abcde Saturday, February 13, 2021
In state’s eligibility rules, some serious
medical conditions don’t make the cut
By Deanna Pan
GLOBE STAFF
WEYMOUTH — Since the pandemic began,
Monica Jennings’s world, already small, has got-
ten smaller. Friends no longer visit. Family doesn’t
come. She spends her days confined within the
purple walls of her bedroom — watching anime,
reading fantasy novels, and dabbling in online
fanfiction.
“I can’t go anywhere,” Jennings said, sprawled
across her bed, her MacBook propped on her lap,
“without going to the hospital.”
Jennings, 26, has 22q11.2 deletion syndrome,
a genetic disorder caused by a tiny missing piece
of her 22nd chromosome. Her health challenges
are complex: Jennings has an immune deficiency,
bronchiolitis, and is on the autism spectrum. An
oxygen concentrator helps her breathe while she
sleeps. A feeding pump delivers formula to her
belly. She struggles to wear a face mask because,
as she said, “my lungs make it harder for me than
most people.”
MORBIDITIES, Page A7
‘You have to take advantage of the opportunities to be romantic.’
JAMES MICHAEL SAMA, relationship coach
Alison Buttiglieri worked on a floral arrangement at Exotic Flowers in Roslindale. Rick Canale, vice president
of Exotic Flowers, said people are “using flowers to connect with each other again.”
MAKING THINGS WORK
FOR LOVE AND MONEY
By Janelle Nanos
GLOBE STAFF
How do you spice up a pandemic?
A bizarre question, perhaps. But
for retailers whose revenues tend to
surge every year in mid-February, it’s
been an increasingly pressing issue.
Consider the circumstances, which
might make Cupid cringe: We’re
home all day and night. We’re anx-
ious. We’re wearing sweat pants an in-
ordinate amount of time, and we’re
around our partners 24/7. And for the
uncoupled, it’s that much harder to
find love in an era of social distancing
Monica Jennings has a chromosome disorder and several medical issues.
Under the state’s rules, she does not qualify for earlier vaccine access.
Retailers and
matchmakers adjust
to the strangeness of
this Valentine’s Day
and Zoom dates.
Suffice it to say that for many, Val-
entine’s Day isn’t exactly top of mind.
In fact, nearly 40 percent of Ameri-
cans are planning to skip the day of
hearts and roses to save money this
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year, according to a LendingTree sur-
vey. And the National Retail Federa-
tion expects consumer spending on
their sweethearts to dip to $21.8 bil-
lion this year, down 20 percent from
last year’s record splurge of $27.4 bil-
lion.
That poses a unique challenge for
the brands and industries that tend to
traffic in romance, from restaurants
to florists. COVID-19 has already
made doing business exponentially
harder. It’s now forcing many in the
love-game to contemplate the impos-
VALENTINE'S DAY, Page A10
TRUMP ON TRIAL
Defense team
tears into
Democrats
Lawyers call impeachment ‘hypocrisy’
as Senate prepares to vote Saturday
By Peter Baker
and Nicholas Fandos
NEW YORK TIMES
Former president Donald
Trump’s legal team mounted a
combative defense Friday fo-
cused more on assailing Demo-
crats for “hypocrisy” and “ha-
tred” than justifying Trump’s
own months-long effort to over-
turn a democratic election that
c ulminated in last month’s
deadly assault on the Capitol.
After days of powerful video
footage showing a mob of
Trump supporters beating po-
lice officers, chasing lawmak-
ers, and threatening to kill the
vice president and House
speaker, Trump’s lawyers de-
nied that he had incited what
they called a “small group” that
turned violent. Instead, they
tried to turn the tables by call-
ing out Democrats for their
Mass. unveils new
vaccine sign-up site
Upgrade follows
complaints
about ease of use
By Hiawatha Bray
and Travis Andersen
GLOBE STAFF
Amid scathing criticism of
the state’s online system for
f i n d i n g C O V I D - 1 9 va c c i n e
shots, Massachusetts officials
Friday unveiled a substantial up-
grade that is intended to make it
much easier for residents to
quickly find available appoint-
ments near them.
The result is a new website,
Vaxfinder.mass.gov, that uses a
simpler, uncluttered interface
for people to enter their location
CDC
guidance
on schools
welcomed
By Naomi Martin
GLOBE STAFF
and Jeremy C. Fox
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
Massachusetts educators and
families welcomed updated
guidelines released Friday from
the nation’s top public health
agency that say in-person
schooling can resume safely with
masks, social distancing, and
other coronavirus containment
strategies.
The Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention’s new guid-
ance for getting students back to
classrooms said that vaccination
of teachers, though important, is
not a prerequisite for reopening,
and there is strong evidence now
that schools can safely reopen,
especially at lower grade levels.
But the agency’s guidance is
only that. The CDC cannot force
schools to reopen because such
decisions are made at the state
and local level, and CDC officials
were careful to say they are not
calling for a mandate that all US
schools be reopened.
The new federal guidance in-
cludes many of the same mea-
sures backed by the CDC prior to
the beginning of the school year
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own language, which they
deemed just as incendiary as
Trump’s.
In so doing, the former pres-
ident’s lawyers went after not
just the House Democrats serv-
ing as managers, or prosecu-
tors, in the Senate impeach-
ment trial, but half of the jurors
sitting in front of them in the
chamber. A rat-a-tat montage of
video clips played by the Trump
team showed nearly every
Democratic senator as well as
President Biden and Vice Presi-
dent Kamala Harris using the
w o r d “ f i g h t ” o r t h e p h ra s e
“fight like hell” just as Trump
did at a rally of supporters on
Jan. 6 just before the siege of
the Capitol.
“Suddenly, the word ‘fight’ is
off limits?” said Michael van
der Veen, one of the lawyers
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ers, where they can enroll and
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TRUMP ON TRIAL
Defense team
puts focus on
Democrats
uTRIAL
Continued from Page A1
hurriedly hired in recent days
to defend Trump. “Spare us the
hypocrisy and false indigna-
tion. It’s a term that’s used over
and over and over again by pol-
iticians on both sides of the
aisle.’’
To emphasize the point, the
Trump team played some of the
same clips four or five times in
less than three hours as some of
the Democratic senators shook
their heads and at least one of
their Republican colleagues
laughed appreciatively. Among
those featured in the video was
Massachusetts Senator Eliza-
beth Warren, whose presiden-
tial campaign slogan was
“Dream big, fight hard.”
The lawyers argued that the
trial was “shameful” and “a de-
liberate attempt by the Demo-
crat Party to smear, censor, and
cancel” an opponent and then
rested their case without using
even a quarter of the 16 hours
allotted to the former presi-
dent’s defense.
In the process, they tried to
effectively narrow the prosecu-
tion’s “incitement of insurrec-
tion” case as if it centered only
on their client’s use of that one
phrase in that one speech in-
stead of the relentless cam-
paign that Trump waged since
last summer to discredit an
election he would eventually
lose and galvanize his support-
ers to help him cling to power.
“They really didn’t address
the facts of the case at all,” said
Representative Jamie Raskin,
Democrat of Maryland and the
lead impeachment manager.
After the Trump team’s ab-
breviated defense, the senators
posed their own questions.
The questions, a total of 28
submitted in writing and read
by a clerk, suggested that most
Republicans remained likely to
vote to acquit Trump when the
Senate reconvenes for final ar-
guments at 10 a.m. Saturday,
blocking the two-thirds su-
permajority required by the
Constitution for conviction.
Some of the few Republi-
cans thought to be open to con-
This time, Trump gets a legal team that does things his way
By Michael S. Schmidt
and Maggie Haberman
NEW YORK TIMES
Ever since Donald Trump be-
gan his run for president, he has
been surrounded by an ever-
shifting cast of
ANALYSIS l a w y e r s w i t h
varying abilities
to control, channel, and satisfy
their mercurial and headstrong
client.
During the final weeks of the
2016 campaign, Michael Cohen
arranged for hush money pay-
ments to be made to a former
pornographic film actress. In
the second year of Trump’s pres-
idency, John Dowd, head of the
team defending the president in
the Russia investigation, quit af-
ter he concluded that Trump
was refusing to listen to his
counsel.
By Trump’s third year in of-
fice, he had found a new lawyer
to do his bidding as Rudy Giu-
liani first undertook a campaign
to undermine Joe Biden and
then helped lead the fruitless ef-
fort to overturn the results of
the 2020 election, with stops in
Ukraine and at Four Seasons To-
tal Landscaping along the way.
On Friday, the latest mem-
bers of Trump’s legal cast took
center stage in his impeach-
ment trial and for the most part
delivered exactly what he al-
ways seems to want from his
lawyers: not precise, learned le-
gal arguments but public com-
bat, in this case including twist-
ed facts, rewritten history, and
attacks on opponents.
Despite an often unorthodox
and undisciplined approach
from his legal teams, Trump has
survived more legal challenges
as president than any of his re-
viction, including Senators Mitt
Romney of Utah, Susan Collins
of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski
of Alaska, peppered the lawyers
with questions about what
Tr u m p k n e w a n d w h e n h e
knew it during the attack. The
managers have argued that it
was not just the president’s
words and actions in advance
of the attack that betrayed his
oath, but his failure to act more
assertively to stop his support-
ers after it started.
Responding to the senators,
the defense lawyers pointed to
mildly worded messages and a
video that Trump posted on
Twitter after the building was
stormed calling on his support-
ers not to use violence while
still endorsing their cause and
telling them that he loved
them. The managers repeated
t h a t Tr u m p n e v e r m a d e a
strong, explicit call on the riot-
ers to halt the attack, nor did he
send help.
Romney and Senator Bill
Cassidy, Republican of Louisi-
ana, zeroed in on Trump’s fail-
ure to exhibit any concern over
the safety of his own vice presi-
dent, Mike Pence, who was tar-
geted for death by the former
president’s supporters because
he refused to try to block final-
ization of the election. Even af-
ter Pence was evacuated from
the Senate chamber that day,
Trump attacked him on Twitter,
saying that “Mike Pence didn’t
have the courage to do what
should have been done.”
Van der Veen told the sena-
tors that “at no point was the
president informed that the
vice president was in any dan-
ger.” But in fact, Senator Tom-
my Tuberville, Republican of
Alabama, told reporters this
week that he spoke by tele-
phone with Trump during the
attack and told him that Pence
had been rushed out of the
chamber to protect him from
the mob. And officials have said
that Trump never called Pence
to check on his safety and did
not speak with him for days.
Senate Democrats dismissed
the defense’s efforts to equate
Trump’s actions with Demo-
The National Guard has been on patrol all week. The trial is expected to end with a vote today.
cent predecessors. Although
federal investigators uncovered
the hush money payments and
significant evidence he may
have obstructed the Russia in-
vestigation, he was never
charged. He was acquitted by
the Senate in his first impeach-
ment trial related to the
Ukraine pressure campaign,
and he appeared poised Friday
to see a similar outcome in this
impeachment.
Legal experts, white-collar
defense lawyers, and even some
of Trump’s former lawyers ac-
knowledge that his survival has
largely been a function of the
fact that he is the president of
the United States, a position
that has given him great powers
to evade legal consequence.
T h e B o s t o n
Michael van der Veen, an attorney for Donald Trump, accused Democrats of hypocrisy and “false indignation.”
SENATE TELEVISION VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
A defense exhibit included a tweet from Trump.
cratic speeches. “I think it is
plainly a distraction from Don-
ald Trump inviting the mob to
Washington,’’ Senator Richard
Blumenthal, Democrat of Con-
necticut, told reporters during
a break in the trial.
But for Republicans looking
for reasons to acquit Trump,
the de fense was more than
enough. “The president’s law-
yers blew the House managers’
case out of the water,” said Sen-
ator Ron Johnson, Republican
of Wisconsin.
The managers need 17 Re-
publicans to join all 50 Demo-
crats to reach the two-thirds re-
quired for conviction. Although
Trump can no longer be re-
“At the outset of the adminis-
tration I would have said it
would be remarkable for some-
one to run this gauntlet and sur-
vive,” said Chuck Rosenberg, a
former longtime senior Justice
Department official.
After initially stumbling in
its first round of arguments
Tuesday, the latest team — ei-
ther the seventh or eighth to de-
fend Trump since he became
president, depending on your
math — followed the playbook
Trump has long wanted his law-
yers to adhere to.
They channeled his grievanc-
es and aggressively spun what-
about arguments that tried to
cast his own behavior as not so
bad when compared with the
other side.
G l o b e
moved from office because his
term has ended, he could be
barred from ever seeking public
office again.
At the end of the day, the
Senate found agreement on one
matter: the chamber voted to
give the Congressional Gold
Medal to Eugene Goodman, a
Capitol Police officer who led a
violent mob away from the Sen-
ate doors on Jan. 6.
Senate majority leader
Chuck Schumer called the vote
at the end of the day’s impeach-
ment proceedings, noting
Goodman’s “foresight in the
midst of chaos, and his willing-
ness to make himself a target of
the mob’s rage so that others
JOSE LUIS MAGANA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Democrats found their per-
formance infuriatingly mislead-
ing, but it potentially provided
the vast majority of Republicans
in the Senate opposed to con-
victing Trump with talking
points they can use to justify
their votes.
“Hypocrisy,” one of Trump’s
lawyers, Michael van der Veen,
said after they played a several-
minutes-long clip of prominent
Democrats and media commen-
tators using language like
“fight” in an effort to show that
Trump’s own words before the
riot could have had no role in
inciting the violence.
“The reality is, Mr. Trump
was not in any way, shape, or
form instructing these people to
fight or to use physical vio-
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might reach safety.”
The Senate voted to award
Goodman the medal — the
highest honor Congress can be-
stow — by unanimous consent.
Goodman was in the Senate
chamber as Schumer spoke,
and the entire Senate stood and
turned toward him, giving him
a standing ovation. He put his
hand on his heart.
During the trial, Trump law-
yers Bruce Castor and David
Schoen were largely supplanted
Friday by van der Veen, who of-
fered the sort of aggressive per-
formance that Trump prefers
from his representatives as he
accused the other side of “doc-
toring the evidence” with “ma-
nipulated video,” all to promote
“a preposterous and monstrous
lie.”
A personal injury lawyer
whose Philadelphia law firm
solicits slip-and-fall clients on
the radio, van der Veen pro-
ceeded to lecture Raskin, who
taught constitutional law at
American University for more
than 25 years, about the Consti-
tution.
The managers’ arguments,
van der Veen said, were “less
than I would expec t from a
first-year law student.”
He and his colleagues of-
fered little new information
lence,” van der Veen said. “What
he was instructing them to do
was to challenge their oppo-
nents in primary elections to
push for sweeping election re-
forms, to hold Big Tech respon-
sible.”
Giuliani repeatedly told asso-
ciates that he would be involved
in the impeachment defense,
despite his status as a potential
witness, since he addressed the
Trump rally crowd on Jan. 6.
Trump ultimately told Giuliani
that he would not be involved.
But Trump’s advisers strug-
gled to find a legal team that
would defend him.
Finally, with help from an al-
ly, Senator Lindsey Graham, Re-
publican of South Carolina,
Trump’s advisers announced
that he had hired Butch Bowers,
a well-known lawyer with expe-
rience representing South Caro-
lina politicians facing crises.
But just over a week before
the trial was to begin, Bowers
and the four lawyers connected
to him abruptly left, though an-
other lawyer, David Schoen,
who was expected from the be-
ginning to be part of the team,
remained on board.
In another reminder of his
ad hoc approach, Trump asked
a s s o c i at e s T h u r s d ay n i g h t
whether it was too late to add or
remove lawyers from the team.
Ju s t a f e w h o u r s b e f o r e
Trump’s team was to appear in
the well of the Senate, the group
was still hashing out the order
of appearance of his two chief
lawyers, Schoen and Bruce L.
Castor Jr. In the end, they decid-
ed that a third lawyer, van der
Veen, would deliver the opening
act.
The uncertainty apparently
about the president’s conduct,
but argued that he was exercis-
ing his free-speech rights in his
fiery address to a rally before
supporters broke into the Capi-
tol. The lawyers leaned heavily
on Trump’s single use of the
word “peacefully” as he urged
backers to march to the Capitol
while minimizing the 20 times
he used the word “fight.”
Stacey Plaskett, a Democrat-
ic delegate from the Virgin Is-
lands and one of the managers,
objected that many of the faces
singled out in the videos of
Democratic politicians and
street protesters were Black. “It
was not lost on me so many of
them were people of color and
women, Black women,” she
said.
The defense lawyers argued
that Democrats were pursuing
Trump out of personal and par-
tisan animosity, using the word
“hatred” 15 times during their
formal presentation, and they
cast the trial as an effort to sup-
press a political opponent and
his supporters.
“It is about canceling 75 mil-
lion Trump voters and crimi-
nalizing political viewpoints,”
van der Veen said.
Material from the Associated
Press was used in this report.
stemmed from Castor’s widely
panned appearance Tuesday,
when he delivered a rambling,
unfocused opening statement
that enraged his client. Trump
has told advisers and friends he
did not want to hear from Cas-
tor anymore, people familiar
with the Trump team’s discus-
sions said.
People familiar with the
makeup of the legal team said
Eric Herschmann, a lawyer and
ally of the president’s son-in-
law, Jared Kushner, who worked
in the West Wing in the final
year of the administration, was
a key figure in putting it togeth-
er.
When Trump asked Her-
schmann who had hired Castor
after his disastrous outing Tues-
day, Herschmann, according to
two people with knowledge of
the exchange, sought to lay the
blame on Mark Meadows, the
former White House chief of
staff. Herschmann did not re-
spond to an e-mail seeking com-
ment.
By the end of the day Friday,
van der Veen, a personal injury
lawyer from Philadelphia, had
emerged as Trump’s primary de-
fender, handling questions from
senators, making a series of
false and outlandish claims,
calling the impeachment a ver-
sion of “constitutional cancel
culture,” and declaring that Fri-
day’s proceedings had been his
“most miserable” experience in
Washington.
Representative Jamie
Raskin, Democrat of Maryland
and the lead House impeach-
ment manager, responded, “I
guess we’re sorry, but man, you
should have been here on Jan.
6.”
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TRUMP
ON TRIAL
Some GOP
senators
who might
be on fence
By Mary Clare Jalonick
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Demo-
crats need a minimum of 17 Re-
publicans to vote with them to
convict former president Donald
Trump of incitement of insurrec-
tion, and that appears unlikely.
If Trump were convicted, the
Senate could take a second vote
to ban him from running for of-
fice again. A final vote is likely
on Saturday.
Here’s a look at the Republi-
cans whom Democrats are eye-
ing:
The frequent Trump critics
Republican Senators Lisa
Murkowski of Alaska, Ben Sasse
of Nebraska, Mitt Romney of
Utah, and Susan Collins of
Maine have been clear that they
believe Trump incited the riots
on Jan. 6. While none of them
are locks to vote for conviction,
they have joined with Democrats
twice to vote against GOP efforts
to dismiss the trial.
Collins said Trump does
“bear responsibility for working
up the crowd and inciting this
mob.” Murkowski called on
Trump to resign after the attack,
telling a local paper three days
later that “I want him out. He
has caused enough damage.”
Romney tweeted on Jan. 6:
“What happened at the U.S. Cap-
itol today was an insurrection,
incited by the President of the
United States.” During the trial,
the Democrats showed video of
Romney narrowly escaping the
mob, redirected by a Capitol Po-
lice officer as he unknowingly
ran toward the violent crowd.
Sasse said Trump had “lied
to” Americans and the “conse-
quences are now found in five
dead Americans and a Capitol
building that’s in shambles.” In a
recent video, he said Republican
politics shouldn’t be about the
“weird worship of one dude.”
Romney was the sole GOP
guilty vote in the first impeach-
ment trial, leaving the Demo-
crats far short of conviction.
Headed out
Pennsylvania Senator Pat
Toomey, who is retiring from the
Senate next year, has also voted
twice with Democrats to move
forward with the trial. He called
for Trump’s resignation after the
riots.
Three other GOP senators
have said they will not run again
in two years, potentially freeing
them up to vote against Trump
and anger base voters in the par-
ty – Ohio Senator Rob Portman,
North Carolina Senator Richard
Burr, and Alabama Senator
Richard Shelby. All three voted
to dismiss the trial, but Portman
says he still has an open mind
about conviction.
Cassidy as wild card
Louisiana Senator Bill Cassi-
dy, who is up for reelection in
2022, voted two weeks ago for a
GOP effort to dismiss the trial.
But he switched his vote this
week, saying Trump’s lawyers
had done a “terrible” job making
the case that the trial was uncon-
stitutional.
Thune takes heat from Trump
South Dakota Senator John
Thune, the number two Senate
Republican, dismissed Trump’s
attempts to challenge the certifi-
cation of President Biden’s elec-
tion victory.
Still, Thune has voted twice
to dismiss the impeachment
case. He said Friday that he was
keeping an open mind and indi-
cated he could be open to a cen-
sure resolution if Trump is ac-
quitted.
Eyes on McConnell
Senate Republican leader
Mitch McConnell has twice vot-
ed to dismiss the trial, indicating
he will ultimately vote to acquit.
But he has also said that Trump
“provoked” the mob, which was
“fed lies.”
Soon after the attack, McCon-
nell privately told associates he
was done with Trump and said
publicly he was undecided on
impeachment.
Asylum-seekers, many of whom were returned to Mexico under the “Remain in Mexico” policy, waited in line in 2019 to get a meal in Matamoros, Mexico.
US to admit 25,000 asylum-seekers
Arrivals will be
able to wait for
court hearings
By Elliot Spagat
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN DIEGO — The Biden
administration on Friday an-
nounced plans for tens of thou-
sands of asylum-seekers waiting
in Mexico for their next immi-
gration court hearings to be al-
lowed into the United States
while their cases proceed.
The first of an estimated
25,000 asylum-seekers in Mexi-
co with active cases will be al-
lowed in the United States on
Feb. 19, authorities said. They
plan to start slowly with two
border crossings each process-
ing up to 300 people a day and a
third crossing taking fewer. Ad-
ministration officials declined
to name them out of fear they
may encourage a rush of people
to those locations.
The move is a major step to-
ward dismantling one of former
president Trump’s most conse-
Guantanamo site closing sought
Biden aiming to
shut prison that
opened in 2002
By Ben Fox
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — President
Biden will seek to close the
prison on the US base at Guan-
tanamo Bay following a review,
resuming a project begun un-
der the Obama administration,
the White House said Friday.
White House press secre-
tary Jen Psaki said it was the
“intention” of the Biden admin-
istration to close the detention
facility, something former pres-
ident Barack Obama pledged to
do within a year shortly after
he took office in January 2009.
Psaki gave no timeline, tell-
ing reporters that the formal re-
view would be “robust” and
would require the participation
of officials from the Depart-
ment of Defense, the Justice De-
partment, and other agencies.
“There are many players
from different agencies who
need to be part of this policy
discussion about the steps for-
ward,” she said.
Obama ran into intense do-
mestic political opposition
when he sought to close the de-
tention center, a notorious
symbol of the US fight against
terrorism. Biden may have
more leeway now that there are
only 40 prisoners left and
Guantanamo draws much less
public attention, though his an-
nouncement did draw some
immediate criticism.
The United States opened
the detention center in January
T h e B o s t o n
quential policies to deter asy-
lum-seekers from coming to the
United States. About 70,000
asylum-seekers were enrolled in
“Remain in Mexico,” officially
called “Migrant Protection Pro-
tocols,” since it was introduced
in January 2019.
On Biden’s first day in office,
the Homeland Security Depart-
ment suspended the policy for
new arrivals. Since then, some
asylum-seekers picked up at the
border have been released in
the United States with notices
to appear in court.
Biden is quickly making
good on a campaign promise to
end the policy, which the Trump
administration said was critical
to reversing a surge of asylum-
seekers that peaked in 2019.
But the policy also exposed peo-
ple to violence in Mexican bor-
der cities and made it extremely
difficult for them to find law-
yers and communicate with
courts about their cases.
“As President Biden has
made clear, the US government
is committed to rebuilding a
safe, orderly, and humane im-
ALEX BRANDON/ASSOCIATED PRESS/FILE
The United States opened the detention center to hold
people suspected of ties to Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
2002 to hold people suspected
of ties to Al Qaeda and the Tali-
ban. It became a source of in-
ternational criticism over the
mistreatment of prisoners and
the prolonged imprisonment of
people without charge.
The announcement of the
closure plan, first reported by
Reuters, was not unexpected.
Biden had said as a candidate
he supported closing the deten-
tion center. Defense Secretary
Lloyd Austin said so as well in
written testimony for his Sen-
ate confirmation.
“Guantanamo has provided
us the capability to conduct law
of war detention in order to
keep our enemies off the battle-
field, but I believe it is time for
the detention facility at Guan-
tanamo to close,” Austin said.
“My understanding is that the
Biden-Harris administration
does not intend to bring new
detainees to the facility and
will seek to close it.”
The 40 remaining prisoners
at Guantanamo include five
who were previously cleared
for release through an inten-
G l o b e
migration system,” said Home-
land Security Secretary Ale-
jandro Mayorkas. “This latest
action is another step in our
commitment to reform immi-
gration policies that do not
align with our nation’s values.”
Homeland Security said the
move “should not be interpret-
ed as an opening for people to
migrate irregularly to the Unit-
ed States.” Administration offi-
cials have said repeatedly that
the vast majority of people who
cross the border illegally are
quickly expelled under a public
health order in place since the
pandemic struck in March, but
releases of some asylum-seek-
ing families in Texas and Cali-
fornia has worked against that
messaging.
White House press secretary
Jen Psaki said Thursday that
she was concerned that limited
releases in the United States
may encourage others to cross
illegally because “we don’t want
people to put themselves in
danger at a time where it is not
the right time to come, because
we have not had time to put in
sive review process created un-
der Obama as part of the effort
to close the detention center
and transfer the remaining
prisoners to US facilities.
At its peak in 2003, the de-
tention center at the Navy base
on the southeast tip of Cuba
held nearly 680 prisoners.
Amid the international out-
rage, former president George
W. Bush called it a “a propagan-
da tool for our enemies and a
distraction for our allies” and
said he supported closing it but
left it to his successor.
Under Bush, the United
States began efforts to prose-
cute some of the prisoners for
war crimes in special tribunals
known as military commis-
sions, but the government also
released 532 prisoners.
Obama vowed to close the
detention center, while keeping
the larger Navy base, but ran
into fierce political opposition
over plans to prosecute and im-
p r i s o n m e n i n t h e Un i t e d
States and concerns that re-
turning others to their home-
land would pose a security risk.
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VERONICA G. CARDENAS/ASSOCIATED PRESS/FILE
place a humane and moral sys-
tem and process.”
Hearings for people enrolled
in “Remain in Mexico” have
been suspended since June be-
cause of the pandemic. Getting
word out on when to report to
the border for release in the
United States may prove a
daunting job.
Homeland Security said it
would soon announce a “virtual
registration process” available
online and by phone for people
to learn where and when they
should report. It urged asylum-
seekers not to report to the bor-
der unless instructed.
Asylum-seekers will be test-
ed for COVID-19 before enter-
ing the United States.
The announcement provides
no relief to people whose cases
were dismissed or denied,
though administration officials
did not rule out additional mea-
sures. Advocates argue that
communication problems, in-
cluding lack of working ad-
dresses in Mexico, caused some
to miss hearings and lose their
cases as a result.
Memorial to remain at site
of George Floyd’s death
By Amy Forliti
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MINNEAPOLIS — A memo-
rial honoring George Floyd will
remain at the Minneapolis in-
tersection where he was pinned
to the ground by a police officer
in the moments before he died
last May, but the streets will re-
open to two-way traffic at the
conclusion of the officer’s mur-
der trial, city leaders said Friday.
The intersection of 38 th
Street and Chicago Avenue –
now known as George Floyd
Square — has been closed since
late May, as the corner became a
makeshift memorial to Floyd
and a space for community
healing. Mayor Jacob Frey said
the current situation at one of
the city’s busiest corridors is not
sustainable.
“We will be moving forward
in a substantial way to memori-
alize George Floyd, to memorial-
ize his life and to make this
space an ongoing space for racial
justice and healing,” Frey said.
He said the barricades that
were once used to protect peo-
ple and art are now used to hide
illicit activity, and that the area
cannot be an autonomous zone,
where police are prevented
from entering.
Police Chief Medaria Arra-
dondo said neighbors are suf-
fering.
“I cannot allow that to hap-
pen ... Our men and women will
continue to show up and re-
spond and be the guardians of
that community when they call
us for help.”
Under the city’s plan, a me-
morial to Floyd and public art
More people are ge tting
stopped crossing the border ille-
gally since Biden took office.
Raul Ortiz, deputy chief of
the Border Patrol, said Tuesday
that more than 3,000 people had
been stopped crossing the bor-
der illegally in each of the previ-
ous 10 days, compared to a daily
average of 2,426 in January.
About 50 to 80 adults and
children have been arriving dai-
ly since Jan. 27 at Catholic
Charities of the Rio Grande Val-
ley in Texas, which temporarily
houses people released by the
Border Patrol, said Sister Nor-
ma Pimentel, the group’s execu-
tive director. The charity tests
for COVID-19 and sends any-
one who tests positive to a hotel
for isolation.
Jewish Family Service of San
Diego housed 191 asylum-seek-
ers the first 10 days of February
after they were released by US
authorities, up from 144 in Jan-
uary and 54 in December, said
Eitan Peled, the group’s border
services advocate. They are
quarantined in hotels for 10
days.
will remain at the intersection,
and area residents and busi-
nesses will get a chance in the
upcoming weeks to give feed-
back on options for a new inter-
section design.
Frey said the city has heard
from many in the community,
including Floyd’s fiancee, who
said she doesn’t want tires to
run over the spot where Floyd
was pinned to the ground be-
fore he died.
Floyd, a Black man who was
handcuffed, died May 25 after
former police officer Derek
Chauvin, who is white, pressed
his knee against Floyd’s neck as
he said he couldn’t breathe.
Floyd’s death sparked protests
in Minneapolis and beyond,
leading to a nationwide reckon-
ing on race. Chauvin is charged
with second-degree murder and
manslaughter and is scheduled
for trial March 8.
Three other former officers,
charged with aiding and abet-
ting, are scheduled to face trial
in August.
Fr e y s a i d h e r e c o g n i z e s
Chauvin’s trial will be a difficult
time, and the intersection will
be an important gathering
place. He said the city will in-
crease services to the intersec-
tion during the trial and will re-
open it to traffic after the trial
concludes.
“It is our responsibility as
leaders and as a community to
both honor George Floyd and
the hallowed ground where he
died, and also respectfully re-
store 38th and Chicago to a vi-
brant and functioning neigh-
borhood,” Frey said.
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Haley speaks out against Trump, says she’s ‘disgusted’
Nikki Haley, the former UN
ambassador in the Trump ad-
ministration, criticized Donald
Trump in an in-
POLITICAL terview pub-
NOTEBOOK lished by Politi-
co on Friday,
saying that she was “disgusted”
by the former president’s con-
duct Jan. 6 and believed he had
“lost any sort of political viabili-
ty.”
Haley, who is widely believed
to be considering a run for pres-
ident in 2024, also said that she
does not think the former presi-
dent will run himself.
“I don’t think he’s going to be
in the picture,” she told Politico,
adding, “I don’t think he can.
He’s fallen so far.”
Haley’s comments may cost
her some support among
Trump’s base, a constituency
that will be important to any fu-
ture Republican nominee and
one that she had worked hard to
avoid offending since leaving his
administration in 2018.
But the Capitol riot last
month and Trump’s role in incit-
ing it appears to have been Ha-
ley’s breaking point. Her tone
changed markedly between in-
terviews with Politico in Decem-
ber and January. Initially, she
refused to acknowledge that the
former president was doing any-
thing reckless by refusing to
concede election defeat. She
said that because he genuinely
believed his defeat was rigged,
his actions since November
were not irresponsible.
She wrongly predicted that
he would “go on his way” once
his legal options were exhaust-
ed.
In the series of interviews,
Haley then went on to say “he
let us down.”
“He went down a path he
shouldn’t have, and we
shouldn’t have followed him,
and we shouldn’t have listened
to him,” she said.
Haley’s remarks suggest that
she has made a political bet that
many other Republicans who
have eyes on the White House
have not: that Trump’s hold over
the Republican base will loosen
and he will not be the kingmak-
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er many predict.
In contrast, Senator Josh
Hawley of Missouri has ignored
calls to apologize for advancing
Trump’s voter fraud claims. For-
mer vice president Mike Pence
has said nothing publicly since
being forced to flee the Senate
chamber Jan. 6 as pro-Trump ri-
oters chanted, “Hang Mike
Pence.”
NEW YORK TIMES
White House suspends aide
for threatening reporter
WASHINGTON — White
House deputy press secretary
T.J. Ducklo has been suspended
for a week without pay after he
reportedly issued a sexist and
profane threat to a journalist
seeking to cover his relationship
with another reporter.
White House press secretary
Jen Psaki said in a statement
Friday that Ducklo had been
suspended without pay with the
approval of White House chief
of staff Ron Klain. She said
Ducklo “is the first to acknowl-
edge this is not the standard of
behavior set out” by President
Biden, and that Ducklo had sent
the reporter in question “a per-
sonal note professing his pro-
found regret.”
Ducklo’s personal life came
under scrutiny earlier this week
when Politico reported on his
relationship with a reporter for
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dismissal of lawsuit claims Smartmatic in its 285-page lenge long-held assumptions
Three Fox News hosts — Ma- complaint filed Feb. 4 in state about the limits of free speech.
ria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs, and court in New York had cited at The filings by the Fox per-
Jeanine Pirro — are seeking the least 13 reports on Fox News in sonalities note instances in
dismissal of claims against them which guests or personalities which they questioned Powell
and their employer as part of a falsely stated or implied that the and Giuliani for evidence to
$2.7 billion libel lawsuit company had somehow helped back their claims, as well as
brought by the voting technolo- steal the election through easily Smartmatic’s own denial of the
gy company Smartmatic. tampered technology or in ca- charges. It also argues that
Bartiromo, Dobbs, and Pirro, hoots with Venezuela’s socialist Dobbs’ statements appearing to
as well as Donald Trump law- government. validate the claims of his guests
yers Rudolph Giuliani and Sid- The complaint alleged that were constitutionally protected
ney Powell, were sued this the “disinformation campaign” opinions, not statements of fact.
month for the eye-popping continued even after then-Attor- On Dec. 18, all three hosts
amount by Smartmatic, which ney General William Barr said aired a segment with an expert
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accused them of conspiring to the Department of Justice could debunking some of the claims
spread false claims that the find no evidence of widespread that had been made on its net-
company was involved in an ef- voter fraud. works against Smartmatic and
fort to steal the presidential “Smartmatic is confident in another voting technology com-
election from Trump. its case and looks forward to pany, Dominion.
In its motions, lawyers from briefing these issues for the The Fox Business Network
Kirkland & Ellis, which is also Court,” J. Erik Connolly, attor- dropped Dobbs’ show Feb. 5, a
the news outlet Axios who was defending Fox, argue Bartiromo, ney for Smartmatic, wrote Fri- day after the lawsuit was filed.
assigned to cover the Biden Dobbs, and Pirro were doing day in a statement. The network said the move was
campaign and its transition. Be- their job in covering the biggest The lawsuit is being closely part of a planned programming
fore Politico broke the story story of the day: unprecedented watched as the rise of far-right shift and not related to the law-
Tuesday, People Magazine pub- allegations by the president that voices on social media and pro- suit.
lished a glowing profile of the the integrity of the electoral pro- Trump outlets like Newsmax NEW YORK TIMES
relationship. It was the first
time either one had publicly ac-
knowledged the relationship.
On Friday, Vanity Fair pub-
lished a report citing two un-
named sources that Ducklo had
threatened the Politico reporter
to try to suppress the story, tell-
ing her “I will destroy you.”
Psaki, White House commu-
nications director Kate Beding-
field, and Anita Dunn, director
of West Wing operations, were
all reportedly involved in con-
versations with Politico editors
about the incident. Psaki said in
her statement that when Ducklo
returns, he won’t be assigned to
work with any Politico report-
ers.
Biden offered his own stan-
dard for the conduct he expects
from his staff in comments he
made during a virtual swearing-
in with staff the day he was
sworn in.
“I’m not joking when I say
this: If you ever work with me
and I hear you treat another col-
league with disrespect, talk
down to someone, I will fire you
on the spot,” he said that day.
“No ifs, ands, or buts.”
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A STATE OF EMERGENCY
CDC guidance on school reopenings welcomed
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last fall, but it suggests them
more forcefully. It emphasizes
that all of the recommendations
must be implemented strictly
and consistently to keep school
safe.
It also provides more detailed
suggestions about what type of
schooling should be offered giv-
en different levels of virus trans-
mission, with differing advice
for elementary, middle, and high
schools.
T he reopening of public
schools in Massachusetts has
been contentious. Governor
Charlie Baker called for districts
to bring back as many students
as possible, citing evidence of
low rates of in-school transmis-
sion. Teachers unions have
countered that better safety
measures must first be in place
for educators, such as frequent
coronavirus testing, before re-
turning full time.
Boston Public Schools Super-
intendent Brenda Cassellius said
the recommendations will help
provide clearer answers for her
and other big-city school leaders
as they negotiate with teachers
unions to reopen schools.
“Right now, we’re all just do-
ing our own thing,” Cassellius
told an MIT webinar Friday
shortly before the guidance was
released.
But she urged the Biden ad-
ministration, if it is serious
about returning students to
school in the president’s first 100
days, to push states to offer
teachers vaccines immediately,
which 26 states and Washing-
ton, D.C., currently do.
In Massachusetts, educators
were moved back in line behind
all senior citizens and are slated
to qualify at the end of Phase 2,
which is scheduled to run from
February through March.
The decision to delay vac-
cines for educators was criti-
cized by the heads of the state’s
largest teachers unions, one of
Mass.
unveils
new way
to sign up
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book an appointment, as op-
posed to registering through
one, central scheduling tool.
“It’s certainly better than it
was,” said Senator Eric Lesser, a
Democrat from Longmeadow
who has sponsored legislation to
upgrade the state’s online regis-
tration system, “but it would be
pretty hard for it to go anywhere
other than up.”
The new site is still a work in
progress. It shows, for example,
available appointments only at
large-scale vaccination sites and
sites operated by local health de-
partments.
State officials said they’re
working to incorporate appoint-
ment data from other sites, such
as pharmacies, but note that
there is no easy way to automati-
cally update information from
myriad other locations.
The new state website is but
the latest adjustment by the
Baker administration in manag-
ing the rollout of the vaccination
effort in the face of tremendous
demand and confusion. In order
to reduce the risk of wasting
shots that have a short shelf life
after being defrosted, the state
abruptly this week allowed peo-
ple younger than 75 to receive a
vaccination if they accompany
an eligible senior to a vaccina-
tion appointment.
Also Friday, the Baker ad-
ministration reported that
COVID-19 inoculations had
passed the 1 million mark. But
the virus continues to exact a
heavy toll, as the number of peo-
ple who have died surpassed
15,000, officials reported Friday.
The state launched the
Vaxfinder website after a bar-
rage of complaints that its origi-
nal website was confusing and
difficult to use. Independent
software developers stepped in
to build alternative websites at
their own expense. One called
VaccinateMA was created by
whom compared the plan to the
“Hunger Games,” forcing dis-
tricts to compete for limited re-
sources.
“If they really want to put out
these aspirational plans for us,
we need some really clear guid-
ance on how we do that,” Cassel-
lius said.
In Boston, most students
have been at home for nearly a
year, with only a small number
of high-needs students, includ-
ing English learners and those
with disabilities, returning to
classrooms part time. District of-
ficials said recently that even
when students return to class-
rooms over the next two months,
many will continue to learn on-
line so their classmates studying
from home can participate in the
same lessons.
Across Massachusetts,
whether a student is home or in
a classroom depends on their
district. Of the state’s nearly 1
million public school students,
about 450,000 — fewer than half
— were in the classroom at least
part time in the fall, according to
state education officials.
The Department of Elemen-
tary and Secondary Education
conducted a survey of school dis-
tricts this week to gather updat-
ed numbers and is still waiting
on several districts to respond,
according to Colleen Quinn, a
spokeswoman for the Executive
Office of Education.
Teachers unions praised the
federal guidance and its empha-
sis on safety precautions and
their importance.
But they cautioned that low-
er-income districts — which
h av e ty p i c a l l y s e e n h i g h e r
COVID rates — need more fund-
ing to be able to satisfy the CDC’s
recommendation that even high-
risk districts open for in-person
learning, at least for elementary
school students, or, if they con-
duct COVID testing, for all stu-
dents.
“If I knew everybody that
walked into the building was vi-
Massachusetts’ new website to book COVID-19 vaccination
appointments is at vaxfinder.mass.gov.
Zane Stiles, a private equity ana-
lyst at Bain Capital. Stiles uses a
workaround to get updated
scheduling from private vacci-
nation sites: Volunteers he re-
cruited are contacting them di-
rectly by phone and inputting
the information.
And a software developer at
the technology firm athena-
health who is on maternity
leave, Olivia Adams, got nation-
al attention for building another
rival site, macovidvaccines.com.
Adams said she met with sev-
eral Massachusetts officials this
week to discuss her efforts. The
officials told her the state had
contracted with a computer ven-
dor to make the new website “a
while back,” and did not ask for
her help. “I had zero input, actu-
ally,” Adams said.
After reviewing the new tool,
she said, “I think it’s an im-
provement for the state, but I
don’t think that it’s any more
functional than my site current-
ly.”
Massachusetts isn’t the only
state where citizen volunteers
have created easier-to-use vac-
cine sites. The VaccinateMA
built by Stiles was inspired by a
similar private effort in Califor-
nia, VaccinateCA. And multiple
individuals and organizations in
New York state have assembled
alternative vaccine finders.
But in some states, like West
Virginia, none of this is neces-
sary. There, for example, resi-
dents fill out a form on a state
website to be put on a waiting
list for the vaccine. People are
notified by e-mail, phone call, or
text message when a dose is
available at a nearby location.
Anyone who can’t make the
suggested date is put back on
the waiting list. People without
Internet access can call a toll-
T h e B o s t o n
Security officer Alfreda Bacon showed kindergartner Yara Rand how to use hand sanitizer at
the entrance to Ketcham Elementary School in Washington, D.C., early this month.
rus-free, then you have very dif-
ferent circumstances than what
we have right now,” Beth Kontos,
president of the American Fed-
eration of Teachers-Massachu-
setts, said in an interview Friday.
“That’s great, but all those things
cost money, if we’re serious
about this.”
In many well-resourced sub-
urban districts, like Medway, all
elementary school students are
in school five days a week be-
cause the district hired more ed-
ucators to reduce class sizes,
Kontos said. But cash-strapped
districts struggling to reopen
schools, like Chelsea, Lawrence,
and Lynn, don’t have that luxury
— and they also have to pay
more to upgrade their old school
buildings’ ventilation systems.
Jessica Tang, president of the
Boston Teachers Union, also
commended the new guidance,
saying in a statement, “For the
first time since the pandemic be-
gan nearly a year ago, we have
clear, actionable safety measures
to keep both students and teach-
ers safe.”
Merrie Najimy, president of
free phone number to book an
appointment.
During a briefing about the
new Massachusetts site Friday,
officials would not commit to of-
fering a centralized sign-up, but
said that further improvements
to the site are forthcoming.
By contrast, the legislation
filed by Lesser and others would
require the state to establish a
central online portal where peo-
ple could sign up for a vaccina-
tion by filling out a single appli-
cation. Lesser said that Gover-
nor Charlie Baker has the
authority to build a central por-
tal, but that if he doesn’t follow
through, “we’ll force it by law.”
The Vaxfinder tool does have
information for users to deter-
mine if they’re currently eligible
for the vaccine, and translation
services are available. Vaxfinder
also will be accessible on mobile
devices, officials said.
T h e s t at e t h i s w e e k a l s o
rolled out a 211 call line for vac-
cine reservations, especially for
residents age 75 and older who
have difficulty booking an ap-
pointment online. But the 211
call center is available only be-
tween 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday.
Carlene Pavlos, executive di-
rector of the Massachusetts Pub-
lic Health Association, said
these limitations make it harder
for the elderly and people in un-
derserved communities to use
the call center.
“ T he state did not begin
working on that 211 call line un-
til so late in the rollout that
we’re really behind the eight
ball,” Pavlos said.
Hiawatha Bray can be reached
at hiawatha.bray@globe.com.
Travis Andersen can be reached
at travis.andersen@globe.com.
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EVELYN HOCKSTEIN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
the Massachusetts Teachers As-
sociation, praised the recom-
mendations but renewed the
push to get teachers vaccinated
under a plan the union submit-
ted to the state Department of
Public Health.
“Teachers and other school
employees want nothing more
than to resume or increase in-
person learning,” Najimy said in
a statement.
The guidelines tackle an area
that has been a source of frustra-
tion for many families in Massa-
chusetts: communication of pos-
itive COVID tests among people
in schools.
The CDC said school admin-
istrators should notify staff,
teachers, and families of any
COVID cases — while maintain-
ing patient privacy — and notifi-
cations should be accessible to
those with disabilities and with
limited English.
In many districts across the
state, families receive alerts that
describe “a district employee” as
having tested positive, not speci-
fying the school or the person’s
role, and often not translated in-
Portugal gets more European help
as coronavirus deaths remain high
LISBON — France and Lux-
embourg are joining Germany in
sending medical staff to help at
hospitals in
WORLD Portugal,
NOTEBOOK where deaths
from COVID -
19 remain the highest in the
world by size of population.
Germany’s Defense Ministry
said Friday it’s extending by six
weeks — into April — the deploy-
ment of military doctors, nurses,
and other personnel to a civilian
hospital in Lisbon.
A team of eight German mili-
tary doctors and 18 nurses and
hygiene specialists arrived in Lis-
bon on Feb. 3 for an initial three-
week deployment as part of a co-
operation program between Eu-
ropean Union countries.
France is sending a doctor
and three nurses, while Luxem-
bourg is providing two doctors
and two nurses, the Portuguese
health ministry said in a state-
ment. They should arrive next
week.
Portugal became the world’s
worst-hit country in the pan-
demic last month after a Christ-
mas easing of rules on move-
ments and gatherings coincided
with the appearance of a fast-
spreading virus variant first
identified in England.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hungary begins using
vaccine developed in Russia
Hungary has begun adminis-
tering the Sputnik V coronavirus
vaccine, sidestepping the Euro-
pean Medicines Agency to be-
come the first European Union
member state to use the vaccine
developed by the Gamaleya Re-
search Institute, part of Russia’s
Ministry of Health.
O n Fr i d ay, a n o ff i c i a l a t
Honved Hospital in Budapest
confirmed in a telephone inter-
view that it had begun adminis-
tering the vaccine.
Cecilia Muller, Hungary’s
chief medical officer and head of
the government’s coronavirus
task force, had called on 560
general practitioners in Buda-
pest on Tuesday to find five peo-
ple each to receive the Sputnik V
vaccine. The initial 2,800 doses
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to families’ spoken languages,
said Keri Rodrigues, founder of
Massachusetts Parents United,
an education advocacy group.
Rodrigues also praised the
CDC’s clarity that schools should
be the first facilities to open and
the last to close amid the pan-
demic. Black and brown families
are less likely to feel comfortable
sending their children to school
due to the systems breaking
their trust, she said, and white
families are starting to feel simi-
larly that the decisions around
schools are based more on poli-
tics than science.
“We don’t trust a lot of the
folks that aren’t experts and ar-
en’t the CDC to be calling the
shots,” she said. “That’s why it’s
really important that we have di-
rect guidance from these guys.”
Material from the Associated
Press was used in this report.
Felicia Gans of the Globe staff
contributed to this report.
Naomi Martin can be reached at
naomi.martin@globe.com.
Jeremy C. Fox can be reached at
jeremy.fox@globe.com.
available are what remain from
a 6,000-dose batch that arrived
for testing in December.
The government said it
would receive two million doses
of Sputnik V from Russia over
the next three months. Hungary
had said in November that it was
in talks with the Russian manu-
facturer about importing, and
even manufacturing, the Sput-
nik V vaccine.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban
has cited Serbia, which has a siz-
able ethnic Hungarian popula-
tion, as an example of a country
whose vaccination strategy in-
cludes the Russian Sputnik and
Chinese Sinopharm vaccines.
NEW YORK TIMES
France limits recovered
patients to one vaccine dose
PARIS — France’s highest
health authority recommended
Friday that people who have had
COVID-19 receive only one dose
of a vaccine against the corona-
virus.
The High Authority of
Health, or HAS, said that since
recovered individuals had devel-
oped an immunity response akin
to a vaccine, a single shot is
probably sufficient.
“A single vaccine dose will al-
so play the role of reminding” a
previously infected person’s im-
mune system how to fight
COVID-19, the independent
body said in an opinion report.
If applied, the decision is ex-
pected to speed up the pace of
France’s vaccination drive. All
three of the vaccines authorized
for use in the European Union —
made by Pfizer, Moderna and
AstraZeneca — were developed
to be administered in two doses
delivered a few weeks apart.
In trial studies, a two-shot
dosing schedule was shown to
be the only way to increase im-
munity against the virus to near-
full level.
France has been under fire
for the slow rollout of its vacci-
nation program. Prime Minister
Jean Castex has characterized
the rollout as having “a brisk
pace,” and promised last week
that 4 million shots — both first
and second doses — would be
Back to class
What do the CDC guidelines
say about reopening class-
rooms?
With proper mitigation,
such as masking, physical dis-
tancing, and hygiene, elemen-
tary schools can operate in per-
son at any level of community
virus transmission, the guide-
lines state. The document says
that middle and high schools
can safely operate in person at
all but the highest level of
transmission, which is defined
in two ways: When 10 percent
or more of the coronavirus
tests in a community come
back positive over a seven-day
period; or when there are 100
or more virus cases per
100,000 people in the com-
munity over seven days. Middle
and high schools may open at
any level of community spread
if they conduct weekly testing
of students and staff members.
The guidelines say teacher vac-
cination, while important,
should not be considered a pre-
requisite for reopening.
Is there a way to see if my
school can safely open?
Sort of. You can look up your
community’s test positivity
rate and the number of new
cases per 100,000 people in
the last seven days (these
numbers are often available on
state or county websites), then
compare the agency’s policy
recommendations for that level
of transmission with what your
school is doing.
Will these guidelines encour-
age more districts to bring
students back into class-
rooms?
Some local teachers unions
are demanding teacher vacci-
nation, among other safety pre-
cautions. But the guidelines
might help districts and unions
reach consensus by pointing to
established research on how to
operate schools safely.
NEW YORK TIMES
given this month.
French authorities reported
Thursday that more than 2.1
million people had received one
vaccine dose, of whom more
than 535,000 also got their sec-
ond shot.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Australian state locks down
amid virus outbreak at hotel
More than six million people
in Victoria, Australia, will enter
into a snap lockdown for five
days in response to a coronavi-
rus outbreak at a quarantine ho-
tel.
The order came as the Aus-
tralian Open was being held in
Melbourne, Victoria’s capital,
but the tennis tournament will
continue — without spectators
— the authorities said on Friday.
Victorians will be allowed to
leave home only for essential
shopping, work, exercise, and
careg iving , and mus t wear
masks whenever they leave
home.
But while sports and enter-
tainment venues will be shut
down, professional athletes like
tennis players will be classified
as “essential workers” and al-
lowed to continue their matches.
“There are no fans; there’s no
crowds. These people are essen-
tially at their workplace,” Daniel
Andrews, the premier of Victoria,
told reporters on Friday. “It’s not
like the only people that are at
work are supermarket workers.”
Tennis Australia said in a
statement that it would notify all
ticket holders of the changes and
continue “to work with the gov-
ernment to ensure the health
and safety of everyone.”
The lockdown, which goes in-
to effect at 11:59 p.m. on Friday,
comes after an outbreak at a
Holiday Inn near the Melbourne
Airport that was being used to
house returned travelers.
By Friday, 13 people linked to
the hotel had tested positive
with the new virus variant that
first emerged in Britain. In the
past 24 hours, five new cases
have been identified, bringing
the state’s total number of cases
to 19.
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A STATE OF EMERGENCY

