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‘We honestly don’t know where all of these people are coming from.’
JAY SKOWRONEK, co-owner of Murphy’s General Store in Harwich Port
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CAPE BUSINESSES GET not stop
A SUMMER SURPRISE desperate
Afghans
Crowds continue to flock
to airport; death toll from
explosion nears 200
By Adam Nossiter
NEW YORK TIMES

Hundreds of Afghans desperate to flee the Tali-

ban continued to crowd Kabul’s airport Friday,
even after one of the deadliest bombings in the
country’s history, as the death toll from the previ-
ous day’s blast neared 200 with hundreds more
wounded, keeping the city’s hospitals grimly busy
all day.
The size of the crowd at the airport had
dropped sharply, however, with fear paring the
numbers down to hundreds from the thousands of
previous days. The suicide bombing ripped right
into the jostling throng Thursday afternoon, piling
an adjacent sewage canal with corpses. Health offi-
cials said at least 170 civilians had been killed, and
likely more.
The attack also killed 13 US service members,
and one of the first to be identified was Rylee Mc-
Collum, 20, a Marine who had been on his first
overseas deployment, according to his father. He
was one of 10 Marines, two soldiers, and one Navy
medic killed in the attack, according to defense of-
ficials.
On Friday, the Pentagon changed its earlier
PHOTOS BY CRAIG F. WALKER/GLOBE STAFF
statement that there were possibly two suicide
Maeve Mullaney, 5, admired the display at Ducks in the Window in Chatham. Some Cape shops had a successful summer. blasts set off at the airport by ISIS-K, the Afghan af-
filiate of the Islamic State group, instead saying it
was just one. The explosion hit right near the air-
By Alexandra Chaidez AFGHANISTAN, Page A6
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT

After a season of incessant rain, the surging Delta variant,

and even a coyote attack on the beach, it seemed like Tropical
Storm Henri — arriving at the end of what should have been a
busy seaside weekend — could officially have doomed the
Cape’s summer.
Janey forming
But the message coming from business owners this week
has been much more positive. Tourists have seemed unde-
terred by the weather, they said, last weekend and all summer
plan to update
long. Business has been steady and in some cases better than
expected, with customers determined to make the most of
their time off, whatever the challenges.
voting precincts
“I’ve been here for 41 years,” said Felisberto Barreiro, the
owner of Alberto’s Ristorante in Hyannis. “This is the best Proposal aims to even out
summer we’ve had in 41 years so far.”
Others didn’t go quite that far. Many businesses have strug-
numbers; wouldn’t take
gled to hire workers this summer, and the COVID outbreak in
Provincetown created additional challenges for businesses on
effect before city election
the Outer Cape. But through it all, there was a sense that peo- By Emma Platoff
ple wanted to get out of their homes and escape to the beach In Harwich Port, (from left) Katherine Civitello, Kara Prichard, and GLOBE STAFF

CAPE COD, Page A4 Cara O’Toole shopped for gifts at Murphy’s General Store. After decades of political neglect, Acting Mayor
Kim Janey and Boston elections officials are quiet-
ly shopping a plan to redraw some of the city’s vot-
ing precincts, an effort that advocates hope will
equalize disparate wait times at the polls.

Birth control law baffles insurers, pharmacies
Advocates say Mass. didn’t publicize rule
that allows 12-month prescriptions
By Stephanie Ebbert
GLOBE STAFF
Massachusetts residents are still
being denied easy access to long-
term birth control prescriptions
they were guaranteed under a bill
Governor Charlie Baker signed into
law nearly four years ago.
The emergency measure was
rushed into law in the early Trump
era when the president tried to gut
the Affordable Care Act’s guarantee
of free birth control. The law en-
sured contraception would remain
free in Massachusetts, and re-
quired insurers to cover a year’s
supply of birth control pill packs,
rather than meting them out
monthly or quarterly.
But women continue to report
that they’ve been denied such long-
term prescriptions by doctors,
pharmacists, and insurers who in-
sist they’re not entitled to what the
law promised.
“Honestly, everyone at every
turn was like, ‘I don’t know what
you’re talking about,’” said Shan-
non Alessandroni, a 24-year-old
state legislative aide whose 12-
month prescription sent her on a
contraceptive odyssey in May.
The inaction has frustrated ad-
vocates and sponsors of the
ACCESS law — “An Act Relative to
Advancing Contraceptive Coverage
and Economic Sec urity in our
State” — one of whom accused
Baker of being “indifferent” toward
CONTRACEPTION, Page A10
The city’s plan — which is subject to change and
would not go into effect before this fall’s mayoral
election — would add more than a dozen precincts
in some of Boston’s fastest-growing neighbor-
hoods, according to a draft of the proposal ob-
tained by the Globe and confirmed by city officials.
Boston’s arcane maps have left some voters,
particularly in densely packed neighborhoods,
waiting in long lines at the polls while their neigh-
bors enjoy a speedier process, and advocates say
those burdens fall all too often on communities of
color. In one dense Chinatown precinct, for exam-
ple, more than 7,000 voters must share one polling
place; in a precinct near Brookline, that number is
under 500.
PRECINCTS, Page A4

California parole
commissioners
recommended
A lobster in the hand is worth more than
that Sirhan B.
Sirhan should be
freed on parole
after spending
you’d think — once you add up the gear
Say ahhhhh more than 50 By Billy Baker
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ing Robert F. Kennedy. A2.
Boston Public Schools will pay
$650,000 to five families who
alleged the Mission Hill K-8
School improperly responded
to an elementary-age student’s
sexual assaults of fellow stu-
dents. B1.
Boston tech company Toast
initial public offering for what
will be one of the most antici-
pated deals of the year. D1.
Florida school districts can le-
gally require their students to
wear masks, a judge ruled. A3.
CAPE ANN — Not enough is made of the first person
to eat a lobster, for that early human was a special kind
of maniac. Hunger will make people do desperate things,
but think of all the starving people who came before who
were still like, “Dude, I’m not touching that thing.”
That’s because lobsters are terrifying. They are 90
percent weapon. Even after you put the bands on their
claws and cook them, they’ll find a way to pull a knife on
you.
That’s reason No. 1 why I had never so much as
touched a lobster, let alone eaten one. Reason No. 2:
Who has that kind of money?
Then I went armed snorkeling.
The guy who introduced me to this activity last sum-
mer, my buddy Doc, kept referring to it as “spearfishing,”
and he seemed weirdly excited by the idea of shooting a
fish, sticking it in a bag tied to his waist, and then troll-
ing it behind him as it bled out.
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Parole board urges release of RFK assassin
Sirhan has served
over 50 years;
governor must OK
By Nicholas Bogel-
Burroughs
NEW YORK TIMES
California parole commis-
sioners recommended on Friday
that Sirhan B. Sirhan should be
freed on parole after spending
more than 50 years in prison for
assassinating Robert F. Kennedy
during his campaign for presi-
dent.
The recommendation from
the two commissioners does not
necessarily mean Sirhan, 77, will
walk free, but will most likely
put his fate in the hands of Gov-
ernor Gavin Newsom, a Demo-
crat facing a recall election that
will determine his political fu-
ture. A spokeswoman for News-
om declined to say whether he
would approve the recommen-
dation, only that he would con-
sider the case after it is reviewed
by the parole board’s lawyers.
The parole hearing was the
16th time Sirhan had faced pa-
role board commissioners, but it
was the first time no prosecutor
showed up to argue for his con-
tinued imprisonment. George
Gascón, the progressive and di-
visive Los Angeles County dis-
trict attorney who was elected
last year, has made it a policy for
prosecutors not to attend parole
hearings, saying the parole
board has all the facts it needs to
make an informed decision.
At the hearing, which was
conducted virtually because of
Breyer says host of
factors will determine
when he leaves court
Who will choose
successor weighs
on his decision
By Adam Liptak
NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON — Justice
Stephen Breyer says he is strug-
gling to decide when to retire
from the Supreme Court and is
taking account of a host of fac-
tors, including who will name
his successor.
“There are many things that
go into a retirement decision,”
he said.
He recalled approvingly
something that Justice Antonin
Scalia had told him.
“He said, ‘I don’t want some-
body appointed who will just
reverse everything I’ve done for
the last 25 years,’ ” Breyer said
during a wide-ranging inter-
view Thursday. “That will inevi-
tably be in the psychology” of
his decision, he said.
“I don’t think I’m going to
stay there till I die — hope not,”
he said.
B r e y e r, 8 3 , i s t h e o l d e s t
member of the court, the senior
member of its three-member
liberal wing, and the subject of
an energetic campaign by liber-
als who want him to step down
to ensure that President Biden
can name his successor.
The justice tried to sum up
the factors that would go into
his decision.
“There are a lot of blurred
things there, and there are
many considerations,” he said.
“They form a whole. I’ll make a
decision.”
He paused, then added: “I
don’ t like making decisions
about myself.”
The justice visited the Wash-
ington bureau of The New York
Times to discuss his new book,
“The Authority of the Court and
the Peril of Politics,” scheduled
to be published next month by
Harvard University Press. It
prompted questions about ex-
panding the size of the court,
the so-called shadow docket,
and, inevitably, his retirement
plans.
The book explores the na-
ture of the court’s authority,
saying it is undermined by la-
beling justices as conservative
Nation/World
the coronavirus pandemic,
Sirhan said he had little memory
of the assassination itself, but he
said he “must have” brought the
gun into the hotel.
“I take responsibility for tak-
ing it in and I take responsibility
for firing the shots,” he said.
Sirhan, much of his short hair
turned white, was seated in
front of a computer and wearing
a blue uniform with a paper tow-
el in his chest pocket.
Shortly after midnight on
June 5, 1968, Kennedy gave a
victory speech at the Ambassa-
dor Hotel in Los Angeles follow-
ing his victory in the Democratic
primary in California. As Kenne-
dy, a senator from New York,
walked through the hotel’s pan-
try, Sirhan shot him with a re-
volver. Five other people around
Kennedy were shot as well, but
they all survived.
Kennedy died the next day,
less than five years after Presi-
dent John F. Kennedy, one of his
brothers, had been assassinated.
Sirhan, who is Palestinian
and was born in Jerusalem, said
in a television interview from
prison in 1989 that he had killed
Kennedy because he felt be-
trayed by the senator’s proposal
during the campaign to send 50
military planes to Israel.
Douglas Kennedy, one of
Kennedy’s sons, attended the
hearing on Friday and urged the
commissioners to release
Sirhan, a Jordanian citizen who
would likely be deported, if they
did not think he was a threat.
“I do have some love for you,”
he told Sirhan at one point, who
nodded and lowered his head.
or liberal. Drawing a distinction
between law and politics, Brey-
er wrote that not all splits on
the court were predictable and
that those that were could gen-
erally be explained by differenc-
es in judicial philosophy or in-
terpretive methods.
In t h e i n t e r v i e w, h e a c -
knowledged that the politicians
who had transformed confirma-
tion hearings into partisan
brawls held a different view, but
he said the justices acted in
good faith, often finding con-
sensus and occasionally sur-
prising the public in significant
cases.
“Didn’t one of the most con-
servative — quote — members
join with the others in the gay
‘I don’t think I’m
going to stay [on
the Supreme
Court] till I die —
hope not. . . .
There are many
considerations.’
STEPHEN BREYER
Supreme Court justice
rights case?” he asked in the in-
terview, referring to Justice Neil
Gorsuch’s majority opinion last
year ruling that a landmark civ-
il rights law protects gay and
t ra n s ge n d e r w o r ke r s f r o m
workplace discrimination.
Breyer made the point more
broadly in his new book.
“My experience from more
than 30 years as a judge has
shown me that anyone taking
the judicial oath takes it very
much to heart,” he wrote. “A
judge’s loyalty is to the rule of
law, not the political party that
helped to secure his or her ap-
pointment.”
Breyer said he was wary of
efforts to increase the size of the
court, saying it could erode
public trust in it by sending the
message that the court is at its
core a political institution.
“Think twice, at least,” he
said of the proposal. “If A can
do it, B can do it. And what are
you going to have when you
have A and B doing it?”
T h e B o s t o n
At Friday’s parole hearing, Sirhan B. Sirhan (pictured in
1968) said, “I take responsibility for firing the shots.”
The Los Angeles County
Sheriff’s Department submitted
a letter to the board that it said
was on behalf of the Kennedy
family and opposed Sirhan’s re-
lease. One of the commissioners,
Robert Barton, said he had also
taken into account confidential
letters that opposed Sirhan’s re-
lease.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met
with Sirhan in 2017 and said in a
letter to the board that the Sher-
iff’s Department’s letter did not
speak for him and that he
STORM PREP — Corey Williams stacked bags of ice onto a cart Friday at a gas station in Jefferson, La., in
advance of Hurricane Ida, which struck Cuba the same day. The National Hurricane Center warned the rapidly
intensifying storm could speed across warm Gulf waters and hit Louisiana as a Category 3 hurricane Sunday.
Blood injected into food in UK
LONDON — A 37-year-old
man accused of injecting food
items in three London super-
markets with syringes of blood
appeared in court Friday and
was ordered into custody until
his next hearing.
Leoaai Elghareeb, a lawyer,
was arrested after a man en-
tered a Waitrose store in west
London’s Hammersmith area on
Wednesday and started “throw-
ing around” syringes filled with
blood and injecting them into
food items, prosecutors said.
More students freed in Nigeria
MINNA, Nigeria — Over-
joyed parents welcomed home
90 young schoolchildren who
had spent three months held
by gunmen in northern Nige-
ria, though authorities con-
firmed Friday that one of the
kidnapped children had died
during the ordeal.
Meanwhile, elsewhere po-
lice announced that a second
group of 15 students taken
earlier this month also were
freed, raising hopes across the
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thought Sirhan should be re-
leased. His son Robert F. Kenne-
dy III attended the hearing but
did not address the board.
In a telephone interview,
Douglas Kennedy, a correspon-
dent for Fox News, said his fami-
ly was split over Sirhan’s release
and that he respected the vary-
ing views. Emphasizing that he
was speaking only for himself,
he said he believed that Newsom
should follow the recommenda-
tion of the parole board and ap-
prove Sirhan’s release.
Daily Briefing
The prosecutors say he
then engaged in similar be-
havior at nearby Tesco and
Sainsbury’s grocery stores.
Elghareeb, who lives near
the stores, is charged with
contaminating or interfering
with goods. He did not enter a
plea during a preliminary
hearing at Westminster Mag-
istrates’ Court.
Police have advised custom-
ers who bought products at the
three stores to discard them.
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country’s north that other
child hostages could eventual-
ly be delivered.
“The happiness can’t be
quantified,” said Yahya Aliyu
Babangida, 54, a teacher
whose two children aged 7 and
17 were among those released.
Some of the abducted pu-
pils were just 4 years old, he
said. Several were undergoing
medical treatment after their
release late Thursday.
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He said that seeing Sirhan at
the hearing had made him feel
more compassion for him.
“I spent my life sort of avoid-
ing words like ‘killed,’ ‘assassin,’
‘assassination,’ and Sirhan’s
name in general,” said Douglas
Kennedy, who was 1 at the time
of his father’s assassination. “So
I’m grateful for today’s hearing
just to demystify some of that.”
Many of the questions at the
hearing on Friday focused on the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and
Sirhan at one point began crying
when he spoke about refugees
suffering in the Middle East.
“Whatever I would want to
do in the future, it would be to-
wards resolving that peacefully,”
he said, but he added that he
wanted to “disengage” from the
conflict because he was too old.
Barton, one of the commis-
sioners, said he feared that
Sirhan would become a “symbol
. . . to foment more violence.”
An odd coalition has urged
prison officials to release Sirhan
over the years, including those
who say he has served his time
and others who believe that he is
not the real assassin.
Still, many people have op-
posed his release, saying the
crime was heinous and came
amid a painful series of assassi-
nations — including the killing
of the Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr. two months earlier.
“There are definitely mem-
bers of my family who are under-
standably not compassionate to-
ward him,” Douglas Kennedy
said. “And I think their views
should be respected. This issue
was the seminal moment for ev-
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Md. court to review teen’s life term
ANNAPOLIS, Md. —
Maryland’s highest court has
agreed to take up the case of
Lee Boyd Malvo, who is serv-
ing life in prison for his role in
the 2002 sniper spree that ter-
rorized the Washington, D.C.,
region.
Malvo’s lawyers argue that
his punishment goes against a
2012 Supreme Court ruling
barring mandatory life sen-
tences without parole for juve-
nile offenders and Malvo
should benefit from Mary-
land’s new law enabling pris-
oners convicted as juveniles to
seek release once they’ve
served at least 20 years.
The state Court of Appeals
granted a “bypass” review in
Malvo’s case and that of two
others serving life sentences
for crimes committed as
For the record
ª Correction: Because of an editing error, a headline in the
Weekend section of Friday’s Globe misidentified the theater that
is presenting “Hurricane Diane.” The play is a production of the
Huntington Theatre Company. The Globe regrets the error.
erybody who I’m related to.”
In 2016, a deputy district at-
torney in Los Angeles County
said prosecutors and the Los An-
geles Police Department were
unified in believing that “the se-
riousness and the gravamen of
the crimes committed by this
prisoner are too abhorrent to
justify his release.”
Sirhan, who is being held at a
prison near San Diego, was con-
victed of murder and initially
sentenced to death over the ob-
jection of Senator Edward M.
Kennedy of Massachusetts, who
wrote that “my brother would
not have wanted his death to be
cause for the taking of another
life.” But Sirhan’s punishment
became a life sentence when Cal-
ifornia’s top court temporarily
struck down the state’s death
penalty in 1972.
In 1975, prison officials said
Sirhan would be freed on parole
in 1986, but that date was later
rescinded by a panel that said
the officials had erred.
On Friday, Teresa Meighan,
the other parole commissioner
who reviewed the case, asked
Sirhan if he would be angry if
the board recommended parole
but it was reversed.
“I would lose a little bit of
faith because of the repetition of
it, because America’s word is big,
and it should hold,” Sirhan said.
Sirhan also said he was grate-
ful to have been spared from exe-
cution and promised that he
would live a peaceful life.
“Over half a centur y has
passed and that young impulsive
kid that I was does not exist any-
more,” he said.
youths, news outlets report.
The order issued Wednesday
scheduled oral arguments to
begin in January.
Malvo was 17 when he and
John Allen Muhammad em-
barked on a killing spree that
left 10 people dead and three
wounded in Maryland, Virgin-
ia, and the District of Colum-
bia. Others were killed as the
pair made their way to the
D.C. region from Washington
state. Muhammad was execut-
ed in 2009.
Malvo has claimed that the
six life-without-parole terms
he received in Maryland are il-
legal in light of US Supreme
Court decisions saying manda-
tory life-without-parole sen-
tences are unconstitutional for
juveniles except in rare cases.
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THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
Biden considers booster after 5 months
President Biden said his ad-
ministration is considering
whether to start booster shots of
the coronavirus
VIRUS vaccine as soon
NOTEBOOK as five months
after people re-
ceive a second dose, a move that
would accelerate US plans by
three months.
Soon after Biden made the
comments — at an Oval Office
meeting with Israeli Prime Min-
ister Naftali Bennett on Friday —
a White House official said there
had been no change in the plan
to administer boosters after
eight months.
Biden nonetheless said he
talked with infectious disease ex-
pert Anthony Fauci about the
possible timeline change earlier
in the day, signaling his interest
in studying the issue.
Biden told Bennett that he’s
“considering your advice that we
should start earlier” in adminis-
tering boosters in the face of the
Delta variant, he said. One of the
questions, Biden said, is:
“Should it be five months?”
Relying substantially on data
from Israel, Biden’s senior health
team announced a plan this
month for any adult to get a
booster, beginning Sept. 20, if
it’s been eight months since their
second shot of either the Pfizer-
BioNTech or Moderna vaccines.
That plan is still subject to au-
thorization by the Food and
Drug Administration.
The Biden administration cit-
ed warning signs that vaccine ef-
ficacy is waning over time, and
that the shots aren’t as effective
against the Delta variant. The
variant is highly contagious and
fueling an increase in coronavi-
rus cases around the country.
But some health experts say
it’s not yet clear if boosters are
needed for all adults, including
the young and healthy.
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CVS limits purchases of OTC
rapid tests for virus
CVS is limiting customers’
purchases of rapid, over-the-
counter Covid-19 tests, with a
maximum of six packages avail-
able online and four in its phar-
macies, as the spread of the delta
variant spurs demand.
Put in place this week, the
limits apply to Abbott Laborato-
ries’ BinaxNOW along with a
test from the startup Ellume, ac-
cording to an e-mail from a CVS
spokesperson. Both tests are
available without a prescription.
Surging interest in rapid vi-
rus tests have made the products
a scarce commodity at some on-
line retailers and in certain
stores. The renewed demand for
testing has arisen just as the
highly contagious Delta variant
threatens many people’s plans to
return to work and school this
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Blood clot risk is higher from
virus than vaccine, study says
A major study of more than
Concern grows over doctors who share misinformation
Some call for
suspending or
revoking licenses
By Davey Alba
and Sheera Frenkel
NEW YORK TIMES
Standing before a local
school board in central Indiana
this month, Dr. Daniel Stock, a
physician in the state, issued a
litany of false claims about the
coronavirus. He proclaimed
that the recent surge in cases
showed that the vaccines were
ineffective, that people were
better off with a cocktail of
drugs and supplements to pre-
vent hospitalization from the vi-
rus, and that masks did not help
prevent the spread of infection.
His appearance has since be-
come one of the most-viewed
videos of coronavirus misinfor-
mation. The videos — several
versions are available online —
have amassed nearly 100 mil-
lion likes and shares on Face-
book, 6.2 million views on Twit-
ter, at least 2.8 million views on
YouTube, and over 940,000 vid-
eo views on Instagram.
His talk’s popularity points
to one of the more striking par-
adoxes of the pandemic. Even
as many doctors fight to save
People crossed nearly empty streets in the central business district of Auckland, New Zealand, Friday. By early next week,
New Zealanders should know if a new lockdown is working to stamp out the country’s first virus outbreak in six months.
29 million people in England
found that the risk of developing
blood clots was higher after natu-
rally contracting the coronavirus
than after getting a vaccination.
The study based on national
vaccination and hospital admis-
sions data, published Friday in
the British Medical Journal, ana-
lyzed people who had taken a
first dose of either the Oxford-
AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech
coronavirus vaccine between De-
cember and April.
It looked for complications
up to 28 days after getting a vac-
cine or being naturally infected,
it said, and found that although
“there was a slight increase in
blood clots with both vaccines,
… the risk of blood clots was very
much higher in people who went
on to catch covid-19.”
Researchers estimated that of
out of 10 million people vacci-
nated with the AstraZeneca
shot, about 107 would be hospi-
talized or die because of low
platelet counts — about one-
ninth of the risk of the same con-
ditions in the infected. It also
found that for every 10 million
people vaccinated with the Pfiz-
er shot, an extra 143 cases of
ischemic strokes were observed,
almost one-twelfth the amount
after a natural infection, it said.
Cases of blood clots or
“thrombocytopenia and throm-
boembolic events” have been re-
corded after some vaccines in
Denmark, Germany, Austria,
and Britain, which led to limits
being put in place on the Astra-
Zeneca vaccine.
WASHINGTON POST
Delta Air Lines CEO urges
employees to get vaccinated
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bas-
the lives of people sick with
COVID-19, a tiny number of
their medical peers have had an
outsize influence at propelling
false and misleading informa-
tion about the virus and vac-
cines.
Now there is a growing call
among medical groups to disci-
pline physicians spreading in-
correct information. The Feder-
ation of State Medical Boards,
which represents the groups
that license and discipline doc-
tors, recommended last month
that states consider ac tion
against doctors who share false
medical claims, including sus-
pending or revoking medical li-
censes. The American Medical
Association says spreading mis-
information violates the code of
ethics that licensed doctors
agree to follow.
“When a doctor speaks, peo-
ple pay attention,” said Dr. Hu-
mayun Chaudhry, president of
the Federation of State Medical
Boards. “The title of being a
physician lends credibility to
what people say to the general
public. That’s why it is so im-
portant that these doctors don’t
spread misinformation.”
Stock joined physicians in-
cluding Dr. Joseph Mercola and
Dr. Judy Mikovits, and a group
that calls itself America’s Front-
T h e B o s t o n
tian had an important message
for employees this week: The
highly contagious nature of the
Delta variant meant more of
them needed to get vaccinated.
He didn’t use those exact
words.
“Over the past few weeks, the
fight has changed with the rise
of the B. 1.617.2 variant — a very
aggressive form of the virus,” he
wrote, using the scientific term.
In May, the World Health Orga-
nization assigned names to key
variants using letters of the
Greek alphabet.
Most haven’t stuck around
long enough, or wreaked enough
havoc, to become household
names. Delta — unfortunately
for Delta — was different. The
variant accounted for 93.4 per-
cent of new infections in the
United States by the end of July.
WASHINGTON POST
Long COVID sufferers can
have lengthy recovery
One year after becoming ill
with the coronavirus, nearly half
of patients in a large new study
were still experiencing at least
one lingering health symptom,
adding to evidence that recovery
from COVID-19 can be arduous
and that the multifaceted condi-
tion known as “long COVID” can
last for months.
The study, published Thurs-
day in the journal The Lancet, is
believed to be the largest to date
in which patients were evaluated
one year after being hospitalized
for COVID. It involved 1,276 pa-
tients admitted to Jin Yin-tan
Hospital in Wuhan, China, who
were discharged between Jan. 7
and May 29, 2020.
The researchers, who also
evaluated the patients six
line Doctors, in generating huge
audiences for their bogus
claims. The statements by them
and others have contributed to
vaccine hesitancy and a resis-
tance to masks that have exac-
erbated the pandemic in the
United States, public health of-
ficials say.
The doctors often stand in
lab coats and use simplified
medical jargon, lending an air
of authority.
They often take advantage of
a ready audience online by
livestreaming news conferenc-
es, and keep interest alive by
promising new evidence that
will expose corruption and sup-
port their arguments.
Some state medical boards
have disciplined doctors for
their conduct during the pan-
demic. In December, the Ore-
gon Medical Board ordered an
emergency suspension of the
medical license of a doctor after
he violated a state order by not
wearing a mask, or requiring
patients to wear masks. The rul-
ing bars the doctor from prac-
ticing medicine in Oregon until
the governor lifts the state of
emergency issued for the pan-
demic.
In January, a San Francisco
doctor who had been falsely
claiming that 5G technology
G l o b e
months after hospitalization,
found that while many symp-
toms improved over time and
many of the 479 people who had
been employed when they got
COVID had returned to their
original job, 49 percent of pa-
tients still had at least one health
problem.
And shortness of breath and
mental health issues such as
anxiety or depression were
slightly more pre valent 12
months later than at the six-
month mark, the researchers re-
ported, saying the reasons for
that “worrying” increase were
unclear.
The researchers also com-
pared the patients in the study
with people in the community
who had not had COVID but had
similar pre-existing health con-
ditions and other characteris-
tics. After 12 months, COVID
survivors had worse overall
health than people who had not
been infected.
NEW YORK TIMES
Oregon deploys National
Guard to hospitals
Facing a tenfold increase in
coronavirus hospitalizations
since July 9, Oregon leaders have
deployed the National Guard to
hospitals, dispatched crisis
teams to the hardest-hit regions
of the state, and ordered educa-
tors and health care workers to
get vaccinated or lose their jobs.
Now, Governor Kate Brown
has gone beyond what any other
state has done in battling the
summer surge, requiring that
both vaccinated and unvaccinat-
ed people wear masks when
gathering closely in public, even
when outdoors. The measure
took effect on Friday. She said
caused the pandemic volun-
teered to surrender his license
to the California Medical Board.
“Publicly spreading false
COVID-19 information may be
considered unprofessional con-
duct and could be grounds for
disciplinary action,” Carlos Vil-
latoro, a spokesman for the
Medical Board of California,
said in a statement.
But Chaudhry said it was im-
possible to know how many
states had opened investiga-
tions into doctors spreading
misinformation. Such investiga-
tions are typically not publi-
cized until a decision is reached
and the process can take many
months.
Stock, 59, did not respond to
several requests for comment
for this article. He has been a li-
censed doctor in Indiana since
1989, a year after he graduated
from the Indiana University
School of Medicine. He has
worked in several hospitals, ur-
gent care centers, and private
practices in the state, according
to a profile on LinkedIn.
On Stock’s website he sets
himself apart from convention-
al medicine. “By presenting pa-
tients with all of their treatment
options — whether that’s a pill,
lifestyle change, therapy, or sup-
plements — I help patients
MICHAEL CRAIG/NZ HERALD VIA AP
more restrictions might be need-
ed as the coming days unfold
and the state tries to keep in-per-
son schooling on track.
“All options are on the table,”
Ms. Brown said in an interview
this week.
Oregon’s aggressive approach
in restoring pandemic safety
rules is a stark divergence from
states in the South, where out-
breaks have been even worse but
where many governors have re-
sisted requirements for masks
and vaccinations.
But with the arrival of the
Delta variant, Oregon has be-
come one of a handful of states
where cases and hospitalizations
have escalated beyond even the
records set during the worst part
of the pandemic last year.
NEW YORK TIMES
Myanmar says it will
vaccinate Rohingya
BANGKOK — A spokesman
for Myanmar’s military-installed
government said Friday that
COVID-19 vaccines will be given
to members of the country’s per-
secuted Rohingya ethnic group.
The Muslim minority was the
target of a fierce counter-insur-
gency campaign in 2017 that
some critics charged amounted
to ethnic cleansing or genocide.
The Rohingya face widespread
discrimination and most are de-
nied citizenship and other basic
rights.
Government spokesman Ma-
jor General Zaw Min Tun made
the announcement at a news
conference in the capital Naypyi-
taw, where he also said the au-
thorities are trying to vaccinate
50 percent of the country’s popu-
lation this year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
choose the option that works
best for them,” the website
reads.
In the video that spread
widely this month, Stock is
shown speaking to a Mt. Vernon
Community School Corporation
board meeting in Fortville, just
east of Indianapolis. Standing
with his back to the camera,
and speaking at a rapid, nearly
monotone clip, he opens his
statement with the line, “Every-
thing being recommended by
the CDC is actually contrary to
the rules of science.” Then he se-
lectively cites academic studies
to give the impression that
widely held medical advice,
such as wearing a mask and get-
ting vaccinated, does not work.
YouTube, which forbids vid-
eos that spread false informa-
tion about the virus, said it
would not take down the full
video of the meeting that the
school board had put online.
David A. Keltz, a spokesman
for the Indiana attorney gener-
al, said the office could not dis-
cuss whether any complaints
against Stock were under inves-
tigation. Keltz said the state
would issue a public statement
about any such investigation
only if the office decided to file a
formal complaint with the Indi-
ana Medical Board.
Nation/World A3
Judge
blocks
DeSantis’s
mask ban
Fla. schools can
mandate use
By Terry Spencer
and Curt Anderson
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. —
Florida school districts can legal-
ly require their students to wear
masks to prevent the spread of
COVID-19, a judge ruled Friday,
saying Governor Ron DeSantis
overstepped his authority when
he issued an executive order
banning such mandates.
Leon County Circuit Judge
John C. Cooper agreed with a
group of parents who claimed in
a lawsuit that DeSantis’s order is
unconstitutional and cannot be
enforced. The governor’s order
gave parents the sole right to de-
cide if their child wears a mask
at school.
Cooper said DeSantis’s order
“is without legal authority.”
His decision came after a
three-day virtual hearing, and
after 10 Florida school boards
voted to defy DeSantis and im-
pose mask requirements with no
parental opt-out. Districts that
have done so include Miami,
Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Tam-
pa, Jacksonville, West Palm
Beach, and others. Cooper’s rul-
ing will not go into effect until it
is put into writing, which the
judge asked the parents’ lawyers
to complete by Monday.
Cooper said that while the
governor and others have ar-
gued that a new Florida law
gives parents the ultimate au-
thority to oversee health issues
for their children, it also ex-
empts government actions that
are needed to protect public
health and are reasonable and
l i m i t e d i n s c o p e . He s a i d a
school district’s decision to re-
quire student masking to pre-
vent the spread of the virus falls
within that exemption.
The law “doesn’t ban mask
mandates at all,” Cooper said
during a two-hour hearing that
was conducted online because of
the resurgent pandemic. “It
doesn’t require that a mask man-
date must include a parental
opt-out at all.”
The judge also noted that two
Florida Supreme Court decisions
from 1914 and 1939 found that
individual rights are limited by
their impact on the rights of oth-
ers. For example, he said, adults
have the right to drink alcohol
but not to drive drunk, because
that endangers others. There is a
right to free speech, but not to
harass or threaten others or yell
“fire” in a crowded theater, he
said.
In that same vein, he said,
school boards can reasonably ar-
gue that maskless students en-
danger the health of other stu-
dents and teachers.
DeSantis has dismissed the
recommendation from the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Pre-
vention that people wear masks,
questioning its legitimacy and
saying it is not applicable to Flori-
da. But Cooper said the state’s
medical experts who testified
during the trial that masking is
ineffective in preventing COVID-
19’s spread are in a distinct mi-
nority among doctors and scien-
tists. He also said that while De-
Santis frequently states that a
Brown University study conclud-
ed masks are ineffective, the
study’s authors wrote that no
such conclusion should be drawn.
“I don’t say that the governor
has time enough to read a report
that thick, but his advisers do ...
and that statement is incorrect,”
Cooper said.
The governor’s office said Fri-
d ay t h at Co o p e r ’s d e c i s i o n
wasn’t based on the law and the
state will appeal it.
Craig Whisenhunt, one of the
attorneys representing the par-
ents, called DeSantis’s actions in
the case “atrocious’' and called
him “a bully in the room that is
beating up children.”
About 6 in 10 Americans say
students and teachers should be
required to wear face masks
while in school, according to a
poll conducted this month by
The Associated Press-NORC
Center for Public Affairs Re-
search.
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Businesses on
Cape find a
steady summer
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after long months of restric-
tions and uncertainties, busi-
ness owners said.
“People are excited to get
back to the new norm, and they
see the Cape as a safe spot to
come visit and enjoy the beach,”
said Paulo Paraguay, the owner
of Kandy Korner in Hyannis.
Paraguay, who was raised in Yar-
mouth, said business has been
brisk at his store this season, and
he’s already gearing up for the
Cape’s “second summer” be-
tween the end of September and
Columbus Day.
Just down Route 28 in Har-
wich Port, Jay and Heather
Skowronek, the owners of Mur-
phy’s General Store, said they’ve
had a “very busy” summer.
“ We honestly don’ t know
where all of these people are
coming from,” said Jay.
Heather predicted the wave
of business will continue for at
least the next month, with lots of
visitors still to come. And with
more companies putting off
their return-to-office dates, the
Cape could stay busy into the fall
as people work remotely.
“We saw more people than
expected coming in May and
June, and I think that’s probably
going to carry on into Septem-
ber,” she said. “From what I’ve
heard from other people, there’s
still a lot of vacation rentals that
are booked into September and
even October. ... A lot of people
are still around.”
The story grows a bit more
complicated the closer you get to
Provincetown.
After more than 100,000 rev-
elers descended there over the
Fourth of July weekend, an out-
Janey is forming a plan to update voting precincts
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A diverse array of civic en-
gagement groups has long been
pushing for the city to equalize
the precinct sizes. But bureau-
cratic inertia and the tug of pow-
er between city and state have
left the same lines in place for
decades even as the face of Bos-
ton has changed dramatically.
Voting precincts typically form
the building blocks for political
districts, meaning efforts to
change the lines can be not just a
logistical challenge but a politi-
cal morass.
Now, city elections officials
want to add polling places in
some of the densest neighbor-
hoods. The changes would not
affect the entire city’s maps but
rather target the most crowded
voting precincts.
Janey and other city officials
pitched the plan to advocates at
a mid-August meeting, accord-
ing to five attendees, and intend
to hold a public meeting on the
proposal in the coming weeks.
Janey’s office reached out to re-
districting leaders at the State
House and will brief them on the
precinct plans at a meeting in
September, said state Represen-
tative Mike Moran, the Brighton
Democrat co-leading redistrict-
ing efforts.
City officials did not publicly
release the plan, nor have they
briefed all members of the City
Council about it, but they con-
firmed details of the proposal
this week after the Globe ob-
tained a draft of it.
The Board of Election Com-
missioners is expected to vote on
the plan in early October, a city
spokesperson said, adding that
the plan does not require the ap-
proval of the City Council or the
state.
“We can’t have fair access to
the right to vote if one of our pre-
cincts has more than 7,000 reg-
istered voters, and another has
less than 600,” Janey said in a
statement to the Globe. “I look
forward to public discussions of
a new voting precinct plan that
reflects our population growth,
promotes voter access no matter
where residents live, and helps
us work towards a more equita-
ble Boston.”
Advocates praised the city for
taking up an issue that’s long
been allowed to languish. But
break of more than 1,000 infec-
tions raised the first alarm na-
tionally about breakthrough cas-
es in fully vaccinated individu-
als. Just eight people were
eventually hospitalized, and zero
deaths have been connected to
the cluster. But the news — and
growing concerns about the
threat of breakthroughs — was a
jolt.
The outbreak was ultimately
a success story for the vaccines,
protecting people from severe
illness and death. But fears of a
new surge put a damper on what
was initially shaping up to be an
extremely busy post-pandemic
summer.
“It was gangbusters,” once
the state lifted restrictions on
restaurants around Memorial
Day weekend, said Bob Mon-
tano, the owner of Montano’s
Restaurant in Truro. “It was like
people were less concerned fi-
nally about corona, and were
ready to let go and get back into
their usual routines.”
After the uptick in COVID
cases, he saw a much higher
number of takeout orders, which
typically bring in less money
from alcohol sales. Though it has
still been a “very busy summer”
for the restaurant, the cluster
was a setback, he said.
“It seems like Delta came
along and kind of put a lot of
pause in some people, so it
bumped us backwards a little
bit,” Montano said. “Although
our numbers are still great,
when you have a high percent-
age of to-go, it’s obviously going
to lower your check average. . . .
The number of people coming
through the doors is still very
high, but the dollars sometimes
get affected by that.”
People waited to cast their ballots in Super Tuesday voting at Boston City Hall in March 2020.
some said the proposal does not
go far enough to solve the city’s
problems. And others pointed to
the timing — weeks before a hot-
ly contested mayoral election in
which Janey and several city
councilors are candidates — as
evidence that Janey is seeking
last-minute political points, es-
pecially given that the precinct
sizes have been a known prob-
lem for years. Several of Janey’s
rivals have pushed for changes
to Boston precincts in the past.
Chinese Progressive Associa-
tion executive director Karen
Chen, who attended the August
meeting with Janey, lauded the
city for a “thoughtful” proposal
and a commitment to increasing
voter access.
After waiting so long for the
precincts to change, she said,
“something should just happen.”
“I don’t think we need to wait
until it’s perfect,” she said.
Civic engagement groups
such as Common Cause Massa-
chusetts and MassVOTE, as well
as the Chinese Progressive Asso-
ciation, have been pushing for
more than a decade for the city
to equalize precinct sizes.
Most Massachusetts cities
and towns must reexamine and
roughly equalize their precinct
lines every 10 years, on the same
timeline as the decennial census.
But Boston has been exempt
from that state law for a century,
a fluke of history that has given
T h e B o s t o n
Sarah Crowell photographed her son, Tristan, 4, who was posing as a pirate outside Mrs. Mitchell’s Gifts in Hyannis.
Dan Murray, the general
manager of the Beachcomber in
Wellfleet, said his restaurant
didn’t see “much of a drop-off ”
in business, even after the out-
break in nearby Provincetown.
“At the beginning of the sum-
mer, we were told everything
was going to be OK, and so peo-
ple made plans,” he said.
Murray said the Beachcomb-
er has scaled down the live mu-
sic options this summer but now
plans to stay open until Oct. 2 —
weeks beyond the usual closure
right after Labor Day.
“For better or worse,” Murray
said of the pandemic, “I think a
lot of people are just over it.”
Still, sales skidded at some
Outer Cape businesses amid the
outbreak. Rob Anderson, owner
of the Canteen, a waterfront res-
taurant in Provincetown, said
the infections and the national
city officials legal cover to ignore
the gaping disparities in the cur-
rent maps.
The issue has the attention of
Beacon Hill. Nearly a decade
ago, in a 2012 report, state legis-
lative leaders took issue with
Boston’s unchanged precinct
lines, warning that they made it
difficult for mapmakers to en-
sure equal voting access while
following other redistricting re-
strictions.
In most of the rest of the
state, precincts cannot exceed
4,000 residents. But Boston’s
largest voting precincts, in Chi-
natown and the Seaport, contain
more than 7,000 registered vot-
ers. Others number under 1,000,
and a voting district serving the
Boston Harbor Islands has been
home to just one.
The city’s draft plan aims to
keep precincts no larger than
about 2,000 registered voters
each.
It targets parts of downtown,
including Chinatown, the North
End, and the South End, as well
as Charlestown and the Seaport.
It would add nine precincts in
crowded Ward 3, splitting up a
Chinatown precinct that has
more than 7,000 voters. It would
also strip away one Roxbury pre-
cinct in Ward 8, where some pre-
cincts currently tally under
1,000 registered voters.
City officials do not intend to
change the city’s wards — divi-
G l o b e
media attention that came with
them “deflated” sales in July and
cut business in half well into Au-
gust. A succession of rainy week-
ends — which prevented cus-
tomers from eating outside —
didn’t help, either.
“There was a lot of expecta-
tions and excitement about how
busy it was going to be, and
things seemed to be going in
that direction,” Anderson said.
“And then it just petered out,
sort of like going out in a whim-
per rather than a bang.”
Staffing shortages and astro-
nomical housing costs also
posed challenges. Karina Gue-
vara, the owner of six gift shops
and clothing boutiques in
Chatham and Provincetown,
said the decline in the number of
international students working
on the Cape affected her retail
business.
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sions that have given rise over
the years to political communi-
ties that are loath to be divided.
Advocates who have been
pushing new precinct boundar-
ies for years celebrated that the
long-passed-over issue is getting
some attention. Boston League
of Women Voters president Ker-
ry Costello, who attended the
meeting with Janey, said it was
“refreshing” to see how much ef-
fort the city had put into the
plan.
“We’ve been laboring in these
fields for a long time so it’s nice
to see the harvest might finally
come in,” Costello said. New Bos-
ton precincts would be “one of
the big accomplishments of the
decade” for her organization,
she said.
Still, some advocates said the
current proposal leaves some-
thing major to be desired: fu-
ture-proofing.
The draft plan would mod-
ernize the city’s current voting
maps, but it would not require
the city to equalize precincts on
a regular basis in the future,
meeting attendees said. If the
city faces no requirement to ad-
just precincts regularly, fast-
growing neighborhoods will
quickly crowd the new precincts,
too, creating the same issues.
That would mean that in just a
few years, it will once again fall
to outside advocates to demand
the city make changes.
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Even though the Biden ad-
ministration approved an in-
crease in the number of H2-B
seasonal, non-agricultural work-
er visas in April, bureaucratic
hurdles and COVID travel re-
strictions continued to make it
difficult for seasonal workers to
enter the United States.
Paul Niedzwiecki, chief exec-
utive officer of the Cape Cod
Chamber of Commerce, said res-
taurants especially have gotten
squeezed by labor shortages.
Some places are working with
half the staff they normally have
in the summer, forcing them to
close one or two days per week
or shut their doors for a lunch or
dinner service.
Still, many owners remain
optimistic, given high vaccina-
tion rates in Massachusetts and
the consistent demand from
tourists this season.
One voting rights advocate
who didn’t want to be quoted by
name for fear of antagonizing
city officials likened the new pro-
posed maps to a tiny dam strug-
gling to contain a massive river:
It will hold, but only for so long.
Without a long-term commit-
ment, the advocate said, the
plan feels more like a “political
stunt” than a sincere effort at
lasting reform.
“I do think it’s important that
if the city is taking a look at this
right now, that they think about
change in a sustainable and
long-term sense that doesn’t just
address inequity as it is today
but that could prevent inequity
as it could occur down the road,”
said Common Cause Massachu-
setts executive director Geoff
Foster, who attended the Janey
meeting this month remotely.
The timing of the effort has
not escaped notice, nor has the
group of people invited to weigh
in so far.
City Councilors Andrea
Campbell and Michelle Wu, two
of Janey’s rivals in the mayoral
race, have taken an interest in
the issue of Boston precincts,
pushing through 2019 a city or-
dinance that requires Boston of-
ficials to review precincts every
five years, although it does not
require them to be redrawn so
that they are equal sizes.
But both said Janey’s admin-
istration has not reached out to
them about the latest plan.
“The timing of this push is
surprising and doesn’t make
sense, frankly,” Wu told the
Globe. She said that since the
city did not take up the proposal
sooner, it should wait until after
the state’s ongoing redistricting
process has concluded — and
that any conversations on the is-
sue should bring more people to
the table. “If we’re truly talking
about reprecincting, it would
need to be a citywide conversa-
tion and not a stopgap measure.”
A city spokesperson said that
the elections department has
been working with city council-
ors for more than two years to
identify necessary changes to
precincts, and that the council
will be “further engaged” before
the elections board votes on the
plan.
Emma Platoff can be reached at
emma.platoff@globe.com.
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“ We j u s t h a d a c u s t o m e r
come up from North Carolina,
specifically for our store, and he
was like, it was just a great ex-
cuse to get out of North Caroli-
na,” said Anna Nelson, the assis-
tant buyer at Ducks in the Win-
dow, a store in Chatham that
claims to have the largest selec-
tion of rubber ducks in the
world.
Guevara said she’s hopeful
about the future, despite the
challenges.
“Everyone is happy to be out,”
she said. “There’s a lot more
hope. People are willing to spend
... more easily this year than pre-
vious years.
“They’re going to be shop-
ping next season for sure.”
Alexandra Chaidez can be
reached at alexandra.chaidez@
globe.com.
GOP nears
win as voting
bill passes in
Texas House
By J. David Goodman
and Reid J. Epstein
NEW YORK TIMES
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas
House of Representatives passed
a sweeping election overhaul bill
Friday, clearing a major hurdle
in a monthslong push by Repub-
licans to introduce a host of new
voting rules.
Passage of the bill came a
week after a handful of Demo-
crats returned to the state Capi-
tol, effectively ending a 38-day
walkout that included the flight
of much of the party’s state House
delegation to Washington and
drew national attention to the
fight over voting rights in Texas.
It signaled the end stages in
the most protracted battle in a
nationwide Republican cam-
paign to harden election rules in
response to false claims about
the integrity of the 2020 presi-
dential contest.
The House’s version of the
bill, which passed on a nearly
party-line vote of 80-41, will be
considered by the state Senate
before it can be sent to the desk
of Governor Greg Abbott.
The bill would ban voting
changes that were introduced
last year by local officials, like
drive-thru polling places and 24-
hour voting; greatly empower
partisan poll watchers; limit the
mailing of absentee ballot appli-
cations; and increase civil and
criminal penalties for voter fraud
and for election officials who run
afoul of the election code.
The legislation has long been a
priority for Abbott, a Republican,
who pledged to repeatedly call
special sessions until lawmakers
sent a voting bill for him to sign.
The bill passed the state Sen-
ate this month, but because the
House made changes and
amendments, the Senate must
review it again. Both chambers
are controlled by Republicans.
The Senate can vote to concur
with the changes, which would
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CHAOS IN AFGHANISTAN
A NEW ADVERSARY
What is known about
the Islamic State Khorasan
By Azi Paybarah
NEW YORK TIMES
Shortly after a bombing at-
tack killed masses of people
Thursday, including at least 13
US troops and more than 170
civilians outside Afghanistan’s
main airport, President Biden
vowed to get revenge.
“We will not forget,” Biden
said from the White House.
“We will hunt you down and
make you pay.”
Here’s what we know about
the group that claimed credit
for the attack.
What is the Islamic State
Khorasan?
The group, known as Islamic
State Khorasan Province,
ISIS-K or ISIS-KP, is an Afghan
affiliate of the central Islamic
State group in the Middle East.
Islamic State Khorasan, found-
ed in 2015 by disaffected Paki-
stani Taliban, is smaller, newer,
and embraces a more violent
version of Islam than the Tali-
ban, which just toppled the US-
backed government of Afghani-
stan after a two-decade insur-
gency.
Islamic State Khorasan “dis-
regards international borders,”
according to a report from the
Deadly blast does not stop desperate Afghans
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port’s Abbey Gate, at a security
chokepoint that squeezed to-
gether an enormous crowd that
US troops were checking for en-
try.
A US drone strike early Satur-
day killed a militant in ISIS-K,
US officials said. The officials
gave no immediate information
on the person killed, including
any possible link to the suicide
bombing.
It was not only fear that
trimmed the crowd at the air-
port Friday, what had been a
constant mass since the Taliban
assumed power nearly two
weeks ago. Taliban fighters with
Kalashnikov rifles kept people
farther away from the airport’s
entrance gates, guarding check-
points with trucks and at least
one Humvee.
Flights to evacuate people al-
ready within the airport re-
sumed soon after the bombing.
But the airport itself was largely
locked down Friday.
US and Taliban officials have
been consulting for days about
security around the airport, and
at times cooperating to help
groups gain entrance. But the
bombing brought changes in the
Taliban’s methods, in particular,
on Friday. At its southern and
eastern gates, Taliban gunmen
said that almost no one was al-
lowed to come close, and that all
entrance gates were closed. Re-
ports about any new entries to
the airport at all were sparse,
and unconfirmed.
Further, State Department of-
ficials have warned people to
stay away from the airport and
shelter in place because of new
terrorism threats.
The unit of McCollum, one of
the Marines killed in the blast,
had deployed from Jordan to Af-
ghanistan to provide security and
help with evacuations, his father,
Jim McCollum, said in a phone
interview Friday. He said his son
had been guarding a checkpoint
when the explosion tore through
the airport’s main gate.
The US government said that
more than 100,000 people have
been evacuated so far. And one
US military official said that
flights to begin the final evacua-
tion of US military personnel
and equipment were beginning
Friday night.
Despite the risk and the ob-
stacles at the airport, citizens
continued to flock to what many
see as the last chance to get out.
“People are still risking their
lives and going to the airport to
leave the country,” said a female
journalist in Kabul. “It is the on-
ly hope.”
Another Kabul resident who
had been at the airport Thursday
and lost a friend in the bombing
vowed to go back Friday. “I don’t
Center for Strategic and Inter-
national Studies, “and envi-
sions its territory transcending
nation-states like Afghanistan
and Pakistan.”
The name Khorasan trans-
lates to “The Land of the Sun.”
Khorasan refers to a historical
region that includes parts of
Iran, Afghanistan, and Paki-
stan, according to the Center
for Strategic and International
Studies.
What are its roots?
The myriad terrorist organi-
zations that have waged war on
US forces and allies are inter-
locked and at times in competi-
tion with one another for su-
premacy.
The terrorist attacks that
killed nearly 3,000 people on
American soil on Sept. 11,
2001, were orchestrated by Al
Qaeda, the terrorist group led
at the time by Osama bin Lad-
en. In response to those attacks,
US forces invaded Afghanistan,
ousting the Taliban government
that shielded bin Laden, and
then invaded Iraq, where Presi-
dent George W. Bush said a pro-
active strike against terrorism
was needed.
Years later, a branch of Al
Afghans wounded in the airport attack lay on beds at a hospital in Kabul. The death toll neared 200 with hundreds more wounded.
want to be killed in this cursed
country,” he said. “I don’t want
to live here anymore. I hate this
country. I hate all these killings.”
A government worker who
lives in the Macroyan neighbor-
hood of central Kabul said he
was not surprised people were
still congregating at the airport’s
gates.
“It is better to get killed while
trying to leave than stay here,”
he said. “People are trying to
leave the country at any price.”
In much of Kabul, the streets
were quiet and largely deserted
Friday.
“There were a lot of people in
this area before the collapse, but
now it is like a ghost town,” the
government worker said about
central Kabul. “You can’t find
people. Everyone is afraid to
leave their house.”
On the day after the attack
and nearly two weeks after they
seized control of Kabul on Aug.
15, the Taliban continued to re-
veal little about their intentions
on the shape their government
would take.
Omar Zakhilwal, a former Af-
ghan finance minister, spoke by
phone Friday of his meetings
with Taliban officials and of his
daily walk to his office in down-
T h e B o s t o n
Qaeda broke away and estab-
lished a so-called caliphate, an
Islamic theocracy, in large parts
of Iraq and Syria. At its peak,
the territory was the size of
Britain. That breakaway fac-
tion, called the Islamic State, or
ISIS, was savvier about social
media than Al Qaeda and began
specializing in a cinematic ap-
proach to brutality. The Islamic
State also appealed to a young-
er generation of fighters, in part
by promising immediate glory
and rewards for those willing to
fight its enemies.
In 2015, the Islamic State
announced that it had accepted
the loyalty of a new branch in
the Khorasan region.
Who are its enemies?
Like other terrorist groups,
Islamic State Khorasan has tar-
geted US forces, their allies,
and civilians. But unlike the
others, the group openly fought
with other extremist Islamic or-
ganizations, such as the Tali-
ban.
Islamic State Khorasan has
been mostly antagonistic to-
ward the Taliban, and the two
groups have fought for turf,
particularly in eastern Afghani-
stan. Since 2017, experts say,
town Kabul. He i s tr ying to
nudge the Taliban toward what
he calls a more “inclusive” gov-
ernment.
Both exercises — the walk
and the nudging — are proving
to be challenges. In the normally
bustling and noisy Shahr-e Naw
neighborhood, once alive with
street vendors and jostling pe-
destrians, there is now an unset-
tling silence. And so far his en-
counters with the Taliban have
not yielded the results he had
hoped for.
“It’s awfully quiet,” he said
from Kabul on Friday. “It’s really
calm. You don’t see many wom-
en out there. Not even close to
the usual number. And the mar-
ket looks depressed. You don’t
see people shopping. There are
the juice sellers in Shahr-e Naw,
but not many people drinking
juice.”
Zakhilwal, an economist who
was sharply critical of the gov-
ernment of President Ashraf
Ghani in the days before it fell,
said the country was “in a very
depressed economic situation.”
An acute cash shortage has led
to skyrocketing prices. Few AT-
Ms are functioning.
So far, the worst fears about
the Taliban appear not to have
G l o b e
Afghans with a dead body atop a car Friday after the deadly attack in Kabul on Thursday.
the group has been responsible
for roughly 250 clashes with
US, Afghan, and Pakistani secu-
rity forces.
More recently, Islamic State
K ho ra s a n l e a d e r s h av e d e -
nounced the Taliban’s takeover
of Afghanistan, saying that the
group’s version of Islamic rule
was insufficiently hard line.
But didn’t the United States
destroy the Islamic State?
In October 2019, then-presi-
dent Donald Trump announced
the killing of Abu Bakr al-Bagh-
dadi, saying in a speech that he
been realized, Zakhilwal said.
“By and large, their treatment of
the population is not as bad as
expected,” he said. “They are not
very visible. You don’t see a heavy
presence of them in the city.”
But “the mental security is
not there,” he said.
Among the ex-Afghan offi-
cials meeting with Taliban repre-
sentatives is Zakhilwal’s old
boss, former president Hamid
Karzai. While the former offi-
cials are hoping the Taliban will
include at least some of them in
their government, the signs so
far are not encouraging.
“Now that they have taken
the whole thing, there might be
temptations within them not to
go for the type of inclusive gov-
ernment that would be the result
of a political settlement,” Zakh-
ilwal said.
T he fe w government ap-
pointments made so far suggest
that the Taliban are more inter-
ested in filling positions from
within their ranks rather than
naming “professionals,” he said,
noting the Taliban’s choice for
acting head of the central bank:
Hajji Mohammad Idris, a mem-
ber of the movement. News re-
ports have indicated that Idris
has no formal financial training.
S A T U R D A Y, A U G U S T 2 8 , 2 0 2 1
was “the founder and leader of
ISIS, the most ruthless and vio-
lent terror organization any-
where in the world.” Trump
went on to say, “We obliterated
his caliphate, 100 percent, in
March of this year.”
Clearly, it was not 100 per-
cent.
Before Baghdadi’s death, he
had expanded the organization
and given subordinates consid-
erable latitude to act. Islamic
State encouraged followers to
act alone or in small groups.
Hassan Abu Hanieh, a Jordani-
an expert on extremist groups,
There were also further re-
ports that the Taliban have been
searching the homes of former
government officials in Kabul.
“This is the eighth time that
the Taliban came to my home in
Kabul, searched for me and took
my private vehicle, and directly
threatening my children and
kids,” Halim Fidai, a former offi-
cial who served as an adviser to
the president and as a governor
of eastern Khost province, said
in a tweet.
Ahmadullah Waseq, the dep-
uty of the Taliban’s culture com-
mittee, rejected reports that the
Taliban had conducted house-to-
house searches in the capital.
With four days remaining un-
til an Aug. 31 deadline for the
United States withdrawal, a date
that President Biden has said he
intends to keep despite domestic
and international pressure for
an extension, the evacuations
were on pace to fall well short of
providing an exit for everyone
who wants to leave.
That left Afghans scrambling
to find a way out of the country.
In the southwest, thousands
of people have been trying to flee
into Pakistan, gathering daily
near the Spin Boldak-Chaman
border crossing, the only one
WALI SABAWOON/ASSOCIATED PRESS
said at the time that “getting rid
of the leader does not get rid of
the organization.”
The Islamic State, he
warned, “has created a new
structure that is less central-
ized, and it will continue, even
without al-Baghdadi.”
In 2016, a year after it was
founded, Islamic State Khoras-
an was at its peak size, with
about 3,000 to 4,000 fighters,
according to analyst estimates.
That figure was cut in half after
the group was targeted by US
airstrikes and Afghan comman-
do raids.
WALI SABAWOON/ASSOCIATED PRESS
designated for refugees. In the
west, several thousand people a
day are also crossing into Iran,
UN officials said.
Before the Taliban takeover,
about 4,000 to 8,000 people
would cross the border from
Spin Boldak, Afghanistan, into
Chaman, Pakistan, on a typical
day. Since the Taliban seized Ka-
bul, the number has jumped
threefold, according to Pakistani
officials and tribal leaders.
An official at the Pakistan
ministry overseeing refugees
said the government was allow-
ing only Pakistani citizens, Af-
ghans seeking medical treat-
ment, and people with proof of a
right to refuge to cross.
The country’s officials have
said repeatedly that they will not
allow new refugees to enter Paki-
stan’s cities. The government in-
stead plans to establish refugee
camps near the border inside Af-
ghanistan.
Nearly 3 million Afghan refu-
gees have been living in Paki-
stan, driven out by the Soviet
Union’s invasion of Afghanistan
in 1979 and the ensuing civil
wars.
Material from the Associated
Press was used in this report.
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CHAOS IN AFGHANISTAN
I N T E R N AT I O N A L I M PA C T

