
given the all-clear,” Munich May-
AND SKIP THE LINE:
WASHINGtoN poSt

BERLIN — Authorities tem-

vice that had to be defused, po-
lice said. the letter prompting
or Dieter Reiter posted on Insta-
gram late Wednesday afternoon.
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berfest celebration in response dropped into a neighbor’s mail- vices for their work.
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opened at 5:30 p.m. local time, Wednesday evening. fest together again,” Reiter said.
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oktoberfest site for explosives. year-old mother was found in were closed for 30 minutes on
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Voice of America halts all broadcasting amid shutdown

waSHiNGtoN — the and Budget. Jane Fonda rejuvenates
trump administration suspend- But she did not say what had First Amendment group
ed all news broadcasts from prompted her agency to make NEw YoRk — Drawing up-
Voice of ameri- such drastic changes to the on her personal and political
POLITICAL ca and fur- number of employees deemed past, Jane fonda has revived an
NOTEBOOK loughed all its essential to national security, or activist group from the Cold war
journalists why broadcasting to Cuba was era that was backed by her fa-
wednesday after the govern- treated differently than to other ther and fellow oscar winner,
ment shut down, effectively ful- US adversaries. Henry fonda.
filling its efforts to shutter the trump has threatened to le- Jane fonda announced she
agency two days after a judge or- verage the shutdown to fire or had launched a 21st century in-
dered it to reinstate workers and lay off more federal workers and carnation of the Committee for
restore programming. slash programs that he disfa- the first amendment, originally
Nearly all the 80 or so re- vors. on tuesday, he threatened formed in 1947 in response to
maining employees at the agen- to fire “a lot” of federal workers Congressional hearings aimed
cy, which broadcast news to during the shutdown, despite le- against screenwriters and direc-
countries with limited press gal challenges from workers’ tors — notably the so-called
freedom, are furloughed. mass unions to the president’s author- “Hollywood ten” — and their al-
furloughs and the suspension of ity to do so. leged Communist ties. Signers of
news programming did not oc- NEw YoRk timES the new organization’s mission
cur during past shutdowns, as statement include florence
providing news coverage to au- Vance defends as ‘funny’ pugh, Sean penn, Billie Eilish,
thoritarian countries like Russia, fake video others call racist pedro pascal, and hundreds of
China, and iran was considered waSHiNGtoN — Vice presi- others.
essential to national security. dent JD Vance on wednesday wednesday’s news comes in
“Voice of america broadcasts downplayed criticism over a the wake of Jimmy kimmel’s
have been suspended due to a fake video of Democratic law- brief suspension by aBC over his
maRk SCHiEfElBEiN/aSSoCiatED pRESS
funding cut from the United makers that the president post- on-air comments after conserva-
States government, which has ed online, saying the depiction TOUR GUIDE FILL-IN — Representative alexandria ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New tive activist Charlie kirk’s assas-
led to a government shutdown,” of one party leader in a sombre- York, gave a tour of the Capitol to a group of students from New York on wednesday sination. president trump was
reads a recent notice posted on ro and another seeming to deliv- after their scheduled tour was canceled due to the government shutdown. among those who had wanted
the website for the news net- er a profanity-laced tirade was kimmel to be fired.
work’s persian-language service. “funny.” “the federal government is
Similar notices appeared on the president trump posted the continued, promising that if Jef- american that is offended by she is seen by many as a poten- once again engaged in a coordi-
network’s websites for other lan- ai-generated video in a failed ef- fries helps “reopen the govern- having a sombrero meme?” tial candidate, she said she is fo- nated campaign to silence critics
guage services, including man- fort to avert a government shut- ment, the sombrero memes will Vance said. “the american peo- cused on her current work as in the government, the media,
darin, Dari, and pashto. down, charging party leaders stop.” ple recognize that he did not ac- governor. the judiciary, academia, and the
But a shutdown preparation with wanting to provide undoc- Critics and particularly Dem- tually come to the white House “i don’t know if i need to be entertainment industry,” the
document published last year by umented immigrants with free ocrats have blasted the manipu- wearing a sombrero and a black, the main character in the next committee’s mission statement
the news group’s oversight agen- health care. the post featured lated video as a highly offensive curly animation mustache.” chapter, but i want to have a reads in part.
cy, the US agency for Global me- House Democratic minority cultural stereotype. a spokes- waSHiNGtoN poSt hand in writing it,” she said. “we refuse to stand by and
dia, listed about 650 Voice of leader Hakeem Jeffries, Demo- person for Jeffries did not re- “and i think i’ve got an impor- let that happen. free speech and
america employees and journal- crat of New York, who is Black, spond to a request for comment Whitmer suggests she will tant vantage point as the gover- free expression are the inalien-
ists as essential to “perform ac- in a sombrero and mustache wednesday, but Jeffries on tues- not run for president nor of an important swing able rights of every american of
tivities expressly authorized by with mariachi music playing in day told reporters the video was laNSiNG, mich. — michigan state.” all backgrounds and political be-
law.” the background. the video also “racist and fake.” in an X post, Governor Gretchen whitmer whitmer has several chal- liefs — no matter how liberal or
a similar document pub- included fabricated vocals of he wrote: “Bigotry will get you cast doubt on the prospect of lenges in front of her. michigan conservative you may be. the
lished last month, however, does Senate minority leader Charles nowhere.” running for president in 2028 lawmakers just passed a one- ability to criticize, question, pro-
not designate Voice of america E. Schumer, Democrat of New Schumer added on X: “if you while speaking in toronto on week continuing budget to keep test, and even mock those in
as essential, although it men- York, railing against the Demo- think your shutdown is a joke, it wednesday. the state government operation- power is foundational to what
tions the office of Cuba Broad- cratic party. just proves what we all know: whitmer was asked by a Ca- al after months of bitter dis- america has always aspired to
casting, another federal agency “the president is joking, and You can’t negotiate. You can on- nadian journalist in a moderat- agreement and just this week, a be.”
that provides news coverage to we’re having a good time,” Vance ly throw tantrums.” ed discussion whether she is gunman opened fire in a michi- the fondas each have had
Cubans in Spanish, as “foreign said, in response to questions pressed to respond to the considering seeking the Demo- gan church he set ablaze in an long histories of activism,
relations activities essential to during a rare appearance in the criticism, Vance sought to frame cratic nomination for president attack that killed four people. whether Jane fonda’s opposi-
the national security.” white House briefing room. the meme as a good-natured jest in 2028. additionally, US tariffs on tion to the Vietnam war or Hen-
kari lake, a fierce ally of “You can negotiate in good faith and said americans understood “i anticipate helping, but i Canada are hurting auto manu- ry fonda’s prominent support
president trump and the acting while also poking a little bit of the video was fake. don’t know if i’m going to be the facturing. She gave a speech for Democratic party candi-
CEo at the oversight agency, fun at some of the absurdities of “i mean, Hakeem Jeffries person,” she said. about michigan’s relationship dates, including John f. kenne-
said her agency was “following the Democrats’ positions and said it was racist, and i know whitmer is in the last two with Canada and the impact of dy, for whom the elder fonda
all applicable law and related even, you know, poking some, that he said that. and i honestly years of her second term as gov- the tariffs before the question- appeared in a campaign ad in
guidance” from the white some fun at the absurdity of the don’t even know what that ernor and she cannot run again and-answer segment. 1960.
House’s office of management Democrats themselves,” Vance means. like, is he a mexican because of term limits. while aSSoCiatED pRESS aSSoCiatED pRESS

Fewer had Scientists create human eggs in lab,

abortions but they’re far from functional
in states Paper says study Gene therapy. His team started
by taking the nucleus of a per-
become more common as wom-
en get older.
paves way for
allowing it
son’s skin cell and transplanting mitinori Saitou, director of
it into a donor egg, similar to the the institute for the advanced
further work way scientists created Dolly the Study of Human Biology at kyo-
Sheep — the first mammal to University, who is working on
But drop could By Carolyn Y. Johnson
waSHiNGtoN poSt
cloned from an adult cell. Egg
and sperm each contribute half
a different approach to creating
eggs and sperm in a dish, stated
be due to use of in the quest to create better of an offspring’s genetic inheri- that the study “represents an im-
options for couples facing infer- tance, which is why offspring are portant basic scientific endeav-
abortion pills CHaRliE NEiBERGall/aSSoCiatED pRESS/filE
tility, scientists have been racing a mix of both parents. But the or,” but it has many limitations.
The burgeoning availability of medication abortion might be to create eggs and sperm in a donor egg in the study had been “Given the very high frequen-
By Praveena contributing to a change in abortion trends this year. laboratory dish. given a whole genome, so re- cy of abnormalities from both ge-
Somasundaram a study published tuesday in searchers needed to halve the netic and epigenetic perspectives,
waSHiNGtoN poSt tion pills — facilitated by shield ated by antiabortion activists Nature Communications from an number of chromosomes to i feel that this approach is cur-
fewer people had abortions laws. and lawmakers, mainly in texas. envelope-pushing laboratory at make it a true egg. rently far too immature to be con-
in the first half of 2025 in states “it’s an incredibly important Republican lawmakers in oregon Health & Science Univer- that meant they had to repli- sidered for clinical application,”
that allow the procedure, a re- innovation,” said isabel DoCam- that state passed a bill last sity outlines what scientists are cate some of the key elements of Saitou said in an email. He added
port found, marking the first po, a Guttmacher senior re- month that will allow private cit- calling a “proof of concept” in gen- the cell division processes that that ethical issues could persist
such decline in the three years search associate. izens to sue anyone who pre- erating functional eggs in a lab underlie life in a dish. in meio- because it is missing an essential
since Roe v. wade was over- from January through June, scribes, manufactures, or dis- dish from skin cells. But the eggs sis, the number of chromosomes ingredient of egg production in
turned. clinicians in states without near- tributes abortion pills to texas were far from fit for reproduction. is halved to create sperm and humans — a process called re-
the number of patients who total bans provided 518,940 residents. texas and louisiana the lab-generated eggs could eggs. in mitosis, cells replicate combination, where chromo-
crossed state lines for an abor- abortions, a 5 percent decrease have also brought first-of-their- be fertilized with sperm, but their DNa and divide to produce somes inherited from both par-
tion also decreased, according to from the same period in 2024. kind legal cases against doctors were riddled with chromosomal two identical daughter cells. ents swap bits of genetic material.
the report released tuesday by also in that time frame, out-of- based in New York and Califor- abnormalities. most embryos “we thought there is just no to scientists who study meio-
the Guttmacher institute, which state travel for abortions de- nia, accusing them of violating stopped growing when they way to reduce chromosome sis, it was no surprise to see that
supports abortion rights. clined by 8 percent, Guttmacher state abortion laws. these bat- were just four to eight cells. number with any cell division the effort to mimic what cells do
But the numbers don’t neces- found. that travel had more tles are far from resolved, and le- “Even when they succeeded, except meiosis. But now we de- naturally failed. meiosis is often
sarily mean abortions are dwin- than doubled in the first six gal experts expect the question it didn’t really succeed,” said veloped this kind of combina- depicted as stick figures of chro-
dling nationwide. Guttmacher months of 2023, after the Su- of shield-law work to ultimately Hank Greely, a bioethicist at tion” technique, mitalipov said. mosomes, lining up in the center
only collected data from clini- preme Court overturned the land on the Supreme Court’s Stanford law School, who was they called it “mitomeiosis.” of a cell and drawing apart in an
cians providing in-person and constitutional right to abortion. docket. not part of the study. “it’s inter- Simply transplanting the organized manner. But this re-
online abortion care in states Shield laws, which states be- Several state attorneys gener- esting, but not useful yet.” DNa of a mature skin cell into search shows there’s still much
without abortion bans. the in- gan enac ting in 2023, then al are also challenging the food in vitro gametogenesis — or the donor egg reprogrammed its to be learned about this complex
stitute said the decline could be changed the landscape of abor- and Drug administration’s regu- the production of sperm or egg DNa partway, but the eggs were process that eventually paves the
due in part to the burgeoning tion in the United States. lation of mifepristone, seeking cells in a laboratory dish — is a arrested. to fully activate the way for new life.
availability of medication abor- medication abortion, typical- to curb access to one of two pills major new frontier in human re- cells, the scientists attempted to “there are aspects of meiosis
tion in states with near-total ly a two-drug regimen, is recom- often used in medication abor- production, offering immense fertilize them with sperm, but that are still fundamentally pret-
bans, which is not accounted for mended for women who are up tion. Health and Human Servic- promise and raising new ethical the eggs remained unresponsive. ty mysterious,” said abby Dern-
in the data. to 10 weeks pregnant. it is often es Secretary Robert f. kennedy questions. Different techniques then they tried shocking the burg, a professor of molecular
abortion providers are re- more appealing than arranging Jr. confirmed last month that are being attempted, but the cells with electrical pulses. that and cell biology at the University
motely prescribing and mailing travel to other states, which the fDa had begun to review hope remains the same — to ad- didn’t work until they added an- of California at Berkeley.
abortion pills to patients in all comes with additional costs, mifepristone, which has held dress infertility and improve re- other ingredient — roscovitine, Binyam mogessie, an assis-
50 states regardless of bans, en- such as transportation and lodg- the agency’s approval for 25 productive options. Healthy an experimental drug that inter- tant professor of molecular, Cel-
abling women to end their preg- ing. a separate report from the years. eggs could be created for women feres with cell cycles and has lular, and Developmental Biolo-
nancies from the comfort of Society of family planning found in a Sept. 19 letter co-signed whose bodies can’t produce us- been tested in cancer. this reci- gy at Yale University, also studies
their homes. providers who that by the end of 2024, one by fDa commissioner marty able eggs. an egg cell could be pe worked in one way — it re- meiosis. instead of trying to
practice in eight Democratic-led quarter of abortions in the Unit- makary and sent to more than a created from a man’s skin cell, duced the number of chromo- build a functioning egg from the
states can do this work legally ed States were provided via tele- dozen Republican attorneys providing a way for male same- somes the cells contained. ground up, his approach focuses
under “shield” laws that explicit- health, reflecting the growing re- general who pressed the issue, sex couples to have genetically But further study revealed on understanding meiosis in de-
ly allow them to offer abortion liance on medication abortion. kennedy wrote that the trump related children. the process of halving the chro- tail. Even though the paper
pills regardless of where pa- California Governor Gavin administration “will ensure that the new work illustrates the mosomes had been random. failed to produce normal eggs,
tients live and protect them Newsom, a Democrat, sought to women’s health is properly pro- challenges of recreating what is Some eggs had only three chro- the results could still provide
from out-of-state prosecution. further safeguard access to abor- tected by thoroughly investigat- often depicted in high school bi- mosomes. others had the cor- new insights.
while the data reflect de- tion pills when he signed a law ing the circumstances under ology courses as a straightfor- rect number, 23, but an odd as- “it’s quite intriguing,” mo-
clines in interstate travel and cli- friday allowing providers to dis- which mifepristone can be safely ward process. sortment — with some chromo- gessie said. “this is where this
nician-provided abortions in pense the medication without dispensed.” “in textbooks, it looks all sim- somes completely absent while system can be used, leveraged to
states where abortion is legal, listing the name of the patient, the concerns raised by the ple — if you try and replicate it, having duplicate copies of oth- see: what is missing? what can
it’s possible that more women prescriber, or pharmacist. the conservative attorneys general, it’s a nightmare,” said Shoukhrat ers. Chromosomal disorders can we add into this system that
instead chose to terminate their measure is an attempt to protect kennedy wrote, “merit close ex- mitalipov, director of the oHSU result in nonviable pregnancies would allow this to do it with
pregnancies this year with abor- clinicians from legal action initi- amination.” Center for Embryonic Cell and or developmental disorders and better accuracy?”
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Democrats make their stand on protecting health care

uACA to pass in July.
Continued from Page A1 trump and the gop have
footing a year after trump’s elec- sought to turn the issue around
tion victory, Democrats are con- on Democrats in the shutdown
vinced they can re-create the fight. for instance, gop leaders
type of backlash over gop have emphasized the potential
health care plans that proved to broader damage of letting gov-
be so politically potent in his ernment funding lapse — includ-
first term. ing for health care programs
“it’s a no-brainer, in my opin- that serve military veterans.
ion,” said Brad Woodhouse, a Senate majority leader John
longtime Democratic operative thune — South Dakota — has
who is the president of protect signaled willingness to negotiate
our Care, an outside group that with Democrats over the ACA
has sought to counter the gop’s subsidies but has insisted those
health care platform. discussions happen outside the
“if [Democrats] wanted to context of funding the govern-
use their leverage to highlight an ment.
issue, put a stake in the ground, other Republicans as well as
and get Republicans to fix some officials in the trump adminis-
of this,” he added, “health care tration have claimed Democrats
was the issue to pick.” are aiming to secure health care
in the past week, Democratic funding for undocumented im-
leaders have sounded a great migrants, alleging that ACA sub-
deal like they did eight years ago sidy programs can be abused to
— though maybe more confident allow them to access the bene-
and, perhaps, less subtle. fits. Democrats have hotly dis-
“We’re here to protect your puted the claims, noting that ex-
health care today,” said House isting laws stipulate adult un-
minority leader Hakeem Jeffries documented immigrants are not
on the steps of the Capitol on eligible for those programs.
tuesday, flanked by dozens of in response to the health-
lawmakers. Jeffries went on to care-focused shutdown ads run
use that phrase eight more times against vulnerable Republicans,
DEmEtRiUS fREEmAn/WASHington poSt
in the next eight sentences. mike marinella, spokesperson
later tuesday, hours before House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, focusing on health care. for the national Republican
the deadline, former House Congressional Committee, told
speaker nancy pelosi — who Democrats should not shut the globe, “out of touch House
passed the ACA in the House down the government if their de- Democrats voted to shut down
and then fought its repeal — mands were not met. notably, the government to bankroll
spoke at a rally outside the Capi- only 47 percent of Democrats handouts for illegal immigrants
tol, where she argued the lessons polled agreed with party leaders, and appease their radical base.
of that moment were clear. while 43 percent of them op- voters won’ t forget who be-
“ We won that election in posed a shutdown. trayed them, and Democrats will
2018 — we won 40 seats,” pelosi for Democratic lawmakers, pay the price.”
said. “And you know what our who are facing tremendous pres- not every Democrat is on
message was? protect our care.” sure from the progressive base to board with the strategy. Repre-
indeed, regardless of how the resist gop spending plans, sentative Jared golden, the
shutdown fight ultimately ends, there’s also the risk that they will maine moderate who was the
Democrats see their current fail to secure many of their re- only member of his party to ap-
strateg y pointing toward a quested concessions. prove the gop’s spending plan
broader goal: keeping health Realistically, any theoretical in the House, wrote in his news-
care front and center in the bat- spending deal would be far nar- letter last week that a shutdown
tle for control of Congress next rower in scope than what Demo- “to gain political leverage
year. crats are currently demanding. doesn’t make a win on health
“ this debate reopens the the ACA premium tax credits care any more certain, and it
door for the health care conver- are seen as the most ripe for ne- guarantees real harm to many of
sation going into the midterms gotiation, given that some mod- the same people we’re trying to
in a way that most Republicans erate Republican lawmakers help.”
would have preferred to keep it could be wary of letting them ex- But Representative Don Bey-
closed,” said Jesse ferguson, a pire. if they do, insurance premi- er, a Democrat from virginia, ar-
veteran Democratic operative ums for plans purchased on the gued that if his party is intent on
mARk SCHiEfElBEin/ASSoCiAtED pRESS
who has advised several outside ACA marke t could spike as maximizing leverage and politi-
groups active in the health care The shutdown was on and the Washington Monument remained illuminated. much as 114 percent, according cal pain, it might go about this
fight. to the health policy analysis out- shutdown fight differently — by
“the biggest difference be- let kff and likely cause many to letting the ACA subsidies expire.
tween 2018 and now is, in 2018, g o p- h e l d Ho u s e d i s t r i c t s , of the legislative architects of the But sharply partisan shut- forgo insurance. “the cynic would say, you
we were litigating the threat that charged that congressional Re- ACA, said its growing popularity down politics could change that But some Democrats are also know, let this continue to hap-
Republicans posed to health publicans were set on “ending is evident by the fact that Repub- dynamic by muddying the wa- demanding rollbacks of parts of pen, because that gives us the
care,” ferguson added. “in 2026, tax credits for health care and licans have stopped trying to re- ters of public opinion. While re- Republicans’ just-enacted signa- next election . . . what a powerful
we’re litigating the consequenc- raising your insurance premi- peal it after failing to do so in c e n t s h u t d o w n s h av e b e e n ture legislation, which made issue to run on,” he said. “But
es of what they did to health ums.” trump’s first term. He said it fought over an array of issues — changes to medicaid and the we’re basically trying to take
care.” Democrats believe the elec- makes sense for Democrats to such as the historic 35-day 2018- ACA that are projected to even- away the strongest thing we
outside Democratic-aligned torate is still overwhelmingly on lean into protecting the ACA 2019 government closure over tually kick 10 million people off could run on next year, because
groups have launched cam- their side on health care policy; subsidies during this govern- trump’s border wall — it’s been their health insurance, accord- it’s the responsible thing to do.”
paign-style ads to ratchet up the public opinion polls consistently ment funding fight. unclear whether they had any ing to the Congressional Budget
pressure on gop lawmakers in show broad support for the pro- “taking a benefit away is a significant long-term impacts. office. Republicans are highly Jim Puzzanghera of the Globe
vulnerable districts. A spot this grams they are defending. hard thing to do after people A new York times/Siena poll unlikely to agree to undoing any staff contributed to this report.
week from the group Unrig our Representative Richard neal, have come to accept it,” neal released tuesday showed 65 per- part of their marquee legislation, Sam Brodey can be reached at
Economy, running on tv in 14 a Springfield Democrat and one said. cent of respondents believe which they narrowly managed sam.brodey@globe.com.

With shutdown on, war of words

heats up between the two parties
uSHUTDOWN a t e’s 6 0 - v o t e t h r e s h o l d , iterating that the only way out is
Continued from Page A1 triggering the shutdown. And to accept the basic extension of
will sit down and negotiate in when t hune tried again on federal funds until nov. 21 that
good faith,” Schumer said on Wednesday, the result was an the gop has already voted for.
Cnn about Democratic de- identical 55-45 vote, with just “they don’t have the high
mands to extend expiring Af- three Democrats supporting the ground in this situation,” said
fordable Care Act premium tax bill and one Republican, Rand north Dakota Republican Sena-
credits and reverse sweeping paul of kentucky, opposing it. tor kevin Cramer, echoing Re-
medicaid cuts in Republican leg- there was no indication when publicans’ argument that Demo-
islation passed this summer. the Senate would vote on the bill crats need to accept a continua-
Around the same time, vice next. tion of funding before talks can
president vance declared on fox in the interim, both parties begin. “it warms my heart to say
news, “i will go to the Capitol are expending their energy to it, because i don’t recall a time
right now to talk to Chuck pin the blame for the shutdown ever when Republicans have had
Schumer and Senate Democrats on the other, with each side be- the high ground during a gov-
about premium support for the lieving they have the political ernment shutdown.”
Affordable Care Act, but only af- upper hand. But Democrats insisted they
gRACE BEAHm AlfoRD/tHE poSt AnD CoURiER viA ASSoCiAtED pRESS
ter they’ve reopened the govern- Banners appeared on several have the upper hand.
ment.” government websites including “i can tell you, this notion that Park rangers took down the American flag at Fort Sumter National Monument in Charleston,
lawmakers confirmed the Department of Housing and we won’t sit down and talk to you S.C., on the first morning of the government shutdown.
there’s little talking going on Urban Development, the Agri- is not very popular with the
across the aisle about the shut- culture Department, State De- American people,” said Senator Democrats also pointed to chusetts Senator Elizabeth War- ration of the tax credits could be
down, especially at the leader- partment, and the Justice De- Dick Durbin of illinois. two na- the trump administration’s ac- ren. “We’ve been asking the Re- politically damaging to Republi-
ship level. House minority lead- partment saying the Democrats tional polls released tuesday tions over the last several publicans to negotiate since they cans.
er Hakeem Jeffries, a new York or the “radical left” have shut found more Americans would months to defy congressional passed the law that will drive up “trump’s the key here,” said
Democrat, said at a news confer- down the government. the ban- blame Republicans for the shut- authority as a reason they have health care costs for millions of Senator peter Welch, a vermont
ence in a studio inside the Capi- ners raised concerns about vio- down than Democrats. But one little faith in compromise. those Americans and there have been Democrat. “As far as i know, he
tol that since a White House lating a law prohibiting the use of those surveys, by the new actions include mass firings of exactly zero responses to that.” has not authorized Republicans
meeting on monday with bipar- of taxpayer money for partisan York times and Siena University, federal workers, closing con- But Senator thom tillis, a to talk.”
tisan congressional leaders, “it’s political purposes. also found that 65 percent of re- gressionally approved pro- north Carolina Republican, said But Cramer was dubious that
been radio silence from Republi- House Republicans also cre- spondents said Democrats grams, and intentionally refus- Democrats have gone too far by trump intervening was the solu-
cans.” ated a video of Democrats, in- should not shut down the gov- ing to spend money that Con- trying to use the shutdown as le- tion. “Well, perhaps, but they
Senate majority leader John cluding Schumer, Jeffries, and ernment if their demands are not gress has appropriated. verage. tried that,” he said of trump’s
thune, a South Dakota Republi- progressive Representatives Al- met. But Democrats have focused “We know that the ACA sub- monday meeting with congres-
can, didn’t sound like he was in exandria ocasio-Cortez of new Democrats say they don’t their message on the need to ex- sidies are here until the end of sional leaders. “the negotiation
a negotiating mood. York and Ayanna pressley of trust that Republicans will keep tend the enhanced Affordable the year,” he said. if Democrats will happen after we open the
“Everybody’s now asking the Boston, railing against past Re- their promise to negotiate if Care Act tax credits that expire aren’t willing to act in good faith government and everybody’s
question: ‘How does this end?’” publican-instigated shutdowns. Democrats vote to reopen the on Dec. 31, saying action is nec- and pass the short-term govern- back at work.”
he said. “Well, it ends when the it played continually on a large government. in a news confer- essary because open enrollment ment funding bill before work-
Senate Democrats pick this bill screen tv outside House Speak- ence with fellow Democratic notices are being sent out. ing on extending the tax credits, Jim Puzzanghera can be reached
up, passed by the House of Rep- er mike Johnson’s Capitol office leaders, Revere Representative “if it’s a true negotiation, tillis said, “why would we waste at jim.puzzanghera@globe.com.
resentatives, and vote for it.” after Republicans featured it at katherine Clark derided the idea then [vance] will show up now our time?” Follow him @JimPuzzanghera.
But the Republican short- their morning news conference. Democrats would take a “pinky and tell us what offers the Re- Some Democrats held out Tal Kopan can be reached at
term funding bill failed on tues- Republicans were almost swear we’ ll get to health care publicans are willing to make to hope that president trump tal.kopan@globe.com. Follow
day night to get enough Demo- gleeful in asserting the Demo- some day soon, just not right keep Americans from losing would get involved to try to her @talkopan.
cratic support to clear the Sen- crats had walked into a trap, re- now.” their health care,” said massa- strike a deal out of fears the expi-
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Editorial

Massachusetts is failing its students

if it can’t boost MCAS scores

P
andemic learning loss is real, and student a graduation requirement, which has created an addi- cation funding formula under the Student opportuni-
academic performance suffered when tional challenge in measuring performance this year. ty act, a law passed in 2019, in addition to $2.29 bil-
schools closed for months in 2020 and tenth-graders still take the test, but their declining lion in federal pandemic relief funds.
2021. Since then, massachusetts has spent test scores could illustrate either inadequate knowl- as important is ensuring that money is spent wise-
billions of dollars to help students recover. edge or students taking the test less seriously. among ly on evidence-based practices. as Ed lambert, execu-
Yet, as mCaS scores released monday show, we’ve 10th-graders, English scores dropped by six percent- tive director of the massachusetts Business alliance
failed. age points over last year, while math and science for Education, points out, the goal of the Student op-
Student performance on standardized tests contin- scores were three percentage points lower. fifty-one portunity act was to close achievement gaps, yet
ues to lag behind 2019, and students have shown little percent of 10th-graders met or exceeded expectations those gaps have widened.
to no improvement in the past year. it’s becoming one reason for that may be that the Student op-
clear that money alone can’t solve the problem: the portunity act had almost no requirements for how
state also needs to double down on evidence-based Those numbers are low enough districts were to use the new money.
strategies to ensure students are learning.
the 2025 results tell a sobering story. in English,
that they should shake the state Districts do have to report how they are using Stu-
dent opportunity act funds, though, and the state
only 42 percent of third- through eighth-graders met out of its complacency on K-12 should provide rigorous oversight to ensure districts
or exceeded expectations on the test, an increase of
three percentage points over last year but 10 percent-
education. are investing in evidence-based practices that im-
prove academic performance. for example, high-dos-
age points lower than in 2019. for Hispanic and Black age tutoring has had strong results. governor maura
students, only 22 and 26 percent of students met or Healey implemented a program investing in intensive
exceeded expectations. in English, as did 45 percent in math and 46 percent early literacy tutoring in early elementary school, and
math results for third- through eighth-graders in science. martinez said there is evidence that 10th- schools could complement that with expanded litera-
were flat compared to 2024 and eight percentage graders took the tests less seriously, with more stu- cy tutoring at different grade levels. martinez said
points lower than in 2019, with 41 percent of students dents leaving essays blank or writing off-topic essays. state officials will work on publicizing best practices
meeting or exceeding expectations, including just 20 there are bright spots. State officials recognized 63 used in successful districts.
percent of Hispanic or latino students. Science scores districts that met or exceeded 2019 achievement lev- the legislature could consider requiring schools
were flat compared to last year and below 2019 levels. els in English or math for grades three through eight. to use evidence-based literacy curricula. Policy mak-
on a new eighth-grade civics test, 39 percent of Eight districts and five charter schools (which com- ers could also consider requiring schools to offer
students met or exceeded expectations. prise their own districts) reached that goal in both more rigorous curricula, like requiring students take
those numbers are low enough that they should English and math. three years of math and two years of science to gradu-
shake the state out of its complacency on K-12 educa- Yet at the same time, 280 schools, or 18 percent, ate.
tion. as state Education Commissioner Pedro marti- were classified as “requiring assistance or interven- massachusetts has since the pandemic also had
nez put it, speaking monday at ottoson middle School tion,” which indicates low performance. problems with chronic absenteeism. it will be impor-
in arlington, massachusetts is becoming a “state of Boston public school students in third through tant for schools to refocus on engaging students and
40s,” with about 40 percent of students meeting or ex- eighth grade performed below the statewide average, families to figure out why students are absent and
ceeding the standards in each subject. the obvious with 22 percent meeting or exceeding expectations in how to bring them back and help them catch up.
corollary is that 60 percent of students aren’t where science, 28 percent in math, and 29 percent in Eng- arlington was one district recognized at monday’s
they need to be academically — and that is an urgent lish. event, because it was one of the few statewide that
problem. So, what needs to happen now? has returned to pre-pandemic performance. High
martinez, speaking to reporters, said nationally, max Page, president of the massachusetts teachers school senior lettie Carswell spoke about her teach-
very few states are back to pre-pandemic levels. But he association, said one problem is that many districts ers combining old and new teaching methods and be-
acknowledged that massachusetts, which like many are underfunded. Certainly, lawmakers should regu- ing responsive to questions. She participated in extra-
blue states kept many of its public schools closed for larly review the school funding formula to determine curricular activities and internships. Carswell ac-
an unjustifiably long time, is struggling. no group of if tweaks are needed, whether to better account for in- knowledged her privilege in enrolling in a district
students statewide is performing at pre-pandemic lev- flation or direct more funding to rural and small that “prepared me to thrive in today’s world.”
els. “the challenges are real,” martinez said, and stu- towns. the challenge educators and policy makers must
dents’ needs “have never been higher.” But between fiscal 2021 and fiscal 2027, the state meet is ensuring every single student in massachu-
Voters in november 2024 eliminated the mCaS as will have put an additional $4.47 billion into the edu- setts receives those same opportunities.

Shira Schoenberg

State Rep. David LeBoeuf opens up about alcoholism and recovery

I
t was, partially, shame and stig- in massachusetts, 1,674 people died alcohol level measured between 0.329 at ensuring that parents with substance
ma that stopped state Repre- of alcohol-related causes last year, and and 0.317, around four times the legal use disorders who are involved with the
sentative David leBoeuf from there were nearly 90,000 alcohol-relat- limit, the globe reported. He was Department of Children and families
seeking help for his alcoholism. ed emergency department visits, ac- charged with operation under the influ- have certain rights, including a role in
He tried attending a self-help cording to the massachusetts Bureau of ence of liquor, negligent operation of a developing parenting plans. another
meeting and saw someone he knew. Substance addiction Services. motor vehicle, and a marked lanes vio- bill he sponsored would limit the ability
Embarrassed, the Worcester Democrat alcoholism takes different forms for lation. of professional licensing boards to con-
tried to conceal his identity by sidestep- different people. Jennifer Bradford, leBoeuf publicly apologized and sider certain criminal offenses, like first-
ping a question about his work. He medical director of Community Health- pledged to seek treatment. in a com- time drunken driving charges, when the
didn’t return. link Detoxification and Stabilization mon resolution for a first-time offender, offense is unrelated to the field. leBoeuf
today, more than three years after Program, part of Umass memorial he lost his license for 45 days and had has sought to develop more supportive
his arrest for drunken driving, leBoeuf Health in Worcester, described it as a to pay fines and fees and attend a driv- housing, to give people with addiction a
recognizes the irony. He worried if he chronic disease that, over time, changes er’s education course. the charges were stable living environment.
sought help, he would become known brain function, including parts of the dismissed after a year. leBoeuf said he still has days where
only for his addiction. Because he failed brain that affect impulse control and leBoeuf entered an inpatient detox he questions whether it wouldn’t be
to seek help, the next election season decision-making. program, then intensive outpatient easier to have a drink. But he feels
found him targeted by a Republican su- for leBoeuf, alcohol was a coping treatment, which included a mix of healthier. and he has recommitted to
SHiRa SCHoEnBERg/gloBE Staff
per PaC mailer featuring leBoeuf look- mechanism, a way to treat physical group and individual therapy that he legislative work, helping constituents in
ing disheveled in a mugshot. pain and handle daily stresses. as a State Representative David gradually tapered down. He spent 10 his high-needs urban district. He
now three years and five months so- young professional working for a non- LeBoeuf, a Worcester Democrat, in months in treatment. doesn’t want addiction to define his
ber, leBoeuf, 36, hopes sharing his sto- profit, he started drinking socially. By Coes Park in Worcester on Sept. 19. in november 2022, leBoeuf won re- reputation but hopes his story will re-
ry will help others avoid hitting rock november 2018, when he won his first election against a Republican opponent duce stigma.
bottom. it’s a perspective policy makers election for state representative, leB- ognized he was feeling less healthy and with 59 percent of the vote. “i thought if people saw this thing i
should listen to as they craft policies oeuf was drinking regularly but felt he wasn’t reaching his full potential — but Worcester residents say the commu- was grappling with, this terrible thing
around substance use and one individ- could control it. then the CoViD-19 he didn’t know how to seek help. nity was divided between supporting that society said is wrong … everything
uals can learn from as they seek to bet- pandemic hit. leBoeuf, like many oth- “You try to justify it, say it’s not that leBoeuf after his arrest and seeking his else about me would be erased,” leB-
ter understand the disease. ers, drank to cope with isolation. there bad, it’s not interfering with anything,” ouster. Susan Swanson, a retired speech oeuf said. “it doesn’t have to be that
“one thing recovery has done for me was no single trigger that turned him to leBoeuf said. “then eventually it starts language pathologist who supported way. in the end, it isn’t. Your struggle
is it made me more honest and open,” alcohol — he describes it as a gradual to take a physical toll, then a judgment leBoeuf politically, said, “i think he re- doesn’t negate your humanity.”
leBoeuf said in an interview. “after you increase in drinking over time. toll.” ally disarmed the community by his Anyone seeking help with addiction
go through a situation where your low- “it was something i always felt i leBoeuf doesn’t like to talk about vulnerability, being authentic, owning can call Massachusetts’s substance use
est point is completely exposed in front could control, until i couldn’t,” leBoeuf the night of april 26, 2022. according the alcohol abuse issue.” helpline at 800-327-5050 or text
of everyone, you have the privilege to said. to State Police, he was pulled over after today, leBoeuf’s experiences shape “HOPE” to 800327.
say, ‘i get it. i’ve been there.’ Some peo- leBoeuf, who is single, said he was driving erratically on Route 93 in Quin- his work. When a local health center
ple don’t want to talk about it, so if i often the person family members and cy. He had slurred speech, swayed dur- considered closing addiction-related Shira Schoenberg can be reached at
can be the one in a room that brings friends turned to for help. Eventually, ing field sobriety tests, and had nip bot- services, leBoeuf advocated to keep shira.schoenberg@globe.com. Follow
that perspective in, i will do it.” he was drinking every day, and he rec- tles and wine cans in his car. His blood them open. He introduced a bill aimed her @shiraschoenberg.

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There’s no rallying
’round this state flag
and seal

BRYAN DoZiER/miDDLE EASt imAgES/AfP viA gEttY imAgES

Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke at a press conference alongside alleged victims of

Jeffrey Epstein on Sept. 3, announcing the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which calls
for the release of all unclassified documents in the Jeffrey Epstein case.