Nearly 70% of
vaccines delivered
have been given
On Jan. 1, just a quarter of
COVID-19 vaccine doses deliv-
ered across the United States
had been used.
NATIONAL As of Thursday,
NOTEBOOK that figure had
risen to 68 per-
cent.
A handful of states have ad-
ministered more than 80 per-
cent of the doses they have re-
ceived. And even states with
slower vaccine uptake are mak-
ing strides.
The slow start to vaccinations
in the United States has been no
secret: Older Americans have
waited in long lines for doses,
and vaccine registration web-
sites have crashed.
But health officials say that
while vaccine supply levels still
limit how many doses they can
administer, states are becoming
more efficient at immunizing
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people as shipments arrive.
Crystal Evans has a neuromuscular disease and needs a ventilator to breathe, but she doesn’t qualify for early vaccination. “ We are in a much better
safety.
NEW YORK TIMES
Coverup of nursing home
deaths alleged in N.Y.
ALBANY, N.Y. — Governor
Andrew Cuomo and his top
aides were facing new allega-
tions Friday that they covered up
the scope of the death toll in
New York’s nursing homes from
the coronavirus, after admis-
sions that they withheld data in
an effort to forestall potential in-
vestigations into state miscon-
duct.
The latest revelations came in
the wake of private remarks by
the governor’s top aide, Melissa
DeRosa, and a cascading series
of reports and court orders that
have nearly doubled the state’s
official toll of nursing home
deaths in the last two weeks.
The disclosures have left Cuo-
mo, a third-term Democrat,
scrambling to contain the politi-