Taliban success
seen as boost for
extremist groups
By Zeina Karam
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIRUT — A few days after
the Taliban takeover of Afghani-
stan, a convoy of militants drove
through the city of Idlib in
northwestern Syria in cars bear-
ing the group’s white-and-black
flags, honking horns and firing
their guns in the air.
The celebrations by an Al
Qaeda affiliate in a remote cor-
ner of war-torn Syria were an ex-
pression of the triumph felt by
radical Islamic groups from the
Gaza Strip to Pakistan and West
Africa who see America’s vio-
lence-marred exit from Afghani-
stan an opportunity to reassert
PHOTOS BY MICHAEL PEREZ/ASSOCIATED PRESS
their presence.
An Afghan family, whose members asked to not be identified for security concerns, is living with a relative in Pennsylvania. For such groups, the chaotic
US departure following the col-
THOSE WHO LEFT lapse of security forces it had
stitute of International Rela-
tions.
In a twist, the Taliban victory
also boosted the fortunes of their
rivals in Afghanistan — a local
branch of the Islamic State net-
work. On Thursday, the affiliate
claimed responsibility for the
suicide attack that killed scores
of people outside Kabul’s air-
port, including 13 US service
members.
The Taliban now must con-
tend with an emboldened Islam-
ic State, which is challenging
their rule with militants that are
far more radical. The group’s
ranks have been bolstered after
the Taliban freed prisoners dur-
ing an advance through Afghani-
stan.
An editorial in the Islamic
State group’s newsletter last

Family hopeful after escaping Kabul

By Maryclaire Dale
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHILADELPHIA — An Af-
ghan couple who arrived in
Philadelphia this week navigat-
ed the streets of Taliban-con-
trolled Kabul with their six chil-
dren for three days before mak-
ing it onto a rescue flight.
The 36-year-old father, Mo-
hammad, who asked to be iden-
tified only by his first name to
protect relatives still there, had
worked for a security company
at the US Embassy and then for
a defense contractor since 2004.
He first applied for an Ameri-
can visa in 2018. By the time
the visa came through on Aug.
8, the Taliban was making its
way toward Kabul, and would
move on the city a week later.
When the y did, Moham-
mad’s relative near Philadelphia
— where the family is now stay-
ing — urged him to hurry to the
airport, even though he had not
yet booked a flight.
The family made it within 55
yards of the US military on their
first attempt, on Aug. 16, only
to be pushed back by the crowd
and return home. They soon
learned at least two people had
died that day trying to cling to
the departing US aircraft.
T h e n e x t d a y ’s j o u r n e y
proved equally futile, and their
children grew frightened seeing
Taliban forces fire their weap-
ons into the air. The youngest of
the children, ages 3 to 16, want-
ed to give up.
“I was scared myself. I didn’t
want to show it to my kids,” said
Mohammad’s wife, also 36, who
asked that her name not be
used for her family’s safety.
“At the end, I was thinking,
‘We might get hurt. It will be a
little hard to get there. But we’ll
have a future,’’’ she said through
a cousin, who translated for the
family and has taken them in.
The cousin, who asked to be
identified only as Khan, also to
protect relatives back home, has
made three airport runs this
week for family arriving from
Afghanistan, some of them US
residents or citizens who had
been visiting when Kabul fell.
His family has had as many
as 22 people fill their suburban
‘People like us who made it to the
airport and then to the plane were very
happy thinking about the bright future.’
MOHAMMAD, father of six who worked for a security company at
the US Embassy
home, where the smell of qabli,
an Afghan chicken and rice
dish, and green tea waf ted
through the first floor on Thurs-
day, as the newly arrived young-
sters — the 3-year-old in a
bright red Tommy Hilfiger T-
shirt — squealed and ran up
and down the center hall stair-
case.
Their mother had enjoyed
running their busy household
in Kabul, where the couple said
their two daughters along with
their four sons could have gone
to college, or even graduate
school, given the progress they
saw during the US-led occupa-
tion of the past 20 years.
“People got educated, places
got built, it helped our econo-
my,” Mohammad said. “The way
of life was getting better in Af-
ghanistan. We could have bene-
fited if they extended their stay.”
The family left Kabul with
just a single backpack stuffed
with children’s clothes, but had
to leave it behind at a stopover
in Qatar, where thousands of
evacuees faced sometimes diffi-
cult conditions.
They landed at Dulles Air-
port on Saturday, then were
held at a hotel for several days
until their paperwork cleared
and they were sent to Philadel-
phia.
They have been aided by sev-
eral non-governmental agencies
along the way, and are still look-
ing for an apartment, but ex-
pressed nothing but gratitude
Thursday, when explosions
killed scores of people at the Ka-
bul airport they had left just
days earlier.
“People like us who made it
to the airport and then to the
plane were very happy thinking
about the bright future,” Mo-
hammad said, “but also, look-
ing back to the city, they were
sad because they lost every-
thing. The country was in cha-
os. Dark days were coming.”
trained for two decades is a gift,
underlining their message that
Washington eventually aban-
dons its allies, and that defeating
powerful armies is possible with
enough patience.
“The success of the Taliban
opens the way for radical groups
to step up their recruitment op-
erations globally. It is much easi-
er for them now, and there is
more receptivity,” said Hassan
Abu Haniyeh, an expert on Is-
lamic militants based in Am-
man, Jordan.
Despite the billions of dollars
spent by the United States and
NATO over nearly 20 years to
build up Afghan security forces,
the Taliban seized nearly all of
Afghanistan in just over a week
amid the US troop pullout. The
fundamentalist group swept into
Kabul on Aug. 15 after the gov-
ernment collapsed and embat-
tled President Ashraf Ghani fled
the country.
Since then, tens of thousands
of people desperate to escape a
country governed by the Taliban
have been trying to flee or al-
ready have been evacuated in a
mammoth Western airlift.
“The events unfolding in Af-
ghanistan have given jihadi
groups and US adversaries rea-
son to celebrate, and America’s
allies in the region reason to feel
anxious,” said Abu Haniyeh.
“They now feel that America
might drop them one day, same
as it did the government of
Ashraf Ghani.”
There are concerns that Af-
ghanistan will once again be-
come a base for militants to plot
against the West, much like the
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that trig-
gered the US invasion.
“This is the story that is going
to impact and influence jihadi
fighters around the globe for the
next decade, the same way as the
victory over the Soviets in Af-
ghanistan in the ’80s inspired
the jihadis around the world
during the whole 1990 s and
even after wards,” said Elie
Tenenbaum, director of security
studies center at the French In-
week derided the Taliban, accus-
ing them of collaborating with
the United States.
“America actually did it. They
finally raised a ‘Mullah Brad-
ley,’ ” the editorial said, using a
name it has coined for the Tali-
ban in an apparent reference to
the US fighting vehicle. The
group also promised a ne w
phase in its “blessed jihad”
against the West.
Analysts say the Taliban’s suc-
cess and the US withdrawal gal-
vanizes and gives a motivational
boost to America’s adversaries
and jihadi groups around the
world.
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the
leader of Lebanon’s Shiite mili-
tant group Hezbollah, said in a
speech Friday that what is un-
folding in Afghanistan “is a por-
trayal of America’s full defeat
and the US demise and failure in
the region.”
In northern Syria, a statement
by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Al
Qaeda affiliate there, said the Tal-
iban victory proved no occupa-
tion can last forever. The leader
of the radical Palestinian Islamic
Hamas movement, which rules
the Gaza Strip, congratulated the
Taliban’s leader on the “demise of
the US occupation.”
In Pakistan, the leader of
Jaish-e-Mohammad, Mohammad
Azhur, used the group’s publica-
tion to cheer the Taliban victory,
saying it will inspire mujahedeen,
or holy warriors, “the world over
to continue their struggle for Is-
lam.” The group’s fighters took
credit for the 2019 attack in the
disputed Kashmir region that
killed 40 Indian soldiers and
brought the nuclear-armed
neighbors to the brink of war.
Amir Rana, executive direc-
tor of the Islamabad-based Paki-
stan Institute of Peace Studies,
said the events in Afghanistan
could inspire hard-line Sunni
groups who are waging sectari-
an battles against Shi’ites. The
anti-Shi’ite groups Lashkar-e-
Janghvi and Sipah-e-Sahaba
Pakistan have championed the
Taliban victory.

THE FALLEN

Young dad-to-be was among 13 US troops killed in Afghanistan

ASSOCIATED PRESS
A young husband with a
child on the way who wanted to
teach history one day and an-
other man who always wanted
to serve in the military were
among the 13 US troops killed
in a horrific suicide bombing at
Afghanistan’s Kabul airport,
which also claimed the lives of
more than 100 Afghans.
As military personnel were
going through the grim task of
notifying the troops’ next of kin,
some of their names emerged
Friday before the government
formally announced them. Elev-
en Marines, one Navy sailor, and
one Army soldier were among
the dead, while 18 other US ser-
vice members were wounded in
Thursday’s bombing, which was
blamed on Afghanistan’s off-
shoot of the Islamic State group.
US officials said it was the
most lethal day for American
forces in Afghanistan since
2011. The White House said
President Biden will look for op-
REGI STONE VIA AP
Rylee McCollum, a Marine
and father-to-be, was killed
in Thursday’s bombing.
portunities to honor the service
members who lost their lives.
Rylee McCollum, a Marine
from Wyoming whose wife is ex-
pecting a baby in three weeks,
was among those killed, his sis-
ter, Cheyenne McCollum, told
the Associated Press.
“He was a Marine before he
knew he was allowed to be a Ma-
rine,” Cheyenne McCollum said
Friday. “He’d carry around his
toy rifle and wear his sister’s
pink princess snow boots and
he’d either be hunting or he was
a Marine. Sometimes it would
be with nothing on underneath,
just a T-shirt.”
“Anybody who met him just
loved him,” she added. “He was
so excited to be a dad and he
was going to be a great dad.” She
said her brother wanted to be a
history teacher and a wrestling
coach once he completed his
service.
“We want to make sure that
people know that these are the
kids that are sacrificing them-
selves, and he’s got a family who
loves him and a wife who loves
him and a baby that he’ll never
get to meet,” she said. Another
sister, Roice McColllum, told the
Casper Star Tribune that her
brother was on his first deploy-
ment when the evacuation in Af-
ghanistan began.
Regi Stone, the father of one
of Rylee McCollum’s friends, de-
scribed McCollum as “a good
kid,” who was resilient, smart,
and courageous.
Stone read a note that his
wife, Kim, sent to their son Eli
Stone, who is also in the military
and deployed elsewhere: “I re-
member standing in our kitchen
and telling y’all to run the other
way if you had to go in first. And
both of you saying, ‘If we die do-
ing this, we die doing what we
love.’ I never knew that would
come true, so hold onto all the
great memories. I know he
would want all of his brothers to
stay strong and fight hard.”
L ance Corporal Jared
Schmitz, 20, was one of the oth-
er Marines who died in the at-
tack. His father, Mark Schmitz,
told KMOX Radio that the Ma-
rines came to his home in
Wentzville, Mo., at 2:40 a.m. Fri-
day to give him the grim news.
Schmitz said his son, who
grew up in the St. Louis area,
was among a group of Marines
sent back to Afghanistan to as-
sist with evacuation efforts.
“This was something he al-
ways wanted to do, and I never
seen a young man train as hard
as he did to be the best soldier
he could be,” Schmitz said of his
son. “His life meant so much
more. I’m so incredibly devas-
tated that I won’t be able to see
the man that he was very quick-
ly growing into becoming.”
Lance Corporal David Lee
Espinoza, a 20-year-old Marine
from Laredo, Texas, was also
killed, US Representative Henry
Cuellar said Friday.
The congressman’s press sec-
retary, Dana Youngentob, said
Pentagon representatives visited
Cuellar’s Washington office to
inform him of Espinoza’s death.
Cuellar’s office also received an
official death notice from the
Pentagon.
In a statement, Cuellar said
Espinoza “embodied the values
of America: grit, dedication, ser-
vice, and valor. When he joined
the military after high school, he
did so with the intention of pro-
tecting our nation and demon-
strating his selfless acts of ser-
vice.”
Cuellar concluded, “ The
brave never die. Mr. Espinoza is
a hero.”
White House press secretary
Jen Psaki said at her briefing
Friday that Biden would look for
“any opportunity ” to honor
those who died in service to
their country. She did not rule
out a possible visit by Biden to
Dover Air Force Base in Dela-
ware, where the remains of ser-
vice members killed in action
are returned.
Psaki said Biden would not
reach out to any of the families
until the Pentagon finishes noti-
fying next of kin. She said it then
is up to the families to decide
whether they want to take the
president’s call.
“It’s important to note that
this may be the worst day of
their lives,” she said.
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BOSTONGLOBE.COM/OPINION

Editorial

Should Boston go back

to an elected school committee?

T
he question has loomed large in recent
years as frustration with a school district
that fails far too many kids only keeps
growing: Is it time to bring back an elected
school board in Boston?
Two Boston city councilors have filed a petition to
do so, while a group of education advocates is looking
to put the question, in a nonbinding referendum, to
Boston voters for the November general election.
It’s an unfortunate distraction. The seemingly end-
less debate about the district’s governance structure
only diverts attention from the far more pressing need
to focus on educational inequities in the classroom.
Nor is the proposal a good idea: Whatever the current
school committee’s flaws, the current structure is bet-
ter for the city and ultimately no less democratic that
an elected school committee would be.
Boston is admittedly an outlier, the only municipali-
ty in Massachusetts where the mayor appoints mem-
bers to the school committee. That’s no accident: The
board’s history, when it was a directly elected body, is a
narrative of dysfunction, corruption, and racial divi-
sions. The committee’s inaction eventually resulted in
court-ordered busing to desegregate the schools in
1974, which threw the whole city into tumult and
scarred a generation of students. With memories of
that crisis still raw, Mayor Ray Flynn championed a
measure 30 years ago to make the oldest school board
in the country an appointed body.
The passage of time, and the huge changes in the
city since the switch in 1991, suggests to some that the
appointed board has outlived its purpose. But the ap-
pointed system has value, even in a city decades re-
moved from the busing hostilities.
The chief value of the current system is that it
makes one person — the mayor — ultimately account-
able for the state of the schools, so that voters know ex-
actly whom to blame when things go wrong. One of the
flaws of the old system was that it left lines of account-
ability muddled and gave officials easy ways to deflect
responsibility on education. It was hard to exercise
democratic accountability at the ballot box, but now it’s
easy: If you don’t like the schools, vote out the mayor.
If he had run for reelection, former mayor Marty
The seemingly endless debate
about the district’s governance
structure only diverts attention
from the far more pressing need
to focus on educational inequities
in the classroom.
Walsh would not have been able to point the finger at
anyone else for the district’s struggles on his watch. To
the extent that the current school committee has
failed, that’s a problem with the mayor who picked the
members, not with the governance structure.
The contention that an elected school committee
would be more democratic is dubious. Boston suffers
from dismally low voter turnout in municipal contests.
In off-year City Council elections, turnout is in the low
to mid-teens of the electorate — in 2019, it was 16.5
percent. In mayoral elections, turnout hovers around
30 percent. That’s still abysmal, but it gives mayors
and their appointees a much stronger case for demo-
cratic legitimacy.
And the sliver of the electorate that votes in munici-
pal elections does not typically reflect the demograph-
ics of the city. A recent study out of Brown University’s
Annenberg Institute for School Reform found that vot-
ers who elect school boards tend to be much whiter and
wealthier than the student population in the public
schools. The demographic disparities tend to be “most
pronounced in majority nonwhite jurisdictions and
school districts with the largest racial achievement
gaps,” researchers wrote. Returning to an elected school
committee may not rewind the city to 1974, but there’s
reason to fear it would be an unrepresentative body.
All of this year’s major mayoral candidates favor, or
are at least open to, reducing the mayor’s influence
over the school committee — or, to put it another way,
none of them, if elected, want to be fully responsible
for the schools. Annissa Essaibi George supports keep-
ing a majority of committee members appointed by the
mayor, but she would also have a minority selected by
the City Council. John Barros and Kim Janey favor “ex-
ploring” the possibility of a hybrid body that will have
both elected and appointed members, with Janey be-
lieving strongly that “there has to be direct account-
ability to the mayor.” Michelle Wu and Andrea Camp-
bell would implement the hybrid model; and under
Wu, the board would be majority-elected. All candi-
dates would give the student representative voting
power, while Barros would add an extra student seat to
the committee.
Currently, the mayor appoints all seven members of
the committee based on recommendations issued by a
13-member nominating panel, which interviews appli-
cants publicly but deliberates behind closed doors.
Members are paid a $7,500 annual stipend. There is a
student who serves on the board but does not have vot-
ing power and is not paid.
The worst part about the never-ending squabble
over the committee’s makeup is that it serves as a dis-
traction from tackling the actual problems in the
schools. Mayoral candidates should be running on
their visions for closing racial achievement gaps, rais-
ing graduation rates, and reversing enrollment de-
clines. Those are tough issues to solve. But how mem-
bers of the school committee are selected is a whole lot
less important than how willing the city’s leaders are to
confront the reasons the district continues to disap-
point so many Bostonians.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Supreme Court’s damaging

‘Remain in Mexico’ ruling
T
he US Supreme Court delivered
an extraordinary immigration
order this week.
It was a stamp of approval for
former president Donald
Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” border program
— officially called the Migrant Protection Pro-
tocols — which was adopted in early 2019.
The controversial policy forced certain asy-
lum seekers arriving at the US-Mexico border
to stay in Mexico to await their hearings. The
Supreme Court’s order allows a lower court
ruling ordering the Biden administration to
reinstate the program.
Not only does the order break with long-
standing legal precedent, it also underscores
a damning reality that has been hard to con-
tend with — that Trump’s inhumane and anti-
immigrant agenda is going to have a long tail,
one that may last decades.
It cannot be overstated how cruel and pu-
nitive Remain in Mexico was on the ground.
By forcing more than 71,000 asylum seekers,
mainly from Central America or Cuba, to wait
in Mexico, the US government was putting
these already vulnerable individuals at great-
er risk. According to human rights advocates,
there were more than 1,500 publicly reported
cases of murder, rape, torture, kidnapping,
and other types of assault perpetrated against
asylum seekers forced to wait in Mexico un-
der the policy. MPP led to the creation of the
first refugee tent camp at the border, in Mata-
moros, Mexico, where more than 2,000 mi-
grants were living in miserable conditions.
SARAHBETH MANEY/NYT
That such a heinous policy has been af-
firmed comes in no small part due to the Maricela, who was separated from her granddaughters after they crossed the border and was returned to Mexico without them
“anti-immigrant judicial pipeline,” as an im- by US authorities, speaks on the phone at a makeshift migrant encampment in Reynosa, Mexico on Aug. 6.
migration law attorney called it. Although
MPP hasn’t been in place since the pandemic end the program and required it to comply — and for good reason. “Suppose, for exam- neighbor south of the border — a Mexican
began in March of last year, the Biden admin- with the lower court’s decision. ple, that Mexico agrees to work with the Unit- shanty town became Trump’s much-maligned
istration moved to officially terminate it in Technically, the case is still on appeal; but ed States to reinstate Trump’s policy, but only wall. It also enabled the United States to flout
June. But a lawsuit brought by two states — to comply with the court, the Biden adminis- if the United States agrees to turn over its en- the fundamental premise behind the asylum
Texas (naturally) and Missouri (strangely) — tration has to make a “good faith effort,” per tire supply of COVID-19 vaccines,” wrote legal process: We are a safe haven for legitimate
challenged the policy’s cancellation by Biden. the lower court ruling, to reinstate MPP while analyst Ian Millhiser. “Or only if the United cases, not a country that sentences asylum
A US district court judge in Amarillo, Texas, the case continues. It does, however, still al- States agrees to fork over a trillion dollars.” seekers to danger in a foreign country.
who was appointed by Trump, sided with the low the Biden administration to try again to Of course, Mexico is not bound by the Even more shameful, earlier this month
plaintiffs in a ruling derided by immigration end the program. Biden must not give up the court’s decision. It’s unclear what Mexico will news reports surfaced that some officials in
analysts as highly flawed (one expert said the fight. His administration must double down do with its newfound leverage. But why the Biden administration were considering
“decision reads something straight off of Fox on his attempt with a more aggressive legal wouldn’t they exercise it? Nor is it apparent adopting a gentler version of MPP to deal
News”). strategy that leaves nothing to chance. what a new iteration of Remain in Mexico with migrants showing up at the border, the
When the Justice Department appealed, Because Remain in Mexico requires the would look like. highest number in two decades. That shows
the conservative Appeals Court for the Fifth cooperation of a foreign government, the The Trump administration had claimed just how an ugly policy from a former presi-
Circuit upheld it. Then came the blow from high court’s ruling has foreign affairs implica- MPP would work as deterrence. In reality, it dent risks becoming a permanent stain.
the Supreme Court this week denying an tions. As others have noted, SCOTUS is allow- was “a humanitarian and due-process disas-
emergency appeal from Biden. The order ing the federal judge appointed by Trump to ter,” Claudia Flores, of the Center for Ameri- Marcela García can be reached at
stated that the Biden administration proba- effectively make foreign policy, which the Su- can Progress, said in a statement. The policy marcela.garcia@globe.com. Follow her on
bly violated federal law when attempting to preme Court has been wary of meddling with allowed Trump to outsource the issue to our Twitter @marcela_elisa.
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READERS’ FORUM

Heat pumps: a green solution

with more than a few gray areas
Mass Save can do more
to push the process
Thank you, Sabrina Shankman, for high-
lighting the huge gap between aspiration
and action on the climate crisis in Massachu-
setts (“A climate fix, slipping out of our
grasp: Heat pumps could replace fossil fuels
in homes, but state is slow to convert,” Page
A1, Aug. 22).
To solve this problem, Mass Save needs to
do two things: First, continue to push weath-
erization. It works in every house and build-
ing to immediately reduce carbon emissions
and energy costs. Then, when one does go
electric, installation costs and energy bills
are much lower.
Second, make heat pump conversions
easier by providing generous incentives
when one’s boiler or furnace fails, and then
heavily promote this program through con-
tractors who are the first point of contact
when a home’s old system breaks down.
That’s when people have to buy a replace-
ment heating system, so we should make it
the easy or default choice at that time.
ROBERT COOPER
Boston
The writer is the CEO at Embue, a Massa-
chusetts company that makes apartment
buildings run more efficiently.
Kudos to Sabrina Shankman for pointing out
the need to electrify heating and to the short-
comings of the Mass Save program in that re-
gard.
But electrifying leaky and inefficient
homes is a waste of resources and money.
Even 100 percent renewable electricity is not
carbon free: A lot of fossil fuels are used in
manufacturing and transporting wind tur-
bines and solar panels, and a great deal of
pressure will be put on the electric grid if we
all electrify.
Programs advocating for electrification of
heating must therefore equally advocate for
weatherization of homes. That is often not
the case, as programs define their missions
very narrowly. In our own home, by insulat-
ing the attic, walls, and basement, with Mass
Save covering between 75 percent and 90
percent of the cost, we reduced our demand
for heating by almost 40 percent. Now we
are ready to install heat pumps.
HALINA BROWN
Newton
The writer is chair of the Newton Citizens
Commission on Energy.
Many caveats and pitfalls
to making this switch
The Globe should be commended for taking
on a complex, technical topic like heat
pumps and their implications for climate
change. But there are nuances to this topic
that need to be taken into account.
Ultimately, burning fossil fuels in homes
for heat needs to be replaced by electricity
and heat pumps. However, this seems to as-
sume that electricity is generated using re-
newable resources. Using more electricity in
New England means burning more natural
gas to create that electricity. We are years, if
not decades, from switching to electricity
that does not result in the consumption of
natural gas.
There is no immediate imperative to
switch to heat pumps. Pulling out a heating
system prematurely has minimal effect on
Ben Butterworth, senior manager for climate and energy analysis at Acadia Center,
has heat pumps installed at his Melrose home. Butterworth said that of the five
contractors he spoke with, only one was comfortable fully converting his oil-burning
heating system to heat pumps.
greenhouse gas emission and is virtually al-
ways a bad economic choice for consumers.
Consumers should first invest in insulation
and similar measures.
Home heating systems are a long-term in-
vestment. We should be promoting the use of
heat pumps in all new homes and at any
time someone decides to replace a heating
system. The challenge is the 25 percent or so
of homes in New England that have radiators
and no duct work. There is, at the moment,
no widely available heat pump system that
can substitute for a boiler in a house that
continues to use radiators. Retrofitting these
homes to accommodate heat pumps results
in the more than $21,000 in costs mentioned
in Sabrina Shankman’s article, an amount
that will rarely pay for itself in energy cost
savings.
Reengineering a home heating system is a
complex task, one where it is easy to make a
mistake leading to frozen pipes or other seri-
ous consequences. The Globe would have
been much better off discussing alternatives,
hybrid systems, and other ways that home-
owners can contribute to greenhouse gas re-
duction.
EVERETT SHOREY
Arlington
The writer is a consultant who represents
the Air Conditioning, Heating, and Refriger-
ation Institute, the trade association of fur-
nace, boiler, and heat pump manufacturers,
on US Department of Energy efficiency stan-
dards. He is also a commissioner of the Block
Island Utility District, the electric utility on
Block Island. The opinions expressed here are
his own and do not necessarily represent
those of either organization.
From electric car to
solar panels to heat pumps,
they’re making it work
As an energy efficiency proponent, owner of
an all-electric net-zero-energy home, and a
former staff member of the Northeast Energy
Efficiency Partnerships, I appreciated Sabri-
na Shankman’s story about heat pumps.
My husband, Tom, and I built our modu-
lar, super-insulated BrightBuilt Home in
2014 (such homes were featured on the front
ERIN CLARK/GLOBE STAFF
When paired with good
insulation, proper indoor
air quality measures, and,
even better, solar panels,
going electric is a win-win.
of Sunday’s Address section), and it is heated
and cooled primarily with Mitsubishi air-
source heat pumps rated for New England
winters. We love the comfort, efficiency, and
cost savings, paired with our SunBug solar
panels that pay us about $2,000 a year in re-
newable energy credits. Our National Grid
electric bills are enviable — even with charg-
ing our Chevy Volt.
But after nearly seven years in the home
and minimal maintenance on the heat
pumps, this summer it was time for a tune-
up. A few of the room units seemed to strug-
gle to maintain temperature. It turns out
some of these air handlers were still clogged
with construction debris, and others had a
buildup of dust, even the beginnings of
mold.
Some important lessons learned:
R Clean the air filters monthly to clear out
dust and allow maximum airflow.
R At the end of cooling season, run a fac-
tory-recommended cycle to dry out the air
handlers so condensation doesn’t breed
mold.
R Schedule annual service to keep the sys-
tem running optimally.
R Especially in heating season, “set it and
forget it” at a consistent temperature for best
performance.
Nearly any home can be a good candidate
for air source heat pumps. When paired with
good insulation, proper indoor air quality
measures, and, even better, solar panels, go-
ing electric is a win-win for home occupants
and the climate.
NATALIE HILDT TREAT
Salisbury
The writer served as NEEP’s public policy
outreach manager for nearly eight years, ad-
vocating for building efficiency programs
across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.
Operating costs of a new
system can be daunting
What is old is new again. Back in the 1960s,
homeowners were lured with lower electrical
rates if they ultra-insulated their home and
installed electric heat. This worked for a time
until it was deemed that offering a discount
for high-use electric-heated homes was not
fair to other consumers. This caused these
homeowners to be stuck with homes that
they could not afford to heat. These homes
tended to be either sold at a loss after a po-
tential buyer asked to review the electric bills
or converted to fossil fuel heating systems,
requiring a large investment.
Your article failed to note that Massachu-
setts and Rhode Island have among the high-
est electric rates in the country — ranked
third and second, respectively. Are the power
generating companies willing to offer a guar-
anteed discount for homeowners willing to
make the investments in heat pumps?
I would have liked this article to compare
the operating costs of these new modern
cold-climate heat pumps, which can function
in temperatures as low as minus 13 degrees,
to standard fossil fuel heating systems. It’s
not enough to simply say that they are be-
coming more efficient. I am not surprised
that only 461 homes were converted to heat
pumps on a plan to convert 100,000 homes.
Many homeowners would be willing to
accept little financial payback by investing in
heat pumps for the sake of the “climate fix”
so long as the ongoing operating costs would
be at least equal to their current fossil fuel
heating systems.
CHARLIE RUTZ
Wellfleet
There’s another solution
to consider
Sabrina Shankman’s front-page story de-
tailed some of the questions surrounding the
notion that electric heat pumps are a wel-
come and cost-effective solution to combat-
ing climate change in Massachusetts.
Her report detailed the high costs associ-
ated with electric heat pumps, their perfor-
mance deficiencies, and the failure of state
energy officials and the utility-controlled
Mass Save program to persuade homeown-
ers and heating contractors to join the move-
ment to “electrify” 1 million fossil-fueled
homes by 2030. With a paltry 461 homes
making the switch last year, the state needs
to reassess its climate change strategy.
The heating oil industry has a proven,
drop-in solution that is reducing greenhouse
gas emissions now in Massachusetts: renew-
able biofuels blended with heating oil. The
greenhouse gas emissions from biofuels are
66 percent to 82 percent less than emissions
from traditional heating oil. Using biofuels
requires no heating system modifications
and costs about the same as regular heating
oil.
The state’s heavy reliance on heat pump
technology while establishing a totally re-
newable electric grid is a laudable but chal-
lenging goal, and decades away. Meanwhile,
contrary to what some believe, energy offi-
cials here should embrace the accelerated
use of liquid biofuels as a pathway for imme-
diate reductions in carbon emissions.
MICHAEL FERRANTE
President
Massachusetts Energy Marketers Associ-
ation
Wilmington