JoAn VEnnocHI

We need more cracks DAviD L. RYAN/gLoBE StAff

in MAGA armor The seal of Massachusetts was on display at the

Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company Museum in

T
Faneuil Hall in Boston, in August 2024.
here are two Americas. support from roughly 9 out of 10 Republican voters.
one agrees with the driver of the car i Still, majorities of the 1,313 registered voters who were
was recently stuck behind. it flaunted a polled said they think trump has gone too far when it Political distractions are unwelcome
large, in-your-face sign on the back window comes to pressuring media organizations and sending as commission moves forward
that proclaimed “trump was right about National guard troops into big cities, as well as his im- i read with interest matt Stout’s article in the globe about
everything!” migration enforcement. our state flag and seal (“goP hopefuls see an opening with
the other America vehemently disagrees and con- But there is a very long way to go before anyone can state flag,” Page A1, Sept. 19).
stantly searches for any crack in mAgA armor. think trump’s armor has been pierced. those inside the Symbols are indeed important — that much is agreed on
in that quest, the desperate cling to the slightest evi- administration are betting that will never happen. vice by all sides. What the symbol for our state of massachusetts
dence of breach. for example, Representative marjorie President JD vance, for example, is positioning himself should entail is where opinions can diverge. Honestly, until a
as chief defender of mAgA Nation. With that, he inher- few years ago, i did not pay much attention to our state flag
its everything trump stands for, from his assault on free and seal. i had also wrongly assumed this was something
Biden turned out to be the speech and his weaponization of the justice system to that could not be changed.
his chaotic foreign policy positions and what many see When i was provided a close look at the design and the
wrong messenger. But there is as a slide toward dictatorship. history behind the flag and seal, i was shocked to realize how
still an America that believes in meanwhile, what looks like a breach doesn’t always
stay that way. After leading the charge on a clumsily ex-
racist it is. the image was created at a time when indigenous
residents were given no consideration at all.
his message — right? ecuted government downsizing, Elon musk broke with times have changed, awareness has grown, and i am
trump over tariffs and the Epstein files. But at the re- proud that our state symbols are being carefully reconsidered
cent memorial service for Kirk, the two were seen shak- through a lens of respect and healing. i hope the Seal, flag,
taylor greene of georgia, known as a hardcore backer ing hands and musk posted a photo on X of them sitting and motto Advisory Commission can find a way to continue
of President trump, is calling for the release of the Ep- together. Self-interest continues to empower mAgA. forward. important work has been done, and it should con-
stein files and, according to the New York times, is “no At an event Wednesday at the Edward m. Kennedy tinue without political distractions.
longer a team player for Republicans in Congress.” Re- institute, former vice president mike Pence spoke about JEANEttE RUYLE
publican Senator ted Cruz of texas stood up for Jimmy populism, conservatism, and civility. to his credit, Medfield
Kimmel’s free speech rights and called out the head of Pence broke with trump on the day of the Capitol at-
the federal Communications Commission for making tack. With trump back in office, more voices of dissent
mob-like threats to ABC, the network that broadcasts are needed. new flag and seal should
Kimmel’s show. After the killing of conservative activist What former president Joe Biden called “the battle honor all people’s dignity
Charlie Kirk at a Utah college last month, Spencer Cox, for the soul of the nation” is still very much before us. in a recent globe article about updating the state flag, seal,
that state’s Republican governor, denounced political it’s not popular to say anything positive about Biden and motto, consultant ted Kaye was quoted as saying that
division and called for Americans to stop “hating each right now, but the speech he delivered on that topic in the people of massachusetts need to be helped to understand
other.” it’s a theme Cox has championed before but is Philadelphia in September 2022 rings true today. why it’s important to change the seal and flag.
now taking to “60 minutes.” “too much of what’s happening in our country today As a clinical psychologist, i know that symbols affect peo-
it could mean something — or nothing. Since these is not normal,” Biden said. “Donald trump and the ple, so we must listen to our indigenous neighbors when they
statements, Cruz has called taylor greene “crazy” after mAgA Republicans represent an extremism that threat- tell us that it is time to replace a flag showing a half-clothed
she posted on social media that she could be in danger ens the very foundations of our republic.” indigenous person with a sword held over his head. isn’t it
because of her call for the release of the Epstein files, He went on to define the soul of America as “the sa- time for massachusetts to look to the future with hope?
and Cox was booed when he joined a panel at Utah cred proposition that all are created equal in the image Let’s also listen to the members of the commission who
State University that was sponsored by Kirk’s organiza- of god. that all are entitled to be treated with decency, have objected to the scoring system used to evaluate submis-
tion, turning Point USA. Yet, could it be that some Re- dignity, and respect. that all deserve justice and a shot sions. Allow them to revise the scoring system and choose a
publicans are tentatively testing the boundaries of a at lives of prosperity and consequence. And that democ- new set of finalists for voters to respond to.
post-trumpian political universe? Perhaps they sense racy — democracy must be defended, for democracy this crucial project has almost come to fruition. Let’s
voter exhaustion with the endless White House attacks makes all these things possible … and it’s up to us.” make sure the commission can design a flag and seal that re-
on political norms, as well as trepidation over trump’s Biden turned out to be the wrong messenger. But flect what our great state means to us all and honor all peo-
unbridled quest for vengeance. there is still an America that believes in his message — ple’s worth and dignity.
in a rare surrender by team trump, the Associated right? ELiZABEtH KLiNg HANDLEmAN
Press reported that the White House is withdrawing the We should listen hard for anyone brave enough to Hingham
nomination of E.J. Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor speak up for it.
Statistics. the choice of Antoni, the chief economist at Now, about that car with the trump sign. As a light
the Heritage foundation, was criticized by other econo- turned yellow, it sailed through an intersection, while i colonial damage done by
mists for being too partisan. Besides that, NBC News re- was stopped by red — a sobering signal of where we are flag and seal must be healed
ported that he was in the crowd outside the US Capitol right now in the fight. “Let’s help people understand why it’s important to change
during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. the seal and flag,” said flag consultant and expert ted Kaye.
According to a new poll from the New York times Joan Vennochi is a Globe columnist. She can be reached oK! We need a flag and seal that is meaningful and liberatory
and Siena University, trump’s approval rating is holding at joan.vennochi@globe.com. Follow her for all, especially for healing the colonial damage done by our
steady at 43 percent. the faithful are with him. He has @joan_vennochi. current flag and seal.
governor maura Healey and the Legislature need to fol-
low the lead of the new commission, especially the indige-
nous members. too much damage has been done already by
holding onto a flag that centers a racist image.
JoDY LEADER
Brookline
PATRIcK cHAPPATTE
Foundational history undergirds
current flag, motto, and seal
At a time when some people are being snatched off our
streets or persecuted by our federal government for what
they said or published, we should think deeply about the flag
of our Commonwealth before casting it aside.
Seeing our flag displayed by massachusetts lawmakers
visiting israel (“israel funded mass. lawmakers’ 5-day trip,”
metro, Sept. 27) and treated as a political football by Joan
vennochi (“is massachusetts’ flag debate a sign of shifting
political winds?” opinion, Sept. 30) prompts me to beg citi-
zens to study the history of our flag, motto, and seal for
themselves.
our motto, “Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem,”
was excerpted and adopted 250 years ago from the personal
motto of English soldier and statesman Algernon Sidney,
who had been beheaded in 1683 for the views expressed in
his manuscript “Discourses Concerning government.”
the manuscript was subsequently published with his
motto on the frontispiece and widely read, especially as part
of a “Library of Liberty” promoted and underwritten by
thomas Hollis in the 1700s. Harvard’s library was a benefi-
ciary.
Although little read today, Sidney’s ideas were influential
among the founding fathers, especially regarding forceful
resistance to tyranny, freedom of the press, and the bill of
rights. His motto of militant liberalism, “manus haec inimica
tyrannis, ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem” (“this
hand, hostile to tyrants, seeks with the sword a quiet peace
under liberty”), lives on in our flag.
RogER WiLSoN
Winchester
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Lodging prices on rise as P-town struggles to retain charm

uPROVINCETOWN would like to acquire one or two
Continued from Page A1 more hotels to bring the portfo-
even buy a $5 coffee here. We lio closer to 100 rooms, but
w o r k i t . We ’ r e comple tely doesn’t think it will be enough to
hands-on.” make it profitable under the new
But those unique inns, which limits. She emphasized that
have helped define the Province- Meads Bay is a family-run busi-
town experience for decades, are ness that needs scale to grow,
in decline in terms of sheer num- and that prices inevitably follow.
bers as larger operators increas- “You could buy assets here at
ingly manage the town’s com- a discount compared to Martha’s
mercial land. Vineyard or Nantucket, but the
that has created a slow dwin- real draw is the community, the
dling of licensed lodging, from camaraderie; it’s a vibe,” Rosen-
nearly 100 inns and hotels in berg said. “You go to P-town and
2010 to 82 this year, which has you can’t stop smiling because
heightened a community debate it’s so welcoming. i understand
over how to keep Provincetown’s capping ownership at properties
character intact. Short-term to keep things homegrown. Peo-
rentals, including airbnb and ple don’t want to lose the charm
Vrbo, have also fallen sharply, of P-town and have everything
from more than 1,200 in 2019 to owned by a handful of entities.
855 licensed today. But it does deter investment in
as a consequence, this sum- the community.”
mer frequent visitors noticed on average, hotel rooms are
higher lodging prices and inns between $400 and $500 a night,
with no vacancies. and some luxury spots like the
P-town, as it’s affectionately aWol Hotel, closest to the Pil-
known, has long been celebrated grims’ first landing Park, are
for its mix of history, art, and un- upwards of $800 a night during
apologetic individuality. Still, the summer or during the town’s
some described the nascent themed events like twink Week
change as the “Nantucket-iza- (fourth of July) and Spooky Bear
tion of P-town." Week (oct. 30-Nov. 2). for Car-
ERiN ClaRK/GloBE Staff
“it doesn’t feel like the town nival, held annually in august,
has changed. it’s still a fishing to linchris’s growing footprint, In August, lodging is often booked more
town, a Portuguese town, but but said the operator didn’t feel crowds filled than a year in advance. there’s
there’s a big tension on keeping the need to challenge it because Commercial also a 17.4 percent tax on the fi-
its character,” said Judd Schecht- it’s “highly unlikely” they’d ex- Street at the nal hotel bill, and a two- or
man, an environmental plan- pand in Provincetown further. end of the three-night minimum is often
ning scholar and a longtime P- linchris operates and has mi- Carnival required for stays.
town visitor. “Places are getting nority stakes in more than 30 Parade. The andrew Gianopoulos, gener-
more expensive, and we always properties in 15 states, including town still al manager of the aWol Hotel,
stay at the Harbor Hotel because Margaritaville Resort Cape Cod. retains its said million-dollar oceanfront
it’s the cheapest place in town at “We get the big bad corporate fishing properties are held by some who
$300 a night.” moniker and i don’t blame any- connections. are only there one week of the
the biggest player has be- body for being defensive and be- Town manager year. He worries Provincetown
come linchris, a family-owned ing protective because that’s Alex Morse said could become a playground for
hospitality group based in Plym- what’s helped keep Province- a housing those wealthy enough to afford
outh, which now manages 423 town, Provincetown,” anderson shortage is also it.
hotel rooms across six proper- said. “We reinvest in hotels, ren- contributing to “this is a town where every
ties. that’s about 31 percent of ovate them — we make them the shrinking place has a story. When an inn
Provincetown’s total of 1,380 better — and i would think that lodging supply. burned down, the town literally
rooms, according to the town’s the hotels combined are pretty helped breathe life back into it
latest tourism report. significant tax-wise for Province- and rebuild it. ... But it’s also def-
linchris began building its P- town." initely a place of dichotomy, and
JESSiCa RiNalDi/GloBE Staff
town portfolio with the acquisi- town manager alex Morse there is worry of a Nantucket-
tion of Surfside Hotel and Suites said a housing shortage is also ization of P-town,” said Gianopo-
in 2000 for an undisclosed price, contributing to the shrinking ulos.
and recently bought the Provinc- lodging supply. Hotel operators that protective spirit is evi-
etown inn in January 2024 for have to use former inns as em- dent in the “Make america Gay
$ 2 4 m i l l i o n . a w e e k l a t e r, ployee housing because it’s be- again” banners and cash-only
linchris added the foxberry inn come too expensive for workers spots like Sal’s fine dining and
for $3 million, using it for em- to live there seasonally. in addi- Spiritus Pizza, where customers
ployee housing. t i o n t o t h e fox b e r r y in n , are trusted to settle their bills
linchris’s purchase of the linchris, for example, controls the next day.
Provincetown inn, a 104-room several residential and condo But some of the change is
property on the very tip of the in- units for staff. more prominent. iconic spots in-
habitable par t of the Cape, Provincetown also relies cluding the lobster Pot, where a
prompted citizens to circulate a heavily on J-1 visa workers to young anthony Bourdain got his
petition intended to cap con- staff restaurants and shops. start, are up for sale — in this
glomerates from monopolizing Morse said he is prioritizing af- case, for $14 million. the Pil-
the hotel stock. in april, bylaws fordable housing for workers, grim House, an 18-bedroom inn
were implemented limiting with 65 rental units nearing with the landing Restaurant in-
owners or operators to having completion and another 40 new side, is listed for $5.9 million.
no more than five hotels or two condos — including 30 that will this august was Don
short-term rentals. be below-market — planned. Haisch’s 13th stay in Province-
BaRRY CHiN/GloBE Staff
linchris was able to keep the “We absolutely need the J-1s town over the last 20 years. He’s
properties it had, and its presi- because there aren’t enough peo- stayed at a fair share of places
dent, Bob anderson, said the ple for the jobs available in Prov- largely resisted the hyper-com- market of late, have been “com- old buildings, he said, “Province- but frequents the Waterford,
new bylaws don’t apply to the incetown, and quite frankly, mercialization reshaping other munity-minded,” adding that town is still the gayest place on Crowne Point, and the Red inn.
company because “linchris isn’t that’s not just Provincetown,” coastal towns, residents ac- linchris helped restore the Prov- Earth.” “there aren’t that many places
on any of the paperwork.” He anderson said. knowledge the challenge of bal- incetown inn’s historic murals “i think they see a good mar- left anymore.” he said.
added that while some investors “one of the town’s major ancing progress with preserva- depicting the town’s history. ket, and i hope they want to con- “it’s becoming a lot more ex-
are affiliated with linchris, the goals for a long time has been to tion. “i’d hate to see anything hap- tinue what’s here, because peo- pensive, and you need to book
company itself is not the prima- build a bigger year-round com- “the town has shunned cor- pen to that property,” Brister ple are watching, they care, and restaurants six weeks out. But
ry owner of these properties. munity, which CoViD helped ac- porate involvement for many said. “if that means it’s not local- they want to keep Provincetown, there’s no other place like it,”
“We can manage for anybody celerate, but one of the unin- years, so the only recognizable ly owned — well, that’s kind of Provincetown,” Cottner said. said Haisch, from Cleveland.
who wants to hire us,” anderson tended consequences of that is brands you’ll see are CVS, Ben & where we are these days.” the new laws do affect “the saddest moment is the
said. “We just happen to raise that there’s less [hotel] supply: Jerry’s, and Kiehl’s,” said Ra- Cottner of the Queen Vic Meads Bay, a Newton-based ho- walk to the ferry home.”
money to buy hotels with differ- We saw a number of bed and chael Brister, executive director Guest House said he was a “little tel group that owns three prop-
ent investors, and we’re general- breakfasts turn into single-fami- of the Provincetown Business freaked out” when linchris ac- erties in Provincetown: the El- Sarah Rahal can be reached at
ly a minority partner.” ly homes for people who relocat- Guild. She said linchris and quired the Provincetown inn. lery, the Waterford, and the Mer- sarah.rahal@globe.com. Follow
anderson acknowledged that ed here full time,” said Morse. Meads Bay, the other company But with rainbow flags waving cury, totaling 40 rooms. founder her on X @SarahRahal_ or
the new bylaws are in response While Provincetown has that’s entered the P-town hotel on top of all the town’s century- Jessica Rosenberg said she Instagram @sarah.rahal.

Mass Save is forced to temper its ambitions

uMASS SAVE the problem, the Mass Save and the state, must thread: offer gets and surcharges in check
Continued from Page A1 administrators explained, was a program that helps all resi- makes sense. “Who wants to
get proposed in January would that the program had been a vic- dents lower their energy bills over-burden consumers again?
have been the largest in the his- tim of its own success. “Unprece- and cut their household green- and keep a bullseye on the pro-
tory of Mass Save. dented levels of customer de- house gas emissions without gram?”
trouble started almost imme- mand” had put the program on sending their energy bills sky- But clean energy advocates
diately. track to blow the budget for sin- high with exorbitant surcharges say that short-term worries
in february, in response to an gle family low-income residents to ratepayers. about the budget overlook the
outcry from Massachusetts con- just months into the start of its With the rollback of federal long-term problem.
sumers and lawmakers over latest three-year cycle. incentives by the trump admin- “the efficiency programs are
high energy bills — only Califor- What it means: rather than istration to get off fossil fuels delivering $3.40 in benefits for
ERiN ClaRK/GloBE Staff/filE
nians and Hawaiians pay more actively trying to help connect and switch to electricity for heat- every dollar we invest,” said amy
for electricity in the United low-income residents with ser- ing homes, state offerings are Boyd Rabin, vice president of Mass Save scaled back its services for low-income residents,
States — the state Department of vices to help lower their energy even more critical. But at a time policy at the Environmental adding new hurdles to adopt electric heat pumps.
Public Utilities slashed $500 mil- bills, Mass Save will instead pri- when ratepayers in Massachu- league of Massachusetts. “We
lion from Mass Save’s budget to oritize other groups, such as setts are already asked to pay so must find funding sources be- in terms of equity, to say the disparities. But given the recent
lower those bills. small businesses and small mul- much, any additional surcharge yond gas and electric ratepayers least,” said John Walkey, director changes outlined in the memo
in april, the program an- tifamily building owners. o n a b i l l t o f u n d Ma s s S av e for these programs to really of climate justice and waterfront from Mass Save, some question
nounced how those cuts would a spokesman for the Mass comes with a political risk. serve everyone.” initiatives at GreenRoots in whether the state has really
be met, with some of the biggest Save program said the “broad in the memo to its energy ef- Barrett added that while Chelsea. changed its outreach.
reductions targeting heat pump commitment to serve income-el- ficiency vendors, Mass Save ad- “people are angry about their that track record was high- “this is just a continued frus-
incentives and the program igible households remains a core ministrators warned the Depart- bills, and they should be ... it’s lighted in the state auditor’s re- tration and outrage,” said alex
aimed at helping renters. priority” of the plan, and that ment of Public Utilities had important to spare energy effi- port, which analyzed Mass Save Pratt, director of strategic plan-
then this summer, another Mass Save is still on track to pro- “strongly emphasized” the im- ciency from becoming collateral data from 2019-2023. Residents ning and housing development
change. in a memo dated august vide more than $1 billion in in- portance of staying on budget — damage.” in poorer communities contrib- in Malden. “low income com-
4 and shared recently with the centives and other aid for in- meaning it is unlikely the de- those working in communi- uted 24 percent more, per capi- munities are subsidizing this
Globe, Mass Save scaled back its come-eligible residents during partment would approve a rate ties with large low-income popu- ta, than the average for the rest program for wealthier people
services for low-income resi- this three-year period — double increase. lations say it’s no surprise there of the state($77.76 annually ver- and wealthier communities.
dents, adding new hurdles to what that group of customers re- State Senator Michael Bar- is a lot of demand for Mass Save’s sus $62.96). that’s just totally backwards.”
adopt electric heat pumps and ceived during the 2022-2024 cy- rett, a lexington Democrat who offerings because, they say, low- Massachusetts energy offi-
deferring some window replace- cle. worked on multiple climate income residents have long been cials noted the auditor’s report Sabrina Shankman can be
ment projects, while also warn- this challenge represents the change initiatives, said the overlooked by the program. does not include the most cur- reached at
ing of delays. tricky needle that Mass Save, DPU’s emphasis on keeping bud- “it has a spotty track record rent Mass Save plans that target sabrina.shankman@globe.com.
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FeDeRAL FUNDING FALLoUt

States sue
over cuts
to money
for safety
healey, Campbell decry
move by White house
By Nick Stoico and Laura Crimaldi
GLOBE sTAff

The Trump administration’s latest cost-

cutting measures in New England have jeop-
ardized millions of federal grant dollars in
New England used to defend against emer-
gencies, natural disasters, and acts of terror-
ism, state officials said.
On Tuesday, a dozen states, including
four in New England, sued Homeland secu-
rity secretary Kristi Noem to halt the fund-
ing reductions. Later in the day, a federal
judge in Rhode Island put the cuts on pause
while the lawsuit winds through the court
system.
In a social media post Tuesday night,
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Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy
JOHN F. KENNEDY PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY: Guards were recommending other tourist attractions to disappointed visitors. campbell said the Trump administration re-
duced the grant funding in an effort to co-

Tourists turned away from Boston sites erce local law enforcement officials into ad-
vancing the president’s immigration agenda.
campbell said in a separate statement

as government shutdown hits home

Wednesday that she
will “keep fighting
in court for a per-
manent block on
$7m
the Trump Admin- of Massachusetts’
healey blames ‘this dysfunction in Washington’ on trump administration istration’s unlawful $22.2 million in public
attempt to take this safety funds have been
reallocated elsewhere
By Katie Muchnick, comes during the ongoing tourist doing everything we can to mitigate bursements, according to Healey critical funding
Katarina Schmeiszer, season as foliage starts to change these impacts and continue deliver- aides. away from our
and Truman Dickerson colors around Boston and the 250th ing for people. But we need Donald The shutdown was triggered at state.”
GLOBE cORREspONDENTs anniversary of the American Revo- Trump and the Republicans to get 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. Along the “There is nothing more important than
Armed with her passport to the lution nears. the government back to work.” historic freedom Trail, Bunker Hill the safety and security of our residents, and
presidential libraries, sherry Roper Governor Maura Healey laid The governor’s office warned Monument and the Uss constitu- this order is key to ensuring Massachusetts
came to the John f. Kennedy presi- blame on Trump and Republicans that an extended shutdown could tion Museum, as well as parts of fa- can prepare for and respond to natural di-
d e n t i a l L i b r a r y a n d Mu s e u m for the shutdown. impact benefits and other pro- neuil Hall, were closed while 13 sasters, cyberattacks, and other emergencies
Wednesday morning only to find “people need to know that this grams, including assistance for sites remained operational as of as our case continues,” she said.
the doors locked. Her hopes of visit- dysfunction in Washington affects home energy projects. Also, more Wednesday afternoon. It’s unclear In Rhode Island, state Attorney General
ing her fifth presidential museum — them and all of us,” the first-term than 30 Head start programs would what could happen in the days to peter f. Neronha said in a statement that
from a bucket list of thirteen total — Democrat said in a statement. “In be “interrupted” and hospitals come as the shutdown continues, “federal emergency funding cannot be held
were dashed. Massachusetts, we are focused on would not receive federal reim- but Boston Globe reporters who vis- hostage from states who are rightfully resist-
A sign outside the building in- ited several federally-run facilities ing the president’s unlawful attempts to
formed patrons that it would be and parks could already see the fall- force them to do his bidding.”
“closed until further notice” because out. The Us Department of Homeland securi-
of the government shutdown. ty didn’t respond Wednesday to requests for
“I don’t know when we’ ll fly JFK Library: ‘Closed until further comment.
back,” said Roper, 69, of Burleson, notice’ The funding at stake comes from the
Texas. “This was one of our most fa- Roper came to visit the area on Homeland security Grant program, which
vorite [libraries] that we wanted to Tuesday and planned to leave provides about $1 billion to states.
see.” Wednesday. But it was the JfK mu- Over the summer, Massachusetts was no-
Roper’s story was all too familiar seum that drew her to Boston. Rop- tified that it would receive $22.2 million in
on Wednesday as visitors showed er, a lifelong Democrat who became grant funding, but on saturday state officials
up at Boston-area historical sites an Independent after she cam- received word that nearly $7 million had
and attractions only to find closed paigned for Robert f. Kennedy, Jr. been reallocated. The reallocation left Mas-
signs because congress deadlocked last year, said she is frustrated with sachusetts with $15.3 million in grant fund-
and missed the deadline for funding party politics that lead to this shut- ing, while states like Missouri and Texas re-
the government late on Tuesday down. ceived large boosts in their allotments, ac-
night. “It’s crazy that we’re played like cording to the complaint by the 12 states
The government’s shutdown CLOSED, Page B4 that sued over the reallocated funding.
The other states in the lawsuit are Illi-
nois, New Jersey, california, Rhode Island,
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connecticut, Delaware, Minnesota, New
USS CONSTITUTION: Tours of Old Ironsides were canceled at the york, vermont, and Washington, as well as
Navy shipyard in Charlestown, but the museum was open. SAFETY, Page B4

Renewed hope in cold case from 1974 inside

body exhumed remains unsolved.

Henr y Bedard Jr., a high
young or old, all of the commu-
nity still talks about Henry and
inal investigative avenues that
were not possible in the past.”
in swampscott school sophomore, was last seen what happened on that fateful “We are hopeful that these
on Dec. 16, 1974, walking on day,” swampscott police chief advances will lead to significant
By Travis Andersen paradise Road in the North Ruben Quesada said in a state- evidence,” he said.
and Shannon Larson shore town. His lifeless body ment. Authorities set up evidence
GLOBE sTAff was found under a pile of leaves Essex District Attorney paul f. tents around Bedard’s grave
sWAMpscOTT — Authori- in a wooded area the next day. A Tucker said his office obtained a Wednesday morning, and a
ties exhumed the body of a 15- baseball bat with unique mark- court order to exhume the body backhoe and a truck from the
year-old boy who was beaten to ings was discovered nearby. po- after receiving new information. state medical examiner’s office
death more than five decades lice determined Bedard had He did not share details of that were brought in. A “post-mor-
ago from a cemetery here been bludgeoned to death. information, but he said, “Ad- tem examination autopsy” will
Wednesday, raising hopes about “What happened to Henry vances in forensic science and be conducted in Boston, Tucker
new information in a case that has never left this town, and technology have led to new crim- BEDARD, Page B5

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GOP megadonor launches gubernatorial campaign Protests persist

for the 24th straight week, demonstrators (above) gathered
outside the Boston IcE field office in Burlington. B3.
By Samantha J. Gross 58, said. “I’m running to be a that the North shore Republi- gressional candidate and auto
GLOBE sTAff new kind of governor — one can met with members of the parts magnate Rick Green, ac-
Derailment documents
federal investigators released details of the derailment on the
After months of speculation, with the faith, heart, and the Massachusetts fiscal Alliance cording to federal campaign fil-
Green Line that injured seven passengers in 2024. B2.
Republican megadonor and grit to serve for Massachusetts.” and fiscal Alliance foundation ings. In february alone, he con-
medical device businessman Minogue, a relative political boards to discuss a potential tributed more than $400,000 to More spas linked to human traffickers
Michael Minogue has entered newcomer, joins former Baker bid. the Republican National com- Methuen’s mayor said the city shut down three more day spas,
the race for Massachusetts’ top administration officials Mike Minogue has supported Re- mittee. warning operators: “We will find you, and we will shut you
office, promising to be “a new Kennealy and Brian shortsleeve publican candidates both in Last October, he and his down.” B3.
kind of governor” in a video an- in the crowded field of Republi- and out of the state, including wife, Renee, hosted a high-dol-
nouncing his run. cans hoping to take on Gover- former governor charlie Baker, lar fund-raiser for the GOp
“Our current one-party sys- nor Maura Healey next year. recent GOp senate nominee presidential ticket in Glouces-
tem isn’t working,” Minogue, In March, politico reported John Deaton, and former con- MINOGUE, Page B5
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Files from probe of 2024 Green Line derailment released

Reveal train’s passengers and two crew mem-
bers derailed on the Red bridge,
the 10 miles per hour speed limit
were visible, and couldn’t call to
had enough time to slow to 10
miles per hour before crossing
high travel speed according to federal documents. mind any distractions. into the zone, turner replied:
investigators determined “i went into regular speed out “Yes, hundred percent we do,
By Jaime Moore-Carrillo that the train, destined for of the station and the next thing yes.”
globE StAff Union Square, had been travel- i know, i was derailing,” fauntle- neither operator noticed sig-
the operator in control of a ing roughly 36 miles per hour roy said. nificant mechanical problems
green line train that derailed when it entered a section of when asked later on by an with the train on its journey, ac-
near lechmere Station a year track with a 10 miles per hour MbtA official if there was “any- cording to reports.
ago said they did not feel there speed limit and blew past a red thing that you feel you could the MbtA told the globe
was anything they could’ve done stop signal, according to reports. have done differently on that day that the “individual who was op-
differently to prevent the inci- the railroad switch meant to to prevent the incident from erating the first car of the 2-car
dent, according to transcripts of redirec t the train to Union happening,” fauntleroy re- train is no longer employed” at
interviews with investigators re- Square hadn’t finished realign- sponded succinctly: “no.” the agency.
leased this week. ing when the train “traversed” it At one point in the conversa- “the safety of MbtA riders
the national transportation and derailed, “sustaining signifi- tion, fauntleroy said they didn’t and employees is of paramount
AnDREw bURkE-StEvEnSon foR tHE boSton globE
Safety board, the federal agency cant damage and striking way- think train drivers were afforded importance,” the agency said in a
that probed the derailment, pub- side signal equipment before enough time to slow from 30 Officials at the site of last year’s Green Line derailment near statement. “the MbtA has been
lished dozens of documents per- abruptly coming to rest,” accord- miles per hour — the speed limit Lechmere Station. Seven passengers were injured. working aggressively to install
taining to their investigation on ing to a safety board report. in the preceding segment of the green line train Protection
tuesday, one day before the an- in an interview with investi- track — to 10 miles per hour, but i’m an employee for the MbtA, tified as Mark turner. tasked System while stepping up its fo-
niversary of the episode that in- gators two days after the inci- they couldn’t remember notify- and they just publicly put the primarily with opening and clos- cus on compliance with operat-
jured seven passengers and in- dent, the operator controlling the ing a superior about the con- blame on me first without check- ing the trailing car’s doors and ing rules, including adherence to
tensified scrutiny of the t’s safe- train, identified in transcripts as cern, according to transcripts. ing their equipment or checking supervising its passengers, turn- posted speed limits.”
ty lapses. Daisha fauntleroy, said they toward the end of the ses- the rails or anything like that.” er said he wasn’t aware how fast
not long before 5 p.m. on oct. didn’t recall how fast they were sion, fauntleroy stated: “what i investigators also inter - the train was moving when it de- Jaime Moore-Carrillo can be
1, 2024, an eastbound green going at the time of the derail- didn’t like or what i don’t like viewed the operator manning railed, according to transcripts. reached at jaime.moore-
line train carrying roughly 50 ment. they said signs indicating about the whole situation is how the second of the two cars, iden- but, when asked if operators carrillo@globe.com.

N.H. overdose deaths

dip except in 1 category
Carfentanil historic lows in the number of
suspected overdoses and fatali-
fatalities on rise ties,” but more work remains.
three of this year’s carfenta-
By Steven Porter nil-related deaths occurred in
globE StAff Manchester, so the city’s public
overdose deaths are trend- health and safety leaders are
ing downward overall in new alerting residents to the dan-
Hampshire this year, though gers of this extremely potent
authorities are seeing a trou- substance, which the US Drug
bling rise in fatalities attribut- Enforcement Administration
able to one particularly power- describes as 100 times stronger
ful drug. than fentanyl and 10,000 times
Carfentanil, a synthetic opi- stronger than morphine.
oid that was originally devel- the city officials said carfen-
oped as a tranquilizer for ele- tanil and other fentanyl-related
phants and other large animals, substances can work very
has contributed to 10 deaths in quickly, so people should exer-
new Hampshire so far this year, cise extreme caution and con-
according to data from the of- tact medical professionals right
fice of Chief Medical Examiner. away if they suspect exposure.
with more than three the drug should be handled on-
months remaining before 2026 ly by those who have been
arrives, the state’s carfentanil- trained to do so, they said.
related deaths in 2025 already the Manchester Police De-
outnumber the seven recorded partment said there has been an
in all of 2024. increase in recent months in the
this uptick in a particular number of samples from seized
JonAtHAn wiggS/globE StAff
category comes as state leaders drugs testing positive for car-
continue to see a broader de- fentanil.

AGE, STYLE, AND PLENTY OF BACKBEAT cline in fatal overdoses. Year-to-

date, there were 149 confirmed
drug deaths and 24 other
“we are constantly battling
the presence of illegal narcotics
in our city,” Chief Peter Marr
deaths for which toxicology re- said in a statement. “while we
vicente lebron & friends performed at the sults were still pending, as of work closely with the Health
Age Strong Heritage Celebration Sept. 3, according to the data. Department to help individuals
wednesday at the Melnea Cass Recreation At roughly the same point last manage their substance use dis-
Complex in boston. the program included year, there were 183 confirmed order, we also rigorously target
music, dancing, lunch, and a raffle. At left, drug deaths and 43 others the source of the problem by ar-
pending results. resting drug dealers.”
Juan Jimenez joined in the dancing.
for a decade, new Hamp- t hose dealing with sub-
shire recorded more than 400 stance use disorder, anxiety, or
fatal overdoses per year, so the other mental health concerns
recent decline is being celebrat- can contact the Doorways by
ed as an encouraging sign — calling 2-1-1 or visiting
though leaders know the trend www.thedoorway.nh.gov.
is reversible.
Anna thomas, public health Steven Porter can be reached at
director for Manchester, said steven.porter@globe.com.
the city is “on track to realize Follow him @reporterporter.

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Wednesday protests persist at Burlington ICE office

‘We’re not going
to be deterred’
By Sadaf Tokhi
GLoBE CoRRESPoNDENt

BURLiNGtoN — the brick

building looked like any other
in a suburban office park, ex-
cept for the vehicles out front
bearing bold iCE lettering —
and the hundreds of protesters
who gathered outside Wednes-
day.
Behind yellow tape, people
waved handmade signs at pass-
ing drivers. Some motorists
honked in suppor t . others
slowed to film. A few protesters
carried American flags, while a
small group wore Statue of Lib-
erty costumes. from speakers
came stories of people detained
by iCE, mixed with readings of
t h e Co n s t i t u t i o n’s a m e n d -
ments, broadcast toward the
building itself.
this was the 24th straight
week of protest outside the Bos-
ton field office of US immigra-
tion and Customs Enforce-
ment, part of a movement that
organizers say is meant to show
solidarity with immigrants re-
quired to check in at the facility
or brought there in vans.
Wednesday’s demonstration
also came shortly after US At-
torney General Pam Bondi is-
sued a memorandum directing
prosecutors to “prosecute any
individual” who impedes or in-
timidates iCE officers “to the
PHotoS BY JESSiCA RiNALDi/GLoBE StAff
fullest extent of the law.”
But the memorandum did Above, Carter
little to discourage those gath- ‘The whole idea is that if we’re scared, Chamberlain
ered here. wore a harness
“We’re not going to be de- we won’t come out and oppose their with upside
terred, because we believe we
have the Constitution on our
actions. But it doesn’t matter to us. down American
flags during the
side,” Jared Berezin said, refer- We’re still going to be here. That’s the protest march.
encing the first Amendment
right to peaceably assemble
only way we’re going to shut it down.’ Left, protesters
marched past
and petition the government. JERRY MARtiNEZ, protester at ICE office the Boston ICE
“if the government changes the field office in
Constitution, that’s a different Burlington on
story.” Wednesday.
the weekly protests outside sometimes stop to wave or give his way to work.
the Burlington facility began a thumbs-up. other scenes are for those outside the Burl-
this summer with Jared and his harder to watch. ington office, like Jerry and
wife, Laurie Berezin, of May- “often we’ll see mom, dad, Meredith Spinnato Martinez of
nard. they were heartbroken and their little kids show up, Boston, showing up week after
by news stories of people being and only the parent with the week has become their way of
detained by iCE agents wear- appointment is allowed inside,” pushing back.
ing masks, and wanted immi- Jared Berezin said. “the other they both work in the de-
grants arriving for check-ins to parent is left outside trying to sign and construction industry
know that not everyone sup- play with the kids, keep them and several of their colleagues come even more,” Meredith meant to show solidarity with ed slogans about immigrant
ported the administration’s ac- happy. it’s cruel.” have been detained. they said Spinnato Martinez said. immigrants reporting to iCE rights.
tions. the persistence comes amid iCE agents have targeted neigh- “they [the trump adminis- check-ins and to let iCE and the “it’s a shame when anybody,
the first protest was just the heightened concerns over iCE borhoods where many immi- tration] are trying to instill fear administration know that the whether a government official
Berezins standing outside the operations nationwide. in cities grant workers live. in people,” added Jerry Marti- work they are doing is not oK, or a private citizen, tries to de-
center with signs, but the fol- like Portland, ore., and Chica- t he y were also in atten- nez. “the whole idea is that if Jared Berezin said. ny people their right to free
lowing week, five people joined go, protesters have clashed dance last week, when demon- we’re scared, we won’t come After more than an hour of speech. Regardless of your
them. Soon after, clergy from with federal agents over immi- strators observed a moment of out and oppose their actions. speeches and chants outside views on any political issue,
across the region were spread- gration raids. in Massachu- silence for those injured in a But it doesn’ t matter to us. the iCE office, the group that should horrify you,” Jared
ing the word of the weekly pro- setts, families were rattled after shooting at an iCE facility in We’re still going to be here. marched down the road toward Berezin said.
tests. Now, the Wednesday pro- 19-year-old João Marciano do Dallas. that’s the only way we’re going the Burlington Mall before
tests draw hundreds. families Carmo of Milford was detained “that didn’t stop us from to shut it down.” looping back and demonstra- Sadaf Tokhi can be reached at
arriving for iCE check-ins by iCE agents on Saturday on coming — it made us want to t he demons trations are tors carried banners and chant- sadaf.tokhi@globe.com.