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And yet, under Massachu-
setts’ rules dictating who is eli-
gible for early access to the
COVID-19 vaccine, Jennings
doesn’t qualify. After seniors 75
and older, next in line for inocu-
lations are individuals 65 and
older and those with two or
more medical conditions that
put them at increased risk of se-
rious illness from the coronavi-
rus. Those dozen conditions,
listed by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, include
cancer, chronic kidney disease,
heart conditions, Down syn-
drome, and obesity. Smokers al-
so are on the list, as are preg-
nant people.
In terms of early vaccine eli-
gibility, Jennings has all the
wrong diagnoses. Her mother
and primary caregiver in Wey-
mouth, Lisa Jennings, is baffled.
“It’s confusing, it’s frustrat-
ing, and if you really want to
vaccinate everybody, why do
you want to pit people against
each other?” Lisa Jennings said.
Disability rights advocates
have been pleading with Massa-
chusetts officials for weeks to re-
vise the state’s vaccine alloca-
tion plan and expand priority to
more people with underlying
conditions. Relying solely on the
CDC’s list, they say, unfairly dis-
advantages people with rare dis-
eases like cystic fibrosis, for
which data on COVID sufferers
is limited. Even the CDC notes
its list of comorbidities known
to raise the risk of severe COVID
complications is “not exhaustive
and only includes conditions
with sufficient evidence to draw
conclusions.”
The CDC also maintains a
separate list of conditions that
“might” increase a person’s risk
of serious illness from the virus
— moderate-to-severe asthma,
cystic fibrosis, and immune de-
ficiencies are among them —
but Massachusetts, unlike some
states, has opted to leave those
out of its eligibility criteria.
“If we want to protect a
broad group of individuals with
comorbidities here in Massa-
chusetts, and people whose risk
of severe illness and death we
know to be higher — including
people with disabilities and
communities of color — relying
only on the narrow CDC list is
not going to get that done,” said
Kathryn Rucker, an attorney at
the Center for Public Represen-
tation, a public-interest law firm
for people with disabilities.
This week, the chief policy
and advocacy officer of the Cys-
tic Fibrosis Foundation, Mary
Dwight, wrote a letter to Health
and Human Services Secretary
Marylou Sudders, urging the
state to give people with cystic
fibrosis early access to the vac-
cines. Attorney General Maura
Healey and US Representative
Ayanna Pressley also have called
on Governor Charlie Baker to
add asthma to the state’s list of
qualifying comorbidities as a
way to reach a vulnerable popu-
lation and address racial and
ethnic inequities plaguing the
rollout. Research shows Black
place now,” said Claire Hannan, cal fallout, as lawmakers of both
the executive director of the As- parties call for censure, includ-
sociation of Immunization Man- ing stripping the governor of his
agers. emergency powers during the
NEW YORK TIMES pandemic, federal and state in-
vestigations, and resignations of
more extensively, while others New system to monitor DeRosa and other top officials.
What the Mass. guidelines say have not,” said Dr. Kara Ayers, vaccine safety still in works In a conversation first report-
director of the Center for Digni- More than 34 million Ameri- ed by the New York Post, DeRosa
After people age 75 and older are vaccinated against COVID- ty in Healthcare for People with cans have received COVID vac- told a group of top lawmakers
19, Massachusetts will open appointments to adults 65 and
Disabilities, in an e-mail, about cines, but the much-touted sys- Wednesday during a call to ad-
older, and people with two or more qualifying medical
the exclusion of other disabili- tem that the government de- dress the nursing home situa-
conditions. But which comorbidities qualify under the state
ties from the CDC lists. “This signed to monitor any tion that “basically, we froze,” af-
guidelines, and how will residents know when they can get a
vaccine? Here are some answers to commonly asked has caused inequities even with- dangerous reactions won’t be ca-
questions about this phase of the state’s vaccination plan: in the disability community be- pable of analyzing safety data for
cause some people are included weeks or months, according to
Which medical conditions make someone eligible for ear- and others are entirely left out numerous federal health offi-
ly vaccination? of vaccine allocation plans.” cials.
Massachusetts is using a list of a dozen conditions from
Colin Killick, executive direc- For now, federal regulators
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to determine
tor of the Malden-based Disabil- are counting on a patchwork of
who will be eligible for early access to the COVID vaccines.
There is evidence that these conditions increase a person’s ity Policy Consortium, said the existing programs that they ac-
risk of severe illness from the coronavirus. They include: can- Massachusetts plan seems to knowledge are inadequate be-
cer; chronic kidney disease; chronic obstructive pulmonary punish people with disabilities cause of small sample sizes,
disease (COPD); Down syndrome; heart conditions (such as who have fought for decades for missing critical data or other
NATHANIEL BROOKS/NEW YORK TIMES
heart failure, coronary artery disease, or cardiomyopathies); the right to live as independent- problems.
immunocompromised state from solid organ transplant; obe- ly as possible. State officials pri- Clinical trials have shown Melissa DeRosa, top aide to
sity; severe obesity; pregnancy; sickle cell disease; smoking; oritized people with disabilities both of the vaccines authorized N.Y. Governor Andrew
and type 2 diabetes mellitus. who live in nursing facilities and in the United States — Pfizer-Bi- Cuomo, has admitted data
How do I prove I have one or more of these conditions? group homes in the first phase oNTech’s and Moderna’s — to be was withheld on nursing
The state is not requiring people to provide medical docu- of the rollout, but those with highly protective against the cor- home coronavirus deaths.
mentation or proof that they have any of the aforementioned identical conditions living in the onavirus and safe. But even the
conditions in order to receive early vaccine priority. Instead, community have been left out. best trials have limited ability to ter being asked over the summer
eligible recipients will be asked to fill out an online attesta- “People with disabilities are detect adverse reactions that are for information by the Trump
tion form confirming they meet the criteria. In other words, not just at risk in this pandemic rare, that occur only in certain administration’s Department of
the state is relying on the honor system. to the extent they live in congre- population groups, or that hap- Justice.
gate settings,” Killick said. Their pen beyond the trials’ three- At the time, the governor’s of-
When will people with two or more of the qualifying con-
ditions be able to get the COVID-19 vaccine? risks are heightened as they of- month period. fice was simultaneously facing
Governor Charlie Baker has not set a clear timeline for ten rely on a rotating crew of In interviews, FDA officials requests from the state Legisla-
when vaccinations will open to people over 65 and those caregivers. They also may strug- acknowledged that a promised ture for similar information.
with qualifying conditions. gle with compliance with health monitoring system, formally “We were in a position where
protocols, like mask-wearing called the Biologics Evaluation we weren’t sure if what we were
I only have one of these conditions. When can I get the
and social-distancing. People Safety Initiative but more widely going to give to the Department
vaccine?
with intellectual disabilities, in known as BEST, is still in devel- of Justice, or what we give to you
At the end of Phase 2, after essential workers, individuals
particular, Killick added, have a opment. They expect it to start guys, and what we start saying,
with just one of the qualifying medical conditions will be eli-
gible. history of receiving substandard analyzing vaccine safety data was going to be used against us,
medical care. soon, but probably not for an- and we weren’t sure if there was
I have high blood pressure. Am I eligible for priority ac- The state is not requiring other month or two. going to be an investigation,” De-
cess? people to provide proof that The government is now rely- Rosa told lawmakers, according
No, not in Massachusetts. The CDC maintains a separate they meet the comorbidity re- ing mostly on a 30-year-old to a partial transcript obtained
list of conditions that “might” increase a person’s risk of se-
quirements for vaccination. In- monitoring system that relies on by The New York Times.
vere illness, but under the state’s guidelines, those comorbid-
stead, vaccine recipients must self-reporting from patients and The news of DeRosa’s re-
ities do not qualify anyone for early access to the vaccines.
complete a self-attestation form health care providers, known as marks sparked a flurry of angry
Along with hypertension or high blood pressure, those ad-
ditional conditions listed by the CDC include: moderate-to-se- confirming their eligibility. Kil- the Vaccine Adverse Event Re- denunciations, including from
vere asthma; cerebrovascular disease; cystic fibrosis; neuro- lick said he is not advising peo- porting System, or VAERS, and a Cuomo’s fellow Democrats.
logic conditions (such as dementia); liver disease; pulmonary ple with disabilities to “fudge” smartphone app that people “This is a betrayal of the pub-
fibrosis; thalassemia; and type 1 diabetes mellitus. Also on the form if they want earlier ac- who get vaccinated can down- lic trust,” state Senator Andrew
that list are overweight people and those with a weakened cess, but he wouldn’t blame load and use to report problems. Gounardes, D-Brooklyn, said on
immune system from blood transplant or bone marrow trans- them if they did. So far, few serious problems Twitter. “There needs to be full
plant; immune deficiencies; HIV; use of corticosteroids; or “I want the system to work,” have been reported through accountability for what hap-
use of other immune-weakening medications. he said, “but would I blame these channels and no deaths pened.”
DEANNA PAN someone, ethically, for filling it have conclusively been linked to Condemnation was even
out, if they actually have a con- the vaccines. There have been a louder from Republicans, who
dition that puts them at gravely few severe allergic reactions, but have seized on Cuomo’s perfor-
patients are more likely to suffer workers. But this guidance is increased risk of death and the they are treatable and consid- mance on nursing homes —
from asthma than white pa- nonbinding, and states have state standard does not take ered rare. To date, the rate at where more than 10,000 New
tients. The condition also is some latitude in deciding who their increased risk into ac- which the potentially fatal reac- Yorkers have died during the
more prevalent in low-income, to offer the doses to first. As a count? I can’t say I would.” tion called anaphylaxis has oc- pandemic, but the state long
predominantly Black and Lati- result, prioritization of people Crystal Evans, 39, also is in- curred — 4.7 cases in every mil- stalled on releasing full data —
no communities, like Chelsea, with disabilities and chronic ill- eligible for earlier vaccine ac- lion doses of the Pfizer-BioN- as evidence of duplicity or even
that have been hit hard by the nesses varies across the country. cess, despite her numerous Tech vaccine, and 2.5 cases per criminality.
virus. In New York, for instance, medical challenges, including a million for Moderna’s — are in “It is time to move past the
“The most effective way to people with any one of the con- neuromuscular disease that line with the rates of other wide- lies and finally uncover the full
save lives is to make sure that ditions from both CDC lists will keeps her connected to a venti- ly used vaccines. truth,” said Representative Tom
our most vulnerable residents be eligible to receive an inocula- lator, which is hoisted to her Bruising and bleeding caused Reed, a Republican from the
have access to the vaccine,” Hea- tion starting Feb. 15. New York wheelchair in a backpack. Evans by lowered platelet counts have state’s Southern Tier, who called
ley said in a statement to the also supplemented its criteria to l i v e s i n B ra i n t r e e w i t h h e r also been reported, though that for a federal investigation Thurs-
Globe Thursday about expand- include not only individuals daughter, Sophie, in a home could be coincidental. In total, day night.
ing the state’s eligibility criteria with Down syndrome, but all that she has specially modified 9,000 adverse events were re- Early Friday, DeRosa, the top
to cover more health conditions. people with intellectual and de- to accommodate her. A revolv- ported, with 979 serious and the nonelected official in the state,
“ The Baker Administration velopmental disabilities, who, ing door of therapists, nurses, rest classified as nonserious, ac- sought to clarify the context for
should prioritize these concerns according to a recent study, are and personal care attendants cording to the most recent CDC her remarks, saying she was try-
and make the vaccine accessible two to three times more likely to come in and out every week. report available. ing to explain that “we needed to
for everyone who is eligible.” die from COVID-19, compared Only her weight, Evans mused, In interviews, public health temporarily set aside the Legis-
In a statement to the Globe, a with other patients. would allow her to be vaccinat- experts, including current and lature’s request to deal with the
spokeswoman for the state’s New Hampshire has begun ed at the end of Phase 2, ahead former officials at the FDA and federal request first.”
COVID-19 response said its eli- offering shots to residents who of the rest of the population. the CDC, said that funding “We informed the houses of
gibility list was based on recom- have two or more of the condi- Maybe, Evans quipped, she shortages, turf wars and bureau- this at the time,” she said, refer-
mendations by the CDC and the tions enumerated by the CDC. should take up smoking. cratic hurdles had slowed ring to the upper and lower
governor’s vaccine advisory But officials also are allowing “But I don’t even know what BEST’s progress. chambers of the Legislature.
group. medical providers to use their end of a cigarette to light,” she But even BEST will suffer She added that the adminis-
The CDC has recommended discretion to vaccinate any pa- said, chuckling quietly. “I don’t from a data problem that hin- tration was “comprehensive and
prioritizing people with high- tient they believe is at increased know how to smoke through a ders existing systems. Because transparent in our responses to
risk conditions for vaccine ac- risk due to comorbidities, even tracheostomy.” the vaccines are free, there is a the DOJ, and then had to imme-
cess following health care per- those not listed by the state or dear th of health insurance diately focus our resources on
sonnel, residents of long-term CDC. Deanna Pan can be reached at claims to show who got which the second wave and vaccine
care facilities, people 75 and “Some disabilities, like Down deanna.pan@globe.com. Follow vaccine and when — informa- rollout.”
older, and front-line essential syndrome, have been studied her on Twitter @DDpan. tion crucial to tracking vaccine NEW YORK TIMES
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BOSTONGLOBE.COM/OPINION

Editorial

Do your job, Senate

E
arly last year, when they were presented
with an ironclad impeachment case against
Donald Trump, Republican senators were
warned that if they failed to convict him for
his blatant efforts to tamper with the 2020
election, it would leave the nation vulnerable to future
interference with the integrity of American democracy.
All but one Republican voted to acquit Trump anyway,
thus leaving him in office.
It took only months for the predictions they ignored
to come true in devastating fashion. After losing the
2020 vote, Trump marshaled a long effort to pressure
states he lost into changing their results, while feeding
his supporters invented tales of election fraud. That at-
tempt to subvert the election culminated in a Jan. 6
rally in which the president incited his followers to at-
tack the US Capitol, where lawmakers and former vice
president Mike Pence were meeting to formalize
Trump’s defeat.
For their cowardice at that impeachment trial, those
senators nearly paid with their lives. Five people died
during the attack, including a Capitol police officer, and
video evidence shows it was mere luck that the rioters
did not reach lawmakers or Pence, who was clearly in
the mob’s crosshairs. The insurrectionists had hung a
noose outside the building — not in the figurative sense,
but the real thing, on a gallows. Days later, two more
police officers died by suicide. In more than two centu-
ries, the nation had never experienced such a humiliat-
ing and preventable outrage as a mob ransacking the
Capitol. Had GOP senators simply mustered the cour-
age to do the right thing last year, they would have
saved the country, and themselves, from a shameful and
dangerous assault.
Now the House of Representatives has sent the Senate
another impeachment case against Trump, stemming
from the Jan. 6 insurrection he fomented. The facts are
different, the specific charge is different, but the conse-
quences if the Senate fails to convict Trump and disqualify
him from holding future office are no less dire. The Found-
ers designed impeachment and disqualification as a tool to
protect the country and the rule of law. Failing to disquali-
fy Trump when his disrespect for democracy is now abun-
dantly clear would — once again, and possibly irreparably
— endanger the constitutional system the senators took an
oath to protect.
The nation has never before
experienced such a humiliating
outrage. Had GOP senators simply
mustered the courage to do the right
thing last year, they would have saved
the country, and themselves, from a
shameful and dangerous assault.
The case against Trump is overwhelming, and most of
it happened in the open. In detail, the prosecutors from
the House laid out the trail of events, beginning after his
election defeat and ending with the violence of the insur-
rection. The president very clearly incited the attack on
Congress by spinning months of lies designed to rile up his
supporters, capped off with a rally that he promised in ad-
vance would be “wild.” Then, on the day of the insurrec-
tion, he didn’t ask the rioters to stop — he egged them on,
attacking Pence in a tweet just as armed rioters were
searching for the vice president in the hallways of the
Capitol.
As if to flaunt the impunity he expects from Republi-
cans, Trump did not even show his ostensible allies
enough respect to give them a good-faith excuse to ac-
quit him. On Friday, Trump’s lawyer made the prepos-
terous argument that while the insurrection was outra-
geous, the president didn’t incite it. To accept that, sena-
tors would have to ignore both common sense and their
own past statements. As Senate GOP leader Mitch Mc-
Connell has already acknowledged, the mob was “pro-
voked by the president.”
The president’s defenders have also resorted to pro-
cedural arguments, saying that since Trump is now out
of office, he should not be tried in the Senate. As numer-
ous constitutional scholars have pointed out, the con-
tention is absurd. It would turn the Senate’s power to
disqualify into a nullity, allowing any president or feder-
al official facing conviction in the future to dodge dis-
qualification simply by resigning the moment before the
vote. Yet for craven Republicans looking for any excuse
to avoid acknowledging Trump’s guilt, it may be
enough.
If there were ever a time to grow a spine, it’s now. On
the day of the attack, numerous police officers showed
extraordinary courage, risking and, in one case, losing
their lives to protect the seat of American democracy.
Protecting the building was their job. Protecting the
constitutional system that building represents is the job
of US senators. When the trial concludes, they have an
opportunity to rectify last year’s mistake — or repeat it,
and again betray their oath to defend the Constitution
against all enemies.