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Mass. birth control law baffles insurers and pharmacies
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its implementation.
“It’s the administration’s job
to implement a law,” said that
sponsor, Senator Harriette L.
Chandler, a Worcester Demo-
crat. “It was their job to ensure
that pharmacies and health
plans knew of the new benefits
that they were mandated to
provide. It seems that the ad-
ministration’s responsibility fell
through the cracks.”
Chandler was among the fe-
male leaders who stood behind
Baker when he publicly signed
the bill into law in November
2017. At the time, Baker called
it “a great day in the Common-
wealth of Mass.”
But the administration still
has not finalized regulations
dictating how pharmacies
should dispense contraception
under the state’s Medicaid pro-
gram, MassHealth, whose exist-
ing regulations limit contracep-
t i v e p r e s c r i p t i o n s to t h r e e
months. The new regulations
were proposed in 2019 but nev-
er finalized. The Division of In-
surance sent a bulletin alerting
private carriers to the changes
in August 2020 — nearly three
years after Baker signed the
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bill. The law also called for the
state insurance commissioner
to ensure compliance, but advo-
cates say they have seen no evi-
dence of enforcement.
A spokeswoman for the Ex-
ecutive Office of Health and
Human Services, Kayla Rosa-
rio-Muñoz, did not directly an-
swer a question about the de-
lays.
Instead, she said in a state-
ment: “MassHealth is commit-
ted to implementing the
ACCESS Law and has contin-
ued to communicate with its
members, health care provid-
ers, pharmacies and other
stakeholders about the law’s re-
quirements.”
Baker, who made his name
in health care management as a
state health secretary and chief
executive of Harvard Pilgrim
Health Care, is a Republican
governor who supports abor-
tion rights. However, late last
year, he angered activists by ve-
toing a bill that protects and ex-
pands abortion rights under
Massachusetts law. (The Legis-
lature overrode his veto.)
Bir th control pills — ap-
proved by the FDA more than
60 years ago — have traditional-
ly been refilled by prescription
every month or three months.
Some in the medical communi-
ty initially worried about ex-
panding that to 12 months, not-
ing that patients often switch
the pill they’re taking, based on
particular health effects, noted
Lora M. Pellegrini, president
and CEO of the Massachusetts
Association of Health Plans.
What would they do with the
extra packets in their medicine
cabinet? Would they be tempt-
ed to share with a friend who
also wants a change?
But some people remain on
the same pill for years, and re-
search shows they are less likely
to have a lapse — and an unin-
tended pregnancy — if they
have a 12-month supply on
hand.
The ACCESS law does not
apply to those who are self-in-
sured — including employees of
many large companies that
handle their own plans. But its
T h e B o s t o n
Governor Charlie Baker signed the ACCESS bill into law in 2017, when the fate of birth
control protection in the Affordable Care Act was unclear.
language explicitly applies to
members of the state Group In-
surance Commission, which
covers state employees like
Alessandroni.
And it should cover
MassHealth members like Ales-
sandroni’s sister, who she said
was denied a long-term pre-
scription in July — even though
MassHealth had sent a bulletin
to pharmacies saying it was
permitted during the pandemic
and that the change should be-
come permanent.
Alessandroni said she
helped her sister navigate the
health care bureaucracy after
fighting her own battle. When
she first sought her own pre-
scription, Alessandroni said,
her doctor wasn’t aware of the
law, then her pharmacist would
not honor the 12-month pre-
scription, even after she
showed him the Massachusetts
General Law citation.
“The pharmacist is like, ‘I
don’t know what this law is and
your insurer did not preap-
prove this, so you can’t have it,’”
Alessandroni said.
After getting the runaround
G l o b e
from her health care provider,
she reached out to a reproduc-
tive rights advocate, who con-
tacted the Division of Insurance
and the Massachusetts Associa-
tion of Health Plans.
The answer seemed baffling-
ly simple.
“It was just that the pharma-
cist didn’t know how to input
‘It seems that the administration’s
responsibility fell through the cracks.’
SENATOR HARRIETTE L. CHANDLER
the code correctly,” Alessandro-
ni said.
Another woman, 34, who
formerly worked in health care
policy, and who did not want to
be identified because of her
proximity to politics, said two
CVS pharmacies refused to fill
her 12-month prescription. One
did not have enough medica-
tion on hand; the second was
only willing to dispense three
packs, and she gave up protest-
ing in a long pharmacy line
amid the pandemic. Then,
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when that prescription was
about to run out, she was un-
able to refill the remaining nine
months’ worth; it had been
voided in the pharmacy’s com-
puter system after she accepted
the limited order.
That led to a series of pan-
icked calls to her doctor’s office,
where a nurse told her the doc-
tor was tiring of rewriting pre-
scriptions for patients in the ex-
act same predicament.
“There’s a lot of people who
might just give up on it and say,
‘I can’t get my birth control pre-
scription so I’m going to just
stop taking it,’” she said.
Pellegrini, who represents
16 health plans, did not fault
the Baker administration, say-
ing her plans and providers
were made aware of the chang-
es from the start.
“We have done more to edu-
cate on this particular mandate
than any other mandate in my
recent history,” she said.
But state lawmakers frus-
trated by the lack of attention
from the state, are mounting a
ne w e ffor t to publicize the
ACCESS Law, recently budget-
ing $500,000 for a public
awareness campaign by the De-
partment of Public Health.
“I think it’s fair to say that
we are feeling incredibly frus-
trated by the leadership failings
of the Baker-Polito administra-
tion at this point,” said Rebecca
Hart Holder, executive director
of NARAL Pro-Choice Massa-
chusetts, which championed
the law.
While it’s unclear how many
patients are requesting the
medication and being denied,
it’s clear few are getting it. Only
32 of the 25,000 Harvard Pil-
grim Health Care members
who had prescriptions for oral
contraception last year got 12-
month supplies, according to
spokesman Philip Tracey. This
year, only 45 have filled them.
Harvard Pilgrim has since com-
bined with Tufts Health Plan to
form Point32Health, and has
been reminding providers,
pharmacies, and members of
the availability. Likewise, the
Massachusetts Association of
Health Plans launched a public
awareness campaign for con-
sumers in March, after Com-
monwealth magazine first re-
ported on the limited use of the
law.
State Senator Cindy Fried-
man, an Arlington Democrat,
said she was led to believe regu-
lations were imminent six
months ago, when she ad-
dressed the issue with officials
at MassHealth.
“I can’t imagine what the
problem is,” said Friedman.
“ What are you to think?
That women don’t matter?” she
asked. “No one’s ever explained
to me why this is difficult to
do.”
Stephanie Ebbert can be
reached at Stephanie.Ebbert
@globe.com. Follow her on
Twitter @StephanieEbbert.
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Harvard’s chaplains select an atheist as their new leader

By Andrew Brinker
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
The new head chaplain at Harvard
began work this week, directing the
university’s more than 40 religious
leaders who connect with and guide
students from a wide array of faith
backgrounds. There’s just one rather
unusual twist: He’s an atheist.
Greg Epstein, 44, the longtime
head of Harvard’s humanist chaplain-
cy, was unanimously elected by his
peers to represent the chaplains, a
group that has functioned at the uni-
versity for centuries and is comprised
of leaders from more than 20 different
faiths.
“It’s a milestone of inclusion,” said
Epstein, who started as the school’s
humanist chaplain in 2005. “It marks
that people who have serious disagree-
ments around important things can al-
so have serious cooperation and real
love and mutual respect that is bigger
than their difference.”
Epstein is an atheist and a human-
ist, meaning essentially that he be-
lieves humans can be moral and ethi-
cal without the guide of religion. At
the core of his beliefs, which he said di-
verge from those of some atheists, is a ‘It’s a milestone of
strong-held faith in community.
The author of the New York Times inclusion. It marks
bestseller “Good Without God,” he is
quick to emphasize the “good” of irreli-
that people who
gion, rather than the fact that it is have serious
“without God.”
Epstein joined the chaplains at
disagreements
Harvard in 2004, serving as the assis- around important
tant to Thomas Ferrick, the universi-
ty’s first humanist chaplain. Now, as things can also have
head of the group, he aspires to pro-
mote collaboration across faiths and
serious cooperation.’
bolster the work of leaders with whom GREG EPSTEIN (right),
Harvard’s new head chaplain CODY O’LOUGHLIN/THE NEW YORK TIMES
CHAPLAIN, Page B5

New poll:
Wu ahead
of pack in
mayor race
Essaibi George is second
in tightly bunched field
By Danny McDonald
GLOBE STAFF

With mayoral candidates barreling down the

home stretch of the preliminary contest, City Coun-
cilor Michelle Wu is leading the field, with the other
three women in the race — Councilor Annissa Essai-
bi George, Acting Mayor Kim Janey, and Councilor
Andrea Campbell — bunched together at her heels
in what appears to be a battle for second place, ac-
cording to a new poll.
The Emerson College/7News poll was released
Thursday night, less than three weeks before the
Sept. 14 preliminary, and showed Wu with 24 per-
cent support. The poll of 600 likely Boston voters
found Essaibi George with 18 percent support,
closely followed by Janey with 16 percent, and
Campbell at 14 percent.
BARRY CHIN/GLOBE STAFF
John Barros, a former POLL RESULTS
Above: Shoppers wore masks as they waited to enter a store on Newbury Street on Friday. Below: Masked visitors inside Quincy Market. economic development
chief for the city, drew Wu 24%

What to know about Boston’s indoor mask mandate just 2 percent.

By John R. Ellement
GLOBE STAFF
A new indoor mask mandate for all public
spaces in Boston went into effect Friday morn-
ing, part of an effort to blunt the spread of the
highly contagious COVID-19 Delta variant as an
estimated 50,000 college students arrive for the
fall semester. Here’s what you need to know:
When did Boston’s mandatory indoor mask
mandate take effect? How long will it
remain in place?
The new mandate went into effect at 8 a.m.
on Friday. Acting Mayor Kim Janey said indoor
masking will be required until a recent surge in
COVID-19 infections eases.
I’m vaccinated. Does it apply to me?
The mandate applies to all people in indoor
public spaces regardless of vaccination status.
Do my children have to wear masks?
Children 2 years or older must be masked
while indoors in public spaces.
Does the mandate apply when I am at home
or at a friend’s house? What about a
gathering at a park or an outdoor area? And
SUZANNE KREITER/GLOBE STAFF
what about my business? We are not open
to the public.
The mandate is focused on public spaces. So
masks are not mandatory at private gatherings,
at businesses that do not engage with the public,
or events held in outdoor spaces.
Can I still eat at restaurants?
Yes. But you have to be masked except when
consuming food or drink. Businesses with licens-
es from the city License Board can maintain li-
A quarter of likely
voters are still undecid-
Essaibi George 18%
Janey 16%
censed capacity. ed, according to the
poll, which has a margin Campbell 14%
What about gyms, museums, and theaters? of error of 3.9 percent-
People can patronize stores, gyms and fitness age points. Barros 2%
centers, theaters, museums and cultural and his- The results add some
torical sites — all while masked. Performers can clarity to a crowded and
shed masks provided they are at least six feet historic race that has continued to be murky, in part
away from another person. because of a relative lack of public polling this elec-
tion season. Thursday’s poll showed Wu enjoys
Who will enforce the mandate? strong support among “somewhat likely voters,”
The city’s Licensing Board and the Boston with 35 percent of people who identify as such plan-
Public Health Commission, with the backing of ning to back her.
various city agencies if needed, will enforce the But among “very likely voters,” the contest ap-
mandate. Janey has said that “may be part of it,” pears much closer. In that cohort, 22 percent said
but that the city would seek to work with estab- they plan to vote for Wu, 21 percent support Essaibi
lishments. George, 17 percent Janey, and 15 percent Campbell.
A June poll conducted by Suffolk University and
I have more questions. Who do I contact at The Boston Globe showed Wu and Janey pulling
City Hall? ahead of the rest of the pack and Essaibi George in a
Business with licenses issued by the Licensing second tier with Campbell. Thursday’s poll suggests
Board are urged to contact the board via e-mail at Essaibi George may have since leap-frogged Janey in
licensingboard@boston.gov. Others with ques- support among Boston voters.
tions are asked to call 311 or e-mail small- According to the new poll, Black Bostonians are
biz@boston.gov. backing the two Black women in the race at higher
rates than the other contenders, with Janey garner-
John R. Ellement can be reached at ing 31 percent support and Campbell 24 percent
john.ellement@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter with this group.
@JREbosglobe. POLL, Page B4

For Jimmy Hayes, City schools to pay families

Dorchester Youth $650,000 in sex assault case
Hockey was ‘where Parents cited unwanted touching by child
By Naomi Martin The families of two girls who

it all began’ GLOBE STAFF

Boston Public Schools will pay

By Emily Sweeney
GLOBE STAFF
In Jimmy Hayes’ obituary, one that was written far too
soon, people are asked to honor his memory by donating to
Dorchester Youth Hockey, the local youth hockey program
where he launched a career playing the sport he loved.
Even after finding success at Boston College and as a
pro in the National Hockey League, the 6-foot-5-inch, 215-
pound Hayes always remembered his roots in Dorchester.
“Jimmy never forgot where he came from,” said Shaun
O’Sullivan, a longtime board member of Dorchester Youth
Hockey. “Every experience he had, he brought it back to
the neighborhood.” Hayes grew up on Westglow Street and
spent countless hours skating at the Devine Rink on Mor-
rissey Boulevard.
Hayes’ obituary states that in lieu of flowers, donations
can be made to Dorchester Youth Hockey.
On Monday morning, members of Dorchester Youth
Hockey will hold a special stick salute on Hallet Street dur-
HAYES, Page B4
$650,000 to five families who alleged
the Mission Hill K-8 School improperly
responded to an elementary-aged stu-
dent’s sexual assaults of fellow students,
allowing their six children to be victim-
ized, court records show.
A federal judge on Monday accepted
the settlement, in which BPS admitted
no wrongdoing. The agreement came
after the judge ruled the parents’ allega-
tions carried enough weight to “shock
the conscience.”
The settlement, first reported by
Universal Hub, was reached after the
parents alleged the school failed to pro-
tect their children from a boy’s repeated
unwanted sexual touching, exposing of
genitals, and kissing from September
MATTHEW J. LEE/GLOBE STAFF/FILE
2014 through November 2016. All chil-
Jimmy Hayes celebrated a goal while playing for dren involved were age 4 or 5 in 2014,
Boston College in 2010. court records state.
brought the initial lawsuit will each re-
ceive $88,527 after attorneys’ fees, with
the parents of the four other children
receiving slightly less in damages for
each child.
Despite a change in leadership, the
Mission Hill K-8 School has continued
to face allegations of improper handling
of misconduct. Earlier this month, co-
leaders Geralyn McLaughlin and Jener-
ra Williams were placed on paid admin-
istrative leave and a search is on for
their replacement, a BPS spokesman
said.
Neither McLaughlin nor Williams
could immediately be reached for com-
ment Friday evening.
The leaders’ removal came after an
internal investigation found credible ev-
idence that the school didn’t act appro-
priately after receiving complaints
about at least one student being mis-
SETTLEMENT, Page B4
B2 Metro
Cyberattack hits BPL computer network
Staffers revert to
pen and paper to
check out books
By John R. Ellement
GLOBE STAFF
Staffers at Boston Public Li-
brary branches were using pen
and paper to check out books in
the wake of a cybersecurity at-
tack that largely shut down the
BPL’s computer network, the
agency said Friday.
“We are currently handling
A cooling mist was available Friday for tourists on the Freedom Trail at the Charlestown Navy Yard near the USS Constitution.
Sixth hottest summer in Boston, so far
24 days of temps
90 degrees or
higher this year
By Martin Finucane
GLOBE STAFF
Yes, it’s been that hot. With
the mercury again edging over
90 degrees Friday in Boston, the
city has now seen 24 days with
temperatures of 90 or above so
far this year — and there could
be more ahead, the National
Residents sue Northampton over tree removal
By Alexandra Chaidez
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
Two Northampton residents
have filed a lawsuit claiming
the city broke two laws to re-
move cherry trees on a quiet
residential street.
On July 29, the city of North-
ampton cut down the row of
Kwanzan Japanese cherry trees
that lined Warfield Place, de-
spite strong opposition from
those who live on the street.
The lawsuit, filed Wednes-
day in Hampshire Superior
Court, says that the city violat-
ed state law by refusing to hold
a public hearing before the
trees came down.
In an inter view with the
Globe last month, Northamp-
ton Mayor David Narkewicz
said the city did not have to
hold such a hearing as state law
allows for an exemption from
Today is Saturday, Aug. 28, the
240 th day of 2021. There are
125 days left in the year.
ºBirthdays: Former Defense
Secretary William S. Cohen is
81. Actor David Soul is 78. For-
mer MLB manager and player
Lou Piniella is 78. Actor Barbara
Bach is 75. Actor Debra Mooney
is 74. Singer Wayne Osmond
(The Osmonds) is 70. Actor Dan-
iel Stern is 64. Olympic gold
medal figure skater Scott Hamil-
ton is 63. Actor Emma Samms is
61. Actor Jennifer Coolidge is 60.
Movie director David Fincher is
59. Country singer Shania Twain
is 56. Actor Billy Boyd is 53. Ac-
tor Jack Black is 52. Actor Jason
Priestley is 52. Olympic gold
medal swimmer Janet Evans is
50. Rock singer-musician Max
Collins (Eve 6) is 43. Actor Armie
Hammer is 35. Rock singer Flor-
ence Welch (Florence and the
Machine) is 35. Reality TV star
Alana Thompson, a.k.a. “Honey
Boo Boo,” is 16.
ºIn 1609, English sea explorer
Henry Hudson and his ship, the
all transactions by hand at all lo-
cations,” BPL spokeswoman Nat-
sha Fee wrote in an e-mail.
The computer network was
attacked on Wednesday and the
system used to conduct electron-
ic checkout of books, among oth-
er tasks, and most of its capabili-
ty remained offline, the BPL said
Friday. Libraries themselves re-
mained open and some online
services continued to function,
the agency said.
But most of the network was
down and there was no date set
for the restart by the city’s IT de-
Weather Service says.
The 24 days was the sixth-
highest number of days at 90
and above in Boston. The re-
cord for most days 90 and above
was sizzling-hot 1983, when 30
days reached that mark. Re-
cords have been kept since
1872.
Friday was the fourth day of
the year ’s fourth heat wave.
(New England heat waves are
defined as at least three days of
temperatures 90 degrees and
above).
the requirement for a project
like the one on Warfield Place.
The tree removal is part of a
multi-street paving program
planned by the city.
The lawsuit also claims that
the city took down the trees
“without any prior warning”
despite previously informing
neighbors that they would be
notified of any times when
parking is prohibited. Instead,
residents say that members of
the Northampton police de-
partment, fire department, and
Department of Public Works ar-
rived without any warning on
the morning of July 29 with tow
trucks to begin clearing the
trees.
That same day — and just
hours after the city workers had
arrived on the street — Warfield
Place residents obtained a tem-
porary restraining order to pre-
This day in history
Half Moon, reached present-day
Delaware Bay.
ºIn 1941, Japan’s ambassador
to the United States, Kichisabu-
ro Nomura, presented a note to
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
from Japan’s prime minister,
Prince Fumimaro Konoye, ex-
pressing a desire for improved
relations.
ºIn 1955, Emmett Till, a Black
teen from Chicago, was abduct-
ed from his uncle’s home in
Money, Miss., by two white men
after he had supposedly whistled
at a white woman; he was found
brutally slain three days later.
ºIn 1963, more than 200,000
people listened as the Reverend
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered
his “I Have a Dream” speech in
front of the Lincoln Memorial in
Washington, D.C.
ºIn 1964, two days of race-relat-
ed rioting erupted in North Phila-
delphia over a false rumor that
white police officers had beaten to
death a pregnant Black woman.
ºIn 1968, police and anti-war
demonstrators clashed in the
T h e B o s t o n
partment.
“In the meantime, all loca-
tions will remain open, patrons
will still be able to check out
books, and some online services
remain operational. This is an
ongoing situation and the li-
brary will update patrons and
staff about services and impacts
on its website,” the BPL said in a
statement.
No evidence had emerged in-
dicating that personal informa-
tion of patrons or employees had
been compromised. “There is
currently no evidence that sensi-
There could be more 90-de-
gree days before the year is over,
said National Weather Service
meteorologist Bill Simpson.
Heat waves have happened
in Boston as late as the fourth
week of September, the fore-
casters noted in a tweet earlier
this week.
Ninety-degree days are hap-
pening earlier and more often,
the Globe reported in June.
Simpson said a “little bit of a
cooler period” is ahead for the
next couple of weeks, but there
vent the city from cutting and
removing the trees before an of-
ficial hearing was held.
In an e-mail to a resident
that was forwarded to the
Globe by the mayor’s office,
Narkewicz said the tree remov-
al was completed by the time
the restraining order was ap-
proved and was “deemed
moot.”
Two people were arrested
for climbing the trees to keep
crews from removing them.
The suit requests that the
court issue a permanent re-
straining order forbidding
Northampton from removing
any public shade trees without
a hearing; residents also ask
that the city replace the cherry
trees with “mature cherry
trees” that are at least 25 feet
tall.
The mayor and the city solic-
streets of Chicago as the Demo-
cratic National Convention nom-
inated Hubert H. Humphrey for
president.
ºIn 1988, 70 people were killed
when three Italian stunt planes
collided during an air show at
the US Air Base in Ramstein,
West Germany.
ºIn 1996, the troubled 15-year
marriage of Britain’s Prince
Charles and Princess Diana offi-
cially ended with the issuing of a
divorce decree.
ºIn 2005, New Orleans Mayor
Ray Nagin ordered the city to
evacuate after Hurricane Ka-
trina grew to a monster storm.
ºIn 2009, the Los Angeles Coun-
ty coroner’s office announced
that Michael Jackson’s death
was a homicide caused primarily
by the anesthetic propofol and
another sedative, lorazepam.
ºIn 2011, a suicide bomber
struck inside Baghdad’s largest
Sunni mosque, killing 29 people
during prayers.
ºIn 2013, a military jury sen-
tenced Major Nidal Hasan to
G l o b e S A T U R D A Y, A U G U S T 2 8 , 2 0 2 1
New England
in brief
tive employee or patron data
has been disclosed,” the library
said. BOSTON
“We apologize for any incon-
venience this outage may have 30-year-old man dies after shooting
caused patrons,” Kurt Mansperg- A 30-year-old Mattapan man has died from injuries suffered in a
er, the BPL’s chief technology of- shooting last weekend, police announced Friday. Atonni Diaz
ficer, said in a statement. “Thank died Thursday night at a hospital, police said in a statement. He
you for your patience as our was shot around 12:30 a.m. Sunday on Woodbole Avenue. The
team and law enforcement offi- search for Diaz’s assailant or assailants is ongoing, police said. A
cials work to restore our digital motive was not publicly disclosed.
services and protect the library
from future attacks.” NEEDHAM/WESTON
John R. Ellement can be reached 1 killed, 2 hurt in separate crashes
at john.ellement@globe.com. One man was killed and two seriously injured in separate crashes
on Interstate 95 in Needham and Weston, according to State Po-
lice. Around 10:20 a.m., troopers responded to a report of a crash
involving a car and a tractor-trailer on the northbound ramp to
the Massachusetts Turnpike. A 73-year-old Milford man was driv-
ing a 2010 Toyota Camry that collided with the tractor-trailer
unit, State Police said in a statement. He was trapped in the vehi-
cle and pronounced dead at the scene. He was not immediately
identified. The truck driver, who is from Plainville, Conn., was
taken to Lahey Hospital for treatment of serious injuries, State
Police said. The second crash occurred around noon in Needham.
A 29-year-old Norwood man was critically injured after the Toyo-
ta 4Runner he was driving struck a Ford van near Great Plain Av-
enue, State Police said in a separate statement. The Toyota rolled
over and the man was ejected. He was taken to Beth Israel Dea-
coness Medical Center in Boston where he remained in critical
condition Friday evening, the statement said. The van driver was
not injured. Both crashes remain under investigation.
BROCKTON
Man dies from gunshot wound
Authorities are investigating after a man was shot on Thursday
and died early Friday morning in the hospital, the Plymouth dis-
trict attorney’s office said in a statement. Officers were called to
102 Walnut St. at 6:01 p.m. Thursday for a report of an unre-
sponsive man on the sidewalk, the statement said. Officers found
a man, later identified as Maxwell Gervais, 21, of Brockton, on
the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to his head. Gervais was tak-
en to Good Samaritan Hospital and then transported by helicop-
DAVID L. RYAN/GLOBE STAFF
ter to Boston Medical Center, where he died at 1:52 a.m. Friday,
the statement said. The district attorney’s office is asking anyone
with information to call police detectives at 508-941-0200.
NANTUCKET
Regulators extend whale protective zone
will still be some uncomfortable
days with high humidity and
The federal government said it’s extending a voluntary protective
zone designed to help rare whales into September. The National
temperatures in the upper 80s. Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the protective
Saturday is expected to be zone is located south of Nantucket and it’s designed to help North
much cooler, with a high tem- Atlantic right whales. The whales number only about 360 and are
perature of only 74. But the vulnerable to ship collisions, so NOAA has asked mariners to
high is expected to rise to 79 on slow down when near them. An aerial survey team sighted the
Sunday and then return to the whales in the area on Aug. 25. NOAA said the slow zone has been
mid-80s Monday and Tuesday extended through Sept. 9. There is another slow zone southeast
before another cooldown, fore- of Nantucket until Aug. 31. The agency has asked that mariners
casters said. avoid the areas or transit through them at 10 knots or less. (AP)
Martin Finucane can be GLOCESTER, R.I.
reached at martin.finucane@
globe.com. School board backs off mask objection
The school committee, which earlier this week voted to allow par-
ents to request “conscientious objections” to the state’s universal
school face mask policy, is now backing off that decision, while
still looking into the legality of the mandate. Parents received au-
tomated phone calls and e-mails on Thursday saying that the dis-
trict intends to comply with the state Department of Health’s
itor were not available Thurs- school masking protocols, which do not allow conscientious ob-
day to comment on the lawsuit. jection exemptions. The protocols allow exemptions for people
John McNally, the residents’ who cannot wear a mask because of a disability, and for those
lawyer, said that while most who would be placed at risk by wearing a mask. Glocester super-
cases require the defendants to intendent Pat Dubois and school committee chair Jon Burl-
respond within 20 days, they ingame confirmed Thursday there were no plans to go against
are planning to give the city the state’s regulations. The vote Monday came days after Gover-
more time if needed. nor Daniel McKee issued an order requiring students, staff, and
Lois Ahrens, who lives on faculty in the state’s schools to wear face coverings during the up-
Warfield Place and filed the coming school year, regardless of vaccination status, as a means
lawsuit, said although the suit to control spread of the coronavirus. (AP)
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Judge tosses case over
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vaccine mandates
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missed a lawsuit challenging a
requirement that students at
the University of Massachusetts
campuses in Boston and Lowell
be fully vaccinated against the
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to campus.
Students at the schools sued
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was improperly denied a reli-
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HOVER CRAFT
A lobster in the hand is worth more than you might think
uLOBSTER
Continued from Page A1
For reasons that involve the
movie “Jaws,” that didn’t appeal
to me. But I was intrigued by the
idea that my $10 saltwater fish-
ing license allowed me to walk
into the ocean carrying a spear
gun. Just the thought made me
feel like James Bond, only hand-
somer.
Doc had an extra gun, and
though I had no plans to use it, I
figured carrying it might muffle
the “Jaws” music in my head, so
I went along for the sightseeing.
Almost immediately on that
first dive, I completely forgot
about the tautog we were sup-
posed to be looking for, because I
became preoccupied by the lob-
sters, which were absolutely ev-
erywhere, just sitting there for
the taking. Suddenly, it felt like
reason No. 2 had been removed.
Free lobster!
I just had to get over reason
No. 1. Because the state of Mas-
sachusetts does not allow divers
to shoot lobsters. Nor does it al-
low the use of snares or nets. No,
the Commonwealth’s rule for
lobster diving is far more inti-
mate and horrifying. You have to
grab them with your hands.
Typically, this would be the
stuff of nightmares. None of the
lobsters I saw even had the rub-
ber bands on their claws. But
something came over me on that
first dive. Maybe it was the gun
assertion that the policy is “arbi-
trary or not based in science,”
the schools “based the decision
upon both medical and scientif-
ic evidence and research and
guidance and thus is at least ra-
tionally related to these legiti-
mate interests.”
The judge also noted that
students who refuse to get vac-
cinated may still take online
classes or defer their enrollment
a semester. But even if the poli-
cy meant they would be de-
prived of a UMass education,
their argument still fails, she
said.
“Moreover, the balance of eq-
uities tips in Defendants’ favor
given the strong public interest
here that they are promoting —
One way of keeping cool during the recent heatwave was to be flying above
the water on a Hover Glide Foil in South Boston
in my hands. Maybe it was the
warm pee in my wetsuit. But for
whatever reason, I resolved that
it was time to become a free lob-
ster eater.
As soon as we got out of the
water, I got online and gave the
state $55 for a recreational lob-
ster permit. Then I headed to a
dive shop for a $45 dive flag, a
$75 weighted belt to hold me
down when I dove to the bot-
tom, a $10 lobster gauge, and a
$30 bag to put them in. But the
most important thing I bought
was the only tool you are al-
lowed to use lobster diving in
Massachusetts, something called
a “tickle stick.” I chose one with a
pink handle for some reason.
A tickle stick, I learned, is a
thin rod, about three feet long,
with a slightly angled tip. It cost
$18, and the idea is that you
stick it in the hole behind the
lobster, use the angled tip to tick-
le it on the tail, and hope it
marches out to turn around and
fight whatever was behind it.
That’s when you grab it. Alleged-
ly.
Before our next dive, I real-
ized there was no way I was go-
ing to be able to grab a lobster
with both my hands full, so I left
the gun in the car, grabbed the
tickle stick, and told myself what
I always tell myself when the
“Jaws” music starts playing in
my head:
In my lifetime, only one per-
T h e B o s t o n
March 20, 2020
Mass. COVID-19 cases
Confirmed, by date case was
85
reported to the state
(Cumulative total: 703,961)
Mass. COVID-19 deaths
Confirmed, by date death was
reported to the state
1
(Cumulative total: 17,847)
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preventing further spread of
COVID-19 on campus, a virus
which has infected and taken
the lives of thousands of Massa-
chusetts residents,” she wrote.
UMass President Marty Mee-
han applauded the ruling for al-
lowing the school to “continue
taking the steps necessary to
protect the health and safety of
our students, staff, and faculty.”
I gave the state $55 for a recreational
lobster permit. Then I headed to a dive
shop for a $45 dive flag, a $75 weighted
belt to hold me down when I dove to
the bottom, a $10 lobster gauge, and a
$30 bag to put them in.
son has been killed by a shark in
Massachusetts. In that same pe-
riod, we’ve produced two fa-
mous Wahlbergs. So, statistically
speaking, I was twice as likely to
become a famous Wahlberg as I
was to be killed by a shark. Sim-
ple math.
I felt decidedly less James
Bond-y on that third dive —
armed only with a pink tickle
stick — but it was so much easier
to swim, and I was quickly able
to spot two claws peaking out of
a hole, dive to the bottom, and
get the stick in to tickle the lob-
ster’s behind.
No one was more surprised
than me when it worked. The
lobster promptly walked out of
its hole, turned around, and re-
vealed itself to be roughly the
size of a brontosaurus. Whatever
breath remained in my lungs left
in a scream.
Several more dives went like
this. Then one morning, Doc
and I arrived at the beach to find
there was an exercise class going
G l o b e
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Seven-day
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average
positivity
rate:
2.75%
Patients with
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currently in
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GLOBE STAFF
“It also sends a strong mes-
sage to those higher education
institutions across the country
that are putting the well-being
of their campus communities
first as we all begin a new aca-
demic year,” he said in an e-
mailed statement.
An e-mail seeking comment
was sent to an attorney repre-
senting the students.
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on, filled with a bunch of people
I knew, which kind of put the
pressure on.
I was barely 100 feet offshore
when I spotted a lobster, and
countered the fear pulsing
through my veins by repeating a
mantra:
You are 180 pounds of man
meat. You are 180 pounds of
man meat.
I took a breath through my
snorkel and dove down slowly,
but the lobster saw me coming
and turned to fight. There was
no turning back now, so I used
the tickle stick to kind of flip him
around, and reached down with
my other hand and all my cour-
age and quickly grabbed it in the
armpits. I may have had my eyes
closed. But when they opened,
there was a lobster securely in
my hand, and that hand was
leading the way toward the sur-
face, where I blasted through
like a superhero, making sure I
created enough of a splash for
everyone on the shore to notice.
A ‘swarm’ of quakes
has residents in
Peabody rattled
City looking for
answers after
3 seismic events
By Emily Sweeney
GLOBE STAFF
Officials in Peabody called
in an e xper t to disc uss the
earthquakes that have shaken
the city and rattled residents’
nerves in recent weeks.
John E. Ebel, a professor in
the Department of Earth and
Environmental Sciences at Bos-
ton College and senior research
scientist at the Weston Obser-
vatory, spoke to concerned resi-
dents at a public meeting on
We d n e s d a y a n d s a i d w h a t
they’ve been experiencing is
known as an “earthquake
swarm.”
“It isn’t unique to Peabody,
it’s happened in other parts of
New England,” said Ebel, who’s
also the author of the book
“New England Earthquakes:
The Surprising History of Seis-
mic Activity in the Northeast.”
Ebel said seismic instru-
ments detected three earth-
quakes that occurred in Pea-
body over the past month: a 1.4
magnitude earthquake on July
25, a 1.2 magnitude ear th-
quake on Aug . 4, and a 1.3
magnitude earthquake on Aug.
18.
The earthquakes in Peabody
have been low in magnitude. A
magnitude 4 earthquake might
cause an unstable knickknack
to fall off a shelf, and a magni-
tude 5 earthquake could cause
walls to crack, he said.
When the quakes have oc-
c urred, residents have de-
scribed hearing what sounds
like a loud boom.
“It’s a very quick boom, an
explosion,” Ebel said. “If it’s
wintertime, you might think
you heard the furnace blew up
in the basement. In the sum-
mertime, people often compare
it to an explosion. It’s just a
boom, and then it’s gone, but
it’s noticeable to people who
are right near the epicenter.”
Ebel said the quakes in Pea-
body appear to be occurring a
mile or less below the surface
of the earth.
Peabody Mayor Edward A.
Bettencourt, Jr. said he first
learned of reports of loud
booms and explosions being
heard by residents back in Feb-
ruary.
“These are very real,” Bet-
tencourt said at the meeting on
Wednesday. “The earthquakes
that are happening, what’s
been taking place in Peabody, is
very real and we need to ad-
dress it and find out what’s tak-
ing place here.”
At the meeting Ebel gave a
“Did you get one? You are so
manly,” they probably shouted,
but I couldn’t quite hear them
on account of everything being
drowned out by the dazzle com-
ing off me in that moment.
That’s when I looked down at
my hand to see that the lobster
was the size of my palm. It may
have been a crayfish.
“Just a baby. I’m gonna let it
go and find a monster,” I lied, my
heart still beating at a panic pace
as I contemplated how I was go-
ing to release this thing without
it coming back and killing me.
For the rest of the summer,
we dove and tickled, and I even
managed to grab a few more, but
each time I’d surface and realize
the underwater magnification
had again made me mistake a
midget for a monster. Even
when the season ended and win-
ter came, lobsters continued to
taunt me in my dreams, whis-
pering: You are 180 pounds of
mashed potatoes.
When summer returned, I
was on a mission. I didn’t even
care that a lobster diver down
the Cape had allegedly been
swallowed by a whale. Plus, it
had occurred to me that you
could make a solid argument
that there were four famous
Wahlbergs, on account of their
reality show, so my odds of get-
ting killed by a shark got halved
again.
I paid the state another $55
Metro B3
presentation and answered
questions from concerned resi-
dents.
He also spoke about what
could happen in the future.
“Earthquake swarms that
I’ve studied have typically last-
ed weeks to months,” Ebel said.
“I don’t know when this swarm
began. People are reporting
events back in February.”
It’s unclear why so many
earthquakes have occurred in
Peabody lately. “Earthquakes
can pretty much happen any-
where,” he said.
Ebel said there could be no
more events, or more small
earthquakes could occur. He al-
‘Earthquake
swarms that I’ve
studied have
typically lasted
weeks to months.
I don’t know when
this swarm began.
People are
reporting events
back in February.’
JOHN E. EBEL,
senior research scientist at the
Weston Observatory
so couldn’t rule out the possi-
bility of a larger earthquake. He
estimated that there’s about a 5
percent chance of a larger (but
not damaging) earthquake oc-
curring, and less than a 1 per-
cent chance of a larger, damag-
ing (magnitude 5 to 6) earth-
quake.
“We don’t really know what
the chances are of that earth-
quake being centered here,” he
said. “It’s certainly much, much
less than 1 percent. There is a
chance, but the chances are
small.”
If a strong earthquake were
to occur, Ebel said people are
better off staying inside and
taking cover under a piece of
heavy furniture, such as a table
or desk.
“People are hurt and killed
in earthquakes by things falling
on them,” he said.
Ebel said the chances of a
damaging earthquake happen-
ing here is quite low.
“I couldn’t rule out a bigger
earthquake happening, but the
probability is very, very low,” he
said.
Emily Sweeney can be reached
at emily.sweeney@globe.com.
Follow her on Twitter
@emilysweeney.
and then we dove, and dove, and
dove some more.
Then one day, I rounded a
rocky point off the coast of Cape
Ann and there, in a little canyon,
was the lobster I had been look-
ing for. Right size. Right depth.
And, most importantly, he was
preoccupied with eating a crab.
Before either of us really knew
what had happened, I had him
measured and stuffed in my bag,
and was kicking for shore. It was
a glorious moment in seafood
history.
I raced home, and my chil-
dren were in disbelief when I
placed the lobster on our kitchen
floor. That’s when reason No. 3
arrived.
“You’re really going to boil it
alive?” one of them asked.
What happened next was its
own melodrama, that involved
much quiet screaming from me
and probably the lobster. But I
did it. I cooked and ate a lobster,
and it was … OK. Maybe a tad
weird because, as one of my chil-
dren said, “I kind of feel like I
know the guy.”
But something about the
primitive act made me feel con-
nected to that anonymous mani-
ac who first ate a lobster.
Plus, think of all the money I
saved.
Billy Baker can be reached at
billy.baker@globe.com. Follow
him on Twitter @billy_baker.
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Boston schools to pay $650,000 in sex assault case
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treated between 2014 and
2019, the spokesman said. BPS
declined to release the investiga-
tion Friday, but said it was a sep-
arate case than the one involving
the settlement.
Superintendent Brenda Cas-
sellius has directed additional
training, support, and resources
to the school to ensure a “safe,
culturally affirming, and wel-
coming learning environment
for all” students, the spokesman
said, adding: “The physical, so-
cial, and emotional health of our
students is the top priority of the
Boston Public Schools.”
In the case that reached set-
tlement, parents alleged in an
August 2018 federal complaint
that school staffers were aware
the student, identified as “A.J.”,
had forcibly exposed other stu-
TRUCK STOP
For Jimmy Hayes, Dorchester hockey was ‘where it all began’
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ing the funeral procession for
Hayes, who died unexpectedly
Aug. 23 at the age of 31.
Timmy Berardinelli, 40, a
close friend of Hayes, recalled
how he started playing for Dor-
c h e s t e r Yo u t h Ho c k e y a s a
Squirt, which is the level of
hockey for kids 10 years old and
under.
“His grandfather taught him
how to skate at a very early age,”
said Berardinelli. “He played
Mite hockey in Charlestown,
and in Squirts he came over to
Dorchester Youth Hockey. It was
a great place to start out. Linda
Perkins and Charlie Pero were
two of his favorite coaches.”
Hayes continued to play for
Dorchester Youth Hockey until
he was a Bantam and then went
on to play for Noble and
Greenough School in Dedham.
From there, he went on to win
an NCAA championship at Bos-
ton College and then played sev-
New poll shows Wu is ahead in tight race for Boston mayor
uPOLL
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T he poll showed Essaibi
George and Wu, meanwhile,
with the same support — 24 per-
cent — from white voters. For
the city’s Hispanic voters, 23
percent favor Wu, 20 percent
support Janey, and 19 percent
are backing Essaibi George, ac-
cording to the survey. Wu, the
daughter of Taiwanese immi-
grants, has a dominant lead
with Asian voters in the city,
with 73 percent of these voters
saying they plan to cast ballots
dents’ genitals and touched and
kissed their genital areas prior to
October 2014. But the school
took no actions such as closer
monitoring, assigning an aide,
expulsion, or warning staff to
protect other students, the com-
plaint said.
Around October 2014, A.J.
“digitally penetrated” one of the
plaintiffs’ daughters, prompting
a teacher to file a report called a
“51A,” which launches an inves-
tigation by the state Department
of Children and Families and is
required under the state’s “man-
dated reporter” law, according to
the complaint.
According to the complaint,
the school’s then-principal, Ayla
Gavins, discouraged staff from
filing 51A reports and one teach-
er was fired for filing one. The
city disputed the complaint’s
facts; Gavins, who no longer
A worker at the Tendercrop Farm in Wenham took a break in the shade inside the truck that he was loading flowers into.
en years in the NHL, including
two seasons with the Bruins.
“In life Jimmy achieved many
things, but one of his proudest
accomplishments, alongside be-
ing a husband and father, was
making his childhood dream of
being a professional hockey
player come true,” reads an obit-
uary posted by John J. O’Connor
& Son Funeral Home. “Jimmy
lived for hockey at a very young
age and was determined to have
success within his career. The
hockey community brought so
much joy to his life.”
“Words can’t describe how
much he cared about Dorchester
Youth Hockey,” said Berardinelli.
“It was his foundation. His com-
munity. That’s where it all be-
gan.”
O’Sullivan recalled how back
in his college days Hayes and the
rest of the Boston College hockey
team would come out to Dor-
chester and hold skills sessions
for the kids in the neighbor-
hood.
for her.
The poll also showed that
voters under 30 prefer Wu,
while voters over the age of 65
prefer Janey. Those between 30
and 44 years old liked both Wu
— 32 percent — and Essaibi
George — 29 percent. Voters in
the 45-to-64 range were fairly
evenly divided in their support
among the four women candi-
dates in the race.
Housing was the top issue
when considering a candidate
for 19 percent of voters, while 16
percent ranked education as
T h e B o s t o n
works for BPS and was dis-
missed from the suit because of
qualified immunity, which pro-
tects state and local officials
from personal liability, did not
respond to a request for com-
ment Friday.
The plaintiff parents also al-
leged that teachers weren’t ade-
quately trained to file 51A re-
ports; out of many known sexual
assaults involving A.J., only one
led to a 51A report, court docu-
ments said.
One of the girls “lived in fear”
of being assaulted again by A.J.,
who remained in the same class-
room with her for several
months, the complaint said.
Even when he was moved, he
still interacted with her, which
retraumatized her and “deprived
her of her education,” it said.
During the 2014-15 school
year, at least four other girls and
Jimmy Hayes went from Dorchester Youth Hockey all the way
up to the National Hockey League.
“They had all the kids out on
the ice,” said O’Sullivan. “There
would be a bunch of snotty
nosed kids just following them
their top issue, 13 percent said
“something else,” 12 percent list-
ed crime, and 10 percent said
health care.
Of the five major candidates,
the top two vote-getters from the
Sept. 14 preliminary will ad-
vance to the Nov. 2 general elec-
tion. Whoever wins the general
becomes the next mayor of Bos-
ton.
Whatever happens, history is
pretty much guaranteed. For the
first time, Boston, barring any-
thing unforeseen, will elect a
mayor who is not a white man.
G l o b e
a boy were sexually assaulted by
the student, the complaint said.
The following year, the par-
ents of a different girl asked for a
safety plan, the complaint said,
and Gavins told staff not to pro-
vide one or respond to the par-
ents’ requests, according to the
c o m p l a i n t . T h a t y e a r, A . J.
groped that girl in her chest and
genital areas, and forced her us-
ing threats of violence to kiss
him and expose her genitals, ac-
cording to the complaint. Staff
witnessed these assaults and re-
ported them to Gavins, the com-
plaint said.
The following school year, the
girl was assigned to sit next to
A.J. and he again assaulted her,
forcibly kissing her and touching
her chest, which staff reported
to Gavins, according to the com-
plaint. In October 2016, A.J.
grabbed the girl’s genitals over
JIM DAVIS/GLOBE STAFF/FILE
around, . . . and they were so gra-
cious.”
O’Sullivan said Hayes and his
brother Kevin, who currently
This year’s race was cracked
w i d e o p e n w h e n Ma r t i n J.
Walsh, the incumbent mayor
who was planning to run for a
third term, was tapped to be
President Biden’s labor secre-
tary. Janey became acting mayor
once Walsh left City Hall. The
entirety of the race has played
out amid the unprecedented
COVID-19 pandemic.
Regarding the pandemic, 71
percent of Boston voters thought
that large venues like concert
halls and sports stadiums
should require proof-of-vaccina-
S A T U R D A Y, A U G U S T 2 8 , 2 0 2 1
her clothes while they were on
the playground, the complaint
said.
The school leaders’ inaction
to protect students after learn-
ing of A.J.’s repeated sexual as-
saults “was deliberately indiffer-
ent and unreasonable,” and trau-
matized the victims, the
complaint said.
“The sexual assaults and at-
mosphere created by the un-
checked sexual assaults caused
severe disruption of the minor
plaintiffs’ education,” the com-
plaint said.
In response, the city argued
the complaint was based on “fac-
tual falsehoods.” The city also
said the school district is respon-
sible for educating all students,
not just the victims, and given
their ages, it could not involve
the police.
It was “an extremely delicate
‘Words can’t
describe how
much he cared
about Dorchester
Youth Hockey’
TIMMY BERARDINELLI
Close friend of Jimmy Hayes
plays for the Philadelphia Flyers,
always made a point to connect
with the kids in the Dorchester
Youth Hockey program, whether
it was hosting a skills clinic,
speaking at a banquet, or play-
ing a game of street hockey with
them.
“They always had time for
the kids,” said O’Sullivan. “They
shared what they had and paved
the way for everybody else.”
O’Sullivan said the loss of
Hayes has been “devastating.”
“He touched so many peo-
t i o n . Mo r e t h a n 60 p e r c e n t
thought shops, restaurants, and
offices should require proof-of-
vaccination, according to the
poll. While Janey has instituted
some significant moves to com-
bat COVID-19 pandemic in re-
cent weeks, including an indoor
mask mandate that goes into ef-
fect on Friday, she has so far de-
clined to institute proof-of-vacci-
nation requirements for public
spaces and venues.
A majority of Boston voters
— 56 percent — said they were
very concerned about the threat
situation, which [BPS] ad-
dressed as best it could,” the city
said. “[BPS] took developmen-
tally appropriate, swift action in
trying to ensure that both the
Plaintiffs’ and the alleged perpe-
trators educational and emo-
tional needs were met.”
US District Judge Allison
Burroughs in 2019 allowed the
lawsuit’s main points to contin-
ue. She wrote that the parents’
allegations that school staff
knew of other sexual assaults by
A.J. but the principal discour-
aged them from filing 51A re-
ports that would prompt investi-
gations, the subsequent sexual
assaults on the plaintiffs’ daugh-
ters were a “foreseeable and di-
rect result of Defendants’ ac-
tions.”
Naomi Martin can be reached at
naomi.martin@globe.com.
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ple,” said O’Sullivan. “It’s just so
sad. The family is hurting. The
whole community is.”
Visiting hours will be held
Sunday between 1 p.m. and 8
p.m. at Florian Hall at 55 Hallet
St. in Dorchester.
A funeral Mass will be said at
St. Ann’s church on Neponset
Avenue in Dorchester on Mon-
day at 10 a.m., and if the church
reaches capacity, services will al-
so be livestreamed at Florian
Hall. The funeral will also be
livestreamed online. The Dor-
chester Youth Hockey stick sa-
lute for Hayes will take place at
10:30 a.m. on Hallet Street.
Donations in Hayes’ memory
can be made to Dorchester
Youth Hockey c/o Phil Olsen, 38
Laban Pratt Road, Dorchester,
MA 02122, according to his obit-
uary.
Emily Sweeney can be reached
at emily.sweeney@globe.com.
Follow her on Twitter
@emilysweeney.
of the Delta variant of COVID-
19, while 30 percent said they
were somewhat concerned.
The poll was conducted Aug.
23-24 and surveyed 600 likely
voters through texting to mobile
phones, robo-polling to land-
lines, and an online panel of
people who opted in to be polled
on various issues.
Danny McDonald can be
reached at
daniel.mcdonald@globe.com.
Follow him on Twitter
@Danny__McDonald.
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Harvard’s new head chaplain
is an atheist, elected by peers
uCHAPLAIN
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he fundamentally but respect-
fully disagrees.
One colleague applauded his
selection.
“It’s great to have someone
who was coming from a really
non-traditional background,”
said the Reverend Adam Law-
rence Dyer, a Unitarian Univer-
salist who is the chaplains’ head
of diversity, inclusion, and be-
longing. “Especially as this is an
institution that has a lot of tra-
ditions.”
Epstein said his professional
journey was influenced heavily
by his childhood in Flushing, a
neighborhood in Queens, New
York. In the 1980 s, he said,
Flushing was considered one of
the most religiously diverse
communities in the world.
“I saw early on that there
was no one right way to be hu-
man,” said Epstein, who noted
his mother left Cuba for the US
at age 13. “There was no one
right way to believe, there was
no one right way to disbelieve.
The most important thing was
that we were all human beings.”
In his 17 years at Harvard,
Epstein said his main focus has
been the students. To them, he
is a mentor who guides them in
good times and bad. He’s intro-
duced some to humanism for
the first time, and encouraged
them to explore and under-
stand other religions.
“He’s a very good conduit to
all the different faiths,” said Lu-
is Esteva Sueiro, a sophomore
who began identifying as an
atheist before enrolling at the
Ivy League college.
He first stumbled across Ep-
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s t e i n’s n a m e w h i l e r e a d i n g
about humanism on the chap-
lains’ website. He reached out
to Epstein months later during
a difficult time.
“It was illuminating,” he said
of their Zoom meeting. “I left
the conversation feeling much
more grounded. Humanism, it’s
kind of filling the void that oth-
ers fill with religion.”
Epstein has encouraged him
to begin talking to his friends
about their faith, “to under-
stand what they believe, and
why they believe it,” Esteva
Sueiro said. At a friend’s invita-
tion, Esteva Suerio observed
Ramadan last April, participat-
ing in the daily after and the af-
ter-sunset meal of Iftar, he said.
Epstein’s ascent aligns with
an uptick in irreligion across
the US and at Harvard over the
past several decades. A Gallup
poll in March found that 21
percent of Americans — up
from just 8 percent in 2000 —
do not identify with any reli-
gion, and that Millennials in
particular are turning away
from organized religion in in-
creasing numbers.
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DIANE HESSAN
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Our
At the forefront of move-
ment at Harvard is Epstein,
who presents humanism as a
way for atheists to reject the ex-
istence of a higher power while
Common
still being part of a faith com-
munity.
“The way Greg talked about
humanism was really powerful
for my own faith formation,”
Ground
said Mary Ellen Geiss, who was
part of a humanist group with
Epstein when she was a gradu-
ate student at Harvard. “And it
was faith formation, even
though it wasn’t a faith in God.
It was a faith in humanity and a
faith in community and a faith
in myself and what I could be,
as I contributed to our larger
whole.”
As head chaplain, Epstein
Available
communicates directly with the
office of Harvard’s president.
He’ ll still guide students
wherever
through tough conversations,
but his focus now is the good of
the community as a whole.
books
“ Who cares whether one
community grows or another
community grows?” said Ep-
are sold
stein. “We have to grow our re-
lationships with one another.
Christians, Jews, Buddhists,
Hindus, Muslims, humanists,
atheists — we have to put up a
united front against the forces
of inhumanity and the impulses
of inhumanity. And I think we
can do it.”
Andrew Brinker can be reached
at andrew.brinker@globe.com.
Follow him on Twitter at
@andrewnbrinker.
“At a time when too many people engaged in
public life are talking past each other, Diane Hessan
makes a very strong case for doing less of that
and much more listening.”
—CHARLIE BAKER, governor of Massachusetts
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ComfortZone
COMMUNITY