Alleged trafficking closes more spas Icehouse on the Parkway

485 Blue Hills Parkway, Milton, MA
By Tonya Alanez
GLoBE StAff
Hampshire Street, were shut
down on Sunday and Monday.
combat sex trafficking opera-
tions in the city, drawing re- Affordable Housing Lottery
City officials in Methuen on the manager of Beauty Gar- sources from the city’s inspec-
One 1BR Condo for $250,000 (Condo fee $296/month)
tuesday shut down three more den Spa, Suping Zhu, 38, of tions and health divisions, Police
day spas suspected of running as flushing, N.Y., is facing criminal Department, and nonprofit One 1BR Condo for $250,300 (Condo fee $294/month)
human trafficking fronts, bring- charges. agencies. He has also ordered an One 1BR Condo for $253,000 (Condo fee $272/month)
ing the total to five establish- on Monday, Zhu pleaded not assessment of suspected loca-
One 2BR Condo for $266,400 (Condo fee $454/month)
ments closed since Sunday, May- guilty to human trafficking and tions.
or D.J. Beauregard said. prostitution charges for alleged- “if you are operating, en- Three 2BR Condos for $270,700 (Condo fee $419/month)
the city ’s Department of ly running a house of ill repute, abling, or fueling human traf- Four 2BR Condos for $271,400 (Condo fee $414/month)
Health, Human Services, and in- according to officials and court ficking in the City of Methuen Two 3BR Condos for $293,600 (Condo fee $523/month)
spections issued cease-and-de- records. She was ordered held . . . we will find you, and we will
sist orders to oriental Spa, 119 on $25,000 cash bail, according shut you down,” Beauregard
Swan St., Yellow Lilly Day Spa, to court records. Her lawyer de- said.
This is a lottery opportunity for the thirteen (13) affordable condominiums at Icehouse on the
and Lavender Spa, both located clined to comment on the case.
Parkway in Milton. These 13 condos will be sold at affordable prices to households with incomes
at 17 Baldwin St. Beauregard announced Mon- Tonya Alanez can be reached at at or below 80% of the area median income. Icehouse on the Parkway is a brand-new homeowner-
the three spas have also been day that he is launching a Hu- tonya.alanez@globe.com. Follow ship development conveniently located on Blue Hill Parkway, nestled at the foot of the Blue Hills
referred to the Methuen Police man trafficking task force to her @talanez. Reservation, adjacent to historic Popes Pond, and less than a mile from Milton High School and
Department for criminal investi- Tucker Elementary School.
gation, Beauregard said. Maximum Household Income Limits
“We are moving aggressively
to identify and close these busi- $92,650 (1 person), $105,850 (2 people), $119,100 (3 people)
nesses, to crack down on the $132,300 (4 people), $142,900 (5 people) $153,500 (6 people)
evildoers who profit from hu- –––
man suffering, and to hold land- Public Info Session
lords, traffickers, and johns ac-
countable,” Beauregard said in a
October 21, 2025 at 6:00 pm via Zoom
statement.
Go to zoom.com/join or call (646) 558-8656 and enter
“ t he demand created by Meeting ID: 818 9317 7595, Passcode: 088159
johns is what fuels this evil crim-
THEATER MUSIC Application Deadline
inal industry, and as Police Chief
Scott McNamara indicated pre- November 17, 2025 at 2:00 pm
viously, we are targeting you Completed Applications and Mortgage Pre-Approvals must be delivered by this date.
next with the full might of the
law,” Beauregard said. “Meth- Lottery
uen has zero tolerance for hu- November 25, 2025 at 6:00 pm via Zoom
OUR TOWN bRAHMS Go to zoom.com/join or call (646) 558-8656 and enter
man trafficking — period.” NOW-OcTObeR 19 Boston Philharmonic, led by Maestro Benjamin
the closures were prompted By Thornton Wilder Meeting ID: 857 2736 5609, Passcode: 276410
after inspectors discovered “un- Zander, opens the season with two Brahms
Directed by Courtney O’Connor
licensed activity, evidence of un- For Lottery Information and Applications, or for reasonable accommodations for persons with
Featuring Will McGarrahan as the Stage Manager firsts. Pianist Alessandro Deljavan, who debuted
lawful habitation within the disabilities, go to www.sebhousing.com or call (617) 782-6900 x2 and leave a message or postal
Stars shine over this sleepy New England town,
commercial spaces, and multiple
with the BPO in 2019, returns for the First Piano mail SEB Housing, 257 Hillside Ave, Needham MA 02494. Information Packets and Applications are
but are dimmed when compared with the also available at the Milton Public Library – 476 Canton Ave, Milton, MA 02186. For TTY Services dial
code violations including unper- Concerto.
wonderment tucked away within the seemingly 711. Free translation available. Traducción gratuita disponible. Tradução livre disponível.
mitted construction, blocked
ordinary moments of this place so many call The Program continues with Brahms’s First
egress, and unsanitary condi- Free translation available. Traducción gratuita disponible.
“home.” Even in the smallest of moments, Symphony, blending drama, lyricism, and
tions,” the statement said.
beauty is there. The secret is to stop and take
two other spas, Beauty Gar- a radiant finale. SUNDAY, OCT 19, 3pm in
notice. For tickets visit lyricstage.com or
den Spa on Wallace Street and
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Eastern Bodywork therapy on
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Shutdown hits
many tourist sites
across Boston
uCLOSED tour and were disappointed for
Continued from Page B1 themselves but more frustrated
this,” she said. “i’m tired of with the overall shutdown.
paying [my representatives] “What i found out is the mili-
money to not do their job.” tary are not getting paid for this
Security guards standing out- shutdown, but people in [politi-
side the John f. kennedy library cal] office are,” Hollin said.
were turning visitors away and During a government shut-
recommending other tourist at- down, all active-duty personnel,
tractions around boston. as well as national Guard who
Christine and Simon Jones are currently deployed, must
were visiting from Southern Cal- carry out their assigned duties
ifornia and had planned to visit with their pay delayed until the
the presidential library. shutdown is over. Civilian per-
“i try to find the silver lining sonnel whose work the Defense
and assume that, you know, it Department considers essential,
wasn’t meant to be today,” Chris- or “excepted,” will also continue
tine said. “but i felt very con- to work, while other civilians are
nected to this one in particular.” furloughed for the duration of
Simon Jones, 57, said he was the shutdown.
frustrated but not surprised by
the shutdown. Bunker Hill Memorial: Forget
“i mean, we clearly don’ t the 294-step climb for now DAviD l RYAn/ GlobE StAff

have a functioning government the bunker Hill memorial, a from Rockford, ill., said she Above, a visitor
right now,” he said. “it’s expected tall concre te monument in came to boston for the express to Faneuil Hall,
that they can’t seem to get any- Charlestown, also was affected. purpose of visiting federally tried to open a
thing right at this point.” While visitors could still walk funded historical sites in the city. locked door on
around the monument and en- “i’m very disappointed be- Wednesday. Left,
USS Constitution: ‘Ship is joy the park, the visitor center cause we pay a lot of money to at the Navy yard
closed.’ and the inside of the monument go, and you’re looking forward in Charlestown,
A t t h e n av y s h i p y a r d i n was closed. to doing things here,” she said, visitors passed
Charlestown, visitors to the USS visitors are typically able to adding, “it’s not like you come by a sign on the
Constitution were met with a climb 294 steps to the top and from illinois every day.” gate announcing
sign reading “Ship is closed.” enjoy a 360-degree view of the though they lived closer to that the USS
Anthony Johnson, 57, who city. However, since the monu- boston, michelle murphy, 58, Constitution
was visiting boston from Arkan- ment is a national Historical and her husband, 56-year-old was also closed.
sas, was surprised to see the ship park, it, too, was closed. brian murphy, of Hartford, were
closed but said he still planned similarly disappointed.
to tour the museum, which re- Faneuil Hall: Shops open but the murphys have a son who
mained open. museum, great hall shut manages a restaurant in Yellow-
“i guess it’s just part of the in boston’s bustling faneuil stone national park, a federally
process, living in a democracy, Hall marke tplace, just fur- funded park also vulnerable dur-
that there’s inconveniences loughed national park employ- ing government shutdowns.
sometimes to work out the dif- ees were seen leaving the hall “they should separate this
DAviD l RYAn/ GlobE StAff
ferences both parties have, and carrying clear plastic bags full of part of the government out of all
hopefully they’ ll come to an their belongings, including of their other spending,” brian
agreement and it’ll open back up wide-brimmed park ranger hats. murphy said. “it’s for us, the ined but said it was bad timing be back here?” katie.muchnick@globe.com,
before long,” Johnson said. the shutdown closed the people, for these places to be that it coincided with the gov- Katarina Schmeiszer at
kathy Hollin, 65, and peggy great hall and museum, while re- open for us, not be a pawn in ernment shutdown. Matt Stout of the Globe staff katarina.schmeiszer@globe.com
Chandler, 67, from indiana, tail on the first floor stayed open. their debating.” “i’m 78,” she said. “How contributed to this report. Reach and Truman Dickerson at
came to the ship as part of a bus lynell Cannell, 78, visiting Cannell said her trip isn’t ru- many more times am i going to Katie Muchnick at truman.dickerson@globe.com.

States sue over funding cuts for safety, emergencies

uSAFETY
Continued from Page B1
‘President Trump tion service, the state said. sense. in Rhode island, the state re- in may, challenging the consti-
funding for training and “they are cutting the things ceived the federal funding it ex- tutionally of making state coop-
the District of Columbia. is playing politics equipment to protect the port they wanted,” he said Wednes- pected, a total of more than eration in immigration enforce-
in a statement on tuesday,
massachusetts Governor maura
with our public of boston would be cut by more
than $322,124, a 62 percent re-
day.
the grant funding also pays
$7.3 million, though the trump
administration said the sum
ment a condition of grant fund-
ing from the federal
Healey criticized the funding safety, and he’s duction, the figures show. for training and equipment to must be spent in a year, instead Emergency management Agen-
cut.
“president trump is playing
using these the cuts would also wipe out
most of the funding for a $1.8
prepare emergency responders
to handle active shooter inci-
of three. that meant the state’s
emergency management agen-
cy, a component of DHS.
last week, a federal judge in
politics with our public safety, funding cuts to million grant program to help dents, provide security during cy would have to make last- Rhode island handling that
and he’s using these funding state agencies respond to a ter- elections, and set up emergency minute changes to its emergen- case ruled in favor of the states
cuts to punish those who dis- punish those who ror attack or other disaster. shelters. cy budget — and would end up and prohibited the federal gov-
agree with him,” she said. “He
needs to restore the funding
disagree with him.’ in the central part of the
state, the funding cuts would
there is constant demand
for training in the areas of tech-
losing millions that it couldn’t
spend.
ernment from requiring states
to assist with immigration en-
that we are owed.” GovERnoR mAURA eliminate funding that helps nical rescue and active shooter the fight over funding from forcement in order to be eligible
the grant funding is distrib- HEAlEY pay for the regional homeland response because of turnover the federal Homeland Security for fEmA grants.
uted across massachuse tts security council and a laser among emergency responders, Grant program dates to trump’s following the ruling, the
through five regional advisory scanner system that can be used said lieutenant Colonel thom- inauguration Day when he trump administration notified
councils, which use the money ro boston Region would take in crime scene investigations. as Grady of the berkshire Coun- signed an executive order di- states over the weekend of real-
to pay for training, equipment, the biggest hit — more than funding for technical rescue ty Sheriff’s Department. recting DHS to withhold money located funding for the home-
and other measures intended to $4.1 million, according to state teams in that part of the state Grady leads the Western Re- from “sanctuary” jurisdictions, land security grants.
help protect the public from figures. would be reduced to $8,862, a gion Homeland Security Advi- or places where local officials
acts of terrorism or other disas- the cut would eliminate all cut of 90 percent. sory Council. refrain from getting involved Amanda Milkovits of the Globe
ters. funding for a regional SWAt Dudley fire Chief Dean “it will always be a necessary with immigration enforcement. staff contributed to this report.
if massachusetts loses the team, a longstanding effort to kochanowski, the chairperson requirement,” he said Wednes- As the trump administra- Nick Stoico can be reached at
nearly $7 million that the improve public safety commu- of the Central Region Home- day. “We will have to continue tion worked to carry out the or- nick.stoico@globe.com.
trump administration wants to nications, a regional camera land Security Council, said the the process of training them to der, 20 states and the District of Laura Crimaldi can be reached
reallocate, funding for the met- system, and a gunshot detec- public safe ty c uts make no the same level.” Columbia filed a federal lawsuit at laura.crimaldi@globe.com.

Salem ready to kick off

series of events with parade
By Camille Bugayong from kindergarten to college
GlobE CoRRESponDEnt plus many local business own-
the 28 th annual Salem ers,” the website said.
Chamber of Commerce Haunted the city will be implement-
Happenings Grand parade will ing enhanced public safety mea-
take place on thursday evening, sures for the parade. metal bar-
officially launching the city into ricades will line the entire route,
the spooky season. the city said in a statement.
the parade’s grand marshals because of the barricades, po-
are cast members of Hocus po- lice will be closing roads at 4:00
cus — omri katz, vinessa Shaw, p.m. on thursday, the city said.
tobias Jelinek, larry bagby, and Additionally, once the parade
Jason marsden, the chamber an- begins, nobody will be allowed
nounced last month. to enter, exit, or cross the route
the classic Halloween movie until the parade has ended.
was filmed in Salem during the many Salem streets will have
1990s. a parking ban in effect on thurs-
beginning at 6:30 p.m., the day, at earlier times. Any vehi-
parade will follow a route from cles parked in the areas will be
prime Group Shetland park to towed, the city said.
Salem Common. Salem will have an increased
the parade, a Halloween tra- security presence for all events
dition, happens every year on this month, police said in Sep-
the first thursday of october. tember. this will include police
marchers include Salem public canines, additional surveillance
School kids and their families, cameras, and counter-drone
along with community groups. measures.
According to the event’s web- Additional security come
site, the parade is expecting over from marblehead and peabody
15,000 spectators. police departments, a regional
JoHn tlUmACki/GlobE StAff
“ the evening should be a law enforcement group, the Es-
POISED AND PERCHED — A goat took a break on a platform in its pen at Shelburne farm late last month. the night full of color, pageantry, sex County sheriff’s department,
farm, located roughly 30 miles west of boston in Stow, is also an orchard that offers apple-picking through october. music, and the enthusiasm of state troopers, park rangers, and
thousands of Salem’s students fbi and Atf agents.
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Mike Minogue launches his

campaign for Mass. governor Catch This Rate
BEFORE It Falls.
uMINOGUE
Continued from Page B1
ter, headlined by JD Vance.
the Minogues have given lo-
cally, too. they’ve supported
the Republican state commit-

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tee, Republican candidate Med-
ley long iii, who is running to

%
replace former state represen-
tative Jerald Parisella on the
north Shore, and even maxed
out a donation to onetime may- APY*
oral hopeful Josh Kraft, who re-
cently ended his campaign to
unseat Boston Mayor Michelle
Wu.
in Ju n e , h e s p o n s o r e d a
lAnE tURnER/GloBE StAFF/2016 FilE
Massachusetts Young Republi-
cans meeting. in September, he
and his wife attended Republi-
Mike Minogue says “one-party system isn’t working” and
vows to be “a new kind of governor.” 24-MONTH CD
can activist Charlie Kirk’s me-
morial in Arizona, where they Electric HealthCare before go- spokesperson, Holly Ro-
“watched Erika Kirk speak with ing on to serve as the CEo of bichaud, said the same of her Available for Personal and
strength and grace forgiving Danvers-based Abiomed inc. candidate.
the man who took her hus- in a post on linkedin Shortsleeve is “bringing the
Business Accounts
band’s life,” he wrote on linked- Wednesday, Minogue wrote fight to Maura Healey with the
in. that his bid for governor repre- determination of a Marine, the Open an account 24/7 at
Despite his support of Re- sents a “focus on another strug- perspective of an outsider, the institutionforsavings.com.
publican causes, Minogue only gling ‘company’ called Massa- skills of a successful business- SCAN ME!
registered as a Republican in chusetts.” man and proven reformer, and
April, according to Hamilton the Minogues, who live in the urgency of a father,” she
town records. He switched Hamilton, have a family foun- said.
from Republican to unenrolled dation that supports military “that’s why he is leading the
in 2007, and then back on April veterans, faith-based educa- Republican primary and will
29. Despite being unenrolled in tion, and health care innova- defeat Maura Healey in 2026,”
a political party, he voted exclu- tion, according to its website. she said.
sively in Republican primaries, they have five children. online, those supporting
records show. Spokespeople for the two Minogue excitedly shared his
Minogue did not immediate- other Republican candidates campaign announcement.
ly respond to requests for com- were quick to respond to Mi- Among them is former
ment. n o g u e’s a n n o u n c e m e n t MassGoP chair Jim lyons, who 978-462-3106 • institutionforsavings.com
Minogue, raised as the Wednesday. posted Minogue’s launch video
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engineering from West Point “the only Republican candidate “Mike Minogue... A new
and served in operation Desert
Storm in iraq, according to his
who can defeat Maura Healey,”
adding he “is the only Republi-
Kind of Governor,” he wrote.
notices jobs
& more
campaign website. can candidate who has a track Samantha J. Gross can be
boston.com/classifieds
He had a second career in record of delivering for the peo- reached at samantha.gross@
the medical device industry and ple of Massachusetts.” globe.com. Follow her
went on to work at General in a statement, Shortsleeve’s @samanthajgross.
LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS LEGAL NOTICE
LAND COURT MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE
DEPARTMENT OF THE TRIAL COURT
By virtue of and in execution of the Power of Sale boston.com/
COMPLAINT TO FORECLOSE TAX LIEN contained in a certain mortgage given by William J. Shecter
to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as mort- monster
[seal] No. 87 TL 082666 gagee, as nominee for Summit Mortgage, LLC., its succes-
sors and assigns, dated October 20, 2006 and recorded in
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN and to Mary Pino, de- Suffolk County Registry of Deeds in Book 40594, Page 267
ceased, formerly of Brockton, Plymouth County, and said (the “Mortgage”) of which mortgage U.S. Bank Trust Na-
Commonwealth; Madeline J. Cunningham, now or formerly
of Cumberland in the State of Rhode Island; or their heirs,
tional Association, not in its individual capacity, but solely
in its capacity as trustee of Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust TECHNOLOGY/
devisees or legal representatives: 2022-RP5 is the present holder by Assignment from Mort-

A Complaint has been filed by the Plaintiff City of Boston.

gage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for
Summit Mortgage, LLC, its successors and assigns to Ci-
ENGINEERING
The Complaint asks the Court to enter a judgment end- tiMortgage, Inc. dated June 22, 2012 and recorded at said
ing any ownership rights or interests in the land described Registry of Deeds in Book 49812, Page 43, and Assignment Curia Global Inc. (Burling-
below. The Complaint is about one parcel of land located from CitiMortgage, Inc. to Green Tree Servicing LLC dated
in the City of Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, de- July 1, 2014 and recorded at said Registry of Deeds in Book ton, MA)
53211, Page 160, and Assignment from Ditech Financial LLC
scribed in the Complaint as follows:
f/k/a Green Tree Servicing LLC to New Residential Mortgage Procurement Operations
LLC dated March 16, 2020 and recorded at said Registry of
Assessor’s Parcel 18-02388-000 Address Hebron LT 301
Property Size 4,000 Sq. Ft. Said land is situated in Ward 18, Deeds in Book 62688, Page 90, and Assignment from New Specialist II
in the Hyde Park Mattapan District as shown on the Boston Residential Mortgage, LLC to NewRez LLC, d/b/a Shellpoint Responsible for assisting w/
Assessors Plans of said City, filed in the Office of the Board Mortgage Servicing dated May 28, 2020 and recorded at all aspects of Operational
of Assessors. said Registry of Deeds in Book 63086, Page 268, and Assign- Procurement, includ. par-
ment from NewRez LLC f/k/a New Penn Financial LLC d/b/a ticipating in project mgmt.
To respond to the Complaint, you or your attorney Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing to U.S. Bank Trust National of Procurement projects at
must take these steps by the Deadline to Answer, Association, not in its individual capacity, but solely in its site & “in country” sourcing
capacity as trustee of Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust 2022- & negotiations. Req. Bache-
which is November 17, 2025. RP5 dated January 19, 2023 and recorded at said Registry of lor’s Degree in Supply Chain
Deeds in Book 68628, Page 247, for breach of conditions of Management or related
First, prepare a written Answer. You may write your said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same,
own Answer or use the form or the online guided interview the mortgaged premises located at 437 Columbus Avenue, field, 3 yrs of exp. in Supply
program on the Court website. Second, file your Answer Unit No. 1, of the 437 Columbus Avenue Condominium, Chain field; or Master’s de-
with the Land Court Recorder’s Office, or in the Assistant Boston, MA 02116 will be sold at a Public Auction at 1:00 gree Supply Chain Manage-
Recorder’s Office at the Registry of Deeds where the land PM on October 16, 2025, at the mortgaged premises, more ment or related field w/ 1 yr
is located, or using the Court’s online eFiling system. Third, particularly described below, all and singular the premises of exp. in Supply Chain field.
serve a copy of your Answer to the Plaintiff by mail or e- described in said mortgage, to wit: Also req. 1 yr of exp. utiliz-
mail. ing Oracle or SAP ERP (En-
Unit No. 1 of 437 Columbus Avenue Condomini- terprise Resource Planning);
If you do not answer the Complaint by the above um created by Master Deed dated April 13, 2001 Inventory management &
Deadline to Answer, this Court will find you in default. and recorded in Suffolk Registry of Deeds on April demand forecasting; & per-
You may lose the chance to answer or dispute the facts 30, 2001 in Book 26235, Page 133 and shown on a forming contract negotia-
listed in the Complaint or pay the taxes owed. You may plan recorded in said Registry of Deeds therewith. tions w/ vendors and using
lose all ownership rights or interest in the land described Power BI dashboards to an-
above. If a judgment of foreclosure is entered, you will lose The post office address of the unit is 437 Colum- alyze performance. For a full
SHAnnon lARSon/GloBE StAFF ownership of your property. If the property is worth more bus Avenue, Unit 1, Boston, Massachusetts 02116. job description & to apply
than the amount owed to cover the tax debt and foreclo- go to Curia’s website by us-
Evidence tents were set up around Bedard’s grave Wednesday at Swampscott Cemetery. sure costs, you may be entitled to receive any remaining
funds (excess equity) from the Plaintiff.
The unit is shown on a plan recorded with the first deed
of this unit in Book 10292, Page 181, to which is affixed
ing the following direct link:
https://careers.curiaglobal.
a verified statement in the form provided by G.L.c. 183A com/#en/sites/CX_2001/jo

Exhumation of Mass. teen rekindles

It is ordered that this citation be published right away, s.9, and is conveyed subject to and with the benefit of b/2004412keyword=Procu
once in Boston Globe a newspaper published in Boston. the obligation, restrictions, rights and liabilities contained rement&location=Burlingto
in G.L.c. 183A, the Master Deed, the documents estab- n%2C+MA%2C+United+Sta
Witness, GORDON H. PIPER, Esquire, Chief Justice of lishing the organization of unit owners and the By-Laws te&locationId=3000000013
said Court, this twenty-fifth day of September in the year as amended of record, and as set forth in the unit deed 77098&locationLevel=city&
two thousand and twenty-five. recorded with said Registry in Book 25206, Page 291. mode=location&radius=25

hope in long unsolved murder case

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Attest with Seal of said Court. EachoftheunitsintheCondominiumisintendedforresidential
purposes and such other uses as set forth in the Master Deed.
Deborah J. Patterson
Recorder The undivided percentage interest of the unit in the com-
mon areas and facilities is 18.76%.
Plaintiff’s Attorney: David J. Coppola, Esq., Coppola and
Coppola, 40 South Street, Marblehead, MA 01945 Tel: (781) For mortgagor’s title see deed recorded with the
uBEDARD While it’s not known why Be- 639-0140 Suffolk County Registry of Deeds in Book 40594, Page 265.
Continued from Page B1 dard went to the rocky ledge off The premises will be sold subject to any and all un-
paid taxes and other municipal assessments and liens, and
told reporters at the scene. Suffolk Avenue, it’s “possible he Legal Notice subject to prior liens or other enforceable encumbrances
of record entitled to precedence over this mortgage, and
later in the day, a green tarp was going there to meet some- The Watertown City Council hereby gives notice of a Public subject to and with the benefit of all easements, restric-
Hearing and vote to be held online and in-person (hybrid) tions, reservations and conditions of record and subject to
Tuesday, October 14, 2025, at 7:00 PM, in the Richard E.
was visible by the headstone of one,” police wrote. “the murder- Mastrangelo Council Chamber, 149 Main Street, Water-
all tenancies and/or rights of parties in possession.
town, MA or online at the following link
Bedard in the cemetery. er(s) could have been someone https://watertown-ma.zoom.us/j/92991331344 which
Terms of the Sale: Cashier’s or certified check in
the sum of $5,000.00 as a deposit must be shown at the
may be found on the City of Watertown’s website, on a
Bedard was a student athlete he knew or a random act of vio- proposed amendment to the Fiscal Year 2026 City Budget.
time and place of the sale in order to qualify as a bidder
(the mortgage holder and its designee(s) are exempt from
The Fiscal Year 2026 Revenues and Expenditures will be
who enjoyed playing youth base- lence.” adjusted as follows:
this requirement); high bidder to sign written Memorandum
of Sale upon acceptance of bid; balance of purchase price
ball and Big Blue football at Carrie Weisenfeld, 65, of payable by certified check in thirty (30) days from the date
REVENUE of the sale at the offices of mortgagee’s attorney, Korde &
Transfer from Watertown Square Stabil Associates, P.C., 900 Chelmsford Street, Suite 3102, Lowell,
Swampscott High School, au- Marblehead, said she was driv- INCREASE (DECREASE) MA or such other time as may be designated by mortgagee.
$2,072,798 The description for the premises contained in said mort-
thorities said. He loved spending ing by the cemetery Wednesday Total Revenue Adjustment gage shall control in the event of a typographical error in
_______________ this publication.
time with family and friends, morning when she noticed a line $2,072,798
TO READ Other terms to be announced at the sale.
and he worked at his father’s ser- of police vehicles and other cars. $2,072,798
U.S. Bank Trust National Association, not in its individual
vice station on High Street in Henry E. Bedard Jr., shown Weisenfeld, who said Bedard EXPENDITURES capacity, but solely in its capacity as trustee of Citigroup
Transfer to Cap Project/City Mortgage Loan Trust 2022-RP5
Danvers. in his 1974 Swampscott was one grade ahead of her, felt INCREASE (DECREASE) Korde & Associates, P.C.
$2,072,798 900 Chelmsford Street
on the day he was reported Junior High School her heart racing and called her Total Expenditure Adjustment Suite 3102
________________ Lowell, MA 01851
missing, Bedard had gone yearbook. His body was friend. He told her there had $2,072,798 (978) 256-1500
TO READ Shecter, William J., 24-047404
Christmas shopping after school found in a wooded area on been a “breakthrough” in the $2,072,798
in Vinnin Square, where he pur- Dec. 17, 1974. case, she said. Interested parties are encouraged to participate in this HY-
Legal Notice
BRID Public Hearing. A copy of the proposed Loan Order is
chased some perfume at CVS for “What? What? What? What?” available for inspection at the Administration Building, 149
The City Council of Watertown hereby gives notice of a
Main Street, Watertown, MA 02472 in the City Clerk’s Of-
his sister. the markings looked as if “some- Weisenfeld recalled saying aloud fice Monday through Thursday 8:30 a.m. through 5:00 p.m.,
on Tuesday evening up to 7:00 p.m., and Friday 8:30 a.m.
public hearing and vote to be held ONLINE and IN-PERSON
(HYBRID) Tuesday, October 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM in the Rich-
He was last seen walking on one stood the bat on end and put in disbelief. “My mind is just like through 12:30 p.m.; and on the City’s website page: ard Mastrangelo Chamber Administration Building, 149
www.watertown-ma.gov. Main Street, Watertown, MA or online at the following link Experience Globe.com
https://watertown-ma.zoom.us/j/92991331344 which may
Paradise Road and into a wood- a branding iron on it.” spinning. i’m shaking.” be found on the City of Watertown’s website, on a pro-
posed Loan Order as follows:
ed area by the town’s public After the murder, investiga- She said Bedard’s killing “was NOTICE OF TIER CLASSIFICATION ORDERED: That the sum of $1,350,000 is appropriated to
pay construction and construction administration costs of
works yard, authorities said. A tors asked the public for help very, very sad. And we all went BOSFuel Corporation Bemis Park, as more fully described in the City’s Fiscal Year
196 PRESCOTT STREET, BOSTON, MA 02128 2025 through 2029 Capital Improvement Plan, including all
rocky ledge that overlooked the identifying the owner of the bat. through it.“ RELEASE TRACKING NUMBER (RTN) 3-50874
other costs incidental and related thereto; and that to meet
this appropriation, the Treasurer, with the approval of the
y a r d , k n o w n a s “ S . V.” f o r in January 1975, State Police Swampscott is a close-knit A release of oil and/or hazardous materials has occurred at
this location, which is a Disposal Site as defined by M.G.L. c. City Manager, is authorized to borrow said amount under
and pursuant to M.G.L. c.44, §7(1), or pursuant to any other
“Swampscott View,” was a popu- Detective lieutenant Alfred community “where everybody 21E, § 2 and the Massachusetts Contingency Plan, 310 CMR
40.0000. To evaluate the release, a Phase I Initial Site Inves- enabling authority, and to issue bonds or notes of the City
therefor.
lar hangout spot for kids. Duemling, an investigator for knows everybody,” she said. tigation was performed pursuant to 310 CMR 40.0480. The
Disposal Site has been classified as Tier I pursuant to 310 Interested parties are encouraged to participate in this HY-
CMR 40.0500. On October 1, 2025, BOSFuel Corporation BRID Public Hearing. A copy of the proposed Loan Order is
the next day, on Dec. 17, the Essex district attorney’s of- Rumors of what happened to filed a Tier I Classification Submittal with the Department available for inspection at the Administration Building, 149
of Environmental Protection (MassDEP). To obtain more Main Street, Watertown, MA 02472 in the City Clerk’s Of-
1974, his body was discovered in fice, said police had contacted Bedard have floated around information on this Disposal Site, please contact Edward fice Monday through Thursday 8:30 a.m. through 5:00 p.m.,
Weagle, LSP, Roux Associates, Inc., 200 Summit Drive, on Tuesday evening up to 7:00 p.m., and Friday 8:30 a.m.
the woods off of Suffolk Avenue. many little league officials in town for decades. But now, an- Suite 500, Burlington MA, 01803, (413) 312-8782 or at through 12:30 p.m.; and on the City’s website page:
eweagle@rouxinc.com. The Tier Classification Submittal www.watertown-ma.gov.
A 31-inch wooden louisville the hope they might recognize swers seem possible, she said. and the Disposal Site file can be viewed at MassDEP web-
site using Release Tracking Number (RTN) 3-50874 at
Slugger was found near him. the bat’s markings. “ We need closure on this https://eeaonline.eea.state.ma.us/portal/dep/wastesite/ or
at the MassDEP, Headquarters, 100 Cambridge Street, Suite NOTICE OF TIER CLASSIFICATION
the baseball bat found near “the bat has been viewed by case, so i’m happy that some- 900, Boston, MA 02114 at 617-292-5500. Additional public
involvement opportunities are available under 310 CMR 250 ALBEMARLE ROAD
Bedard’s body had cryptic mark- a lot of little league coaches thing’s happening,” she said. 40.1403(9) and 310 CMR 40.1404. NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS

ings. it appeared that the Ro- and managers, but we haven’t Authorities asked that RELEASE TRACKING NUMBER (RTN) 3-50880

man numeral Vi — or perhaps a been able to find out who owned anyone with information about A release of oil and/or hazardous materials has occurred at
this location, which is a disposal site as defined by M.G.L.
letter K or M or n, and some oth- it,” Duemling told the Globe at Bedard’s murder contact the c. 21E, § 2 and the Massachusetts Contingency Plan, 310

er lines, depending on how you the time. Unresolved Case Unit tip line at
Boston’s best jobs CMR 40.0000. To evaluate the release, a Phase I Initial Site
Investigation was performed pursuant to 310 CMR 40.0480.
The site has been classified as Tier II pursuant to 310 CMR
look at it — was carved into the in December 2023, on the 1-855-MA-SolVE or at The Careers Section of 40.0500. On September 23, 2025, the City of Newton filed a
Tier II Classification Submittal with the Massachusetts De-
knob, which was stamped with 49 th anniversary of Bedard’s mspunresolved@pol.state.ma.us The Boston Sunday Globe partment of Environmental Protection (MassDEP). To ob-
tain more information on this disposal site, please contact
the number 1, authorities said. death, Swampscott police urged Mr. Ryan Niles, Weston & Sampson, 55 Walkers Brook Drive,
Suite 100, Reading, MA 01867, 978-532-1900. The Tier Clas-
sification Submittal and the disposal site file can be viewed
on Dec. 23, 1974, the lynn people to contact them with any Travis Andersen can be reached at MassDEP website using Release Tracking Number (RTN)
3-50880 at https://eeaonline.eea.state.ma.us/portal/dep/
Daily item reported that Stanley information, saying “sometimes at travis.andersen@globe.com. wastesite/ or at MassDEP, Northeast Regional Office, 150
Presidential Way, Woburn, Massachusetts 01801, 978-
Bondelevitch, the high school the smallest detail is what is Shannon Larson can be reached 694-3200. Additional public involvement opportunities are
available under 310 CMR 40.1403(9) and 310 CMR 40.1404.
athletic director at the time, said needed.” at shannon.larson@globe.com.
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LivingArts
Comics call
out Burr,
For your fall reading list:
others for Some delicious, mysterious
performing
in Riyadh
Dark Academia
By Mark Shanahan
and Lisa Weidenfeld
gLobE StAFF

Just back from the Riyadh Comedy Festi-

val, comedian bill burr devoted some time
on his podcast monday to his fears about
what might happen to him while he was
there. “i literally think … everybody’s going
to be screaming ‘death to America,’” burr
said.
the multi-day festival, which runs
through oct. 9, features more than 50 co-
medians, including burr
(inset), Dave Chap-
pelle, Louis C.k.,
Aziz Ansari, kevin
Hart, Hannibal
buress, Jessica
kirson, Andrew
Schulz, and pete
Davidson.
but the event
has drawn sharp
criticism in recent
days from other
comedians, who have pointed out that it re-
quired the comedians, many of whom have CoURtESY oF LittLE bRowN AND CompANY, toR bookS, CELADoN bookS, HogARtH, pENgUiN bookS, CAtApULt,
EURopA EDitioNS, AViD READER pRESS, mARYSUE RUCCi bookS, AND SqUARE FiSH
held themselves up as champions of free
speech, to refrain from discussing certain
topics. others have pointed out Saudi Ara- By Kate Tuttle characters, unhealthy relation- Fox Pet