MARCELA GARCÍA

What Biden owes children and families

separated at the border
W
hen Ludin and her two chil-
dren reached the Texas bor-
der in May 2018, she had
no idea what fate awaited
her. She knew only that her
journey to the United States was a matter of
life and death. In Guatemala, the family’s safe-
ty was under threat from a criminal gang.
But once in the United States, the family
lived the nightmare of being separated, one of
thousands of migrant families arbitrarily
abused under the Trump administration’s poli-
cy of maximum cruelty to immigrants, no mat-
ter their circumstances.
“First, they took my boy away and I
thought, ‘Well, they’re taking him to stay with
the men,’ ” Ludin recalled in an interview in
Spanish. She did not want to give her last
name for fear it would compromise her and
her family’s safety. “But then they said to me
that my daughter was going to stay and I
would go. And I remember my first thought
was, ‘No! What?!’ Next thing I know, my
daughter was crying and hugging me, while I
was telling her, ‘I love you, I will always love
you.’ She was crying hysterically. Then an offi-
cer came and separated us. I begged him to let
me say goodbye to my son and he said to me,
‘No, forget about them forever.’ ”
Both children — out of a total of 5,500 chil-
dren who have been separated by the govern-
ment since the summer of 2017 — ended up in
Michigan, the then-9-year-old daughter with a
foster family, the son, then 17, at a shelter for
minors. After being separated for about five VICTOR J. BLUE/THE NEW YORK TIMES

weeks, they arrived in the Boston area, first to
be reunited with their dad, Elmer. Ludin
joined them a few days later in a moving en-
counter at Logan airport that was captured by
several media outlets.
Elmer and Ludin’s family are among the
lucky ones who ultimately were reunited, un-
like the families of more than 600 children
who have not yet been reunited with their par-
ents. Elmer and Ludin’s family represent, in a
pending lawsuit, a basic question for the Biden
administration as it begins to clean up the
many messes left behind by Donald Trump.
What is owed, if anything, to families who le-
gitimately arrived at the border seeking asy-
lum, threw themselves at the mercy of the
United States, and then were subjected to a bu-
reaucratic form of child abuse?
Ludin and her children are party to an on-
going class-action lawsuit filed in Boston two
years ago against the federal government seek-
ing monetary damages, estimated in a new fil-
ing at around $250,000 per individual class
member, for the long-term harm inflicted on
families who were separated. (A similar case
A Border Patrol vehicle drives along the border fence in Sunland Park, N.M., across from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, June 24, 2018.
out of Arizona was filed in 2019 seeking dam-
ages.) The suit also asks for a fund to be es-
tablished for mental health care and services,
as well as ongoing monitoring of the chil-
dren’s well-being.
The government’s awarding of monetary
damages to foreigners affected by domestic
immigration policies lacks historical prece-
dent. “This is more barbaric and egregious
than a lot of things we’ve seen,” said Joe Ca-
cace, an attorney with Todd & Weld repre-
senting Ludin’s family and other plaintiffs in
the lawsuit. “We think it’s the type of facts
that may lead to an upending of precedents,”
said Nathan Warecki, a lawyer with Nixon Pe-
abody also involved in the case.
Indeed, the government owes a debt to
these families. The traumatic legacy of family
separation lives on, even for families who
have been reunited. Their psychological scars
may be hidden, but they still need to be ad-
dressed.
“We are poor, we don’t have any means to
pay for professional therapy for them,” Elmer
said. Less than a year ago, Ludin’s son had a
nightmare in which he relived everything the
family went through. It was so intense, Ludin
said, that when he woke, he realized he had
been crying so hard in his sleep that his ears
were wet from his tears. The girl suffered in-
somnia; when the family remembers the
events of that summer, they all often end up
crying.
In order to justify family separations at the
border, Trump administration officials resort-
ed to — what else? — blaming and criminaliz-
ing the parents. “The agents would tell us this
was our fault, that we were bad mothers for
bringing our kids, that we didn’t love them,”
said Ludin. “And I started to believe them. I
would think, ‘Why did I come here to give my
kids away?’ I’m fleeing from a dangerous
place to protect them, and how is it that I put
them in a worse situation?”
Migrants fleeing institutional violence
have a basic legal right to seek asylum in the
United States. But gaslighting was a classic
Trump tactic: Revictimizing the victims be-
came the norm among immigration officials
in charge of deploying his administration’s in-
defensible policies at the border.
Biden, through an executive order estab-
lishing a task force to reunite families who re-
main apart, has acknowledged the grave cul-
pability of the federal government in its sepa-
ration policy. Cacace sent a letter to the new
administration last week asking to start nego-
tiations to settle the class-action case.
How much money does the United States
owe each family? That’s for the experts to fig-
ure out. But it is a responsibility the Biden ad-
ministration has inherited from Trump — to
help make families whole again by awarding
monetary damages to each of them.
Marcela García can be reached at
marcela.garcia@globe.com. Follow her on
Twitter @marcela_elisa.
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READERS’ FORUM

From Washington to Beacon Hill to our own

homes, push is on to meet climate challenge
What will it take to stir
public to drive change?
Re “The climate crisis still needs Congress”:
Your Feb. 8 editorial appropriately targets
Congress creating legislation as a critical ele-
ment to boldly address the impacts of cli-
mate change. While some reference is made
to the public at large, it’s crucial that this
body be activated in sufficient numbers that
rise to the critical mass necessary to push
Congress to action.
As Abraham Lincoln said, “With public
sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, noth-
ing can succeed.” This major question re-
mains: How do we energize the pubic at
large both to prod Congress to follow Presi-
dent Joe Biden’s lead and to address climate
change through individual behavior pat-
terns? This involvement needs to go beyond
the voting cycle and reflect the immediacy of
the challenge.
WILLIAM SLOANE
Needham

The fossil fuel industry

has us playing catch-up
Both the fossil fuel industry (ExxonMobil)
and our government (as detailed by James
Hansen, who directed NASA’s Goddard Insti-
tute of Space Studies) quite accurately pre-
dicted in the 1980s the realities of climate
change. But instead of responding to the
challenge, Exxon engaged in a disinforma-
tion campaign, while taking actions to pro-
tect its profits and interests. Now, after de-
cades of government inaction, the Biden ad-
ministration is launching an all-out effort to
protect us all from the devastating conse-
quences of our gross inaction.
Your editorial says that “the American
public should be aware that while a climate
president is a good thing, a Congress that
cares enough about protecting American
communities to finally act would be far bet-
ter.” That’s true, but it’s a huge understate-
ment. We have been duped for more than
three decades and are in a crisis. We must
stop pandering to the fossil fuel industry,
since it only legitimizes their deceit.
MARJORIE LEE
Wayland
Bipartisan compromise will
have to be part of the deal
The legacy of the Biden administration will
hinge on passing ambitious climate legisla-
tion. Unfortunately, that achievement re-
quires compromising with Republicans who
refuse to accept the need to reduce the na-
tion’s dependence on fossil fuels.
The reality of climate change collides with
the reality of there being 50 Republicans in
the Senate, including many from states
where gas, oil, and coal reign supreme. To
overcome a filibuster, the Democrats will
need to accept something that will appease
the fossil fuel lobby.
That something is likely to include carbon
capture and sequestration, a technology that
will allow drilling and mining to continue
but will ostensibly limit carbon emissions. It
is like methadone for the fossil fuel industry
— it will limit the withdrawal effects as the
world kicks the oil and gas habit.
Carbon capture does nothing to limit all
the other kinds of injustice and environmen-
tal damage the addiction to fossil fuels en-
tails. But if it would get 10 red-state senators
to vote for a strong climate bill, one that in-
cludes a national clean energy standard and
massive investment in renewable infrastruc-
ture, then it may open the door to transfor-
mative change.
FREDERICK HEWETT
Cambridge
Keep highlighting efforts
to place fee on carbon
Thank you to David Abel (“Fossil fuels tied to
9m deaths”) and Gal Tziperman Lotan
(“Threat to seafood industry growing”) for
reporting, in the Feb. 9 Metro section, on yet
more ways in which human-caused climate
change is undermining our health, wealth,
and ways of life.
We’ve known for decades that pumping
greenhouse gas pollution into the atmo-
sphere would incur future costs, yet our poli-
ticians chose to do nothing. The inevitability
of future costs was more palatable to them
than discomforting constituents and corpo-
rate donors by requiring them to pursue en-
ergy conservation measures or transition to
clean energy. Now those future costs are
here, and politicians continue to evade the
issue, propose half measures, or use the issue
to raise campaign contributions.
But not all politicians have stood back. In
the last Congress, representatives from both
parties supported the Energy Innovation and
Carbon Dividend Act. This bill would ignite a
clean energy revolution in the free market at
no cost to the government. A recent study of
a similar bill concluded that it would gener-
ate $1.5 trillion in private investment in
clean energy. Revenue raised by a fee on pol-
luters would be returned to all consumers
equally, guaranteeing that all households
would be able to afford the energy they need
during the transition to a clean energy econ-
omy.
Please continue reporting on the growing
dire effects of climate change. But please also
increase your coverage of this common-sense
measure that would help our children avoid
its worst effects.
GARY RUCINSKI
Newton
The writer is coleader of the Boston chap-
ter of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby.
Practical, cost-effective
approaches are
the way forward
Re Peter Belmont’s Feb. 4 letter, “Mere car-
bon pricing will do little to prevent climate
catastrophe,” which was in response to Meg
Haight’s Jan. 26 letter, “Instead of untried in-
terventions, simply put a price on carbon”:
Belmont’s critique of carbon pricing as insuf-
ficient to solve the carbon problem projects
on to Haight a simplistic position that she
did not espouse. Further, Belmont cites an
impractical solution by prescribing refreez-
ing the Arctic with a fleet of submarines.
What we need is a full-court press on
practical, cost-effective approaches. We need
carbon pricing and electric vehicle and other
incentives. We need low-carbon electricity so
that we can electrify our vehicles and our
home heating with heat pumps. Because the
Sterling Municipal Light Department, the
power utility that serves our town, is about
72 percent carbon-free, my car gets the car-
bon equivalent of 400 miles per gallon.
Reducing emissions will require many
compromises of our cherished dogmas.
High-voltage DC power lines, and their ugly
rights of way, can transmit energy over long
distances in order to back-fill the slack times
of wind and solar with hydro, renewable,
and nuclear from far away.
We need to preserve forests and plant
new ones. Preserving means, among other
things, cutting firebreaks, or cleared spaces
in forests, that, again, are ugly but are better
than conflagrations. Firebreaks were com-
mon in California 70 years ago.
MICHAEL MALLARY
Sterling
ADOBE STOCK
While we wait
for silver bullets,
we have to slow emissions
In Peter Belmont’s response to Meg Haight’s
letter about pricing carbon, he offers a good
point that reducing carbon emissions alone
is not enough. However, he misses the main
thrust of her letter, which is that carbon pric-
ing would have a greater immediate impact
on reducing carbon emissions than any other
single policy.
We need many so-called silver bullets to
reach zero emissions, and we need to remove
carbon already in the atmosphere. Technolo-
gy companies are exploring methods to re-
move carbon. However, the cost, energy re-
quired, and scalability do not make them
practical yet. It would be misguided not to
slow and then stop new emissions.
JIM COMES
Worcester
Governor lagging
on climate bill
Re “Climate change bill sent back” (Metro,
Feb. 8): Governor Baker explains his weaken-
ing of the Legislature’s climate change bill by
citing concern for “those who can least af-
ford” the cost of reducing our carbon foot-
print.
The governor should tell us who he’s talk-
ing about. The people at the bottom of the
wealth and income pyramid don’t have Ja-
cuzzis or HVAC systems heating and cooling
their homes. Many low-income families live
in multifamily homes that are far more ener-
gy efficient than the one-family homes of the
suburbs.
If Baker were genuinely concerned about
those who can least afford higher energy
prices, he would propose an offsetting tax
break for people at the bottom of the pyra-
mid.
HUGH STRINGER
Milton

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Retailers adjust to a pandemic kind of love
uVALENTINE'S DAY
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sible: How exactly does one
spark romance — and sales —
during a global health crisis?
“Normally romance should
be all year round, but the world
we’re living in now makes that
a lot more challenging. No ro-
mantic dinners, you don’t even
have an opportunity to go on
dates, because where do you
go? It’s 10 degrees out,” said
James Michael Sama, a Boston-
area relationship coach who
h a s s e e n h i s m at c h m a k i n g
business dwindle during the
pandemic.
With yet another go-to date
night disrupted, local restaura-
teurs are attempting to adapt.
But nearly a year into the pan-
demic, it’s not just hard to mo-
tivate diners to eat indoors.
People are so exhausted that it’s
tough to muster up the enthusi-
asm to be romantic at all.
“Everyone is sick of each
other,” lamented Luke Beard-
slee, general manager of Oste-
ria Nino in Burlington. And so
a trickle of Valentine’s Day din-
ners this year is making him
scramble. “We’re totally a desti-
nation where people come for
the ambiance and that kind of
bottle of wine, pasta, ‘Lady and
the Tramp’ kind of thing. Valen-
tine’s Day is one of the three
best days of the year for us.”
While he’s still seeking res-
ervations, he’s also taking or-
ders for meal kits that come
about 75 percent prepared, he
said. That lets the customers
have the drama of cooking the
lobster ravioli and prepping
cannoli themselves, while also
acknowledging few have the
energy to pull off an elaborate
meal at home, he said. “It offers
people a kind of olive branch:
‘Hey, we’re still in a relationship
and I’m doing something spe-
cial for you. See what I did?’ ”
For businesses that have
seen a slowdown already this
year, a dip in V-day sales will be
an additional sting. “There are
people who are like, I can’t han-
dle the idea of romance right
now, I don’t want to be near my
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par tner at all,” said Rache l
Wentworth, co-owner of Forty
Winks, a lingerie store in Cam-
bridge. Another subset, she
added, are “not in a long-term
relationship or are not dating”
because of the pandemic.
So she’s adapting the store’s
outreach this year to fit the
times we’re in. “We’re trying to
be really consistent with our
marketing and messaging, say-
ing, ‘We know that we’re stuck
at home, let’s have fun, either
by yourself or with a partner.
However you want to indulge
during this season, we’re here
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who are like, ‘I have to spice ‘we’re home anyway, let’s go all
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said. “We’ve been selling way bodysuits, and open gussets are
big sellers. The more risqué,
she said, the better.
Some say a yearlong, soul-
crushing pandemic is all the
more reason to seek out a little
affection.
“You have to take advantage
of the opportunities to be ro-
mantic. To make the day to re-
connect and rekindle your rela-
‘There are people who are like, I can’t
handle the idea of romance right now.’
RACHEL WENTWORTH, co-owner, Forty Winks
tionship. We need to use it as
an excuse to celebrate,” said Sa-
ma, the relationship coach. “I
think one of the things that
frustrates us about Valentine’s
Day is that it is so commercial-
ized: Here’s the chocolate and
the roses. You know? This year
i t g i v e s t h e o p p o r t u n i ty t o
switch the messaging to con-
nec ting and reconnec ting .
Which might sound ironic be-
cause you’re always together,
but that doesn’t mean you’re
emotionally connected.”
For some businesses, hope-
ful signs are already very much
underway.
Kristina Burkey, the owner
of Calliope Paperie, began to
see a surge in stationery sales
soon after she had to close her
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Natick storefront last March.
She still hasn’t reopened, but
her re venue has more than
doubled due to online card
sales. “More and more brands
started making these great
quarantine jokes,” she said.
“People ate it up and loved it. It
was the only way they could
communicate and reach out.”
Now, her Valentine’s Day
cards reflect a newfound ear-
nestness. “I’m seeing themes
like, ‘We survived quarantine
together, I’m pretty sure this is
forever,’ or ‘I love you more and
more e ver y day,’ ” she said.
“Which says a lot these days,
when it’s all day, every day.”
And Rick Canale, the vice
president of Exotic Flowers in
Roslindale, said that while he
missed the string of spring holi-
days and events that tend to be
his biggest selling days last year
— Easter, Mother’s Day, proms,
and graduations — he’s expect-
ing a surprisingly robust Valen-
tine’s Day this year.
“ We’ l l b e b u s y,” h e s a i d ,
thanks in part to a surge in in-
terest from customers sending
flowers that he hasn’ t seen
since the ’70s and ’80s. “Indus-
trywide there has been seismic
change in the floral industry.
They’re using flowers to con-
nect with each other again.” A
recent survey conducted by the
Society of American Florists
found that more than 80 per-
cent of respondents reported
an increase in December 2020
holiday sales, compared to
2019, and half said they expect-
ed Valentine’s Day sales this
year to exceed last year’s.
The trend is also reflected in
the messages that Canale’s cus-
tomers are sending to their
loved ones, he said, which are
in some ways a window into
our collective psyche.
“You see more thought,” he
said, with people waxing poetic
about how they couldn’t imag-
ine going through the past few
months with anyone else. “It’s
kind of what you want to say,
but you’ve never said it before.”
Janelle Nanos can be reached at
janelle.nanos@globe.com.
Follow her on Twitter
@janellenanos.
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Briefing
UN says Yemeni
children at risk
CAIRO — More than 2
million Yemeni children un-
der the age of 5 are expected
to endure acute malnutrition
in 2021, four United Nations
agencies said Friday, urging
stakeholders to end the
yearslong conflict that has
brought the Arab world’s
poorest country to the brink
of famine.
The UN report warned
that nearly one in six of those
kids — 400,000 of the 2.3
million — are at risk of death
because of severe acute mal-
nutrition this year, a signifi-
cant increase from last year’s
estimates. The report also
said a lack of funds was ham-
pering humanitarian pro-
grams in Yemen, as donor
nations have failed to make
good on their commitments.
Compounding the crisis,
around 1.2 million pregnant
or breastfeeding women in
Yemen are also projected to
be malnourished this year.
UNICEF estimates that
virtually all of Yemen’s 12
million children require
some sort of assistance.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Big drop for
UK economy
LONDON — The British
economy suffered its biggest
decline in more than 300
years in 2020 as the corona-
virus pandemic closed shops
and restaurants, devastated
the travel industry, and cur-
tailed manufacturing.
The economy shrank 9.9
percent last year, more than
twice the figure for 2009 at
the height of the global fi-
nancial crisis, the Office for
National Statistics said Fri-
day. The drop is the largest
since 1709, when a cold spell
known as the Great Frost
devastated what was then a
largely agricultural economy.
The data comes as Brit-
ain’s economy remains
shackled by restrictions de-
signed to combat COVID-19.
A rebound in growth during
the fourth quarter has been
stifled by England’s third
lockdown, which has closed
schools, restaurants, and
nonessential shops since
mid-December. Tough re-
strictions also remain in
place in Northern Ireland,
Scotland, and Wales.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bomb materials
found in raid
COPENHAGEN — Four-
teen people have been arrested
in Denmark and Germany on
suspicion of preparing one or
several attacks in the two coun-
tries, Danish police said Friday,
adding that the discovery of an
Islamic State flag could indi-
cate the suspects “have a con-
nection or sympathy with the
terror organization.”
Flemming Drejer, opera-
tive head of Denmark’s Secu-
rity and Intelligence Service,
said the first seven individu-
als who were arrested in Den-
mark had acquired weapons
and “we found things that
can be used to make a bomb.”
He said police found shot-
guns and a rifle with a scope,
as well as the flag.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
US appeals
Assange ruling
WASHINGTON — The
Biden administration has sig-
naled that it is continuing its
predecessor’s attempt to
prosecute Julian Assange,
the WikiLeaks founder, as
the Justice Department filed
a brief this week appealing to
a British court to overturn a
ruling that blocked his extra-
dition to the United States.
This week, human rights
and civil liberties groups
asked the acting attorney gen-
eral, Monty Wilkinson, to
abandon the effort to prose-
cute Assange, arguing that the
case the Trump administra-
tion developed against him
could establish a precedent
threatening to press freedoms.
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Hospitals decry decision to shut off vaccine supply

By Felice J. Freyer, Deanna Pan,
and Kay Lazar
GLOBE STAFF
Hospital leaders and physicians ex-
pressed dismay on Friday at the Baker
administration’s decision to halt vac-
cine distribution to hospitals and pri-
mary care offices, saying it could under-
cut efforts to reach minority communi-
ties and reluctant patients.
But the state’s top health official said
that hospitals were scheduling more
vaccine appointments than the state
could meet with the current level of
Critics: By focusing on large sites, state risks leaving out vulnerable
supplies.
“We all need to understand that we
have a limited supply,” said Marylou
Sudders, secretary of health and human
services.
“The demand is great and the sup-
ply from the federal government is
flat — 108,000 doses a week. We want
to ensure that we have the supply to
meet scheduled appointments,” Sud-
ders added. She noted that as of Friday,
hospitals had administered 460,000
doses, nearly half the state’s total sup-
ply.
She said state officials would meet
with every hospital next week to ensure
that “their planning and our planning
are in sync.”
On Thursday, the state instructed
hospitals to stop scheduling new vac-
cine appointments, saying they could
hold appointments already made for
next week and for second doses, but no
more.
The state intends to focus on “high-
throughput locations like mass vaccina-
tion sites, retail pharmacy sites, and
community health centers until more
vaccines are made available by the fed-
eral government,” a spokeswoman said.
But once the Johnson & Johnson vac-
cine is authorized, possibly later this
month, more vaccine will be available
for hospitals.
Critics said steering people to high-
volume sites does a disservice to many.
In a series of tweets, Attorney Gener-
al Maura Healey said, “Shifting shots to
mass vax sites and away from hospital
and clinical infrastructure increases ra-
cial disparities.”
“Turning off the supply to our hospi-
tals isn’t fair to the people dispropor-
tionately hurt by COVID, stuck at
home, without computers or someone
to navigate websites or a ride to Foxbor-
ough,” she tweeted, referring to the
mass vaccination site at Gillette Stadi-
um.
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On holiday’s eve, COVID forces Lawmakers urge Baker to

Needham Florist to cancel orders
By Steve Annear
GLOBE STAFF
The only way the owners of
Needham Florist could describe
the predicament they found them-
selves in on Friday was, “an abso-
lute Valentine’s nightmare.”
Just two days before one of the
busiest days in the floral industry,
the Needham Center business an-
nounced it was putting operations
on hold, and refunding hundreds
of orders that had been placed for
loved ones ahead of Valentine’s
Day weekend.
The reason for the sudden shut-
down? One of the shop’s seasonal
employees was exposed to COVID-
19 and tested positive for the vi-
rus.
“Of all weeks for this to happen
(not that anytime is good but this
is absolutely catastrophic),” the
owners of Needham Florist wrote
in a Facebook post on Friday. “This
is absolutely devastating to all of
us.”
In the post, the company said
that as soon as they found out the
employee tested positive they in-
formed all of their staff to get test-
An employee tested positive for COVID-19, causing Needham
Florist to put operations on hold. Above, owner Julie Ben-David.
ed and not report to work. Out of
an abundance of caution, the floral
business said, they are putting
their livelihood aside, quite possi-
bly at the worst time for a small
business that has already strug-
gled through the pandemic.
The move means “taking the
largest financial loss for a florist ...
JONATHAN WIGGS/GLOBE STAFF
for the health and well being of
you, our more than valued custom-
ers,” the post said.
“Please know that hundreds of
loving spouses and family mem-
bers have called us to send flowers
to you for this special loving holi-
day,” the post said. “As though the
FLORIST, Page B4
nix companion vaccines
Say decision hurts goal of equitable protection
By John R. Ellement from COVID-19.”
GLOBE STAFF The companion plan also will reduce the
The Baker administration’s move relax- opportunity for residents of color to keep
ing eligibility rules to let younger people their appropriate places in the vaccine distri-
who accompany older residents to mass vac- bution lines, the lawmakers argued.
cination sites get shots themselves benefits “The companion plan is most likely to
healthy, white, and wealthier benefit communities that are
communities at the expense of white and affluent ,” the y
people of color and those with ‘The . . . plan is wrote. “This only further exac-
major health risks, a group of erbates our state’s health ineq-
state lawmakers contends. most likely to uities and the burden of
Led by Representative Ta-
mi Gouveia, a Democratic rep-
benefit COVID-19 on our Black and
Brown communities.”
resentative from Acton who communities In response, the Baker ad-
holds a doctorate in public
health, more than 20 lawmak-
that are white ministration asserted that the
companion plan is “widely
ers urged Governor Charlie and affluent.’ supported” and that it will
Baker to immediately halt the provide a safe way for those 75
companion vaccination plan, A GROUP OF STATE or older to get the lifesaving
which began this week. LAWMAKERS in a letter vaccine they might not other-
“We encourage you to put to Governor Baker wise be able to receive.
the companion program on “The policy to allow a 75 or
hold until those 65 or older older residents to be accompa-
and those with chronic conditions as well as nied by a caregiver, who can also schedule
essential workers and our teachers are vacci- their vaccine appointment, to a mass vacci-
nated,” the lawmakers wrote Baker. “The nation site is widely supported by senior
companion system will put thousands of groups and provides critical support and
healthy adults ahead of those who have the comfort for seniors who may be hesitant to
most significant risk of getting and dying COMPANIONS, Page B4