Seaport
x Black
Owned Bos.
Market kicks
off two-day
special event
By Riana Buchman

S
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT

eaport x Black Owned Bos.

Market will celebrate Black
Business Month with a
weekend-long celebration
on Aug. 28 and 29.
An extension of the monthly
event will take place in a tented area
on Seaport Common and feature more
than 30 businesses, including Nor-
wood’s Emerald City Plant Shop and
Hope Design, a Roxbury-founded, so-
cially conscious clothing and accesso-
ries brand.
The pop-up was born from an Au-
gust 2020 shopping event with the Sea-
port and Black Owned Bos. and has
since grown to feature more than 70 lo-
cal BIPOC businesses and entrepre-
neurs through its monthly iterations.
While the COVID-19 pandemic has
PAT GREENHOUSE/GLOBE STAFF
posed challenges for many traditional

Mix master
brick and mortar retailers, the outdoor
pop-up marketplace has worked to cre-
ate guidelines for social distancing in
an attempt to keep both creators and
shoppers safe.
“At the heart of a commercial dis-
trict in Boston, Seaport Common has
been a phenomenal location to kick off
the Seaport x Black Owned Bos. out-
door market,” said Jae’da Turner, Paint-matching whiz Fritz Proctor IV is the Bob Ross of TikTok
founder and managing director of
Black Owned Bos., in a press release.
“As a pop-up, the market is a one-of-a- By Dana Gerber ing which paints to mix, the order in Proctor has raised over $2,500

kind experience — creating a sense of
belonging and community for the ven-
dor partners and all of the patrons. I
am excited to see how the relationships
fostered at the market can continue to
turn into long term impactful business
opportunities in the Seaport district
and beyond.”
DJ Knzwrth will provide live enter-
tainment on Aug. 28, and DJ Slick Vick
takes over on Aug. 29. Masks are op-
tional, and hand sanitizer will be pro-
vided for guests, who are advised to
maintain social distancing throughout
the event. Contactless payment is pre-
ferred when possible.
The monthly pop-up market will
continue through the fall, with upcom-
ing dates on Sep. 26 and Oct. 17.
Presented by Seaport at WS Develop-
ment. 1-7 p.m., Aug. 28; noon-6 p.m.,
Aug. 29. Seaport Common, 85 Northern
Ave, Boston. More information at bos-
tonseaport.xyz.
Riana Buchman can be reached at
riana.buchman@globe.com.
BRED HAMPTON
An image from Seaport x Black
Owned Bos. Market 2020.
F
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
ritz Proctor IV’s TikTok
videos are flourishes of
vivid pigments. He mixes
bright crimsons, cobalt
blues, and titanium
whites to produce a color — whichev-
er one he’s decided to re-create that
day.
As @fritzdoesart, Proctor follows
a standard format in most of his vid-
eos. He picks out a color swatch card,
grabs his trusty palette knife, and
slaps together globs of oil-based
paint on a table until he arrives at a
perfect match. He then dabs the
paint on the swatch card, proving the
two are all but indistinguishable.
The videos fall somewhere be-
tween ASMR and art, but whatever
they are, they’re working: He’s
racked up 6 million followers since
he started his account last August.
“That whole paint-mixing process
has been part of my studio practice
as a painter,” said Proctor, 24, who
works out of his Malden home. “One
day my wife, Blair, was compliment-
ing [me] on how therapeutic it was.
... I put [up a video] and it just start-
ed going crazy.”
Proctor, a painter by trade, said
paint mixing is a skill necessary to
make the right colors for his own
works. He attended the Fashion In-
stitute of Technology in New York be-
fore finishing a studio art degree at
the University at Buffalo.
After learning the ins and outs of
color theory in college, he said know-
which to blend them, and the precise
amounts to use is “muscle memory.”
“It’s hard to fool the camera,” he
said. “I have to get it pretty close.”
But swatch cards aren’t the only
models he uses. In his more than 200
videos, Proctor has re-created the
buttery yellow hue of a slice of
Velveeta cheese, the dusty beige of
the Mona Lisa’s face, and the tea
green of a dollar bill. Sometimes,
fans will give him challenges, like
blending the color black without us-
ing black paint.
“I’ve had to move into materials,
props, things that are iconic,” Proctor
said. “Every day is like: What am I
going to do next?”
Each video, he said, can take him
up to a half hour to make, and the
process is complicated by the fact
that he has to match the color to
what is perceived through the lens of
the camera, not what he sees.
Proctor, who called paint-mixing
“a bit of a meditation,” rarely posts
tutorials to teach viewers to mix
paints themselves. However, he said
he occasionally leaves videos up in
which he doesn’t think the color is a
perfect match, and noticed that view-
ers began picking up on the errors,
too.
“With the TikTok, my real goal is
to try to get people interested in art
without them actually knowing,” he
said. “I want people to be aware
about color. And they see, ‘Oh, it
needs purple.’”
A native of Niagara Falls, N.Y.,
through a GoFundMe (which he ad-
vertised on his TikTok) for Niagara
Falls City School District’s art pro-
gram to provide students with art
supplies, scholarships, and cultural
field trips.
“My goal is to just get more peo-
ple to be interested in art, because
it’s totally changed my life,” he said.
“I genuinely believe that the more
people that create art, the happier
people will be”
Proctor said that in April 2022 his
own work is slated to be on display at
the Buffalo Art Movement gallery, in-
cluding a huge painting of Rafe’s
Chasm in Gloucester — “I’ve fallen in
love with the North Shore,” he said.
One of his reasons for moving to
Massachusetts was the potential for
nature paintings of the Bay State’s
landscapes. He saves all the colors he
mixes to use for his own pieces, and
TIKTOK
he occasionally posts time-lapsed
TikTok videos of him painting Top: Fritz Proctor IV, known
around Massachusetts. on TikTok as @Fritzdoesart,
Though he continues to cultivate demonstrated his paint-mixing
his fine art career, he said part of the skills this week on Boston
price for becoming viral for this Common. Above: A screenshot
niche skill is learning to let go of his of a video by the artist, who has
ego. “It’s kind of like a Bob Ross sce- amassed 6 million TikTok
nario,” he said. followers.
Money from sponsorships and
monetization from his TikTok and every day, and that’s come true,” he
YouTube videos allowed Proctor to said. “It’s [taken] on a life of its own,
leave his job as a sign painter for the so I’m just a vehicle for it.”
Massachusetts Department of Con-
servation and Recreation.
“My dream was to quit my job Dana Gerber can be reached at
and be a full-time painter and paint dana.gerber@globe.com.

Three Mass. drive-ins listed among the best in the Northeast

By Dana Gerber MOVIE NIGHTS

L
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT

et’s all go to the ton, just short of a hundred

movies.
Three Massachu-
setts drive-in movie
theaters — Mendon
Twin Drive-In, the drive-in at
Wellfleet Cinemas, and West
Springfield Drive-In — are
among the best in the North-
east, according to an unranked
list by USA Today.
Mendon Twin, which opened
in 1954, is located about 40
miles southwest of Boston on a
16-acre piece of land. With a
snack bar slinging freshly made
popcorn and Dolby Digital
sound broadcast over visitors’
car radios, Mendon Twin pairs
modern amenities with nostal-
gia. Its Pop’s Beer Garden, which
opened in 2014, serves up six
draft beers and wines by the
glass to make even the most
family-friendly movie a little
more adult.
Mendon Twin (left) and Wellfleet Drive-In are two of the best drive-in theaters in the Northeast, according to USA Today.
Open until Labor Day, Men-
don Twin is currently showing
double features of “Candyman”
and “Old” as well as “Free Guy”
and “Jungle Cruise” on its two
screens, with tickets at $30 per
car.
The drive-in at Wellfleet Cin-
emas, the only drive-in spot on
the Cape, opened a few years af-
ter Mendon Twin, in 1957. A
mini-golf course is on the
grounds if you want to show up
early and putt a few rounds, and
there’s an indoor cinema for
when you want to trade the
front seat of your car for a front-
row seat.
MENDON TWIN DRIVE-IN (LEFT); CRAIG F. WALKER/GLOBE STAFF
Double features of “Free
Guy” and “Jungle Cruise” are
currently on tap, with showings
of “Grease” and “Dirty Dancing”
as well as “Jaws” and “Jurassic
Park” to come next week. Mov-
ies are shown rain or shine, and
tickets are put on sale three to
five days in advance of show-
ings. Admission is $15 per per-
son and the snack bar offers
comfort food like pizza, nachos,
and chicken fingers, and a dairy
bar boasts ice cream, soft-serve,
and milkshakes for a sweeter
treat.
The West Springfield Drive-
In is the farthest trek from Bos-
miles away in Western Massa-
chusetts. The drive-in is now
closed for the season.
There were only about 300
surviving drive-in movie theaters
in the US as of May 2020, accord-
ing to previous Globe reporting.
But drive-ins were given new life
during the pandemic due to their
built-in socially distanced lay-
outs. In their 1950s heyday, there
were over 4,000 drive-ins operat-
ing in the country.
Looking to pack a road-trip
into your drive-in movie experi-
ence? Other top picks from USA
Today include the Rustic Tri
View Drive-In in North Smith-
field, R.I., the Mansfield Drive-
In in Mansfield Center, Conn.,
and the Four Brothers Drive-In
Theatre in Amenia, N.Y.
Dana Gerber can be reached at
dana.gerber@globe.com
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TV HIGHLIGHTS
PGA: BMW Championship, noon, Golf, and 3 p.m., NBC
Women’s hockey: World quarterfinal (US-Japan), 3:30 p.m., NHL
Baseball: Red Sox-Indians, 4:05 p.m., NESN, FS1
NASCAR: Coke Zero Sugar 400, 7 p.m., NBC
MLS: Revolution-NYC, 7:30 p.m., Ch. 38
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PATRIOTS AT GIANTS
Sunday, 6 p.m., Ch. 4, NFL

Stevenson
has been
embraced
Rookie RB says Patriot
veterans are supportive
By Jim McBride
GLOBE STAFF

FOXBOROUGH — Rhamondre Stevenson

has been a big deal this preseason.
The 6-foot, 246-pound rookie running back
with the broad shoulders and light feet has
rushed for 194 yards and four touchdowns in
two exhibition games for the Patriots.
The Oklahoma product has surprised many
with an impressive combination of vision,
burst, and power. What has surprised Steven-
son the most is how welcome he’s felt since
landing in New England.
“I would say how supportive all the vets are,”
he said Friday. “They’re just always [there with]
a helping hand. I could go talk to any one of
these guys and they’re going to point me in the
right direction. So, I’ll say that’s the biggest sur-
prise and the thing I’m grateful for.”
One of the veterans that Stevenson leaned
on was Sony Michel, who was traded this week.
NIC ANTAYA/GETTY IMAGES
Stevenson’s torrid training camp actually was
one of the reasons the club dealt Michel. Ste- Jonathan Araúz, who was called up from Triple A Worcester and arrived just before game time, hit a three-run home run in the eighth.
venson believes the relationship will continue,

Sox offense arrives late

however.
“Yeah, of course,” he said. “He’s been a men-
tor for me while he was here and I don’t think
that’s going to change for us.”
Though Stevenson has moved up the depth
chart as a result of Michel’s departure, he hasn’t
really thought about it in those terms.
“Honestly, I try not to even get into the busi-
ness side of that or anything,” he said. “I’m here.
If he was here, I would still be working as hard
Home run in eighth
as I would work after whatever happened and
whatnot. So, I don’t think that really changes caps comeback win
anything for me.
“I just know that I’ve got to work hard — and By Julian McWilliams
I wouldn’t even say harder or anything like GLOBE STAFF

that. You’ve got to work hard and just stay fo- Red Sox 4 Jonathan Araúz wasn’t supposed to
cused on the task at hand.” be here.
One of the people helping Stevenson stay fo- Indians 3 Not in Cleveland, at least. Not im-
cused is veteran coach Ivan Fears, a stern task- mersed in this moment. But sometimes you’re
master whom the rookie appreciates. thrust into that moment unexpectedly with little
“He’s an older coach, he’s been here for a time to process. Only the expectation to perform.
while, so he’s seen a lot of backs,” said Steven- On Friday at Progressive Field, Araúz had his
son. “He knows what it’s supposed to look like moment against Indians reliever James Kar-
and the steps a person needs to take — especial- inchak.
ly a running back — to be successful in this The Sox offense looked weary the entire eve-
league. So, I just feed off anything he says and ning against the Indians. Yet with no outs in the
just try to learn from him.” eighth and Cleveland hanging on to a two-run
PATRIOTS, Page C2 lead, Araúz struck a match with a go-ahead three-
run home run, what was ultimately the deciding
factor in the Sox’ 4-3 victory.
Just like his homer that suddenly changed the
complexion of the game, Araúz ’s day happened at
a rapid pace.

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COVID; Arroyo deemed in close contact. C5
Eduardo Rodriguez allowed three runs and threw 109 pitches in seven innings to get the win.
Kiké Hernández tested positive for COVID-19,

MATTHEW J. LEE/GLOBE STAFF
Running back Rhamondre Stevenson has
been surprised at how supportive vet-
erans on the Patriots have been.
Full swing: Araúz had good timing
Peter Abraham
ON BASEBALL
CLEVELAND — It’s about a three-hour ride
from Buffalo to Cleveland, a relatively straight line
southwest on I-90 along the shore of Lake Erie.
Jonathan Araúz and Yairo Muñoz were not ex-
pecting to take that ride on Friday afternoon. But
the Red Sox needed two players in a hurry after
Christian Arroyo and Kiké Hernández went on the
COVD-19 related injured list.
Fortunately for the Sox, Triple A Worcester was
playing in Buffalo. The WooSox team bus carried
Araúz and Muñoz to Progressive Field, arriving
around 5:30 p.m.
Four hours later, Araúz was the hero in one of
the unlikeliest victories of the season. And maybe
one of the most important, too.
After twice failing to bunt, Araúz lined a three-
run homer to right field in the eighth inning as the
Sox beat the Cleveland Indians, 4-3.
It’ll take a few days before we know if this
game is what galvanizes the Red Sox. But how
could it not?
“Those are fun. That’s why I do this, to enjoy
stuff like this,” manager Alex Cora said. “I know I
suffer and I get frustrated. But this is very gratify-
ing … Games like that, this is why we’re here.”
ON BASEBALL, Page C5
which meant a trip to the COVID-related injured
list. Christian Arroyo was considered a close con-
tact, so that put him there, too.
That’s when the Red Sox called on Araúz and
Yairo Muñoz, both of whom were with Triple A
Worcester in Buffalo. A three-hour trip via the
WooSox team bus got the pair to Cleveland a little
more than an hour before first pitch. Both were in
the starting lineup, and it was Araúz who ended up
being the difference maker.
“It meant a ton,” Araúz said afterward. “Obvi-
ously I’m very aware of what happened today, what
happened to the team, and where the team was at.
It’s my first home run of the year. It was a huge
home run. I know I’m not going to forget this
home run.”
The Red Sox had just three hits in the game to
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INSIDE
Wide receiver Flowers sends How low

positive charge to BC football can he go?

DeChambeau
(left) shoots 60,
but misses short
By Trevor Hass tian. putt for 59. C6
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT “But I’m asking you the question,” Flowers per-
Midway through Boston College Football Me- sisted. Vaccine
dia Day on Monday, with his teammates scattered Flowers, a junior and a preseason all-ACC first- mandates
throughout Fish Field House, Zay Flowers ap- team selection who has a strong chance to be the NBA personnel to
proached quarterback Phil Jurkovec with a re- first Eagles wide receiver drafted since 1987, is al- be vaccinated;
cording device in hand. ways one to maximize the situation in front of Astros, Nationals
The wide receiver, who bounced around all af- him. He was an all-ACC first-teamer last year, just do same. C6
ternoon, leaned toward Jurkovec and asked him a the second BC wide receiver to earn that honor,
thought-provoking question: “What do you have and it’s likely his best is yet to come. ‘I can’t
in your heart from this camp that you feel like you Once a three-star recruit who didn’t receive a breathe’
need to get out?” steady stream of offers until his junior year at Uni- LA police tased
Flowers tried to keep a poker face before his versity School in Florida, the 5-foot-10-inch, 177- Pelicans’ Hayes in
signature smile inevitably appeared. pounder has developed into one of the most ex- struggle July 28.
Jurkovec shrugged, grinned, and said it was plosive receivers in the country. His optimism, Sports Log, C8
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POINT AFTER
Is the No. 17
really a curse
for Patriots?
By Christopher Price
GLOBE STAFF
When it comes to the Patriots, forget 13 being
the unluckiest number. It’s 17.
According to Pro Football Reference, 17 players
have worn No. 17 for the Patriots dating to 1968,
nine during the Bill Belichick era. That includes
current No. 17, wide receiver Kristian Wilkerson.
Some have been high-profile acquisitions, such
as Antonio Brown. Others have been early draft
picks, such as Aaron Dobson and Chad Jackson.
And others have been under-the-radar players
who appeared to be good fits in New England.
The odds suggest that someone, somewhere
along the way would have been able to distinguish
themselves with those digits. But over the last 20
years in New England, being assigned No. 17 has
been a jinx, a red flag that says regardless of your
football pedigree, you should be renting month-to-
month instead of year-to-year.
Consider the candidates:
Antonio Brown (2019): After initially choosing
No. 1 after he was signed, Brown switched to No.
17 (the number his father Eddie wore in the Arena
League), and played one game with the Patriots
before being released following a flurry of legal is-
sues. He is now flourishing with the defending Su-
per Bowl champions in Tampa Bay as No. 81.
Riley McCarron (2018): McCarron spent the
bulk of the 2017 and 2018 seasons on the New
England practice squad. One game, no catches in
2018.
Bernard Reedy (2017): Reedy had two games
in 2017, zero catches. That season, he good-na-
turedly said he was going to be the one to break
the curse of No. 17. He was waived a few months
later. Reedy played for Tampa Bay and Arizona, as
well as the reborn XFL and CFL.
Aaron Dobson (2013-15): Statistically, Dobson
was the most productive No. 17 of the last 20 sea-
sons, and had the number the longest. He had 53
catches for 698 yards and four touchdowns in
three seasons with New England, and is now out
of football.
Greg Salas (2012): The season after Taylor
Price was let go, the former Ram — coming off a
27-catch cam-
paign with St.
Louis in 2011
— was as-
signed No. 17
when he ar-
rived in 2012.
The receiver
played one reg-
ular-season
game for the
Patriots that
season and
didn’t record a
FILE/BARRY CHIN/GLOBE STAFF
catch. (Two
Mercurial wide receiver years later,
Antonio Brown lasted one he’d catch 23
game with the Patriots. passes for the
Jets.) He is
now working for the University of Hawaii.
Taylor Price (2010-11): Three years after Chad
Jackson was let go by the Patriots, they gave the
number to Price, a third-round draft choice out of
Ohio in 2010. He fared no better than Jackson,
spending a year-plus in New England, catching
three passes for 41 yards.
Chad Jackson (2006-07): A second-round pick
out of Florida, Jackson was one of the biggest dis-
appointments in recent franchise history. In 14
games over two injury-marred seasons, he caught
12 passes for 152 yards and three touchdowns.
Near the end of his career with the Patriots, he was
asked if he had any advice for young pass catchers
in New England. “Yeah,” he replied with a straight
face. “Don’t get hurt.”
Dedric Ward (2003): Ward had a brief stopover
with the Patriots in 2003, playing four games and
finishing with seven catches for 106 yards and a
touchdown. He spent eight seasons in the league,
playing for New England, the New York Jets, Mi-
ami, Baltimore and Dallas. If there’s an exception
to every rule, in this case, Ward might be the one.
For the record, the curse hasn’t been limited to
receivers. Arguably, the most productive No. 17 in
franchise history might have been quarterback
Mike Taliaferro, who was with the Patriots from
1968-70. In that stretch, he completed 45 percent
of his pass attempts for 3,920 yards, 27 touch-
downs and 44 interceptions. Backup quarterbacks
Tom Owen (1976-81) and John Friesz (1999-2000)
also wore No. 17.
That brings us back to Wilkerson, the 17th No.
17 in franchise history. He did start the preseason
with a team-high six catches for 39 yards in the 22-
13 win over Washington, a game in which he near-
ly hauled in a touchdown pass from Mac Jones.
That was followed by three catches on three tar-
gets for 36 yards in garbage time against the Ea-
gles. All in all, it was a good start. (For some con-
text, if Wilkerson had six catches while wearing
No. 17 in a regular-season game for New England,
it would be the second-most productive afternoon
for any No. 17 since Dobson had seven catches in a
2015 game against Buffalo.)
“Just doing what the coaches coach in the class-
room and having good fundamentals out there,”
Wilkerson said after the Patriots routed the Ea-
gles. “Doing all you can do. The ball will come if
you do the right things and make the right plays,
so hopefully I can keep on doing that.”
Ultimately, could he be the one to reverse the
curse? Only time will tell. If he does survive cut-
down day, just to be safe, he might want to check
out some other options for numbers. And make
sure he doesn’t get hurt.
Christopher Price’s Point After newsletter appears
on Boston.Globe.com. He can be reached at
christopher.price@globe.com. Follow him on
Twitter at cpriceglobe.
T h e
Closer look at new acquisition Wade
By Tom Westerholm
BOSTON.COM STAFF
The Patriots acquired rookie cor-
nerback Shaun Wade from the Ra-
vens Thursday, sending a pair of fu-
ture draft picks for a player once con-
sidered a first-round talent.
Here are four things to know
about Wade.
R He was Player of the Year in
high school.
Prior to the 2020 season, Wade
was one of the best defensive players
in college football. A five-star recruit
coming out of high school, he was
USA Today’s High School Defensive
Player of the Year in 2016. He was
named Defensive Back of the Year at
the All-American game that year as
well.
R He was ejected from the 2019
NCAA semifinals for targeting Trev-
or Lawrence.
In 2019, Ohio State took on Clem-
son in the Fiesta Bowl, which was al-
so a semifinal of the NCAA playoffs.
Ohio State took a 16-0 lead, but on
third and 5 late in the second quar-
ter, a massive gap opened up in
Clemson’s protection in front of
quarterback Trevor Lawrence. Wade
took off and dragged down Lawrence
for a huge loss. Wade scampered off
the field, only to hear from team-
mates that they thought he was
about to be kicked out of the game.
“I was like, ‘For what?’ ” Wade told
ESPN a year later.
The answer was targeting. No
player is allowed to hit an opponent
with the crown of his helmet, and
Wade crashed his helmet into Law-
rence’s.
Dont’a Hightower (right) likes what he sees in the team’s rookie quaterback, a fellow Alabama alumnus.
Stevenson enjoying support
uPATRIOTS
Continued from Page C1
. . .
Center David Andrews and All-
Pro kickoff returner Gunner Olszews-
ki were not spotted during the win-
dow in which media were allowed to
observe practice Friday, though cor-
nerback Jonathan Jones was present.
Andrews (undisclosed) and Jones
(lower body) left Thursday’s joint
practice session with the Giants ear-
ly. Andre ws did ge t his helme t
knocked off on a play, but it’s uncer-
tain whether that’s when he was in-
jured. This was Olszewski’s first
Rookie quarterback Mac Jones (shown at Thursday’s practice) is a
“real smart dude,” according to one veteran Patriots teammate.
B o s t o n G l o b e
Shaun Wade was selected in the fifth round of the draft by the
Ravens this year, but his credentials appear better than that.
“Just hit me right in the side of the
head,” Lawrence told ESPN. “That
was a hard hit. Gave me a little sting-
er, knocked me down for a little bit.
“I just hate to see a great player
like him have to miss the rest of the
game. I could see a penalty, whatever.
But that was kind of tough.”
Clemson rallied and won as Wade
remained in the locker room. The
sting of that loss, according to his
family, propelled him to return for
another season in college — which
missed session of the summer.
Cornerback Shaun Wade, who
was acquired from the Ravens Thurs-
day, made his debut. The rookie is
wearing the No. 26 previously worn
by Michel, though it was red, indicat-
ing he’s not ready for contact.
Tight end Hunter Henry, defen-
sive back Myles Bryant, and running
back Brandon Bolden also wore red
shirts.
Also not spotted: quarterback Jar-
rett Stidham (PUP), receiver N’Keal
Harry (shoulder), tight end Matt La-
Cosse, cornerback Stephon Gilmore
(PUP), safety Joshuah Bledsoe (NFI),
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proved costly to his draft stock.
Wade and Ohio State turned the
tables the next season when they
again faced Lawrence and Clemson
in the semifinals. This time, the
Buckeyes claimed a 49-28 victory.
Wade tied for the team lead in tackles
with nine.
R He wore No. 24 in college to
honor a late friend.
In a n e m o t i o n a l f e a t u r e o n
NFL.com published in March, Wade
talked extensively about Jacoby
MATTHEW J. LEE/GLOBE STAFF
linebackers Anfernee Jennings, Cam
McGrone (NFI), and Terez Hall, and
defensive linemen Nick Thurman
and Byron Cowart.
The club released tight end Ka-
hale Warring three days after claim-
ing him on waivers from the Texans.
He participated in Wednesday’s prac-
tice and made an acrobatic catch
from Mac Jones during individual
drills but did not see any team snaps.
. . .
Dont’a Hightower had some high
praise when asked about fellow Ala-
bama alum Jones this week. A nine-
year veteran who often serves as the
quarterback of the defense, Hightow-
er likes Jones’s demeanor. “I’ll just
say with Mac, he’s a terrific kid,” said
Hightower. “He works hard. Real
smart dude. He’s going to go over the
edge. I’ve been impressed with him
in OTAs and how hard he works. Ac-
tually found out [Wednesday] he’s
been looking at some of the defensive
plays so he can kind of conceptually
see how they kind of work. I give him
credit for that, because not a lot of
young guys would see that as an op-
portunity, and he did that on his
own. You can take that for what it’s
worth. The kid works hard. I’ll leave
it at that.” . . . Joejuan Williams said
he introduced himself to Wade at
practice. “He looks like a smooth
dude, so I look forward to getting to
know him more and then going from
there.” . . . New Orleans named
Jameis Winston its starting quarter-
back after his camp battle with Tay-
som Hill. The Saints are set to visit
New England in Week 3.
Jim McBride can be reached at
james.mcbride@globe.com. Follow
him on Twitter @globejimmcbride.
Wright, a close friend who was the
victim of a homicide in 2015. Accord-
ing to Wade, Wright helped shelter
him and kept him away from vio-
lence in Jacksonville, Fla., even as a
violent lifestyle began to consume
Wright himself.
In return, Wade tried to convince
Wright to join him at Trinity Chris-
tian Academy, where the duo could
play football together in a safer envi-
ronment.
But Wright began pulling away
from his friends, and he was found
dead in December. Police ruled his
killing — one of 113 that year in Jack-
sonville — a justifiable homicide.
Wade wore Wright’s AAU basket-
ball number — 24 — throughout his
time at Ohio State and hoped to wear
it in the NFL, but he was No. 29 in
Baltimore. In New England, Wade is
likely out of luck again; No. 24 be-
longs to the top cornerback on the
roster, Stephon Gilmore.
Still, expect to see Wade sporting
the letters “BLIC” for “Balling Like
I’m Coby” on his apparel in the NFL.
R His lack of development in
2020 wasn’t unusual.
Wade was chosen in the fifth
round of this year’s draft, but as one
AFC scout told NFL.com, plenty of
players went through the same issues
last season.
“He didn’t really show what every-
one was hoping to see [in 2020], but
that doesn’t mean he can’t still be
that guy,” the scout said.
“If you want to talk about draft
prospects who didn’t develop much
in 2020, Shaun Wade is just one
name on a long list.”
Saints nix
game with
Ida looming
FROM WIRE SERVICES
The New Orleans Saints can-
celed their home exhibition game
set for Saturday against the Arizona
Cardinals because
NFL of the potential for
NOTEBOOK Hurricane Ida to
batter Louisiana’s
coast with wind as high as 140
miles per hour by Sunday.
After initially moving kickoff up
by seven hours, the Saints an-
nounced the subsequent decision
Friday night to cancel the game
came after consultation with city of-
ficials in New Orleans, governor
John Bel Edwards, the National
Weather Service, The Department
of Homeland Security, and the NFL.
Ida struck Cuba on Friday show-
ing hallmarks of a rapidly intensify-
ing storm that could speed across
warm Gulf waters and slam into
Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane
on Sunday, the National Hurricane
Center warned.
If so, the storm would strike the
Louisiana coast 16 years to the day
after Hurricane Katrina leveled
parts of the Mississippi Coast and
ruptured storm protection levees
around New Orleans on Aug. 29,
2005, causing about 80 percent of
the city to be affected by flooding
that in some neighborhoods left on-
ly roofs above water.
The Saints also had a preseason
game the Saturday night before Ka-
trina struck little more than 24
hours later and the team wound up
being displaced to San Antonio for
all of the 2005 regular season. The
Saints played just four home games
in Louisiana that year, all at LSU’s
Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge. The
Saints also played three home
games in San Antonio’s Alamo
Dome and one in Giants Stadium.
Saturday’s game with Arizona
was to be the exhibition finale for
both clubs, a day after an Associat-
ed Press source confirmed an earli-
er ESPN report Friday that the club
had decided to make Jameis Win-
ston its Week 1 starter at quarter-
back.
Mahomes on target
Patrick Mahomes was nearly
perfect Friday night, throwing for
117 yards and two scores in his only
two chances with the ball and lead-
ing the host Chiefs to a 28-24 victo-
ry over the Vikings in their exhibi-
tion finale. Mahomes was sharper
than he'd been his first two exhibi-
tions, finishing 8 of 9 with the only
miss a throwaway with nobody
open . . . The Colts’ depth chart at
quarterback took another hit. Rook-
ie Sam Ehlinger was knocked out of
the exhibition finale with a knee in-
jury in a 27-17 win over the host Li-
ons. With Carson Wentz recovering
from foot surgery, Ehlinger is com-
peting with second-year quarter-
back Jacob Eason to possibly take
the team’s first snap in two weeks
when the season opens.
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Baseball