A
bia’s long history of human rights abuses, gLobE CoRRESpoNDENt ships, secrets, lies, and sometimes By Joyce Carol Oates (2025) By Catherine Chidgey (2023)
with actor/comedian David Cross posting a s the nights grow lon- murder. A charming English teacher, a in this highly literary novel set in
statement on his website harshly criticizing ger and you need a the appeal is clear: no matter mysterious death, and enough psy- New Zealand, 1980s Catholic school
burr and other big-name comics for per- scarf to protect your how long it’s been since our own chological tension to keep readers vibes meet a brilliantly disturbing
forming at it. delicate neck from a school days, many of us yearn for up all night — what else would you character study as one student vies
Cross called out burr, Chappelle, and chill in the air, you may be in the the intimacy of youthful friend expect from oates, an American to become the favorite of her charis-
Louis C.k., in particular, for participating in right mood for a juicy novel filled groups and first loves, crushes on master at the art of spine-tingling matic, mysterious teacher.
a comedy festival that, according to Human with ivy-covered gothic architec- hot professors, and the often-nos- suspense?
Rights watch, is designed to “deflect atten- ture, fevered reading of old texts, talgic fall fashions. Vladimir
tion from its brutal repression of free and the secrets held among overly is your curiosity piqued? Here’s I Have Some Questions for You By Julia May Jonas (2022)
speech and other pervasive human rights intense study groups. Dark Aca- your homework: 10 works of Dark By Rebecca Makkai (2023) when an English professor wea-
violations.” demia has spread its influence into Academia published in this decade when an alumna returns to ries of her professor husband’s
“i was not offered the gig but it should fashion and interior design, mov- that should please doctoral-level teach at her old prep school, the scandals, her gaze turns to the de-
go without saying that there’s not enough ies and tV, but at least outside of readers and nervous first-years long-ago murder of one of her partment’s new hire, a novelist with
money for me to help these depraved, awful tiktok, it remains primarily a lit- alike. classmates clicks back into fright- secrets of his own. Rules will be bro-
people put a “fun face” on their crimes erary category. And although there ening focus. is the wrong man in ken, and not only the grammatical
against humanity,” Cross wrote. “i am dis- are clear antecedents in the classic The Academy prison? this question, posed by a kind.
gusted, and deeply disappointed in this campus novels from kingsley By Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby group of student podcasts, results
whole gross thing. … that people i admire, Amis’s “Lucky Jim” (1954) to John Hilderbrand (2025) in a very uncomfortable class re- We Love You, Bunny
with unarguable talent, would condone this williams’s cult classic “Stoner” A first collaboration between union. By Mona Awad (2025)
totalitarian fiefdom for … what, a fourth (1965), it wasn’t until Donna Nantucket’s queen of the beach Finally! Awad returns to the
house? A boat? more sneakers? tartt’s “the Secret History,” pub- read and her daughter, “the Acad- The Maidens characters she introduced in her be-
“we can never again take seriously any- lished in 1992, that the genre as- emy” revolves around a new social By Alex Michaelides (2021) loved 2019 novel “bunny,” when
thing these comedians complain about (un- sumed its mature form. media app that begins spreading this finely tuned novel, set at Sam, who has revealed her class-
less it’s complaining that we don’t support Since then, hundreds of novels rumors on the bucolic campus of Cambridge University (surprisingly, mates’ chilling secret, faces their re-
enough torture and mass executions of have followed, some leaning more tiffin Academy, threatening the as so many books invent their own venge. this sequel blends sex, gore,
journalists and Lgbqt peace activists here into the genre’s mysterious and peace at an esteemed New Eng- venerable institutions) ticks a lot of and humor in a delicious abun-
in the states, or that we don’t terrorize murderous tropes, while others land boarding school. How deep intriguing boxes: classical greek lit- dance.
enough Americans by flying planes into our use the tools of speculative fiction will the secrets go, and who will erature, a secret society of female
buildings),” Cross wrote, referring to the and straight-up fantasy magic. get hurt? students, and murder. Where Sleeping Girls Lie
longstanding legal claims of families of Some, like the novels of R. F. By Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (2024)
Sept. 11 victims that agents of the Saudi kuang (“babel,” “katabasis”) are The Atlas Six Muscle Man twists abound in this tale of
government provided “an essential support set in wildly fantastic imaginary By Olivie Blake (2022) By Jordan Castro (2025) boarding school mean girls, a mys-
network” for the hijackers. pete Davidson’s academic institutions, while others originally self-published, the title character is a cranky terious student death, and a fish-
father was one of the firefighters who died take place amid the more realistic blake’s debut novel became a best- professor more dedicated to body- out-of-water homeschooled kid.
responding to the Sept. 11 attacks. wood-panelled halls and rolling seller and has spawned multiple building than his lackluster stu- this YA take on Dark Academia
in his podcast, burr doesn’t address the lawns of actual, if disguised, col- sequels. the Alexandrian Society dents. As with many in the genre, provides a thrilling on-ramp to the
criticism (Cross published his reaction the leges and prep schools. what lends is a tiny, mysterious magic school, this novel includes dark secrets but genre.
same day burr’s podcast dropped, though the (admittedly capacious) genre and those chosen for a spot there it also introduces a satisfying streak
Cross was not the first person to question its dark label is an overall air of will quite literally kill to keep it. of humor as we follow him through Kate Tuttle edits the Globe’s Books
the choice). but burr did talk about the “re- foreboding, frequently sinister one ridiculous, dangerous day. section.
strictions” on what he could say at the festi-
val, “which was basically religion, don’t
make fun of the royals. other than that, ev-
erything was open.”
“the royals loved the show, everyone
was happy, the people that were doing the
festival were thrilled. it was just this great, Performing arts center in Kendall Square’s
Takeda tower gets an opening date and a name
positive thing. i gotta tell you, just to be
part of that was amazing,” burr said.
Cross is not the only comic condemn-
ing those participating in the festival. on
his podcast, “wtF,” marc maron ridiculed By Mark Shanahan ple were saying, ‘we need spaces
the event and anyone who tries to normal- gLobE StAFF that we can afford and spaces that
ize it. kendall Square, the Cambridge are available’ — available in a way
“i mean, how do you even promote that? neighborhood best known as a bio- that the boston ecosystem for dance
‘From the folks that brought you 9/11. two tech hub, is about to get an infusion and music and the arts hasn’t been.”
weeks of laughter in the desert, don’t miss of culture. the Canal District parcel had
it!’” maron said. “i mean, the same guy the nonprofit global Arts Live been eyed as a possible site for a per-
that’s gonna pay them is the same guy that announced this week that a long- forming arts space for several years
paid that guy to bone-saw Jamal khashoggi planned performing arts center on before biomed Realty finally ac-
and put him in a [expletive] suitcase. but the lower levels of a 16-story tower quired it in 2018.
don’t let that stop the yucks, it’s gonna be a going up in the Canal District of Chin said the addition of new
good time!” kendall Square not only has a name stages and rehearsal spaces, as well
on threads, comedian Atsuko okatsuka but also an opening date. as the bar and cafe, will be good not
said she rejected an invitation to perform at the 45,000-square-foot venue, to only for artists and organizations,
the festival and posted a few of the rules be called the platform, is set to open but also for the neighborhood,
that comedians had to agree to in order to Sept. 19, 2026, and will include a which is dominated by looming
take the stage. they include: not perform- 400-seat main stage, a rehearsal stu- steel-and-glass structures.
ing any material “that may be considered to dio, a 125-seat cabaret stage, indoor “Somebody who comes from the
degrade or defame or bring into public dis- garden, bar, and cafe. biotech community but also loves
gLobAL ARtS LiVE
repute, contempt, scandal, embarrassment, “it’s so thrilling, i can’t tell you,” the arts said, ‘kendall Square always
or ridicule … the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, global Arts Live CEo Connie C. The 45,000-square-foot venue is set to open in September of 2026. felt kind of soulless,’” she said. “this
its royal family, legal system, government, Chin said in an interview Friday. idea of bringing the spirit and cre-
public figures, or culture.” “this is going to be, we think, a setts’ largest life sciences employer.) said the platform has been designed ativity of artists can only help that.
others who declined to perform in Ri- game-changer for the ecosystem in “takeda theater at the platform to address a documented need in Scientists are creative people, in in-
yadh include mike birbiglia and Shane gil- the arts.” will be a place where people can the greater boston arts scene for ad- novation, and to add the arts is a
lis, who said on his podcast that he was of- takeda, the Japanese biopharma- connect and inspire one another equate rehearsal and performance heady mix.
fered “a significant bag” to be there but de- ceutical company that is consolidat- through the performing arts,” take- spaces for smaller arts organiza- “we want the space to be equally
clined. ing its research-and-development da’s Julie kim, who is replacing tions. She said both the platform’s welcoming to the person with a lap-
“i took a principled stand,” gillis said. operation in the gleaming tower, is Christophe weber as the company’s performance and rehearsal spaces top under their arm and to the
“You don’t 9/11 your friends.” the lead corporate sponsor of the CEo, said in a statement. “our con- will be available to independent art- young person with a skateboard un-
venue’s main stage, which will thus tinued support for the Cambridge ists and groups at subsidized rates, der their arm,” Chin said. “but they
Mark Shanahan can be reached at be known as the takeda theater at community is unwavering, and we with 25 nights per year offered rent can’t ride in the building.”
mark.shanahan@globe.com. Follow him the platform. (585 kendall, as the are proud to be part of this impor- free.
@MarkAShanahan. Lisa Weidenfeld can be new building is known, is being de- tant, creative space.” “there was so much listening in Mark Shanahan can be reached at
reached at lisa.weidenfeld@globe.com. veloped by its owner, biomed Realty, Chin, a former dancer who took the community — good listening — mark.shanahan@globe.com. Follow
Follow her on Instagram @lisaweidenfeld. and leased to takeda, massachu- over at global Arts Live in 2021, about what’s needed,” she said. “peo- him @MarkAShanahan.
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WilD CaRD SeRieS Game 2

YaNkeeS 4, ReD SOX 3
Series tied, 1-1

Bullpen goes bust

Cora gambit
fails, forcing
a showdown
By Tim Healey
GLObe StaFF

neW YOrK — One day into

October, the red Sox’ season is
back on the brink.
an exhausted Garrett Whit-
lock cracked on his 39th pitch
Wednesday night, giving up a
tiebreaking single to austin
We l l s i n t h e b o tt o m o f t h e
eighth, a barely-fair line drive to
right field that allowed Jazz Ch-
isholm Jr. to race around from
first base — the next-to-last in a
series of agonizingly close calls
on both sides in the Sox’ intense
4-3 loss to the Yankees.

ºYankees give Walpole’s

Schlittler start in Game 3. C4

that evened the best-of-three

Wild Card Series at one win
apiece, so the rivals will meet for
a final time in 2025, in Game 3
on thursday night, also at Yan-
kee Stadium. Featured will be a
pair of rookies: red Sox
lefthander Connelly early, mak-
ing his fifth major league ap-
pearance, and Yankees right-
hander Cam Schlittler, a Walpole
native in his 15th game.
the winner will advance to
face the blue Jays in the ameri-
can League Division Series,
which begins Saturday in toron-
to. the loser will go home for the
offseason.
“it’s going to be wild,” said
trevor Story, who in Game 2 had
two tying hits, including a home
run in the sixth. “the last two
nights have been wild, so i
wouldn’t expect anything less.”
in a sullen Sox clubhouse,
S t o r y ’s f a c i a l e x p r e s s i o n
matched that of Whitlock, who
ended at a season-high 47 pitch-
es; of Carlos narváez, whose at-
tempted tag of Chisholm was a
tick late; of Jarren Duran, who
hammered himself for dropping
aaron Judge’s rbi single in the
DanieLLe ParhizKaran/GLObe StaFF
fifth; and of Ceddanne rafaela,
Ceddanne Rafaela reached the warning track with two outs in the ninth inning, but Aaron Judge reeled in his shot to send the Sox and Yankees to a Game 3. ReD SOX, Page C4

Dan Shaughnessy Peter Abraham

ON baSeball

Suddenly, this crew In going for broke,

severely compromised Sox came up empty
One game. red Chisholm Jr. (part Mickey riv-
Sox-Yankees. ers, part enos Slaughter) scored neW YOrK — as a rookie on Wednesday night — until it
Winner ad- from first on a two-out single to manager in 2018, alex Cora didn’t.
vances. Loser right by austin Wells. took the advice of then red Sox Garrett Whitlock, the fifth
goes home. For boston, this means that president of baseball operations reliever in what felt like a relay
October 2. after 164 games, a controversial Dave Dombrowski when it race out of the bullpen, tired in
Just like in trade/salary dump of a franchise came to postseason games. his second inning of work and
1978. player, a visit to the Oval Office You’ve got to keep going, allowed the go-ahead run in the
Gulp. which sparked a 10-game July Dombrowski told him. there’s eighth as the Yankees beat the
Let’s hope this one ends in winning streak, a wild Cham- no tomorrow. Win today, then red Sox, 4-3.
better fashion for the Olde pagne celebration last Friday at regroup the next day. now the red Sox face a deci-
towne team. Fenway (apple tV, anyone?), the ultra-aggressive style sive Game 3 on thursday night
the Yankees beat the Sox in and 18 innings of wild-card dra- paid off with a championship with what could be a depleted
the bronx on Wednesday, a ma in the bronx, the season has that season. Cora took the same bullpen after Cora used six re-
thrilling 4-3, wild-card joust that come down to one game for the route in 2021 and the red Sox lievers to throw 125 pitches.
squared this best-of-three at 1-1. right to advance in MLb’s post- advanced to the american the Sox will start Connelly
DanieLLe ParhizKaran/GLObe StaFF
new York scored the winning season tournament. League Championship Series. early, a 23-year-old rookie
run off Garrett Whitlock in the Unlike 1978, when the start- Brayan Bello got the hook after just 2‚ innings, allowing it nearly worked again in lefthander who has made four
bottom of the eighth when Jazz SHaUGHNeSSY, Page C5 two runs on four hits and a walk in the Red Sox’ Game 2 loss. Game 2 of the Wild Card Series ON baSeball, Page C5

iNSiDe
tatum’s impact
Patriots face huge challenge vs. reigning MVP Allen, Bills
Celtics injured superstar By Christopher Price º Volin: Slow starts won’t cut it. C6 can just take it out the back door if you
finding ways to contribute GLObe StaFF
º Diggs ‘sentimental’ for Buffalo. C6 feel like it.
despite achilles’ injury. C2 FOXbOrOUGh — Patriots defensive “he’s got it all. really, if you really
tackle Milton Williams knows the success rushing — and three rushing touchdowns think about it, he’s got it all.”
lysell’s longing of the bills’ offense in recent years comes PatRiOtS at billS to go along with 964 passing yards, a 70 For new england’s defensive front,
Confident youngster still
down to a few guys. a few big guys. Spe- Sunday, 8:20 p.m., NBC percent completion rate, and seven pass- which has hung its hat on being an ag-
looking out of the bruins
cifically, the ones up front. ing touchdowns. gressive, disruptive group over the first
mix despite productive
“they’re just big. they’ve got some big with clearing the way for quarterback “i feel like, since he got in the league four games, the challenge is simple: how
offseason. C2
dudes. they kind of remind me of, like, Josh allen on Sunday night when the he’s just continued to get better and bet- do you strike a balance between going
east-ern powers when i was in Philly [with the Super bowl teams meet. the reigning MVP, allen is ter and learn more,” Williams said. “and hard after the quarterback every snap
boston University again champion eagles] last year,” Williams adept at creating magic behind that he’s got the keys; like, they do whatever while still being mindful of gap disci-
looks the best of a strong said Wednesday when asked about the se- group, both on the ground and through he wants back there. he can call whatever pline?
group of men’s college cret to the buffalo offensive line. “huge the air. this season, the 6-foot-5-inch, you want. if you want to run the ball. i “there’s always going to be an extra
hockey contenders. C2 humans.” 237-pounder has 31 carries for 159 yards mean, the big people make it look differ- gap in there, unless you send two guys.
those “huge humans” will be tasked — which would lead new england in ent around [the power game]. and, he PatRiOtS, Page C6
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Tatum’s presence is an inspiration to Celtics

All-Star forward has huge for us.”
tatum spent most of the summer re-
on monday, coach Joe mazzulla
talked about how important it was to
lent his leadership to habbing in Boston, so he has already support tatum as he reached small
spent more time around the team’s milestones. He was there when tatum
younger teammates younger players than he would in a typ- took his first steps since the injury,
ical offseason. Scheierman said his when he ran for the first time, and
By Adam Himmelsbach presence has been impactful. when he fired up his first jump shots.
gLoBE StAFF “He’s just helping create that envi- He also joined tatum in weightlifting
Jayson tatum stood on the Auer- ronment we want here, and just help- sessions and sat with him while he re-
bach center court wednesday after- ing us on a daily basis,” he said. ceived medical treatment.
noon wearing a black celtics t-shirt Added Sam Hauser: “He’s working when mazzulla was asked wednes-
and sweatpants. He flicked a white tow- his tail off. Ever since i’ve been in Bos- day how he hoped to keep tatum in-
el around as he spoke with teammates ton he’s in early and the last one out. volved in the coming months, such as
Derrick white and Luka garza. He’s doing everything he can to try to att e n d i n g c o a c h e s ’ m e e t i n g s , h e
tatum, who remains out indefinitely get back and play as soon as possible. … stressed that his main priority was pre-
after rupturing his Achilles’ tendon last it’s been pretty inspiring to watch, and paring the players who are on the
may, did not take part in the team’s it makes you want to do more on the court.
practice, and he is unlikely to do so any- court when you’re seeing him put in all But he said that tatum remains an
time soon. So, in the coming months, this extra work.” important presence, too, and that he
while he attacks his comeback with in- tatum is participating in team meet- would hold him accountable as a mem-
dividual workouts, he also will seek ings and activities while also ramping ber of the team.
DANiELLE pARHiZKARAN/gLoBE StAFF
ways to remain an integral part of this up his individual work. Last week he “Everyone has their own responsi-
team, however that might look. completed a basketball training session Jayson Tatum has attempted to “be around as much as I can” at practices bility of leadership,” mazzulla said.
“i mean, he’s Jayson tatum,” Baylor for the first time since the injury and while he rehabilitates from a ruptured Achilles’ tendon suffered in May. “He’s done it as a player, and he’s doing
Scheierman said. “He’s one of the best created a stir when he posted a video on it now with his return and his presence.
players in the league. He’s been in the his social media accounts showing him even harder when the real games begin, games and things like that. obviously, i So, everyone just has to pick up the
league for multiple years. He knows the jogging and dribbling and shooting. and he is on the bench in street clothes. won’t be able to participate at practice, slack and lead in their own way.”
ins and outs. So having his voice He said he was thrilled to be back on Still, he wants to find ways to help. so that’s going to be tough, but just be-
around, especially helping the younger the court but also acknowledged that “this is new,” tatum said. “i’m figur- ing integrated and being around as Adam Himmelsbach can be reached at
guys and the new guys adapt and learn there is no substitute for completing a ing it out as i go. Still very much a part much as i can while still rehabbing and adam.himmelsbach@globe.com.
throughout the year, i think it will be session with his teammates. it will be of the team, being at practice and the getting myself right.” Follow him @adamhimmelsbach.

MeN’s college hockey east Preview

BU favored, but four more

ranked in nation’s top 10
By Andrew Mahoney
gLoBE StAFF

Hockey East might be hard

pressed to match its perfor-
mance from last season, when
it sent six teams to the men’s
NcAA tournament and posted
a .693 winning percentage in
nonconference play. But a
glance around the league re-
veals plenty of talent returning,
and another impressive fresh-
man class, not to mention some
intriguing additions via the
transfer portal.
FiLE/DiLip ViSHwANAt/gEttY imAgES
Boston University appears
to be the favorite to take the BU’s Cole Hutson had 48 points as a freshman last season.
regular-season crown and is
ranked second nationally in the Richter Award a season ago, is — and were 10-4-3 coming out
preseason polls, while Boston back between the pipes for the of the break. But they won just
college, maine, providence, Black Bears, who were runners- three games the rest of the way
and Uconn are also in the top up to Bc and captured the con- to drop out of the postseason
10. And there will be no short- ference tournament. Josh Na- picture. Despite losing conmy,
age of candidates for national deau, whose 29 points were they will have a deep forward
iSHiKA SAmANt/gEttY imAgES
awards. third on the team, returns group, thanks to returnees
Fabian Lysell produced a goal and two assists in 12 games last season, his first NHL action. Here’s a look at each team along with fellow junior Frank morgan winters, marty Lavins,
ahead of the 2025-26 season, Djurasevic, who tallied seven cy Leclerc, and J.p. turner, as
which kicks off this weekend. goals and 21 assists, tops well as a strong freshman class.

Lysell on outside looking in R Boston college (last season:

27-8-2): the defending regu-
lar-season champion lost some
firepower with the departures
among defensemen. of the 13
newcomers, eight are from the
canadian Hockey League.
R UMass (21-14-5): Last year,
the defense is light on experi-
ence. Jared whale started 31
games in net and is back for his
senior year.
Slick winger’s hopes to make Bruins seemingly dashed of Ryan Leonard and gabe per-
reault to the NHL, but James
the minutemen boasted a vet-
eran forward group while wel-
R Northeastern (14-20-3):
coach Jerry Keefe has empha-
By Jim McBride even have a chance. And that skaters likely will get another Hagens is back for his sopho- coming in a bevy of new defen- sized getting off to a strong
gLoBE StAFF makes it harder, but it is what it game to impress. that could more season after being draft- semen, often dressing three start. the reason is twofold.
Fabian Lysell entered Bruins is,” said Lysell. “Now i just have c o m e a s e a r l y a s t h u r s d ay ed seventh overall in June. He freshmen blue liners. they the Huskies have struggled out
training camp brimming with to look forward and continue night against the capitals in is one of six Bruins draft picks should benefit from that expe- of the gate the last two seasons,
confidence, but the slick winger doing what i’m doing and just washington. on the squad, and could be rience on the back end, with and this marks the final season
with the sizzling shot is again focus ahead.” Lysell wants the chance and joined by Sudbury native teddy sophomore Francesco Dell’Elce at matthews Arena, which will
facing an uphill battle to secure coach marco Sturm has im- w o n’ t o v e r t h i n k i t w h e n i t Stiga and UNH transfer Ryan part of a group that includes se- undergo deconstruction begin-
a spot with the varsity. plemented some new systems comes. conmy on the top line. Fresh- nior captains owen murray ning in January. NU will play
Lysell got a brief taste of and players have had to adjust. “Hopefully [i get another man Louka cloutier and junior and Lucas olvestad. it looks a 13 of its first 16 games at home,
NHL action at the tail end of Some pick the nuances up game], but i don’t think going Jan Korec will vie to fill the little different up front after including the finale against BU
last season and spent the sum- quicker than others, though in with the mind-set that you’re void in net left by the departure cole o’Hara, Aydar Suniev, and on Dec. 13. As for the on-ice
mer getting stronger. the expe- Sturm believes all should have going to change everybody’s of Jacob Fowler. whoever wins Dans Locmelis, among others, product, seniors Vinny Borgesi
rience and being in top shape a firm grasp now. mind [is right]. that makes it a the job will benefit from a vet- signed pro contracts. the min- and Joaquim Lemay are back
would give him a leg up on the “ we talked about the sys- little bit hard,” he said. “i want eran defense group that in- utemen will look to several to anchor the defense, while
competition for roster spots. tems. i talked with Sturm about to play my game and go back to cludes captain Lukas gustafs- transfers and a strong fresh- the Huskies hit the portal to
instead, he found himself in that one day and that was one how i know i can play, use my son and juniors Aram minnet- man class headlined by Vaclav bring in support for junior Dy-
the group B bunch when the thing that he really wanted me speed and use my strengths. ian and Drew Fortescue. Nestrasil, a first-round pick of lan Hryckowian and the rest of
roster was divided last week. to dial in, which was the that’s got to be my main focus.” R Boston University (24-14-2): the Blackhawks in 2025, to join the forward group. with cam
the majority will start the sea- forecheck and the D-zone cov- Lysell’s offensive skills are cole Hutson and cole Eiser- a group that includes junior whitehead signing with the
son at AHL providence, where erage. it’s a little different than u n d e n i a b l e . He j u s t n e e d s man are back af ter s tellar Jack musa. golden Knights, the Huskies
Lysell has shown flashes the the years before,” said Lysell, room to create, and gaining freshman campaigns, and will R UMass lowell (16-16-4): the added Lawton Zacher from
last three seasons. still just 22 years old. “But that space will need to be a be joined by transfers Sacha River Hawks found themselves Brown to take over in net.
“ i t ’s p r o b a b l y b e e n t h e when you pay attention and team-wide effort. Boisvert and owen mcLaugh- on the right side of the pair- R Providence (21-11-5): After
toughest [camp]. i thought you get it in the back of your “i want to get to the inside lin, the top two scorers for wise bubble for most of the reaching the NcAA tourna-
m ay b e h o w i t w a s g o i n g t o mind, i think it’s going to bene- where i can create chances for Nor th Dakota last season. season, but faltered down the ment for the first time in six
work out, or at least the oppor- fit transition players like my- myself and other players,” he mikhail Yegorov’s arrival last stretch and did not qualify for seasons, the Friars will look for
tunity was going to be a little self. Hopefully that will be the said. “when i take the inside, January shored up the net for the tournament. Scout truman a return trip. Bruins prospect
bit different,” Lysell said follow- case moving forward.” that’s when i’m dangerous. the terriers as they rolled to an was the only player to reach philip Svedeback is back be-
ing wednesday’s group B prac- while being complimentary that will probably be my main appearance in the national double digits in goals with 10, tween the pipes for his senior
tice at warrior Arena. “But i’ve of the myriad young players focus, just to create chances on championship game. His pres- but he departed for minnesota season, while five of the top six
been working hard, that’s for battling for jobs and roster the inside, with or without the ence is one of many reasons Duluth. Hopkinton native scorers are back, including ju-
sure. Every single practice get- spots, Sturm said that those puck. And obviously following why BU could reach a fourth chris Delaney will look to build niors Hudson malinoski and
ting ready to play, so i’ ll take candidates need to “give me a the structure.” consecutive Frozen Four. Fresh- off a solid freshman season he tanner Adams, who tied for the
that with me. But yeah, to be reason” to keep them in consid- . . . man carter Amico joins a tal- finished with nine goals and team lead with 11 goals. there
honest, it’s very disappointing.” eration. center casey mittelstadt ented defense corps that in- nine assists. are 12 newcomers, including
though it’s a challenge, Ly- For Lysell, that means pol- (lower body) and winger Viktor cludes captain gavin mccarthy R Merrimack (13-21-1): For freshman Roger mcQueen,
sell said he won’t let that disap- ishing his 200-foot game. Ar vidsson (illness) missed and sophomore Sascha Boume- the warriors, the transfer por- who was selected by the Ducks
pointment affect his play on the “i met with him, and he sees group A practice. Sturm ex- dienne. tal giveth and taketh. they lost 10th overall in June.
ice. himself as an offensive guy, but pects both to be back on the ice R Uconn (23-12-4): After defenseman Zach Bookman to R vermont (11-21-3): the cat-
“that’s something that any i want to see both sides of it. i thursday. “Nothing crazy,” said reaching the NcAA tourna- western michigan, one of nine amounts have finished ninth or
athlete has to go through,” said want to see [him] with the puck Sturm . . . Defenseman Billy ment for the first time and fall- to leave the program. they’ll lower, including four last-place
Lysell. “if you have tough and without the puck, and in Sweezey was placed on waivers. ing one game shy of reaching have 13 new faces, including an finishes, since 2018. Forwards
times, then you have to reset both areas. i think he can be He could still wind up in provi- the Frozen Four, the Huskies intriguing trio of transfers, colin Kessler (23) and max
and find that drive within your- better,” said Sturm. “But like ev- dence if he goes unclaimed . . . will look to keep it going. Joey headlined by sophomore for- Strand (22) are back after fin-
self. But of course, it’s not al- eryone else, it was the first few Sportico unveiled its annual list muldowney, whose 29 goals ward trevor Hoskin, who post- ishing second and third in
ways easy.” games. But now we are at that of NHL franchise valuations, were second best in Hockey ed 39 points in 36 games for Ni- points last season, while Sebas-
Lysell didn’ t look out of point, for any of the guys, and the Bruins landed at No. 4 East last season, is back, as is agara en route to being named tian tornqvist and his 17 as-
place during Boston’s first two there’s nothing new anymore. at $3 billion. only the maple classmate Jake Richard, who Atlantic Hockey Rookie of the sists return on defense. After a
preseason games, but he wasn’t “Everyone knows the system Leafs ($4.25 billion), Rangers was second on the team with Year. Also coming in will be de- strong two seasons in the oHL,
able to generate much offense. now, everyone knows the drills, ($3.65 billion), and canadiens 43 points. tyler muszelik will fensemen matthew campbell freshman Jacob oster figures
“i got the [12 NHL] games everyone knows how i want ($3.3 billion) came in ahead. be back in net, with two-thirds (michigan tech), and Austin to challenge veteran Axel man-
last year and i feel in way better them to play. Now they’ve just of the defense corps returning oravetz (michigan State). go for the starting job in net.
shape than i have before, but got to show it, that’s all. Don’t Jim McBride can be reached at in front of him. R UNh (13-16-6): the wildcats
everything’s got to come into worry about anything else.” james.mcbride@globe.com. R Maine (24-8-6): Junior Albin had a strong showing in non- Follow Andrew Mahoney
place pretty much right away to Sturm said the group B Follow him @globejimmcbride. Boija, a finalist for the mike conference play — going 8-2-1 @GlobeMahoney.
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AL wild card Series

BoStoN vS. NY YANkeeS
Series tied at 1
Walpole’s Schlittler out to fold Sox
Tuesday, Sept. 30 Northeastern righty turned as a monster — a pitcher who
could work in the mid-to-high-90s
Boston 3.......................................at NY Yankees 1
Wednesday, Oct. 1
can be Yankee savior while also featuring a cutter, curve-
ball, and two-seamer. He finished
At NY Yankees 4.......................................Boston 3 By Alex Speier 2024 in triple A, and was knocking
Schedule GloBE StAff on the door this year.
Thu., Oct. 2 at NY Yankees.............................8:08 nEW YoRk — for Walpole native “He’s one of the many things that
cam Schlittler and his family, the have saved our season,” said GM Bri-
Red Sox represented a regional obli- an cashman, noting that the Yan-
Yankees 4, Red Sox 3 gation. kees were “treading water, hoping
As a 3-year-old, Schlittler attend- [starter injuries] didn’t sink us”
At Yankee Stadium, New York City
BOSTON ed the Red Sox’ championship pa- when Schlittler was called up in early
AB R H 2B 3B HR BI BB SO Avg. rade in 2004. As a Walpole High stu- July.
Refsnyder dh 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000
dent, he wore a Red Sox uniform on “i had already gotten calls from
the mound at fenway while pitching [Yankees personnel] saying this guy
a-Yoshida ph-dh 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .667
in the Rivalry classic scouting show- is ready to help you whenever you
Story ss 4 1 2 0 0 1 3 0 1 .444 case featuring prospects from the need it. Unfortunately, we needed it,
Bregman 3b 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 .429 northeast, an event organized by Sox and those words were prophetic. He
González 1b 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 scout Ray fagnant and Yankees stabilized us and allowed us to keep
b-Lowe ph-1b 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
counterpart Matt Hyde. And in col- moving forward. it’s been a big im-
lege at northeastern, Schlittler and pact.”
Narváez c 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000
his buddies often took advantage of the Yankees went 9-5 in Schlit-
Eaton rf 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 .400 the $9 tickets for college students tler’s starts. He looked and pitched
c-Abreu ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 and made the short walk to fenway like someone who belonged on the
Duran lf 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .143 for games. highest stage. And now that he’s be-
But those birthright allegiances ing entrusted with a start that has
Rafaela cf 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .000
have been severed. the 24-year-old, two teams’ seasons on the line, he’s
Sogard 2b 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333
whom the Yankees chose in the sev- unflinching.
Totals 30 3 6 0 0 1 3 3 9 enth round of the 2022 draft, has the “i definitely embrace the pressure
NY YANKEES fates of both the Yankees and Red and everything that comes with it,
AB R H 2B 3B HR BI BB SO Avg. Sox in his hands. thursday in the and just knowing how the environ-
Grisham cf 4 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 .125 Bronx, he hopes to help the Yankees ment is [in Boston and new York],
DAniEllE PARHizkARAn/GloBE StAff
Judge rf 4 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 .500 win a postseason series against his that’s something that i know i can
hometown team for the first time Red Sox shortstop Trevor Story circled the bases after hitting a solo handle,” said Schlittler.
Bellinger lf 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .250
since 2003. home run — his third RBI of Game 2 — to tie it, 3-3, in the sixth. He will take the mound on thurs-
Rice 1b 4 1 2 0 0 1 2 0 1 .500 “i take pride in being from Bos- day in hopes of pushing the Yankees
Goldschmidt 1b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .500 ton. [But] when it came to my career High. He touched 95 m.p.h., but showed forward, ending the season of the
Stanton dh 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 and where i want to be, this is where “i was obviously pretty confident the size for much more. team he loved as a kid. Yet even as
Chisholm Jr. 2b 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .000
i want to be,” said Schlittler. “i’m in myself, but i needed to go to col- “it was one of those cold, snowy, his franchise allegiance has altered,
very fortunate for the Yankee organi- lege and develop as a player and a January days where it gets dark at Schlittler looks forward to represent-
Wells c 3 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 .333
zation. if i had to choose between the person, and i didn’t think i needed about 4 o’clock. Mike Vasil [now a ing — and capturing — the essence of
Volpe ss 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .429 two, i wouldn’t change [anything].” to go anywhere else to get that op- White Sox big leaguer] was there where he’s from.
McMahon 3b 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 .333 After a spectacular rookie year in portunity,” said Schlittler, whose fa- working out. Mike said to me, ‘Man, i “Being from new England, it is
Totals 33 4 10 1 0 1 4 4 5 which Schlittler posted a 2.96 ERA in ther is the chief of police in need- think this guy is going to throw 100 different from being down south.
Boston...........................................................002 001 000 — 3 6 0 14 starts and 73 innings, the right- ham. some day,’ ” said Hyde. “His poise, de- You don’t get the full year of base-
NY Yankees...................................................200 010 01x — 4 10 1 hander will get the ball for new York faced with the weather-created meanor, and presence were so profes- ball,” he said. “the way my college
a-singled for Refsnyder in 7th, b-grounded into a double play
for R.González in 8th, c-struck out for Eaton in 9th. E—Rodón (1). in the winner-take-all Game 3 of the limitations of playing in new Eng- sional. i left there saying, ‘i think he’s coach would describe it is more of a
LOB—Boston 5, NY Yankees 9. SB—Grisham (1). S—Sogard. Run- Wild card Series. His current uni- land, the powerful 6-foot-6-inch going to pitch in the big leagues.’ ” blue-collar, hard-nosed [style]. that’s
ners left in scoring position—Boston 3 (Story 2, Bregman), NY
Yankees 6 (Grisham 2, Bellinger, Rice 2, Volpe). RISP—Boston 2 form notwithstanding, he’s a model righthander found ways to work and After a spectacular sophomore how i take myself as a player. the
for 7, NY Yankees 1 for 7. GIDP—Bregman, Lowe, Narváez, Volpe. of perseverance and evidence of the to improve an arsenal that kept gain- year (8-1, 1.88 ERA), an up-and- steps i have taken to get here [are]
DP—Boston 1 (Bregman, Sogard, González); NY Yankees 3 (Ch-
isholm Jr., Volpe, Rice), (McMahon, Chisholm Jr., Rice), (Williams, viability of a public school path in ing more steam. Schlittler was on the down junior year on Huntington Av- definitely going to define how i go
Volpe, Rice).
BOSTON
new England. radar of the Yankees and Hyde enter- enue (5-8, 3.44) left Schlittler avail- out there and pitch thursday.”
IP H R ER BB SO HR NP ERA Schlittler passed on prep school ing his draft-eligible season in 2022. able for the Yankees with the 220th
opportunities so he could remain Hyde met him at the Winning Pitch- pick. After his first full pro season, Alex Speier can be reached at
Bello 2‚ 4 2 2 1 0 1 28 7.71
among his friends in high school. He ers Academy, an indoor facility in the righthander made huge size and alex.speier@globe.com. Follow him
Wilson 1„ 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 0.00
also liked the coaches at Walpole framingham, during the offseason. strength gains entering 2024 and re- @alexspeier.
Slaten „ 1 1 1 1 0 0 18 13.50

Matz 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 24 0.00
Red SoX notebook
Kelly ‚ 0 0 0 0 1 0 6 0.00

Rookie lefthanders pitch in for playoffs

Whitlock L 0-1 1„ 3 1 1 2 3 0 47 5.40

Tolle ‚ 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0.00
NY YANKEES
IP H R ER BB SO HR NP ERA

Rodón 6 4 3 3 3 6 1 91 4.50 By Tim Healey “You kind of say it half-heartedly. top rotation option in September. “the last two days were no good,”
Cruz 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 14 0.00
GloBE StAff ‘oh, what if? What if it happens in tolle had a higher perceived ceil- Story said before going 2 for 4 with a
nEW YoRk — A year ago, Con- october? What if we get there?’ now ing as a second-rounder in 2024, and home run and three RBis in Game 2.
Williams W 1-0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 19 0.00
nelly early and Payton tolle were in it’s like, we’re here. And it’s real. Me reached the majors in his first full “Got what Bregy had. no fun. But
Bednar S 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 16 5.40
fort Myers, fla., at the start of their and him, we were both happy and professional season, also quicker obviously a lot more energy today.
Rodón pitched to 2 batters in the 7th. Inherited runners-
scored—Wilson 2-0, Matz 1-0, Kelly 2-0, Tolle 3-0, Cruz 2-0. HBP— carefully prescribed offseason throw- obviously wanted more than being than anticipated. His fastball jumped “So that’s nice, nice to say that
by Rodón (Duran). WP—Slaten, Rodón. PB—Narváez. Umpires— ing regimen. just in Portland. now we’re there. it’s from 92-93 miles per hour in college and be able to go through kind of a
Home, Scott Barry; First, Mark Ripperger; Second, Dan Iassogna;
Third, Gabe Morales; Left, John Libka; Right, Junior Valentine. three months ago, they were just exciting.” to — in recent outings — touching full pregame and more of a regular
T—2:50. A—47,993 (46,672). trekking around the Double A East- “now we’re there. it’s just excit- 100. routine.”
how the RuNS ScoRed ern league as members of the Port- ing.” His fastball jumped from 92-93
land Sea Dogs, finding success in the tolle and Early combined for 11 miles per hour in college to — in re- backstop change
FIRST INNING
YANKEES — Grisham flied out to left fielder Duran. Judge upper minors but not on the cusp of games during the regular season. cent outings — touching 100. cora rolled out the same lineup as
grounded out, third baseman Bregman to first baseman
R.González. Bellinger singled to center. Rice homered to right on the majors. “i talked with my dad about it. As much as these two are part of Game 1, including sticking with Car-
the first pitch, Bellinger scored. Stanton grounded out, shortstop four weeks ago, they were new like, ‘Dad, don’t let me get used to the present for the Red Sox, the los narváez. narváez caught brayan
Story to first baseman R.González.
THIRD INNING rookies with the Red Sox, figuring this. this is awesome,’ ” tolle said. club’s hope and intention is that they bello for the first time since May 23;
RED SOX — Duran singled to center. Rafaela walked on a full out major league life together, in the “Get comfortable with it maybe. But represent just the start. Connor Wong had become Bello’s
count, Duran to second. Sogard safe at first on a sacrifice plus
throwing error by pitcher Rodón, Duran to third, Rafaela to sec- middle of de facto auditions for the i’ll still walk into hotel rooms and be “[coming into] the year, i knew personal catcher. “connor has done a
ond. Refsnyder struck out. Story singled to center, Duran scored, postseason roster but far from locks like, this is the nicest hotel room i’ve that we were in a good place organi- good job with Bello, but i don’t think
Rafaela scored, Sogard to second. Bregman grounded into a dou-
ble play, second baseman Chisholm Jr. to shortstop Volpe to first to be on the team if it actually ever stayed in. Just happy to be a zational-wise, player development- having narvy behind [the plate] is
baseman Rice, Story out.
FIFTH INNING
reached october. part [of it]. i couldn’t stop saying wise,” manager Alex Cora said, refer- going to change a thing,” cora said
YANKEES — Slaten pitching. Volpe flied out to center fielder And here they are. that.” encing the hitter pipeline that fea- . . . the Red Sox have with them two
Rafaela. McMahon grounded out, pitcher Slaten to first baseman
R.González. Grisham walked. On Slaten’s wild pitch, Grisham to tolle made his postseason debut Early said nothing that he never tured Roman Anthony, Marcelo players on the taxi squad, who can be
second. Judge singled to left, Grisham scored. Matz pitching. Wednesday in the 4-3 Red Sox loss to anticipated his season would have Mayer, and kristian campbell. “the activated in case of injury: catcher
Bellinger grounded out, third baseman Bregman to first baseman
R.González. the Yankees in Game 2 of the Wild brought him to this stage. pitching part of it is the one that i’m Ali Sánchez and lefthander Chris
SIXTH INNING card Series, inducing an eighth-in- “i’m super excited about it,” he like, wow, this could be fun for a lot Murphy . . . bernie Williams threw
RED SOX — Story homered to left on a 2-0 count. Bregman
walked on four pitches. R.González popped out to second base- ning groundout from trent Grisham said. “i’m in that position now, so i of years. there’s some good arms.” out the ceremonial first pitch. He is
man Chisholm Jr. C.Narváez grounded into a double play, third to strand the bases loaded. And Early gotta go out there and trust myself.” the all-time postseason RBi leader
baseman McMahon to second baseman Chisholm Jr. to first
baseman Rice, Bregman out. will start in the winner-take-all Early and tolle, both lefthanders, on the mend with 80. Manny Ramirez is second
EIGHTH INNING
YANKEES — Lowe in as first baseman. Rice struck out. Stanton
Game 3 on thursday night at Yankee are success stories in the Red Sox’ re- trevor Story also caught the bug with 78, Bregman eighth with 55.
grounded out, shortstop Story to first baseman Lowe. Chisholm Stadium. vamped pitching development. that ailed Alex bregman in recent
Jr. walked on a full count. Wells singled to right, Chisholm Jr.
scored. Volpe singled to left, Wells to second. McMahon walked, All this is as wild and fun to them Early was a fifth-round draft pick days, but said he was feeling much Alex Speier of the Globe staff
Wells to third, Volpe to second. Tolle pitching. Grisham grounded as it sounds. in 2023 and improved faster than better. cora said families were im- contributed to this report. Tim
out, second baseman Sogard to first baseman Lowe.
“it’s almost one of those things anybody in the organization expect- pacted, too, not so much those in the Healey can be reached at
you joke about,” tolle said this week. ed, to the point where he became a clubhouse. timothy.healey@globe.com.

