Jenna Russell

In the days that followed a historic June flood, the town’s 2,000 residents were engulfed by a second disaster: a flood of cancellations at local hotels, wiping out the summer’s reservations.

Cozy Dorton keeps a running list as she zigzags through her days — on paper, in text messages, or scrawled on the palm of her hand — of people she comes across who need praying for.

Concern has been growing that the state may seek to intervene in Boston schools since state Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley notified BPS last month that he would begin assessing the progress it has made since 2020, when the state released a detailed and highly critical report on Boston schools.

Efforts to pass state legislation covering the cost of universal school food access date back to January 2021, but gained new urgency this month after Congress let the free lunch expansion expire.

In Boston, after years of decline in library access, a school library with regular hours, dedicated staff, and an up-to-date collection has become an extra bonus amenity, found at exam schools and campuses with robust parent fund-raising efforts — and hardly anywhere else.

With very little time — or training — educators across Massachusetts tried to move their teaching online. Many took one of two opposite approaches, each with drawbacks: Offering very limited real-time interaction with teachers; or striving to replicate the normal school schedule online.

Returning to the island in April, now with two children in tow, I wondered if it would be as I remembered it — idyllic and unscathed, with a touch of wildness.

Third in a series of occasional articles on the Syrian families resettling here, and the local people assisting them.

After years of watching the government cut the amount of fish they can catch and watching their incomes shrink, fishermen in New England find themselves on the brink of extinction. On May 1, fishery managers enacted drastic new catch limits, slashing the amount of cod that may be caught in the Gulf…

I first heard about Cape Cod Canal Visitor Center from another mother. She was surprised that I had never been there, understandably, since the place was barely a five-minute walk from where we were standing at a playground near the Sagamore Bridge.

Victims of clergy sexual abuse, their lawyers and advocates condemned the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston for publishing an uncritical profile of Cardinal Bernard F. Law on his 80th birthday yesterday. The lengthy story chronicling the cardinal’s life, one of a series of biographies…