AL
ASTROS 5, RANGERS 4
HOUSTON AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Brantley lf 5 0 3 2 0 0 .320
Díaz 2b 4 0 0 0 1 2 .298
Gurriel 1b 5 0 1 1 0 1 .315
Alvarez dh 4 0 1 0 0 1 .283
Correa ss 4 1 1 0 0 2 .276
EAST W L Pct. GB WCGB Last 10 Streak Bregman 3b 3 1 1 0 1 2 .278
Tucker rf 4 1 1 0 0 1 .274
Tampa Bay 80 48 .625 — — 9-1 W5 Meyers cf 4 1 1 2 0 1 .311
*New York 75 52 .591 4½ — 10-0 W 12 Maldonado c 3 1 0 0 1 0 .177
Totals 36 5 9 5 3 10
Boston 74 56 .569 7 — 5-5 W2
Toronto 66 61 .520 13½ 6½ 3-7 L2 TEXAS AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Kiner-Falefa ss 5 0 2 0 0 0 .267
Baltimore 40 87 .315 39½ 32½ 2-8 L1 Ibáñez 3b 5 1 2 1 0 1 .263
AGarcía rf 5 0 2 0 0 3 .246
CENTRAL W L Pct. GB WCGB Last 10 Streak Lowe 1b 5 1 1 0 0 1 .255
*Chicago 74 55 .574 — — 5-5 W1 Peters cf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .167
Solak 2b 3 1 2 0 0 0 .234
Cleveland 63 63 .500 9½ 9 6-4 L1 JaMartin lf 4 0 2 1 0 1 .190
Detroit 62 67 .481 12 11½ 4-6 W1 Pozo dh 4 1 1 1 0 1 .200
Trevino c 4 0 1 1 0 1 .227
*Kansas City 57 70 .449 16 15½ 7-3 W1 Totals 39 4 13 4 0 10
*Minnesota 55 72 .433 18 17½ 4-6 L1 Houston ..................... 000 000 500 — 5 9 0
WEST W L Pct. GB WCGB Last 10 Streak Texas..........................000 112 000 — 4 13 0
LOB—Houston 7, Texas 9. 2B—Gurriel (28),
*Houston 75 52 .591 — — 5-5 W2 Alvarez (25), Meyers (4), Lowe (18), Pozo (1),
*Oakland 70 58 .547 5½ 3 2-8 L5 Trevino (11). HR—Ibáñez (6), off Odorizzi.
DP—Houston 1.
*Seattle 69 59 .539 6½ 4 6-4 L1
Houston IP H R ER BB SO ERA
*Los Angeles 63 66 .488 13 10½ 4-6 L2 Odorizzi 5 6 2 2 0 5 4.46

NL
*Texas 44 83 .346 31 28½ 3-7 L2 Maton W 3-0 1 3 2 2 0 2 4.96
YGarcía 1 1 0 0 0 1 4.15
Stanek 1 1 0 0 0 2 3.93
Pressly S 20 1 2 0 0 0 0 1.90

Texas IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Otto 5 2 0 0 0 7 0.00
Cotton 1 3 2 2 1 1 6.23
BrMartin BS 2;
1 3 3 3 1 0 3.61
L 3-4
Evans 1 1 0 0 0 2 4.76
EAST W L Pct. GB WCGB Last 10 Streak Benjamin 1 0 0 0 1 0 6.62
*Atlanta 68 58 .540 — — 8-2 L2 Cotton pitched to 2 batters in the 7th. In-
herited runners-scored—BrMartin 2-2. HBP—
*Philadelphia 63 64 .496 5½ 6½ 2-8 L3 by Odorizzi (Solak). NP—Odorizzi 88, Maton
New York 61 67 .477 8 9 2-8 L4 15, YGarcía 12, Stanek 15, Pressly 10, Otto 73,
Cotton 27, BrMartin 19, Evans 12, Benjamin
Washington 55 72 .433 13½ 14½ 5-5 W1 GAIL BURTON/ASSOCIATED PRESS 20. Umpires—Home, Roberto Ortiz; First,
Miami 53 76 .411 16½ 17½ 2-8 L1 Chad Fairchild; Second, CB Bucknor; Third,
Yandy Diaz follows through with an RBI single in the Rays’ three-run first inning against the Orioles. Kerwin Danley. T—3:15. A—29,286 (40,518).
CENTRAL W L Pct. GB WCGB Last 10 Streak
*Milwaukee 78 50 .609 — — 7-3 L1 TWINS 2, BREWERS 0
Cincinnati 71 59 .546 8 — 6-4 W2

Bauer case to
St. Louis 65 62 .512 12½ 4½ 4-6 W1 RAYS 6, ORIOLES 3 CARDINALS 4, PIRATES 3 MILWAUKEE AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Wong 2b 4 0 2 0 0 0 .287
*Chicago 56 73 .434 22½ 14½ 4-6 L1 ST. LOUIS AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Urías ss 4 0 0 0 0 0 .246
TAMPA BAY AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Pittsburgh 47 82 .364 31½ 23½ 5-5 L1 Edman 2b 4 1 1 3 0 0 .261 Yelich dh 3 0 1 0 1 1 .251
Lowe 2b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .232 Goldschmidt 1b 4 0 3 0 0 1 .286 AGarcía rf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .275
WEST W L Pct. GB WCGB Last 10 Streak Cruz dh 4 0 0 0 0 1 .273 O'Neill lf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .271 Bradley Jr. rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .172

DA as MLB
WFranco ss 3 1 0 0 1 0 .270 Arenado 3b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .255 Cain cf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .239
*San Francisco 83 44 .654 — — 8-2 W5 Meadows lf 4 1 1 0 0 0 .236 Molina c 4 0 1 0 0 0 .259 Tellez 1b 4 0 1 0 0 2 .275
*Los Angeles 81 47 .633 2½ — 9-1 W3 Phillips lf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .214 Carlson rf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .255 Piña c 2 0 0 0 0 0 .178
Sosa ss 3 1 1 0 0 2 .265 Narváez ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .286
*San Diego 68 61 .527 16 2½ 2-8 L4 Díaz 1b 4 1 1 1 0 0 .255 García p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Wendle 3b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .272 Peterson lf 3 0 0 0 0 2 .265
Gallegos p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
*Colorado 58 69 .457 25 11½ 6-4 W1 Margot rf 3 1 1 2 0 0 .255 Carpenter ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 .184
Reyes 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .203
Totals 32 0 5 0 1 8
*Arizona 44 85 .341 40 26½ 6-4 W2

extends leave
Kiermaier cf 3 1 0 0 1 1 .240 Reyes p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
* — Not including late game Zunino c 3 1 1 3 0 0 .211 Bader cf 4 1 1 1 0 0 .246 MINNESOTA AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Happ p 2 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Buxton cf 3 0 0 0 1 2 .358
Totals 32 6 5 6 2 5
DeJong ss 2 1 1 0 0 0 .201
RESULTS Polanco 2b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .272
Totals 33 4 9 4 1 6
BALTIMORE AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Refsnyder lf 4 1 1 0 0 2 .265
FRIDAY Mullins cf 5 1 2 1 0 0 .308 PITTSBURGH AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Donaldson dh 2 1 1 2 2 0 .250
Mountcastle 1b 5 0 0 0 0 2 .260 Gamel cf-rf 5 0 0 0 0 1 .259 Sanó 1b 4 0 1 0 0 2 .215
Hayes 3b 4 0 0 0 1 1 .247 Jeffers c 4 0 0 0 0 1 .206
Boston 4 at Cleveland 3 Houston at Texas Mancini dh 4 1 1 0 0 0 .257 Chavis 2b 4 1 1 0 0 1 .381 Kepler rf 3 0 2 0 1 0 .211
FROM WIRE REPORTS Santander rf 3 0 1 0 0 1 .253 Moran 1b 3 1 1 1 1 0 .287 Astudillo 3b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .257
St. Louis 4 at Pittsburgh 3 Chi. Cubs at Chi. White Sox Hays lf 4 1 2 2 0 1 .243 Stallings c 4 1 3 0 0 0 .240 Simmons ss 3 0 2 0 0 1 .225
Tampa Bay 6 at Baltimore 3 Milwaukee at Minnesota Pasadena, Calif., police on Friday presented to Urías ss 3 0 2 0 0 0 .282 Tsutsugo rf 3 0 1 1 1 0 .224 Totals 31 2 8 2 4 10
Severino c 4 0 1 0 0 0 .236 Stratton p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Cincinnati 6 at Miami 0 San Diego at LA Angels prosecutors their investigation of Dodgers pitcher Jones 2b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .118
Newman ss 3 0 1 1 1 0 .224 Milwaukee.................000 000 000 — 0 5 0
Alford lf 4 0 1 0 0 2 .173 Minnesota..................200 000 00x — 2 8 0
At Detroit 2 Toronto 1 NY Yankees at Oakland Trevor Bauer in the case of a woman who said he Gutierrez 3b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .206 Peters p 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Totals 36 3 10 3 0 5 Difo ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 .269 LOB—Milwaukee 7, Minnesota 9. 2B—Cain
Washington 2 at NY Mets 1 Colorado at LA Dodgers choked her into unconsciousness, Underwood Jr. (8), Kepler (17). HR—Donaldson (20), off Lau-

Arizona at Philadelphia Kansas City at Seattle

NOTEBOOK punched her repeatedly, and had Tampa Bay................300 000 300 — 6 5 1 p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 er. SB—Kepler (9). DP—Milwaukee 1.
Baltimore...................000 200 001 — 3 10 0 Polanco ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .208 Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO ERA
San Francisco at Atlanta anal sex with her without her con- E—WFranco (9). LOB—Tampa Bay 2, Balti-
Mears p
Reynolds cf
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
1 0 0 0 0 1 .299
Lauer L 4-5 4„ 6 2 2 2 6 3.61
Cousins 1‚ 2 0 0 0 3 0.82
more 8. 2B—Severino (13). HR—Zunino (27),
THURSDAY sent during two sexual encounters. Baseball offi- off Scott, Mullins (23), off Mazza, Hays (14),
Totals 33 3 8 3 5 8 Strickland 1 0 0 0 1 1 1.46
St. Louis.....................000 030 100 — 4 9 1 Norris 1 0 0 0 1 0 5.91
At Boston 12 Minnesota 2 San Francisco 3 at NY Mets 2
cials also extended his paid leave for the seventh off McClanahan. DP—Tampa Bay 2. Pittsburgh..................000 011 010 — 3 8 0
E—Edman (6). LOB—St. Louis 6, Pittsburgh Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO ERA
At Baltimore 13 LA Angels 1 At Cleveland 10 Texas 6
time, until Sept. 3. Tampa Bay
McClanahan W
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
8. 2B—Goldschmidt (26), Sosa (6), Bader (10), Albers W 1-0 5‚ 3 0 0 1 2 0.96
6 8 2 2 0 4 3.59 Chavis (2). 3B—Goldschmidt (2), DeJong (1), Alcala 1 1 0 0 0 1 5.00
Cincinnati 5 at Milwaukee 1 At Miami 7 Washington 5
That development moves the matter to Los An- 9-4
Tsutsugo (1). HR—Edman (8), off Peters. SB— Coulombe 1‚ 1 0 0 0 2 3.04
Mazza S 1 3 2 1 1 0 1 4.97
Chi. White Sox 10 at Toronto 7 LA Dodgers 4 at San Diego 0
geles prosecutors, who will decide whether or not to Alford (2). SF—Edman. DP—Pittsburgh 2. Duffey
Colomé S 8
‚
1
0
0
0 0 0 1 3.61
0 0 0 2 4.44
St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Arizona 8 at Philadelphia 7 NY Yankees 7 at Oakland 6
charge Bauer. The DA’s office did not immediately MaHarvey L 6-
Happ W 3-0 5„ 3 2 2 3 4 2.22
Inherited runners-scored—Cousins 1-0,
6 4 3 3 1 4 6.18 García 1‚ 1 0 0 2 2 2.89
Duffey 1-0. HBP—by Albers (Piña). NP—Lauer
At Pittsburgh 11 St. Louis 7 Kansas City 6 at Seattle 4 respond to a request for comment. 14 Gallegos 1 3 1 1 0 0 3.11
102, Cousins 24, Strickland 19, Norris 14, Al-
Scott 1 1 3 3 1 0 4.31 Reyes S 29 1 1 0 0 0 2 2.50
Bauer has been in limbo since late June, when a Diplán 2 0 0 0 0 1 2.51
bers 88, Alcala 12, Coulombe 20, Duffey 6, Co-
lomé 13. Umpires—Home, Brian Gorman;
Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO ERA
California woman filed a request for a temporary HBP—by McClanahan (Urías), by Mazza Peters L 0-2 5 6 3 3 0 4 3.07 First, Jeremy Riggs; Second, John Tumpane;
Third, Adrian Johnson. T—3:22. A—20,280
(Santander), by Scott (Margot). NP—McCla- Underwood Jr. 2 2 1 1 0 2 4.20
restraining order. The woman alleged that during nahan 78, Mazza 39, MaHarvey 87, Scott 26,
Mears 1 1 0 0 0 0 5.40 (38,544).
Stratton 1 0 0 0 1 0 3.68
two sexual encounters this spring, Bauer choked Diplán 23. Umpires—Home, Bill Miller; First,
Inherited runners-scored—García 1-1.
her unconscious and then sexually assaulted and re-
Doug Eddings; Second, Gabe Morales; Third,
Brian Knight. T—2:25. A—7,155 (45,971).
HBP—by Peters (O'Neill), by Underwood Jr. YANKEES 7, ATHLETICS 6
(Carlson). NP—Happ 88, García 31, Gallegos
peatedly punched her, leaving her hospitalized. 15, Reyes 12, Peters 78, Underwood Jr. 31,
Mears 12, Stratton 19. Umpires—Home, Chad
Thursday night game

Earlier this month, a Los Angeles judge denied REDS 6, MARLINS 0 Whitson; First, Bill Welke; Second, Chris Con- NY YANKEES AB
LeMahieu 2b-1b 5
R
0
H BI BB SO Avg.
0 0 0 1 .266
roy; Third, Ben May. T—3:18. A—12,662
Rizzo 1b 4 1 1 1 1 1 .204
the woman’s restraining order, ruling that the wom- CINCINNATI AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
(38,747).
Wade pr-ss 0 1 0 0 0 0 .278
an didn’t clearly express her boundaries concerning India 2b 5 0 0 0 0 2 .272 Judge rf 4 1 2 1 1 2 .287
Naquin cf 4 1 3 1 0 0 .277 NATIONALS 2, METS 1 Gallo lf 3 1 1 3 1 1 .207
rough sex, including by sending him texts saying Castellanos rf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .319 Stanton dh 4 1 1 1 0 1 .267
WASHINGTON AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Sánchez c 3 0 1 0 1 1 .220
she enjoyed being choked unconscious. Votto 1b
Moustakas 3b
4
4
1
2
1 0 0 0 .275
2 2 0 0 .217
Robles cf 3 1 0 0 0 3 .204 Gardner cf 4 1 1 1 0 0 .214
Escobar ss 4 0 2 0 0 2 .277 Urshela 3b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .274
Following her request for the temporary re- Farmer ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .260 Soto rf 4 0 0 1 0 1 .297 Velazquez ss 3 1 1 0 0 1 .250
Barnhart c 4 0 1 0 0 1 .262 Bell 1b 4 0 1 1 0 1 .245
straining order, The Washington Post reported Bau- Schrock lf 1 1 0 0 1 0 .298 Kieboom 3b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .242
Voit ph
Totals
1
35
0
7
0 0 0 0 .264
9 7 4 9
er had also been subject to another order of protec- Aquino ph-lf 2 0 0 0 0 2 .187 Thomas lf
Adams c
4
3
0
0
0 0 0 2
1 0 1 2
.197
.350 OAKLAND AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Miley p 3 1 1 1 0 0 .163
tion last year in Ohio, sought by a woman who Hoffman p 1 0 0 0 0 0 .133
García 2b
Espino p
4
2
0
1
1 0 0 2
1 0 0 1
.221
.105
Canha rf 4 0 0 0 1 3 .233
Marte cf 5 0 1 0 0 1 .355
Totals 36 6 9 4 1 6
made similar allegations. Bauer’s representatives, Machado p 0 0 0 0 0 0 — Olson 1b 4 1 0 0 1 1 .275
Parra ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 .244 Lowrie 2b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .252
who declined to comment Friday, have denied the MIAMI AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Clay p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Harrison lf 4 2 2 1 0 1 .271
Rojas ss 3 0 0 0 1 0 .270 McGowin p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Moreland dh 3 1 0 0 1 0 .227
allegations of both women. Chisholm Jr. 2b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .251 Hernandez ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .298
MaChapman 3b 2 1 2 2 2 0 .225
Finnegan p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Bauer has said through representatives that ev- Aguilar 1b 3 0 1 0 1 1 .262
Totals 33 2 6 2 2 17 Murphy c 4 1 1 1 0 3 .224
Alfaro lf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .243 Andrus ss 4 0 1 2 0 1 .230
erything that happened between the two was Anderson 3b 4 0 1 0 0 3 .244 NY METS AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Totals 34 6 7 6 5 12
Sánchez rf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .235 Nimmo cf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .289
“wholly consensual” in the nights they spent togeth- De La Cruz cf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .348
Alonso 1b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .260 NY Yankees...............024 000 001 — 7 9 0
Lindor ss 4 0 1 0 0 0 .224 Oakland......................002 310 000 — 6 7 1
er in April and May at his Pasadena home. Jackson c 3 0 0 0 0 0 .115 Báez 2b 4 1 1 1 0 1 .244 E—Murphy (5). LOB—NY Yankees 5, Oak-
Thompson p 1 0 1 0 0 0 .143 Conforto rf 3 0 0 0 0 2 .216
MLB has appeared to be waiting on the resolu- León ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .188 Davis 3b 3 0 0 0 0 3 .285
land 6. 2B—Rizzo (1), Judge (18), Velazquez
(3). HR—Gallo (30), off Kaprielian, Stanton
DomSmith lf 3 0 0 0 0 2 .241
tion of the criminal investigation before deciding Guenther p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Nido c 2 0 1 0 0 1 .235
(23), off Kaprielian, Gardner (6), off Kaprie-
lian, Harrison (2), off Abreu, MaChapman
IsDíaz ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .194
Villar ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .248
whether or not to suspend Bauer, and for how long. Campbell p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Mazeika c 0 0 0 0 0 0 .204
(20), off Taillon, Murphy (15), off Taillon. SB—
Wade (13), Marte (18), Andrus (12). CS—
Totals 31 0 6 0 3 7
The league first put him on paid administrative Hill p
Drury ph
1 0 0 0 0 0 .000
1 0 0 0 0 0 .280
Judge (1).
Cincinnati.................. 100 400 010 — 6 9 0 NY Yankees IP H R ER BB SO ERA
leave on July 2. Miami.........................000 000 000 — 0 6 2
Hembree p
MCastro p
0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
0 0 0 0 0 0 — Taillon 3„ 4 5 5 3 4 4.18
TODD KIRKLAND/GETTY IMAGES Familia p 0 0 0 0 0 0 — Abreu 1‚ 1 1 1 1 2 4.33
E—Jackson (1), Rojas (7). LOB—Cincinnati
The Giants’ Buster Posey, who missed two games Rays make it six straight 4, Miami 7. 2B—Naquin (23), Castellanos (32),
McNeil ph
EdDíaz p
1 0 1 0 0 0 .247
0 0 0 0 0 0 —
ClayHolmes
Loaisiga W 9-4
1
2
1
0
0 0 0 3 1.74
0 0 1 2 2.23
Votto (17), Moustakas (10), Miley (2), Alfaro Totals 30 1 4 1 1 11 ArChapman S 24 1 1 0 0 0 1 3.77
with left knee discomfort, returned Friday and Shane McClanahan won his fifth consecutive (14), De La Cruz (5), Thompson (1). HR— Washington...............002 000 000 — 2 6 0
Naquin (19), off Thompson, Moustakas (6), NY Mets.....................000 100 000 — 1 4 1 Oakland IP H R ER BB SO ERA
launched a two-run home run in the first inning. start, Mike Zunino hit a three-run homer, and Tam- off Campbell. SB—India (9). DP—Cincinnati 2; E—DomSmith (2). LOB—Washington 7, NY Kaprielian 5 6 6 6 1 8 3.65
Miami 1. Petit 1 1 0 0 0 1 3.06
pa Bay won in Baltimore, 6-3, to move to 16-1 this Mets 3. 2B—Adams (4), García (6). 3B—Lindor
(2). HR—Báez (25), off Espino. CS—Parra (1). Chafin 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.32
Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO ERA
season against the Orioles. Miley W 11-4 7 6 0 0 1 5 2.74
DP—Washington 1; NY Mets 1. Romo
Trivino L 5-7 „
1 1
1
0 0 2 0 2.88
1 1 1 0 2.55
SATURDAY’S GAMES Washington IP H R ER BB SO ERA
The Rays have won six straight overall, have an Hoffman 2 0 0 0 2 2 4.13 Espino W 4-4 5 3 1 1 0 7 4.13 Diekman ‚ 0 0 0 0 0 3.02
........2021........ Team .......2021 vs. opp ....... .......Last 3 starts ....... Machado 1 0 0 0 0 0 2.45
Odds W-L ERA rec. W-L IP ERA W-L IP ERA
AL-best 80-48 record, and maintained their seven- Miami IP H R ER BB SO ERA Clay 1 0 0 0 0 2 5.50
Inherited runners-scored—Abreu 2-0,
Diekman 1-0. NP—Taillon 78, Abreu 32, Clay-
Thompson L 2-6 5 6 5 3 1 1 3.16 McGowin 1 1 0 0 0 2 4.08
BOSTON AT CLEVELAND, 4:05 p.m.
game edge on the Red Sox. Guenther 2 2 0 0 0 1 7.20 Finnegan S 6 1 0 0 0 1 0 2.77
Holmes 20, Loaisiga 30, ArChapman 13,
Kaprielian 99, Petit 13, Chafin 12, Romo 28,
Campbell 2 1 1 1 0 4 7.91 NY Mets IP H R ER BB SO ERA Trivino 14, Diekman 4. Umpires—Home, Todd
Eovaldi (R)
Quantrill (R)
Off
Off
10-8
4-2
3.72
3.04
13-12
6-10
0-0
0-0
0.0
0.0
0.00
0.00
1-1
1-0
19.0
18.0
1.42
2.50 Phillies briefly delayed by tracing IBB—off Thompson (Schrock). WP—Hoff-
Hill L 0-2
Hembree
5 5 2 2 0 8 4.83
1 0 0 0 1 1 6.09
Tichenor; First, Will Little; Second, Tony
Randazzo; Third, Nestor Ceja. T—3:43.
man, Guenther. NP—Miley 109, Hoffman 25, MCastro 1 0 0 0 1 2 3.46 A—8,147 (46,847).
NY YANKEES AT OAKLAND, 4:07 p.m. Jean Segura singled with one out in the 11th in- Thompson 73, Guenther 21, Campbell 24. Um- Familia 1 0 0 0 0 3 3.55
pires—Home, Ryan Blakney; First, Fieldin Cul- EdDíaz 1 1 0 0 0 3 3.55
Cortes (L) Off 2-1 2.56 6-1 0-0 3.0 0.00 2-1 18.2 3.38 ning to give the Philadelphia Phillies a 7-6 victory breth; Second, Edwin Moscoso; Third, Brian HBP—by Hill (Robles). WP—EdDíaz. NP—
Montas (R) Off 9-9 3.84 12-13 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-1 18.0 2.00
over the Arizona Diamondbacks in a game delayed O'Nora. T—2:28. A—7,119 (37,446). Espino 68, Machado 16, Clay 14, McGowin 19, GIANTS 3, METS 2
KANSAS CITY AT SEATTLE, 4:10 p.m. Finnegan 11, Hill 91, Hembree 19, MCastro 13,
26 minutes due to contact tracing after the Phillies Familia 16, EdDíaz 18. Umpires—Home, Tripp Thursday night game
Hernández (R) Off 4-1 3.97 5-2 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-0 19.2 2.75
put pitcher Zach Eflin, catcher Andrew Knapp, and
TIGERS 2, BLUE JAYS 1 Gibson; First, Laz Diaz; Second, Rob Drake;
Third, Gerry Davis. T—3:03. A—20,274 SAN FRAN. AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Anderson (L) Off 6-8 4.07 12-11 0-0 6.0 1.50 1-0 16.2 2.16
(41,922). Wade Jr. rf 3 1 1 0 0 1 .248
ARIZONA AT PHILADELPHIA, 6:05 p.m. infielder-outfielder Luke Williams on the COVID-19 TORONTO AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Slater ph-cf 0 0 0 0 1 0 .226
La Stella 2b 3 0 1 0 0 0 .246
Mejía (R) Off 0-0 3.60 0-1 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 5.0 3.60 injured list . . . The Twins announced righthander Bichette ss
Semien 2b
4
3
1
0
1 0 0 0 .281
0 0 1 1 .269
BRAVES 6, GIANTS 5 Estrada ph-2b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .296
Gibson (R) Off 9-5 3.06 13-10 0-1 6.0 4.50 2-1 20.0 2.25 Bryant 3b 4 1 1 2 0 3 .268
Kenta Maeda will have season-ending elbow sur- Guerrero Jr. 1b 4 0 2 1 0 0 .311
SAN FRAN. AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Crawford ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .296
CINCINNATI AT MIAMI, 6:10 p.m. Hernández dh 3 0 0 0 1 2 .301 Slater cf 3 1 0 0 0 0 .223
gery performed Wednesday in Texas. The Tommy Dickerson rf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .262 Bryant 3b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .267
Flores 1b
Dickerson lf
4
4
0
0
0 0 0 1 .246
0 0 0 1 .239
Gutierrez (R)
Alcantara (R)
Off
Off
9-4
7-12
3.68
3.35
10-6
10-16
1-0
0-1
7.0
7.0
1.29
2.57
2-1
1-2
19.1
22.0
1.86
1.23
John ligament replacement procedure, which Gurriel Jr. lf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .269 Wade Jr. lf
Ruf lf-1b
3
4
0
0
0 0 0 1 .245
0 0 0 3 .274
Yastrzemski cf-rf 4 1 2 0 0 1 .222
Palacios cf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .200 Casali c 2 0 0 0 0 0 .216
TORONTO AT DETROIT, 6:10 p.m.
would likely keep Maeda out for 2022 as well, is one Espinal ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .292 Posey c
Flores 1b-3b
4
4
1
1
1 2 0 1 .313
2 1 0 0 .249
Tromp pr-c 1 0 0 0 0 0 .222
Smith 3b 2 0 0 0 0 0 .077 Wood p 2 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Manoah (R) Off 5-2 3.18 9-4 0-0 0.0 0.00 1-1 15.2 5.17
of several options under consideration, Twins man- Valera ph-3b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .233
Yastrzemski rf 4 1 1 0 0 1 .222
Ruf ph 1 0 1 1 0 0 .280
Estrada ss 4 1 1 0 0 1 .294
Totals 33 3 6 3 1 8
Ureña (R) Off 2-8 6.19 7-10 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-0 11.0 7.36 ager Rocco Baldelli said. Also Friday, Minnesota Grichuk ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .244 La Stella 2b 4 0 2 1 0 0 .254
McGuire c 3 0 1 0 0 2 .268 Gausman p 2 0 0 0 0 0 .200
HOUSTON AT TEXAS, 7:05 p.m. center fielder Byron Buxton was reinstated from the Totals 33 1 6 1 2 7 Dickerson ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 .239
NY METS
Nimmo cf
AB
5
R
0
H BI BB SO Avg.
3 0 0 1 .294
Watson p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Valdez (L) Off 8-4 2.94 10-6 1-0 6.0 0.00 1-1 19.2 1.83 injured list after missing 55 games while his broken DETROIT AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Littell p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Lindor ss 5 0 1 0 0 2 .224
Allard (L) Off 3-10 4.86 3-12 1-1 7.0 9.00 1-0 18.1 3.93 Totals 33 5 7 4 1 7 Báez 2b 4 1 2 0 0 0 .244
left pinkie finger healed . . . Victor Reyes hit a Grossman lf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .236 Alonso 1b 4 1 2 2 0 1 .262
ST. LOUIS AT PITTSBURGH, 7:05 p.m. Schoop 1b 4 0 2 0 0 0 .287 ATLANTA AB R H BI BB SO Avg. DomSmith lf 3 0 0 0 1 0 .243
pinch-hit tiebreaking inside-the-park home run in Candelario 3b 4 1 2 0 0 1 .275 Albies 2b 4 1 1 1 0 1 .257 Villar 3b 2 0 1 0 2 0 .249
Wainwright (R) Off 12-7 3.10 15-10 3-0 23.0 0.39 2-1 23.0 0.78 Soler rf 4 2 3 3 0 0 .274 Pillar rf 2 0 0 0 0 0 .206
Brault (L) Off 0-2 1.93 0-4 0-2 9.0 3.00 0-2 14.2 1.84 the eighth inning and the Detroit held on to beat Cabrera dh 4 0 1 1 0 1 .251 LJackson p 0 0 0 0 0 0 — Conforto ph-rf 0 0 0 0 1 0 .218
Haase c 3 0 1 0 0 0 .239 WiSmith p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
TAMPA BAY AT BALTIMORE, 7:05 p.m. Toronto, 2-1. The Tigers said it was the first pinch- Cameron rf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .177 Freeman 1b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .293
Mazeika c
McNeil ph
3
1
0
0
0 0 0 0 .204
0 0 0 0 .244
WCastro 2b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .219 Riley 3b 4 0 2 1 0 0 .302
Patiño (R) Off 3-3 4.53 5-5 0-0 3.1 10.80 1-0 15.0 4.80 hit, go-ahead, inside-the-park home run in the ex- Short ss 2 0 0 0 0 0 .143 Swanson ss 4 0 1 0 0 0 .266
Carrasco p 2 0 0 0 0 2 .000
Means (L) Off 5-6 3.50 7-12 0-2 20.1 6.20 0-3 14.1 8.16 d'Arnaud c 4 0 0 0 0 0 .228 Drury ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .284
pansion era (since 1961) . . . Wade Miley pitched Reyes ph 1 1 1 1 0 0 .224
Duvall lf 4 1 1 1 0 1 .224 J.Davis ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .291
CHI. CUBS AT CHI. WHITE SOX, 7:10 p.m. HCastro ss 0 0 0 0 0 0 .274 Totals 33 2 9 2 4 7
six-hit ball over seven innings, Tyler Naquin hom- Hill cf 3 0 0 0 0 2 .247
Pederson cf-rf
Fried p
2 1 0 0 1 0 .238
2 0 0 0 0 1 .325 San Francisco...........200 000 010 — 3 6 0
Mills (R)
Lynn (R)
Off
Off
5-6
10-3
4.76
2.20
4-9
14-9
0-0
0-0
0.0
6.0
0.00
1.50
0-2
0-0
12.0
16.0
6.75
3.38
ered and extended his major league-leading hitting Totals 31 2 7 2 0 4 Minter p
Heredia ph-cf
0 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 1 0 0 0 .226
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NY Mets.....................000 002 000 — 2 9 0

MILWAUKEE AT MINNESOTA, 7:10 p.m.

streak to 16 games, and Cincinnati beat Miami, 6-0 Toronto......................001 000 000 — 1 6 1 Totals 33 6 9 6 1 3 LOB—San Francisco 5, NY Mets 9. 2B—La
Detroit........................000 100 01x — 2 7 0 San Francisco...........210 100 001 — 5 7 0 Stella (6), Báez (12), Villar (13). HR—Bryant
. . . Jorge Soler hit a go-ahead, three-run homer, Joc E—Cimber (1). LOB—Toronto 7, Detroit 5. Atlanta....................... 011 000 40x — 6 9 1 (24), off Carrasco, Alonso (29), off Wood.
Houser (R) Off 7-5 3.44 14-6 0-1 5.0 3.60 1-0 14.2 0.61 DP—San Francisco 2.
E—d'Arnaud (1). LOB—San Francisco 3, At-
Barnes (L) Off 0-3 6.56 1-3 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-2 14.0 8.36 Pederson made a leaping catch at the wall for the fi- 2B—Bichette (22), Guerrero Jr. (21), Can-
lanta 4. 2B—La Stella (7), Albies (33). HR— San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO ERA
delario 2 (36). HR—Reyes (4), off Mayza. DP—
WASHINGTON AT NY METS, 7:10 p.m. nal out, and Atlanta rallied to beat San Francisco, Toronto 1.
Posey (16), off Fried, Flores (16), off WiSmith,
Soler (6), off Littell, Duvall (28), off Gausman.
Wood
García W 5-3
5‚
1„
6
2
2 2 2 5 4.08
0 0 0 2 2.66
Nolin (L) Off 0-2 9.00 0-2 0-1 3.0 12.00 0-2 7.0 9.00 6-5, to end the Giants’ five-game win streak. All-Star Toronto IP H R ER BB SO ERA SB—Slater (11). DP—Atlanta 1. Leone „ 1 0 0 2 0 1.50
Stroman (R) Off 9-12 2.84 12-14 1-1 9.1 4.82 2-1 18.1 2.95 Matz 6 4 1 1 0 2 3.81 San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO ERA Álvarez ‚ 0 0 0 0 0 2.12
catcher Buster Posey started after missing two Cimber 1 1 0 0 0 1 2.05
Gausman 6 6 2 2 0 2 2.49 Rogers S 12 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.89
SAN FRANCISCO AT ATLANTA, 7:20 p.m. Watson L 2-1 ‚ 2 3 3 1 1 3.48
games with discomfort in his knee, and hit a two- Mayza L 4-2 1 2 1 1 0 1 3.76 Littell BS 1 1„ 1 1 1 0 0 2.93 NY Mets IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Webb (R) Off 7-3 2.84 14-4 0-0 0.0 0.00 2-0 19.1 1.40 Carrasco 7 3 2 2 0 5 6.94
Ynoa (R) Off 4-3 2.89 6-4 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-2 15.2 4.60 run homer . . . Yasmani Grandal was in the starting Detroit IP H R ER BB SO ERA Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Lugo L 3-2 0 2 1 1 0 0 3.27
Fried 6 5 4 3 0 5 3.54
Manning 6 6 1 1 1 5 5.46
SAN DIEGO AT LA ANGELS, 9:07 p.m. lineup and cracked two homers in the AL Central- Funkhouser 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.87
Minter W 2-4 1 1 0 0 1 0 4.05 Loup
May
1
1
0
1
0 0 1 1 1.04
0 0 0 2 3.75
LJackson 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.03
TBA Off — — 0-0 0-0 1.0 0.00 0-0 0.0 — leading White Sox’s 17-13 win over the crosstown Cisnero W 3-4 1 0 0 0 1 0 2.72 WiSmith S 29 1 1 1 1 0 1 3.83 Lugo pitched to 3 batters in the 8th. Inherit-
Suarez (L) Off 5-7 4.06 2-6 0-0 0.0 0.00 0-3 14.1 5.65 Soto S 16 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.27 Inherited runners-scored—Littell 2-2. ed runners-scored—Álvarez 3-0, Loup 2-0.
Cubs, who lost infielder David Bote after he HBP—by Fried (Slater). WP—Gausman. NP— HBP—by Wood (Pillar), by Lugo (Casali).
WP—Mayza. NP—Matz 85, Cimber 8, May-
Gausman 91, Watson 13, Littell 19, Fried 93, NP—Wood 82, García 28, Leone 19, Álvarez 3,
COLORADO AT LA DODGERS, 9:10 p.m. sprained his right ankle when he stepped on a ball za 23, Manning 83, Funkhouser 10, Cisnero 16, Minter 19, LJackson 13, WiSmith 18. Um- Rogers 8, Carrasco 78, Lugo 9, Loup 24, May
Soto 8. Umpires—Home, Cory Blaser; First,
Gray (R)
Price (L)
Off
Off
7-10
4-2
4.13
3.82
9-14
4-7
0-1
0-0
21.0
13.1
3.43
4.05
0-3
0-1
14.0
12.2
7.71
4.97
during batting practice at Guaranteed Rate Field. Adam Beck; Second, Phil Cuzzi; Third, Mark
pires—Home, James Hoye; First, Mark Carl-
son; Second, Chris Segal; Third, Jordan Bak-
17. Umpires—Home, A. Johnson; First, B. Gor-
man; Second, G. Gibson; Third, J. Riggs.
Team rec. — Record in games started by pitcher this season Patrick Wisdom had two homers for the visitors. Ripperger. T—2:32. A—17,259 (41,083). er. T—2:54 (0:35 delay). A—35,586 (41,184). T—3:07. A—25,000 (41,922).
S A T U R D A Y, A U G U S T 2 8 , 2 0 2 1 T h e B o s t o n G l o b e C5

Hernández positive
for COVID-19, will
be out indefinitely
By Peter Abraham and
Julian McWilliams Red Sox 12, Twins 2
GLOBE STAFF Thursday night game
MINNESOTA AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
CLEVELAND — The Red Sox Refsnyder rf 5 0 0 0 0 3 .265
Rooker lf 2 0 0 0 2 1 .192
will be without Kiké Hernández Donaldson dh 2 0 0 0 1 1 .249
Cave cf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .188
indefinitely after the super utili- Sanó 1b 3 0 0 0 1 2 .215
Arraez 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .306
ty player tested Jeffers c 3 1 1 0 0 2 .211
RED SOX positive for Kepler ph 0 0 0 0 0 0 .207
Astudillo 3b-p 4 1 1 2 0 0 .257
NOTEBOOK COVID-19 on Gordon cf-3b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .236
Simmons ss 3 0 1 0 1 1 .221
Friday. Totals 30 2 3 2 5 12

Another utility player, Chris- BOSTON AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

Hernández ss 4 2 1 0 1 1 .258
tian Arroyo, was deemed a close Schwarber dh-1b 1 1 1 0 4 0 .400
Martinez lf 5 0 0 0 0 2 .280
contact of Hernández’s and will Devers 3b 5 1 2 3 0 0 .276
MBarnes p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
miss at least this weekend’s se- Verdugo rf 4 0 1 1 1 1 .287
Vázquez c 4 1 0 0 1 0 .254
ries against the Indians. Arroyo 2b 3 1 0 0 0 0 .264
Hernández, who told report- Duran cf
Dalbec 1b-3b
3 3 1 0 1 1 .225
4 3 3 7 0 0 .235
ers in April that he had been Totals 33 12 9 11 8 5
Minnesota.........................000 020 000 — 2 3 2
vaccinated, has a breakthrough
Boston...............................031 015 20x — 12 9 0
case. Manager Alex Cora said E—Gant (1), Gordon (2). LOB—Minnesota 8,
Boston 6. 2B—Schwarber (4). HR—Astudillo (7),
Hernández is experiencing off Sale, Devers (30), off García, Dalbec 2 (16), off
Gant, off García. SB—Devers (4). DP—Minnesota
symptoms. 1.
“They will be out for an ex- Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Gant L 0-2 4 3 4 4 3 3 6.75
tended period of time,” Cora Barraclough 1 2 1 1 1 1 10.80
García 1„ 4 7 7 3 0 10.45
said before Friday night’s 4-3 Garza Jr. ‚ 0 0 0 0 1 3.26
Astudillo 1 0 0 0 1 0 2.25
Red Sox victory.
A player who tests positive is Boston
Sale W 3-0
IP H R ER BB SO ERA
5‚ 2 2 2 2 8 2.35
generally out for 10 days per Whitlock
Richards
1„ 0 0 0 0 2 1.60
1 1 0 0 2 0 4.90
Major League Baseball’s proto- MBarnes 1 0 0 0 1 2 3.83
Inherited runners-scored—Whitlock 2-0. HBP—
cols. Because Hernández is vac- by García (Arroyo), by Sale (Donaldson), by
TONY DEJAK/ASSOCIATED PRESS
cinated, he could miss less time. MBarnes (Kepler). WP—García, MBarnes. PB—
Jeffers. NP—Gant 68, Barraclough 29, García 48,
Red Sox reliever Adam Ottavino walked the leadoff hitter in the ninth, but he finished off the Indians for his ninth save. Arroyo could be out for up to Garza Jr. 4, Astudillo 20, Sale 80, Whitlock 20,
Richards 24, MBarnes 26. Umpires—Home, Chris
seven days. Guccione; First, Cory Blaser; Second, Phil Cuzzi;

