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Antonio Loffa of Natick gets his COVID-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination site at the Natick Mall on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, in Natick, Mass. (Matt Stone/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

What to know about the COVID-19 vaccination effort in Mass. this week

BOSTON, MA - 2/15/2021 The Green LineÕs B line cruises past the Pleasant Street station after making a stop on Monday afternoon. branch MBTA plans to consolidate stops on a stretch of the Green Line B section to speed the trains through what is now too many stops in too little space. Erin Clark/Globe Staff

Federal relief funds are helping the MBTA. But only for so long.

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Maya Brady, Tom's niece, makes play for Brady family's 'most dominant athlete'

Mary Beth Fels-McDowell, from Cambridge, was born during the pandemic.

A Cambridge woman on what it was like to get married, have a baby during the pandemic

Hayden and Jillian Bloom's plot at Blackwood/Claremont Garden in Southwest Corridor Park.

How to start gardening, even in the city

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Natick community mourns the loss of 17-year-old killed in Canton crash

FILE - In this March 4, 2018, file photo, then-MacKenzie Bezos arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif. Scott, philanthropist, author and former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has married a Seattle science teacher. Dan Jewett wrote in a letter to the website of the nonprofit organization the Giving Pledge, on Saturday, March 6, 2021, that he was grateful to be able to marry such a generous person and was ready to help her give away her wealth to help others. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

MacKenzie Scott marries Seattle teacher after Jeff Bezos divorce

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Boston is getting 2 'immersive' van Gogh exhibits later this year. Here's why.

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Why a Mason Plumlee-Wayne Ellington trade could be a consolation prize for the Celtics

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Bruins radio voice Beers condemns ‘inexcusable’ hit on Brandon Carlo

COVID-19 claims 15 people in life of one Milwaukee woman

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Cornel West leaving Harvard teaching post

Antonio Loffa of Natick gets his COVID-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination site at the Natick Mall on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, in Natick, Mass. (Matt Stone/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

What to know about the COVID-19 vaccination effort in Mass. this week

Khymani James at a morning press-conference on Saturday. He resigned from the Boston School Committee and BSAC, along with other student leaders who recently resigned from BSAC. They spoke out regarding the reasons for their resignation and to shine a light on the racism and manipulation they experienced, and call for change.

Students demand changes on Boston Student Advisory Council amid allegations against leadership

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Dodgers manager Dave Roberts spoke out against racism towards Asian Americans

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New Kids’ Jonathan Knight stars in HGTV’s ‘Farmhouse Fixer’

New Kids’ Jonathan Knight stars in HGTV’s ‘Farmhouse Fixer’

Madasket Beach at sunset.

These 4 Mass. coastal towns just ranked among the best in America

Kyisha Davenport

'How do we just get to make drinks and have fun together?'

In 2019, Volvo sold only hybrids and all-electric models. By 2030, it will not sell any cars with gasoline engines.

Volvo plans to sell only electric cars by 2030