Yankees eke by Red Sox to force decisive Game 3 in Wild Card Series
uRed SoX the form of a bold play by man- pen usage. when Judge singled off Slaten. Whitlock had yielded since Aug. from Rice at first, but not far
Continued from Page C1 ager Alex cora. “it doesn’ t feel good, you Duran, in left, dove for and 17. Before that, it was July 4. enough for Eaton to start up
whose deep drive to right field in He pulled righthander know, because you want the kid reached the ball, but it deflected “At that point, we were trying again.
the ninth stopped short of the Brayan Bello after just 2‚ in- [Bello] to go out there and get off his glove, allowing a run to to win that game,” cora said of “As i’m getting to third, i’m
wall. nings (two runs on a homer by his experience and pitch deep score. sticking with Whitlock. “And it told to stop,” Eaton said, “and
they were narrowly beaten Ben Rice), aggressively leaning into the game,” cora said. “i felt “i didn’t have to go into a full didn’t happen.” then i couldn’t see how far the
on the field, yes. But they also on the well-rested bullpen in an that moment we needed to.” dive there,” Duran said. “it’s on Whitlock said: “i definitely ball was away when it got by
were just beat — emotionally effort to finish off the Yankees — Bello, through an interpreter, me.” lost command, and unfortunate- Rice.”
and physically. a risk-reward calculation that he admitted to being “a little” sur- cora pushed the bullpen but- ly that happened.” that brought up Story, again,
“i got tired toward the end,” decided was worth it. prised. tons he wanted to get the game the Red Sox managed three with the bases loaded. He flied
Whitlock said, “but thought i By going to his relievers so “i don’t feel disappointed to Whitlock, whom he asked for runs in lefthander carlos out to deep center field.
made some good pitches and did early, cora got the handedness- about myself,” he said. “i felt like six outs. He got five. Rodón’s six-plus innings, on Sto- the Sox’ last hope came
a good job.” based matchups that he wanted, i tried to do my job and he made for months, the Red Sox ry’s two-run single in the third against closer David Bednar,
Duran said: “this one is go- which he felt best paved the road the decision to take me out.” have stressed using Whitlock for and homer in the sixth. who retired the side in the
ing to sting a little bit. i know to success on this particular first up was lefthander Jus- only one inning, believing that Ma s at a k a Yo s h i d a c a m e ninth. Rafaela, author of three
that game is 100 percent on me. night . if it worked, the Sox tin Wilson, who entered for a keeps him in top form. Under through with a pinch-hit single walkoff hits this year, blasted a
if i make that play, trevor hits would not only advance but stretch of the new York lineup the pressure of the postseason, in the seventh, but chisholm fastball to the warning track in
the homer, we take the lead. But have an extra day off (two total) that included four lefthanders in they extended him to the ex- made a diving stop to keep it in right, right into Judge’s glove.
i messed it up. i gave them mo- before the AlDS. that would al- a span of five batters. He retired treme. they were, as cora said, the infield, saving at least one “i knew it was going to be
mentum … that one’s on me. low the Sox to reset their reliev- all five. “all in.” run. close, we know the ball flies here
i’m going to have to wear that ers. then came righthander Jus- in Whitlock’s second inning, third base coach kyle Hud- to right, you could tell he hit it
one.” it didn’t work, though, so co- tin Slaten (two outs), lefthander the eighth, chisholm worked a son threw up a stop sign on nate well,” Story said. “So close.”
And nar váez: “ We had a ra wound up asking his bullpen Steven Matz (three), and right- two-out walk. Wells yanked the Eaton, who was running on the
chance to win that one.” to carry a heavy load going into a hander zack kelly (one). seventh pitch of his at-bat, a full-count pitch and could have Tim Healey can be reached at
Setting up the late dramatics decisive Game 3, which likely al- the only run during those changeup down, to right. scored had he kept running. ch- timothy.healey@globe.com.
were, well, early dramatics in so would feature significant bull- middle innings came in the fifth, it was the first earned run isholm’s throw bounced away Follow him @timbhealey.
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One loss, and it’s kind of a mess Wild card Series

American League
ushaughNessy Going into their most impor- Boston runs Wednesday with a deTRoiT vS. cLeveLAnd
Continued from Page C1 tant game of the year, the Sox are two-run single and solo homer; Series tied at 1
ing pitchers were mike torrez giving the ball to an apple- the Sox need the rest of the bats Tuesday, Sept. 30
and Ron Guidry, the starting cheeked kid who was a West to wake up. Detroit 2...................... at Cleveland 1
Wednesday, Oct. 1
pitchers in the Bronx on thurs- Point cadet three years ago and Jarren Duran, who’s been At Cleveland 6......................Detroit 1
day will be baby-faced Sox lefty pitched his first big league game scuffling for a while, had a hit Schedule
Connelly Early (23 years old, just four weeks ago. and scored a run in Game 2, but Thu., Oct. 2 at Cleveland............3:08
four big league games) and 24- “it’s going to be really fun,’’ made a critical defensive mis- National League
year-old Yankee rookie righty said an earnest Early. “i’ve got to take in the fifth when he failed to
SAn dieGo vS. chi. cubS
Cam Schlittler (14 big league go out there and trust myself. snag Aaron Judge’s shallow fly to
Series tied at 1
games). for the right to start a these have been really good left. Duran came a long way in to Tuesday, Sept. 30
best-of-five Division Series in to- games so far and every pitch re- get to the ball, but it was catch- At Chi. Cubs 3.................San Diego 1
ronto on Saturday. ally matters. i just have to go out able and clanged off his mitt, al- Wednesday, Oct. 1
San Diego 3.................at Chi. Cubs 0
the Sox can still win this se- there and do my thing.’’ lowing trent Grisham to score Schedule
ries, of course, but the Bostons “He’s a young kid,’’ acknowl- from second. it was ruled a hit — Thu., Oct. 2 at Chi. Cubs.............5:08
are kind of a mess at this hour. edged Sox catcher Carlos everything is scored a hit in
cincinnATi vS. LA dodGeRS
now that the baseball calendar narváez. “He’s been electric. All 2025 — but everybody knows it
Dodgers win series, 2-0
has turned to october, Alex Co- his pitches have been good and was an error. including Duran. Tuesday, Sept. 30
ra’s starting rotation, bullpen, we’re going to use them all. i get “it’s on me,’’ he said, always At LA Dodgers 10...........Cincinnati 5
and lineup are all severly com- a good vibe from him.’’ accountable. “this one’s going to Wednesday, Oct. 1
At LA Dodgers 8.............Cincinnati 4
promised. “He’s an awesome kid, a com- sting a little bit. i know this
DAviD DERmER/ASSoCiAtED PRESS
Cora, who clearly outman- petitor,’’ said de facto Sox cap- game is 100 percent on me. i’m
aged Aaron Boone in the opener, tain Alex Bregman. “He wants gonna have to wear this one.’’ Brayan Rocchio’s solo home run in the eighth was Cleveland’s dodGeRS 8, RedS 4
worked with utmost urgency — the ball and we’re looking for- Snap out of it, kid. the Yan- third hit of the game, but the spark for a five-run inning. CINCINNATI AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Friedl cf 4 0 1 0 1 1 .125
dare we say, panic? — Wednes- ward to playing behind him to- kees are hardly invincible. their Steer lf-1b 4 0 1 0 0 2 .375
Lux dh 5 2 2 0 0 1 .500
day, lifting starter Brayan Bello morrow.” Game 3 starter will be Schlittler, Hays rf-lf 4 2 0 0 1 0 .143
with one out in the third. Bello, Swell. a former Boston Globe All-Scho- BaseBaLL NOTeBOOK SalStewart 1b-3b 4 0 2 3 0 1 .500
De La Cruz ss 3 0 0 0 1 2 .000
one of only two established Sox What about Boston’s bull- lastic from Walpole High School,

Eighth is enough
Stephenson c 3 0 0 1 0 2 .143
Hayes 3b 2 0 0 0 0 0 .000
starters for this postseason, pen? Justin Wilson, Justin Slat- who went 4-3 with a 2.96 ERA in Benson ph-rf
Andujar ph
1
0
0
0
0 0 1 1 .000
0 0 0 0 .000
faced only 11 batters and threw en, Steven matz, zack kelly, 14 games after getting called up Marte rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
McLain 2b 3 0 0 0 1 3 .286
28 pitches. Whitlock, and Payton tolle fol- this summer. Schlittler’s dad, Totals 33 4 6 4 5 13

to get Guardians,
Asked about the strange, lowed Bello to the hill in Game 2. John, is chief of police in need- LA DODGERS
Ohtani dh
AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
4 1 1 1 1 0 .333
quick hook, Cora said, “it doesn’t the indomitable Whitlock threw ham. Betts ss 5 1 4 3 0 0 .667
Freeman 1b 4 0 0 0 1 1 .250
feel good to do that. You want a whopping 47 pitches, picked “this is awesome,’’ said Breg- THernández rf 5 0 1 2 0 0 .400
Dean cf 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
the kid to get deep experience in up the loss, and admitted “i got a man, who is playing in october Muncy 3b 3 1 1 0 1 0 .143

Tigers to the limit

Pages cf-rf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .000
the game . . . i bet it frustrated little tired at the end. i definitely for the ninth consecutive year. KHernández lf 5 2 2 1 0 0 .500
Rojas 2b 4 1 2 1 0 0 .600
him, but i told him, ‘You just got lost command.’’ “ this is what baseball is all Rortvedt c 3 2 2 0 0 0 .500
Totals 37 8 13 8 3 3
to be ready for the next one.’ ’’ ouch. about. two great teams compet- Cincinnati..........................200 000 020 — 4 6 1
of course, there won’t be a meanwhile, the lineup is ing. We have to just be aggres- LA Dodgers.......................001 204 10x — 8 13 3
E—SalStewart (1), KHernández (1), THernán-
“next one” unless the Sox beat slouching toward extinction. A sive and trust ourselves and go dez (1), Rortvedt (1). LOB—Cincinnati 9, LA Dodg-
ers 11. 2B—Betts 3 (3), THernández (1), KHernán-
the Yankees in Game 3. lot of guys are turning into octo- out and try to execute.’’ ASSoCiAtED PRESS sent their nl Wild Card Series dez (1), Rortvedt (1). HR—. SB—SalStewart (1).
S—Rortvedt. SF—Stephenson.
imagine going into a playoff ber pumpkins. Romy Gonzalez is Brayan rocchio came up to a decisive third game. Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO ERA
series with only two established hitless in two nights in the clean- Dan Shaughnessy is a Globe with another clutch hit in the Jackson merrill hit an early Littell L 0-1
Lodolo
3‚ 6 3 3 0 2 8.10
1„ 1 0 0 0 0 0.00
starting pitchers, then lifting up spot. Ceddanne Rafaela and columnist. He can be reached at postseason with the go-ahead sacrifice fly as San Diego avoid- Martinez ‚ 4 4 3 1 0 81.00
Santillan 1 2 1 1 2 0 9.00
one of them after only 2‚ in- Rob Refsnyder also are hitless. daniel.shaughnessy@globe.com. homer in the eighth inning off ed elimination after losing, 3-1, Burns 1„ 0 0 0 0 1 0.00

nings. Yeesh. trevor Story provided all three Follow him @dan_shaughnessy. Troy melton as the Guardians on tuesday. dylan Cease struck LA Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Yamamoto W 1-0 6„ 4 2 0 2 9 0.00
evened their Al Wild Card Se- out five in 3„ innings before Treinen ‚ 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
Sheehan „ 2 2 2 2 0 27.00
ries against the tigers with a 6-1 handing the ball to his team’s Vesia ‚ 0 0 0 1 2 27.00
Sasaki 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.00
victory in Game 2 in Cleveland. hard-throwing bullpen. Inherited runners-scored—Lodolo 1-0, Santillan
“it was huge, an 0-2 count the finale of the best-of-three 2-0, Burns 2-0, Treinen 2-0, Vesia 2-0. IBB—off
Martinez (Freeman), off Santillan (Muncy,
and he was ready to fire,” man- series is back at Wrigley field on Ohtani). HBP—by Littell (Pages), by Lodolo (Mun-
cy), by Yamamoto (Steer). WP—Sheehan. NP—
ager stephen Vogt said of Roc- thursday. Chicago, making its Littell 52, Lodolo 14, Martinez 17, Santillan 28,
Burns 13, Yamamoto 113, Treinen 2, Sheehan 24,
chio’s blast. “it was a frustrating first playoff appearance in five Vesia 17, Sasaki 11. Umpires—Home, Lance Bar-
rett; First, Quinn Wolcott; Second, Alfonso Mar-
day offensively for us. two hits years, finished with four hits. quez; Third, Tripp Gibson; Left, Ryan Additon;
Right, Nick Mahrley. T—3:01. A—50,465 (56,000).
leading into the eighth. for our San Diego jumped in front
guys to explode and get separa- on merrill’s fly ball to right off GuARdiAnS 6, TiGeRS 1
tion felt good.” andrew Kittredge in the first, DETROIT AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Bo Naylor also went deep in driving in Fernando Tatis Jr. the Meadows cf
Torres 2b
5
4
0
0
1 0 0 1 .125
1 0 0 1 .125
the eighth as the Guardians put Padres added two more runs on Carpenter dh
Torkelson 1b
4
3
0
0
2 0 1 1 .375
0 0 1 2 .167
up five runs to take control of machado's 404-foot drive to left Greene lf 3 1 1 0 0 1 .333
JJones ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000
the game. george Valera also off shota Imanaga in the fifth. Ibáñez 3b 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Malloy ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000
homered to force a deciding tatis reached on a leadoff walk Pérez rf 5 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Dingler c 3 0 0 0 2 1 .000
game in the best-of-three series. and advanced on a sacrifice McKinstry 3b-lf 2 0 0 0 2 1 .000
Báez ss 4 0 2 1 0 0 .571
the winner thursday faces ahead of machado’s 12th career Totals 35 1 7 1 6 11
the mariners in a Division Se- playoff homer. CLEVELAND AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Kwan lf 4 1 1 0 0 0 .125
ries. no team has lost Game 1 of the three runs were more Valera rf 2 1 1 1 0 0 .333
Rodríguez ph 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
a Wild Card Series and ad- than enough for San Diego’s Schnmnn ph-cf-rf 2 1 1 1 0 1 .500
Ramírez 3b 1 1 0 0 3 0 .250
vanced since the expanded bullpen, with miller and robert Manzardo dh 4 0 0 0 0 0 .125
round began in 2022. suarez combining for 14 pitches Naylor c
Arias ss
4 1 1 3 0 1 .200
4 0 0 0 0 1 .143
Javier Báez had two hits and of over 100 m.p.h. DeLauter cf-rf
Halpin cf
2 0 0 0 1 0 .000
0 0 0 0 0 0 —
an RBi for the tigers, who were Kayfus 1b 3 0 1 0 0 0 .250

1 for 15 with runners in scoring snitker retires Rocchio 2b

Totals
3 1 1 1 0 0 .167
29 6 6 6 4 3
Detroit............................... 000 100 000 — 1 7 0
position and stranded 15 run- Brian snitker, who managed Cleveland..........................100 000 05x — 6 6 2
DAniEllE PARHizkARAn/GloBE StAff
ners. Detroit had the bases load- the Braves to the 2021 World Se- E—DeLauter (1), Rocchio (1). LOB—Detroit 15,
Cleveland 3. 2B—Greene (2), Kwan (1), Schnee-
Ceddanne Rafaela and Jarren Duran scored on Trevor Story’s single in the third inning. ed with two out in the ninth in- ries championship as the high- mann (1). HR—Valera (1), off Mize, Naylor (1), off
Hurter, Rocchio (1), off Melton. DP—Detroit 1.
ning, but Cade smith got dillon light of almost a half-century Detroit IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Mize 3 1 1 1 2 1 3.00
dingler to line out to first base- with the organization, will not

Went for broke, came up empty

Holton 2‚ 1 0 0 0 1 0.00
Finnegan 1„ 0 0 0 1 1 0.00
man C.J. Kayfus. return to the dugout next sea- Melton L 0-1 ‚ 3 4 4 1 0108.00
Hurter „ 1 1 1 0 0 13.50
“they made the most of their son. the 69-year-old Snitker,
Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO ERA
opportunities and we left 15 who signed with the team as an Bibee 4„ 5 1 1 3 6 1.93
Sabrowski 1 0 0 0 1 1 0.00
guys on. i think that paints the undrafted free agent catcher in Gaddis „ 2 0 0 0 0 0.00
uON BaseBaLL picture,” tigers manager a.J. 1977, led the Braves to 811 Herrin
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Continued from Page C1 hinch said. wins, six nl East division titles, CadSmith W 1-0 1‚ 0 0 0 1 2 0.00
Mize pitched to 1 batter in the 4th. Inherited
major league starts, none longer than 5‚ innings. one wild-card berth, and the runners-scored—Holton 1-0, Hurter 2-2, Sabrows-

“Should be a fun night,” Cora said. dodgers advance 2021 championship in his 10
ki 2-0, Gaddis 1-0, Herrin 2-0, CadSmith 1-0. IBB—
off Melton (Ramírez). HBP—by Gaddis (Torres),
by CadSmith (Torkelson). WP—Bibee. NP—Mize
Cora had the managerial equivalent of a per- yoshinobu yamamoto struck seasons as manager. 62, Holton 31, Finnegan 18, Melton 14, Hurter 11,
Bibee 87, Sabrowski 18, Gaddis 20, Herrin 13, Ju-
fect game on tuesday, trusting Garrett Crochet to out nine while pitching into the
pitch into the eighth inning before leaning on seventh and the Dodgers broke Toboni introduced nis 12, CadSmith 31. Umpires—Home, Adam
Beck; First, David Rackley; Second, Vic Carapaz-
za; Third, Stu Scheurwater; Left, Carlos Torres;
closer Aroldis Chapman for a four-out save. it open with a four-run sixth in- the nationals introduced 35- Right, Shane Livensparger. T—3:12. A—26,669
(34,820).
But on tuesday, he popped out of the dugout to ning to sweep the Reds, 8-4, in year-old Paul Toboni as their
take Brayan Bello out of a 2-2 game in the third in- los Angeles and advance to the new president of baseball opera- PAdReS 3, cubS 0
ning when Bello put two on with one out. national league Division Series. tions, the former Red Sox assis- SAN DIEGO AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Tatis Jr. rf 4 2 1 0 1 0 .125
“felt like at that point kind of, like, we have to After hitting a franchise play- tant general manager (and can- Arraez 1b 3 0 2 0 0 0 .286
Machado 3b 4 1 1 2 0 2 .143
do this,” Cora said. “it doesn’t feel good because off-tying five home runs in a didate for a promotion before he Merrill cf 2 0 0 1 1 0 .200
Bogaerts ss 4 0 1 0 0 1 .375
you want the kid to go out there and get his expe- 10-5 win in the nl Wild Card was hired away) vowing to meld O'Hearn dh 3 0 1 0 1 0 .167
rience and pitch deep into the game. i felt that Series opener tuesday, the analytics with old-fashioned Sheets lf
Iglesias ph
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lefthander Justin Wilson retired Cody Bell- Alex Cora’s moves, which worked perfectly playing small ball and rapping called a “player development Fermin c 4 0 1 0 0 1 .286
Totals 32 3 7 3 3 6
inger on a fly ball to left field and Ben Rice on a on Tuesday, had different luck in Game 2. out 13 hits — two fewer than in monster.” Washington fired CHI. CUBS AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
line drive that right fielder nate Eaton raced in to Game 1. mookie Betts went 4 president and general manager Busch 1b
Hoerner 2b
3 0 0 0 0 0 .167
4 0 1 0 0 0 .429
catch. Whitlock stayed in the game and threw eight for 5 with three doubles. mike rizzo and manager dave Happ lf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .000
Tucker dh 4 0 1 0 0 1 .143
“i wasn’t surprised. We know how Alex manag- more pitches before finally coming out. the Dodgers advanced to martinez in July . . . Giants exec- Suzuki rf 4 0 1 0 0 2 .286
Kelly c 2 0 0 0 1 1 .200
es,” Wilson said. “You have to expect anything.” Whitlock topped out at 43 pitches on April 6 face the Phillies in the nlDS utive Buster Posey doesn’t con- C-Armstrong cf 3 0 0 0 0 2 .000
Swanson ss 3 0 1 0 0 2 .333
Justin Slaten entered the game in the fifth in- this season. He did not exceed 24 over the final starting Saturday in Philadel- sider his former manager Bruce Shaw 3b 2 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Ballesteros ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000
ning and got two outs before walking trent Gr- three months. phia. the teams last met in the Bochy a candidate to fill the va- Castro 3b 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Totals 30 0 4 0 1 11
isham. “We are all in. He is one of the best pitchers,” postseason in 2009, when the cant position again for San San Diego..........................100 020 000 — 3 7 0
Slaten tried to get Aaron Judge to chase a cur- Cora said. Phillies beat the Dodgers in the francisco, but mentioned there Chi. Cubs...........................000 000 000 — 0 4 0
LOB—San Diego 7, Chi. Cubs 5. 2B—Fermin (1),
veball in the dirt with two strikes but the ball Chapman, Cora said, was either going to pitch nl Championship Series for the could be a different position for Suzuki (1). HR—Machado (1), off Imanaga. SB—
Tatis Jr. (1), Arraez (1). S—Arraez. SF—Merrill.
skipped past catcher Carlos narvaéz and Grisham the ninth inning or not at all after getting those second straight year. the 70-year-old in the organiza- DP—San Diego 1.
went to second. four outs in Game 1. He would have to check on tion . . . the Rockies parted San Diego IP H R ER BB SO ERA

Slaten came back with a sweeper that Judge Whitlock before Game 3 to gauge his availability. Padres, Cubs even ways with general manager Bill
Cease
Morejon W 1-0
3„ 3 0 0 1 5 0.00
2‚ 0 0 0 0 1 0.00
MMiller 1„ 0 0 0 0 5 0.00
lined to left field. Jarren Duran had a play on the “the rest [of the relievers], they are in good manny machado hit a two- schmidt after a 119-loss season Suarez S 1 1‚ 1 0 0 0 0 0.00

ball, but it bounced off his glove and Grisham shape,” Cora said. run homer, mason miller domi- — their third straight with 100 Chi. Cubs
Kittredge L 0-1
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
1 2 1 1 0 1 4.50
scored on what was ruled a single. the Yankees also will start a rookie in Game 3, nated again, and the Padres beat losses — and a seventh straight Imanaga
Thielbar
4 3 2 2 2 3 4.50
„ 1 0 0 1 1 0.00
“i saw the replay afterwards. He just missed it,” former Walpole High and northeastern star Cam the Cubs, 3-0, in Chicago and season missing the playoffs. Rea 1„ 1 0 0 0 1 0.00
Rogers 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
Cora said. Schlittler. He went seven innings and 97 pitches Soroka „ 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
Inherited runners-scored—Morejon 2-0, Suarez
the Sox tied the game on trevor Story’s home in his last start of the regular season and will be 1-0, Rea 2-0. IBB—off Cease (Kelly). HBP—by
run in the sixth inning. Cora said at that point he working on an extra day of rest. Thursday’s games MMiller (Busch). WP—Cease. NP—Cease 69,
Morejon 33, MMiller 27, Suarez 18, Kittredge 20,
...........2025........... Team ............2025 vs. opp............ ............Last 3 starts............
was doing everything he could to get through the Cora said before the game that the postseason Odds W-L ERA rec. W-L IP ERA W-L IP ERA
Imanaga 67, Thielbar 14, Rea 15, Rogers 13, Soro-
ka 6. Umpires—Home, Cory Blaser; First, D.J. Rey-
top of the ninth with the lead, then use Chapman. demands giving your team a chance to win every BOSTON AT NY YANKEES, 6:08 p.m.
burn; Second, Todd Tichenor; Third, Mike Much-
linski; Left, Ben May; Right, Erich Bacchus.
Enter Whitlock in the seventh inning. He al- night. the usual rules are thrown out. TBA +135 — — 0-0 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 0.0 —
T—2:54. A—41,083 (41,649).

lowed a double by Grisham, but escaped damage. now, the task is to stitch together 27 outs and Schlittler (R) -160 4-3 2.96 9-5 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-0 17.0 2.65
ThiS dATe in hiSToRy
Whitlock returned for the eighth and got two outs leave Yankee Stadium for toronto. it’s that or the DETROIT AT CLEVELAND, 1:08 p.m.
1908 — Addie Joss of the Cleveland Indians
before walking Jazz Chisholm on seven pitches. Sox potentially become the first team to win Flaherty (R)
Cecconi (R)
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8-15
7-7
4.64
4.30
9-22
12-11
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1-1
16.0
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1-1
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16.2
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pitched a perfect game, defeating the Chicago
White Sox, 1-0.
Austin Wells followed with a single down the Game 1 of the best-of-three Wild Card format and SAN DIEGO AT CHI. CUBS, 3:08 p.m. 1916 — Grover Alexander pitched a 2-0 three-hit-
ter against the Boston Braves for his 16th shutout
right field line that caromed off the side wall. that not advance. Darvish (R) -105 5-5 5.38 9-6 0-0 0.0 0.00 2-0 14.2 4.30 and 33rd victory of the season.
allowed Chisholm to just beat the throw to the Taillon (R) -115 11-7 3.68 13-10 0-0 5.1 3.38 2-1 19.0 0.95 1920 — The only tripleheader in this century was
played, with the Cincinnati Reds defeating the
plate from Eaton. Peter Abraham can be reached at CINCINNATI AT LA DODGERS, 9:08 p.m. Pittsburgh Pirates in the first two games. The Pi-
rates won the nightcap, which was called after
“i definitely lost command and unfortunately peter.abraham@globe.com. Follow him on Abbott (L)
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that happened,” Whitlock said. Bluesky at peteabeglobe.bsky.social. Team rec. — Record in games started by pitcher this season
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First things first: No more waiting games

Ben Volin Patriots have been sloppy and sleepy start the last two games, with no against the Steelers and four the rest feel for the game, we can see things a
during the first quarter, with zero of- touchdowns in three possessions. the of the way against the Panthers. little clearer, see what they’re doing,
on footbAll fensive touchdowns scored, three al- Patriots went fumble-punt against the the defensive performance has and make our adjustments.”
lowed, and eight penalties committed. Steelers, gaining just 20 yards on nine had a similar trajectory. the Steelers it’s a good sign that the Patriots are
FoXBoRoUGH — Patriots line- the Patriots were good enough — plays, and began with a three-and-out scored touchdowns on their first two clamping down once the game settles
backer Jack Gibbens has sensed his or perhaps, the Panthers were bad against the Panthers. possessions, then scored one tD and in. they need to get started earlier,
teammates acting tentatively at the enough — that they turned a poor in both games, the Patriots found gained just 87 yards the rest of the particularly against the 4-0 Bills.
start of their last two games, against first quarter on Sunday into a blow- their groove in the second quarter, game. “Just settling down on their script
the Steelers and Panthers. out win. But they fell behind early scoring on their first possession. the Panthers scored a touchdown and saying, ‘Hey, these are new forma-
“it just seems like we’re waiting against the Steelers, and couldn’t Against carolina, they also got a on their opening possession, going 76 tions that they hadn’t previously
until that first big play is made, and overcome it in a 21-14 loss two weeks spark from Marcus Jones’s punt re- yards in seven plays, earning a first shown or these are new motions. Hey,
then we’re like, ‘All right, now we’re in ago that could prove costly come play- turn touchdown. down on six of them. they then let’s settle down and then make a
the game, let’s go,’ ” Gibbens said off time. “i did like the fact that we an- gained just 154 yards with 0 points in stop,’ ” Vrabel said.
Monday as the 2-2 Patriots began pre- coach Mike Vrabel said starting swered,” Vrabel said. “And like we their next eight possessions as the Pa- Gibbens said the Patriots will do
paring for Sunday night’s game at faster would be a “priority” this week, talked about, it just takes one play. it triots blew the game open. their best to start games with energy.
Buffalo. “We just got to come out with but he also downplayed the slow happened to be Marcus’s [Sunday], Almost every offense scripts the “it seemed like these first few
that immediately and get that thing starts. and everything kind of took off from first 15 or so plays of a game. the Pa- weeks, we’re kind of on our heels, and
happening in the first series.” “We want to start fast, and if we there.” triots have allowed an opening-drive then somebody makes a play and then
the Patriots have been building don’t, i mean, there’s a lot of game the Patriots’ defense has been flat touchdown in all three of their home we just start rolling from there,” he
positive momentum in recent weeks, left,” he said Monday. “Whether we and undisciplined to start the last two games. said. “that’s definitely something we’re
with a hard-fought win at Miami, im- start fast or we don’t, we’re still going games. of their 15 penalties the last “it is a little tougher those first trying to make a huge emphasis of, is
proved play of quarterback Drake to have to be really good for the rest two weeks, eight have come in the couple series, when you’re going getting out there, having energy, being
Maye, and last Sunday’s 42-13 win of the 3½ quarters or whatever it first quarter, with seven on defense against stuff they’ve repped all week locked in from the jump, because yeah,
over the Panthers. ends up being. We’ll keep working to- and one on special teams. and we’re trying to feel out what we haven’t been great to start games.”
A troubling trend of slow starts al- ward that and keep making that a pri- they settled down in both games. they’re going to do,” said Gibbens,
so has emerged. the last two weeks, ority.” After four penalties in each first quar- who is seventh on the Patriots with 11 Ben Volin can be reached at
quarters 2-4 have been great, but the the offense hasn’t been sharp to ter, they committed one after halftime tackles. “And after we kind of get a ben.volin@globe.com.

PAtRIots notebook

Diggs’s return to Buffalo

will be ‘a little sentimental’
By Christopher Price tiple times.”
GLoBE StAFF Diggs said coach Mike Vrabel — who said Diggs
FoXBoRoUGH — stefon Diggs is ready to re- should “study more” when asked about the 5 out
turn to Buffalo. the veteran wide receiver, who of 10 statement — knew he was joking.
spent four eventful seasons with the Bills before “He knows how much time i put in, and how
being dealt to the texans prior to the start of the hard i work, especially during the week,” Diggs
2024 season, will be back in upstate new York for said. “He would be able to tell if i was out there
the first time since the trade when the Patriots [expletive] up.”
face the Bills on Sunday night.
the 31-year-old, who signed with the Patriots Jones earns special award
in the offseason, acknowledged feeling “a little Marcus Jones landed AFc Special teams Play-
sentimental” about going back. er of the Week honors for his performance against
“i spent a lot of time there,” Diggs said prior to the Panthers, which included three punt returns
Wednesday’s practice. “i’m really familiar with for 167 yards. He ran one back for a touchdown,
their staff. Familiar with the guys there. the guys and nearly had a second score.
that i did maintain a relationship [with], i look “it means a lot. it might say my name, but it’s
forward to seeing them. it’s going to be a little bit the other 10 guys i was on the field [with] as well,”
emotional. i’ll try to keep the main thing the main Jones said. “Without them, i wouldn’t be able to
thing, but it’s my first time back there. it’s going to get to the end zone. So it means a lot, just from the
be a hell of an atmosphere.” sense of all the hard work that we put in from
Statistically, Diggs had the best seasons of his otAs, training camp, into, you know, Sundays. So
career in Buffalo, finishing with more than 1,000 it means a lot.”
yards all four years to go with a pair of All-Pro
honors. But it was a rancorous stretch. He was Chaisson, Hawkins sit out
asked Wednesday if he wanted to leave the Bills. Linebacker k’lavon Chaisson (knee) and safety
“it’s the nature of the business, i guess,” Diggs Jaylinn Hawkins (hamstring) did not participate
said. “obviously, it was hard for me. it was a diffi- in the day’s workout. three players were listed as
cult time. i spent a lot of time there, built a lot of limited: defensive tackle Christian barmore (not
bonds, a lot of friendships. it’s going to be emo- injury related), defensive tackle Milton Williams
tional. i look forward to going back, seeing those (ankle), and guard Jared Wilson (ankle/knee) . . .
guys. it’s just the nature of the business. i’m not in As for the Bills, only linebacker Dorian Williams
control. i get open. i catch the ball.” (knee) did not practice. they had four players clas-
Diggs is returning to Buffalo on a high note. sified as limited for injury reasons: offensive line-
Last week against the Panthers, he had his first man spencer brown (calf), tight end Jackson
100-yard game as a member of the Patriots, catch- Hawes (ankle), linebacker Matt Milano (pectoral),
ing six passes on seven targets for 101 yards. After and defensive tackle ed oliver (ankle) . . . Jahlani
the blowout win over carolina, he raised some tavai practiced for the first time this season on
eyebrows when he said his comfort level in the Wednesday. the 29-year-old linebacker was placed
new England offense was a 5 out of 10. on injured reserve prior to the start of the season.
“obviously, i was being facetious. or sarcastic Starting Wednesday, the team has a 21-day win-
in a way,” said Diggs, who leads the Patriots with dow to either activate him or place him on season-
19 catches for 213 yards through four games. “Just ending injured reserve.
because, the way i look at it, i never want to get
too comfortable. i said 5 out of 10 because if it’s 8 Christopher Price can be reached at
out of 10, or 9 out of 10, i don’t really have to look christopher.price@globe.com. Follow him on
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Josh Allen, the reigning MVP, has passed for 964 yards and rushed for 159 yards — which
would lead the Patriots in rushing — to go with seven passing and three rushing TDs.