Late homer gives Red Sox a jolt

Third, Mark Ripperger. T—3:33. A—33,746
The Sox are already without (37,755).

right fielder Hunter Renfroe,

who went on the bereavement
list Thursday. gressive team testing wise
Jonathan Araúz and Yairo throughout the process.
uRED SOX didn’t give us enough innings to way through the Red Sox lineup Muñoz were summoned from “It’s not Kiké's fault. I know
Red Sox 4, Indians 3 Continued from Page C1 win the game.” in dominant fashion. Triple A Worcester, arriving just for a fact that he’s been great
At Progressive Field, Cleveland
BOSTON AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Cleveland’s eight. But Araúz ’s It was a different story Friday. Allen came into the game before game time from Buffalo. about all this stuff and taking
Muñoz lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Schwarber 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .353
homer shifted the weight just Rodriguez gave his team more with a 9.13 ERA, yet the Red Sox When the lineup was an- care of his family for obvious
TraShaw 1b
Bogaerts ss
0 0 0 0 0 0 .273
4 0 0 0 0 3 .299
enough in the Sox’ favor to pull than a chance, turning in seven made him look like Sandy Kou- nounced less than a half hour reasons . . . It’s something that
Devers dh
Verdugo rf
4 0 0 0 0 0 .274
3 1 0 0 0 0 .285
out a win. It came after a pair of innings, enough time for the Sox fax. Allen gave the Indians six before first pitch for Friday we don’t control. We’re fighting
Dalbec 3b 3 0 1 0 1 1 .236 unsuccessful attempts at a bunt. to get the offense going. His only strong innings of one-run ball, night’s series opener, Muñoz an invisible enemy.”
Vázquez c 3 1 0 0 1 0 .252
Duran cf 3 1 1 0 0 0 .228 He reset himself, and made a dif- hiccups on the evening were a allowing just one hit and strik- was in the leadoff spot, playing The Sox are one of six teams
Araúz 2b 2 1 1 3 1 1 .226
Totals 30 4 3 3 3 7 ference in an even more impact- two-run shot by Jose Ramirez ing out five. left field. Araúz, at second base, yet to have 85 percent of their
CLEVELAND
Straw cf
AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
4 0 0 0 0 2 .266
ful way. and a solo homer by Yu Chang. The Sox scored their only run batted ninth and hit the deci- core group of players, coaches
AmRosario ss 4 1 1 0 0 1 .287 “I do believe in his mind-set “It feels really good,” Rodri- off Allen in the fifth inning when sive three-run home run in the and staffers vaccinated.
Ramírez 3b 4 1 3 2 0 0 .262
Reyes dh 2 0 1 0 2 0 .257 after not getting the bunt down, guez said. “It was good to go sev- Vázquez grounded into a double eighth inning to rally the Red
a-Giménez pr-dh
Ramos c
0 0 0 0 0 0 .186
4 0 0 0 0 1 .203 he was like, ‘I’m not going to en innings. That was the best play that scored Verdugo. Sox to victory. Gonzalez to Astros
Zimmer rf 4 0 2 0 0 2 .249
Miller 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .169 strike out in this situation,’ ” part and to keep the game where But Araúz came through and, “We have to find a way to Marwin Gonzalez was desig-
Chang 1b 3 1 1 1 0 0 .208
Mercado lf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .225 manager Alex Cora said. “Be- it was. Now it’s about winning as a result, so did the Sox keep moving forward and keep nated for assignment,then re-
Totals 32 3 8 3 2 6
Boston............................... 000 010 030 — 4 3 1
cause that was a very short, com- games.” “I didn’t necessarily change playing good baseball,” Cora leased by the Sox earlier this
Cleveland..........................000 200 100 — 3 8 0
a-ran for Reyes in 9th. E—Dalbec (10). LOB—
pact swing and his takes were on The Red Sox managed just anything,” Araúz said “I just said before the game. month. But the utility player
Boston 3, Cleveland 4. 2B—Dalbec (16). HR— time.” one hit through seven innings, wanted to make sure I put a Hernández found a land-
Araúz (1), off Karinchak, Ramírez (30), off Rodri-
guez, Chang (6), off Rodriguez. SB—Giménez (7). Following Eduardo Rodri- before Christian Vázquez drew a good swing on it.” has started ing spot Friday
Runners left in scoring position—Boston 1
(Vázquez), Cleveland 3 (Ramos, Miller 2). RISP— guez’s recent outing against the walk off Karinchak and Jarred 108 games this with his old
Boston 1 for 4, Cleveland 0 for 5. GIDP—Vázquez,
Ramos, Miller. DP—Boston 2 (Araúz, Bogaerts, Rangers when he lasted just 3„ Duran followed with an oppo- Julian McWilliams can be season and is team, signing
Schwarber), (Rodriguez, Araúz, Schwarber);
Cleveland 1 (AmRosario, Miller, Chang). innings, Cora offered a blunt as- site-field single to left, setting reached at fifth on the a minor league
Boston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Rodriguez W sessment of his starter. the stage for Araúz. julian.mcwilliams@globe.com. team with an deal with the
7 8 3 3 1 2 109 5.12
10-7
Richards 1 0 0 0 0 2 9 4.86
“There’s not much to talk On the other side, Indians Follow him on Twitter .811 OPS. He Astros.
Ottavino S 9 1 0 0 0 1 2 20 3.51 about with him,” Cora said. “He starter Logan Allen worked his @byJulianMack. has hit .300 Gonzalez
Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Allen 6 1 1 1 1 5 88 7.53 with a .937 was one of the
Young 1 0 0 0 0 1 12 8.44
Karinchak BS 5; OPS since the better Sox de-
0 2 3 3 1 0 17 4.14
L 7-4
Parker 2 0 0 0 1 1 30 2.01
All-Star break. fenders up the
Karinchak pitched to 3 batters in the 8th. HBP— Arroyo has middle, partic-
by Allen (Verdugo). WP—Allen. Umpires—Home,
Nick Mahrley; First, Ron Kulpa; Second, Nic Lentz; hit .264 with a ularly at sec-
Third, Ramon De Jesus. T—2:58. A—20,881
(34,830). .777 OPS in 53 ond base, and
games. This provided a vet-
HOW THE RUNS SCORED
FOURTH INNING
marks his eran presence
INDIANS — Rosario singled to center. Ramírez fourth time on for the club.
homered to left on a full count, Rosario scored.
Reyes singled to center. Ramos grounded into a the injured list Nevertheless,
double play, second baseman Araúz to shortstop TONY DEJAK/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bogaerts to first baseman Schwarber, Reyes out. this season. he couldn’t get
Zimmer struck out.
FIFTH INNING Cora said Red Sox shortstop Xander going with the
RED SOX — Verdugo was hit by a pitch. On Al-
len’s wild pitch, Verdugo to second. Dalbec safe more roster Bogaerts (above) makes the bat, slashing
on failed fielder’s choice, Verdugo to third.
Vázquez grounded into a double play, shortstop moves are play to get the Indians’ Oscar .202/.281/285
Rosario to second baseman Miller to first base-
man Chang, Verdugo scored, Dalbec out. Duran
coming, per- Mercado in the third inning. in 271 plate
grounded out, second baseman Miller to first
baseman Chang.
haps as soon appearances.
SEVENTH INNING as Saturday. One could be acti-
INDIANS — Zimmer singled to right. Miller
grounded into a double play, pitcher E.Rodriguez vating utility player Danny San- Eovaldi next up
to second baseman Araúz to first baseman
Schwarber, Zimmer out. Chang homered to right tana off the injured list. He has Nate Eovaldi takes the ball
on a 2-1 count. Mercado flied out to right fielder
Verdugo. been out since July 22 with a against Cleveland’s Cal Quant-
EIGHTH INNING
RED SOX — Karinchak pitching. Vázquez strained left groin. rill on Saturday, and Tanner
walked on a full count. Duran singled to left,
Vázquez to second. Araúz homered to right on a The Sox have had 10 players Houck will pitch Sunday in the
full count, Vázquez scored, Duran scored. Parker
pitching. Muñoz grounded out, third baseman land on the COVID-19 related series finale against the Indians’
Ramírez to first baseman Chang. Schwarber
grounded out, shortstop Rosario to first baseman
injured list this season. Most Eli Morgan.
TONY DEJAK/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chang. Bogaerts struck out. have missed only a game or Houck has a 3.43 ERA in 39
Bobby Dalbec ended up with a throwing error on Bradley Zimmer’s infield hit in the second. two. innings this year. He tossed 4
Bench coach Will Venable innings in his most recent start
was recently away from the against the Twins, allowing

A full swing: Araúz arrived in nick of time team for 12 days after testing
positive. First base coach Tom
Goodwin also missed time after
three runs on eight hits while
striking out six.