Amid pledge
of diversity,
Mariano unveils
leadership team
Remade House chamber
includes first female
majority leader
By Matt Stout
GLOBE STAFF

House Speaker Ronald Mariano remade the

chamber’s leadership this week, putting slightly
more representatives of color in charge of commit-
tees, naming the House’s first female majority lead-
er, and appointing its first openly LGBTQ lawmak-
er as the chamber’s No. 3 Democrat.
The appointments provided the first test of
Mariano’s pledge to diversify the leadership team
and panels that will help shape the House’s agenda
and shepherd legislation on Beacon Hill.
The 10-member leadership team, including
Mariano, features four women but just one person
of color. Last session, then-Speaker Robert A. De-
Leo’s top lieutenants included three women, and
all nine were white. And of 41 standing committees
this session, 30 will be led by white men — a higher
percentage than last session, when white men led
JONATHAN WIGGS/GLOBE STAFF
26 of 38 committees.
Representative Claire Cronin, an Easton Demo-
crat in her fifth term who last led the House’s judi-
ciary committee, will be the first woman to serve as MYANMAR Protesters held pictures of Aung San Suu Kyi, the civilian leader of Myanmar, as they called for her
release during a demonstration outside the State House in Boston Friday. The military of Myanmar

majority leader, the No. 2 position in the House, ac-
cording to the speaker’s office. Mariano had been
majority leader for nearly a decade under DeLeo
before succeeding him in December.
Kate Hogan, a Stow Democrat, will be speaker
pro tempore, making her the highest-ranking
openly LGBTQ member in the House’s history, ac-
cording to a Mariano aide. And Frank Moran, a
Lawrence Democrat who was born in the Domini-
can Republic, will be one of four division chairs un-
der Mariano.
Three men of color will lead committees, up
from two last session: Springfield’s Carlos
González, who is Latino, and Bud Williams, who is
Black, will chair the committee on public safety
and a new committee on racial equity, civil rights,
and inclusion, respectively. Tackey Chan, a Quincy
Democrat and member of the House Asian caucus,
will remain atop the consumer protection commit-
tee.
Mariano wrote on Twitter that he was “proud of
the historic gains the House had made” with the se-
lections. The speaker alone holds sway on who
holds the chamber’s lucrative leadership posts,
which can net representatives tens of thousands of
HOUSE, Page B5
PROTEST
overthrew the country’s democratic government on Feb. 1.
Two dead, one injured in 5-alarm Worcester fire
By Jeremy C. Fox and
Christine Mui
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
Two people were killed in a 5-
alarm house fire in Worcester Fri-
day night, and a third person suf-
fered life-threatening injuries after
jumping from the third floor to es-
cape, officials said.
Deputy Fire Chief Martin Dyer
confirmed the deaths and injuries,
according to Jennifer Mieth, a
spokeswoman for the state Depart-
ment of Fire Services.
The fast-moving fire broke out
shortly before 7:30 p.m. at a three-
decker home on Jaques Avenue and
damaged nearby properties, offi-
cials said.
Thick, heavy smoke was visible
when fire crews arrived on scene,
and a resident was trapped on the
third floor, a fire official said.
“Shortly after arrival, we had one
resident jump from the rear porch-
es,” Dyer told reporters at the scene,
according to WCVB-TV.
The resident was taken to UMass
Memorial Hospital for treatment of
“very serious, life threatening inju-
ries,” he said.
City Manager Edward M. Augus-
tus Jr. said Friday was “an extremely
trying day for our community,” with
another fire earlier in the day that
displaced numerous people.
The fire department received a
call at 7:25 p.m. reporting a blaze at
11 Jaques Ave., and units were on
scene as of about 8:30 p.m., accord-
i n g t o O ff i c e r S e a n Mu r t h a , a
Worcester police spokesman.
Photos and video from the scene
shared on social media showed
heavy smoke billowing from the
roof of a building as firefighters on
the ground and in a ladder truck
trained their hoses on the flames.
Jaques Avenue is a street three
blocks long located southwest of
Worcester’s central business dis-
trict, maps show. The three-decker
at 11 Jacques Ave. was built in
1890; the property was assessed this
year at a value of $382,000, accord-
ing to property records posted on-
line.
State Police investigative units
were on the scene assisting the
Worcester Fire Department with the
investigation into the cause of the
fire, Dave Procopio, a State Police
spokesman, said in an e-mail.
Investigators from the office of
the state fire marshal were also on
scene to investigate, Mieth said.
Kathy McCabe of the Globe staff
contributed to this story.
Jeremy C. Fox can be reached at
jeremy.fox@globe.com. Follow him
on Twitter @jeremycfox.
B2 Metro
MIT student is wanted for questioning
Police investigate
fatal shooting of
Yale student
By John R. Ellement
GLOBE STAFF
and Charlie McKenna
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
MIT graduate student Qinxu-
an Pan, a person of interest in
the murder of a Yale graduate
student, may be in Georgia,
where a relative last saw him
wearing a black backpack as he
walked away from their car, the
US Marshals Service said Friday.
Pan, 29, allegedly stole an
SUV from a car dealership in
Mansfield around 11 a.m. on
Feb. 6, and authorities are trying
to determine if he used the SUV
when 26-year-old Kevin Jiang
was shot to death in New Haven
around 8:30 p.m. that same day.
Pan has not been charged in
connection with Jiang’s murder
but is now the subject of nation-
wide manhunt led by the US
Marshal’s Service, which is also
offering a $5,000 reward for in-
formation leading to the capture
of Pan, whose last known ad-
dress was a family-owned home
CHUBBY, no; FATTY, yes? R.I. license plate ban overturned
By Alexa Gagosz
GLOBE STAFF
PROVIDENCE — A Rhode
Island law allowing the Divi-
sion of Motor Vehicles to reject
vanity license plates that are
“offensive” is now being de-
clared as unconstitutional by
US District Court Judge Mary
McElroy.
Her consent judgment,
which was filed on Friday, was
entered in a lawsuit filed last
March challenging the constitu-
tionality of the law, which gives
the administrator of the DMV
the authority to deny vanity li-
cense plates based on whether
they think it might carry “con-
notations offensive to good
ALONG THE
MUDDY
RIVER
Crews working on the Muddy
River restoration project used
a row boat to survey the site
Friday while a digger did
some dredging work. The
3.5-mile long Muddy River
flows through the heart of
Frederick Law Olmsted’s
“Emerald Necklace” starting
at Jamaica Pond.
Today is Saturday, Feb. 13, the
44th day of 2021. There are 321
days left in the year.
ºBirthdays: Actor Kim Novak is
88. Actor George Segal is 87. Ac-
tor Bo Svenson is 80. Actor
Stockard Channing is 77. Talk
show host Jerry Springer is 77.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-
Conn., is 75. Singer Peter Gabri-
el is 71. Actor David Naughton
is 70. Rock musician Peter Hook
is 65. Actor Matt Salinger is 61.
Singer Henry Rollins is 60. Ac-
tor Kelly Hu is 53. Rock singer
Matt Berninger (the National) is
in Malden.
According to Matthew Duffy,
spokesman for the US Marshals
in Connecticut, a relative has
told authorities that they were
driving with Pan in Georgia ear-
ly Thursday morning. The vehi-
cle came to a stop and Pan got
out, put on a black backpack,
and walked away.
Duffy said Pan was on his
own for about 8 hours before the
relative — whom authorities de-
clined to identify — shared the
information with law enforce-
ment. He said the search for Pan
is ongoing and declined to say
whether the family members
were aware that police have
been searching for Pan since at
least Tuesday.
“He got out of the car, and
grabbed a backpack and started
walking,” Duffy said. Pan was de-
scribed by the relative as “acting
strange” as he walked off.
Duffy said Pan got out of the
car somewhere in or around the
towns of Duluth and
Brookhaven, two communities
some 20 miles apart and located
northeast of Atlanta. He may be
staying with friends and rela-
tives in those communities, au-
thorities said.
taste and decency.”
The suit was filed against
Walter Craddock, the state’s
DMV administrator, by the
American Civil Liberties Union
of Rhode Island on behalf of
Sean Carroll, a Tesla owner who
wanted a plate that read “FK-
GAS.” Carroll, who calls himself
an environmentally conscious
citizen, claimed the message on
his plate was conveying a philo-
sophical and political message
concerning his views about gas-
oline-powered cars and the en-
vironment. Prior to the suit, he
was ordered by the DMV to
turn in his plate, or else have
his car registration canceled.
In October, Judge McElroy
This day in history
50.
ºIn 1633, Italian astronomer
Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome
for trial before the Inquisition,
accused of defending Coperni-
can theory that the Earth re-
volved around the sun instead of
the other way around. (Galileo
was found vehemently suspect
of heresy and ended up being
sentenced to a form of house ar-
rest.)
ºIn 1861, Abraham Lincoln was
officially declared winner of the
1860 presidential election as
electors cast their ballots.
T h e B o s t o n
He is described by authorities
as a six-foot tall “Asian male
weighing 170 pounds with a me-
dium complexion and short
black hair.“ Multiple law en-
forcement agencies are search-
ing for Pan, who is considered
armed and dangerous, accord-
ing to a statement issued by
Malden police.
New Haven authorities ini-
tially considered the shooting of
Jiang a case of road rage but
have since revised their thinking
to consider the possibility that
the Yale graduate student and
Army veteran was targeted by
his killer.
In late January, Jiang posted
on social media that Zion Perry,
a member of MIT’s undergradu-
ate class from 2020, had accept-
ed his marriage proposal. The
couple met while volunteering at
the Trinity Baptist Church in
New Haven. Congregants and
ministers at the church were
mourning the loss of Jiang, a
high-energy and widely respect-
ed second-year graduate student
focusing on environmental stud-
ies.
Authorities have not dis-
cussed whether Pan knew Perry
while both were on campus in
had issued a preliminary in-
junction, which concluded that
the law was likely violating the
First Amendment. The consent
judgment entered Friday served
as a formal strike down of the
statute.
The judgment also allows
Carroll to keep his “FKGAS” li-
cense plate.
In the suit, attorneys from
the ACLU had argued that the
law was vague, and violated the
First Amendment by giving the
DMV uncontrolled discretion to
ban speech based on the view-
point of the message.
The DMV maintains a list of
more than 1,000 prohibited li-
cense plate letter and number
PHOTOS BY DAVID L RYAN/GLOBE STAFF
ºIn 1935, a jury in Flemington,
N. J., f o u n d B r u n o R i c h a r d
Hauptmann guilty of first-de-
gree murder in the kidnap-slay-
ing of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.,
the 20-month-old son of Charles
and Anne Lindbergh. (Haupt-
mann was later executed.)
ºIn 1939, Justice Louis D. Bran-
deis retired from the US Su-
preme Court. (He was succeed-
ed by William O. Douglas.)
ºIn 1960, France exploded its
first atomic bomb in the Sahara
Desert.
ºIn 1965, during the Vietnam
G l o b e S A T U R D A Y, F E B R U A R Y 1 3 , 2 0 2 1
New England
in brief
Cambridge.
BOSTON
Pan is wanted for allegedly
stealing a 2015 GMC Terrain
6 guns, cash seized in drug busts
SLE worth $15,000 from Station
Buick GMC on Route 2 in Mans- Police confiscated 6 loaded handguns, a cache of illicit drugs, and
field last Saturday, according to over $6,000 in two separate drug investigations in Allston and
state and federal officials. Dorchester Thursday, the department said. Vladimir Florus, 30,
On Feb. 6, Pan took the SUV was arrested after police executed three search warrants at a
for a drive at 11 a.m. with a deal- home in the area of 7 Higgins St. in Allston, police said in a state-
er’s plate attached, saying he ment. Shortly before 10:15 a.m., officers entered the house and
wanted his mechanic to check it discovered three loaded firearms and an undisclosed amount of
out, a salesman told the Globe. fentanyl. They also seized an estimated 47.5 grams of crack co-
T h a t s a m e d a y, Pa n w a s caine, several bags of marijuana packaged for sale, and assorted
found driving the SUV with a pills and drug paraphernalia, the statement said. Police also re-
Connecticut license plate inside covered $4,324 in cash, the statement said. Florus is facing multi-
a junkyard, where the vehicle be- ple drug and firearms charges. He was due to be arraigned in
came stuck on railroad tracks. Brighton District Court, police said. In Dorchester, police arrest-
Police, unaware at the time the ed Tevin Regis, 26, after executing three search warrants in the
SUV was stolen, steered Pan to a area of 716 Columbia Road at about 10:50 a.m., police said in
motel. He was not seen again separate statement. Officers recovered three firearms, several
until his relative reported his rounds of ammunition, and multiple feeding devices. They also
presence in Georgia early Thurs- seized $2,660 along with an undisclosed amount of crack cocaine
day. and other paraphernalia used for preparing and distributing ille-
Anyone with information gal drugs, the statement said. Regis is also facing multiple drug
about Pan’s whereabouts is and firearm charges. He was due to be arraigned in Dorchester
asked to contract the US Mar- District Court, police said.
shals at 1-877-Wanted-2 or 1-
877-926-8332. MELROSE
John R. Ellement can be reached 64-year-old man dies in ATV crash
at john.ellement@globe.com. A 64-year-old man died after suffering serious injuries in an all-
Follow him on Twitter terrain vehicle crash at the intersection of Upham Street and
@JREbosglobe. Charlie Wildwood Road around 11 p.m. Thursday, police said. First re-
McKenna can be reached at sponders arrived to find the man suffering from serious injuries.
charlie.mckenna@globe.com. He was taken to Melrose-Wakefield Hospital, where he died of his
injuries, police said in a statement Friday. The man, who was not
immediately identified, was the sole occupant of the vehicle. The
crash is under investigation.
REVERE
combinations. Man is charged in shooting
Combinations such as A man was arrested for a shooting that injured a person last
“CHUBBY” and “DRUNK” were weekend in a residential neighborhood off Route 60, police an-
banned from being placed on a nounced Friday. Christian Vasquez, 23, of Revere, was charged
vanity plate, while combina- with multiple firearms and drug violations, including assault
tions such as “FATTY” and with intent to murder and trafficking in fentanyl, following his
“TIPSY” were allowed. “RED- arrest Wednesday, police said in a statement. He was ordered
NECK” was prohibited, but held without bail, pending a dangerousness hearing, at his ar-
“REDNEC” and “REDNEK” raignment Thursday in Chelsea District Court, the statement
were allowed, as was “OLD- said. Vasquez is accused of shooting a person last Saturday after-
FRT.” “CHRIST” was not al- noon near the intersection of Folsom and Pomona streets. The
lowed, but “JEWISH” was. victim had a friend drive them to Beth Israel Deaconess Health-
“AIDS,” “GAY,” “LESBIAN,” Care in Chelsea for treatment. Officials at the health center noti-
“YANKEE,” and “SLOB” were fied police of the shooting, the statement said.
also reportedly prohibited.
DENNYSVILLE, MAINE
Alexa Gagosz can be reached at
alexa.gagosz@globe.com. Scallop fishing grounds closed
Follow her on Twitter Maine fishing regulators are closing the state’s richest scallop
@alexagagosz. fishing grounds in the coming days. Cobscook, Whiting, and
Dennys bays will be off-limits for the rest of the fishing season
starting Sunday to help conserve the scallop population, the
Maine Department of Marine Resources said Friday. Cobscook
Bay is home to some of the most productive scallop fishing in the
state. Scallops may still be harvested by drag boats only on Feb.
15 and by divers only on Feb. 20, the marine department said.
The St. Croix River, another key scallop fishing area, will remain
open until further notice, the department said. Maine is also clos-
ing a handful of other scallop fishing areas around the state, the
department said. (AP)
MONTPELIER
Grants will help fix historic structures
Nearly $205,000 in grants have been awarded to 13 municipali-
ties and nonprofit groups around Vermont to help repair and re-
habilitate important historic buildings, according to state offi-
cials. Randolph is getting a $20,000 matching grant to support
restoration of the Chandler Music Hall’s main auditorium. Grants
have been awarded to the Henry Sheldon Museum in Middle-
bury, the town of Moretown, and the Enosburg Masons for the
restoration, repair, and weatherization of historic windows; and
for structural repairs at the McIndoes Falls Academy in Barnet,
restoration of a two-story porch at the East Calais General Store,
and steeple repairs at the Granville Town Hall. (AP)
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A STATE OF EMERGENCY
R.I. nursing homes are still struggling with COVID-19
Case counts are
lower, but ‘crisis
mode’ continues
By Alexa Gagosz
GLOBE STAFF
PROVIDENCE — Almost a
year into the pandemic, nursing
homes resident and staff remain
some of the most vulnerable to
the coronavirus.
In the latest release of AARP’s
Nursing Home COVID-19 Dash-
board, data show that nursing
homes continue to be in “crisis
mode” despite incremental im-
provements.
While the case counts are
On even of Valentine’s Day,
virus shuts Needham Florist
uFLORIST
Continued from Page B1
p a n d e m i c h a s n’ t b e e n b a d
enough, but now you’re going
to be without the flowers that
were ordered for you.”
Reached by phone Friday,
owner Julie Ben-David, who
runs the shop with her hus-
band, Avi, said the couple were
the only two in the store, and
instead of spending what would
have been a day putting togeth-
er arrangements with staff, they
were making heartbreaking
calls to customers about giving
them refunds.
“I need to get in contact with
every customer,” said Ben-Da-
vid, who sounded distraught as
the phones rang continuously
in the background. “Even
though I’m technically sup-
posed to be quarantining, I’m
quarantining in my store right
now and informing everybody,”
about their orders.
Patrons entered the Eastfield Mall in Springfield, which is now a mass vaccination site during the COVID-19 pandemic.
State puts focus on mass vaccination, retail pharmacy sites
uHOSPITALS
Continued from Page B1
Dr. David Rosman, presi-
dent of the Massachusetts Medi-
cal Society, said he feared the
state had chosen “efficiency at
the cost of equity.”
By cutting back shipments to
hospitals, Rosman said, the
state dashed opportunities for
physicians to bring the shots to
communities of color where
trust in vaccines is already wa-
vering.
“People have a trusting rela-
tionship with their doctor, and
when their doctor says, ‘This is
safe and as soon as my family is
eligible I will get it for them,’
then patients are more willing,”
he said.
“Are we concerned now that
some populations aren’t going
to get access to vaccines? Yes,” he
lower heading into the new year
compared to December’s data,
Rhode Island’s nursing homes
still have the second-highest res-
ident cases in New England, and
four times the cases these homes
reported in both October and
November.
From Dec. 21 to Jan. 17, the
rate of new coronavirus cases
per 100 residents declined from
15.7 to 10.6 residents and from
12.5 to 10.6 among staff mem-
bers.
More than 162,000 residents
and staff in nursing homes and
other long-term care facilities
have died nationwide, and near-
ly 1.3 million people are known
to have been infected with coro-
The loss of orders, she said,
will come at a huge cost. Since
the beginning of the pandemic,
Needham Florist also lost out
on providing floral arrange-
ments at many weddings,
proms, recitals, graduations,
and birthday celebrations, she
said.
“I’m just taking a huge fi-
nancial hit,” she said.
Ben-David, who has been in
business for 25 years, said she
doesn’t know what the rules are
for donating the flower invento-
ry, since she has had direct con-
tact with someone who tested
positive for COVID-19. She said
she plans to get tested for the
coronavirus sometime Friday,
after she finishes reaching out
to customers.
Ideally, she said, she would
like to donate them to “hospi-
tals, nursing homes, or schools,
but I don’t even know if they’d
be willing to take them.”
said. “We need more options for
people to get it and more op-
tions that ideally can build
trust.”
Dr. Eric Dickson, president
and CEO of UMass Memorial
Health Care, called for a balance
between sites that can vaccinate
large numbers of people quickly
and sites that can reach the vul-
nerable.
“It’s clear the health care sys-
tems are much better at getting
into underserved areas and pop-
ulations that we work with every
day,” he said.
For example, UMass Memo-
rial runs a mobile unit that de-
livers vaccines to Worcester’s
most underserved neighbor-
hoods and communities of color.
“That’s something that’s very,
very inefficient, but that ineffi-
ciency gets you equity,” he said.
T h e B o s t o n
navirus in these facilities.
In Rhode Island, of the 2,274
coronavirus-associated deaths,
1,430 took place in skilled nurs-
ing facilities, nursing homes, as-
sisted-living facilities, and other
elder care facilities.
Staff shortages are still a
problem, AARP found, with 40
percent of facilities reporting
shortages, down from 41.9 per-
cent.
Kathleen Connell, AARP
state director, said in a state-
ment Thursday that she urges
Governor Gina M. Raimondo,
Lieutenant Governor Daniel J.
McKee, and state leaders to pro-
tect nursing home residents and
staff from COVID-19.
“It may just all have to go in
the dumpster,” Ben-David said.
“I don’t know what the right
thing is to do.”
Although the situation came
with bad timing, Ben-David
said the community has been
incredibly supportive and un-
ders tanding about it , with
many promising to come back
after the company is in the
clear. A Needham police officer
was even helping deliver orders
that were already finished Fri-
day.
On Facebook, where Ben-
David wrote that her “heart is
in a billion pieces,” people post-
ed well-wishes and tried to
think of ways they could possi-
bly support the family-owned-
and-operated business, includ-
ing offering to help deliver
some of the flowers if possible.
“Maybe, Needham friends,
we can plan a day of celebration
to make up for this loss. Maybe
“What takes us all day in an un-
derserved community, Gillette
can do in 15 minutes. I get that.
But you have to have both or
you’re not going to have an equi-
table system.”
Boston Medical Center, how-
ever, isn’t subject to the cutoff in
vaccine supplies. Instead, doses
are being directed to public ac-
cess sites the hospital has
launched in Mattapan, Hyde
Park, Dorchester, Roslindale,
and the South End, said Dr.
Alastair Bell, chief operating of-
ficer.
In Webster, just south of
Worcester, Dr. Sheena Sharma
receives about 700 doses a week
for vaccination clinics and has
filled them quickly with eligible
residents, and hasn’t been told
her supply will be reduced.
With the announcement this
G l o b e
“We are approaching the one-
year anniversary of the first
known coronavirus cases in
nursing homes, yet they remain
appallingly high,” said Connell.
“The devastation this pandemic
has brought to nursing home
residents and their families has
exposed fundamental reforms
that must be made in nursing
homes and to the long-term care
system.”
She added, “We cannot lower
our guard.”
However, the resident death
rate dropped from 2.60 to 1.82
for every 100 people living in a
Rhode Island nursing home. The
resident death rate for Massa-
chusetts’s nursing home resi-
Julie and Avi Ben-David, owners of Needham Florist, posted a note at their shop. They spent
Friday making heartbreaking calls to customers about giving them refunds.
the return of spring,” one per-
son suggested.
Another person wrote, “Per-
haps people (that can afford to
do so) would feel good about
giving the money as a donation
to a small business that has
been in business in this town
for all these years and has been
LANE TURNER/GLOBE STAFF
week that younger companions
who drive a senior to a mass vac-
cination site can get a shot, too,
patients have been calling Shar-
ma’s office to switch their ap-
pointments to a mass vaccina-
tion site. But they’re asking her
to hold open their slots in case
they can’t find a way to get to a
big site.
“If the goal is to vaccinate our
entire public and they have a
great system I will bow out
gracefully,” said Sharma, a cardi-
ologist. “But I live here and see
who is not getting [vaccinated].
I feel a responsibility to the com-
munity to get it to them, and
these mass sites are not getting
to the seniors.”
Dr. Christopher Garofalo, an
Attleboro family doctor, found
out Friday that the 40 doses he’d
requested for the week after
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dents is 1.19 for every 100 peo-
ple.
The report also revealed that
shortages of personal protective
equipment has declined from
20.3 percent of nursing homes
without a one-week supply to 4.3
percent, the lowest reported
since June 2020.
Connell said Thursday that
lawmakers should focus on en-
acting, or making permanent,
the components of AARP’s five-
point plan: prioritizing regular
and ongoing testing and ade-
quate PPP for residents and
staff, improving transparency
with daily public reporting of
cases and deaths in facilities, en-
suring access to in-person visita-
so hard-working and dedicat-
ed!”
Ben-David said it’s been that
kind of mentality in town —
and from customers in sur-
rounding towns — that has
helped keep them afloat since
last March.
“We have been able to sur-
Lawmakers contend
companion vaccines
exacerbate inequities
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go a mass vaccination site
alone,” Kate Reilly, spokesperson
for COVID-19 Response Com-
mand Center, said in a state-
ment. “The Command Center
implores seniors to only bring a
companion who they know and
trust.”
Reilly cited favorable com-
ments from the Massachusetts
Senior Care Association and
Massachusetts Nurses Associa-
tion as evidence of public sup-
port for the plan.
In their letter, the lawmakers
also demanded that Baker shift
vaccine distribution away from
private companies with minimal
track records operating large-
scale vaccination programs and
redirect that supply to local
boards of health who already
run annual flu clinics and have
been preparing to do the same
with the COVID-19 vaccine.
The lawmakers asserted that
two mass vaccinations sites op-
e r a t e d b y C u r a t i v e In c ., i n
Springfield and Danvers, were
badly managed, leading seniors
next would not be coming.
“We have put a lot of effort
into figuring out how to best
provide the vaccine to our pa-
tients, many who we have
known for several decades and
who trust us,” he said in a text to
the Globe. “I don’t understand
the rationale for limiting vacci-
nation to large, central sites.
Many people lack the ability or
technology to schedule the ap-
pointments and get transporta-
tion to these places.”
But Sudders, the state health
secretary, said there was no in-
tention to permanently limit
vaccine distribution to a single
type of site. “We expect to have
more than one channel for peo-
ple to get vaccine,” she said.
Edward Jesser, a 78-year-old
retired political consultant, was
pleased with the channel that
tion that would follow federal
and state public health guide-
lines, ensuring quality care for
residents through adequate
staffing and oversight, and hold-
ing long-term care facilities ac-
countable when they fail to pro-
vide adequate care to residents.
“Our leaders must reject poli-
cies that take away the rights of
residents to hold nursing homes
accountable when they fail to
provide adequate care,” Connell
said. “Now is not the time to let
nursing homes off the hook for
abuse, neglect, and even death.”
Alexa Gagosz can be reached at
alexa.gagosz@globe.com. Follow
her on Twitter @alexagagosz.
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vive because of that,” she said.
“But florists depend on the holi-
days ... and now this. It’s kind
of hard. It’s a tough hit to take.”
Steve Annear can be reached at
steve.annear@globe.com.
Follow him on Twitter
@steveannear.
to stand in lines during bitterly
cold weather for extended peri-
ods of time, and that the compa-
ny itself is only about a year old
with no long-term track record
operating logistically complex
vaccination programs.
“We encourage your adminis-
tration to immediately dedicate
the time, resources and vaccine
doses to local public health de-
partments that are ready and
able to quickly stand up their
clinics,” the lawmakers wrote.
“Many of our local departments
are at their wit’s end.”
They added that “the state’s
over reliance on private, for-
profit entities to manage mass
vaccination sites is hurting our
ability to vaccinate and protect
our seniors throughout the Com-
monwealth.”
The lawmakers voiced con-
cern that some healthy residents
have turned to Craigslist to find
elderly people in need of rides to
mass vaccination centers, saying
it raises safety issues and expos-
es the elderly to yet another op-
portunity to fall victim to
COVID-related scams.
led to his vaccination. After
spending hours on the phone to
secure an appointment at a
mass site miles away, he got a
phone call and e-mail from his
cardiologist at Beth Israel Dea-
coness Medical Center. He was
offered an appointment at a
temple 10 minutes from his
West Roxbury home.
Within a few days he had re-
ceived his shot at a clinic near
home. “It couldn’t have been
better,” he said.
Felice J. Freyer can be reached at
felice.freyer@globe.com. Follow
her on Twitter @felicejfreyer.
Deanna Pan can be reached at
deanna.pan@globe.com. Follow
her on Twitter @DDpan.
Kay Lazar can be reached at
kay.lazar@globe.com Follow her
on Twitter @GlobeKayLazar.
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A STATE OF EMERGENCY Quite a catch — on ice — in Stockbridge