Allen, Bills to pose huge challenge

uPAtRIots game plan, there’s always the he’s doing something crazy ev-
Continued from Page C1 possibility of Allen breaking ery Sunday. So we’ve just got to
So, there’s a gap somewhere in tackles on a run up the middle. be ready, because we know what
there if you rush four. there’s a “Heaven forbid he scrambles he can do.
gap in there if you rush five,” up the middle and makes a “communication has got to
coach Mike Vrabel said. “i think move on a guy — like he’s done be on point. And guys being
that it’s just good, coordinated, in the last couple weeks — or where they’re supposed to be.
relentless, coordinated rush. breaks the stiff arm out,” Vrabel But it’s going to take everybody.
[But] even when guys are free, said. “it’s a huge challenge any Going to take everybody. For
[Allen] makes them miss. He time that he’s carrying the foot- sure.”
spins, or he’ll extend out past ball.” in the end, the Patriots’ de-
the numbers to the red line and “He trusts himself a lot, and fensive front appears to be walk-
continue to make plays down he’s really aggressive. So you’ve ing a fine line heading into its
the field.” just got to be aware of that,” line- biggest challenge of the young
one of the biggest keys for backer Marte Mapu said. “But season: it has an immense
BARRY cHin/GLoBE StAFF
new England is making sure it it’s kind of hard, especially play- amount of respect for Allen and
gets a true team performance ing at this level. You don’t want the “huge humans” that Buffalo Stefon Diggs, who leads the Patriots with 19 receptions for 213 yards through four games,
across the board, one that starts your best players and our front has on that side of the ball. But recorded four 1,000-yard campaigns in as many seasons while catching passes for the Bills.
with a consistent ability to set being a group that eats a lot for they’re also cognizant of the fact
the edge and being mindful of us to ever pause. And you don’t that executing their portion of
not getting too far upfield when want them to be playing timid or the game plan — specifically,
it comes to rush lanes. that be playing slow, overthinking, or striking that delicate balance — Globe staff’s pro picks WEEK 5
means ends Harold Landry, playing in fear.” will go a long way toward pull-
Keion White, Anfernee Jen- For Williams, corralling Al- ing off the upset. Las Vegas Chad Christopher Tara Scott Ben Nicole
nings, and K’Lavon chaisson len starts with a simple ap- “Kudos to him,” Mapu said of line Finn Price Sullivan Thurston Volin Yang
winning their battles on the out- proach. Allen. “But on Sunday night, Last week 10-6 11-5 7-9 10-6 9-7 6-10
side and keeping Allen con- “i say this every week. As a D we’ve also got to make sure that
Season 26-37-1 36-27-1 33-30-1 29-34-1 30-33-1 29-34-1
tained. then, defensive tackles line, and as a defense, we’ve just we’ve got our dogs barking.”
Best bets 0-4 2-2 1-3 1-3 3-1 2-2
Williams, christian Barmore, got to be on the same page and
and others can theoretically just execute,” Williams said. “We Christopher Price can be reached San Francisco LA Rams LA Rams LA Rams LA Rams LA Rams LA Rams LA Rams
at Los Angeles Rams by 7
swarm to the quarterback. know the type of player that at christopher.price@globe.com.
Selections are against the pointspread.
But even if you’re able to suc- we’re going to see this week: Follow him on Bluesky at
cessfully execute that part of the MVP last year. You all can see christopherprice.bsky.social.
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20. Arlington 5-1-3 — Medfield 26.................................Millis 31 PRO fOOTBaLL Army.................... 7 ................... at UAB
me, so I was just wide open,” opponents, 32-8. Antonucci Norton 15...............................Medway 40 At Pittsburgh..... 6 .... Boston College
Westwood 15.........................Dedham 48 8:15 p.m. San Francisco at LA Rams Amazon Clemson..............14 at North Carolina
said Hoffman. has scored 20 of those 32. Illinois.................. 9½..............at Purdue
She made it sound so ef- “She’s been a dream to fIELd HOckEy GOLf At Cincinnati...... 1½............ Iowa State
At Baylor............. 6½.............Kansas St.
7 a.m. DP World Tour: Alfred Dunhill Links Golf At Georgia.......... 20½...............Kentucky
fortless. A simple task. looking for it,” said George. “I coach,” said Walsh. “She’s one Holderness 3................................Tilton 0 Ohio.....................14 ......... at Ball State
CaPE & iSLaNDS 12 p.m. Korn Ferry Tour: Compliance Solutions Golf At Michigan........17 ............. Wisconsin
the chase of perfection is saw Dev run in and I knew of the most motivated players St. John Paul II 1........Martha’s Vnyd. 1 UTSA.................... 6½............. at Temple
Sandwich 6..............Dennis-Yarmouth 0 4 p.m. PGA Tour: Sanderson Farms Golf
elusive, but practice has paid that she was going to finish it, I’ve ever seen. She’s very, very CaPE aNN 7 p.m. LPGA Tour: Lotte Championship Golf
At Virginia Tech 7 .........Wake Forest
W. Michigan.......13½...............at UMass
Ipswich 2.................................Rockport 0
off for Medfield. so I hit her with it.” good, but without an ego to go Lynnfield 6................................... Triton 0
At Arizona...........20½....... Oklahoma St.
Manchester 6.......................Amesbury 0 PRO HOCKEY At Notre Dame...20½................Boise St.
Ranked third in this week’s Clinical. As if it had hap- with it.” Newburyport 6................... N. Reading 0 7 p.m. Exhibition: Boston vs. Washington NESN
Central Mich....... 7½................ at Akron
At Buffalo...........10 ...........E. Michigan
Pentucket 1........................Essex Tech 0
Globe top 20, the Warriors (9- pened a thousand times be- Walsh, a science teacher at GREaTER BOSTON 7 p.m. Exhibition: Detroit vs. Toronto NHL At UConn............. 7½.Fla. International
James Madison. 20 .......at Georgia St.
0-1) have racked up 52 goals. fore. Mystic Valley and a former Revere 1.....................................Everett 0
HOCKOMOCK MEN’S SOCCER
At Northwestern11½........... La.-Monroe
Miami (Ohio)...... 4½........at No. Illinois
they own impressive wins With players returning player at Skidmore College, Mansfield 3.................North Attleboro 1
iSL 12:45 p.m. Europa: Roma vs. Lille CBSSN At Applchian St.. 1½............ Oregon St.
Penn State..........24½................. at UCLA
over No. 6 Norwell (2-1), a tal- from injury and new faces still stepped in for Katie Morales, Brooks 4......................................Thayer 1
3 p.m. Europa: Feyenoord vs. Aston Villa CBSSN At SMU................17½............... Syracuse
Middlesex 6............... Lawrence Acad. 1 Texas................... 7 .............. at Florida
ented Franklin team (an 8-2 jelling, the Warriors have re- who is on maternity leave. Led MERRiMaCK VaLLEY 4 p.m. U-20 World Cup: United States vs. France FS2 At Alabama.........10½.............Vanderbilt
Tewksbury 6...............................Dracut 0 At Louisville........ 6½..................Virginia
drubbing), and Hopkinton (via lentlessly drilled overlapping by her coaching and Antonuc- MiD-WaCH WOMEN'S COLLEGE SOCCER Washington........ 6½..........at Maryland
Nashoba 7............................Wachusett 1
a 3-0 shutout tuesday). runs and spotting passing ci’s exceptional play, the Eagles SOuTHEaST 6 p.m. Missouri at LSU SEC
At Oklahoma......45½.............Kent State
At Nebraska....... 11½......... Michigan St.
Barnstable 3............Bridge.-Raynham 0
What’s the secret to their lanes. It’s not just the X’s and have their sights set on the TRi-VaLLEY 7 p.m. Arkansas at South Carolina ESPNU Texas State.........13½.... at Arkansas St.
At Old Dominion20½..Coastal Carolina
Ashland 6............................Bellingham 1 7 p.m. Wake Forest at NC State ACC
success? o’s, it’s the chemistry and tim- CAC title. Dover-Sherborn 3................Hopkinton 2
At Rice................. 4½.......... Fla. Atlantic
At Troy................ 1½....South Alabama
“It’s their effort in practice,” ing required to execute at full “I feel like I’m exactly Medfield 4...............................Holliston 0 8 p.m. Texas at Texas A&M SEC Texas Tech.........11 ............at Houston
Medway 2................................ Dedham 0 UNLV.................... 3½..........at Wyoming
said fourth-year coach Melin- speed. where I’m supposed to be with NONLEaGuE
Dartmouth 6...............................Durfee 2
WOMEN'S COLLEGE VOLLEYBaLL At TCU.................13½............... Colorado
Kansas................. 4½....................at UCF
da Lohan. “obviously, we’re the proof was in the pud- his group of kids,” said Walsh. Lowell 0..............................Wilmington 0 8 p.m. Illinois at Wisconsin Big Ten Miami................... 4½........ at Florida St.
Malden Cath. 2...................Gloucester 1
designing practices to work on ding after another competitive “It just feels like something Marshfield 4........................Weymouth 0 9 p.m. Utah at Arizona FS1 At Ohio State..... 23½.............Minnesota
At Texas A&M....14½......Mississippi St.
New Bedford 2........................Taunton 0 10 p.m. Purdue at UCLA Big Ten At Memphis........20½......................Tulsa
that, but it’s their effort in practice Monday night. special is happening.” Phillips Andover 2..............Governor’s 1 Duke.................... 3 ......... at California
Stoughton 9............................Brockton 1 for latest updates, go to bostonglobe.com/tvlistings At Fresno St....... 13½.................. Nevada
practice. they are screaming “I think it starts off the R In the second release of Walpole 3................................Norwood 0
NBa
Waltham 0..........................Chelmsford 0
at each other in positive ways field,” said senior captain Stel- MIAA Power Rankings tues- Westford 3..............Groton-Dunstable 0 Thursday
Favorite Pts. Underdog
about the intensity of the la Scobbo, an integral part of a day, Bishop Feehan (9-0-0, At New York....... 6 ......... Philadelphia
gOLf NHL
game and wanting to win so defense that has allowed just 4.9429 rating) tops Division 1,
they don’t have to do 10 push- nine goals. “on teams in the followed by defending champi-
BOYS
BaY STaTE
schools NfL Favorite Line Underdog
At Washington.Off Boston...............Off
At Toronto........Off Detroit...............Off
Line

Brookline 98........................ Needham 94

ups. Even when there isn’t a past, there’s definitely been on Wellesley (4-1-1, 4.8998). CaPE & iSLaNDS THuRSDaY’S GaME
At Tampa Bay..Off Florida...............Off
St. John Paul II 243..........Sandwich 246 VOLLEyBALL San Francisco at LA Rams...............8:15
At NY Rangers.Off New Jersey.......Off
consequence — it’s not about cliques of girls. I feel like we’re Four Middlesex Liberty teams CaPE aNN SuNDaY’S GaMES
At PhiladelphiaOff NY Islanders.....Off
At St. Louis.......Off Ottawa..............Off
Ipswich 162.................Newburyport 138 GiRLS New England at Buffalo...................8:20
the consequence, it’s that they all such good friends. No one are right behind, with Lexing- Lynnfield 168................Georgetown 151 CaPE & iSLaNDS Minnesotavs. Cleveland*...............9:30a
At Utah..............Off Los Angeles......Off
Manchester 146...............Amesbury 139 St. John Paul II 3....Dennis-Yarmouth 1 NfL
want to win.” here is even rude to anyone, ton (8-1-1), Belmont (8-2), Ar- CaTHOLiC CENTRaL CaPE aNN
Miami at Carolina...................................1
Denver at Philadelphia..........................1
Thursday
Arlington Cath. 141.........St. Mary’s 138 Newburyport 3...................Essex Tech 1 Favorite Pts. Underdog
“It’s intrinsic for them, attitudes on and off the field lington (5-1-3), and Win- Bp. Fenwick 199.....Card. Spellman 144 CaTHOLiC CONfERENCE
Houston at Baltimore.............................1
At LA Rams......... 7½...... San Francisco
Dallas at NY Jets.....................................1
Notre Dame (H) 3..........Malden Cath. 1
which is huge for this team,” are great. I think that helps a chester (7-1-1) occupying CaTHOLiC CONfERENCE
Malden Cath. 249................BC High 220 CMaC
NY Giants at New Orleans....................1
Las Vegas at Indianapolis.....................1
she continued. ”No one is go- lot, finding each other on and third, fourth, fifth, and sev- MERRiMaCK VaLLEY Hopedale 3...................Whit. Christian 0
GREaTER BOSTON Tampa Bay at Seattle.......................4:05

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Central Cath. 12½................Billerica 7½ Tennessee at Arizona.......................4:05
ing to give us anything.” off the field. You know Sidney enth. Tewksbury 11½..............N. Andover 8½ Lynn Classical 3......................Medford 0
iSL Detroit at Cincinnati......................... 4:25
MiDDLESEX Washington at LA Chargers............4:25
Senior captain Elizabeth as a person, you know she’s go- Duxbury (6-2-2, 4.4217) Lexington 49.................... Winchester 23 Middlesex 3............... Lawrence Acad. 2
Thayer 3......................................Brooks 2 * at London BaSEBaLL
PaTRiOT arizona: 3B Sergio Alcántara refused
George received a guiding ball ing to make that run. You paces Division 2, and Medfield Duxbury 250....................Marshfield 255 MaYfLOWER MONDaY’S GaME
Kansas City at Jacksonville.............8:15 minor league assignment - free agent.
Hanover 247...........................Quincy 289 Avon 3.........................Atlantis Charter 0 Baltimore: CF Jordyn Adams, P Scott
at the left part of the 18-yard know Devon as a person, you (8-0-1, 4.7514) sits atop D3. Hingham 243...................Silver Lake 264 South Shore 3.............Cape Cod Tech 2 NEXT THuRSDaY’S GaME
Philadelphia at NY Giants................8:15 Blewett, SS Vimael Machín, P Corbin
Pembroke 241.......Plymouth South 252 MERRiMaCK VaLLEY Martin, P Cionel Pérez, SS Terrin Vavra
box against Hopkinton. the know where she likes the ball. Southwick (5-1-2, 2.3827) Scituate 231......................N. Quincy 281 Billerica 3............................N. Andover 0 MONDaY’S RESuLTS
refused minor league assignment -
SOuTH SHORE Central Cath. 3.....................Lawrence 0 at Miami 27............................NY Jets 21
free agent.
attacking midfielder already You know what she likes off leads Cohasset (7-1, 2.3712) Cohasset 123........................Norwell 123 Chelmsford 3..............................Lowell 0 at Denver 28........................Cincinnati 3
Chi. White Sox: P Bryse Wilson refused
SOuTHEaST Haverhill 3...........................Tewksbury 1 SuNDaY’S RESuLTS
knew where she was going the field too.” and Hamilton-Wenham (8-0-1, Barnstable 120................Dartmouth 119 NORTHEaSTERN at New England 42..............Carolina 13
minor league assignment - free agent.
Cincinnati: RF Connor Joe refused mi-
Peabody 3..................................Saugus 0 Pittsburgh 24.....................Minnesota 21
with the ball — to sophomore Lohan recalls sessions 2.3378) in Division 4. Granby TRi-VaLLEY
Dover-Sherborn 215..........Medfield 232 PaTRiOT Philadelphia 31.......... at Tampa Bay 25
nor league assignment - free agent.
Colorado: 2B Keston Hiura refused mi-
at NY Giants 21............LA Chargers 18
striker Devon Weafer, making where plans changed due to (6-2-2, 1.5920) paces D5 with Dover-Sherborn 215.......Westwood 231
Norwood 225........................Ashland 248
Duxbury 3..............................N. Quincy 0
Hanover 3............................Silver Lake 1 at Houston 26....................Tennessee 0
nor league assignment - free agent.
Houston: P Nick Hernandez, P Jordan
a run into the middle. Weafer drills running over time, as Hull (3-3-2, 0.7001) in second. Norwood 225.............................Millis 368 Pembroke 3................Plymouth North 1
Quincy 3..........................Whit.-Hanson 0
at Detroit 34...................... Cleveland 10
at Buffalo 31................ New Orleans 19
Weems refused minor league assign-
NONLEaGuE ment - free agent.
took a touch and pinged it in- players refused to concede a Bp. Feehan 237......North Attleboro 240 SOuTH COaST
Bourne 3......................Digh.-Rehoboth 0
at Atlanta 34..................Washington 27
at LA Rams 27...............Indianapolis 20
La angels: SS Scott Kingery refused
Bridge.-Raynham 135..New Bedford 55 minor league assignment - free agent.
side the right post for the third goal on tiny goals or field Correspondent Henry Dinh- Haverhill 148....................Pentucket 126 Gr. New Bedford 3................. Seekonk 2 Jacksonville 26...... at San Francisco 21 Minnesota: P Noah Davis, P Brooks
Old Rochester 230............Bp. Stang 236 Joseph Case 3..................Apponequet 0 at Kansas City 37..............Baltimore 20 Kriske, P Darren McCaughan refused
goal. hockey nets. Price contributed to this story. St. John’s Prep 226........ Gloucester 277 Old Rochester 3................... Fairhaven 0 Chicago 25.................... at Las Vegas 24 minor league assignment - free agent.
Somerset Berkley 246...........Durfee 287 W. Bridgewater 3.. Somerset Berkley 2 Green Bay 40............. at Dallas 40 (OT) Tampa Bay: C Matt Thaiss refused mi-
“I was making that run the And who says that compe- Cam Kerry can be reached at Wellesley 223.....................Westford 227 SOuTH SHORE nor league assignment - free agent.
Rockland 3..............................Cohasset 2
whole game, so I was kind of tition isn’t fun? cam.kerry@globe.com. SOuTHEaST LEAdErs Texas: P José Ruiz refused minor
sOccEr Barnstable 3............Bridge.-Raynham 0
PaSSiNG
league assignment - free agent.
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NONLEaGuE Golden State: Guard De'Anthony
BOYS Com. att. Pct. Yds.
Attleboro 3..........................Bp. Feehan 1 Melton, Forward Al Horford, Guard
Proctor 2............................Austin Prep 1 Prescott, Dal.......... 121 166 72.9 1119
Boston Int'l. 3...................Boston Prep 1 Seth Curry signed as free agent. For-
Tilton 2................................Holderness 1 Stafford, LAR ........... 92 136 67.6 1114
BB&N 3.......................Phillips Andover 0 ward Jonathan Kuminga re-signed.

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BOSTON CiTY Jones, Ind ................. 87 121 71.9 1078
English High 3............Dearborn STEM 0 Philadelphia: Guard-Fo Quentin Grimes
Boston Int'l. 6.............Dearborn STEM 0 Herbert, LAC............ 95 149 63.8 1063
Monty Tech 3..................................ASD 1 re-signed.
E. Boston 3.........................TechBoston 0 Love, GB ................... 84 121 69.4 1000
Norton 3......................North Attleboro 0 NfL
CaTHOLiC CENTRaL Maye, NE .................. 91 123 74.0 988
Wellesley 3.......................Boston Latin 1 arizona: RB Trey Benson on IR. CB
Abp. Williams 3................Bp. Fenwick 2 Allen, Buf.................. 85 121 70.2 964
Bp. Stang 6..................Arlington Cath. 0 Smith, LV.................. 81 127 63.8 948 Jaden Davis, RB Jermar Jefferson
For updated scores and highlights, go pract. squad add.
St. Mary’s 2.................Card. Spellman 0 Mahomes, KC .......... 87 142 61.3 939
to bostonglobe.com/sports/high- Baltimore: CB Amani Oruwariye pract.
COMMONWEaLTH Goff, Det ................... 90 122 73.8 929

Fleet to begin season on Nov. 23

schools. squad add.
Whittier 2..........................Lowell Cath. 0 Williams, Chi............ 81 130 62.3 927
GREaTER BOSTON Penix Jr., Atl............. 78 125 62.4 918 Carolina: G Chandler Zavala, WR David
Lynn English 3........................ Medford 1 Darnold, Sea ............ 70 100 70.0 905 Moore, WR Dalevon Campbell on IR. G
iSL Mayfield, TB............. 83 139 59.7 904 Saahdiq Charles, RB Anthony Tyus III,
Middlesex 3............... Lawrence Acad. 0
MaYfLOWER
soccer Jackson, Bal............. 68 95
Nix, Den .................... 90 137
71.6
65.7
869
861
G Aiden Williams pract. squad add. RB
DeeJay Dallas, S Trevian Thomas, T
Jake Curhan active/prac. squad.
Blue Hills 4...........................Tri-County 0 Lawrence, Jax.......... 84 144 58.3 845
Former Fleet captain Hilary Knight will return will start . . . Cornerback Xavien Howard is end- NORTHEaSTERN Stroud, Hou.............. 79 117 67.5 832 Cleveland: G LaDarius Henderson

to Boston with her new team, expansion PWHL ing his comeback bid after only four games with
Masconomet 3..........................Beverly 0
Saugus 3..............................Gloucester 0
mLs Flacco, Cle................ 93 160
Rodgers, Pit ............. 74 108
58.1
68.5
815
786
pract. squad add.
Detroit: CB D.J. Reed on IR. CB Tre
PaTRiOT Flowers, CB Nick Whiteside pract.
Seattle, for a game Jan. 7, 2026, at Boston Uni- the Colts, the 32-year-old four-time Pro Bowler Duxbury 3...................................Quincy 0
EaSTERN CONfERENCE
GP W D L Pts.
squad add. S Loren Strickland, LB Ty
Hanover 0............................Marshfield 0 Summers active/prac. squad.
versity’s Agganis Arena — one of at least four writing on social media “my dream has now Philadelphia ............ 32 19 6 7 63 Las Vegas: T Kolton Miller on IR. T Le-

Fleet games to be played in Boston in the 2025- changed.”

Hingham 2................................Scituate 1
Pembroke 3....................Whit.-Hanson 1
Plymouth North 4.................N. Quincy 1
Cincinnati ................ 32 18 5 9 59
NYCFC ...................... 32 17 5 10 56
Miami ....................... 31 16 8 7 56
WNBA roy Watson IV pract. squad add. TE
Carter Runyon active/prac. squad.
La Chargers: T Bobby Hart pract.
26 season, the league announced. the PWHL re- Silver Lake 5..............Plymouth South 0
SOuTH COaST
Charlotte ................. 32 17 2 13 53 SEMifiNaLS
LaS VEGaS vs. iNDiaNa squad add. T Foster Sarell active/prac.
Nashville.................. 32 16 5 11 53
vealed the schedule for its third season, with the nBa Digh.-Rehoboth 4......................Bourne 0
Joseph Case 3..................Apponequet 1
Orlando.................... 31 14 10 7 52 Aces win series, 3-2
Sunday, Sept. 21
squad.
Miami: WR Tyreek Hill on IR. LB Caleb
Chicago.................... 32 15 6 11 51 Johnson pract. squad add. WR Cedrick
additions of Seattle and Vancouver making it an Old Rochester 4................... Fairhaven 0 Indiana 89......................at Las Vegas 73
Report: Heat extend Jovic
Columbus ................ 32 13 11 8 50 Wilson Jr. active/prac. squad.
Somerset Berkley 4.. W. Bridgewater 1 NY Red Bulls ........... 32 12 7 13 43 Tuesday, Sept. 23
eight-team league. All teams will play 30 regular- SOuTH SHORE New England .......... 32 9 8 15 35 At Las Vegas 90......................Indiana 68 NY Giants: LB Tomon Fox pract. squad
add.
Randolph 4.......................................Hull 0 Toronto .................... 31 5 13 13 28 friday, Sept. 26
season games beginning Nov. 21. New Fleet the Heat and forward Nikola Jovic have TRi-VaLLEY Montreal.................. 32 6 9 17 27 Las Vegas 84......................at Indiana 72
Philadelphia: LB Antwaun Powell-Ry-
land Jr. pract. squad add. LB Shaquille
Westwood 10.....................Bellingham 0 Sunday, Sept. 28
coach Kris Sparre will debut on Sunday, Nov. 23, agreed on the framework of a four-year, $62.4 NONLEaGuE
Atlanta ..................... 31 5 12 14 27
D.C. United .............. 32 5 10 17 25 At Indiana 90......................Las Vegas 83
Leonard retired.
Lowell 1.................................. Westford 0 Tennessee: T Brant Banks acquired
against Montreal at tsongas Center in Lowell. million extension, a person with knowledge of Nashoba Tech 3..Cristo R./Cathedral 1
WESTERN CONfERENCE
GP W D L Pts.
Tuesday, Sept. 30
At Las Vegas 107..........Indiana 98 (OT)
from waiver.
Salem 1.................................Amesbury 0 Washington: DE Javontae Jean-Bap-
the talks said. the Serbian averaged 10.7 points San Diego FC .......... 32 17 6 9 57 MiNNESOTa vs. PHOENiX tiste on IR. WR Robbie Chosen pract.
Devils, Luke Hughes ink pact last season . . . Rockets forward Dorian Finney-
S. Hadley 0.............................Westfield 0
GiRLS
Vancouver............... 31 16 9 6 57
Minnesota ............... 32 15 10 7 55
Mercury win series, 3-1
Sunday, Sept. 21
squad add. CB Antonio Hamilton Sr.
active/prac. squad.
Brewster 6..........................Holderness 0 LAFC ......................... 30 15 8 7 53 At Minnesota 82....................Phoenix 69 NHL
the Devils agreed to terms with defenseman Smith is expected to miss the start of the season Phillips Andover 1............Austin Prep 1
BOSTON CiTY
Seattle...................... 31 12 10 9 46 Tuesday, Sept. 23 anaheim: G Calle Clang, RW Yegor
Austin....................... 31 12 8 11 44 Phoenix 89...........at Minnesota 83 (OT) Sidorov, C Nathan Gaucher called up
Luke Hughes on a seven-year contract worth $63 while recovering from offseason ankle surgery. Dearborn STEM 4.............Boston Int'l. 0
O’Bryant 5..............................E. Boston 0
Portland................... 32 11 11 10 44 friday, Sept. 26 from minors. G Oscar Dansk signed
Colorado.................. 32 11 7 14 40 At Phoenix 84....................Minnesota 76
million. Hughes will count $9 million against the CaTHOLiC CENTRaL San Jose................... 32 10 8 14 38 Sunday, Sept. 28
with european team.
Boston: D Billy Sweezey waived.
Bp. Fenwick 2................Abp. Williams 0 Dallas ....................... 31 9 11 11 38
salary cap through the 2031-32 NHL season. Miscellany St. Mary’s 3.................Card. Spellman 2 Real Salt Lake......... 31 11 4 16 37
At Phoenix 86....................Minnesota 81
fiNaLS
Colorado: D Alex Gagne, RW T.J. Tynan,
C Tye Felhaber, RW Jason Polin, C Ma-
CaTHOLiC CONfERENCE Houston ................... 32 9 9 14 36
Hughes, who just turned 22, has 93 points in 155 Ursuline 5.............................Fontbonne 1
LaS VEGaS vs. PHOENiX ros Jedlicka sent to minors. G Mathis

regular-season games . . . the oilers acquired Sinner rolls to China Open title CHaRTER SCHOOL aTHLETiC
Roxbury Prep 1.South Shore Charter 0
St. Louis................... 32 7 7 18 28
Sporting KC............. 32 7 6 19 27
Schedule
Fri., Oct. 3 at Las Vegas........................8
Langevin, C Mark Senden released. D
Wyatt Aamodt, LW Danil Gushchin
LA Galaxy ................ 31 5 9 17 24 Sun., Oct. 5 at Las Vegas......................3 waived. D Erik Johnson retired.
CMaC
goalie Connor Ingram from the Utah Mammoth Jannik Sinner won the China open in Beijing Adv. Math & Sci. 2..................Doherty 0
TuESDaY’S RESuLT
Chicago 5................................at Miami 3
Wed., Oct. 8 at Phoenix.........................8 Columbus: D Christian Jaros waived.
Blackstone-Millville 4.............Assabet 0 *Fri., Oct. 10 at Phoenix........................8 Detroit: C Alexandre Doucet, LW Edu-
for future considerations. the Mammoth will re- by beating American teenager Learner Tien, 6-2, Hopedale 6...............Worcester South 0 *Sun., Oct. 12 at Las Vegas..................3 ards Tralmaks, LW Jakub Rychlovsky

tain $800,000 of Ingram’s $1.95 million salary. 6-2, to continue the Italian’s preparations for the Keefe Tech 6..........................Burncoat 1
Nipmuc 4....................................Auburn 1
NWsL *Wed., Oct. 15 at Phoenix.....................8
*Fri., Oct. 17 at Las Vegas....................8
sent to minors. C Gabriel Seger, D Alex
Kannok-Leipert, D Jacob Truscott, LW
* If necessary Carson Bantle released. D William La-
Ingram returned from the NHL’s player assis- Shanghai Masters. In the WtA 1000 tournament Northbridge 1.........................Leicester 1
Notre Dame (W) 4.................Bay Path 0
W L T Pts Gf Ga
Kansas City......... ..18 2 2 56 44 11 gesson, RW Austin Watson, D Ian
Mitchell, RW Dominik Shine, C Sheldon
tance program last season just before the start of running concurrently, American Emma Navarro Parker Charter 4.......Worcester Tech 0
Quaboag 3..................................Oxford 1
Washington......... ..11 4 7 40 37 27
Dries, LW John Leonard waived.
Gotham FC.......... ....9 6 7 34 31 18
training camp, but was waived by the Mammoth upset top-seeded Iga Swiatek with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-0
NHL
Sutton 5................................Tantasqua 0 Seattle.................. ....9 7 6 33 28 26 Edmonton: C James Hamblin, LW Vilja-
iSL Orlando................ ....9 8 5 32 27 23 mi Marjala, LW Connor Clattenburg
. . . Kraken defenseman Ryker Evans will be out win in the fourth round. Fifth-seeded Jessica Lawrence Acad. 2............... Middlesex 0 Portland............... ....8 7 7 31 30 27 called up from minors. G Connor In-
gram traded.
MaYfLOWER San Diego............ ....8 7 7 31 30 27
for 6-8 weeks with an upper-body injury . . . De- Pegula defeated Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, 6-3, Tri-County 3...........................Blue Hills 3 Louisville............. ....8 9 5 29 28 34
EXHIBITION sEAsON
florida: LW Nolan Foote, C MacKenzie
Entwistle, LW Wilmer Skoog waived.
NORTHEaSTERN North Carolina.... ....7 8 7 28 28 32
fenseman Erik Johnson announced his retire- 6-7 (7-4), 6-1 . . . Perennial crowd favorite and Masconomet 3..........................Beverly 0 Houston............... ....7 10 5 26 25 34 WEDNESDaY'S RESuLTS
Los angeles: G Erik Portillo, C Kenny
Saugus 5..............................Gloucester 0 Angel City............ ....6 10 6 24 28 36 Connors, D Kirill Kirsanov, D Otto Salin,
ment after a 17-season career that was topped by former world No. 6 Gael Monfils, 39, will retire PaTRiOT Utah Royals FC... ....5 11 6 21 22 35
Exhibition D Jakub Dvorak, RW Jared Wright, C
Pittsburgh 5..........................at Buffalo 3 Francesco Pinelli sent to minors. RW
Duxbury 7...................................Quincy 0
a 2022 Stanley Cup title with the Avalanche. after the 2026 tennis season . . . Akie Iwai shot an Hanover 3............................Marshfield 0
Bay FC.................. ....4 11 7 19 23 33
Chicago................ ....2 11 9 15 26 44
Colorado.....................................at Vegas Liam Greentree assigned to junior
Vancouver...............................at Calgary club. D Jack Millar, G Isaiah Saville, D
8-under-par 64 at Hoakalei Country Club in Ho- Hingham 6................................Scituate 0
Plymouth North 4.................N. Quincy 0
fRiDaY’S GaME
Orlando at Houston................................8 Anaheim.................................at San Jose Tim Rego released. D Joe Hicketts, RW
Edmonton................................. at Seattle Martin Chromiak, D Samuel Bolduc,
nFl nolulu to take the first-round lead in the LPGA Silver Lake 0..............Plymouth South 0
Whit.-Hanson 4....................Pembroke 0 THuRSDaY'S GaMES RW Akil Thomas, RW Taylor Ward, LW
tour’s LottE Championship. Fellow Japanese SOuTH COaST PrEmIEr LEAguE Exhibition Andre Lee, RW Cole Guttman, G Pheon-