being in contact with Goodwin Julian McWilliams reported

uON BASEBALL “We’re all excited about it for and ordered to quarantine in from Boston. Peter Abraham
Continued from Page C1 sure,” said Adam Ottavino, who Canada. can be reached at
Cora has been juggling flam- walked the leadoff hitter in the “We’ve been very disci- peter.abraham@globe.com.
ing chainsaws for a few weeks, ninth, then closed out the Indi- plined,” Cora said. “Just talking Julian McWilliams can be
trying to work around injuries ans for his ninth save. to other people on other teams, reached at
and roster changes as the Sox Araúz probably will be back we probably are the most ag- julian.mcwilliams@globe.com.
plummeted down the standings. in the lineup on Saturday after-
The latest blow came Friday noon.
with the loss of Arroyo and “I feel ready,” he said. “I feel I
Hernández. On the first day of a
seven-game road trip, Cora’s pre-
game session with reporters was
somber because Hernández, one
of the team’s hottest hitters in
prepared myself. It’s been an up-
and-down season for me. I’ve
had some things not go my way.
I think if I can continue to keep
my focus on what I can do today
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Tajon Buchanan, scoring on D.C. United’s Jon Kempin Aug. 18, will remain with the
Revolution on loan for the remainder of the season before joining Brugge in January.
Buchanan wants to win
‘everything that’s possible’
By Matt Doherty
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
Tajon Buchanan’s transfer
from the Revolution to Club
Brugge KV in Belgium took
months to unfold.
As the 22-year-old enjoyed a
breakout third season with the
Revolution, followed by a strong
showing for Canada during Ju-
ly’s Gold Cup, conversations
ramped up as European clubs
coveted the versatile midfielder.
Buchanan had his sights set
on Brugge all along, saying the
club felt like a family from the
beginning . Af ter skipping
Wednesday ’s MLS All-Star
Game for a visit to Belgium, Bu-
chanan finalized the record-set-
ting $7 million transfer deal
Tuesday.
“I thought about it over the
last months, to be honest, this
wasn’t just a week or two thing,”
Buchanan said Friday. “I’ve
been thinking about my future
for a very long time. And since
the beginning, Club Brugge just
felt like a family that I wanted to
join.”
Streaking Revolution begin
stretch run vs. New York City
By Matt Doherty
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
With the Major League Soc-
cer All-Star game in the
rearview mirror and 12 games
left on the regular-season sched-
ule, the New England Revolu-
tion will begin the stretch run of
the season when they visit New
York City FC Saturday (7:30
p.m.) at Yankee Stadium.
New England (15-3-4, 49
points) is riding a nine-game
unbeaten streak and leads the
Supporters’ Shield race by seven
points, but the team knows
there is still work to do over the
final two months.
The Revolution are focused
on securing a playoff spot and
wrapping up home field advan-
tage throughout the postseason
during a time when energy and
focus ramps up across the
league. New England leads the
Eastern Conference by 15 points
over second-place Orlando.
“I think our goals are still the
same today as they were before
we started the season,” coach
Bruce Arena said Thursday. “We
want to qualify for the playoffs,
and then secondly, we’d like to
have home field advantage in
the playoffs as well.
“The focus is greater, the en-
ergy gets turned up, the games
are more competitive, and every
game is very important. I’m not
saying they’re life and death,
but they’re very important.”
New England has not lost
since July 7 against Toronto, rat-
tling off an 8-0-1 streak since.
The latest victory followed an
offensive explosion versus Cin-
cinnati in which Adam Buksa
scored twice, Tajon Buchanan,
and Emmanuel Boateng also
found the back of the net in a
convincing 4-1 win.
Depth has been critical for
the Revolution throughout the
season. Star midfielder Carles
Gil (muscle injury) remains out,
Buchanan will remain with
the Revolution on loan for the
remainder of the season before
joining Brugge during the Janu-
ary transfer window.
A Brampton, Ontario, native,
Buchanan has taken a unique
path to soccer stardom. In high
school, the overlooked Buchan-
an transferred to Legacy High
School in Colorado to improve
his collegiate prospects and aca-
demic standing in time to enroll
at Syracuse.
But after the Revolution
drafted him ninth in the 2019
SuperDraft , Buchanan ap-
peared in just 10 matches as a
rookie and did not become a
full-time starter until last Sep-
tember.
Buchanan took a massive
leap in Year 3, ranking third on
the Revolution with six goals
and becoming a staple in the
club’s midfield.
“I think that’s my mentality:
to keep wanting to get better as
a player, to keep pushing myself
no matter what team I was on,
whether that was Syracuse Uni-
Forward DeJuan Jones (24) and the Revolution look to keep
the momentum going in the last two months of the season.
while Buchanan (Canada), Buk-
sa (Poland), and keeper Matt
Turner (United States) will de-
part next week for World Cup
Qualifiers.
“Guys will have to step up,”
defender Andrew Farrell said. “I
think it’s good. It keeps it fresh,
and I think that’s why we’ve
been on such a good run where
we know guys can step up, even
if they ’re guys who haven’ t
played that many minutes can
step up and contribute.”
Farrell, who leads the MLS
in minutes played this season, is
set to break the club record Sat-
urday for career appearances
(262), an achievement attribut-
ed to his leadership and longevi-
ty.
“I think the key is enjoying
every minute of being able to do
this for a living,” said Farrell.
“Having good teammates, good
coaches, a good front office, and
a good organization behind you
T h e B o s t o n
FILE/BARRY CHIN/GLOBE STAFF
versity or coming here as a rook-
ie, and then just taking another
step forward last year in my sec-
ond season and obviously an-
other bigger step this year,” Bu-
chanan said.
On Thursday, Buchanan’s
monumental week continued
when he was called in to the Ca-
nadian National Team for three
World Cup Qualifying matches
on Sept. 2, Sept. 5, and Sept. 8.
Even with his career rising to
new heights, Buchanan ac-
knowledged he still has unfin-
ished business with the MLS-
leading Revolution. Buchanan
hopes to add an MLS Cup to his
résumé before he embarks for
Belgium.
“You know realistically, this
is my last year here so I’m trying
to win everything that’s possi-
ble: Supporters’ Shield, Eastern
Conference, and MLS Cup,” he
said. “I’m super excited and su-
per happy at the same time. I’m
ready to finish the season on a
strong note and then head over
there [to Club Brugge] and try
and do bigger things.”
BARRY CHIN/GLOBE STAFF
that trusted in you.”
New England beat New York
City, 3-2, in the first meeting of
the season on June 19 at Red
Bull Arena on an 88th minute
goal by Tommy McNamara and
stellar saves down the stretch
from Turner. NYCFC is fifth in
the Eastern Conference stand-
ings with 31 points – 18 behind
New England.
Playing in the smaller di-
mensions of Yankee Stadium
this time around, the Revolu-
tion are expecting a defensive
battle where turnovers could be
costly.
“We need to play at our best
to have a chance to win the
game, we’ve got to defend well,
we can’t turn the ball over in
bad spots because it’s such a
short field that they’ll get in be-
hind and get early chances,”
said Farrell. “It’s another big
test for us and it’s going to be an
important weekend.”
G l o b e
NBA: team personnel
must be vaccinated
Mandate covers
any close to clubs
FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
All NBA team personnel who
will be near players and referees
must be fully vaccinated against
the coronavirus this season, the
league told its clubs in a memo
on Friday.
It essentially covers anyone
who will travel with teams; be
around the bench areas; have
access to home, visiting and ref-
eree locker rooms; and those
working at the scorer’s table.
The league also said in the
memo, a copy of which was ob-
tained by the Associated Press,
that the policy may be updated
when federal agencies release
“expected guidance related to
booster shots.”
Team personnel will need to
be fully vaccinated by Oct. 1;
game-day personnel by the time
of a team’s first home preseason
game, which means early Octo-
ber.
Among the groups of person-
nel required to have vaccina-
tions are coaches, medical and
performance staff, equipment
staff, front office members,
team and arena security, media
relations, social media produc-
Bryson DeChambeau made two eagles and eight birdies for a 12-under-par 60 at the BMW.
DeChambeau overpowers
BMW course to shoot a 60
FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
Big, wide, and soft Caves Val-
ley in Owings Mills, Md., didn’t
stand a chance against Bryson
DeChambeau
GOLF o n Fr i d a y i n
ROUNDUP t h e B M W
Champion-
ship. Only the record book did.
DeChambeau overpowered
the vulnerable course, and
when his 8-iron to the par-5
16th rolled off a bank on the
back of the green down to 2 feet
for eagle, he needed two birdies
on the final two holes to tie the
PGA Tour record of 58.
He missed from 15 feet on
the 17 th. He missed a 6-foot
putt on the 18th hole and lost
his bid at the 13th sub-60 round
in PGA Tour history.
DeChambeau had to settle
for a career-best 60, giving him
a one-shot lead over Patrick
Cantlay when thunderstorms
caused the second round to be
delayed.
Jon Rahm, the world’s No. 1
player, also was a shot behind
and faced a 15-foot birdie putt
on the 16th hole when play was
halted by darkness.
“A lot of putts went in. A lot
of things went right,” DeCham-
beau said to broadcast outlets.
“I played my butt off and never
thought too much about any-
thing until the last few holes,
and I striped a 9-iron on 17,
striped a drive, striped a wedge
on 18.
“And jus t wasn’ t able to
clutch those putts up.”
It was the second straight
week during the PGA Tour post-
season that a player had a putt
to break 60 on the final hole.
Cameron Smith missed
from 12 feet at Liberty National
in the third round last week. De-
S A T U R D A Y, A U G U S T 2 8 , 2 0 2 1
ers, facility operations workers,
and more.
The NBA said exemptions
will be made in the cases of
unionized workers who cannot
be forced to be vaccinated, and
for those with religious or docu-
mented medical reasons.
Those not fully vaccinated,
the NBA said, “will be prohibit-
ed from having in-person inter-
action with, or being within 15
feet of, any player or referee.”
They would also not be permit-
ted to travel with teams and
would have to wear face masks
at all times inside team facili-
ties.
Training camps for all 30
NBA clubs begin in late Septem-
ber, with preseason games in
early October and the start of
regular-season play Oct. 19.
Also Friday, ESPN reported
non-playing, full-time employ-
ees of both the Houston Astros
and Washington Nationals must
be vaccinated for COVID-19,
making them the first two Ma-
jor League Baseball teams to in-
stitute compulsory vaccination.
Houston instituted the poli-
cy first, and also included the
three minor league teams it
owns. Washington announced
its policy on Aug. 12, according
to a statement by the team to
Chambeau had an even better
look than that.
His wedge landed some 25
feet beyond the flag and the
spin caused it to zip back to-
ward the hole, 6 feet below the
cup.
The putt was wide left all the
way.
DeChambeau snapped his
fingers, tapped in for par, and
then returned to the spot for a
practice stroke, trying to figure
out what went wrong.
Little else did.
DeChambeau was at 16-un-
der 128. The second round will
be completed Saturday morn-
ing, and players will be grouped
in threesomes going off both
sides for the third round.
Cantlay, who had one of the
great putting rounds of his ca-
reer Thursday, was equally
strong in a round of 63 that was
largely overlooked. He played in
the group behind DeChambeau
and played a classic style of golf
that resulted in 10 birdies until
his lone bogey from a tough lie
in the collar of rough around the
par-3 17th green.
“Today I hit it better all the
way through and also putted re-
a l l y w e l l ,” C a n t l ay s a i d . “ I
thought I played great — 9 un-
der, I’m very pleased. But obvi-
ously, there was lower than that
out there today.”
DeChambeau stuck to his
practice of not speaking to the
press, only the PGA Tour broad-
cast partners. That presumably
stems from three weeks ago
when he said he wasn’t vacci-
n a t e d , s ay i n g , “ I ’m y o u n g
enough. I’d rather give it to the
people who need it.”
European — Dean Burmester
took a one-stroke lead after the
second round of the European
ESPN, with Thursday the dead-
line to either “show proof of vac-
cination or offer a medical or re-
ligious exemption.” Those who
fail to do so will be fired.
“As a company, we have a re-
sponsibility to do everything we
can to keep one another safe
and felt that mandating vac-
cines was the absolute right
thing to do for our employees
and our community,” the team
said.
Both teams have dealt with
significant COVID-19 outbreaks
the last two seasons, with star
players Juan Soto, Trea Turner,
Jose Altuve, Alex Bregman, and
Yordan Alvarez among those to
lose time due either to positive
tests or close contact.
Though they are the first
baseball teams to do so, multi-
ple NHL and NFL franchises
have made similar decisions, as
has the MLB commissioner’s of-
fice. Mandates do not apply to
players, who are covered by
their respective unions, and
would thus need to be agreed to
through collective bargaining.
Also, the US Open tennis
tournament will require proof
of vaccination to enter Arthur
Ashe Stadium, as mandated by
the New York City mayor’s of-
fice.
CLIFF HAWKINS/GETTY IMAGES
Masters in the Swiss Alps with
five birdies in a 5-under 65.
The South African enjoyed a
superb up-and-down at the
17 th to keep his card bogey-
free. He is 11-under par overall,
a shot ahead of Andy Sullivan
(66) and Thomas Detry (65).
Two-time European Tour
winner and overnight leader
James Morrison had opened
with a course-record 10-under
60 at the scenic Crans-sur-Sierre
club. But the 36-year-old Eng-
lishman dropped into a share of
14th after a second-round 74.
Curtis Cup — Rose Zhang won
both her matches and Allisen
Corpuz delivered a big run of
birdies as the Americans rallied
from a 3-point deficit to forge a
tie going into the final session of
the Curtis Cup.
One day after Great Britain
& Ireland won four of the six
matches and halved another,
the Americans returned the fa-
vor at Conwy (Wales) Golf Club.
Zhang and Rachel Heck,
Nos. 1 and 2 in the women’s
world amateur ranking, seized
control early in the opening
match of foursomes for a 3-
and-2 victory over Louise Dun-
can and Hannah Darling, set-
ting the tone for the day.
“They were definitely in-
spired and fired up to play bet-
ter today and I really didn’t have
to do much pep talking,” US
captain Sarah Ingram said.
T he Americans won two
matches and halved the other to
pull within a point.
In the afternoon fourballs,
Corpuz ran off four birdies in a
five-hole stretch as she and
Zhang won the anchor match, 3
and 2, over the previously un-
beaten tandem of Emily Toy and
Caley McGinty.
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Pelicans’ Hayes tased by LA police
A Los Angeles police officer briefly pressed a
knee to the neck of NBA player Jaxson Hayes as
the New Orleans Pelicans center gasped “I can’t
breathe” seconds before another officer used a
Taser on him during a struggle, according to
body camera video released Friday. The officers
went to Hayes’s home in the Woodland Hills
neighborhood on July 28 around 3 a.m. after his
girlfriend’s cousin called 911. The cousin said
Hayes’s girlfriend was sending her text messages
saying he had become loud and violent and she
was scared. Hayes, who was not armed, became
argumentative after officers said he couldn’t go
back into his home. He ignored requests from
his girlfriend and his cousin to stop talking and
struggling with the police as they tried to subdue
him. The 21-year-old ultimately was booked into
jail on accusations of resisting arrest after he
was evaluated at a hospital for minor injuries.
SOCCER
Ronaldo returning to Man U
Cristiano Ronaldo is headed back to Man-
chester United. The English club said it has
reached an agreement with Juventus for the
transfer of the 36-year-old Portugal forward,
subject to agreement of personal terms, a visa,
and a medical examination. Ronaldo, a five-time
world player of the year, told Juventus on Thurs-
day that he no longer wanted to play for the Ital-
ian club, coach Massimiliano Allegri said.
PA R A L Y M P I C S
Polish cyclist caught doping
Tokyo Paralympics medalist Marcin Polak of
Poland has been provisionally suspended after
testing positive for doping, the International Cy-
cling Union said. Polak tested positive for the
banned endurance-booster EPO in a sample tak-
en in Poland three weeks before the Tokyo Para-
lympics opened.
BASKETBALL
Markkanen traded to Cavs
The Cavaliers agreed to acquire Lauri Mark-
kanen from Chicago in a three-way trade that
will send forward Larry Nance Jr. from Cleve-
land to Portland. The Bulls are getting swing-
man Derrick Jones Jr. from the Trail Blazers
along with a lottery-protected 2022 first-round
pick . . . Louisville will suspend basketball coach
Chris Mack for six games for failing to follow
procedures in handling an extortion attempt by
one of his assistants.
Flowers gives BC a charge
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positive energy, and charisma
are contagious, and he con-
stantly inspires those around
him.
“He always has a smile from
ear to ear,” wide receivers
coach Joe Dailey said. “Rarely
do you catch him in a bad mo-
ment. If he ever does get in a
bad moment, it doesn’t take
him very long to snap out of it.”
R Keeping family in mind
Flowers is one of 14 sib-
lings, including 10 brothers,
and he cherishes family gather-
ings more than anything.
His mother, Jackie Walden,
died in 2005, before she got the
chance to watch Flowers play
football. Though she’s been
gone most of his life, she’s still
an integral part of the man he’s
become.
“I just want to make my
family proud, to be honest,”
Flowers said. “That’s one of the
reasons I keep a smile on my
face. I don’t want to let it bring
me down. I just keep a smile
on, and keep going, because I
know that’s what she’d want
me to do.
“She didn’t really get to ex-
perience me, but I’m pretty
sure she’s watching me from
above.”
His brother Martin, who he
proudly says was the best ath-
lete in the family, died in 2017.
The losses have brought
him even closer to his family.
His father, Willie, sends him
motivational texts before every
game and has inspired him to
be great ever since he was a
kid.
Flowers picked up football
at age 4, and it wasn’t long be-
fore his brothers took him to
the front yard to go through
the agility ladder. They often
played a game called “Murder-
Ball,” where one person gets
the ball and everyone else tries
to tackle them. He was always
on the smaller side, so he relied
on his shiftiness and agility to
avoid getting pummeled.
“ T h a t ’s w h e r e I r e a l l y
learned how to move,” Flowers
said.
When University School
coach Daniel Luque met Flow-
ers, he was amazed by how of-
ten the eighth-grader was on
the move.
SportsLog
Body camera video captured a Los Angeles
police officer with his knee on the neck of
Pelicans center Jaxson Hayes on July 28.
US women set for Japan
The United States will play Japan Saturday in
the quarterfinals of the Women’s World Hockey
Championship at Calgary . . . The US will host
Canada in two women’s hockey games in Octo-
ber, two chances for the top teams in the world
to continue their rivalry ahead of the Winter
Olympics in February.
MISCELLANY
Busch shifts to 23XI team
Kurt Busch will drive next season for 23XI
Racing, the NASCAR team owned by Denny
Hamlin and Michael Jordan . . . A strong pitch-
ing effort pushed the Worcester Red Sox over the
Buffalo Bison, 4-1, the road team’s fourth con-
secutive win. Kutter Crawford pitched six in-
nings, allowing one unearned run, and striking
out eight . . . The Portland Sea Dogs fell to the
Reading Fightin Phils, 8-3, at Hadlock Field.
“He was like the Energizer
Bunny,” Luque said. “He never
stopped doing things.”
Luque remembers one time
when Flowers was on the bike
before a game and cut himself
badly. A trainer had to tape
him up as he bled profusely.
Moments later, Flowers was on
the field ready to play, as if
nothing had happened.
Luque, who said Flowers
has the “heart of a lion,” coined
the nickname “Zay-BAE,” to in-
corporate both the many ad-
mirers that flocked his way and
the moniker “Best Athlete Ev-
er.”
“He went from not liking it
to loving it,” Luque said with a
laugh. “If you ever see a ‘Zay-
BAE’ on there on one of those
fan pages, you know where it
comes from. He was always a
ladies man, but he didn’t allow
that to dictate anything. He re-
ally focused on football.”
R Transformative time
Flowers entered freshman
year on varsity as a peppy and
persistent 125-pound running
back. He gained 20 pounds be-
fore his 10th grade season, but
injuries and playing on a
stacked team made it harder to
get his name out there.
Flowers stayed optimistic,
and underwent what Luque
called “quite a transformation.”
He dazzled as a junior run-
ning back and defensive back,
added receiver to his repertoire
as a senior, and eventually re-
ceived offers from 21 Division
1 schools, including Nebraska,
Purdue, and Kentucky. Flowers
credited family friend Jeremy
Alters for encouraging him to
stay patient.
“I always knew my time was
going to come,” Flowers said.
“It was just a matter of when,
to be honest. When it came, it
wasn’t a surprise to me, be-
cause I always worked for it.”
When BC reached out to
Flowers, the consensus was
that he’d start out at defensive
back but could potentially play
elsewhere. On Day 1 of his
freshman year, he switched to
wide receiver permanently, a
decision he called the best he’s
ever made.
Flowers was excited about
the BC education, the city, and
the chance to contribute right
away. He mas tered the je t
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HOCKEY
sweep in Year 1, but he knew
he was capable of much more.
When coach Jeff Hafley and
offensive coordinator Frank
Cignetti took over last year,
Flowers erupted for 56 catches
(second on the team), 892
yards receiving (second in the
ACC), and nine touchdown re-
ceptions (second in BC single-
season history).
On one dizzying play
against Duke, the Eagles called
a corner post and Flowers
tricked his defender and got
more open than Cignetti could
have imagined. No one was
within 10 yards of him, and he
waltzed into the end zone.
“When I saw him run that
double move, and separate
across the field, wow, man,”
Cignetti said. “I don’t know if
I’ve ever seen someone that
wide open before. It was im-
pressive.
“He’s just such a great kid to
be around. His positive energy,
that ‘it factor,’ he just makes ev-
eryone around him better.”
This preseason, Flowers has
embraced mentoring freshman
r e c e i v e r Ja d e n W i l l i a m s ,
whom Dailey called “another
Zay.” Dailey said Flowers’s at-
tention to detail has improved
considerably throughout his
career, and he’s confident
Flowers will make even more
“competitive catches” this year.
As much success as he had
last season, Flowers isn’t one to
get complacent.
His not-so-quiet confidence
and bravado are well-received
by his teammates. When de-
bating with Jurkovec about
who would win in a hypotheti-
cal one-on-one baske tball
game, Flowers said he would
spot Jurkovec 5 points. “He’s
scared to play me,” Flowers
chirped.
Flowers also takes pride in
the fact that he successfully
surfed the second-longest wave
in the world in Peru. He said he
picked up juggling in two days
as a way to help with his coor-
dination, and he holds his own
at the golf driving range.
Flowers never limits him-
self, and he isn’t afraid of ex-
pectations as he helps anchor
an offense he believes will be
one of the most explosive BC
has ever seen.
G l o b e
Soccer
PREMIER LEAGUE
GP W D L Pts.
West Ham ................. 2 2 0 0 6
Chelsea ...................... 2 2 0 0 6
Liverpool.................... 2 2 0 0 6 NESN
Brighton..................... 2 2 0 0 6
Tottenham................. 2 2 0 0 6
Man. United .............. 2 1 1 0 4 NYG
Everton ...................... 2 1 1 0 4 (exh.)
Brentford................... 2 1 1 0
Manchester City ...... 2 1 0 1
4
3 6:00
Aston Villa................. 2 1 0 1
Watford ..................... 2 1 0 1
3
3 Ch. 4, NFL
Leicester City ........... 2 1 0 1 3
Southampton............ 2 0 1 1 1
Crystal Palace .......... 2 0 1 1 1 NYC
Leeds United............. 2 0 1 1 1
Wolverhampton ....... 2 0 0 2 0 7:30
Burnley....................... 2 0 0 2 0 Ch. 38
Newcastle.................. 2 0 0 2 0
Arsenal....................... 2 0 0 2 0
Norwich City............. 2 0 0 2 0
SATURDAY’S GAMES
Arsenal at Manchester City..........7:30a
Brentford at Aston Villa....................10a
Southampton at Newcastle..............10a
Crystal Palace at West Ham............10a
Leicester City at Norwich City.........10a
Everton at Brighton............................10a
Chelsea at Liverpool.......................12:30
SUNDAY’S GAMES
Leeds United at Burnley......................9a
Watford at Tottenham........................ 9a
Man. United at Wolverhampton.11:30a
MLS
EASTERN CONFERENCE
GP W D L Pts.
New England .......... 22 15 4 3 49
Orlando.................... 20 9 7 4 34
Philadelphia ............ 21 8 8 5 32
Nashville SC............ 20 7 11 2 32
NYCFC ...................... 19 9 4 6 31
CF Montreal ............ 21 7 7 7 28
D.C. United .............. 21 8 3 10 27
Atlanta ..................... 21 6 9 6 27
Columbus ................ 21 6 6 9 24
NY Red Bulls ........... 19 6 4 9 22
Inter Miami CF ....... 19 6 4 9 22
Chicago.................... 21 5 5 11 20
FC Cincinnati .......... 19 3 8 8 17
Toronto FC .............. 21 3 6 12 15
WESTERN CONFERENCE
GP W D L Pts.
Seattle...................... 21 12 6 3 42
Sporting KC............. 21 11 6 4 39
Colorado.................. 19 11 4 4 37
LA Galaxy ................ 21 11 2 8 35
Minnesota ............... 20 7 7 6 28
Real Salt Lake......... 20 7 6 7 27
San Jose................... 21 6 8 7 26
Portland................... 20 7 3 10 24
LAFC ......................... 20 6 5 9 23
Vancouver............... 20 5 8 7 23
FC Dallas.................. 21 5 7 9 22
Austin....................... 20 5 4 11 19
Houston ................... 21 3 10 8 19
FRIDAY’S RESULTS
Columbus 3.....................FC Cincinnati 2
CF Montreal 3.......................... Toronto 1
Inter Miami CF 0......................Orlando 0
SATURDAY’S GAMES
Nashville SC at Atlanta.................... 3:30
Chicago at NY Red Bulls....................... 6
LA Galaxy at LAFC..................................7
New England at NYCFC....................7:30
Philadelphia at D.C. United...................8
Minnesota at Houston......................8:30
Colorado at Sporting KC.......................9
SUNDAY’S GAMES
FC Dallas at Austin.................................8
Real Salt Lake at Vancouver..............10
Portland at Seattle..........................10:30
NWSL
SATURDAY’S GAME
Kansas City at Chicago.........................8
SUNDAY’S GAMES
North Carolina at Washington.............5
Orlando at Gotham FC..................... 5:30
Portland at OL Reign..............................7
Louisville at Houston........................7:30
WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
Kansas City 2.........................Louisville 1
Portland 2...........................Gotham FC 1
Football
NFL EXHIBITION
WEEK 4
FRIDAY’S RESULTS
Indianapolis 27........................ Detroit 17
Philadelphia 31.......................NY Jets 31
Carolina 34...........................Pittsburgh 9
Kansas City 28.................. Minnesota 25
SATURDAY’S GAMES
Green Bay at Buffalo..............................1
Baltimore at Washington......................6
Chicago at Tennessee........................... 7
Tampa Bay at Houston..........................8
Arizona at New Orleans........................8
LA Rams at Denver...........................9:05
LA Chargers at Seattle........................10
SUNDAY’S GAMES
New England at NY Giants................... 6
Jacksonville at Dallas.............................1
Miami at Cincinnati................................4
Las Vegas at San Francisco................. 4
Cleveland at Atlanta..............................8
Tennis
CHICAGO WOMEN’S OPEN
At Credit Union 1 Arena, Chicago
Women’s singles
Semi Finals
Elina Svitolina (1), def. Rebecca Pe-
terson, 6-1, 6-7 (4), 6-3; Alize Cornet
(9), def. Varvara Gracheva, 4-6, 6-1,
6-0.
Golf
EUROPEAN MASTERS
At Crans-sur-Sierre,
Yardage: 6,848; par: 70
Pablo Larrazabal...........69-72–141
Dean Burmester............64-65–129 -11
Thomas Detry................65-65–130
Andy Sullivan.................64-66–130
-10
-10
Renato Paratore............65-66–131
Jorge Campillo...............68-64–132
-9
-8
Justin Harding................66-66–132 -8
Matthew Jordan............67-65–132 -8
Ross McGowan..............68-64–132 -8
John Catlin......................68-65–133 -7
Jamie Donaldson...........67-66–133 -7
Min Woo Lee..................66-67–133
Robin Sciot-Siegrist......63-70–133
-7
-7
Sebastian Soderberg....66-67–133 -7
Rasmus Hojgaard..........68-66–134 -6
Scott Jamieson..............67-67–134 -6
Andrew Johnston..........68-66–134 -6
James Morrison.............60-74–134 -6
Marcel Siem...................66-68–134 -6
Bernd Wiesberger.........67-67–134
Benjamin Hebert...........67-68–135
-6
-5
Henrik Stenson..............71-64–135
Marcus Armitage..........63-73–136
-5
-4
Alexander Bjork.............67-69–136 -4
Sean Crocker.................71-65–136 -4
Darren Fichardt.............66-70–136 -4
Miguel Angel Jimenez..69-67–136 -4
Soren Kjeldsen...............72-64–136 -4
Francesco Molinari.......72-64–136 -4
Victor Perez...................68-68–136 -4
Shubhankar Sharma.....68-68–136 -4
Daniel Van Tonder........66-70–136 -4
Maverick Antcliff...........69-68–137 -3
Wil Besseling.................71-66–137 -3
Yikeun Chang.................69-68–137 -3
Jean-Baptiste Gonnet...67-70–137 -3
Martin Kaymer..............68-69–137
Mikko Korhonen............71-66–137
-3
-3
Alexander Levy..............69-68–137
Bryden MacPherson.....69-68–137
-3
-3
Guido Migliozzi..............67-70–137 -3
Adrien Saddier...............68-69–137 -3
Lee Slattery....................70-67–137 -3
Julian Suri.......................72-65–137 -3
Jeff Winther................... 70-67–137 -3
Fabrizio Zanotti.............68-69–137 -3
Nino Bertasio.................69-69–138 -2
Jonathan Caldwell........ 70-68–138 -2
Ashley Chesters............67-71–138 -2
Nacho Elvira...................69-69–138 -2
Calum Hill.......................68-70–138 -2
Rikard Karlberg.............67-71–138 -2
Masahiro Kawamura....67-71–138 -2
Marcus Kinhult..............70-68–138
Ronan Kleu.....................68-70–138
-2
-2
Hugo Leon......................70-68–138
Richard McEvoy............ 70-68–138
-2
-2
Wade Ormsby................69-69–138 -2
Paul Peterson................65-73–138 -2
Robin Roussel................68-70–138 -2
Lucas Bjerregaard.........69-70–139 -1
Pietro Bovari..................65-74–139 -1
Nicolas Colsaerts..........65-74–139 -1
Raphael De Sousa.........73-66–139 -1
Gavin Green...................74-65–139 -1
Julien Guerrier...............65-74–139 -1
Jazz Janewattananond.68-71–139 -1
Adrian Meronk...............70-69–139 -1
Kyong-jun Moon............67-72–139 -1
Andrea Pavan................68-71–139 -1
Carlos Pigem..................70-69–139
Antoine Rozner..............69-70–139
-1
-1
Rory Sabbatini...............67-72–139
Oliver Wilson................. 70-69–139
-1
-1
Missed cut
Steven Brown................72-68–140 E Gwinnett 2..............................Nashville 1
Alejandro Canizares.....70-70–140 E Omaha 3.........................................Iowa 2
Aaron Cockerill..............71-69–140 E SATURDAY’S GAMES
George Coetzee.............70-70–140 E SUNDAY'S GAMES
Victor Dubuisson...........68-72–140 E Worcester at Buffalo........................ 1:05
Joachim B. Hansen.......69-71–140 E Rochester at Syracuse..................... 1:05
Romain Langasque.......70-70–140 E Scranton/WB at Lehigh Valley.......1:35
Adrian Otaegui..............68-72–140 E Louisville at Indianapolis.................1:35
Thomas Pieters.............70-70–140 E Texas 10.................................Nebraska 0
Ricardo Santos..............69-71–140 E
Graeme Storm...............72-68–140 E
Lars Van Meijel............. 70-70–140 E Columbus at Memphis.....................3:05
Justin Walters................69-71–140
Richard Bland................69-72–141
E
+1
Scott Hend..................... 70-71–141 +1
S A T U R D A Y, A U G U S T 2 8 , 2 0 2 1
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SAT
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SUN
8/29
MON
8/30
TUE
8/31
WED
9/1
THU
9/2
FRI
9/3
CLE CLE TB TB TB TB CLE
4:05 1:10 7:10 7:10 7:10 7:10 7:10
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AUTO RACING
7 p.m. NASCAR Cup: Coke Zero Sugar 400 NBC Sports Betting Line
College Football
BASEBALL Saturday
4 p.m. Colorado at LA Dodgers MLB
Favorite Pts. Underdog
Nebraska...............7 ............ At Illinois
FS1, At Fresno St....... 27½ ..................UConn
4:05 p.m. Boston at Cleveland
NESN At UCLA...............17½ .................Hawaii
6 p.m. Arizona at Philadelphia MLB
UTEP.......................9 At New Mex. St.
At San Jose St....21½ ................ S. Utah
9:07 p.m. San Diego at LA Angels FS1 NFL Preseason
Friday
LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES Favorite Pts. Underdog
Indianapolis..........2 ............At Detroit
12:30 p.m. Semifinal: Ohio vs. South Dakota ABC At NY Jets.............5½ ....................Phila.
3:30 p.m. Semifinal: Michigan vs. Hawaii ABC At Carolina............3½ ...........Pittsburgh
At Kansas City......4 .......... Minnesota
BASKETBALL Saturday
1 p.m. WNBA: Las Vegas at Indiana NBA At Buffalo..............9½ ...........Green Bay
Baltimore..............3½ .. At Washington
3 p.m. Big 3 semifinals CBS Chicago..................3 .....At Tennessee
At New Orleans...3½ ................Arizona
7 p.m. WNBA: Dallas at Washington NBA Tampa Bay............4 .........At Houston
7 p.m. WNBA: Los Angeles at Connecticut NESN+ At Denver..............8½ ..............LA Rams
At Seattle..............5½ .......LA Chargers
BEACH SOCCER Sunday
11 a.m. World Cup: Russia vs. Switzerland FS2 Jacksonville..........3½ .............At Dallas
12:30 p.m. World Cup: Japan vs. Senegal FS2
At San Francisco.3½ ...........Las Vegas
Miami.....................1½ ......At Cincinnati
New England........3½ ......At NY Giants
CYCLING
9 p.m. Vuelta a Espana: Stage 14 (tape) NBCSN
Cleveland..............5½ ...........At Atlanta
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
1 p.m. Nebraska at Illinois Fox Transactions
2 p.m. UConn at Fresno State CBSSN BASEBALL
3:30 p.m. Hawaii at UCLA ESPN Baltimore (MLB): Released INF Mai-
kel Franco after clearing waivers.
7 p.m. Alcorn State at North Carolina Central ESPN Boston (MLB): Placed 2Bs Enrique
10 p.m. Southern Utah at San Jose State CBSSN Hernandez, Christian Arroyo and INF/
OF Kike Hernandez on COVID-19 list.
Sent LF Danny Santana on a rehab as-
PRO FOOTBALL
signment. Recalled INF Jonathan Arauz
1 p.m. Exhibition: Green Bay at Buffalo NFL from Worcester. Agreed to a major
league contract with INF/OF Yairo Mu-
7 p.m. Exhibition: Chicago at Tennessee NFL
10 p.m. Exhibition: LA Chargers at Seattle NFL
noz.
Chi. White Sox (MLB): Reinstated C
Yasmani Grandal from 10-day IL. Op-
FLAG FOOTBALL tioned C Zack Collins.
Cleveland (MLB): Sent P Aaron
6 p.m. AFFL: Women’s championship CBSSN Civale to Lake County (High-A Central)
on a rehab assignment.
GOLF Detroit (MLB): Recalled P Jason Fol-
10:30 a.m. European: Omega European Masters Golf ey. Reinstated C Eric Haase from the
12 p.m. PGA: BMW Championship Golf
10-day IL. Designated P Erasmo Ramir-
ez for assignment. Optioned C Grayson
3 p.m. Champions: Ally Challenge Golf Greiner to Toledo.
Houston (MLB): Signed INF Marwin
3 p.m. PGA: BMW Championship NBC Gonzalez on a minor league contract.
LA Dodgers (MLB): Recalled P Andre
WOMEN’S HOCKEY Jackson. Optioned P Darien Nunez.
Sent P Neftali Feliz outright to Oklaho-
3:30 p.m. World quarterfinal: US vs. Japan NHL ma City.
7 p.m. World quarterfinal: Canada vs. Germany NHL Minnesota (MLB): Reinstated P
Jorge Alcala and OF Byron Buxton from
HORSE RACING 10-day IL. Agreed to a major league
contract with P Ian Gibaut. Optioned
11:30 a.m. Saratoga Live FS1 RHPs Edgar Garcia and Kyle Barra-
clough to St. Paul. Transferred P Luke
3 p.m. Saratoga Live FS2
Farrell to 60-day IL. Placed C Mitch
5 p.m. Travers Stakes Fox Garver on 10-day IL.
Oakland (MLB): Placed OF Seth
6:30 p.m. Saratoga Live FS2 Brown on 10-day IL. Recalled P Daulton
Jeffries.
WOMEN’S LACROSSE Seattle (MLB): Signed P Chris Jeffer-
7 p.m. Athletes Unlimited FS1 son on a minor league contract. Added
P Sean Doolittle to active roster. Op-
tioned P Wyatt Mills.
MIXED MARTIAL ARTS
Tampa Bay (MLB): Reinstated P
10 p.m. Featherweights: Barboza vs. Chikadze ESPN Pete Fairbanks from 10-day IL.
Texas (MLB): Sent P Kohei Arihara
MOTORCYCLE RACING on a rehab assignment. Placed P Spen-
3 p.m. Lucas Oil Motocross NBCSN cer Howard on 10-day IL. Agreed to
terms on a major league contract with
P Glen Otto.
PARALYMPICS
Wheelchair rugby; swimming; track
Toronto (MLB): Claimed OF Jarrod
Dyson off waivers from Kansas City.
1 a.m. NBCSN Placed P Brad Hand on bereavement
and field; wheelchair tennis; rowing list. Recalled P Connor Overton.
RODEO
Arizona (MLB): Claimed INF Asdrub-
al Cabrera off waivers from Cincinnati.
8 p.m. PBR: Tractor Supply Invitational CBSSN Agreed to terms on a major league
contract with OF Jake McCarthy.
MEN’S SOCCER
10 a.m. Premier: Brentford at Aston Villa CNBC
Atlanta (MLB): Designated RF Abra-
ham Almonte for assignment. Rein-
stated LF Eddie Rosario from 10-day IL.
10 a.m. Premier: Everton at Brighton NBCSN Cincinnati (MLB): Claimed 3B As-
12:30 p.m. Premier: Chelsea at Liverpool NBC
drubal Cabrera off waivers from Arizo-
na.
LA Dodgers (MLB): Recalled P Andre
7 p.m. MLS: LA Galaxy at LAFC Fox Jackson. Optioned P Darien Nunez to
7:30 p.m. MLS: New England at NYCFC Ch. 38 Oklahoma City. Sent P Neftali Feliz out-
right to Oklahoma City.
SOFTBALL Miami (MLB): Sent P Bryan Mitchell
outright to Jacksonville (Triple-A East).
7 p.m. AU: Piancastelli vs. Osterman FS1
NY Mets (MLB): Reinstated C Tomas
Nido from 10-day IL. Optioned C
SWIMMING Chance Sisco.
12 p.m. ISL CBSSN Philadelphia (MLB): Recalled P
TENNIS
Enyel De Los Santos. Placed P Zach Ef-
lin on 10-day IL.
San Francisco (MLB): Reinstated P
1 p.m. W-Salem, Cleveland, Chicago finals Tennis Kevin Gausman from 10-day IL. Op-
TRACK AND FIELD
tioned C Chadwick Tromp to Sacra-
mento.
7 p.m. IAAF: Diamond League (tape) NBCSN BASKETBALL
Dallas (NBA): Waived G Nate Hinton.
(schedule subject to change) Philadelphia (NBA): Waived F An-
thony Tolliver.
FOOTBALL
Buffalo (NFL): Activated WRs Cole
Beasley, Gabriel Davis and DTs Vernon
Butler, Star Lotulelei from reserve/
Baseball
COVID-19 list. Placed DT Treyvon
Hester on IR. Released WR Rico Gaf-
ford and DT Joey Ivie.
Carolina (NFL): Waived S Brian Cole.
Acquired K Ryan Santoso from New
TRIPLE-A EAST DOUBLE-A NORTHEAST York Giants for a conditional seventh-
round pick.
Midwest Division Northeast Division Dallas (NFL): Activated S Malik
Hooker from COVID-19 list.
W L Pct. GB W L Pct. GB
Toledo......................56 42 .571 — Somerset.................58 41 .586 — Green Bay (NFL): Released WR
Omaha .....................54 44 .551 2 Portland...................55 42 .567 2 Devin Funchess from IR with injury set-
St. Paul ....................53 46 .535 3½ New Hampshire .....46 49 .484 10 tlement. Waived QB Jake Dolegala.
Columbus ................46 51 .474 9½ Binghamton ............45 52 .454 12 Signed DB Rojesterman Farris.
Indianapolis ............45 53 .459 11 Reading....................40 60 .400 18½ New England (NFL): Claimed TE Ka-
Iowa .........................42 57 .424 14½ hale Warring from Houston.
Louisville .................41 57 .418 15
Hartford...................33 65 .337 24½
New Orleans (NFL): Signed DE Dami-
Southwest Division
Northeast Division
W L Pct. GB
on Square. Waived LB Sutton Smith.
W L Pct. GB NY Giants (NFL): Signed DB Jordyn Pe-
Akron .......................61 38 .616 —
Scranton/W-B.........59 37 .615 — Bowie .......................58 40 .592 2½
ters.
Buffalo .....................56 40 .583 3 San Francisco (NFL): Waived S Kai
Worcester ...............53 46 .535 7½
Altoona ....................52 46 .531 8½
Erie ...........................53 47 .530 8½ Nacua. Re-signed OL Corbin Kaufasi.
Rochester................43 54 .443 16½ Placed R/PR Richie James Jr. on IR.
Lehigh Valley..........43 55 .439 17
Richmond ................51 49 .510 10½
Harrisburg...............38 61 .384 23 Tampa Bay (NFL): Placed Gs Earl
Syracuse..................38 60 .388 22
FRIDAY'S RESULTS
Watford and Nick Leaverett on re-
serve/COVID-19 list. Waived S Raven
Southeast Division
Reading 8.................................Portland 3
W L Pct. GB
Richmond 6...............................Altoona 3
Greene from IR with injury settlement.
Durham....................63 35 .643 — Tennessee (NFL): Activated DL An-
Gwinnett..................58 42 .580 6 Harrisburg 7............................Hartford 2 thony Rush from reserve/COVID-19
Jacksonville.............56 44 .560 8 Akron 4...................................Somerset 2 list.
Nashville..................53 47 .530 11 Binghamton 3............New Hampshire 2 HOCKEY
Memphis..................47 53 .470 17 Minnesota (NHL): Signed D Jordie
Norfolk.....................40 58 .408 23
Erie 6........................................at Bowie 3
Benn to a one-year contract.
SATURDAY'S GAMES
Charlotte .................37 61 .378 26
Reading at Portland...............................6
Montreal (NHL): Signed F Ryan Poe-
FRIDAY'S RESULTS hling to two-year contract extension.
Rochester 6............................Syracuse 3 Hartford at Harrisburg.......................... 6 SOCCER
Worcester 4...............................Buffalo 1 Richmond at Altoona.............................6 Minnesota (MLS): Signed F Fanendo
Toledo 11...................................St. Paul 1 Erie at Bowie......................................6:35 Adi to one-year contract with one year
option.
Norfolk 7............Jacksonville 6 (10 inn.)
Indianapolis 3........................Louisville 2
Akron at Somerset............................7:05
Vancouver (MLS): Loaned F Simon
Binghamton at New Hampshire.....7:05
Nashville 3..............................Gwinnett 0 SUNDAY'S GAMES Colyn to Jong PSV through June 2022.
Named Vanni Sartini acting head
Scranton/WB 11............Lehigh Valley 4 Reading at Portland...............................1
Memphis 4............................Columbus 2 Hartford at Harrisburg.......................... 1
coach.
USL: Announced Northern Virginia
Omaha 11.......................................Iowa 5
SATURDAY'S GAMES
Binghamton at New Hampshire.....1:35 FC as a new member of USL W League.
Erie at Bowie......................................1:35 Washington (NWSL): Re-signed F
Durham at Charlotte, 1st game......1:05
Akron at Somerset............................5:05 Ashley Sanchez through 2024 with op-
Worchester at Buffalo......................6:05 tion for 2025.
Rochester at Syracuse..................... 6:35
Richmond at Altoona.............................6
Scranton/WB at Lehigh Valley.......6:35 WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS
Durham at Charlotte, 2d game.......7:04 Reading 9.................................Portland 7
Basketball
St. Paul at Toledo..............................7:05 Richmond 6...............................Altoona 0
Jacksonville at Norfolk.....................7:05 Hartford 3............................Harrisburg 2
Louisville at Indianapolis.................7:05 Erie 6.............................................Bowie 1
Columbus at Memphis.....................7:35 Akron 5...................................Somerset 3
Gwinnett at Nashville.......................8:05
Omaha at Iowa..................................8:08
Binghamton 7............New Hampshire 5
THURSDAY'S RESULTS
WNBA
THURSDAY'S GAMES Reading 5.................................Portland 2 EASTERN CONFERENCE
Jacksonville 4............................Norfolk 3 Altoona 3...............................Richmond 0 W L Pct. GB
Toledo 9.....................St. Paul 8 (11 inn.)
Rochester 3............................Syracuse 2
Hartford 7............................Harrisburg 5 Connecticut............... 19 6 .760 —
Chicago...................... 12 12 .500 6½
Bowie 8.............................................Erie 6
Charlotte 9................................Durham 2
Somerset 7...................................Akron 3
New York................... 11 16 .407 9
Washington................. 9 15 .375 9½
Worcester 8...............................Buffalo 5
Scranton/WB 6..............Lehigh Valley 0 New Hampshire 10..........Binghamton 3 Atlanta ......................... 6 19 .240 13
Louisville 5........................Indianapolis 1 Indiana......................... 5 18 .217 13
WESTERN CONFERENCE
LITTLE LEAGUE WS W L Pct. GB
Columbus 12..........................Memphis 3
Las Vegas.................. 18 7 .720 —
Seattle........................ 18 8 .692 ½
South Dakota vs. TBA.....................12:30 Minnesota ................. 15 9 .625 2½
Phoenix...................... 15 10 .600 3
Michigan vs. Hawaii..........................3:30
WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS
Dallas ......................... 11 14 .440 7
Los Angeles............... 10 15 .400 8
Ohio 4......................... New Hampshire 3 FRIDAY’S RESULTS
St. Paul at Toledo..............................2:05
South Dakota 1.....................California 0
Phoenix 80...........................New York 64
Omaha at Iowa..................................2:08 Chicago 73................................Seattle 69
Hawaii 2..................................Michigan 0 SATURDAY’S GAMES
Jacksonville at Norfolk.....................4:05 THURSDAY’S RESULTS Las Vegas at Indiana.............................1
Durham at Charlotte.........................5:05 Michigan 15..................................Texas 6 Los Angeles at Connecticut..................7
Gwinnett at Nashville.......................7:15 Ohio 4.....................................California 2 Dallas at Washington.............................7
S A T U R D A Y, A U G U S T 2 8 , 2 0 2 1
BY CITY AND TOWN
ATTLEBORO
BOUDREAU, Constance Ann
BILLERICA
GAFFNY, Carolyn R.
BRIGHTON
CERIANI, Madelyn M. (Finnegan)
CANTON
BOUDREAU, Constance Ann
DORCHESTER
CARUSO, Mary G. (Flynn)
CASTAÑEDA, Kendall Patrick
FALMOUTH
CERIANI, Madelyn M. (Finnegan)
FLORIDA
GAFFNY, Carolyn R.
FRAMINGHAM
CERIANI, Madelyn M. (Finnegan)
LYNN
LeCLAIR, Virginia M. (Fay)
MALDEN
BURNS, Robert B.
MARSHFIELD
CARUSO, Mary G. (Flynn)
MATTAPAN
CARUSO, Mary G. (Flynn)
MEDFIELD
LEADER, Kathleen M
MILTON
CARUSO, Mary G. (Flynn)
NEWTON
CERIANI, Madelyn M. (Finnegan)
NORWOOD
BOUDREAU, Constance Ann
QUINCY
HUGHES, Mary Elizabeth
REVERE
LeCLAIR, Virginia M. (Fay)
BOUDREAU, Constance Ann
Of Westwood, passed away peacefully
on Thursday, August 26th surrounded
by her loved ones. Connie was 90
years old, born to William F. and Mary
(MacDonald) Cuddy of Roslindale.
She was predeceased by her husband
George G. Boudreau. They raised their
10 children in Norwood and called it
home for over 50 years. She was the
loving mother of Kathleen Roberts
and her husband Gary of Swanton, VT,
Therese Garvey and her husband Chris
of Saint Augustine, FL, Mary Grow
and her husband David of Attleboro,
Suzanne Bisbee and her husband
Richard of Canton, George, Jr. and his
wife Susan (Kacher) of Newburyport,
her daughter Judith and son Michael,
Claudine Gover and her husband
Tom, Brian and his wife Beverly
(DiFlaminies), all of Norwood, and her
son the late Laurence Boudreau. Nana
was adored by her 16 grandchildren,
7 great-grandchildren and 4 late
grandchildren, as well as countless
nieces and nephews. She was loved
by all who knew her. Her contagious
laugh and beautiful smile will always be
remembered.
Funeral from the Holden, Dunn and
Lawler Funeral Home, 55 High Rock
St., WESTWOOD, Monday, August 30,
at 10:00am. A Mass of Christian Burial
will be celebrated in St. Catherine
of Siena Church, Washington St.,
Norwood, at 11:00am. Family and
friends are invited to attend. Visiting
Hours will be held in the funeral home
on Sunday, August 29, from 3:00 to
6:00pm. Interment Highland Cemetery,
Norwood.
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ROSLINDALE
BOUDREAU, Constance Ann
SAUGUS
LeCLAIR, Virginia M. (Fay)
STONEHAM
GAFFNY, Carolyn R.
LeCLAIR, Virginia M. (Fay)
STOUGHTON
FORREST, Madeline Vivian
TEWKSBURY
BURNS, Robert B.
WELLESLEY HILLS
CERIANI, Madelyn M. (Finnegan)
WESTWOOD
BOUDREAU, Constance Ann
WEYMOUTH
HUGHES, Mary Elizabeth
WOBURN
BURNS, Robert B.
OUT OF STATE
MAINE
SLADE, Patricia (Nalchajian)
BURNS, Robert B.
Of Tewksbury, formerly of Malden,
August 10, 2021. Beloved husband
of Joanne (Lucia) Burns. Devoted
father of Robert Burns, Jr. and his
wife Colleen of Rockland, and Michael
Burns of Tewksbury. He was the loving
grandfather of Cameron Robert Burns.
Cherished brother of Barbara Neagle
and her husband George of Farming-
ton, ME, and the late William Burns.
He is further survived by several nieces
and nephews. Family and friends are
respectfully invited to attend Visiting
Hours at the McLaughlin - Dello Russo
Family Funeral Home, 60 Pleasant St.,
WOBURN, today, Saturday, August
28th, from 2 to 5 p.m. with a Memorial
Prayer Service starting at 5 p.m. It has
been requested that, in lieu of flowers,
contributions may be made in Roberts
memory to Dana-Farber Cancer Insti-
tute to support cancer research and
patient care at: Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute, P.O. Box 849168, Boston, MA
02284 or via www.dana-farber.org/gift
If donating online please select the box
marked Esophageal Cancer located un-
der the Gastrointestinal Cancer section.
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Dello Russo Family Funeral Homes
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T h e B o s t o n
Remembered
CARUSO, Mary G. “Marie”
(Flynn)
Surrounded by her loving family,
Marie passed away peacefully from the
comfort of her own home in Milton,
to her ultimate home with God on
August 25, 2021. Proud to be born
and raised in Mattapan, and even
more proud to raise her own family
in Dorchester, she retired to Milton
where she continued to enjoy life to the
fullest and grow her circle of wonderful
friends. Marie attended St. Angela’s in
Mattapan and St. Clare’s in Roslindale.
For close to 40 years, Marie loved
teaching children at the Kenny School
in Dorchester. Marie gave her love
unconditionally and without measure.
All were welcome in her home and
she was always willing to help out
where she could. Marie will be fondly
remembered for her everlasting love
for her family and friends, especially
her amazing husband of 52 years, John,
and her dear friend, Fr. Ron Coyne.
Marie is survived by her other loves of
her life, her daughter Denise (Caruso)
Queally and her husband Desmond
of Milton, and her son John Caruso,
Jr. and his wife, Beth of Marshfield.
Above all, Marie cherished being a
grandmother to her Caroline, her
Shane, her Charlotte, her Madelyn and
her Kenleigh Mae. She is, no doubt,
continuing to love and watch over each
one of them now in heaven. She will be
missed by her husband, children, their
spouses, and grandchildren deeply.
Marie had the most dedicated siblings
and parents. Predeceased by her
brother, Paul Flynn; and her parents
Mary (Young) Flynn and William B.
Flynn Sr. Survived by her loving sister
and brother, Patricia (Flynn) McCue of
Norwood and William B. Flynn Jr. of
Cohasset. Marie leaves behind many
nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-
nephews whom she loved dearly and
will be remembered fondly as Auntie
Marie. The Caruso, Queally and Flynn
families want to thank all of our family
and friends for their loving support
during this time. Special thanks to the
Irish Connection, the South Shore VNA,
and Season’s Hospice which all went
above and beyond to care for Marie and
her family. Relatives and friends are
respectfully invited to greet the family
during Visiting Hours on Sunday,
August 29, 2021 from 3PM – 7PM
at Dolan Funeral Home, 460 Granite
Avenue, EAST MILTON. A Mass of
Christian Burial will be celebrated in St.
Agatha Church, 432 Adams St. Milton
at 12PM on Monday, August 30, 2021.
All roads lead back to her burial at
Cedar Grove Cemetery in Dorchester.
In lieu of flowers, Marie encourages
you to do a small act of kindness for
your local food bank, senior center,
parish, veteran’s organization, police,
fire station or local charity. Some of her
favorites were My Brother’s Keeper, St.
Mary’s Center for Women and Children,
and the New England Connection for
PKU and Allied Disorders. Please visit
www.dolanfuneral.com for directions
and online condolences.
G l o b e
CASTAÑEDA, Kendall
Patrick
Passed away on August 22nd from
natural causes. Born in Atlanta
September 1, 1998, he spent the
last 5 years in Boston, his adopted
hometown. He was preceded in death
by his paternal grandparents, Froilan
and Zosima Castañeda, and his
maternal grandfather, Richard Draffin,
Jr. He was also preceded by fellow
Posse Foundation alum/chosen family
member Erin Edwards.
He leaves us to continue his
path; of chosen happiness, loving
wholeheartedly, a big proponent of
goofiness, and continual learning
to - his mother, Mercedes Draffin
(Paul Miller); his siblings, Zosima
Castañeda (Kyle Nicklaw, and nephew
Julio), Ethan Castañeda (Amber
Harville), Courtney Castañeda, and
Emma Castañeda (Dominik Bedzyk);
his partner Brianna Gilmore; his
best friends Ron Thompson and
Simeon Webb; his close cousin Karen
Castañeda; uncle and aunt Robert and
Leslie Castañeda (Avery Castañeda)
and uncle Frederick Castañeda; his
maternal grandmother, Ann Draffin;
and his #BU2021 Posse (chosen
family): Nancy Lowenstein, Abdullaah
Robins, Archelle Thelemaque, Christian
Vanleer, Diem (DM) Maxwell, Kamilah
Harruna, Kesha Perkins, MC Carradine.
While we deeply mourn this
unexpected passing, we are celebrating
his Memory
Kendall lived his entire life with a
fullness of heart and wasted not one
single minute he was given. He gave
of himself, his time, his focus, his
assistance, his laughter, his smile, and
his hugs. His hugs were phenomenal.
We are comforted by the fact that he
lived daily without regret, and loved
those he loved unconditionally and
completely. He knew how much and
richly he was loved and conversely, we
all knew how he felt about us. Kendall
left a big footprint there and could not
walk down Commonwealth Avenue
without seeing someone he knew, and
giving a big smile and wave to them as
he rushed to a class or activity.
To his siblings, blood related and
chosen, Kendall was a constant source
of laughter and light, even when
he was a “pain in the ass.” Kendall’s
ability to bring ease and joy into the
conversation, even in the toughest
of times, was one of his most unique
and memorable qualities. He was
able to turn anything into a joke and
would do whatever it took to bring a
smile to someone’s face, whether that
be his sister or a random stranger
on the street. His smile in of itself
was infectious enough to break up a
mundane day and become a shining
light to us all. His terribly amazing
jokes, infectious positivity, and outward
philanthropy allowed everyone he
interacted with to see straight into his
open heart and affinity for kindness
and character.
He was an active leader and
contributor in the community from
community fridges, to BUFSA, his Posse
Family, his work with the MCU as both
a team leader and it’s President. He
was on the Dean’s list several times and
was inducted into the highly regarded
Scarlet Key Society upon graduation.
He graduated from Boston University
with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociocultural
Anthropology and a minor in Computer
Science.
While at BU, he successfully served
on the Executive Board of the Minority
Connection Initiative and the Filipino
Student Association, completed two
internships at Deloitte, as well as the
CodeU Program at Google. He served
as a Program Advisor and Common
Ground speaker for BU’s Summer
Orientation team, and a Resident
Assistant for BU Residence Life, as well
as developing funding for BU’s annual
fund as he worked at the Student
Philanthropy center.
He’s remembered not only for the
heights he accomplished for himself
and for others, but for his intention,
thoughtfulness, hope, curiosity,
and gratitude which he poured
wholeheartedly into everything he did.
Arrangements will be virtual,
on Wednesday, September 1, at
12:00PM EST, located at https://www.
wagesandsons.com/obits/kendall-
patrick-castaneda/ We will keep you all
updated through social media. Please
visit that site and see social media for
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in lieu of flowers.
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CERIANI, Madelyn M.
(Finnegan)
Of Newton and Falmouth, passed away
peacefully at home on August 25, 2021.
Beloved wife to the late Raymond John
Ceriani. Devoted mother to daughter
Madelyn Jackson; son-in-law Steven
Jackson; and granddaughters Jennifer
and Kristine Jackson of Medway
and Falmouth; son Peter J. Ceriani;
daughter-in-law Sheryl Ceriani; and
granddaughter Nicole Ceriani of
Wellesley Hills and Falmouth; daughter
Marymichele Delaney; son-in-law
Eamon Delaney; and grandchildren
Joshua and Elizabeth Delaney of
Framingham; daughter Lisbeth Ceriani;
and granddaughter Isabella Ceriani
of Newton. Dear sister to the late
Mildred Lechiaro and the late Virginia
Zellmann. Relatives and friends are
kindly invited to attend Visiting Hours
Sunday, August 29th from 4pm to 6pm
at the Lehman Reen and McNamara
Funeral Home, 63 Chestnut Hill Ave
Brighton 02135. Funeral Monday,
August 30th at 9:30am from the
Lehman Reen & McNamara Funeral
Home. Funeral Mass 10:30am at
St. Columbkille Church 321 Market
St. Brighton. Interment St. Joseph
Cemetery, 990 LaGrange St. West
Roxbury 02132. In lieu of flowers,
donations in memory of Mrs. Madelyn
Ceriani may be made to Catholic
Charities of Boston 275 West Broadway
South Boston 02127 www.ccab.org/
donate. For directions and guest book
please visit www.lehmanreen.com.
Lehman Reen McNamara
Brighton 617 782 1000
FORREST, Madeline Vivian
Born February 20, 1924, went home
to be with the Lord, August 18, 2021.
She was a loving wife, mother and
mentor to many. View live streamed
home-going service at https://webcast.
funeralvue.com/events/viewer/59110
GAFFNY, Carolyn R.
Of Cape Coral, FL, formerly of Billerica
and Stoneham. Beloved wife of the
late Henry D. Gaffny. Devoted mother
of David Gaffny, Douglas Gaffny
and his wife Theresa all of FL, and
Patricia Gillespie and her husband
James of Billerica. Dear sister of
Nancy Maidrand of Shrewsbury and
the late Richard, Robert and Neil
Collins. Loving grandmother of Melissa
Carlson and her husband Chris,
Nicholas Gaffny, Diana Nowlin and
her husband Patrick, Deedee Gaffny-
Broth and her husband Garrett, and
Douglas Gaffny. Great-grandmother
of Camden Nowlin. A Funeral Service
will be held Monday, at the Sweeney
Memorial Funeral Home, 66 Concord
Rd., BILLERICA at noon. Relatives and
friends respectfully invited. Visiting
Hours will be held Sunday, 1 – 4 p.m.
Burial in Fox Hill Cemetery, Billerica. In
lieu of flowers, memorial contributions
may be made to the Alzheimer’s
Assn., www.alzheimers.org, www.
sweeneymemorialfh.com.
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HUGHES, Mary Elizabeth
“Bette”
Age 96 years and 51
weeks, of Quincy and N.
Weymouth, died on Aug.
21, 2021. Daughter of the late Albertine
McCarthy, Bette was born in Roxbury.
She enlisted in the U.S. Marines in the
1950’s and proudly served two tours
of duty stateside, after which she was
honorably discharged as a Sargent.
Bette was a lifelong member of the
Women’s Marine Association and
enjoyed attending the association’s
gatherings. She was honored to be
selected as the Marine representative
in a picture of women in four branches
of the armed forces that was printed in
the July 6, 1957 issue of the Saturday
Evening Post. Upon discharge from
the Marines, she worked at Hewlett
Packard and the Boston Globe, retiring
from the Globe after working there
for many years. Bette enjoyed bingo,
bowling, dancing and traveling. She
leaves her nieces Carol Sestito and her
life partner Kathleen Bower; Marjorie
Taglieri and her wife Judith Murphy;
and, Albertine Beck and her daughter
Christina Beck. She also leaves behind
her nephew Michael Taglieri-Housh
and his husband Michael Housh.
She was predeceased by her sister
Marjorie A Taglieri and her fiance
William Clark. In addition, she leaves
behind several cousins. Relatives and
friends are respectfully invited to the
visitation on Monday from 9:15-10:15
AM in the McDonald Keohane Funeral
Home, NORTH WEYMOUTH at 40
Sea Street followed by a Funeral Mass
in St. Jerome Church, Weymouth
at 10:30 AM. Burial in Blue Hill
Cemetery, Braintree. In lieu of flowers,
donations may be made to the N.E.
Center and Home for Veterans, 17
Court St., Boston, MA 02108. See www.
Keohane.com for directions and online
condolences.
LEADER, Kathleen M
“Kathie”
Age 79. Of Medfield and Pocasset.
Friday, August 20th, 2021. Beloved wife
of the late William J. Leader, loving
mother of Kimberly Frazier and her
husband Matthew of Medfield, and
William Leader and his wife Megan of
Walpole. Sister to the late Ann Croke
and her late husband John, the late
Edward Sullivan and his surviving wife
Toni of Melbourne, FL, the late Helen
Sullivan and twin of the late Kevin
Sullivan and his wife Suzette. Aunt to
many nieces and nephews and cousin
to many. Visiting Monday, August
30th, 4-8 at the Roberts Mitchell
Caruso Funeral Home, 15 Miller St,
MEDFIELD. Funeral Mass Tuesday,
10:30 at St. Edward the Confessor
Church, 133 Spring St., MEDFIELD.
Those wishing, may make memorial
contributions in Kathie’s name to the
Medfield Home Committee, 459 Main
St., Medfield. For full obit, please see
robertsmitchellcaruso.com.
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LeCLAIR, Virginia M. (Fay)
Lifelong resident of Revere,
on August 25th at 78
years. Beloved wife of 59
years to Carl E. LeClair, Sr. of Revere.
Devoted mother of Carl E. LeClair,
Jr. and fiancé Denise A. Killoren of
Stoneham, Rosanne E. Frongillo and
husband Vincent of Saugus, Marie
V. Fronduto of Lynn and her former
husband Michael A. Fronduto of
New Hampshire, April J. DeLuca and
partner Christine MacInnally of Lynn,
Derek A. LeClair of Revere and the
late Cheryl A. Ferragamo. Cherished
grandmother of 13 grandchildren and
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way. Dear sister of Diane Crowley and
her late husband Michael of Marshfield,
Donald Chapman and wife Myrna
of Summerside, P. E. I., Canada, and
the late Grace E. Cutillo and her late
husband Frank R., the late Edward
C. “Eddie” Fay, Jr. and surviving wife
Dolores Fay of Allenstown, NH, the
late Joseph E. Fay and his late wife
Lillian. Also lovingly survived by
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Bernstein and her husband Stephen of
Saugus, Lorraine Todisco and Joann
Giannino, both of Revere. Many caring
nieces, nephews, grand-nieces &
grand-nephews also survive Virginia
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Of Rockport, Maine. Our loving, funny,
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great-grandmother, and friend passed
away peacefully on August 16, 2021
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after a brief illness complicated by
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and attended schools in Chelsea before
completing her high school education
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her nephew Jeffrey Redding; her niece
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Mr. Morgan, shown leading the Oakland Symphony in 2019, had received a kidney transplant in May.
Michael Morgan, adventurous maestro, at 63
By Neil Genzlinger
NEW YORK TIMES
Michael Morgan, the music
director of the Oakland Sympho-
ny in California, who in his 30
years in that post sought to bring
orchestral music to a broader au-
dience, particularly young peo-
ple and people of color, died
Aug. 20 in Oakland. He was 63.
The cause was complications
of an infection, the orchestra
said. Morgan had received a kid-
ney transplant in May and had
just resumed conducting last
month.
As one of the few Black mae-
stros leading a substantial pro-
fessional orchestra, Mr. Morgan
was eager to diversify the sym-
phony’s programming and its
audience.
“My main goal,” he told the
weekly newspaper The Califor-
nia Voice in 1991 as he was be-
ginning his Oakland tenure, “is
to show the rest of the field of or-
chestra music that you can make
an orchestra relevant and of in-
terest to the community, espe-
cially to Black youngsters who
some may think are not interest-
ed in anything.”
He made countless visits to
schools in the area. He brought
in an eclectic list of guests artists
to the Paramount Theater, the
orchestra’s home base, including
Isaac Hayes in 2001 and Carlos
Santana in 2010. He initiated a
program called “Playlist” in
which guests including comedi-
Rand V. Araskog, former chief of ITT Corp., at 89
By Kate Kelly
NEW YORK TIMES
Rand V. Araskog , who as
chief executive of ITT Corp. in
the 1980s and ’90s successfully
refocused an unwieldy conglom-
erate that at various points ran
the Sheraton hotel chain, owned
the New York Knicks and Rang-
ers and made Wonder Bread,
died Aug. 9 at his home in Palm
Beach, Fla. He was 89.
His death was confirmed by
his daughters, Kathleen Araskog
Thomas and Julie K. Araskog.
No cause was given.
A West Point graduate who
worked at the Department of
Defense before pursuing a career
in business, Mr. Araskog took
the helm of ITT in 1979, when
the company, then known as the
International Telephone and
Telegraph Corp., was the 11th
largest industrial concern in the
United States, with $19.4 billion
in annual sales (in today’s dol-
lars about $73 billion, putting it
on a par with IBM and Procter &
Gamble). Its global holdings in-
cluded pulp mills, baking com-
panies, a large network of hotels
as well as financial services and
telecommunications and elec-
tronics operations.
O v e r t w o d e c a d e s M r.
Araskog whittled down ITT to a
group of core units and reduced
the company’s $5 billion debt
load, in part by selling off some
250 companies, which he re-
ferred to in his book “The ITT
Wars: An Insider’s View of Hos-
tile Takeovers” (1989) as “redun-
dant, unprofitable or just plain
odd acquisitions.”
It was a reversal of the strate-
gy pursued by his predecessor,
Harold S. Geneen, who had built
the company into the massive
conglomerate that it was. Mr.
Araskog ultimately zeroed in on
G l o b e
Obituaries
an W. Kamau Bell and labor ac-
tivist Dolores Huerta selected
and introduced pieces to be per-
formed.
Colleagues said Mr. Morgan
was interested in more than sim-
ply putting on an entertaining
program.
“Michael wasn’t afraid to ad-
dress social issues head-on, and
we [the Oakland Symphony]
were the tools he used to bridge
the gap between races and dif-
ferent political beliefs,” Dawn
Harms, co-concertmaster of the
s y m p h o n y, s a i d b y e - m a i l .
“There was nothing like an Oak-
land Symphony concert with Mi-
chael at the helm. The audience
was so incredibly diverse, joined
together under one roof, rocking
the Paramount Theater with
such a joyful, enthusiastic noise.”
A feature article about Mr.
Morgan in The San Jose Mercu-
ry News in 2013 bore a telling
headline: “Nobody Falls Asleep
When Michael Morgan’s Con-
ducting.”
Michael DeVard Morgan was
born Sept. 17, 1957, in Washing-
ton. His mother, Mabel (Dick-
ens) Morgan, was a health re-
searcher, and his father, Willie,
was a biologist.
He grew up in the city, where
he started taking piano lessons
when he was 8. By 12 he was
conduc ting his junior high
school orchestra.
Mr. Morgan studied composi-
tion at Oberlin Conservatory of
the hotel, gaming, and enter-
tainment businesses, which in-
cluded Sheraton hotels and a
large stake in Madison Square
Garden, which owns the Knicks
and Rangers in New York.
A meticulous, hands-on man-
ager, he distributed ownership
of 11 percent of the company
among its employees.
Mr. Araskog fended off hos-
tile takeovers, even resisting one
that would have paid him hand-
somely. On more than one occa-
sion, though, the company be-
came a potential target of corpo-
rate raiders like Jay Pritzker,
who built the Hyatt hotel chain,
and billionaire Philip F. An-
schutz. To ward off those efforts,
Mr. Araskog cut costs through
layoffs and additional divest-
ments. The experience left him
embittered about the merger-
and-takeover mania of the
1980s.
“There was a single-minded-
ness in their pursuit of profit,” he
wrote of corporate raiders in
“The ITT Wars.” “They seemed
to be motivated by the idea of
playing a game, and devil take
the resulting damage and dis-
ruption.”
Randolph Vincent Araskog
was born Oct. 30, 1931, in Fer-
gus Falls, Minn., a small city in
the west-central part of the state.
His parents, Randolph Araskog,
the local tax collector, and Hil-
fred (Swanson) Araskog, operat-
ed a small dairy farm.
Mr. Araskog graduated from
West Point in 1953, then attend-
ed the Harvard Graduate School
of Arts and Sciences, studying
Russian, before joining the De-
fense Department. He spent five
years at the Pentagon, working
in the office of the Secretary of
Defense; the last two years were
spent as a special assistant to the
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Music in Ohio. At 22 he entered
the international Hans
Swarowsky conducting competi-
tion in Vienna — just for the ex-
perience, he said later — and
ended up winning. That earned
him a chance to conduct Mo-
zart’s “The Abduction From the
Seraglio” at the Vienna State Op-
era in 1982.
Georg Solti made him assis-
tant conductor of the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra in 1986. In
his seven years there he also reg-
ularly directed the Civic Orches-
tra of Chicago and the Chicago
Youth Symphony. And he began
to develop a sense of mission.
“When I began my career, I
was not involved in the idea of
being a role model or increasing
minority numbers in the field,”
he told The Chicago Tribune in
1993. “I came to realize, howev-
er, that someone has to take re-
sponsibility.”
Mr. Morgan was a guest con-
ductor with numerous major
American orchestras, as well as
with New York City Opera, Op-
era Theater of St. Louis and the
Washington National Opera.
When he conducted the New
York Philharmonic in 1992,
news accounts said he was only
the fifth Black conductor to do
so.
At the time, he told The New
York Times that he felt his race
was both a help and a hindrance.
“I have a very nice little ca-
reer now,” he said, “but I also
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director of the nation’s nascent
space program.
In 1955, Mr. Araskog pro-
posed to Jessie M. Gustafson,
who was studying library sci-
ence and education at Gustavus
Adolphus College in St. Peter,
Minn. It was their first date, and
another couple was in the car
with them at the time.
In a phone interview, she re-
called being incredulous at her
future husband’s quick proposal
and seeking her mother’s advice.
“He asked me to marry him —
should I believe him?” she re-
membered telling her. “And my
mother said, ‘I wouldn’t believe
him if I were you.’”
But she said yes, and the cou-
ple were married July 29, 1956.
In 1960, Mr. Araskog took a
job at industrial giant Honeywell
in Minneapolis. He worked in
marketing and planning in the
aeronautic division before join-
ing ITT in 1966. At ITT he held
senior positions in the compa-
know that sometimes that’s be-
cause it has been to the advan-
tage of an organization to have
me, an African American,
around. I see what others my age
do, and that there are more star-
studded careers that I have no
doubt I would have if I were not
Black.”
Lack of diversity has long
characterized the classical music
world. A 2014 study found that
only 1.8 percent of players in top
ensembles were Black and just
2.5 percent were Latino.
Mr. Morgan’s last two years in
Chicago overlapped with his ten-
ure in Oakland. By then he was
fully committed to getting more
young people, especially young
Black people, interested in or-
chestra music.
“It could add one more piece
to the puzzle of their lives,” he
told The California Voice in 1991.
A high point of any Oakland
season was Mr. Morgan’s annual
“Let Us Break Bread Together”
concert, held late in the year and
featuring a musical cornucopia
that might include gospel sing-
ers, choruses of various kinds, a
klezmer band and high school
students. Each year had a
theme, and the range was wide
— Pete Seeger music in 2014;
Frank Sinatra the next year; mu-
sic related to the Black Panthers
the next.
Mr. Morgan is survived by his
mother and a sister, Jacquelyn
Morgan.
Mr. Araskog,
shown at his office
in New York in
1980 shortly after
he took over as
chief executive and
chairman of ITT,
died Aug. 9 at his
home in Palm
Beach, Fla.
ny’s defense, aeronautics, and
telecommunications divisions
before being named chief oper-
ating officer in 1978.
The next year a boardroom
shake-up resulted in the ouster
of his predecessor, and he was
named chief executive. He was
named chairman in 1980.
Mr. A raskog ser ved on a
number of corporate boards, in-
cluding those of Dow Jones, Roy-
al Dutch Shell, and Target. As a
philanthropist he donated mon-
ey to, among other organiza-
tions, West Point, the Memorial
Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in
New York, and the Henry Street
Settlement, a social services or-
ganization in Manhattan.
After retiring from ITT in
1998, Mr. Araskog opened his
own investment firm in Palm
Beach.
In addition to his wife and
daughters, he is survived by his
son, William, and eight grand-
children.
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Restaurant-
tech firm
Toast files
to go public
Nine-year-old company
adapts amid pandemic
By Aaron Pressman
GLOBE STAFF

While the COVID-19 pandemic slammed the res-

taurant industry, Boston tech company Toast took a
hit but was also well-positioned to capitalize on the
trend of diners favoring more takeout and online
ordering.
Toast filed paperwork Friday to make an initial
public stock offering for what will be one of the
most anticipated deals of the year. If it goes
through, Toast plans to trade on the New York Stock
Exchange under the ticker symbol TOST.
The nine-year-old company also disclosed how
hard COVID has knocked its various businesses,
BRITTAINY NEWMAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
which include selling payment-processing tablets
The Supreme Court struck down President Biden’s two-month ban on evictions Thursday, prompting response from lawmakers. and handheld devices, as well as cloud-based soft-
ware for restaurants to manage orders, payroll, and

Congress urged to act on eviction ban marketing.

