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YT: Budget Blues

Natick to vote on building high school, senior center March 30

At a time when many communities are struggling to keep...

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Van pool savings

As gas prices rise, more people discover the joys of ride sharing.

In with the hue

Defiantly, vividly, teens choose styles and identities.

Against all odds

Some high school grads inspired classmates with their courage.

Under the gun

Your hometown can be key to a license to conceal a weapon.

Tony C remembered

A hometown hero's fall still echoes after four decades.

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Thursday's stories

(Globe Staff / Joanne Rathe)

Coffee in hand,
song in his heart

It's lunchtime at the Starbucks in Newburyport's Market Square, and Tenor Neal Ferreira offers up a sublime sample of the current Boston Lyric Opera production in between performing more earthbound duties behind the counter. He has worked at Starbucks for four years this week, but now he can say of his singing career, "it feels like things are really taking off." (By Joel Brown, Boston Globe)

• Video Starbucks barista builds dream career

• Globe North People Pro-am tennis to aid student (Boston Globe)
• Globe North News briefs Vote for your favorite tree (Boston Globe)
• Globe North News briefs Silberstein joins state Senate race (Boston Globe)
• Phillips Andover hosts archeology commemoration (By Gail Waterhouse, Globe Correspondent)
• Knitting groups foster camaraderie and creativity (By Taryn Plumb, Globe Correspondent)
• Parker River wildlife refuge has six summer job openings for youths (Boston Globe)
• Globe North Sports Chasing stray ball touched off track career for Hamilton-Wenham’s Jackson MacDonald (By Sapna Pathak, Globe Correspondent)
• Globe North Best bets (Boston Globe)

Sunday's stories

Got Wi-Fi?

Salem launched the area's first open-access municipal Wi-Fi in 2004 but approximately two years later, it was dead. Along the same timeline, some analysts noted that the highly anticipated free public Wi-Fi wave that was to have swept across cities and towns nationwide also fizzled, posing the question: It's 2010. Do you know where your free municipal Wi-Fi is? (By Katheleen Conti, Boston Globe)

• Stimulus funds and UMass to help give more Lowell residents Internet access (By Katheleen Conti, Globe Staff)

• Globe North Community briefing In Andover, Bancroft stays close (Boston Globe)
• Globe North Community briefing Burlington seniors hear from candidates (Boston Globe)
• Who Taught YOU to drive? Of booze wars, odometer-spinning, and other reader alerts (By Peter DeMarco, Boston Globe)
• Despite Malden ordinance, few locals among high school construction workers (Boston Globe)
• Common Cause Massachusetts rates communities’ websites (Boston Globe)
• WINTHROP Winthrop receives sewer assessment refund from MWRA (By John Laidler, Globe Correspondent)
• Globe North Arts Love stories (By Wendy Killeen, Boston Globe)
• Globe North Dining Out Comfort and food amid rare treasures (Boston Globe)
• Globe North High School Basketball Salem’s Antonio Reyes already wants to get back to the Garden (By Jason Mastrodonato, Boston Globe)
• Globe North High School Basketball Courtside chatter (Boston Globe)
• Globe North Sports Notebook Lindmark ends stellar career (By John Vellante, Boston Globe)
• Globe North best bets (Boston Globe)