Purdy out again, Mac back player Nasa Hataoka was a stroke back at 65 with
Apponequet 7..................Joseph Case 0
Digh.-Rehoboth 4......................Bourne 0 GP W
Liverpool.................... 6 5
D
0
L Pts.
1 15
Boston at Washington...........................7
Detroit at Toronto...................................7
ix Copley, C Glenn Gawdin, C Logan
Brown waived.
Old Rochester 5................... Fairhaven 1 Florida at Tampa Bay............................ 7 Nashville: LW Reid Schaefer sent to
Quarterback Brock Purdy will miss his third Australia’s Gabriela Ruffels and taiwan’s Peiyun Seekonk 3................. Gr. New Bedford 1 Arsenal....................... 6 4
Crystal Palace .......... 6 3
1
3
1 13
0 12
New Jersey at NY Rangers...................7
NY Islanders at Philadelphia................7
minors. C Tyson Jost claimed off waiv-
ers. D Andreas Englund waived.
Somerset Berkley 5.. W. Bridgewater 1
game of the season for the 49ers because of an in- Chien. Nelly Korda and Charley Hull both carded SOuTH SHORE Tottenham................. 6 3
Sunderland................ 6 3
2
2
1 11
1 11
Ottawa at St. Louis.................................8 New Jersey: D Luke Hughes re-signed.
NY Rangers: D Casey Fitzgerald
Cohasset 3..............................Rockland 1 Los Angeles at Utah...............................9
jury to his toe. Purdy missed games in Weeks 2 69s . . . Sam Surridge converted a penalty in the TRi-VaLLEY Bournemouth............ 6 3
Manchester City ...... 6 3
2
1
1 11
2 10
TuESDaY'S RESuLTS waived.
Dover-Sherborn 3..................Norwood 1 Exhibition Ottawa: RW Tyler Boucher, C Xavier
and 3 with the injured toe before returning this 60th minute and Nashville SC won the Lamar NONLEaGuE Chelsea ...................... 6 2 2 2 8 At Tampa Bay 3.........................Florida 2 Bourgault, D Jorian Donovan, G Hunter
Arlington Cath. 6..................Northeast 1 Everton ...................... 6 2 2 2 8 Montreal 5............................at Ottawa 0 Shepard called up from minors.
past Sunday against Jacksonville. He came out of Hunt US open Cup with a 2-1 victory at Austin Bridge.-Raynham 7.................Millbury 0 Brighton..................... 6 2 2 2 8 Washington 4..................at Columbus 3 Philadelphia: C Jacob Gaucher sent to
Fulham....................... 6 2 2 2 8 Detroit 3...............................at Chicago 1 minors. C Lane Pederson waived.
that game with more soreness and will be unable FC. Hany Mukhtar also scored for Nashville, Chelmsford 1.....................Shawsheen 0
Chicopee 3.................................Palmer 2 Leeds United............. 6 2 2 2 8 At Colorado 4..............................Vegas 2 San Jose: C Patrick Giles waived.
Brentford................... 6 2 1 3 7 Tampa Bay: LW Wojciech Stachowiak,
to play thursday night against the Rams. Mac which secured a spot in the 2026 CoNCACF Franklin Cty. Tech 5......Narragansett 2
Latin Acad. 2..................Malden Cath. 1 Man. United .............. 6 2 1 3 7
At Minnesota 3..................... Winnipeg 2
Dallas 5................................at St. Louis 3 LW Dylan Duke, RW Scott Sabourin, D
Newcastle.................. 6 1 3 2 6 Roman Schmidt sent to minors.
Jones, who won both starts in Purdy’s absence, Champions Cup with the victory. Nashoba Tech 5.......................Trivium 2 Los Angeles 3............................at Utah 2
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BY CITY AND TOWN CANEVAZZI, Mary Therese DeCOSTE, Robert W. EPPOLITO, Nancy A. (Gavin)
“Bobby” III
BOURNE SHARON
BONCZEK, Lonegan F. Jr.
DeCOSTE, Robert W. III Age 68, of Natick, passed away on
CAPE COD September 20, 2025, from metastatic
EPPOLITO, Nancy A. (Gavin) SHERBORN renal cell cancer. Bob demonstrated
CHELMSFORD quiet, but fierce, determination during
FULTON, Robert
EPPOLITO, Nancy A. (Gavin)
his eight-year journey through several
DEDHAM WELLESLEY bouts of cancer.
DeCOSTE, Robert W. III
FULTON, Robert Born in Boston on December 27,
FALMOUTH 1956, to Mary (Carraher) Fulton and
BONCZEK, Lonegan F. Jr. Robert Fulton Sr., Bob Jr. was the
WEST ROXBURY
HARWICH youngest of four and according to
ROCKWOOD, George Ichabod Jr. BALERNA, John Joseph
him, the best-looking of the bunch.
LYNN WESTWOOD He maintained that claim throughout
DOTSIAS, Paula (Panagiota Kal- his life and we were reminded of it
Beloved wife, mother, and Age 87, passed away peacefully,
liavas) EPPOLITO, Nancy A. (Gavin) at the most hilarious times. It can be
grandmother, passed away on Of Sharon, born August 15, 1981, at home, on September 26, 2025,
NATICK confirmed here that he was indeed the
WINTHROP September 29, 2025, with her passed away suddenly, on the evening surrounded by her family. Born
FULTON, Robert best-looking.
adoring husband by her side. Known of Sunday, September 28, 2025. in Boston in 1938, to Edward and
NORWOOD EVANS, James R. Bob grew up in Belmont and
affectionately as M.T. by those who Raised in Sharon, Massachusetts, Elizabeth (Kihs) Gavin, she was the
BALERNA, John Joseph Wellesley Hills, attending Wellesley
loved her, she lived a life defined by Bobby graduated from Sharon High granddaughter of immigrants from
EPPOLITO, Nancy A. (Gavin) High School. His family spent summers
compassion, service, and unwavering County Roscommon, Ireland, and the
PLYMOUTH OUT OF STATE School in 1999. He touched the lives
in Harding’s Beach Hills, W. Chatham,
love for her family. She dedicated her and hearts of many, both on the east southern Black Forest of Germany.
CANEVAZZI, Mary Therese when W. Chatham was considered out
FLORIDA life to caring for others, both in her and west coast, as he spent several Nancy graduated from Roslindale
REVERE in the boonies on Cape Cod. The Cape
professional calling as a nurse and in years living in San Diego. High School, Class of 1956, and earned
DOTSIAS, Paula (Panagiota Kal- BALERNA, John Joseph was a special place for Bob. He brought
her personal devotion to family. Bobby’s infectious personality made her RN from St. Elizabeth’s School
liavas) his boys there from the time they were
DOTSIAS, Paula (Panagiota Kal- Born in 1942, M.T. graduated a positive impact on those around him, of Nursing in Brighton, where many
ROSLINDALE knee-high and instilled in them a last-
as valedictorian of the Lansford both personally and professionally. His of her closest friendships began. She
EPPOLITO, Nancy A. (Gavin) liavas) ing appreciation for the peninsula.
High School, Class of 1960. She disarming wit and contagious smile devoted more than 35 years to caring
pursued her calling in healthcare by for patients at Norwood Hospital. Bob was a natural golfer. In his
always put those he loved at ease.
studying nursing at the University To her father-in-law she was youth, he was a regular on the Welles-
Bobby was best known for cracking
of Pennsylvania. Early in her career, “Nunciella,” “Nancy girl,” and to ley Country Club (WCC) golf course.
jokes and letting his goofy ways shine
she worked at several New York City family she was simply “Nunci.” She At thirteen years old, he was playing
through, ensuring belly laughs from
hospitals and also at the University of was predeceased by her husband, with regional club professionals and
his adoring niece and nephews. Always
BALERNA, John Joseph BONCZEK, Lonegan F. Jr. Chicago Hospital. For over 35 years, wearing his Red Sox baseball cap, his Larry, the love of her life. They met in sometimes out-playing them. His name
she touched countless lives locally with Roslindale upon his return from Korea is engraved on several WCC plaques.
favorite hobbies were spending time
her strength, skill, and empathy at the in 1956 and shared 34 wonderful years His entrepreneurial spirit led him to
with family and supporting his favorite
Jordan Hospital in Plymouth. of marriage. Summers on Cape Cod found and operate a golf label company
Boston sports teams.
M.T. was the devoted wife of Russell in Dennis Port and their annual two and a commercial cleaning business.
Bobby is survived by his loving
Canevazzi for 58 years. She was the weeks on Captiva Island, Florida, with He also earned several professional
parents, Carolyn and Robert; his sister,
loving mother of Mark (Isle of Palms, dear friends, Jayne and Harry, were licenses.
Kylee, her partner, Brandon; and their
SC) and his wife, Amanda and Pia among their happiest traditions. The day his twin sons, Bob III and
children, Kaydance, Kace, and Kobe.
(Plymouth, MA). She treasured her role A woman of deep faith, Nancy John, were born in 1999 was the most
Bobby was a devoted son, a loving
as “Grammy” to her five grandsons, was a longtime communicant at St. important day of Bob’s life. From that
brother and an extremely proud uncle
Jacob, Luke and Zach Canevazzi and Catherine’s in Norwood. She spoke to day forward, Bob III and John were his
of his niece and two nephews.
Billy and Danny El Sammak; and Jesus through his mother, Mary; for number one priority in all matters and
Visiting Hours will be held at the
step-grandchildren, Avry and Jada decades her license plate read PTL 3: a source of deep love, pride and joy.
George F. Doherty & Sons Wilson-
McKinney. They were her pride and “Praise the Lord,” with the “3” for the Bob maintained lifelong relation-
Cannon Funeral Home, 456 High St.,
joy. She delighted in cheering them on, Holy Trinity. Through prayer groups, ships with a group of friends who were
DEDHAM, on Thursday, October 2,
sharing in their adventures and offering she formed lifelong friendships and family to him. Their adventures and
from 4-7pm. A Funeral Mass will be
her loving guidance at every stage of traveled on pilgrimages to Marian misadventures over the years were the
held in St. Mary’s Church, Dedham, on
Of Longboat Key, FL, Orleans, MA, It is with great sadness that the family stuff of legend. He was proud of his
their lives. Friday, October 3, at 9am, accessible apparition sites, including Medjugorje,
and Norwood, MA. March 31, 1924 to of Lonegan F. Bonczek, Jr. announces friends and all they accomplished.
Family was at the heart of everything parking in the rear of the church. Fatima and Lourdes.
September 1, 2025. 101 years young. that he passed away, Monday, He is survived by his sons, Robert
M.T. did. Her home was always Relatives and friends kindly invited. Nancy leaves her four children, who
Predeceased by his loving wife of 67 September 29, 2025, after a long battle Fulton III and John V. Fulton, both of
filled with warmth, laughter, and the Interment in Brookdale Cemetery, loved her deeply: Susan (James) Perry
years, Patricia (Mclaughlin) (2017); with Parkinson’s disease. He was 88 Boston. He leaves brothers, David H.
delicious aromas of her cherished Dedham. of Cumberland, RI, Lawrence (Sheila)
and his son, James (2021). Devoted son years old. Fulton II of Charlotte, NC, Stephen
Slovak and Italian recipes. She was an Online guestbook, at gfdoherty.com Eppolito of Chelmsford, MA, Janine
of Marco and Mary (Brogna). Loving He is survived by his beloved wife of C. Fulton and his wife, Mary Ellen, of
extraordinary cook and baker, known Zuromski of Plainville, MA and Edward
father of Patricia Balerna and Douglas 34 years, Mary (Makela) Bonczek; and George F. Doherty & Sons Natick; and his sister, Louisa A. Fulton,
especially for her holiday pies. (Lisa) Eppolito of Naples, FL. She is
Thompson, Paula M. Riley and James his children, Michael Bonczek (Mary Dedham 781-326-0500 and her husband, George H. Weiss Jr.
The ultimate travel companion, M.T. also survived by 15 grandchildren
Kennedy, Mark and his wife, Kathleen, Lovely), Bethany Feeney (John Feeney); of Orleans. He is also survived by an
was always eager to experience new and 13 great-grandchildren. She was
John and Sheryl and James and his and his brother, Robert Bonczek. aunt, Ann Coté; and many cousins,
places. She especially enjoyed cruising predeceased by her parents and by her
wife, Mary. Adoringly known as “Papa” Lon was the family’s anchor and nieces, nephews and great-nieces and
to eight grandchildren and “Great- instilled important values such as
with Russell and the entire family. In DOTSIAS, Paula (Panagiota sister, Louise Gavin Cooper, of Wilmot
nephews. His best doggo pal, Piper,
every port and every place that she Flat, NH.
Grampy” to five great-grandchildren. integrity, humility, a strong work ethic
visited, she marveled at grocery stores
Kalliavas) A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at who saw Bob through some tough
He also leaves many nieces and and mostly, the importance of family to times, will miss him.
and food markets, where she could Family and friends are invited to attend St. Timothy’s Church, 650 Nichols St.,
nephews. John will be remembered for his children and grandchildren. He was Per Bob’s wishes, there will be no
sample treats and local delicacies. She Visiting Hours on Sunday, October Norwood, MA, on Saturday, October
his honesty, wisdom, and his ability so proud of his grandchildren, Brian service at this time. If you would like to
could spend hours perusing aisles of 5, from 2:00p.m. to 6:00p.m., in the 4, at 10:30 am. Visiting Hours will
to make friends with everyone that and Andrew Bonczek, Ronan Lovely, make a donation, please consider Tun-
stores and contemplating the perfect Vertuccio Smith & Vazza Beechwood be Friday, October 3, from 4 pm -7
he had the pleasure to meet. After Edward, Delaney, Kaylee and Owen nels to Towers Foundation or St. Jude
Feeney. gift for friends and family. Home for Funerals, 262 Beach pm, at Kraw-Kornack Funeral Home,
serving in WWII with the Army, John Children’s Research Hospital.
Lon attended Duke University In her later years, she found joy and St., REVERE, for Paula (Panagiota 1248 Washington St., NORWOOD,
was employed in the car business all
and the University of North Carolina, peace in her backyard oasis, tending to Kalliavas) Dotsias, who passed away MA. Interment will follow at Highland
his working life. First, starting as a
Chapel Hill, for his Bachelor of Arts her flowers and feeding and admiring a peacefully, on September 28, 2025, at Cemetery, Norwood, MA. ROCKWOOD, George
salesman, then a general manager and
also an owner. John loved to cook, golf, and Masters Degrees. Following his menagerie of hummingbirds, squirrels, the age of 89. Her Funeral Service will In lieu of flowers, memorial Ichabod Jr.
education, he served in the U.S. Army. crows, turkeys, and deer. be held on Monday, October 6, in Saint donations may be made to Hope
and entertain family. John was known
As a child, Lon would go to the M.T. was truly known for her George Greek Orthodox Church, 54 Hospice, 1085 North Main St.,
as the “Mayor of Twin Shores” and
railroad tracks, find pieces of coal, toss compassion, wit and wisdom, as well South Common St., Lynn, at 11:00 A.M. Providence, RI 02904.
was also a legend at the local “Publix,”
them up in the air and hit them with as her signature hair style, which Please go directly to Church, followed
where he went to see his friends,
a stick. That was the beginning of his complimented her diminutive stature. by Interment in Woodlawn Cemetery,
sometimes twice daily! Memorial
passion for baseball. Her legacy is one of love, service, and Everett. She is the beloved wife of the
Services to be scheduled at a later
He had incredible batting averages generosity. She left an indelible mark late Harry K. Dotsias. Devoted mother
date. Donations in John’s memory may
in his high school and college careers, on everyone who had the privilege of of Nikki Edry and her husband, Paul,
be made to Voluntary Service, Fisher
and also was a talented shortstop. He knowing her. of Parrish, FL, Emily Dotsias of Lynn,
House 5009, VA Boston Healthcare
System, 1400 VFW Parkway, West was elected to the Bartlett High School A Funeral Mass will be held at Dina Wiegman and her husband, Jim, EVANS, James R.
Baseball Hall of Fame, and his bat and 10:00 am, on Wednesday, October of Revere and Georgia Dotsias and
Roxbury, MA 02132.
glove helped the varsity team at Duke 22, 2025, at St. Peter’s Catholic her husband, Georgios Gergianakis, of
win the Atlantic Coast Conference Title, Church, 86 Court Street, Plymouth. Munich, Germany. Loving grandmother
in both 1956 and 1957. But what says Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Michael and Katrina Edry, Christina
most about Lon, the ballplayer and to the care of the Cartmell-Davis Wiegman and Emmanuela and Amalia
the man, is that he was awarded the Life Celebration Funeral Homes, Gergianakis. Dear sister of Angela
Babe Ruth Medal for Sportsmanship. PLYMOUTH. Viris of Florham Park, NJ and the late Longtime Harwichport resident,
Lon received offers from several big In lieu of flowers, please consider a Anargyros Kalliavas of Revere. In lieu George I. Rockwood, Jr., passed
league baseball teams, including the donation, in her memory. to Dana- of flowers, donations may be made away peacefully, on September 26,
Philadelphia Phillies, but decided Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline to Dementia Society of America, 188
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Born in
instead to pursue his education and Ave., Boston, MA 02215, www.dana- N. Main St., Doylestown, PA 18901 or
Worcester, Massachusetts, to George
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Corporation and Agfa, Compugraphic resident, Jim was a respected educator, and Clark in Boston. George’s father
Division, and finished his career as coach, and athletic director, whose had been one of the six founding
Executive Vice President, Human career spanned over 30 years. He
member of the Stone Horse Yacht Club

to life
Resources at Mast Industries, Inc. graduated from Winthrop High (1955),
in Harwichport, which engendered in
Lon was an avid and talented golfer served in the U.S. Army (1957–59),
young George a lifelong attachment to
and a member of Pocasset Golf Club and earned degrees from Springfield
the club and sailing, as well as Cape
and Windstar on Naples Bay, Florida. College and Salem State. Jim joined
Cod itself. He owned multiple boats
Relatives and friends are invited to Winthrop’s physical education staff
in his lifetime, including a beautiful
attend a Visitation to greet the family at in 1961, coached baseball to multiple
wooden schooner and, later, a wooden
St. Patrick Catholic Church, 511 Main conference titles, and served as Athletic
sloop designed by Sparkman Stephens.
Street, Falmouth, on Saturday, October Director from 1972–1994. He was
His cruising stops as a member of the
4, 2025, from 10:00am to 11:00am, named Massachusetts Athletic Director
Cruising Club of America covered much
followed by a Funeral Mass at 11:00 of the Year in 1987 and was a strong
of the world, and nothing pleased him
am. Burial will be held at a later date. advocate for Title IX, helping expand
more than taking family and friends on
In lieu of flowers, donations may opportunities for female athletes.
sailing adventures (note: his eldest son

Every life
be made in Lon’s name to: Dana He is survived by his children, Lisa
hereby apologizes for sinking his prize
Farber Cancer Institute dana-farber. Federico (Anthony) and James K.
dinghy, shredding his best mainsail,
org/gift or Michael J. Fox Foundation, Evans (Jill); grandchildren, James R.
and dropping a quantity of Kahlua

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and milk into the bilge of the O’Day
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and directions, please visit www. Federico, Grant and Carter Evans;
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Thomas Perry, at 78; famed writer of popular, unconventional thrillers

By Sam Roberts an interview that the author Reviewing “pursuit” (2001), the law, the draft, and abusive ty of Rochester. “I always as-
nEW YoRk tIMES “was that rarity among thriller about a mass murderer, in the spouses — to vanish like a rabbit sumed that’s how I would make
thomas perry, a bestselling, writers. He was able to concoct new York times, Janet Maslin being chased by a dog, because a living.”
critically acclaimed novelist precise stories that compelled wrote that his books “unfold me- “when the rabbit wins, he He sent a synopsis of “the
whose 32 inventive thrillers readers to keep turning pages, thodically, in extremely sharp fo- doesn’t get to kill the dogs and Butcher’s Boy” to literary agents
were known for their intricate aching to know how it will turn cus.” eat them. He just gets to keep be- on a list he had compiled in al-
plots, unexpectedly sympathetic out.” “His attention to detail is so ing a rabbit.” phabetical order. Dr. perry re-
villains, and intriguing heroes, “And he did it with clear, intense that it generates its own thomas Edmund perry was called, “one of the B’s, lurton
among them a native American straightforward prose,” he add- brand of quiet suspense,” she born in tonawanda, n.Y., near Blassingame, replied: ‘Send the
woman who helps people take ed, “that often soared into the added. Buffalo, on Aug. 7, 1947. His fa- manuscript. I’ll read it.’ A couple
on new identities, died Sept. 15 realm of poetry.” Dr. perry’s “the Butcher Boy” ther, Richard, was a junior high of weeks later, he said: ‘I like it.
in los Angeles. He was 78. Dr. perry’s books were enter- won the Edgar Allan poe Award school social studies teacher I’ll try to sell it.’ And he did.”
His death, in a hospital, was taining, but he didn’t intend for Best first novel from the who became the superintendent In 1980, Dr. perry married Jo
caused by an aortic dissection, a them as pure escapism. “I want Mystery Writers of America. Re- of tonawanda’s schools. His Anne lee, with whom he
tear in the body’s major blood the five quarts of blood to go out viewing it in the times, Christo- mother, Elizabeth (prohaska) worked as a television writer
Jo pERRY
vessel, said his wife, Jo perry, on the ground so that people pher lehmann-Haupt wrote, perry, was a teacher. and producer on such shows as
who is also a mystery writer. know that this is real, a big deal “the particular literary coup Dr. perry received a bache- “Simon & Simon,” “21 Jump Dr. Perry, pictured in 2024,
Dr. perry produced gripping to kill somebody,” he told Identi- that perry pulls off is to make the lor’s degree in English from Cor- Street,” and “Star trek: the next produced gripping stories.
stories populated by a singular ty theory, an online literary reader root for both the protago- nell University in 1969 and a generation.”
cast of characters, including a magazine, in 2003. “ When I nist and the antagonist.” doctorate in English literature In addition to his wife, he somebody who goes by feel.”
ruthless professional hit man in write something violent, after- His writing was laconic and from the University of Rochester leaves his daughter, Alix perry; But along with that pure in-
his prizewinning 1982 debut, ward, I am depressed. It de- evocative. In “the old Man,” a in 1974, writing his dissertation his son, Ian; and his brother, stinct was careful craft.
“the Butcher’s Boy,” and Jane presses me. What I am trying to 2017 novel about a retired intel- on William faulkner. Richard. “I’ve been working at devel-
Whitefield, a member of the Sen- do is have other people affected ligence agent that was adapted He worked as a laborer, fish- this year, Dr. perry told Writ- oping narratives in which we see
eca nation who guides vulnera- by it in the same way I am. that into a tV series starring Jeff erman, teacher, and university er’s Digest that the dialogue in and understand the complexity
ble individuals to safe havens. is, both to be afraid and then to Bridges and John lithgow, one administrator, and as a weapons his books emerged from his be- of motive, temperament, and
She is scheduled to reappear ear- be sad about it.” character vividly defines the pro- mechanic in the Air national ing a “shameless eavesdropper.” history that a character brings
ly next year in the finale to a 10- Critics raved about his nov- tagonist’s age. He is old “in the guard, before beginning his lit- “When I start [a book],” he when he comes into collision
book series. els, which were witty, cerebral, way a seven-foot rattlesnake was erar y career. But that path said, “I know who’s in it and who with other characters,” Dr. perry
otto penzler, the founder of and even instructive, titillating old.” wasn’t unexpected. will be standing at the end of it. said. “this has required steady,
the Mysterious press in new readers with practical tips on Jane Whitefield, whose series “I’ve written from the time I that’s all I know. that’s all I al- uninterrupted attention and
York, which published most of how to climb a staircase quietly, debuted in 1995, advises her was in junior high,” he said in a low myself to know because I kept me fully amused and preoc-
Dr. perry’s recent books, said in or how to smuggle diamonds. troubled clients — fugitives from 2019 interview for the Universi- don’t believe in outlining. I’m cupied.”

She saw chimps for

what they really are
uGOODALL distinguish Dr. goodall as the
Continued from Page A1 first scientist to engage in such a
In a career spanning more methodical, long-term study of
than half a century, Dr. goodall wild chimps. While previous re-
used her global fame to draw at- searchers had focused almost
tention to the plight of dwin- entirely on chimps in captivity,
dling chimpanzee populations Dr. goodall engaged in methodi-
and, more broadly, to the perils cal, long-term studies in the
of environmental destruction. wild. Her research at the gombe
t he pivotal figure in Dr. Stream Reserve showed that te-
goodall’s career was leakey, nacious field observation could
whose research had established be more revealing than laborato-
that Africa was the cradle of hu- ry experiments, the evolutionary
manity, the place where Homo theorist Stephen Jay gould later
sapiens evolved. He said that said, calling her work with
great apes contained important chimps “one of the Western
clues about the behavior of early world’s great scientific achieve-
hominids. And he said that ments.”
women, whom he perceived as Chimps were not the unfeel-
more patient and less threaten- ing, unintelligent creatures that
ing than men, were well suited people had long assumed. Dr.
to observe them. goodall’s work showed that they
leakey, working as curator of were individuals, with emotions
a natural-history museum in and loyalties and disagreements.
nairobi, was smitten with Dr. they kissed. they took care of
goodall when they met in nairo- each other. they went to war.
bi in the late 1950s. He hired Dr. they passed down lessons, one
goodall as his secretary, then in- generation to the next.
vited her along on his next dig at “the longer I was there, the
olduvai gorge, where she more like us I saw that they
proved her mettle amid the wild were,” Dr. goodall told an audi-
ASSoCIAtED pRESS/fIlE
animals. It was also during that ence of schoolchildren in 2016.
weeks-long expedition without a “We’ve been so jolly arrogant to among chimps and baboons as Above, Dr. Goodall with one
shower that she began wearing a think we’re so special.” the animals competed for the of her husbands, Hugo van
ponytail, a stylistic trademark the world came to know Dr. food, leading to questions about Lawick, in 1974, At right,
she would keep long after her goodall through documentaries whether the fruit had made the she met with schoolchildren
hair turned from blond to gray. and magazine photographs that chimps at gombe more aggres- in 2016. Into her 80s, Dr.
Shortly after the team re- captured her relationships with sive than their counterparts else- Goodall traveled 300 days
turned to nairobi, leakey invit- the animals she watched, loved, where. a year.
ed Dr. goodall to lead a new and lived alongside. D r. g o o d a l l e v e n t u a l l y
chimp research project. He saw She stayed in gombe nearly stopped the feeding, saying that
her inexperience as an asset that full time for the better part of she would not have introduced chance to see how a chicken could
gave her a “mind uncluttered three decades, establishing a re- bananas to gombe if she had un- possibly manage to lay an egg.
and unbiased by theory.” search program that continues derstood the consequences. Unable to afford college, she
He asked Dr. goodall to go in- today. But she succeeded in revolu- moved to london after high
to the forests of what was then Dr. goodall was not the only tionizing primatology and field school and held a series of secre-
tanganyika (later tanzania) and woman leakey tapped to study biology perhaps because of — tarial jobs until she had earned
observe chimpanzees. She set up apes; later, he sent the American not in spite of — her lack of enough to buy her passage to
camp beneath oil palm trees Dian fossey to study gorillas in training. East Africa to visit a high school
JAHI CHIkWEnDIU/WASHIngton poSt
near the sand-and-pebble shore Uganda and the german-born the same impulse that led friend whose family had a farm
of lake tanganyika, one of the Biruté Mary galdikas to study her to name her research sub- near nairobi.
largest freshwater lakes in the orangutans in Indonesia. the jects also led her to see the ani- leakey remained an important a British colonial administrator speak about the risks apes faced
world. three of them, sometimes called mals as individuals, and she doc- champion for Dr. goodall, helping of tanzania’s national parks. — dwindling habitat, growing
She made her earliest critical “leakey’s Angels,” showed le- umented the extraordinar y to secure grants for her chimpan- they were married for five years human populations, and a rise in
observations several months lat- gions of young women that they range of their emotions and per- zee research before she had estab- before Bryceson’s death in 1980. bush meat hunting. the popula-
er, in fall 1960, crouching in the could become scientists. sonalities. lished a reputation of her own. He Information on survivors was tion of chimpanzees had plum-
woods of the gombe Stream Re- “for me as a little girl, seeing “She has made the most im- also urged her to get a doctorate. not immediately available. meted from more than 1 million
serve. She watched a chimpan- this brave young woman going portant contributions of any pri- She enrolled in the University of Dr. goodall endured turbu- in the 1960s to about 400,000.
zee she had named David grey- out and living in the wilds of Af- matologist in history,” said Rob- Cambridge and received a phD in lent patches in her work. She Almost immediately, she felt
beard feast on a freshly killed ba- rica and being determined to ert Sapolsky, a Stanford profes- ethology, or animal behavior, faced questions about whether an imperative to leave behind her
by bush pig, a meal that make it work was just an incred- sor who studies baboons, using working on her dissertation when- she adequately responded to an life as a solitary field researcher
contradicted the widely held as- ible inspiration,” said Elizabeth goodall’s model of long-term ever she could pry herself away armed raid of her research camp and became a traveling crusader
sumption that chimps were lonsdorf, a professor at Emory field observation. “She’s simply from research at gombe. in 1975. Dozens of rebels from for conservation. the Jane good-
strict vegetarians. University who has conducted the patron saint of the field.” In 1961, national geograph- Zaire (now Congo) kidnapped all Institute, based in Washing-
Days later, she saw David in- research at gombe for two de- Valerie Jane Morris-goodall ic — a major funder of the work four student researchers, includ- ton, became a vehicle for her
sert a long blade of grass in a ter- cades. She added that long after was born in london on April 3, at gombe — sent Dutch photog- ing three from Stanford, holding sprawling conservation efforts,
mite mound, then withdraw the Dr. goodall conducted her path- 1934. Her father, an engineer rapher Hugo van lawick to cap- them for several weeks until addressing the well-being not
stalk. the grass was covered breaking research, female un- who dabbled in professional car- ture Dr. goodall’s work there. their families paid nearly half a just of apes but also of people.
with termites, and the chimp de- dergraduates still say she was racing, was mostly absent from the shared intensity of their ad- million dollars in ransom. the institute established and
voured them. the one who sparked their inter- family life. She grew up in a venture in the isolated forests Dr. goodall disputed a claim runs sanctuaries for orphaned
that simple task — a seem- est in field biology. house filled with women: her and their mutual thrall to chim- that she had been warned by a and injured chimps, and it helps
ingly throwaway gesture — When Dr. goodall began her mother, nanny, grandmother, panzees culminated in their local of the approaching guerril- communities around gombe
proved a revelation. Her re- work, female field scientists two aunts, and a younger sister, marriage three years later. las and escaped by slipping into conserve the local habitat and
search, published in the journal were so uncommon that a Brit- Judy. Dr. goodall and van lawick the forest. She said she had been create sustainable jobs.
nature in 1964, sent shock ish commissioner for tanganyi- “I do not remember a time had a son, Hugo, whom they asleep in bed some distance Into her 80 s, Dr. goodall
waves through the worlds of ani- ka refused to allow Dr. goodall when I was growing up anybody nicknamed “grub.” He spent from the kidnapping. traveled 300 days a year, endeav-
mal behavior and anthropology. to stay at gombe unless she was ever saying to me: ‘Well, you much of his early childhood at In 2013, she apologized for a oring to forge an emotional con-
Dr. goodall had seen an ape cre- accompanied by an escort. She can’t do that because you’re a gombe, sleeping in a specially dozen passages that were lifted nection between her audiences
ate and use a tool — behavior chose her mother, Vanne. girl,’ ” she told Britain’s Indepen- designed cage to keep out ma- from various websites and ap- and the wild creatures to whom
that was thought at the time to Even after her important dent newspaper in 2003. rauding chimpanzees. the mar- peared in her book that year, she had devoted her career.
be an essentially human trait. finds, the male-dominated scien- they lived in Bournemouth, riage disintegrated as Dr. good- “Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and “people just grow up thinking
“now we must redefine ‘tool,’ tific establishment largely dis- on the sea in the south of Eng- all’s career accelerated. She pre- Wonder from the World of plants.” the forests and animals will last
redefine ‘man,’ or accept chim- missed Dr. goodall as a wisp of a land, where she was fascinated by sented research at international Any missteps were overshad- forever,” she told Canada’s globe
panzees as humans,” leakey woman who insisted on naming the natural world. She kept a conferences, and her 1971 book owed by the good will she gener- and Mail in 2001.
wrote to Dr. goodall in a cable her research subjects, a practice small zoo of pets — caterpillars, “In the Shadow of Man” was an ated as a globe-trotting eco-celeb- “I’m just trying to change at-
after receiving word of her find- regarded as unacceptably senti- racing snails, guinea pigs, birds, instant bestseller that was trans- rity, a second phase of her career titudes toward animals. It’s very
ing. mental and anthropomorphic. cats, and dogs — and at age 4, she lated into dozens of languages. that began in 1986 when she at- simple, really, I just want to
the discovery marked the And she made mistakes. the conducted her first field observa- While estranged from her tended an international confer- change the world a little. Will I
start of a career that would span bananas Dr. goodall used to en- tion, hiding in a henhouse for husband, Dr. goodall began a re- ence of primatologists in Chicago. ever achieve it? no. But that’s
more than half a century and tice the animals sparked fights hours, patiently waiting for the lationship with Derek Bryceson, She heard her colleagues what one works toward.”
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tV CritiC’s Corner Asking eriC

By Chris Vognar

Daughter moves back in with

parents, brings mess with her
Q. i’m 81 years old and my husband is 84. We Q. Recently, i was making a payment on my ac-
were comfortably retired until our 44-year-old count to a medical facility by phone. the recep-
daughter and 9-year-old granddaughter moved tionist accidently hit the wrong number and
in with us a few weeks ago. our daughter was charged me hundreds of dollars more than my
evicted from her condo because her ex-husband actual bill.
stopped paying. (i don’t blame him.) She requested a refund immediately, but it
She’s a college graduate and hasn’t worked at took almost two days to be processed, resulting
a job in her field for 10 years, because her ex in my account to be overdrawn. i was charged a
helped her start her own business, which has sizable overdraft fee, which she insisted on pay-
never provided a living wage. the business has ing since it was her mistake, So she deducted it
now failed. She says she’s looking for a job but from my bill and paid the difference.
hasn’t found anything. i don’t think she should have been liable, and
My problem is that i’m neat and she’s messy. if i want to pay her back. What do you think? Who’s
my daughter or granddaughter drop something liable?
on the floor, they don’t pick it up. if they cook, BilliNG ERRoR
they leave food on the stove and counter. the two A. So, you’d be out of the money, and the bank
rooms that they’re using have clothes and “mess” gets to keep the fee for an overdraft that was
NEtflix
everywhere. When i ask her to do something, she quickly corrected? i dunno, the math’s not math-
From left: Alyvia Alyn Lind, Sydney Topliffe, and John Daniel in “Wayward.” gets impatient and mad. ing to me.
i don’t know what to do! She’s making me so You’re certainly free to pay her back if you
Netflix’s ‘Wayward’ is the third season in April, an elite women’s high school
soccer team descends into bloodthirsty tribalism
stressed-out that my friends think i’m sick.
My husband and i can’t afford to put her in
want, but it doesn’t seem like the best decision. it
would be more sensible for the facility’s billing
latest in a spate of shows when their plane crashes in the canadian wilder- her own place, because it would deplete our sav- department to reach out to the bank directly to

about teens in peril ness. then they get hungry. if William Golding’s
1954 novel “lord of the flies” is subtext in “Way-
ings. She’s already on Medicaid; she gets a small
amount of money from the ex for child support
see about fixing their error.

ward,” here it’s practically text. (like “Wayward,” but cannot take care of herself. Q. i am writing with an additional perspective on
the kids are not all right in “Wayward,” the new “Yellowjackets is set in the recent past. But its anxi- if you have any suggestions, please help. the response issued to the recent letter from “Not
Netflix thriller about a Vermont school for at-risk ety level is very now.) then there’s “Euphoria,” the MotHER iN MESS looking Good,” whose wife’s anger would often
teens. overseen by a headmistress (toni collette) HBo series about teen sex, drugs, and despair that A. Your daughter is in a tough spot and you’re be- escalate to the point of violence.
who mixes New Age platitudes with abusive head has yielded an unusual number of good actors, in- ing very generous in your attempts to keep her While i completely agree with you that the be-
games, tall Pines Academy engages in a tear-them- cluding Zendaya, Jacob Elordi, Barbie ferreira, afloat. that generosity need not come without havior is abusive and unacceptable, it is highly
down-to-build-them-up approach that includes and Sydney Sweeney. Depending on whom you strings, however. in fact, some ground rules and possible that these newly escalated displays of
group therapy sessions in which the cruelty is very ask, the HBo series is either bold drama or skeezy expectations about her stay in your house will rage are linked to perimenopause and hormonal
much the point. to say much more would risk teensploitation. i fall somewhere in the middle, help everyone. fluctuations. it is not to diminish the harm it is
spoiling. Suffice it to say the two young heroines leaning toward the latter. Season 3 is scheduled for Start by talking with your husband about doing to the family unit, but it begs a closer look
(Alyvia Alyn lind and Sydney topliffe) are besties next year. what your shared expectations and hopes are for and probably some medical assessment for all of
who yearn to escape. None of this is brand new, of course. Hollywood your new living situation. confirm that you’re on their sakes.
Every new tV season these days seems to fea- was mining the whole juvenile delinquent thing the same page about things like cleaning up, While symptoms vary hugely from person to
ture a series about youth in peril; if you believe that back in the ’50s; a current repertory series at Har- noise, and chores. Also talk through what you’re person, some people experience extreme person-
pop culture reflects society at large, you should vard film Archive, “New Dog, New tricks: Youth both envisioning for a timeline, i.e.: is your ality shifts during perimenopause. So, before as-
hold your kids close. the most celebrated (and the in cinema” will show the wayward teen magnum daughter staying indefinitely? is this always a suming that the new and unacceptable violence
best) of these is the bluntly titled “Adolescence,” opus, “Rebel Without a cause” (1955), on Dec. 13. rent-free situation? Are there other expectations is something to be worked around, perhaps this
the devastating Netflix limited series that just took And some might point out that before “Euphoria” in place of rent? Write these things down, if it avenue could also be explored.
home eight Emmys. in exploring the aftermath of could walk, larry clark’s 1995 film “Kids,” a seedy helps you. PERiMENoPAUSAl ADVocAtE
a horrific crime — a 13-year-old Yorkshire lad (ow- drama of New York teens gone wild, had to crawl. then together talk with your daughter about A. thank you for this perspective. it’s true that
en cooper) has murdered a female classmate — the But there’s something about this recent spate of your expectations and about hers. Right now, a there could be other factors exacerbating the let-
show lays bare a microcosmic world in which teens shows that seems more desperate and pained. You lot of the conflict is coming from two very differ- ter writer’s wife’s reactions, from perimenopause,
and adults have almost stopped even trying to get the feeling that these storytellers — all adults, ent living styles crashing together. there’s work to hormonal imbalance, to depression.
communicate. cyberbullying lies at the heart of of course — are trying to atone for some intergen- that can be done on both sides to better coexist, While it’s not my place to medically speculate,
the crime, but it’s just a symptom of lives adrift. erational sin of neglect, or sounding an alarm in but it’s important to remember that she is living i hope the letter writer suggests that his wife
these teens are groping for acknowledgment and dramatic form. Have you checked the children? in your house. it’s not a shared space; it’s a space have a conversation with her doctor, as well.
affection. that is being lent to her.
Sometimes the kids are capable of tormenting Chris Vognar can be reached at chris.vognar@ Making plain what you need to feel respected
each other without any help from clueless elders. globe.com. Follow him on Instagram at @chris in your own home sets a healthier dynamic and R. Eric Thomas can be reached at
in Showtime’s “Yellowjackets,” which ended its vognar and on Bluesky at chrisvognar.bsky.social. teaches your granddaughter a valuable skill. eric@askingeric.com.

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MGB changes to affect 19,000

2 Medicare advantage plans will exit network patients seeking primary care. More than
15,000 Mgb patients have no primary care
edhealthcare and blue cross blue shield of physician because of retirements and depar-
By Jonathan Saltzman, Marin Wolf, Massachusetts received letters from the tures, according to a July memo by the
and Jessica Bartlett state’s largest health system wednesday in- health system.
gLobe stAFF forming them of the change, which goes into Mgb has launched several initiatives to
Many Mass general brigham primary effect Jan. 1. About 15,600 customers of address the shortage, including a proposed
care doctors will no longer be in-network for unitedhealthcare and nearly 3,200 custom- partnership with cVs to provide primary
Medicare Advantage plans offered by two of ers of blue cross blue shield will be affected, care out of the pharmacy giant’s retail clin-
the state’s biggest health insurers, affecting according to Jessica Pastore, an Mgb ics.
nearly 19,000 patients and further straining spokesperson. the blue cross blue shield customers are
LAne turner/gLobe stAFF/FiLe 2022
the state’s primary care system. the letters from Mgb went out as the patients at two Mgb physician groups, har-
Medicare Advantage members with unit- health system is struggling to accommodate MGB, Page D3 More than 15,000 MGB patients have no primary care doctor.

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Morning Starbucks locations set to close

Stores listed as “closed” on the Starbucks website in the Greater Boston
area beginning this Sunday, Sept. 28, and lasting through next week.