Hinsdale man
Brookline rabbi sets up lands 15-pound
brown trout
vaccination clinic for
Holocaust survivors
By Charlie McKenna
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT

A Hinsdale man, who

dubbed himself “an avid out-
By Charlie McKenna child of survivors. doorsman,” snagged a 15-pound
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT “They came over after the brown trout while ice fishing on
Rabbi Danielle Eskow has or- war, they had been through hor- Stockbridge Bowl last Saturday.
ganized a COVID-19 vaccination rible things beyond anyone’s Jamie Pollard said he was out
clinic for Holocaust survivors in imagination and they started a ice fishing with his childhood
Brookline in a concerted effort life from scratch,” she said. Es- best friend when he caught the
to help a vulnerable population kow and her husband named trout, which weighed in at a
that might otherwise struggle to their children after his grand- whopping 15 pounds, 13 ounces
book an appointment. parents. and measured 32 inches in
Eskow, who was vac- Survivors have length. The trout was on the line
cinated in the first booked 14 appoint- for 15 minutes before he was
phase of the state’s roll- ments in the two days able to get a look at it.
out plan, said she hopes they have been avail- “It was a solid 15 minutes be-
the clinic will come as a able, Eskow said. fore we were able to see the fish
relief to survivors, Eskow enlisted the swim by the hole and all of us
COURTESY MASSWILDLIFE
many of whom live h e l p of Jan e t S t ei n went dead quiet,” he said. “It
alone or are not techno- Calm, president of the was high anxiety, it felt like a lot “I’ve never seen anything like it,” Jamie Pollard said of the 15-pound, 13-ounce, 32-inch trout
logically savvy, she said. American Association of longer than it was and that’s a he caught last weekend.
HANDOUT
“A lot of us are able Jewish Holocaust Survi- long time to be playing a fish but
to sign in online and do Rabbi Danielle vors and Descendants of the first time it went by and Massachusetts Fisheries and scribed them as the “cherry on Pollard said.
it ourselves or we have a Eskow Greater Boston, to reach when we saw its tail its tail mea- Wildlife Information and Edu- top” of the typical crop of trout “It’s certainly invigorated a
f a m i l y m e m b e r, i f out to Holocaust survi- sured at 7 inches.” cation Chief Marion Larson said released into public ponds, lot of people,” he said. “I showed
you’re a little bit older, who vors about the clinic. Stein Calm Po l l a r d s a i d a 5 - p o u n d it’s rare someone pulls a fish of lakes, streams, and rivers. it to some younger fishermen
could do it for you,” she said. said the group uses a range of brown trout would be consid- that size out of the ice. Pollard’s trout is not a state and other people around some
“But a lot of the survivors are liv- strategies to contact survivors, ered a prize and he had never “I’m as gobsmacked about record as a 19-pound, 10-ounce of the bait stores and nowadays
ing alone and a lot of them are including sending out mailings. seen anything quite like the fish the size of the fish as probably a brown trout was caught in 1966 I look at it as possibly something
not technologically savvy. Some It is particularly important to he caught on Saturday. bunch of people are,” she said. in Wachusett Reservoir, Larson that’s encouraging people to get
people [are] homebound and so vaccinate survivors because of “I’ve been around doing this Most of the trout stocked in said. outdoors when it’s such a diffi-
it’s very difficult for them to ac- the years of their lives lost due to for 42 years plus and I’ve never Stockbridge pool are between 2 Po l l a r d s a i d h e i n i t i a l ly cult time.”
cess the information.” the war, Stein Calm said. seen anything like it, so it’s pret- and 7 pounds, Larson said. planned to release the trout but
The clinic, which will be held “They’ve already been robbed ty amazing,” he said. Larger fish, like the one Pollard instead plans to do a “synthetic Charlie McKenna can be
Feb. 25 at Congregation Kehil- out of years of their lives, they The trout weighed in at 17.5 caught, are used primarily to mount” after donating the filets reached at
lath Israel in Brookline, will be were robbed out of their child- pounds on the ice. At 32 inches, breed the typical crop of fish to his brother. charlie.mckenna@globe.com.
run by Eskow’s sister, Dr. Marisa hoods, they were robbed out of it’s longer than the all-time state and released after three to four T he “monster ” trout has Follow him on Twitter
Tieger, a physician at Massachu- their communities and the record, Pollard said. years in the hatchery. Larson de- driven interest in ice fishing, @charliemckenna9.
setts Eye and Ear, and Dr. Justin schools they went to and what
Holtzman, who has been run- should have been their lives,” she
ning his own clinic at the Uni- said. “ T hey were fortunate
versity of Massachusetts Am- enough, miraculously enough,
herst. Holtzman will be provid- to survive the Holocaust but it
ing the vaccines for Eskow’s doesn’t mean that it’s gone from
clinic. Eskow said she also plans their memories. The least thing
to enlist another doctor. we can do at this point is to do
Holtzman said he immediate- anything we can to help them re-
ly jumped at the idea to help turn to what should be a normal
with the clinic. life.”
“My first reaction was, ‘What Eskow said she feels a duty to
a great way to get the vaccine to help survivors continue to share
people who need it, but are likely their stories.
unable to be able to utilize the “Stories are the only accounts
technology platforms to sched- we have left of this horrible trag-
ule the appointments,’ ” he said. edy that happened, and if we can
“To be able to play a role in help- protect them and preserve them,
ing to eradicate [the pandemic], we can continue to allow them
or at least helping to bring it un- to share their stories for years to
der control, is nothing short of come,” she said. “And that’s pre-
an honor.” serving history as best we can.”
Helping Holocaust survivors Survivors who want to make
is deeply personal for Eskow, appointments can call 857-245-
whose husband is the grand- 6763.

March 20 Feb. 12
In Mass:
Mass. COVID-19 cases
Seven-day
Confirmed, by date case was
reported to the state average
2,228 new positivity rate:
(Cumulative total: 525,486)

85
2.55%
Patients with
COVID-19
DAVID L RYAN/GLOBE STAFF
currently in
Mass. COVID-19 deaths hospitals: COLD START — A runner braved the morning cold as the sun rose along the Charles River in Cambridge.
Confirmed, by date death was
reported to the state
87 new 1,223
(Cumulative total: 15,051)
Average age of
1 hospitalized

Speaker unveils House leadership team

patients:
The state did not report data 8/23, 11/26, 12/25, or 1/1
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dollars in additional pay on top

coronavirus deaths of their base salaries and offer

By Martin Finucane
GLOBE STAFF
The state of Massachusetts
passed a tragic milestone Friday,
as the toll of the coronavirus
pandemic rose over 15,000.
The number of confirmed
coronavirus deaths rose by 87,
bringing the total to 15,051.
Meanwhile, the state’s coro-
navirus vaccination campaign,
which offers hope of ending the
deadly pandemic, continued,
with the total number of vacci-
nations rising by 46,244 to
1,034,018, the Department of
Public Health reported.
The number of new vaccina-
tions was higher than on Thurs-
day, when 37,259 were reported.
The total number of shots ad-
ministered amounted to 68.8
percent of the 1,503,925 doses
shipped to providers in the state
so far, the DPH said.
The total shots administered
included 776,843 first shots and
257,175 second shots. Those
who have gotten their second
shot of the currently approved
two-dose vaccines are consid-
ered fully vaccinated.
Massachusetts is in the midst
of a high-stakes campaign to
vaccinate more than 4 million
adults. The state’s effort got off
to a slow start but has picked up
recently.
The DPH also reported 2,228
new confirmed coronavirus cas-
es Friday, bringing the state’s to-
tal to 525,486.
The DPH said 48,280 people
were estimated to have active
cases of the potentially deadly vi-
rus, and 1,223 confirmed coro-
navirus patients were in the hos-
pital.
The DPH also reported that
106,107 more tests had been
conducted for coronavirus. The
total number of tests adminis-
tered climbed to more than 14.7
million. New antigen tests had
been completed for 3,049 peo-
ple, bringing that total to
512,923.
The DPH reported that the
seven-day average rate of posi-
tive tests, which is calculated
from the total number of tests
administered, was 2.55 percent.
The state’s alarming second
surge appears to be on the wane.
Cases and other metrics have
been generally heading down-
ward. But public officials are
concerned about a possible re-
surgence due to new coronavirus
variants, and they’re asking peo-
ple to continue taking precau-
tions and to get vaccinated when
it’s their turn.
Martin Finucane can be reached
at martin.finucane@globe.com.
representatives added influence
on legislation.
“The Speaker has made ap-
pointments that value and re-
flect the diversity and expertise
of our House members,” Cronin
said in a statement.
Not all agreed. What gains in
diversity the leadership slate of-
fered were small in a 159-person
chamber where 69 percent of
seats are held by men and 86
percent of the members are
white.
Nine members of color will
serve as vice chairs within com-
mittees, after seven did last ses-
sion. They include Jon Santiago,
a South End Democrat consider-
ing running for Boston mayor,
who will serve as the No. 2 Dem-
ocrat in a newly created commit-
tee on COVID and emergency
preparedness.
But eight women will chair
committees, down from 10 last
session. Three women of color
will serve as vice chairs: Tram
Nguyen of Andover on labor and
workforce development, Liz
Miranda of Roxbury on person-
nel and administration, and
Chynah Tyler of Roxbury on ju-
diciary.
Representative Russell E.
Holmes, the Legislature’s lon-
gest-serving Black lawmaker,
was not given a leadership posi-
tion after briefly challenging
Mariano’s bid to become speaker
OFFICE OF REPRESENTATIVE CLAIRE D. CRONIN (LEFT); MATTHEW J. LEE/GLOBE STAFF/FILE (RIGHT)
From left: Claire Cronin, the new House majority leader; Kate Hogan, the new speaker pro
tempore; and House Speaker Ronald Mariano.
in late December.
“To not have a single Black
voice in the room when deci-
sions are being made, it’s unac-
ceptable,” Holmes said of Maria-
no’s 10-person leadership team.
“This is structural racism. That
you have so few Blacks, so few
Latinos not getting into leader-
ship does not make sense when
you have a majority leader that
has only been in the building
eight years.”
Michael Moran of Brighton
will serve as assistant majority
leader under Mariano, and Jo-
seph Wagner of Chicopee and
Sarah Peake of Provincetown
were named second assistant
majority leaders. James O’Day of
West Boylston, Ruth Balser of
Newton, and Thomas Golden of
Lowell will serve as division
chairs with Frank Moran.
‘The Speaker
has made
appointments that
value and reflect
the diversity and
expertise of our
House members.’
REP. CLAIRE CRONIN, the
new House majority leader
“ This is the most diverse
leadership team I’ve seen since
I’ve been in the House,” Moran
said Thursday. “Would I like
there to be more people of color?
It’s always good to. But [Maria-
no] has done a tremendous job
in diversifying his leadership
team.”
Senate President Karen E.
Spilka, starting her second full
session atop the chamber, kept
her leadership team unchanged,
and every Democrat heads a
committee.
The 40-member Senate in-
cludes just two people of color:
Sonia Chang-Díaz of Jamaica
Plain and freshman senator Ad-
am Gomez of Springfield.
Chang-Díaz will lead the com-
mittees on cannabis policy and
racial equity, civil rights, and in-
clusion, while Gomez will chair
the committee on children, fami-
lies, and persons with disabili-
ties.
Matt Stout can be reached at
matt.stout@globe.com. Follow
him on Twitter @mattpstout.
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Watch sparks fly

An ode to the romance tropes we love to hate (but secretly just love)

By Deanna Schwartz FAKE DATING

L
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
et’s face it: This Valentine’s Day will probably not be
very exciting. We can order takeout from a nice res-
taurant, rent a movie, do some self-care . . . but at
the end of the day, we’ll be where we’ve been for the
past year: at home.
As our lives remain at a standstill, we can partake in a univer-
sally beloved pastime — watching other people fall in love on TV.
Here are a few streaming picks to get you in the romantic
mood, based on your favorite romance trope.
WILL THEY OR WON’T THEY?
The name of the trope says it all. Mostly found in sitcoms with
long runs, this trope makes for satisfying binge.
“New Girl”
“New Girl” saw a resurgence in popularity during quarantine
and we think it was in part thanks to the “Will they or won’t
they?,” slow-burn relationship between Zooey Deschanel’s bub-
bly Jess and Jake Johnson’s grumpy Nick. The show’s two other
couples — Schmidt and Cece and Ally and Winston — are just as
delightful to watch fall for each other. Streaming on Netflix
AWESOMENESS FILMS, NETFLIX
From top: Phoebe Dynevor and Regé-Jean Page (left
photo) in “Bridgerton”; Chris Messina and Mindy Kaling
in “The Mindy Project”; Noah Centineo and Lana Condor
in “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before”; Noah Reid and Dan
Levy in “Schitt’s Creek.”
Two characters pretend to date, for whatever reason. It’s a
perfect plan — except for when they fall for each other for real.
“Bridgerton”
It seems like everyone has seen the Netflix smash-hit by now,
but if you haven’t, it’s the perfect time to binge the eight-episode
first season. Daphne Bridgerton and Simon, Duke of Hastings,
can solve all their problems by pretending to be in courtship —
until it suddenly becomes too real. Streaming on Netflix
“The Good Place”
Chidi and Eleanor are supposed to be soulmates in the after-
life . . . except for the fact that she’s the wrong Eleanor. The mis-
matched duo have to keep up the facade of being soulmates as
the world around them slowly falls apart. Streaming on Netflix
“To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before”
The 2018 Netflix original movie “To All the Boys I’ve Loved
Before,” based on the best-selling books by Jenny Han, is a high
school-set take on the trope, in which teens enter a fake relation-
ship in an attempt to make other people jealous. The third in-
stallment in the film series arrived Feb. 12. Streaming on Netflix

“The Mindy Project” HATE TO LOVE

The Mindy Kaling-led “The Mindy Project” embodies this They begin as enemies, but circumstances and, often, simmer-
trope so well that they have an episode titled “Will They or Won’t ing sexual tension, lead this couple from hatred to friendship to,
They.” Throughout the show’s six-season run, Mindy and Danny eventually, love.
go through highs and lows to (spoiler alert) end up together.
Streaming on Hulu “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”
Detectives Jake and Amy begin as rivals, constantly trying to
“Gilmore Girls” one-up each other. When they finally get together, it’s one of the
Viewers of this cult classic may have to wait four seasons be- most satisfying moments in recent sitcom history. The show,
fore seeing Luke and Lorelai realize they’re meant for each other, which jumped from Fox to NBC, is currently going through a
but the wait is worth it. “Gilmore Girls” is arguably the best show necessary revamp inspired by the Black Lives Matter protests of
for a fall or winter binge and we’ve got a little over a month be- 2020. Streaming on Hulu
fore the season ends. Streaming on Netflix
“Schitt’s Creek”
LOVE TRIANGLE When David first meets Patrick, his romantic interest for the
A trope as old as time. Two characters are in love with the next three seasons, his feelings can definitely be described as
same person, leaving that person with the perilous choice be- hate. But Patrick wins David over and they become the best cou-
POP TV
tween them. Are you team X or team Y? ple of the beloved show. Streaming on Netflix

“One Tree Hill”
The classic teen show has one of the early 2000s’ most iconic
love triangles: Lucas Scott, Peyton Sawyer, and Brooke Davis.
Come for Chad Michael Murray in his glory days, stay for the
plot and heartfelt writing. Streaming on Hulu
“Jane the Virgin”
The telenovela satire, which ran for five seasons on the CW,
pays homage to one of the genre’s main tropes: the love triangle.
Within the unique plot of a pregnant virgin, the triangle between
Jane, Michael, and Rafael brings heart to the over-the-top show.
Streaming on Netflix
“Sex and the City”
Before the Samantha-less revival comes out, catch up on the
iconic show. Carrie Bradshaw spends years being tugged be-
tween mysterious Mr. Big and nice guy Aidan, and often finds
herself making the wrong choice. Streaming on HBO Max
“You’ve Got Mail”
The Nora Ephron classic stands the test of time — despite
having been released before this writer was born. Tom Hanks
and Meg Ryan play competing Upper West Side bookstore own-
ers who, unbeknownst to them, are also anonymous online pen
pals. Streaming on HBO Max
Deanna Schwartz can be reached at deannaschwartz12@
gmail.com and on Twitter @deannaschwartzz.

