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( GLOBE IS POOL) Lowell,MA - 9/23/2020: Governor Charlie Baker takes questions from the media at Mill City BBQ and Brew in Lowell, MA, September 23, 2020. The officials spoke about Commonwealth Places Grants. (MassDevelopment has awarded $86,415 for 10 projects through the Commonwealth Places COVID-19 Response Round: Resurgent Places, a program made available specifically to assist local economic recovery efforts as community partners prepare public spaces and commercial districts to serve residents and visitors. Projects receiving awards include the creation of outdoor dining spaces, sidewalk retail venues, and partitions to support social distancing. Governor Charlie Baker, Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito, and MassDevelopment President and CEO Lauren Liss joined Lowell City Manager Eileen Donoghue, Do-it-Yourself Lowell Co-Founder Christopher Aurora Erickson, and African Community Center of Lowell Founder & Executive Director Gordon Halm to announce the grants today at Mill City BBQ & Brew in Lowell. ) (Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff) coronavirus Covid-19 Commonwealth Places Announcement

Charlie Baker responds to Donald Trump's refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power

Annrene Rowe was hospitalized for 12 days with coronavirus symptoms earlier this year. Since then, she has noticed her hair falling out in clumps.

Doctors are seeing a huge increase in patients who have been shedding abnormal amounts of hair

A discarded mask rests on the beach on Nantucket island.

Here's the 15 communities with the highest COVID-19 risk

Registered nurses, from the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center, work in a pop-up COVID-19 testing site in Joe Moakley Park on Aug. 11.

What will it mean if Boston shifts into the 'red zone'? September 24, 2020 | 5:34 PM

Trish, left, and John Portanova dine inside instead of outside on the patio at the La Carreta restaurant in Portsmouth, N.H. on Monday, June 15, 2020. Indoor dining rooms reopened across New Hampshire as some restrictions due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak were lifted. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Indoor dining restrictions to be eased in New Hampshire September 24, 2020 | 5:26 PM

A sign on the Facebook campus depicting the social network’s ubiquitous “like” symbol, in Menlo Park, California.

Facebook removes Russian networks tied to intelligence services that interfered in 2016 election September 24, 2020 | 5:23 PM

A rendering of what Suffolk Downs could look like when the 161-acre site is fully built.

Watch live: BPDA considers massive Suffolk Downs redevelopment September 24, 2020 | 5:20 PM

An unauthorized breakroom discovered below tracks in Grand Central Terminal had a flat-screen TV, in addition to a couch, foldout cot and inflatable mattress, investigators said. MUST CREDIT: Office of the Inspector General Metropolitan Transportation Authority

3 accused of creating 'man cave' under Grand Central Terminal September 24, 2020 | 4:40 PM

Trump promoting health care 'vision' in swing state NC September 24, 2020 | 4:25 PM

Medical staff member register and take a sample for a voluntary new coronavirus disease test (COVID-19) at a corona test station at the Oktoberfest area 'Theresienwiese in Munich, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Mass. reports 15 new COVID-19 deaths, 455 new cases September 24, 2020 | 4:01 PM

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden greets a member of the military as he attends the 19th September 11 commemoration ceremony at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York, September 11, 2020.

Nearly 500 former military, civilian leaders sign letter supporting Biden September 24, 2020 | 3:32 PM

Emma Silva

Cape woman allegedly throws iced coffee into car during road rage incident, injuring toddler September 24, 2020 | 2:58 PM

N.H. 18-year-old indicted in father's death September 24, 2020 | 1:58 PM

Fraud, backlogs disrupt US unemployment benefit payments September 24, 2020 | 1:36 PM

United States Postal Service carrier Henrietta Dixon gets into her truck to deliver mail in Philadelphia.

Mass., other states continue legal push to end post office slowdowns September 24, 2020 | 12:59 PM

Springfield officer sentenced for assault on teen student September 24, 2020 | 12:50 PM

Bingham Falls.

Man dies after falling into water at Vermont waterfall September 24, 2020 | 12:46 PM

A voter casts their ballot at a vote by mail dropbox at Boston City Hall in Boston, Massachusetts. Photographer: Scott Eisen/Bloomberg

Massachusetts voters can now request a mail-in ballot online September 24, 2020 | 12:38 PM

A tall tale about big fish leads to felonies in Utah September 24, 2020 | 12:22 PM

Sam Doran/Pool

Watch: Charlie Baker's press conference on schools September 24, 2020 | 12:01 PM

A nurse secures a swab at drive-through testing in the ambulance bay at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston last spring.

Boston hospital probes cluster of coronavirus cases September 24, 2020 | 11:37 AM

Pence vs. Harris: Here’s what to know about the 2020 vice presidential debate September 24, 2020 | 11:35 AM

Reading officer indicted on manslaughter charge in fatal shooting September 24, 2020 | 10:28 AM

Trump again declines to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses September 24, 2020 | 10:04 AM

Live Education Updates

Stoneham Public Schools to switch to all-remote learning after state data places town in ‘yellow’ category September 24, 2020 | 9:37 AM

Campaign signs for Joe Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), in San Antonio, Sept. 19, 2020. Biden's campaign said on Sunday that it entered September with $466 million in the bank together with the Democratic Party, providing Biden a vast financial advantage of about $141 million over President Donald Trump heading into the intense final stretch of the campaign. (Christopher Lee/The New York Times)

Trump faces challenges even in red states, poll shows, as women favor Biden September 24, 2020 | 9:34 AM

Wakefield shooting

A 21-year-old woman was shot in Wakefield. Now 2 teens are facing gun charges. September 24, 2020 | 9:09 AM

Massive genetic study shows coronavirus mutating and potentially evolving amid rapid U.S. spread September 24, 2020 | 8:56 AM

Boston Fire Department/Twitter

FIRE IN ROXBURY

Firefighter injured in Roxbury fire that displaced 6 September 24, 2020 | 8:31 AM

Boston, Massachusetts - 1/2/2018 - Andrea Campbell speaks to members of the media after presiding over her first City Council meeting after being voted Boston City Council President in Boston, Massachusetts, January 2, 2018. (Keith Bedford/Globe Staff)

Andrea Campbell

Andrea Campbell announces campaign to be Boston mayor September 24, 2020 | 6:00 AM

Officer shot

2 Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor protests September 23, 2020 | 9:44 PM

Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff

Mass. reports 17 new COVID-19 deaths, 542 new cases September 23, 2020 | 8:02 PM

( GLOBE IS POOL) Lowell,MA - 9/23/2020: at Mill City BBQ and Brew in Lowell, MA, September 23, 2020. The officials spoke about Commonwealth Places program Grants. (MassDevelopment has awarded $86,415 for 10 projects through the Commonwealth Places COVID-19 Response Round: Resurgent Places, a program made available specifically to assist local economic recovery efforts as community partners prepare public spaces and commercial districts to serve residents and visitors. Projects receiving awards include the creation of outdoor dining spaces, sidewalk retail venues, and partitions to support social distancing. Governor Charlie Baker, Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito, and MassDevelopment President and CEO Lauren Liss joined Lowell City Manager Eileen Donoghue, Do-it-Yourself Lowell Co-Founder Christopher Aurora Erickson, and African Community Center of Lowell Founder & Executive Director Gordon Halm to announce the grants today at Mill City BBQ & Brew in Lowell. ) (Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff) coronavirus Covid-19 Commonwealth Places Announcement

'People shouldn’t be making decisions on this stuff based on one week' September 23, 2020 | 7:43 PM