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the closing of local starbucks
stores leaves regulars shocked,
disappointed, and uncaffeinated.
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gLobe stAFF Map: Truman Dickerson and Christina Prignano/Globe staff • Source: Starbucks
or years, stephanie Querzoli has had the same caffeine rou-
tine: Midway through her commute from charlestown to
chestnut hill, while parked at the stoplight at coolidge Above, a man
corner, she’d plug her starbucks order into the app. Min- snapped a photo
utes later, a few miles up beacon street, a cold brew would of the “Golden
be waiting for her. Kettle” hanging
but on Monday morning, Querzoli was “shocked and above a former
disappointed” to open the app and find her cleveland circle star- Starbucks in
bucks no longer there. Boston. In 2022,
As she passed the store on the way to work, she was dismayed to Starbucks staff
see its windows papered over. when she texted her husband to la- near Boston
ment, he had more bad news: his local starbucks at rowes wharf University went
had also shuttered. on strike over a
“both of us, goners,” she said. “it’s brutal.” contract deal.
Across greater boston, consumers have been forced to change up
their coffee routines this week after starbucks announced it was clos-
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Demoulas accuses the three remaining board mem-

bers of improperly colluding with his
three sisters, who together control around
GBH opens $225m funding drive
pushes back 60 percent of the shares in tewksbury-
based Market basket’s holding company. campaign launched as cutoff of
us support begins to take effect
against board
(demoulas, meanwhile, controls 28 per-
cent.) the lawsuit seeks an order declar-
ing that he was wrongfully terminated,
among other things, and reinstating him
By Jon Chesto as president and chief executive. By Aidan Ryan
gLobe stAFF demoulas’s complaint accompanied a gLobe stAFF

Former Market basket chief executive response to a complaint that the board gbh announced wednesday that it is seeking to raise
Arthur t. demoulas has launched a legal had filed against him last month at the $225 million over the next three years to help support the or-
fight in delaware state court to get his old time of his firing, accusing him of a “cam- ganization after President trump and congress cut federal
job back, less than a month after the su- paign of guerilla warfare” against the funding for public media in July.
permarket chain’s board of directors fired business to protect his job. the board had the campaign, which is titled “Fund the Future,” launches
MAtthew J. Lee/gLobe stAFF/FiLe 2024
him. said it was investigating whether demou- on the same day that federal funding for public media official-
in a counterclaim filed in delaware las was planning a potential walkout, ly expires. while roughly 8 percent of gbh’s annual revenue About 8 percent of GBH’s annual revenue came
chancery court on wednesday, demoulas MARKET BASKET, Page D3 GBH, Page D4 from taxpayer funds.
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talking points Harvard calls bid

to block funding
finance

Russia drafts
Russia may nationalize and swiftly sell off foreign-owned assets under a new privatization
mechanism in retaliation for any European moves to seize Russian holdings abroad, ac-
cording to a person close to the government. President Vladimir Putin on tuesday signed
‘unjust, unlawful’
plan to seize an order allowing for fast-track sales of state-owned assets under a special procedure. the Says government funds, referring the university
to its office that handles “sus-
decree is intended to speed up the sale of various companies, both Russian and foreign,
foreign assets the person familiar with the matter said, asking not to be identified because the informa- ignores steps pension and debarment deci-
sions.” the department said
tion isn’t public. Should the European Union begin seizing Russian assets, Moscow may
respond with symmetrical measures, the person said. Hundreds of Western companies
school has taken Harvard has 20 days to decide
whether it wants to request a
working in sectors from banking to consumer goods still operate in Russia, including By Aidan Ryan hearing.
UniCredit SpA, Raiffeisen Bank International AG, PepsiCo Inc., and Mondelez Interna- and Anjali Huynh “Congress has empowered
tional Inc. — BlooMBERG NEWS GloBE StAff federal agencies to pursue title
Harvard University is accus- VI compliance through formal
ing the trump administration of enforcement mechanisms, in-
“unjust and unlawful” behavior cluding the termination of fund-
global Europe’s biggest pension fund sold its equity stake in Caterpillar Inc. amid backlash about in its effort to block funding for ing or denial of future federal fi-
the heavy-equipment maker’s links to Israel’s war in Gaza. ABP, which is based in the the Cambridge institution, argu- nancial assistance, when volun-
European Netherlands, divested its holding of Caterpillar shares, but still had investments in the ing that the government is rely-
ing on bad-faith allegations of
tar y compliance cannot be
achieved,” Paula M. Stannard,
pension fund company’s bonds as of June 30, a spokesperson said, declining to be more specific. the
pension fund recently held shares worth $455 million in Caterpillar, dutch public broad-
antisemitism to support its case director of the HHS civil rights
divests from caster NoS reported. ABP, which oversees more than $600 million, is at least the second
against the university.
the statement came in a re-
office, said in a statement Mon-
day.
Caterpillar over large European fund to drop Caterpillar. Norway’s $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund said sponse sent in September by Harvard’s reply to the HHS
Gaza in August that it won’t invest in Caterpillar because of Israel’s use of its bulldozers to de-
stroy Palestinian property in Gaza and the West Bank. the fund’s decision prompted US
Harvard’s lawyers to the US de-
partment of Health and Human
civil rights investigation shows
just how strongly it disagrees
Senator dave McCormick, an ally of President trump, to call for restricting Norway’s ac- Services office for Civil Rights, with the proceedings. It ex-
cess to US markets. — BlooMBERG NEWS which is pushing to prevent plains at length why it believes
Harvard from receiving any fed- the government’s argument did
eral grants under an anti-dis- not “meet the elements” of a ti-
crimination law known as title tle VI violation and calling
Markets Peloton Interactive Inc. shares fell Wednesday after the company raised prices on both VI. much of their findings “inaccu-
hardware and membership fees in “Harvard does not claim per- rate, incomplete, and mislead-
Peloton shares a sweeping product overhaul, fection and title VI does not re-
quire it. But Harvard has dem-
ing.”
It argued the federal govern-
fall on overhaul dampening the first major attempt
under new leadership to overcome
onstrated meaningful, sus- ment had not collaborated effec-
plan a multiyear slump. Chief executive
tained, and good-faith
progress,” read the response.
tively with Harvard to resolve
any alleged problems. Harvard,
Peter Stern told reporters at a me- Harvard argued that the govern- for instance, said it was updat-
dia briefing that “Peloton was ment “has refused to acknowl- ing its discrimination and ha-
made for this moment,” where edge Harvard’s action, refused rassment policies and proce-
people want to take more control to provide fair process, and mis- dures under a “voluntary resolu-
represented both the procedural tion agreement” with the Biden
of their health and wellness. Stern,
history and factual record.” administration’s department of
a former Apple Inc. and ford Mo-
Harvard’s response to the Education’s civil rights office,
tor Co. executive, is working to HHS civil rights proceedings which came from a 2024 com-
turn around the company after years of sales declines, several rounds of layoffs, and a siz- represents some of the universi- plaint alleging harassment of
able gap in new product releases. In August, Peloton cut about 6 percent of staff and pro- ty’s most forceful pushback to Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian
jected that full-year revenue for fiscal 2026 will drop 2 percent. Peloton’s stock fell as the trump administration since students at Harvard. those
much as 10 percent, to $8.10 early Wednesday, its biggest intraday decline since June 17. university president Alan Gar- changes, Harvard said, needed
ber publicly rejected a series of to be approved by the federal
— BlooMBERG NEWS
government demands in April. government, but had been sit-
the trump administration sub- ting with the education depart-
sequently moved to cancel Har- ment for more than three
transportation the price tag for building a private high-speed passenger railroad from Southern Califor- vard’s federal funding, ban in- months.
nia to las Vegas has swelled by nearly 35 percent. Brightline West’s 218-mile railroad will ternational students from cam- In response to the HHS no-
High-speed now cost $21.5 billion, according to the US department of transportation’s website,
pus, and threaten its
accreditation.
tice of violation, Harvard’s attor-
neys argued students were not
rail plan from which lists the company as a loan applicant. the
initial projection was $16 billion. the higher cost
the response, sent Sept. 19 subject to a hostile learning en-

LA to Vegas has led the fortress Investment Group-backed

and obtained by the Globe this
week, comes as part of a civil
vironment that involved “se-
vere, pervasive, and objectively
sees prices company to seek a $6 billion loan from the rights probe kicked off by HHS offensive harassment” or de-

spiral trump administration, according to the site. last

month, Brightline’s chief executive Mike Rein-
this spring. the agency has said
Harvard failed to protect Jewish
prived of educational opportu-
nities on campus. they said
and Israeli students on campus Harvard was unaware of many
inger said construction costs were increasing due
during protests that erupted of the allegations included in
to rising labor and material costs, in part caused
amid the war in Gaza. the notice or did not have direct
by high demand due to the proliferation of data the letter is a response to a control over conduct the admin-
centers, power plants, and transportation proj- June assertion that Harvard vio- istration criticized.
ects. “Given the increase in project costs we need- lated title VI, and it was sent Harvard also asserted that it
ed to figure out a way to advance the project,” before the government this was not “deliberately indifferent
Reininger said in an email. — BlooMBERG NEWS week said it would recommend to antisemitism,” and it includ-
cutting off all future grants to ed a a six-page appendix that
the University. laid out how Harvard had tried
the effort to cut funding is to combat antisemitism over the
energy US nuclear utilities face possible uranium shortages over the next decade, the Energy In- separate from a legal case in last two years, from student and
formation Administration warned, underscoring supply chain challenges in the world’s which a federal judge ruled in faculty trainings to changing
US nuclear biggest atomic-power market. Utilities signed fewer contracts for delivery last year as ura- early September that the admin-
istration had improperly pulled
disciplinary actions.
Harvard also repeatedly dis-
plans struggle nium prices surged, a report by the US agency said. High costs are pushing them to delay
decisions to cover future fuel requirements, even though less than a tenth of the uranium
existing funding from Harvard. puted the accuracy of claims the
with uranium delivered to US reactors is typically bought on spot markets. the uranium supply gap is
Harvard had resumed nego-
tiations with the federal govern-
government had used to argue
Harvard was creating a hostile
supply expected to widen over the next decade to a combined 184 million pounds, equivalent to ment over the summer to re- environment. In one instance,
more than three years of consumption. In the absence of long-term supply deals, the EIA store its funding and resolve a the notice cited that 60 percent
report suggests more utilities may need to forge shorter-term arrangements to keep reac- host of investigations. of Jewish students surveyed as
tors operating. While Silicon Valley investors pour billions of dollars into designing nucle- talks had stalled in recent part of Harvard’s antisemitism
weeks, but President trump task force report said they had
ar reactors, the EIA report suggests continued US vulnerability in fuel supply. More than
said tuesday that his adminis- experienced some sort of dis-
90 percent of the uranium consumed by US reactors last year was sourced internationally.
tration was nearing a deal that crimination or negative bias due
— BlooMBERG NEWS would include Harvard spend- to their perspectives on current
ing roughly $500 million on events.
trade schools that would end But that was an example of
the government’s monthslong how the notice “relied on out-
agriculture President trump said he would con-
attacks on the university. But dated and incomplete informa-
front Chinese President Xi Jinping
both trump and his administra- tion,” Harvard said, adding that
Trump to over Beijing’s refusal to purchase tion quickly walked back his ini- the survey was nonrandomized
confront Xi over American soybeans, a growing area
of tension between the world’s two
tial remarks, and Harvard has
not commented on any poten-
and “reflects the views of only
130 self-selected Jewish stu-
soybeans largest economies. trump has said he tial deal. dents — roughly 0.5 percent of
would meet Xi later this month at the Harvard has notched early the student body.“ Generally,
wins in court over the canceled Harvard argued that the HHS
upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Co-
research grants and efforts to report cited “facts without con-
operation summit. the US president
ban it from hosting foreign stu- ducting any independent dili-
has come under mounting pressure dents. A federal judge oversee- gence or investigation to con-
from Republican lawmakers from the ing both suits definitively sided firm their accuracy.”
agricultural heartland to break the with Harvard in its funding case the federal government’s no-
impasse with China over soybean purchases, which has squeezed farmers. “I’ll be meeting last month — some of Harvard’s tice, for instance, referenced
with President Xi, of China, in four weeks, and Soybeans will be a major topic of discus- research grants have begun five acts of vandalism it claims
flowing back to campus — and contributed to a hostile environ-
sion,” trump posted Wednesday on social media. “the Soybean farmers of our Country
issued a preliminary injunction ment at Harvard, all of which
are being hurt because China is, for ‘negotiating’ reasons only, not buying.” Soybean fu-
in the international students Harvard said the school had in-
tures jumped after the post by as much as 1.9 percent before paring gains slightly, the big- case that blocks the govern- vestigated and responded to.
gest intra-day move since Aug. 21. — BlooMBERG NEWS ment’s attempted ban at least Harvard also said the govern-
until the suit is decided. ment appeared to have relied on
Harvard lawyers cited that a number of accounts of stu-
recent Boston federal court de- dent-on-student harassment
energy the trump administration told a federal court it intends to reconsider a key US govern-
cision — in which Judge Allison that were not reported directly
ment approval that authorized the construction of Equinor ASA’s planned second phase d. Burroughs said the govern- to Harvard to verify.
US to reconsider of an offshore wind project near New York and New Jersey. the Interior department’s Bu- ment had used antisemitism al- “Even if not every initiative
approval of N.Y. reau of ocean and Energy Management will review the approved construction and opera-
tions plan for the Empire Wind 2 project, the US said in a tuesday filing with a Washing-
legations as a “smokescreen” for
withholding funds — by point-
has yielded immediate or uni-
versal success, that does not
offshore wind ton-based federal district court considering a legal challenge to the project by area resi- ing to the court saying the re- render Harvard deliberately in-
project dents and businesses. Equinor didn’t immediately return a request for comment. the
c o r d s h o w e d Ha r v a r d w a s
“working to respond to and
different,” Harvard wrote in its
response.
move is part of a broader campaign by President trump against the nascent US offshore
ameliorate antisemitism.”
wind industry, after years deriding the energy source and casting it as part of a “green en- on Monday, HHS escalated Aidan Ryan can be reached at
ergy scam.” His administration has stopped new offshore wind leasing and permitting, is its civil rights proceedings aidan.ryan@globe.com. Follow
moving to revoke existing authorizations and has halted projects under construction. against Harvard when it formal- him @aidanfitzryan.
— BlooMBERG NEWS ly recommended banning Har- Anjali Huynh can be reached at
vard from receiving federal anjali.huynh@globe.com.
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High court allows Demoulas

Cook to remain Fed pushes
governor for now back on
ASSoCIAtED pRESS of its interest rate-setting commit-
board
WA S H I n g t o n — t h e S u - tee in late october. uMARKET BASKET
preme Court on Wednesday al- Separately, the justices are hear- Continued from Page D1
lowed lisa Cook to remain as a ing arguments in December in a much like what happened in 2014
federal Reserve governor for now, separate but related legal fight over when his cousin controlled the compa-
declining to act on the trump ad- trump’s actions to fire members of ny and fired him. In 2014, Demoulas
ministration’s effort to immediate- the boards that oversee other inde- and his three sisters bought out their
ly remove her. pendent federal agencies. the case cousins’ side, bringing him back to the
In a brief unsigned order, the concerns whether trump can fire CEo’s job; last year, the siblings finally
high court said it would hear argu- those officials at will. paid off the debt from that buyout.
ments in January over president But a second issue in the case Rather than celebrating such a mile-
Al DRAgo/BloomBERg
trump’s effort to force Cook off the could bear directly on Cook’s fate: stone, the sisters and the board have
fed board. whether federal judges have the been at odds with Demoulas, who was
the court will consider whether authority to prevent the firings or cluded with a one-quarter of a per- a sitting fed governor in the fed’s eventually put on leave by the board in
to block a lower-court ruling in instead may only order back pay Lisa Cook will centage point reduction in a key in- 112-year history. may. that prompted the family strife
Cook’s favor while her challenge to for those wrongly dismissed. be able to take terest rate, the administration “president trump lawfully re- over the future of the 90-store super-
her firing by trump continues. trump had sought to oust Cook part in the turned to the Supreme Court in a moved lisa Cook for cause from market chain, known for its low prices
the high-court order was a rare before the September meeting of remaining two new emergency appeal. the federal Reserve Board of gov- and personalized service, to spill out in-
instance of trump not quickly get- the fed’s interest rate-setting com- Fed meetings in the White House campaign to ernors. We look forward to ulti- to the public view.
ting everything he wants from the mittee. But a judge ruled that the 2025. unseat Cook marks an unprece- mate victory after presenting our Demoulas is calling the board’s sup-
justices in an emergency appeal. firing was illegal, and a divided ap- dented bid to reshape the fed oral arguments before the Su- posed investigation into his activities a
Cook will be able to take part in peals court rejected the trump ad- board, which was designed to be preme Court in January,” White sham meant to hide the real reason for
the remaining two fed meetings in ministration’s emergency appeal. largely independent from day-to- House spokesperson Kush Desai his firing: to appease his sisters amid
2025, including the next meeting A day after the meeting con- day politics. no president has fired said. years-long intrafamily disputes. His fir-
ing, he claims, was basically a done deal
all along and not pursued for valid busi-
ness reasons. the process, he claims,
was “riddled with conflicts, trickery, de-

Cardiac care tower to be named after New Balance ceit, and pervasive breaches of fiduciary
duties.”
In particular, Demoulas says his dis-
agreements with his sisters — Caren,
Foundation glorianne, and frances — revolve
around three main areas: public recog-
donated $100m nition for market Basket’s success, dis-
tribution of corporate profits to the fam-
to Mass. General ily members, and the management of a
family trust. Demoulas says his sisters
By Jon Chesto have never worked at Demoulas Super
gloBE StAff markets, as the chain is formally
new Balance’s foundation has known, and are instead motivated by
pledged $100 million to mass. self-interest and helping their now-
general Hospital, which in turn adult children.
will name its new cardiovascular In the years following the 2014 deal,
care tower after the running shoe Demoulas claims, his sisters became
company. uncomfortable with the recognition De-
m g H o n We d n e s d a y a n - moulas received. the company, which
nounced that the facility will be now has more than 30,000 employees,
called the new Balance founda- is on track to generate $8 billion in reve-
tion tower, instead of its more nue this year, or more than twice its rev-
humdrum current name, the West enue 11 years ago.
tower. the gift is by far the largest Among the issues Demoulas cited:
in the foundation’s 40-plus year how much a development firm that
history, and it’s one of the biggest worked with market Basket and was
for the hospital. It matches the run by two of the sisters’ husbands
$100 million that auto magnate should be compensated by the super-
Herb Chambers pledged last year market chain as they wound down the
for the cancer-care tower that’s al- business. Demoulas also claims that
ready underway next door. once the $1.6 billion in debt was finally
together with a shared five-sto- paid off, the sisters wanted to increase
ry platform, the two towers will the shareholder distributions beyond
make up the phillip and Susan the $40 million a year, after taxes, that
IllUStRAtIon CoURtESy of mASS. gEnERAl HoSpItAl
Ragon Building, which will stretch they had been getting. the two sides
across two city blocks. the 17-sto- have also sparred about who would suc-
ry Chambers tower is slated to bly community-minded, and very than $17 million to nearly 100 or- case of an emergency. It will also Mass. General ceed Demoulas, who is 70.
open for patient care in 2028, humble.” ganizations in 2025. much of its include 864 parking spaces in an Hospital on Demoulas concludes: “In short, the
while work will begin on the 15- Brown, now head of academic focus is on obesity prevention and underground garage. Wednesday sisters’ actions to overtake the Board
story new Balance tower in 2027, medical centers for mass general youth development through ath- B r o w n s a i d ma s s g e n e ra l announced that and expel mr. Demoulas from the thriv-
replacing the existing parkman Brigham, said he sees parallels be- letics. Brigham has raised about $700 the facility will ing Company were fueled by greed and
Street garage, and wrap up three tween new Balance and mass. With two million square feet of million, including the Chambers be called the envy.”
to four years later. general — namely, how both orga- space when complete, including and new Balance gifts, toward New Balance the board initially put Demoulas on
When he started in the job as nizations started in Boston and its parking and other under- construction of the Ragon Build- Foundation leave in may ostensibly to conduct its
mgH president in 2021, David grew to become globally known ground spaces, and a $3.1 billion ing, reflecting the typical propor- Tower, instead investigation, along with several lieu-
Brown set out to meet with all of brands. price tag, the Ragon Building and tions of mgB’s major capital proj- of its more tenants and two of his adult children
the hospital’s prominent support- “this gift reflects our commit- its two towers represent the larg- ects funded by philanthropy. humdrum who have been working at the chain; a
ers, a roster that included the new ment to building healthier com- est construction project currently from his office window at the current name, number of those top leaders have since
Balance foundation. Conversa- munities and supporting institu- underway in the city. hospital’s Bulfinch building, its the West Tower. been fired. Demoulas claims he has
tions with new Balance owners tions that share our values of inno- the two towers will feature 482 oldest structure, Brown has a daily tried to be cooperative with the board,
Jim and Anne Davis eventually fo- vation, access, and excellence,” private, single, acute-care patient view of the ongoing work on the as opposed to its portrayal of him as an
cused on how the new heart and Anne Davis, the foundation’s man- rooms, replacing a similar number new building. autocratic dictator, and had hoped to be
vascular care tower would en- aging trustee, said in a prepared of beds in the existing hospital “I’m excited for our patients reinstated through mediation that took
hance healthcare for the greater statement. “We believe deeply in campus, mostly in double rooms. and what this will mean for our place last month. that mediation, in-
Boston community. the power of place — and the new of those, the new Balance tower community. But I’m also excited stead, culminated in his firing.
“those sets of conversations Balance foundation tower will be will feature 32 intensive care beds for our staff . . . ” Brown said. “It the market Basket board responded
led to a deeper engagement be- a place of healing, hope, and prog- and 190 acute-care beds. It will al- gets me really excited about the fu- on Wednesday with a statement saying
tween [hospital parent] mass gen- ress for generations to come.” so include a conference center and ture.” it’s unfortunate that Demoulas has cho-
eral Brigham and the new Balance Since its formation, the new areas for training, with a 300-plus- sen to lash out with personal attacks, re-
foundation, which culminated in Balance foundation has already seat auditorium. the entire Ragon Jon Chesto can be reached at peating “tired accusations” that “are
this gift,” Brown said. “they are in- given $165 million to nonprofits Building has been designed to op- jon.chesto@globe.com. Follow him simply not true.” the board noted that
credibly generous, they’re incredi- around the world, including more erate independently, off-grid, in @jonchesto. Demoulas has so far refused to allow
the findings of its investigation to be
made public.
the board said it has been trying un-

MGB leaving some Medicare Advantage care networks successfully to persuade Demoulas to
provide such basic information as for-
ward-looking budgets, advance notice
uMGB tients seeking specialty or hospital teams are available to help pa- state’s 3.6 percent benchmark. of large capital expenditures, or poten-
Continued from Page D1 care at mgB. those services will ‘We tients with continuity of care and David E. Williams, president of tial successors other than his children.
b o r me d i c a l A s s o c i a t e s a n d remain in network. transition options should they the Boston consulting firm Health the board said it respects Demou-
north Shore physicians group. that wasn’t much of a consola- recognize need this support,” the health sys- Business group, said mgB proba- las’s professional accomplishments but
A UnitedHealthcare spokesper-
son said the change will affect
tion for primary care patients.
“I’m not happy. I’ve been seeing
the tem told the globe.
Suzi Swoop o’Brien, chief exec-
bly felt it could afford to lose near-
ly 19,000 medicare Advantage pa-
simply could not do its job without
more cooperation from him. A CEo, the
many of its medicare Advantage a doctor at mass general, a prima- disruption utive of UnitedHealthcare of mas- tients because the health system is board said, should not stay in charge of
customers but not those who ob-
tain primary care at nantucket
ry care physician, for years,” said
mary Jane patrone, a United-
this sachusetts, said in a statement
that some mgB primary care pro-
already struggling to satisfy the
demand for primary care.
a company if he refuses to be account-
able to the board and that it’s always
Cottage Hospital, martha’s Vine- Healthcare customer who lives in change viders would be out of network If the insurers objected to reim- been within Demoulas’s control to be
yard Hospital, and Cooley Dickin- Boston. “due to how mgB is restructuring bursement rates sought by mgB, accountable instead of autocratic. mar-
son Hospital in northampton, all the letter to patrone said her may cause its participation in medicare Ad- the health system likely felt it ket Basket has performed well in the
part of the mgB system.
medicare Advantage plans are
out-of-pocket costs for primary
care will increase if she remains
for vantage.” She did not elaborate.
for months, signs have ap-
could tell them to take a walk.
“mgB is already turning away
four months since he was put on leave,
with “strong year over year sales num-
approved by the federal insurer with UnitedHealthcare because of patients peared that some insurers and patients” for primary care, Wil- bers,” as well as a stable workforce and
but offered by private insurers as the insurer’s out-of-network rules. health care providers may be liams said. leadership under interim chief execu-
an alternative to standard medi- Among her options were switch- and their headed to an impasse. providers Although massachusetts has tive Don mulligan, the board said.
care plans. the plans often have ing to another medicare Advan- families.’ say they are losing money and fac- some of the most sought-after doc- “Rather than cooperate and accept
enhanced benefits such as vision tage plan, including those offered ing big cuts in funding from med- tors in the world, primary care is accountability in his role as CEo of mar-
and dental coverage. by Aetna and mass general mgB, icaid, the health insurance pro- badly broken for patients and phy- ket Basket, mr. Demoulas has retained a
the decision by mgB to end in- Brigham Health plan, said mgB. in a statement gram for the poor and disabled. sicians, according to a report is- team of lawyers to hurl untrue accusa-
network status for some primary In a statement to the globe, to the Globe Blue Cross Blue Shield of massa- s u e d i n Ja n u a r y b y t h e s t at e tions at his family and the Board,” the
care patients means patients will mgB declined to detail what chusetts, the state’s biggest health Health policy Commission. board said. “the accusations conjured
have to find different insurance prompted the move or how many insurer, has said it won’t boost re- against the Board and the majority
with mgB primary care in net- patients would be affected. the imbursement rates significantly. Reach Jonathan Saltzman at stockholders in court papers and pR
work. Alternatively, they could letter sent to patients also did not CEo Sarah Iselin said in a July jonathan.saltzman@globe.com. statements are outlandish and dramatic
continue to see their mgB doctors, specify what prompted the move. op-ed in Commonwealth Beacon Marin Wolf at and they’re not true.”
but the patients would have to pay “We recognize the disruption that Blue Cross Blue Shield had in- marin.wolf@globe.com, and
higher out-of-pocket costs. this change may cause for patients formed providers that it would Jessica Bartlett at Jon Chesto can be reached at
the change will not affect pa- and their families, and our care keep price increases below the jessica.bartlett@globe.com. jon.chesto@globe.com.
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the boston globe

Mass. home hospital programs halt
25
Index of publicly traded companies in Massachusetts

Globe 25 index
By Marin Wolf
gloBE StAff

major hospital systems in

massachusetts have halted their
home hospital programs after
the first government shutdown
in nearly seven years thwarted
care to the hospital.
dr. Constantinos “taki” mi-
chaelidis, medical director of
Hospital at Home at Umass me-
morial Health in Worcester, es-
timated that, of the 65 patients
boarding at the emergency de-
“my phone started blowing
up immediately. there was an
outcry from clinicians,” dorner
said. “this has become a rou-
tine way that we provide care
across mass general Brigham,
and not just here, but 400 plus
care say they are confident that
Congress will eventually extend
the program, which has biparti-
san support. lawmakers across
the aisle have cosponsored bills
that would extend the program
for five years.
attempts to renew a medicare partment on Wednesday morn- other hospitals around the the question is when Con-
provision allowing hospital-lev- ing, about 20 could have been country.” gress will get to vote on that ex-
el care at home. moved to home hospital care. the Centers for medicare tension. In the meantime, mass
Until Congress passes a new “Patients don’t want to come and medicaid Services first per- general Brigham will have to
bill extending the program, back [to the hospital],” michael- mitted home hospital programs absorb 70 more patients into its
health systems cannot offer hos- idis said. “We’ve had several pa- during the CoVId-19 pandemic hospitals.
pital services to people with cer- tients tell us that.” as a way to open hospital beds “ that means longer wait
tain conditions in the comfort mass general Brigham alert- and ease an acute shortage. times in emergency depart-
of their homes. Programs in ed its emergency room physi- Eight of these programs operate ments. that means longer
massachusetts had been prepar- cians monday morning that the across massachusetts. boarding times, waiting in hall-
ing for the possibility of govern- system would no longer transfer In the five years since the ways for inpatient beds,” dorner
ment gridlock for days. patients to home hospital “for CoVId outbreak, the results of said. “And what’s been shown
Umass memorial medical the foreseeable future,” said dr. home hospital programs have time and again is that when
Center in Worcester stopped ad- Stephen dorner, chief of clinical been positive. Patients can there are longer wait times and
mitting patients to its Hospital operations and medical affairs move more, recover for longer, longer boarding times, out-
at Home program on Saturday at mgB Healthcare at Home. and avoid hospital-acquired in- comes get compromised as a re-
morning. the health system ei- last year, patients had to wait fections. the cost of a home sult.”
ther discharged current pa- an average of 19 hours to get a hospital stay is the same as a
tients when safe or returned medical/surgical inpatient bed hospital stay. Marin Wolf can be reached at
those requiring inpatient-level at mgB. Advocates for home hospital marin.wolf@globe.com.

Starbucks
facing a
brew of
pressures
uSTARBUCKS
Continued from Page D1
ing 19 local shops. the shutter-
ing of about 400 stores in the
United States and Canada is part
of a larger $1 billion restructur-
ing effort that also included lay-
ing off 900 corporate employees.
It’s the latest, deepest round
of cost-cutting after years of
waning sales, longer wait times,
AngUS moRdAnt/BloomBERg
and higher prices that have
alienated customers of the once- The shuttering of about 400 Starbucks stores in the United States and Canada is part of a

Markets ubiquitous coffee giant. But

more than that, said CEo Brian
niccol, it reflects a desire to
larger $1 billion restructuring effort that also included laying off 900 corporate employees.

“It became an automat,” Shai- makes sense to reassess under- able to sec ure their laid-off

Wall Street sets more records bring the soul back to Starbucks,
shedding underperforming
ch said.
While digital tools may expe-
performing stores and exit pric-
ey leases. the question, Howell
union members some protec-
tions through effects bargaining.
stores and focusing on creating dite lines and drive loyalty from wondered, was how Starbucks those workers will have two
Stocks rose to more records on Wednesday, as Wall Street the best experience they can at customers like Querzoli, they re- can continue to claim domi- days to accept a transfer offer,
still doesn’t care much about the shutdown of the US gov- the rest. moved some of the personal nance without being in key loca- and will receive severance if they
ernment, but yields sank in the bond market following the the chain’s decision to cut touches that Starbucks had long tions like Har vard or davis turn it down. those workers will
latest discouraging signals on the economy. the action was back at this moment has left in- been known for — details like Squares. also continue to have their
stronger in the bond market, where treasury yields dustry insiders reading the tea having baristas hand-write cus- “they are talking about going health benefits through the end
dropped after a report suggested hiring may have been leaves (or coffee beans, if you tomers’ names on cups, a move back to being what they used to of the year in massachusetts and
much weaker across the country last month than econo- will) as they interpret what the that niccol re-introduced this be, but they have removed them- other states covered by the
mists expected. Employers outside the government actually move means. Is it a sign of loom- year to mixed results. selves from so many central loca- WARn Act.
cut 32,000 more jobs than they added, according to the sur- ing recession? A real estate play? “they essentially cannibal- tions,” he said. “that’s surprising “While we remain outraged
vey by AdP Research, with the midwest taking particularly A reaction to tariffs? or does it ized their in-store experiences,” to me.” at how callously Starbucks han-
hard hits. What’s worse, the survey also revised down its signify the death of the “third Shaich said. “It was very clear Some also interpret the move dled these closures, we are
numbers for employment in August, to a loss of 3,000 jobs place” role between work and that Starbucks had lost its differ- to close stores as an emboldened proud that we have forced the
from a previously reported gain of 54,000. Usually, traders home that Starbucks had long entiation and its specialness. It act, pushing back against recent company to make this process
on Wall Street wait for a more comprehensive jobs report embraced? wasn’t a third place, it was the labor activity that’s led to the fairer for impacted union baris-
that comes from the US government each month to suss In truth, it’s a bit of all of the antithesis of it.” unionization of 650 stores na- tas,” michelle Eisen, Starbucks
out how the job market is doing. the US government gets above, said Alex Susskind, a pro- the coffee landscape has also tionwide. five of the stores that Workers United spokesperson
its data from a larger sample of employers than the AdP fessor of food and beverage man- changed dramatically, said were closed locally were union- said in a statement. the union is
survey, which does not have a perfect track record predict- agement at Cornell University’s george Howell, the owner of the ized, including the locations in planning a rally this weekend in
ing what the more comprehensive report will say each nolan School of Hotel Adminis- eponymous local chain, who Harvard Square, Cleveland Cir- Harvard Square to continue to
month. tration. sold his earlier concept, the Cof- cle, and at 874 Commonwealth push for the company to better
“Starbucks is a phenomenon fee Connection, to Starbucks in Ave. near Boston University, support its workers.
DOW JONES industrial average and they have been since their 1994 for $23 million. today, he where workers held a lengthy “fixing what’s broken at Star-
inception,” he said. said, there’s any number of strike in 2022. bucks isn’t possible without cen-
“from a third-place perspec- “third wave” specialty coffee It’s happening in a moment tering the people who engage
tive, the pandemic really shops in the city, both indepen- when corporate America seems with the company’s customers
changed the dynamic of how dents and higher-end chains to be taking a more hos tile day in and day out,” the union
people engaged in these types of with ambiance and ample seat- stance against labor organizing, said in a statement.
places. Consumer behavior ing like Blank Street and Caffè said Clare Hammonds, a profes- As for Querzoli, she’s adjust-
changed, and Starbucks needed nero. there’s obviously no short- sor of labor studies at the Uni- ing to a new reality as she re-
to figure out how to compete in age of dunkins around here for versity of massachusetts Am- thinks her coffee commute strat-
that space.” those who want a quick cup on herst. While Starbucks didn’t ex- egy.
Ron Shaich, the Brookline- the run, and Chinese chain clusively shut down unionized “now I have to be extra pre-
based founder of Panera and Au luckin Coffee is making a big shops, she said, the decision to pared in the morning,” she said,
Bon Pain, who is now the lead push into the United States in an close several of them will likely and will have to go out of her
investor in the tatte, life Alive, attempt to go toe-to-toe with have a chilling effect on organiz- way to find another Starbucks,
and Cava chains, said that previ- Starbucks. ing efforts. or be prepared to “fight all of the
ous Starbucks CEo Kevin John- “they’re getting squeezed at “Companies of ten claim other Charlestown moms” for
son focused on integrating apps both ends,” Howell said. when workers unionize that this her morning cup.
NASDAQ Composite index and online orders to maintain a the decision by Starbucks is is going to cause such financial “ I t ’s c h a n g e d m y w h o l e
level of service during the likely also a real estate play, strain,” she said. “now you can morning schedule,” she said.
CoVId-19 pandemic. But in the Howell said. In a moment when make that argument even more
process, he turned the chain into coffee prices are climbing rapid- forcefully.” Janelle Nanos can be reached at
“an adult beverage machine with ly and commercial real estate Starbucks Workers United janelle.nanos@globe.com.
a digital front.” valuations are plummeting, it said on tuesday that they were Follow her @janellenanos.

After US defunding, GBH opens $225m drive

uGBH sents one of public media’s larg- programming. and educational programming,
Continued from Page D1 est and most high-profile efforts But larger stations are also and allow the organization to
came from taxpayer funds, the to replace the loss of federal feeling the strain. PBS laid off 15 continue to adapt in a rapidly
loss of federal funding is ex- funds since President trump percent of its staff last month fol- changing media environment.
pected to have an even greater signed a bill to rescind funding lowing the funding cuts. And As part of the campaign,
S&P 500 index impact on its finances because earlier this year. gBH is the larg- gBH laid off 13 employees from gBH is also unifying its docu-
other stations that rely more est producer of PBS program- its PBS series “American Experi- mentary production work under
heavily on government funding ming in the country. It also oper- ence” due to funding cuts, on top one umbrella. Raney Aronson-
pay to air some of its radio and ates an nPR station and creates of cutting 7 percent of its overall Rath, editor-in-chief of front-
television programs. children’s and educational con- workforce earlier this year. line, will lead gBH’s documenta-
“Congress told us to ‘go fund tent. goldberg said that gBH’s ry strategy, goldberg said.
ourselves,’ and that’s exactly the loss of federal funding, new campaign will seek money “We’re calling this the ‘fund
what we are going to do,” gBH which expired Wednesday with from sources including new and the future’ campaign, but at its
chief executive Susan goldberg the start of the government’s existing members, individual core it’s about transformation —
said in a statement. “gBH is new fiscal year, is expected to donors, and corporate sponsors. not just maintaining the status
doubling down on our values, fo- have an outsized impact on donors will also have the option quo but raising the bar to ensure
cused on protecting indepen- smaller and more rural public of supporting particular servic- gBH thrives in the modern me-
dent journalism and making media organizations. Some sta- es, such as news and journalism dia landscape,” goldberg said.
trusted, educational, and inspi- tions have already begun the or science and health.
rational content accessible to ev- process of shuttering, laying off the campaign aims to pro- Aidan Ryan can be reached at
eryone.” staff, and calling on nPR and tect gBH’s journalism, ensure aidan.ryan@globe.com. Follow
SOURCE: Bloomberg News the new campaign repre- PBS to lower fees to air national continued access to its children’s him @aidanfitzryan.
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5 Supportive Gupta Empire once
undergarments reigned
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Great Lake shoppers ...”
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32 Stand-up comic Ray not concrete?
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character in “The 6 Start over with
Incredibles” 7 Enthusiastic
39 Bi- plus one 8 Aligns
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47 Mallorca, por ejemplo of weather
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HOROSCOPES GEMINI (May 21-June 20) today. Likewise, your efforts to re- CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) 2♠ Pass 4♠ All Pass
Choose today to explore opportu- organize your possessions will al- today is a wonderful day to teach Opening lead — ♥ A
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for thursday, nities in publishing, the media, so bring results. this is also an or share information. Meanwhile,
oct. 2, 2025: You are charming medicine, and the law. Likewise, excellent day to think of money- you look great to others. this is
and caring in an understated it’s an excellent day to learn or making ideas or how to find a an advantage, because people Many players have plenty of willpower. What they lack
way. You value your close rela- study something new. Pursue better paying job. tonight: Ward- will likely listen to you and look is “won’t power” — as in “won’t play too fast” and “won’t
tionships. this is a wonderful, travel plans. All aspects of pro- robe shopping. to you for guidance. travel will forget to plan.”
fun-loving year for you. Let your motion and communications will LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) appeal to you, along with ro- Against today’s four spades, West led the ace and a sec-
hair down and have a good time, flow smoothly for you. tonight: this is a strong day for you be- mance with someone ‘‘different.’’ ond heart. Declarer ruffed, led a trump to dummy’s ace and
but remember your goals. Get in tweak your digs. cause the Sun is in your sign with tonight: travel plans. returned a trump. When East discarded, South cringed. He
touch with your joy and do things CANCER (June 21-July 22) the Moon, which is sitting in the AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ruffed a club with dummy’s last trump, ruffed a club and
that please you. this is actually an excellent day most playful part of your chart. today the Moon is in your sign, started the diamonds. He escaped for down one when West
for banking and negotiating is- You can use this advantage to ex- which does two things: It will ruffed the third diamond and cashed his high trump but
ARIES (March 21-April 19) sues related to inheritances and plore your creative expression in heighten your emotions, and it had to lead a club to South’s A-Q at the end.
this is a good day to rally your debt. Matters related to home the arts, the entertainment will also slightly improve your South had ways to succeed. He went down because his
troops and set them marching. and family are also highlighted world, or the hospitality industry. good luck, giving you an edge plan was one many declarers adopt: draw some trumps and
Enjoy interactions with friends. today, especially discussions tonight: Appreciate privacy. over all the other signs. obvious- hope for the best.
Share your ideas. If you’re in- about shared property. Look for SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ly, this is the day to demand the One winning line of play is to take the king of trumps at
volved in groups or organiza- ways to improve your home and Basically, this is a feel-good day. advantage! Go after what you Trick Three, then start the diamonds. West ruffs the third
tions, today is a strong day to en- family scene. tonight: Warm con- take time to relax. discussions want. Why not ask? tonight: diamond and leads a third heart, and South ruffs and take
courage others to act on new versations. with female family members will Check your finances. the ace of trumps. Then he continues diamonds and loses
ideas or explore new paths. to- LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) go well. Likewise, relations with PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) only one more trick to West’s queen of trumps.
night: Improve your workspace. Be prepared to go along with friends and members of groups Information is flowing freely to-
South could also crossruff his way to 10 tricks.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) what others want today. Howev- are also good. this is an excellent day, and for your sign, much of
You’re high-viz today, which er, you will have a chance to put day to process information. to- this information will come from
DAILY QUESTION You hold: ♠ K J 9 6 3 ♥ 3 ♦ Q 9 ♣ A Q 7
means people notice you more in your two cents. Cooperate and night: Share info. research or hidden sources. In
4 3. Your partner opens one heart, you respond one spade
than usual. Fortunately, you work with partners and close SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) fact, someone might share a se-
and he rebids two hearts. What do you say?
make an excellent impression on friends to achieve your goals. this is a popular day for you! Not cret with you. Very likely, whatev-
everyone. this is the kind of day Communicate your wants and only will you enjoy reaching out er you learn will boost your assets ANSWER: This situation would make me nervous. If my
where people are receptive to needs; you will be convincing. to- to others, they will also want to and benefit you financially. to-
partner were known to be a sound opening bidder, I would
ideas, even instructions, which night: A gift? see your face. this is a strong day night: Conversations.
be willing to try three clubs. But I were playing with a
means if you want to make things VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) for sales, marketing, teaching,
modernist who believes in opening featherweight hands, I
happen, step up to the plate. to- discussions about finances, earn- and acting. What can you learn? © 2025 King Features Syndicate
would be reluctant to force to game. I would consider bid-
night: Socialize. ings, and cash flow will go well tonight: Share advice. Inc.
ding 2NT. Even passing could be right.

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Today’s Crossword Solution

Today’s Sudoku Solution

5 2 4 8 9 3 6 1 7
3 7 8 6 1 5 2 9 4
1 6 9 4 2 7 8 5 3
9 4 1 7 8 6 5 3 2
2 8 5 1 3 9 7 4 6
6 3 7 2 5 4 9 8 1