By Tim Logan
GLOBE STAFF
After the Supreme Court struck
down the Biden administration’s
two-month ban on evictions Thurs-
day night, Representative Ayanna
Pressley led dozens of Democratic
lawmakers Friday in urging Con-
gressional leaders to take up the
matter on their own.
The Dorchester Democrat, along
with Representatives Cori Bush of
Missouri, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
of New York, and Jimmy Gomez of
California, penned a letter implor-
ing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
and Senate Majority Leader Charles
Schumer to pass legislation that
would protect tenants at risk of
eviction during the pandemic.
“The impending eviction crisis is
a matter of public health and safety
that demands an urgent legislative
solution to prevent further harm
and needless loss of human life,”
they wrote in the letter, which was
signed by more than 50 other
House Democrats, including Repre-
Mass. law protects tenants who have
pending applications for debt relief
sentative Jim McG overn from
Worcester. “If we do not act, the end
of the eviction moratorium will un-
doubtedly lead to the increased
spread of COVID-19, more deaths,
disability, and trauma.”
Earlier this month, President
Biden extended the eviction ban —
first enacted last September by
then-president Donald Trump —
through the end of October in coun-
ties experiencing “substantial”
spread of COVID-19, a status that
currently includes most of the
country and all of Massachusetts.
Landlord groups and other critics
promptly sued. Thursday night, the
Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in their fa-
vor, saying the ban exceeded the
president’s executive authority and
would have to be enacted by Con-
gress.
But progress there has been
slow, despite a dramatic vigil by
Bush, and at times Pressley, on the
steps of the Capitol when the ban
initially expired at the end of July.
Biden extended it in part to pres-
sure Congress to act, but Republi-
can lawmakers remain opposed,
and even many Democrats have
other priorities.
Congress has authorized nearly
$47 billion in aid to help struggling
renters and their landlords, as a
way to prevent evictions. But in
many states that money has been
slow to get out the door, with just
11 percent of it distributed, accord-
ing to a report earlier this week.
Massachusetts is set to receive
about $900 million, and as of the
end of July had doled out $225 mil-
lion to nearly 36,000 households,
most of it since March.
Filings of new eviction cases —
which were allowed under the mor-
atorium — have been relatively low
here, running well below pre-pan-
demic levels for most of 2021, ac-
cording to state courts data. State
lawmakers passed a measure block-
ing evictions of anyone who has a
pending application for rent relief,
and the Baker administration has
poured resources into mediation,
counseling, and other efforts to pre-
vent at-risk tenants from being
pushed out of their homes.
Still, advocates here warn that
the end of the federal moratorium
— which prevented final eviction of
most, though not all, tenants over
unpaid rent — could spark a wave
of evictions in the coming months,
even as COVID case numbers rise
again. They’re pushing for legisla-
tion on Beacon Hill that would al-
low the state to block many evic-
tions and require landlords to seek
rental aid before seeking to remove
a tenant for nonpayment.
Tim Logan can be reached at
timothy.logan@globe.com. Follow
him on Twitter at @bytimlogan.
Just 16 months ago, Toast chief executive Chris
Comparato laid off about half the company’s em-
ployees, cutting 1,300 people, furloughed hundreds
more, and slashed executive salaries. Restaurants
using Toast’s payments and ordering software saw
their sales cut by one-quarter, and the company for-
gave $20 million of fees its customers owed, it re-
vealed Friday.
But by developing software to help restaurants
quickly add capabilities to accept online orders, ar-
range deliveries, issue gift cards, and do marketing
via e-mail, Toast bounced back much more quickly
than the overall recovery in dining out. The compa-
ny also created partnerships with delivery services
such as DoorDash, allowing restaurants to pay a flat
fee for each delivery instead of a percentage of the
order.
“A year ago COVID looked catastrophic for Toast,
but Toast moved quickly to meet their restaurant
customers needs in the most difficult time and it
propelled the company to an entirely new level,”
said Eric Paley, managing partner of venture capital
firm Founder Collective, who is not involved with
the company.
From the middle of 2019 to the middle of 2020,
Toast nearly doubled the number of restaurants us-
ing its devices and software to 33,129, the company
said. And by the middle of 2021, it served 47,942.
“This is only the beginning of our journey,” co-
founders Stephen Fredette, Aman Narang, and Jon
Grimm wrote in the filing with the Securities and
Exchange Commission. “Our goal to become the
platform of choice for restaurants all over the world
is broad and could take us in many directions.”

Powell: Fed on track to slow economic aid day.

The company declined interview requests Fri-

Toast’s revenue in the first half of 2021 more

By Christopher Rugaber
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The Federal
Reserve will start dialing back its
ultra-low-rate policies this year as
long as hiring continues to im-
prove, Chair Jerome Powell said
Friday, signaling the beginning of
the end of the Fed’s extraordinary
response to the pandemic reces-
sion.
In a speech given virtually to an
annual gathering of central bank-
ers and academics, Powell said the
economy had improved significant-
ly this year, with average hiring in
the past three months reaching the
highest level on record for any sim-
ilar period before the pandemic.
Fed officials are monitoring the
rapid rise in infections from the
delta variant, he said, but they ex-
pect healthy job gains to continue.
The Fed has been buying $120
than doubled to $704 million from the same period
billion a month in mortgage and see much further economic im- mortgages, credit cards, and busi- in 2020. The company’s net loss of $235 million was
Treasury bonds to try to hold down provement before it would begin ness loans. As Powell spoke Friday, up 88 percent from 2020. The amount of sales that
longer-term loan rates to spur bor- raising its key rate, which influenc- though, the yield on the 10-year Toast’s restaurant customers processed through its
rowing and spending. Powell’s es many consumer and business Treasury note, which closely influ- system increased 125 percent in the first half of
comments indicate the Fed will loans. ences the 30-year mortgage rate, 2021, compared to a year earlier, to $23.4 billion.
likely announce a reduc- In his remarks, Powell declined to 1.32 percent from 1.34 The rise of online ordering during the pandemic
tion — or a “tapering” — of further underscored his percent Thursday. also boosted Boston-based alcohol delivery service
those purchases sometime view that much of the cur- Stock investors, too, appeared Drizly, which was acquired by Uber in February for
in the final three months rent spike in inflation is to welcome Powell’s message of a $1.1 billion. And the Toast IPO filing comes days af-
of this year. temporary. He warned that gradual withdrawal of the Fed’s ter another Boston restaurant-tech company, Spyce,
Powell stressed that the history shows that raising economic support and his view was acquired by national salad chain Sweetgreen.
Fed’s tapering of its bond rates too soon, in response that surging inflation pressures Toast’s IPO could value the company at $20 bil-
purchases does not signal to temporary price increas- will likely prove temporary. The lion or more, making billionaires of the founders, at
that it plans soon to start es, can weaken hiring and Dow Jones Industrial Average least on paper, and generating even greater profits
raising its benchmark hurt the unemployed. closed up nearly 242 points. for the venture capital firms that funded the compa-
short-term rate, which it’s POWELL “If anything this was a “Markets appreciate that there ny, including Bessemer Venture Partners and Steve
kept near zero since the calming speech,” said Bri- is a different test for raising rates Papa’s Technology Investment Dining Group.
pandemic tore through the econo- an Bethune, an economist at Bos- than there is for tapering, and any Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JP Morgan
my in March 2020. ton College. “There’s nothing here communications on tapering don’t are leading the IPO.
Rate hikes won’t likely begin in the short run that will stampede have any direct effect on raising
until the Fed has finished winding interest rates higher.’’ rates,’’ said Steve Friedman, an Anissa Gardizy and Pranshu Verma of the Globe
down its bond purchases, which Over time, the end of the Fed’s economist at asset manager MacK- staff contributed to this report.
might not occur until mid-2022. bond-buying could put upward ay Shields and a former senior Aaron Pressman can be reached at
Powell said the Fed would need to pressure on borrowing costs for staffer at the New York Fed. aaron.pressman@globe.com.

More Boston companies delay employees’ return to the office

By Jon Chesto
GLOBE STAFF
Add insurers John Hancock, Tufts
Health Plan, and Harvard Pilgrim
Health Care to the growing list of white-
collar employers postponing their re-
turn-to-office plans because of rising
COVID-19 case counts.
John Hancock, a life insurance and
investment arm of Manulife Financial
Corp., had planned to reopen its Back
Bay headquarters on a voluntary basis
Sept. 20. But on Friday, president Mari-
anne Harrison told John Hancock’s
5,000 US employees, including 3,500 in
Massachusetts, that the company is
pushing that reopening back until Janu-
ary 2022.
Only essential workers will be al-
lowed in offices in Atlanta, Boston, and
Tempe, Ariz., for the rest of 2021. The
‘We do feel this is the right
choice for our colleagues’
well-being and in support
of public health in the
communities where we live
and work.’
MARIANNE HARRISON, (right)
John Hancock president
company eventually will adopt more of
a hybrid model, with many workers
coming in three days a week while
working remotely the other two. John
Hancock has encouraged office staff to
take COVID-19 vaccines but has not re-
quired it..
“I know some of you were looking
forward to being back in the office, so
this news will be disappointing,” Harri-
son wrote. “However, we do feel this is
the right choice for our colleagues’ well-
being and in support of public health in
the communities where we live and
work.”
Meanwhile, Point32Health, the new-
ly formed parent of the Harvard Pilgrim
and Tufts health insurers, said Friday
that it’s delaying the phased opening of
its new Canton headquarters as well as
its Quincy office from early September
until early November, and it closed its
other regional offices that had been
open at half capacity this summer. The
nonprofit employs about 4,400, includ-
ing about 2,500 people who will eventu-
ally be based in Canton. As with John
Hancock’s headquarters, Point32Health
will adopt a hybrid model for Canton
for most employees there. All individu-
als, including contractors and visitors,
will need to wear masks, for now at
least, and everyone will need to provide
proof of vaccination before entering an
office as of Nov. 1.
Other large local employers with re-
cently delayed returns include Liberty
Mutual, which said it would keep most
US employees remote for the rest of
2021 rather than bringing them back
next month, and Dell Technologies,
which was planning to reopen offices
next month but pushed that off to an
unspecified later date. Smaller tech
firms are doing it, too: Fuze delayed the
reopening of its 200-person Boston of-
fice from September to January, for ex-
ample, and Wasabi shelved its fall re-
turn-to-office plans for its 130 workers
in favor of a long-term shift toward a
more flexible mix of in-office and re-
mote work.
Jon Chesto can be reached at
jon.chesto@globe.com. Follow him on
Twitter @jonchesto.
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& more sign stays
AUCTIONS

MORTGAGEES’
AUCTIONS
LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES at home
SALE OF REAL ESTATE
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Cambridge
2:00 PM - PLYMOUTH, MA
917 LONG POND ROAD - DEPOSIT $10,000 business group
3:00 PM - NORWELL, MA
43 DUNCAN DRIVE - DEPOSIT $5,000
TERMS OF SALE: Deposits in the amounts specified above are to be paid by the purchaser(s) at the time
wins auction
MassDOT Highway Division Proposal
and place of each sale by certified or bank check. All balances due are to be paid within 30 days of each
indivdual sale. Other items, if any, to be announced at each sale. Call our AUCTION SCHEDULE LINE at (617)
964-1282 for a list of the current day’s auctions and visit our website www commonwealthauction.com
for continuously updated scheduling information and additional scheduling information.

By Steve Annear
Electronic proposals for the following project will be received through the internet using
GLOBE STAFF
Bid Express until the date and time stated below and will be posted on www.bidx.com
forthwith after the bid submission deadline. No paper copies of bids will be accepted. An East Cambridge land-
(617) 964-0005 • MA Lic. 2235 • www.CommonwealthAuction.com
All Bidders must have a valid vendor code issued by MassDOT in order to bid on mark isn’t flying far from its
projects. Bidders need to apply for a Digital ID at least 14 days prior to a scheduled
coop.
homes stuff bid opening date with Bid Express.
The Bidding for and award of the contracts for the following projects are to be in accord-
ance with the requirements of Mass General Laws Chapter 30 § 39M.
The East Cambridge Business
Association purchased the cher-
ished — yet slightly macabre —
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2021 AT 2:00 P.M. PROJECT VALUE
“Live Poultry, Fresh Killed” sign
LANESBOROUGH-PITTSFIELD: FAP# NHP(NHS)-003S(149)X Resurfacing
and Related Work along a Section of Route 8 (Cheshire Road) (608485)
$3,544,000.00 during a competitive auction
outside of Mayflower Poultry Co.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2021 AT 2:00 P.M. PROJECT VALUE
on Thursday afternoon, assuring
BUCKLAND: FAP# STP-0031(011) Roadway Reconstruction and Related
Work on Sections of Conway, South and Summer Streets and Conway $7,781,000.00 that it will stick around in the ar-
boston.com/ boston.com/ Road (606463) ea as it has for decades.
The bidding for and award of the contract for the following projects are to be in accordance The price tag? A combined
classifieds classifieds with the requirements of Mass General Laws Chapter 149 as amended.
$22,500 for both the sign and
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2021 @ 2:00 P.M. FILED SUB-BIDS
PROJECT VALUE the trademark rights for its im-
REAL ESTATE BOOKS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2021 @ 2:00 P.M. GENERAL BIDS
BOSTON: FAP# NHP(NHS)-003S(176)X Space Modernization for the
age.
RESIDENTIAL Highway Operations Center (HOC) (611993)
$2,354,000.00 “ W h a t a w i l d r i d e ! ! ! We
Won!!!,” the business associa-
OPENING OF BIDS POSTPONED TO: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2021 at 2:00 P.M.
WORCESTER
BOSTON: Lighting Repairs and Improvements in the Prudential Tunnel (I-90) (610894)
tion, which promotes neighbor-
hood commerce, wrote on Face-
All prospective Bidders must complete and e-mail an electronic copy of “Request Proposal
Form (R109)” to the MassDOT Director of Prequalification for approval: prequal.r109@dot.
book following the auction.
state.ma.us. The blank “Request Proposal Form (R109)” can be obtained at: https://www. Prior to the auc tion, the
BOSTON RELIC - A NOVEL mass.gov/prequalification-of-horizontal-construction-firms. group said it wanted the sign be-
OPEN HOUSE By Arthur James
SUNDAY 1:00 A Religious Thriller An award will not be made to a Contractor who is not pre-qualified by the Department prior cause it is “Such [a] great symbol
till 4:00. Couple retiring to https://www.amazon.ca/
Boston-Relic-MR-Arthur- to the opening of proposals.
FLORIDA. !This UNIQUE Brick
Ranch is LOADED!11 RMS 4 James/dp/099044886X Proposal documents for official bidders are posted on www.bidx.com. Other interested
of Cambridge [Street] and the
Bds 2 1/2 bath Plus 4 RMS
In Law Apartment Sun room parties may receive informational Contract Documents containing the Plans and small business community.”
Jim G ould, owner of the
Markets
pool hot tub. GOOGLE EARTH Special Provisions, free of charge. All parties who wish to have access to information
1 EBENEZER ST For COM-
PLETE AREA VIEW Call 774-
253-7391
FOR SALE plans and specification must send a “Request for Informational Documents” to
butcher shop, announced the
MassDOTBidDocuments@dot.state.ma.us.
Plans and Contract Documents will be on display and information will be available at sale of the sign earlier this
2019 ELECTRA GLIDE month, as he prepared to move
CAPE COD &
CVO
the MassDOT Boston Headquarters Office and at each District Office wherein a project
is located. his business from a storefront Wall St. sets another record high
THE ISLANDS MassDOT, in compliance with Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations Part 21 (Nondiscrimination just outside of Inman Square to
in Federally-assisted Programs of the Department of Transportation - Effectuation of Title
VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964) hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively ensure that a new location in Boston’s New- NEW YORK — Wall Street rallied to more record highs Friday
in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises market Square. after the head of the Federal Reserve said it’s still far from
CAPE COD RE (Custom
hicle Operations) w/a near
Ve- will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be
discriminated against on the grounds of race, color or national origin in consideration for
The building, which was also pulling interest rates off the record low that has helped the
52000.00 list. the color is 3
tone 1 of 3 limited colors for an award. home to a mattress store that market soar, even if it does begin dialing back its support for
NANTUCKET 2019.the colors are auburn closed during the pandemic, the economy later this year. The S&P 500 rose 0.9%, beating
sunglow/black hole/rich MassDOT Highway Division projects are subject to the rules and regulations of the
bourbon=brown... heated
seats, 6.5 info system,
Architectural Access Board (521 CMR 1.00 et. seq.). Prospective bidders and interested sold for $5 million in May, ac- the high it set on Wednesday. In a highly anticipated speech,
headset LED day maker parties can access this information and more via the internet at WWW.COMMBUYS.COM. cording to Middlesex County Fed chair Jerome Powell said one milestone has been reached
lights and packing the 117
engine. $45500.00 Call 781- BY: Jamey Tesler, Secretary and CEO, MassDOT property records. Gould’s new for the central bank to slow a bond-buying program that’s as-
479-9804
Jonathan L. Gulliver, Highway Administrator, MassDOT Highway Division
Located at 6 Straight Wharf, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 2021 headquarters will not have a re- sisting the economy. But he stressed that the move toward
this free-standing, commer- tail operation, and he didn’t eventually raising rates will be a gradual one. Stocks have set
HOTEL-
cial/residential building is
less than a block from the
bottom of Main St. The first
want the sign to waste away in record after record this year thanks in large part to the Feder-
floor space has an extensive
year-round retail history. RESTAURANT storage, far from the public eye. al Reserve’s massive efforts to prop up the economy and fi-
LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES
NowIgetthepicture.com

SUPPLY
There is a separate apart-
ment upstairs that has a In an e-mail, Gould said he nancial markets. But the gains had grown more tentative as
great rental history or could
could be convenient housing COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
was “super psyched” that the the beginning of the end of the Fed’s assistance came into
for a store manager. DIVISION OF FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE East Cambridge Business Associ- sight, now that the unemployment rate has dropped and in-
Contact 6straightwharf@ MR. SMITH BUYS & SELLS PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE
321 CMR 3.02(6) and 3.03(2) ation, a hometown group, had flation has picked up. “He not as much spoke it as he cooed
gmail.com for details.
NEW & USED RESTAURANT In accordance with the Mass. Gen. Laws, Chapter 131, the winning bid. it,” said Ernesto Ramos, US chief investment officer at BMO
BAR-PIZZA-STORE EQUIPMENT Sections 5 and 63, and Chapter 30A, Section 2, NOTICE is
hereby given that the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife will “Very glad it’ll be staying in Global Asset Management. “He was super dovish.”
AT OUR WAREHOUSE hold a public hearing on Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 9:30
a.m., on proposed regulatory amendments to 321 CMR
COMMERCIAL 80 MYRTLE ST. NO. QUINCY MA 3.02(6): Hunting of Pheasants, Quail, and Ruffed Grouse and the [neighborhood],” he said, ASSOCIATED PRESS
3.03(2): Special Regulations for Northeast Wildlife Manage-
617-770-1600 - 617-436-8829 ment Area (Martin H. Burns Wildlife Management Area) via “and I know the neighbors are
a Zoom video webinar with the Hearing Officer, MassWild-
life staff, and Board members, and the public joining via really happy about it too, so just
computer or phone line.
great all the way around.” DOW JONES industrial average
COMMERCIAL & WANTED Please note that the hearing, which will begin at 9:30
a.m., will be held in the same webinar as the September A portion of the sale’s pro-
monthly business meeting (begins at 9:00 a.m.; Mass.gov/
INDUSTRIAL MassWildlife/FWBoard). Attendees can enter and exit the
webinar at any time.
ceeds — roughly $2,500 — will
CASH FOR TOOLS! Hand be donated by Gould to Cam-
or Power. Carpenter, Ma- The proposed regulatory amendments relative to 321 CMR
CENTRAL MAINE chinist, Mechanic, Plumber. 3.02(6) and 3.03(2) are posted and instructions for how to bridge charity Food For Free.
Rollaways. 1-800-745-8665 join the webinar can be found at
Mass.gov/MassWildlife-Public-Hearings, so that interested Jason Alves, executive direc-
persons can review the regulations and provide written
comments prior to the hearing and oral comments during tor of the East Cambridge Busi-

pets
the public-comment portion of the virtual hearing.
ness Association, said the com-
Due to filing requirements, the Fisheries and Wildlife Board
turn-key and well established
must vote on the proposed regulatory amendments at the petition at Thursday’s auction
close of the hearing. Therefore, please note: There will be
deli/market with liquor, full
breakfast and lunch menu.
no written comment period after this public hearing. was fierce. A small group gath-
3240 s.f., on well traveled
main road, kitchen equip-
Mark S. Tisa, Ph.D., M.B.A. ered outside the butcher shop,
Director
ment included. Jeanne Jo-
seph - Century 21 Nason eager to take home the sign,
realty Call for details. 607- which is roughly 6 feet tall, and 5
692-3064
LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES feet wide.
NOTICE OF THE DECLARATION OF THE ORGANIZATION Alves said the bidding started
boston.com/ OF THE BOSTON-CAMBRIDGE TOURISM DESTINATION
MARKETING DISTRICT at $7,000, a number tossed out
classifieds
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the City Council (the by an anonymous buyer on the
“Council”) of the City of Boston (the “City”) has completed
proceedings to form the Boston-Cambridge Tourism Desti- phone who was calling from out- NASDAQ Composite index
nation Marketing District (the “BCTDMD”) pursuant to the
Tourism Destination Marketing Districts Law, Chapter 40X side Massachusetts. From there,
DOGS of the Massachusetts General Laws (“TDMD Law”) and to
levy an assessment on certain lodging businesses within it continued to climb.
Now place your the BCTDMD; and
“People were [bidding] on-
NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that on August 9,
want ads MINI BERNEDOODLE 2021, at Council Chambers located at 1 City Hall Square, line, people were on the phone,
PUPS Room 550 Boston, MA 02201-2043, the City Council held a
whenever you public hearing regarding the establishment of the BCTDMD,
and the City Council heard and received objections and pro-
and then there were people who
want ads. tests, if any, to the establishment of the BCTDMD and the
levy of the proposed assessment; and were present,” said Alves, who
NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that the public hear- was bidding on behalf of the as-
ing to consider the establishment of the BCTDMD has been
properly noticed in accordance with the TDMD Law; and sociation.
Create your ad NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that on August 18, In the end, Alves emerged the
Beautiful hypoallergenic 2021, at Council Chambers located at 1 City Hall Square,
today at pups ready for adoption.
Raised in family setting in
Room 550 Boston, MA 02201-2043, the City Council will victor.
hold a final hearing regarding the establishment of the BCT-
boston.com/ western MA and ready to
be your friend. $2,900.00
DMD, where the City Council will vote on the establishment “I don’t think anyone had any
of the BCTDMD and the levy of the proposed assessment,
monster call Melvin 413-265-6737 and upon a successful vote, shall pass an Ordinance for- clue it would go for that much
or email melvinhess93@ mally establishing the BCTDMD.
gmail.com money,” he said, laughing. “It
NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN THAT:
1. Membership in the BCTDMD is irrevocable unless as pro- was a whirlwind of a day.”
vided in subsection (g) or the dissolution under section 10
of the TDMD Law.
2. Assessed lodging businesses shall receive the benefit of
As for the sign’s future, Alves
increased sales activity and room night revenue as a result
of BCTDMD services and improvements. Benefit is propor-
said there’s more work to do. But
tional to the contribution of assessment related to the oc-
cupancy of the lodging businesses.
he’s already reached out to Cam- S&P 500 index
3. The BCTDMD includes all lodging businesses with fifty
(50) rooms or more located within the boundaries of the bridge officials to express inter-
cities of Boston and Cambridge, as shown on the map in-
cluded in the District Plan. est in getting the glaring slogan
4. The annual assessment rate is one and one-half of one
percent (1.5%) of gross short-term room rental revenue with its chicken silhouette put
from the Cities of Boston and Cambridge for the duration
of the BCTDMD. All lodging businesses with fifty (50) or up somewhere in public, so it
more rooms located within the boundaries of the cities of
Stories that stay with you.
Stories you take with you.
BostonGlobe.com

Boston and Cambridge shall be subject to the BCTDMD as- can continue live on.
sessment.
5. The BCTDMD is designed to provide specific benefits di- “Hopefully, people feel like
rectly to payors via a comprehensive and integrated sales
and marketing program aimed at promoting the entire des- it’s in good hands and we’ll take
Experience Globe.com tination and maximizing overnight stays in assessed busi-
nesses. Brand awareness, communications, meeting and care of it, and we’ll do what we
convention sales (domestic), global sales and marketing,
leisure/consumer marketing, special events/community can to make sure it gets back out
support, DEI Initiatives: Workforce Development & Supplier
Chain Pipeline, eco-tourism and sustainability, multilingual
assets and accessibility, and Cambridge tourism programs
there,” he said. “This is a symbol
will increase demand for overnight tourism and market
payors as tourist, meeting and event destinations, thereby
of the small business community
increasing demand for room night sales. on Cambridge Street. ... It’s rich
Information: A complete copy of the BCTDMD Plan and
petition shall be made available online or can be furnished
in our history.”
upon request. Should you desire this or any other additional
information about this proposed BCTDMD or assessment
you may contact the Greater Boston Convention and Visi-
tors Bureau or go to the following website: Steve Annear can be reached at
https://www.bostonusa.com/media/contact-us/
steve.annear@globe.com. SOURCE: Bloomberg News
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UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

IN THE BLACK BY JORDAN HILDEBRANDT | EDITED BY DAVID STEINBERG
ACROSS 50 Gentle shot in golf
1 *Wee fly (Hint: 51 New York island
Imagine a letter to the 52 **Part of, as a scheme
right of each single- 53 Incite
starred clue’s answer. 54 **“___ fair in love ...”
These letters spell 55 Budding
something thematic.) horticulturist’s field
4 Wee bit 62 **Be generous
7 Disney movie with a 63 Trunk marker
genie 64 Iowa college
14 *A8 automaker 65 **Smallest bills
15 Grocery chain 66 Some detect motion
16 Tart drink 67 Terminate
17 *Superfan 68 **Sparrow’s structure
18 What cards are in
after being shuffled DOWN
20 *Short-term worker 1 Certain fuel valves
21 Italian volcano 2 Chocolaty spread
22 *Penne-vodka link 3 “Whataya Want From
23 Many pop songs use Me” singer
the same four 4 Winter wheel wrap
26 Deflation sound 5 Novelist Christie
30 *Strategize 6 Oikos yogurt maker
31 Something to 7 ***Often (... a
sneeze at? letter below each
32 Name hidden in triple-starred clue’s
“believer” answer ...)
33 Brazilian dance 8 ***Prom wheels
35 Ball pit, e.g. 9 ***Latin for “love”
37 Roads to nowhere, 10 ***Laura in
and a hint to this “Jurassic Park”
puzzle’s four thematic 11 ***Duchamp’s art
elements movement
40 Where to bring a 12 ***Carded 29 FDR power project 43 Adapts 56 ****Relative of a
dirty suit 13 ***Infamous emperor 34 Great time 44 Most thick troll
42 Full 19 1947 Bacall/Bogart 36 “Absolutely!” 47 Pronto 57 ****Tiny songbird
45 Broadcasts film noir 38 What you read while 48 Guiding light 58 ****Is dishonest
46 Sushi condiment 24 Pickling herb doomscrolling 55 ****Mammals 59 ****:, in an
49 **Jump from a board 25 Blubbery mammal 39 Mild expletive in caves (... a analogy
(... a letter to the left 26 Beach, in Bolivia 40 Trade partner? letter above each 60 ****The Tar Heel
of each double-starred 27 Up next 41 Lucy of quadruple-starred State: Abbr.
clue’s answer ...) 28 “Convenience” charge “Charlie’s Angels” clue’s answer ...) 61 ****Bands’ jobs
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TODAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY
6 A.M. NOON 6 P.M. 6 A.M. NOON 6 P.M. 6 A.M. NOON 6 P.M. 6 A.M. NOON 6 P.M. 6 A.M. NOON 6 P.M.

9 2 6 5 1
HIGH After a hot few days, it HIGH Another pleasant day is HIGH The humidity will come HIGH With the front nearby, HIGH More clouds will move
69-74 will be much cooler and 74-79 on the way with a mix 83-88 back up ahead of a cold 83-88 it will remain warm and 73-78 in, and it’s not out of
LOW less humid with a mix LOW of sun and clouds and LOW front that can bring LOW humid with some sun- LOW the question that some

6 5 4 7
62-67 of clouds and sunshine. 66-71 a bit of a breeze out of 69-74 an afternoon thunder- 66-71 shine. It should remain 64-69 leftover moisture from
Partly cloudy and comfortable the south. Partly cloudy during storm. Warm and muggy at dry throughout the day and into Ida may move in during the day
at night. the night. muggy with some clouds. the night. or into the night.

New England forecast Almanac

6 8 9 5
Yesterday’s high/low 90°/79° Allergies Source: Asthma & Allergy Affiliates, Inc.
TODAY: Most areas will be dry with less humidity thanks to Sunrise 6:05 a.m. Trees Weeds Grass Mold
high pressure nearby. A stray shower can occur in western

4 6 7 3
Sunset 7:25 p.m. Absent Moderate Low Absent
Connecticut. Moonrise 10:31 p.m. Yesterday’s mold and spore rating.
TOMORROW: While there will be some spotty
Mount Washington (5 p.m. yesterday) Eastern Massachusetts air quality
thunderstorms in northern and western areas,

8 5 1 6
PRESQUE ISLE Weather Mostly sunny GOOD MOD. UNHEALTHY HAZARDOUS

much of the day will be dry with some sunshine. 71/52

Visibility 90 miles 75
EXTENDED: An approaching cold front will 50 100 150 200 300
Wind northwest at 30 m.p.h.

2 5 3 4 9
help fire up some showers and thunder- MILLINOCKET For more information on today’s conditions, call the
storms on Monday, most numerous in 68/53 High/low temperature 54/52 state hotline at (800) 882-1497 or Massachusetts
Snow depth at 5 p.m. 0.0” Department of Environmental Protection web site
northern and western areas. www.state.ma.us/DEP
24 Hr. Precipitation (valid at 5 p.m. yesterday)
BANGOR Yesterday 0.00” Month to date 6.83” Year to date 35.79”
NEWPORT 72/55
64/59 Precip days in August 12 Norm. month to date 2.84” Norm. year to date 27.65”
AUGUSTA
BURLINGTON
BERLIN 71/56 BAR HARBOR Climate data are compiled from National Weather Service records and are subject to change or correction.
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73/65
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MONTPELIER
MT. WASHINGTON
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els: Easy on Monday and Tuesday, more difficult on Wednesday
69/59 49/47 Boston high 3:58 4:16 Gloucester 3:58 4:16 Hyannis Port 5:15 5:30 and Thursday, most difficult on Friday and Saturday. Tips and
RUTLAND LEBANON PORTLAND 69/60 Marblehead 3:58 4:16 Chatham 4:57 5:10
71/61 Height 9.2 9.5 computer program at www.sudoku.com.
70/61
Boston low 10:0210:35 Lynn 4:02 4:23 Wellfleet 4:12 4:30
LACONIA
68/57 Height 1.3 1.2 Scituate 3:58 4:18 Provincetown 4:06 4:26

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MANCHESTER PORTSMOUTH 69/60 Plymouth 4:02 4:23 Nantucket
BRATTLEBORO 74/61 High tides
74/62 Old Orchard ME 3:48 4:07 Cape Cod Harbor 5:11 5:24
NASHUA 73/59 Hampton Canal East 3:45 4:05 Oak Bluffs 4:25 4:50
PITTSFIELD
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today’s highs Canal West 2:45 Newport RI 12:2612:51
SPRINGFIELD
WORCESTER
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HOROSCOPE ing, the media, medicine and the Stay confident. 4♥ All Pass
law. You might meet someone un- CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Saturday, GEMINI (May 21-June 20) usual from another culture. Mean- Because you have such strong feel- Opening lead — ♠ K
Aug. 28, 2021: This is a restless day for you. You while, you also can attract money ings about something today, peo-
You are a kind and genuine per- might be excited at a subconscious or gifts to you today. Tonight: Be ple will listen to you. Meanwhile, “Simple Saturday” columns focus on improving basic
son. You are playful, youthful and level about something that's going grateful. social plans might be canceled or technique and developing logical thinking.
independent. An idealist, you are to take place. This could relate to LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) changed. Likewise, sports events South’s leap to four hearts was bold, but he was vulner-
also an excellent organizer and your family or something going on Expect little hiccups and tiny de- will hold a few surprises. (Note: able and had more points to gain by bidding and making
problem-solver who is a persua- at home. It might even relate to a tours today. Meanwhile, although Parents, be extra vigilant with game. West led the king of spades, and South took the ace
sive negotiator. Stay light on your promising home improvement. you wish to keep a low profile, it's your children to avoid mishaps.) and cashed the A-K of trumps. He next took the A-K of
feet and flexible this year, because (Stock the fridge; be ready for any- an excellent day to shop for ward- Tonight: Stay grounded. diamonds and ruffed a diamond. West carefully refused to
it's a time of flux and change. Be thing.) Tonight: Be generous. robe goodies for yourself. You like AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) overruff with his queen.
open to meeting new friends, be- CANCER (June 21-July 22) to look good. Did you know that Your home routine will be inter- South next led a spade. West took the queen and cashed
cause they might introduce you to A friend will surprise you today. the sign of Libra rules haute cou- rupted today because of an inter- his queen of trumps ... and his 10 of spades. South also lost
new opportunities. Alternatively, you might meet ture? This is what gives you your action with a parent or a surprise two clubs and went down two.
someone who is a real character. good taste. Tonight: Please your- family discussion. Perhaps some- Something I preach constantly: Don’t touch a card before
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Meanwhile, your daily routine will self. one has unexpected news. Very you count winners and losers and make a plan. South must
Today you might have a profound not unfold as predicted. There will SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) likely, these discussions are in- refuse the first spade and win the second. He takes the A-K
idea about how to improve your be unexpected changes -- hopeful- Someone close to you might sur- tense but revealing. Tonight: "The of trumps and the A-K of diamonds, ruffs a diamond, ruffs
health, your job, or something re- ly pleasing -- that send your day in prise you today. They might intro- game, Mrs. Hudson, is on!" his last spade in dummy and ruffs a diamond.
lated to your pets. This idea might a new direction. Stay flexible. To- duce you to someone who is un- PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) It doesn’t help West to overruff. South then leads a club
be quite ingenious. Perhaps this is night: Be friendly. usual, because it appears you'll You will be unusually persuasive to dummy’s ace and pitches a club loser on the good fifth
why a close friend or partner is LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) have a lively discussion with a and convincing in all your conver-
diamond. He is sure of 10 tricks.
surprised by you -- or, in turn, they You are high-viz today, which is friend or a member of a group. To- sations with others today, which
surprise you. Tonight: Go with the why people notice you more than night: Some are involved in a se- makes this a powerful day for
DAILY QUESTION You hold: ♠ A 5 2 ♥ A K 9 8 4 ♦ A 4 ♣ J 7
flow. usual. Meanwhile, you might be cret love affair. those of you in sales, marketing,
5. South in today’s deal opened one heart with this hand.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) surprised by something connected SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) teaching, acting or writing. People
Do you agree with that action?
An encounter with a work col- to a possession you own or your Something unexpected could im- will listen to you! Meanwhile, your
league or someone who has some- money. Perhaps you will buy pact your job or something to do daily routine could hit a speed- ANSWER: Many players would have opened 1NT, describ-
thing to do with your health might something unusual. You might with a pet today, so be aware of bump. Prepare for this by giving
ing the hand’s strength and pattern in one bid. Others
please you today. You might be have a clever moneymaking idea. this and be vigilant. Meanwhile, a yourself extra time for everything
refuse to suppress the five-card major. Some decide case by
surprised by something related to Tonight: Respect your smarts. discussion with a boss or someone you do. Tonight: Relax.
case. Opening 1NT avoids rebid problems. But note that in
what you own, a financial matter VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) in a position of authority will go
today’s deal, North-South will play at an inferior notrump
or a spontaneous purchase. To- Travel plans might change today. well, because you are so convinc- (c) 2021 by King Features Syndi-
contract if South opens 1NT.
night: Expect the unexpected. Ditto for plans related to publish- ing in an intelligent way. Tonight: cate Inc.

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TV CRITIC’S CORNER LOVE LETTERS

BY MATTHEW GILBERT BY MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN

Will this marriage ever be about love?

From left: Michael Fishman, Sara Gilbert, and John Goodman in
“The Conners.”
‘The Conners’ to go live — for the
second time — in season 4 premiere
I occasionally hear from fans of
“The Conners,” the series that spun
out of “Roseanne” when Roseanne
spun out of control (again). No one
seems to feel that the show com-
pletely lost itself after its original
star got the boot, and I tend to
agree with them. So far, “The Con-
ners” has been a decent continua-
tion of the family story, with the
usual balance of insanity and senti-
ment. It certainly doesn’t break
new ground, but, you know, most
ABC family comedies don’t.
I mention it because the fourth
season will premiere on Sept. 22,
and it will be a live episode. It’s the
show’s second live one, after the
live half-hour that took place on the
ERIC MCCANDLESS/ABC
night of the New Hampshire Prima-
ry in 2020. I love it when shows go
live; it adds a nice sense that any-
thing might happen, a welcome
contrast to the usual prefab sitcom
mode.
As an added promotional bit,
ABC is holding a “You Can Be a
Conner” sweepstakes, which will
give selected fans a chance to ap-
pear virtually in the live episode, as
one of the actors improvising with
them. You can enter at beacon-
ner.com.
By the way, season four is also
going to include a two-episode arc
featuring Jason Alexander as Pastor
Phil, who’ll speak at Becky’s AA
meeting.
We’re looking for letters! Send your relationship question to
loveletters@globe.com.
Q. I have been married to my husband for over two years now.
We are sort of an arranged match as in we were introduced by
our families. But the decision to marry was entirely ours, and
my husband was clear that he did expect love in the marriage.
Our long-term goals and values are similar. It made sense.
After we got married, he decided to get medical help for an
ongoing problem with anxiety. I know the bare minimum about
this, that he’s getting medical help and a lot of it had to do with
his work, which is extremely competitive. I never forced him to
talk about something that obviously made him uncomfortable.
In terms of showing affection, he holds my hand sometimes
in bed, and that’s about it. He’s never said ”I love you” to me,
but I never doubted it. And I didn’t say the same, because I
know it puts pressure on the other person to reciprocate.
All this changed some six months back when I discovered
that he had been looking up his ex online. For context, they met
in college, fell in love, wanted to get married, but eventually
broke off the engagement some six to seven years before he met
me because their values and future goals were too far apart. I
asked him about it and he told me it was curiosity, which I
would have understood if it was a one-off thing, but he was
looking her up regularly. [To improve emotional intimacy basic
communication,] he asked me to ask him three questions every
weekend and he’ll answer them.
Unfortunately that month, a few things happened together.
His doctor reduced his medication and something stressful
came up at work. Also, I found out that I was pregnant. It’s
something that’s very important to him, but he wasn’t even able
to express happiness on that; he was doing that badly.
The last six months, I have focused on supporting him. The
whole “opening up and talking more” idea has taken a backseat.
I have had my insecure moments and in one of them I took
him up on his offer of looking up his e-mails and social media.
She remains blocked everywhere. However, I did find old e-
mails between them. I understand now how he and I are much
more compatible (they fought). This gave me a lot of reassur-
ance. But he also was a lot more open with her than he has ever
been with me. There are open expressions of love; he wrote her
poetry. And all I’ve gotten is him holding hands with me. Lately
that also comes right before we’re intimate, and I wonder if
that’s the only thing I mean to him.
I know it’s unfair to expect someone to express love in the
ways that you want. I had assumed it was because he wasn’t
comfortable with displaying affection, but that’s clearly not the
case. And I don’t know how to bring this up without causing
him to become anxious again. I don’t know if my undemanding
nature is what is at fault here. Should I throw tantrums like her
to get attention from him? How can that be healthy?
TAKEN FOR GRANTED
A. If possible, find a therapist who can help you figure out how
to support someone with anxiety without losing yourself.
Also talk to that person about why you got married and your
expectations for relationship growth. Yes, this union was
blessed by family, so I get why it felt right. I also understand the
belief that intimacy grows over time. But maybe the evolution
you wanted isn’t happening. Maybe your husband doesn’t want
it to.
Regardless, you’re not getting what you want. If that’s the
case, can you stay?
Tantrums are not the answer here. They’re not even in your
DNA, it seems. But questions are. Maybe it’s time to ask how
you both define a good marriage.
Is this the marriage he wants? On the best day, when you
have time to focus on each other and there’s no anxiety, will
there be hand-holding and you coming up with a list of ques-
tions? Or more?
I understand the pregnancy changes a lot, but it doesn’t alter
what you both see as happiness. If he’s content with things as a
they are (as far as emotional intimacy goes), that’s no good for
you. If he’s unhappy too, well, that’s something. It means you
both need to take steps in some direction, whether it’s together
or on your own.
Make one of your three questions about whether the status
quo is good enough for him and then consider next steps.
MEREDITH
READERS RESPOND:
It’s extremely sad that one of the most important facts of
your extensive letter is buried with zero attention, emotion, or
joy. You’re pregnant and, seriously, your husband has to get it
together, pronto. That’s what the focus of both of you needs to
be about! Can you imagine what this baby’s life will be like
growing up in your dreary marriage. Where’s all the happi-
ness?!
LUPELLOVE
“Anxiety” is not an excuse to ice out your partner, refuse to
open up about anything, and to chronically fantasize about
your ex.
BONECOLD
You are allowed to add to his anxiety by telling him that it is
affecting YOU. Part of dealing with anxiety is DEALING WITH
ANXIETY. He needs to know that you have reasonable expecta-
tions and that he needs to meet them to keep your relationship
going. Your marriage should be a give-and-take; right now, it
seems that all he’s doing is the taking and it is fair for you to de-
mand that he does some of the giving. Good luck.
BLISTERED-TOE
You can choose happiness for yourself and your child. IMO it
is your responsibility as a parent to do so.
EACB
Send your own relationship and dating questions to
loveletters@globe.com. Catch new episodes of Meredith
Goldstein’s “Love Letters” podcast at loveletters.show or
wherever you listen to podcasts. Column and comments are
edited and reprinted from boston.com/loveletters.

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