Filmmakers Collaborative to ENJOY THE BREAK

host moviemaking workshops

By April Federico dents joining remotely will need access to a smart

F
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
or tweens and teens inspired by the
moviemaking happening around
town, the opportunity to create for the
big screen is about to get real. Mel-
rose-based Filmmakers Collaborative
will host in-person and virtual classes for high
school and middle school students hoping to get a
taste of movie magic during February break. The
FC Academy winter session of pro-led courses and
workshops will take place Tuesday, Feb. 16,
through Friday, Feb. 19.
Students will learn a range of documentary-
making skills, including scriptwriting, storyboard-
ing, character development, and camera tech-
niques. Each class allows for students of any expe-
rience level to make a short film in their preferred
genre. Instructors include Lame Cool Productions
founder Raysam Donkoh-Halm, filmmaker Tyler
Patterson, and producer-director Jon Dunham,
who will stream his courses from Italy.
The in-person programs cap at 10 students per
class and follow COVID-19 protocols, including
mask wearing, social distancing, and equipment
sanitizing between sessions. All equipment — in-
cluding cameras and editing materials — will be
provided for in-person participants, while stu-
device, Zoom, and video editing software, such as
iMovie.
Laura Azevedo, the executive director of the
Filmmakers Collaborative, said the program em-
phasizes creativity, confidence-building, and col-
laboration.
All students’ creations can be submitted to the
Boston International Kids Film Festival, which the
Filmmakers Collaborative created in 2013 to cele-
brate family-friendly films made by professionals
and students. “I have parents saying, ‘It’s like their
Super Bowl!’” said Azevedo.
The festival allows students to see their films
on the big screen, meet pro filmmakers, and even
walk a red carpet. The film festival is scheduled for
November.
The four-day in-person classes cost $240 and
will take place at the Cabot Theater (286 Cabot St.,
Beverly) and Hunt’s Photo & Video (100 Main St.,
Melrose). Virtual classes will take place 9 a.m. to
11:30 a.m. and cost $185 for the four-day period.
Classes range from ages 8-11 and 12+. To register
for classes, visit filmmakerscollab.org.
FC ACADEMY
April Federico is a writer in Rhode Island. She can
be reached at aprilfedericomedia@gmail.com and Melrose-based Filmmakers Collaborative will host in-person and virtual classes for high
on Twitter @AprilFMedia. school and middle school students during February break.
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Halak
flawless,
Bruins
roll along
By Matt Porter
GLOBE STAFF

Bruins 1 Igor Shesterkin made

one mistake. Jaroslav
Rangers 0 Halak made zero.
In a duel of sharp netminders with a
spicy, swinging-from-the-heels second
period, Halak and the Bruins emerged
with a 1-0 win over the Rangers at
Madison Square Garden Friday night.
A goal by Nick Ritchie, on a follow-
up chance that had Shesterkin wishing
for a do-over, was all the visitors need-
ed to win their fifth in a row and run
their East Division-best record to 10-
1-2.
Boston now owns the best points
percentage in the NHL (.846), which
could wind up being the determining
factor for playoff seeding in a season
riddled with COVID -19 postpone-
ments. The Bruins expanded their East
edge to 4 points over Philadelphia.
The Bruins have points in 10 con-
secutive games (9-0-1), and have won
seven of their 13 contests by one goal.
In this one, they were “easy to play
against,” to the eye of coach Bruce
Cassidy, in a sleepy opening 20 min-
utes. They turned down shots (Charlie
Coyle one offender), lost races to loose
pucks, and couldn’t find open lanes
JOHN TLUMACKI/GLOBE STAFF
from the point.
Jaylen Brown scored 27 points in Friday night’s Celtics loss, but also took a hard foul on a layup that left him prone on the floor with a bloody nose. “Second period, first shift, we threw

Body blow
one at the net, it started from there,”
Cassidy said. “Then the orneriness be-
gins. I think that’s when we’re at our
best.”
The caffeine kicked in, Boston out-
shot New York, 18-6, in the second, and
Ritchie scored the only goal at 9:27. His
fifth of the season, and first at even
strength, came off a David Krejci break-
out feed. The burly winger steamed

Celtics take step Gary Washburn down the right flank, put a low back-
hand on net, and followed by banking

backward in loss
ON BASKETBALL his rebound off Shesterkin from below
the goal line.

to lowly Pistons Memo to Ainge: “Pretty simple play, and he follows it

up,” Cassidy said of Ritchie, who tied

Tatum, Brown Patrice Bergeron with a game-high six

shots, in 17:10. “You know that first

need help
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GLOBE STAFF

Pistons 108 After the Celtics’ im-

pressive win over To-
Celtics 102 ronto on Thursday,
coach Brad Stevens made it clear that
he was pleased, but he wanted to see a
similar effort sustained for a longer pe-
riod before he declared it a true sign of
progress.
Then on Friday night the six-win Pis-
tons came to TD Garden and showed
that one step forward would be fol-
lowed by one step back, as Detroit over-
came an early 10-point deficit and
grabbed a 108-102 win.
Rookie Saddiq Bey pummeled the
Celtics, drilling all seven of his 3-point
attempts en route to 30 points, none
bigger than his 3 from the right arc with
38.3 seconds left that stretched his
team’s lead to 101-95, moments after
Daniel Theis missed a potentially game-
tying attempt.
Jayson Tatum had 33 points, 11 re-
bounds and 7 assists to lead the Celtics,
but his cool shooting stretch continued
with a 9 for 22 outing. Jaylen Brown
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Well if Danny Ainge wasn’t un- I N SI D E
nerved by what he saw Friday against
the six-win Detroit Pistons, then maybe
the Celtics deserve to be just another
average team.
The Celtics need help, desperately,
evidence by their 108-102 loss in which
the Pistons brought back their Bad Boy
days for a night and beat up on Jayson
Tatum and Jaylen Brown.
Brown walked away with a bloody
nose and floor burns for how many
times he had been knocked down. And
it reached a point where Brown and
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Tatum were the entire Boston offense
and that’s happening far too often. Jordan Spieth shot 67 to take a
Tatum and Brown combined for 60 one-shot lead at Pebble Beach. C7
of points and 20 of the team’s 36 field
goals. They got little help. Daniel Theis Play ball
scored 11 points on 12 shots. Rookie Red Sox announce revised, and con-
Payton Pritchard, making his first NBA densed, spring training schedule. C2
start, followed his 20-point game
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Thursday with 2 points Friday.
Texans will cut Watt
Star defensive end requests to be re-
Celtics center Tristan Thompson, who scored just 4 points off the Grant Williams scored 1 point in 25
leased, and team will oblige. C3
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Red Sox’ Cordero: Chad Finn

Huge ups, downs Trading favorites

By Alex Speier
GLOBE STAFF

Franchy Cordero’s major

league career is a blurry myth in
need of the sharpened edges of
reality.
It’s not hard to understand
why Cordero is, in the words of
Red Sox assistant general man-
ager Eddie Romero, a “tantaliz-
ing talent.” Chief baseball officer
Chaim Bloom noted his ability
to hit the ball as hard as anyone
in the game, a notion borne out
by a 489-foot homer he blasted
in 2018 and the 92.5 m.p.h. av-
erage exit velocity that ranks
ninth in the majors since 2017
— just behind Fernando Tatis Jr.
and Giancarlo Stanton, and just
ahead of Matt Chapman, Chris-
tian Yelich, and Shohei Ohtani.
“As far as talent goes, he has a
really special body, a really spe-
cial athlete, with a swing that,
when developed to where he
wants to be, can make him a
damaging hitter with gap-to-gap
power, the raw power to go out
of any yard, in any place,” said
Mets bench coach Dave Jauss,
who managed Cordero in the
Dominican Winter League this
year.
Though his speed has de-
clined steadily over his four big
league seasons (much like An-
drew Benintendi), his top-end
speed in 2020 still placed him in
the 68th percentile of big leagu-
ers — a significant trait in pro-
jecting his future defensive abili-
ties.
“I don’t project him as a cen-
ter fielder even though he has
CORDERO, Page C2
is a risky deal
The most fulfilling time to
be a sports fan, of course, is a
precise one: When the moment
comes to celebrate a champion-
ship.
In Boston, the duck boat en-
gines fire up and a parade com-
mences. In a place like, oh,
Tampa, the party happens
where the dinghies mingle with
the yachts. The mood is sunny
no matter the locale or weather,
and the beverages flow.
Being a fan gets no more sat-
isfying than that. But I’d submit
that the second-most satisfying
aspect of caring about a sports
FILE/CHARLIE RIEDEL/ASSOCIATED PRESS
team — especially a baseball
Former Royal Franchy Cordero has hit .236, with a .304 OBP, team — is when a prospect’s
.433 slugging mark, and 12 homers in 95 big-league games. promise is fulfilled, and he de-
velops into a likable hometown
hero, one who might even end
up riding triumphantly down
Boylston on one of those sweet
amphibious vehicles a time or
two.
Andrew Benintendi is no
longer a member of the Red
Sox, traded to the Kansas City
Royals Wednesday night for
outfielder Franchy Cordero, a
minor league pitcher (via the
Mets), and three players to be
named who might make the Sea
Dogs more interesting.
If there are Red Sox fans
happy about this trade, their
voices are lost in the cacophony
of frustration. Benintendi was a
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Baseball unveils new structure for minors

By Michael Silverman
GLOBE STAFF
After an often contentious and con-
troversial two-year process, Major
League Baseball unveiled its slimmed-
down and restructured minor league
system Friday.
Each of the 30 major league teams
now has only four minor league affili-
ates, one each in Triple A and Double A,
and one each in High and Low Single A.
The Worcester Red Sox will play in
the Northeast Division of Triple A East,
the Portland (Maine) Sea Dogs in the
Northeast Division of Double A North-
east, the Greenville (S.C.) Drive in the
South Division of High A East, and the
Salem (Va.) Red Sox in the North Divi-
sion of Low A East.
After serving for 20 years as the Red
Sox’ affiliate in the New York-Penn
League (Short A), the Lowell Spinners
lost their affiliation in the reshuffling.
MLB still intends to incorporate Lowell
in a professional development league
that has yet to be formalized, something
MLB said would occur in the coming
weeks and months.
In the meantime, Friday’s news
means an actual schedule can’t be far
away for the WooSox. That, along with
the completion of construction at Polar
Park, and hopes that Massachusetts
protocols ease enough for ticket sales to
be meaningful, are front of mind for the
WooSox, who moved from Pawtucket,
R.I., for this season.
The new minor league set-up should
mean “not too dramatic a deviation for
us from an operational standpoint,” said
Dan Rea, executive vice president of
real estate development and business
affairs for the WooSox.
The ball club likely will take advan-
tage of digital marketing opportunities
and other resources provided by MLB,
said Rea, and deepen newer connec-
tions at MLB, whose senior vice presi-
dent of minor league operations and de-
velopment, Peter Woodfork, is a former
member of the Red Sox front office.
“I think it’s going to come down to
relationships,” said Rea. “ We have
strong relationships with the Red Sox,
with [CEO and president] Sam [Kenne-
dy] and Chaim [Bloom, chief baseball
officer], David Beeston [executive vice
president, chief strategy officer], they’ve
been helpful throughout this process.
“I think it will be an affirmation of
the strong relationships we’ve built
both with the Red Sox and MLB.”
The 120 teams within the main-
stream minor league system had to offi-
cially agree to accept an invitation from
MLB to become “Professional Develop-
ment League” license-holders.
When announcing its restructuring
intent, MLB said it wanted affiliates to
be nearer to their major league teams’
home as well as having updated facili-
ties.
In a statement, MLB said many affil-
iates “will be in significantly closer geo-
graphic proximity” to their clubs. On av-
erage, MLB said, major league clubs will
be “over 200 miles closer to their Triple
A affiliates.”
In the statement, MLB commission-
er Rob Manfred said: “We are excited to
unveil this new model, which not only
provides a pipeline to the Majors, but
continues the Minor Leagues’ tradition
of entertaining millions of families in
hundreds of communities.
“In modernizing our Minor League
system, we prioritized the qualities that
make the Minor Leagues such an inte-
gral part of our game while strengthen-
ing how we develop professional ath-
letes on and off the field. We look for-
ward to demonstrating the best of our
game throughout local communities,
supporting all those who are working
hard to grow the sport, and sharing un-
rivaled technology and resources with
minor league teams and players.”
MLB touted its new licenses as a step
toward a number of improvements, in-
cluding previously announced player
salary bumps ranging from 38 to 72
percent this season, modernized facility
standards, improved amenities and
working conditions, reduced in-season
travel, and the improved geographical
alignment.
Michael Silverman can be reached at
michael.silverman@globe.com. Follow
him on Twitter: @MikeSilvermanBB.

BASEBALL NOTEBOOK

Red Sox spring

schedule revised
By Andrew Mahoney
GLOBE STAFF

The Red Sox announced a revised spring training

schedule following Major League Baseball’s decision to re-
gionalize matchups to limit travel during the COVID-19
pandemic.
The Red Sox’ Grapefruit League schedule in Florida
will now feature matchups against the Atlanta Braves,
Baltimore Orioles, Minnesota Twins, Pittsburgh Pirates,
and Tampa Bay Rays. The Red Sox will play 29 games in
31 days, beginning Feb. 28 at Hammond Stadium against
the Twins in Fort Myers.
They will play the most games against the Braves, with
the first of nine matchups at JetBlue Park in Fort Myers
March 1, and will close out with two exhibition games
against the Braves, in North Port March 29 and at JetBlue
Park March 30.
The Red Sox will implement physical distancing and
safety protocols to allow some fans to attend games at Jet-
Blue Park — up to approximately 24 percent of capacity.
Tickets will be sold in physically distanced “pods,” primar-
ily comprising 2-4 seats, that will allow for at least 6 feet
between groups.
Season ticket-holders will be offered the first opportu-
nity to attend exhibition games, and additional tickets
may go on sale to the general public depending on avail-
ability.
All day games at JetBlue Park will start at 1:05 p.m.,
and all night games at 6:05 p.m.
No fans at Hall induction
The Baseball Hall of Fame announced it would hold its
induction ceremony as scheduled on July 25. But the
event will essentially be a television production held in-
doors without fans because of the pandemic.
Members of the Hall’s Class of 2020 — Derek Jeter,
Marvin Miller, Ted Simmons, and Larry Walker — will be
honored after their induction was canceled last year.
The ceremony is expected to be shown live on MLB
Network.
No players were elected by the Baseball Writers’ Asso-
ciation of America this year, and the veterans committee
vote was canceled.
Induction ceremonies traditionally are held outside
and are open to the public, free of charge. A crowd esti-
mated at 55,000 attended in 2019 when Harold Baines,
Roy Halladay, Edgar Martinez, Mike Mussina, and Maria-
no Rivera were honored.
The Hall’s annual awards presentation ceremony will
be held July 24, also behind closed doors. A recording of
that ceremony will be televised the next day as part of the
induction coverage.
The two most recent winners of the Ford C. Frick
Award for broadcasting excellence — Ken Harrelson and
Al Michaels — will be honored, along with the last two
winners of the BBWAA’s Career Excellence Award: the late
Nick Cafardo in 2020 and Dick Kaegel in 2021.
Cafardo wrote for the Globe from 1989-2019.
Holt lands with Rangers
Free agent infielder Brock Holt agreed to a minor
league contract with the Texas Rangers that includes an
invitation to spring training. The deal calls for a $1.75
million salary if he makes the team.
Holt, 32, is a Fort Worth native. He played for the Red
Sox from 2013-19 before hitting .211 over 36 games for
the Brewers and Nationals last season.
Peter Abraham of the Globe staff contributed to this report.
Follow Andrew Mahoney on Twitter @GlobeMahoney.
A talented Red Sox outfield of Mookie Betts (left), Andrew Benintendi, and Jackie Bradley Jr. once seemed untouchable.
Trading fan favorites can be risky deal
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tremendously popular member of
the Red Sox, arriving on the scene
in 2016 with Fred Lynn’s swing
and 80-grade hair on the scouting
scale. He was a phenom’s phenom,
the No. 7 pick in the 2015 draft
who rocketed up the Red Sox farm
system, earned Baseball America’s
designation as the top prospect in
the game entering 2017, submit-
ted a 20-homer, 20-steal season as
a 22-year-old that same season,
and made perhaps the most im-
portant play in the ’18 Red Sox
postseason charge to the World Se-
ries crown, a diving grab with the
bases loaded for the final out of
Game 4 of the American League
Championship Series against the
Astros.
He was easy to like, immediate-
ly, with his low-key charisma, aes-
thetically smooth game, and the
promise of his promise. He ap-
peared to be a cornerstone even
before he became a champion.
Dave Dombrowski, habitually will-
ing to meet a steep asking price for
a coveted player, refused to in-
clude him in the Chris Sale block-
buster. In those early days, it
seemed certain he’d be here for a
generation, putting up .300-25-95
batting lines year after year, at
worst becoming a superior all-
around version of Mike Greenwell.
And now he’s a Royal. A Royal.
It’s surprising to see him go in the
sense that we were so sure not so
long ago that he’d be here for a
long time — and yet it should not
be surprising at all. Benintendi
hasn’t hit for 2½ seasons now. In
the second half of 2018, he slashed
.279/.343/.384, with just two
home runs in 256 plate appearanc-
es. Since the beginning of the 2019
season, he has put up a .255/.341/
.410 line, with just 13 homers in
667 plate appearances. Last sea-
son was a complete bust – he hit
.103 in 14 games before a rib cage
injury ended his season. He also
regressed as a left fielder — the
idea of playing him in center
would have been akin to putting
Troy O’Leary there circa ’99 — and
lost some speed on the basepaths.
His promise was fulfilled, but
only fleetingly, and it’s a mystery
why. I remember his father saying
once that he never messed with
Andrew’s swing as a kid, that it
came naturally to him and he
knew to leave a beautiful thing
alone. I wonder if Benintendi
messed himself up in the quest to
alter his launch angle. There are
Walt Hriniak-messing-up-Rich
Gedman vibes to all of this.
Chaim Bloom isn’t going to
judge a player on what he was sup-
posed to be or what he was for a
while. He’s judging on what the
player is, and what he is likely to
be going forward, and the logical
conclusion is that the Red Sox just
don’t believe Benintendi will find
all that has gone missing from his
game. I suspect they see him as an
average left fielder with a no lon-
ger high ceiling, and that there’s
little concern that this deal will be
regrettable. I doubt they believe
they sold low. Rather, they sold
when they got a deal they liked.
Because so many of us still
think of Benintendi as that sure-
fire star rather than what he has
actually been — I cringed when I
saw Allen Craig was listed among
his most similar hitters on base-
ball-reference — it feels like the
Red Sox got little in return, even if
we don’t even know the full return
yet.
Acquiring Cordero isn’t exactly
a youth movement — he’s 58 days
younger than Benintendi — and it
requires no deep dive into analyt-
ics to find his flaws. He’s struck
out 110 times in 315 major league
plate appearances. I referred to
him as Franchy Mo Pena on Twit-
ter when I got a look at his stats,
but that’s really not fair to either
player. Pena did hit .301 with 11
homers as a part-time player for
the 2006 Red Sox. Cordero has raw
power to spare, and improved his
strikeout rate significantly last
season. There’s bust potential,
sure, but he has the kind of prom-
ise that flickered out in Beninten-
di. I’m looking forward to seeing
what he can do. I think you’ll like
him.
Bloom has — wisely, if unsenti-
mentally — been systematically re-
building the fringes and depth of
the organization, and the willing-
ness to trade just about anyone if
it brings back a similarly skilled
player at a lesser salary and a pros-
pect or two is something we’d bet-
ter get used to. It’s an approach
that deserves the benefit of the
doubt, presuming the intent will
be there to pursue stars, a la the
Dodgers, once the bones of the or-
ganization are healthy.
But Bloom must be aware, too,
that incrementally improving the
roster while dealing away players
fans care about will only be toler-
ated for so long. If Cordero pans
2018 FILE/JIM DAVIS/GLOBE STAFF
out and becomes a fan favorite,
then the Sox go ahead deal him in
three years for a player with a sim-
ilar profile and a smaller salary,
why should anyone be expected to
make a sustained emotional (and
financial) investment in this team?
The optics of trading Beninten-
di a year to the day after the
shameful trade of Mookie Betts to
the Dodgers did not go unnoticed
around here. Two years ago, enter-
ing the 2019 season, I wrote a cov-
er story for our baseball preview
section answering a wildly fun
question: Where do Betts, Benin-
tendi, and Jackie Bradley Jr. rank
among the best outfields in fran-
chise history? It would have been
unfathomable that they’d all be
gone — c’mon, if they wanted
Bradley back, they’d have shown
real interest during the season —
two years later.
Trading Benintendi is not a bad
move, and we can’t judge the re-
turn now. But it’s always a bum-
mer to see a fan favorite go, even if
his popularity exceeded what his
production warranted. There’s a
lesson in the response to this, and
I hope Bloom hears it. It goes a lit-
tle something like this.
We liked Benintendi, but we get
why you’d trade him. He didn’t be-
come everything he was supposed
to, and maybe he never will. But
the next time a player comes along
who fully fulfills his promise,
you’d best keep him around. Red
Sox fans like generational stars al-
most as much as they like parades.
Chad Finn can be reached at
chad.finn@globe.com. Follow him
on Twitter @GlobeChadFinn.

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good enough speed and a good
enough arm,” said Jauss. “He
came to us with the track record
in the Dominican of not being a
dependable left fielder. That, by
no means, was what he was this
year.
“He was a very dependable
left fielder, and in the Domini-
can, most of those parks are big
and they are tough to play. [De-
fense] is not going to keep him
from being an everyday left
fielder.”
If Cordero were draft-eligi-
ble, his combination of speed,
power, and size (6 feet 3 inches,
226 pounds) likely would put
him near the top of the board.
But he’s not draft-eligible.
He’s 26 years old (the same age
as Benintendi) with just 95
games of big league experience,
including a mere 25 in the last
two years.
He has shown impressive
glimpses, but questions about
his potential contributions with
the Red Sox — his third team in
three years — are as loud as the
tools he possesses.
In those 95 games, spanning
315 plate appearances, Cordero
has hit .236 with a .304 OBP and
.433 slugging mark along with
12 homers — most of those of
the tape-measure variety (his
homers average 412 feet, most
in the majors of any hitter with
at least 10 since 2017). Any time
he makes contact, there’s a
chance that the ball will disap-
pear onto the horizon.
But he hasn’t made consis-
tent contact, striking out in 34.9
percent of his plate appearanc-
es, the ninth-highest rate in the
majors since his 2017 debut. It’s
still possible to be a valuable
player while striking out with
that frequency — one evaluator
compared Cordero’s skills with
those of Rangers outfielder Joey
Gallo — but it’s difficult.
Moreover, Cordero’s lengthy
injury history — which includes
multiple elbow injuries, multi-
ple leg injuries, and most recent-
ly a broken hamate in 2020 —
makes it difficult to forecast his
future.
Even so, some evaluators
note that Cordero has shown im-
provement in his offensive ap-
proach. He has been smar t
enough to refine his swing deci-
sions, swinging at an increasing
number of pitches in the strike
zone (in his limited playing time
in 2020, he swung at a whop-
ping 84.7 percent of pitches he
saw that were in the strike zone)
while chasing fewer and fewer
pitches outside the zone (28.0
percent in 2020; below the
league average). He also has dis-
played an evolving two-strike
approach that has helped him
reduce strikeouts.
“He’s mechanically good,”
said Jauss. “He knows what he
needs to do, both in a game and
to get his swing to be consis-
tent.”
“He obviously has incredible
power,” said Red Sox hitting
coach Tim Hyers. “It doesn’t
seem like he has a lot of chase in
there. We’ve just got to clean up
a little bit of zone contact, but
that swing looks good.”
Jauss noted a significant dis-
parity in the quality of Cordero’s
at-bats against lefties and right-
ies in the Dominican, and his
early big-league career (.182/
.239/.333 against lefties, .252/
.322/.463 against righties) un-
derscores the chance that he
could be a platoon player. (The
Red Sox’ interest in Marwin
González was driven in part by a
desire to have a switch-hitting
platoon option with the
lefthanded Cordero in left and
the righthanded Bobby Dalbec
at first.)
Cordero represents an upside
play by the Red Sox. He shows
enough ability to make an im-
pact, even if the sky’s-the-limit
ceiling suggested by his tools
probably should be balanced out
by the reality of his performance
to date and the time he’s missed.
“He has the ceiling of a Troy
O’Leary,” said Jauss, recalling a
player he worked with as the
Red Sox first base coach from
1997-99. “Troy O’Leary brought
a whole lot of positives for the
Boston Red Sox and the baseball
industry. He became a good left
fielder, a dangerous hitter in the
middle of the order.
“Without hitting 45 home
runs, he always had the poten-
tial to go out on any at-bat. He
could go gap to gap.
“This type of player —
O’Leary and Cordero — come in-
to their own at different times in
their career. If Cordero develops
in the way that O’Leary devel-
oped, I think he could be the
same way that O’Leary was,
which I think is a high caliber of
player in the scouting world.”
Alex Speier can be reached at
alex.speier@globe.com. Follow
him on twitter at @alexspeier.
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NFL NOTEBOOK
Texans grant DE Watt’s
request to be released
By Andrew Mahoney
GLOBE STAFF
The Houston Texans and defensive
end J.J. Watt mutually agreed to part
ways. Watt made the announcement in a
video he released on Twitter Friday.
“The connection I have with the peo-
ple of Houston is special, and I will never
take that for granted because I know
how rare it is. I just want you to know
that I love you and I appreciate you,”
said Watt. “I want to thank the McNair
family for drafting me and giving me my
first opportunity in the NFL. Thank you,
Houston.”
Watt, 31, is the franchise’s all-time
sacks leader (101.0), a three-time Associ-
ated Press NFL Defensive Player of the
Year Award winner (2012, 2014-15) and
the 2017 Walter Payton NFL Man of the
Year.
Houston selected Watt with the 11th
pick in 2011. A five-time Pro Bowl selec-
tion and AP First-Team All-Pro (2012-15,
2018), Watt played in 128 games in his
10 seasons with the Texans. He set fran-
chise records in sacks (101.0), tackles for
loss (172), quarterback hits (281) and
forced fumbles (25) to go along with 531
total tackles, 61 passes defensed and 16
fumble recoveries.
Watt’s departure comes in an offsea-
son where the Texans have hired coach
David Culley and general manager Nick
Caserio to replace Bill O’Brien, who held
both jobs and was fired after the team
opened the season 0-4. They’re also fac-
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Deshaun Watson requested a trade, and
controversy swirls in Houston surround-
ing the impact of Jack Easterby, the for-
mer Patriots character coach who is now
the Texans’ vice president of football op-
erations.
Ravens’ Smith robbed
Ravens cornerback Jimmy Smith was
unharmed after he and his family were
robbed at gunpoint in California earlier
this week.
The robbery occurred Tuesday night
at a hotel after Smith had arrived at Los
Angeles International Airport.
In a statement, the Ravens said: “We
are aware of the situation involving Jim-
my Smith. We have spoken with Jimmy
and he and his family are safe.”
Pouncey twins retire
Mike and Maurkice Pouncey came
into the world together. They’re leaving
the NFL in the same way.
The 31-year-old twin brothers an-
nounced their respective retirements af-
ter spending a decade among the best
centers in the league.
Maurkice spent 11 years in Pitts-
burgh earning two All-Pro nods and nine
Pro Bowl selections. Mike reached the
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Guy should be a keeper
By Jim McBride
GLOBE STAFF
Sixth in a position-by-position se-
ries
Lawrence Guy casts a long shadow.
Literally and figuratively.
The 6-foot-4-inch, 315-pounder (he
looks bigger) has had the largest im-
pact of any player on the Patriots de-
fensive line over the last three seasons.
An unheralded free agent signing
in 2017, Guy steadily improved and
increased his role as a front-line de-
fender and locker room leader every
season. He has been the club’s best
and most consistent lineman over the
past four years.
In 2020, his first season as a cap-
tain, Guy was immense, flipping be-
tween end and tackle — a staple of his
time in New England — and playing
through shoulder, elbow, and knee in-
juries while still producing at a high
level.
Guy is the biggest of the Patriots’
in-house free agent defenders (again,
literally and figuratively), and striking
a new deal with the soon-to-be 31-
year-old likely is high on the club’s list.
Guy has expressed that he would
“love to return to New England” where
he has put down roots and become an
active member of the community. It’d
be a surprise if the feeling weren’t mu-
tual.
Here’s a look at some of the non-
draft options the Patriots could con-
sider this offseason, when an overhaul
of the first line of defense could be in
order.
The 2020 Patriots
Guy, Adam Butler, Byron Cowart,
Akeem Spence, Deatrich Wise, Carl
Davis, John Simon, Chase Winovich,
Tashawn Bower, Nick Thurman, and
Rashod Berry.
Butler: One of the top undrafted
free agent signings of the last decade,
Butler has a story similar to Guy’s in
that he was largely unheralded upon
arrival but just kept getting better and
better every season. His responsibili-
ties consistently increased from interi-
or pass-rushing specialist to depend-
able three-down defender.
An unrestricted free agent, Butler
is tough, smart, and dependable — he
played through a shoulder injury all
season — and will have suitors. The
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Cowart: An athletic and big interi-
or defender, he saw a big uptick in
snaps and production this past season.
He is signed through 2023 and has the
skills to continue to develop into an
every-down player.
Spence: Really enjoyed watching
this veteran perform in his late-season
cameo. He is wide, deceptively quick,
and has a team-friendly deal ($1.075
million base salary for 2021). He’ll be
motivated.
Wise: Always a high-energy pass-
rushing end, he packed on some off-
season pounds to become a more well-
rounded defender who could help
stuff the run. An unrestricted free
agent, the always affable Wise (even
his snarl has a trace of a smile) has a
good chance of remaining in Foxbor-
ough.
Davis: Concussions limited his pro-
duction, but he was solid when
healthy. Could return on a low-cost,
prove-it deal.
Simon: One of several ends who al-
so could classify as outside lineback-
ers, the veteran has at times been the
Patriots’ best edge-setter, particularly
against the run, the last few seasons.
Similar to the entire defense, Simon
struggled some late in the season. He’s
a free agent, and a return engagement
is possible.
Winovich: Another end/linebacker
hybrid, Winovich has a chance to be a
front-seven star in this defense be-
cause of his versatility and nonstop
motor. His role likely will expand in
2021 as he transitions from precocious
youngster to veteran leader. As he gets
stronger and refines his techniques, he
could turn in a sack machine.
Bower: With another season in the
program under his belt, this edge de-
fender could be in line for a major in-
crease in playing time should he put
together another solid offseason.
Thurman: An end/tackle tweener
at 6-4, 305, he has good athleticism
and strength and just needs more sea-
soning in the program. Like Bower, he
could be ready to be a bigger contribu-
tor.
Berry: Impressed the coaching staff
with a nice transition to full-time de-
fensive end after also playing tight end
in college. Spent the majority of the
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emerge as a regular in the rotation if
he continues to develop.
The free agents
DEs: J.J. Watt, Leonard Williams,
Jadeveon Clowney, Romeo Okwara;
DTs: Ndamukong Suh, DaQuan Jones,
Sheldon Rankins.
Watt: Fresh on the market, the
highly decorated Watt is a versatile
and powerful defender who can make
an impact from nearly every front-sev-
en spot. Though frequently injured
throughout his career, he’ll have mul-
tiple teams banging on his door. The
Steelers, who already have a pair of
Watt brothers, have to be considered
the front-runners.
Williams: Woolly mammoth de-
fender has excellent strength and can
both set the edge against the run and
pressure the pocket.
C l o w n e y : W h e n h e a l t h y, h e’s
among the NFL’s elite defenders. His
superior combination of speed and
strength make him close to unblock-
able one-on-one. Problem is, he’s rare-
ly 100 percent. Clowney likely will
need to take a bridge deal to prove he
can stay on the field before he gets an-
other crack at a huge payday.
Okwara: Coming off his best season
(10 sacks), he would instantly upgrade
any team’s pass rush. Has massive and
long arms and can rag-doll blockers
with his ridiculous power.
Suh: One of the best hybrid two-
gap run-stuffing/one-gap penetrators
in league history, he is still going
strong at 34; it only seems as if he has
been around for 34 seasons.
Jones: A massive specimen at 6-4,
322, Jones is the kind of player who
can anchor the middle against the run,
occupy blockers, and redirect ball car-
riers into the arms of other defenders.
Rankins: Another large, powerful
man, he’s coming off a subpar season
and may have to take a short-term
team-friendly deal to prove himself
and earn a bigger payday down the
road. He’s smart and tough and likely
highly motivated.
The bottom line
Keeping Guy, Butler, and Wise in
the program should be the top priority
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JAZZ 129, BUCKS 115
MILWAUKEE
FG FT Reb
Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt
Middltn. 38 6-14 4-6 0-2 4 4 18
Ankmpo 39 12-20 4-6 2-15 6 5 29
Lopez .... 26 8-18 4-6 1-6 0 3 23
DVcnzo . 26 2-9 0-0 1-2 2 4 5
uON BASKETBALL the Celtics would relish having right 9 points before leaving with knee issues. EASTERN CONFERENCE Forbes... 20 2-6 0-0 0-0 0 1 5
Augustn 29 2-7 7-9 0-1 3 4 12
Continued from Page C1 now. And while that is short-term think- Brown and Tatum will gladly take a ma- ATLANTIC W L Pct. GB Streak Home Conf. Cghton.. 29 1-2 0-0 0-1 3 3 2
Craig ..... 11 2-3 0-0 1-1 0 2 6
minutes and didn’t attempt a shot. ing — Nesmith might become a capable jority of the shots — they love to shoot Philadelphia 18 8 .692 — L1 11-2 15-4 Portis .... 21 7-13 0-0 1-5 1 2 15
T.Ampo... 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Brooklyn 15 12 .556 3½ W1 11-5 10-9
It ’s a l u x u r y t o h av e tw o o f t h e player and major contributor — for this and score — but defenses are going to Adams .... 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
BOSTON 13 12 .520 4½ L1 6-4 10-7 Totals .... 42-92 19-27 6-33 19 28 115
league’s top 20 players, especially when year’s Celtics, it’s significant. flatly disrespect the others if they can’t Toronto 12 14 .462 6 L1 6-5 9-7 FG%: .457, FT%: .704. 3-pt. goals: 12-
33, .364 (Middleton 2-4, G.Antetokoun-
they are 24 (Brown) and 22 years old The Celtics needed production from hit or create open shots. New York 12 15 .444 6½ W1 5-6 9-9 mpo 1-2, Lopez 3-9, DiVincenzo 1-4,
Forbes 1-4, Augustin 1-4, Craig 2-2,
(Tatum) respectively, but they are going both rookies and although Pritchard has Ainge needs to work the phones even CENTRAL W L Pct. GB Streak Home Conf. Portis 1-4). Team rebounds: 10. Team
turnovers: 10 (15 pts.). Blocks: 6 (G.An-
to exhaust at this rate. The games keep exceeded expectations, Nesmith is still a more to seek a player who can impact Milwaukee 16 9 .640 — L1 9-2 12-5 tetokounmpo 2, Lopez 2, Augustin,
coming and the support just isn’t there. development player. With the lack of this team as soon as possible. Waiting Indiana 13 13 .500 3½ W1 7-8 8-7 Connaughton). Turnovers: 10 (Middle-
ton 3, G.Antetokounmpo 3, Lopez, Di-
Chicago 10 15 .400 6 L1 4-9 5-7
Kemba Walker has been in a slump since support, either Tatum or Brown — or patiently hasn’t gotten the Celtics far *Cleveland 10 16 .385 6½ L5 7-7 8-9
Vincenzo, Connaughton, Craig). Steals:
8 (G.Antetokounmpo 2, Augustin 2,
he rejoined the lineup and the support- both — are going to start breaking down. over the years. They waited for a deal Detroit 7 19 .269 9½ W1 5-8 5-11 Connaughton 4).
UTAH
ing cast is just far too inconsistent. It’s no shock Brown has been dealing that never happened to unload those SOUTHEAST W L Pct. GB Streak Home Conf. FG FT Reb
Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt
When asked if he’s going to have to with knee tendinitis that caused him to “treasure chest” of draft picks and even- Charlotte 13 14 .481 — W1 8-7 9-9 O'Neale. 35 0-4 0-0 1-10 1 5 0
Bgdnvc . 35 3-10 2-2 0-3 2 2 9
watch his fatigue level and endurance, miss two games on the recent road trip. tually had to use most of them. Miami 11 14 .440 1 W4 7-7 7-11 Gobert .. 35 9-12 9-13 4-12 0 5 27
Atlanta 11 14 .440 1 L2 6-8 7-7 Mitchell 37 6-20 13-14 0-6 8 4 26
Brown said: “I don’t even have a com- Tatum played 41 minutes on the second The result is an inconsistent team Ingles.... 30 8-11 4-4 0-3 5 0 27
*Orlando 9 17 .346 3½ L3 5-8 7-10 Favors... 20 5-5 0-0 2-6 0 2 10
ment for that one. I think we’ve got to do game of a back-to-back, and the Celtics that wins in LA against the Clippers, Washington 6 17 .261 5 L2 2-9 4-13 Clarksn . 31 10-18 1-1 0-4 5 1 25
the best we can to help our team win. No play again Sunday afternoon. beat the Raptors twice as well as the Niang .... 14 2-2 0-0 0-2 1 3 5
Oni........... 3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
excuses.” Brown looked as if he had been in a Bucks and Heat, but loses to a team with WESTERN CONFERENCE Totals .... 43-82 29-34 7-46 22 22 129
FG%: .524, FT%: .853. 3-pt. goals: 14-
In other words, Brown is saying, “Get UFC match with Jon Jones after the one of the worst records in the NBA on a PACIFIC W L Pct. GB Streak Home Conf. 38, .368 (O'Neale 0-3, Bogdanovic 1-5,
*LA Lakers 20 6 .769 — W6 8-4 13-4 Mitchell 1-9, Ingles 7-9, Clarkson 4-11,
us some help Danny!” The Celtics can game, his mask covering his swollen night the Pistons were riddled with inju- Niang 1-1). Team rebounds: 13. Team
LA Clippers 19 8 .704 1½ W2 8-4 12-5 turnovers: 17 (22 pts.). Blocks: 5 (Gob-
wait another six weeks to use their $28.5 nose just as much as protecting him ries in the frontcourt. Phoenix 15 9 .625 4 W4 8-4 9-7 ert 4, Niang). Turnovers: 17 (O'Neale 3,
Bogdanovic 2, Gobert 2, Mitchell 2, In-
million trade exception but by that time from the virus. “There’s a lot of unknown because Golden State 14 12 .538 6 W2 9-5 9-7 gles 2, Favors 2, Clarkson 2, Niang,
*Sacramento 12 12 .500 7 L1 7-7 6-9 Oni). Steals: 4 (Bogdanovic, Clarkson,
Tatum and Brown might need work- “I don’t know how many times I hit we’re inconsistent,” Celtics coach Brad Niang 2). Technicals: def. 3-second,
4:53/3rd, def. 3-second, 11:16/4th,
man’s compensation. The Celtics have the floor but I migh t as well have Stevens said. “If we were more consis- SOUTHWEST W L Pct. GB Streak Home Conf.
Mitchell, 7:10/4th.
become a two-man team, because Walk- mopped the floor, man,” Brown said. tent as a team, we’d be a lot more San Antonio 15 11 .577 — W1 7-8 11-11 Milwaukee............31 21 30 33 — 115
Utah .......................35 34 27 33 — 129
*Memphis 10 10 .500 2 W1 4-7 4-5
er can’t score like he used to and the oth- “Detroit was a physical team. I think at known. I think we’re capable but there’s Dallas 13 14 .481 2½ W4 6-7 7-9
ers are just far too erratic. this point it’s a little ridiculous. I don’t a big difference between being consis- New Orleans 11 14 .440 3½ L2 7-5 6-10 NUGGETS 97, THUNDER 95
Theis, who has improved as a 3-point want to comment too much on it be- tent and capable in this league. Consis- Houston 11 14 .440 3½ L4 5-6 8-10 OKLAHOMA CITY
FG FT Reb
shooter, tried tying the game late with a cause I’m not getting fined but I got hit tent wins out at the end of the day and NORTHWEST W L Pct. GB Streak Home Conf. Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt
3-point attempt that was open — for a in the face pretty hard, and nothing.” has a chance to play for things, and we’re Utah 20 5 .800 — W5 10-2 10-3 Bazley... 29 2-9 2-2 1-7 2 0 7
Willims . 36 3-8 0-0 4-11 9 3 7
reason. He had missed his previous The physical toll is already apparent, not there yet.” *Portland 14 10 .583 5½ W2 7-5 6-6 Horford. 28 6-15 1-2 1-5 4 1 16
Denver 14 11 .560 6 W2 7-6 10-9 Dort....... 31 6-14 2-3 0-3 1 4 15
three. On the next play, Detroit rookie and if Ainge wants to save his guys for The clock is ticking for this team. The Okla. City 10 15 .400 10 L3 3-8 5-12
Diallo..... 37 6-15 3-4 0-4 2 6 16
Muscala 22 3-8 1-1 0-8 1 1 7
Saddiq Bey splashed his seventh 3-point- the playoffs and beyond, the Celtics need Celtics need to get Tatum and Brown Minnesota 6 20 .231 14½ L4 4-8 4-13 Jackson. 28 7-11 3-3 2-3 3 2 20
* — Not including late game Roby...... 19 3-5 1-2 2-5 3 1 7
er, becoming the first rookie in league to acquire a third scorer. The Celtics, be- some help, or these guys are going to Miller .... 11 0-4 0-0 1-3 1 1 0
FRIDAY’S RESULTS Totals .... 36-89 13-17 11-49 26 19 95
history to hit at least seven 3-pointers in sides Tatum and Brown, were 16-for-39 wear down trying to carry the team on FG%: .404, FT%: .765. 3-pt. goals: 10-
Detroit 108 at BOSTON 102 At Utah 129 Milwaukee 115 32, .313 (Bazley 1-3, Williams 1-1, Hor-
a game without a miss. shooting, 4-for-16 from the 3-point line their backs. ford 3-8, Dort 1-5, Diallo 1-2, Muscala
New York 109 at Washington 91 At Denver 97 Okla. City 95 0-4, Jackson 3-5, Roby 0-1, Miller 0-3).
It’s even more infuriating because for 42 points. Team rebounds: 9. Team turnovers: 14
At Charlotte 120 Minnesota 114 Memphis at LA Lakers
Bey was taken five picks after Aaron Ne- It’s unfair to depend on Pritchard to Gary Washburn can be reached at (12 pts.). Blocks: 3 (Bazley, Roby, Mill-
er). Turnovers: 12 (Bazley 2, Williams
San Antonio 125 at Atlanta 114 Cleveland at Portland
smith in the draft. Nesmith has contrib- be a third scorer with Walker missing gary.washburn@globe.com. Follow him 2, Dort, Diallo 3, Muscala, Jackson 2,
Roby). Steals: 8 (Williams, Dort, Diallo
At Dallas 143 New Orleans 130 Orlando at Sacramento
uted little so far. Bey is the shooting wing out to rest his knee. Semi Ojeleye scored on Twitter @GwashburnGlobe. 3, Muscala, Jackson 2).
LA Clippers 125 at Chicago 106 DENVER
FG FT Reb
SATURDAY’S GAMES Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt
Millsap.. 33 6-10 0-0 1-3 4 2 12
Philadelphia at Phoenix 3 Brooklyn at Golden St. 8:30 Porter.... 31 7-13 0-0 1-4 0 1 15
Jokic...... 37 9-16 2-2 3-13 9 4 22
Indiana at Atlanta 7:30 Miami at Utah 9 Barton... 36 4-8 0-0 1-5 5 1 10
Houston at New York 8 Murray.. 38 8-19 3-4 0-5 5 1 22
Green.... 16 1-7 0-0 1-7 0 3 2
THURSDAY’S RESULTS Morris... 18 2-5 2-2 0-0 0 0 7
Hamptn 19 3-6 0-2 0-4 1 2 7
At BOSTON 120 Toronto 106 At Golden St. 111 Orlando 105 Cmpzzo .. 6 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Nnaji........ 6 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Miami 101 at Houston 94 At Portland 118 Philadelphia 114 Totals .... 40-87 7-10 7-41 24 14 97
FG%: .460, FT%: .700. 3-pt. goals: 10-
Indiana 111 at Detroit 95 40, .250 (Millsap 0-2, Porter Jr. 1-6, Jok-
ic 2-7, Barton 2-3, Murray 3-11, Green
0-4, Morris 1-1, Hampton 1-4, Campaz-
zo 0-1, Nnaji 0-1). Team rebounds: 8.
HORNETS 120, T’WOLVES 114 MAVS 143, PELICANS 130 Team turnovers: 13 (18 pts.). Blocks: 5
(Millsap 2, Porter Jr. 2, Jokic). Turn-
overs: 13 (Millsap, Porter Jr., Jokic 2,
MINNESOTA NEW ORLEANS Barton 3, Murray 2, Green 2, Morris,
FG FT Reb FG FT Reb Hampton). Steals: 6 (Millsap, Porter Jr.,
Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt Jokic, Barton, Murray 2). Technicals:
Ingram.. 35 11-23 4-4 1-5 5 2 30 def. 3-second, 2:21/3rd.
Okogie .. 22 2-4 2-2 2-4 0 0 6 Willmsn 37 14-15 8-11 0-2 4 2 36
Edwrds . 34 9-21 1-1 0-6 3 2 21 Oklahoma City.....28 25 26 16 — 95
Adams .. 20 2-4 0-0 4-4 1 2 4 Denver...................16 24 30 27 — 97
Towns... 32 9-18 2-2 2-8 2 2 25 Ball ........ 32 4-12 0-0 0-6 7 4 12 A — (19,155). T — 2:07. Officials —
Rubio..... 28 2-8 1-1 1-4 9 5 5 Bledsoe. 32 5-7 2-3 0-4 4 3 16 James Williams, Jacyn Goble, Nate
Beasley. 37 12-21 0-0 1-5 1 3 31 Hart....... 30 2-8 1-2 0-5 5 3 6 Green.
McDnls . 24 3-7 1-2 1-4 1 3 9 Hrngmz. 22 4-8 2-3 4-9 3 1 10
McLghn 22 3-6 0-0 0-0 7 1 6 Lewis Jr 17 2-5 0-0 0-2 0 1 5
Reid....... 16 3-7 1-2 1-5 4 1 7 Redick... 15 4-8 0-0 0-1 2 1 11 CLIPPERS 125, BULLS 106
Totals .... 48-90 17-23 9-38 31 19 130
Nowell .. 18 1-6 0-2 0-2 1 1 2
Vndrblt ... 7 1-1 0-2 1-2 0 0 2 FG%: .533, FT%: .739. 3-pt. goals: 17- LA CLIPPERS
37, .459 (Ingram 4-9, Williamson 0-1, FG FT Reb
Totals .... 45-99 8-14 9-40 28 18 114
Ball 4-10, Bledsoe 4-4, Hart 1-5, Her- Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt
FG%: .455, FT%: .571. 3-pt. goals: 16- nangómez 0-1, Lewis Jr. 1-2, Redick Batum... 31 2-4 2-2 0-6 1 0 7
41, .390 (Okogie 0-2, Edwards 2-6, 3-5). Team rebounds: 7. Team turn- Leonard 33 14-21 4-5 0-6 3 0 33
JOHN TLUMACKI/GLOBE STAFF Towns 5-8, Rubio 0-3, Beasley 7-13, Mc- overs: 10 (13 pts.). Blocks: 3 (Ball, Ibaka..... 22 4-9 0-0 1-5 1 0 9
Daniels 2-4, McLaughlin 0-1, Nowell Redick 2). Turnovers: 9 (Ingram 2, Wil- Beverly . 12 2-4 1-2 0-0 1 1 6
Celtic Jeff Teague (left), who scored 8 points off the bench, attempts to deter a pass by Detroit’s Dennis Smith Jr. 0-4). Team rebounds: 7. Team turn- liamson, Adams 2, Ball, Bledsoe, Lewis Jackson. 24 5-11 0-0 0-1 4 0 11
Mann..... 33 3-4 1-1 0-4 2 4 7
overs: 8 (14 pts.). Blocks: 4 (Okogie, Jr., Redick). Steals: 5 (Ingram, William-
Towns, McDaniels 2). Turnovers: 8 son 2, Bledsoe, Hart). Zubac.... 15 5-6 2-3 1-4 1 5 12
(Towns, Rubio 2, Beasley, McDaniels, Willims . 24 8-13 0-0 0-2 5 0 17
DALLAS

Celtics go backward in loss to Pistons

McLaughlin 2, Vanderbilt). Steals: 10 Morris... 25 6-10 2-2 2-6 1 1 20
FG FT Reb
(Okogie, Towns 2, Beasley, McDaniels, Kabngle .. 3 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt
McLaughlin 4, Vanderbilt). Kennard 18 1-3 0-0 0-3 1 2 3
Kleber ... 37 2-6 0-0 0-6 2 4 6
Totals .... 50-86 12-15 4-37 20 13 125
CHARLOTTE Smith .... 35 5-6 0-0 1-5 0 3 14
Porzngs 32 13-21 2-4 3-7 1 4 36 FG%: .581, FT%: .800. 3-pt. goals: 13-
FG FT Reb
Rchrdsn 33 3-6 4-4 0-2 6 2 11 30, .433 (Batum 1-3, Leonard 1-6, Ibaka
Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt 1-3, Beverley 1-1, Jackson 1-3, Williams
Doncic... 40 17-30 7-9 1-8 12 4 46
Haywrd. 35 5-21 2-2 3-7 5 1 14 1-3, Morris Sr. 6-8, Kabengele 0-1, Ken-
Burke ...... 6 1-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 3
Rozier.... 41 13-20 9-9 0-7 3 2 41 Hardwy. 21 3-8 0-0 0-0 0 1 8 nard 1-2). Team rebounds: 3. Team
uCELTICS sidelined because of a calf strain, rookie Zeller..... 25 7-8 2-2 1-8 1 3 17 Brunson 22 4-5 3-4 0-6 7 1 13 turnovers: 9 (12 pts.). Blocks: 7 (Ba-
Continued from Page C1 Pistons 108, Celtics 102 Payton Pritchard drew his first career
Graham 28 4-10 0-0 0-2
Ball ........ 37 8-15 2-2 2-11
4
4
2 8
5 20
Stein...... 13 3-4 0-0 0-3 2 3 6
Powell..... 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
tum, Ibaka 2, Mann, Zubac, Williams,
Morris Sr.). Turnovers: 9 (Batum, Iba-
At TD Garden Bridges . 31 3-6 4-4 4-10 0 2 11 Totals .... 51-88 16-21 5-37 30 22 143 ka, Beverley, Mann 2, Zubac 2, Morris
had 27 points. DETROIT start for the Celtics. He might prefer to Biymbo . 23 2-3 0-0 2-6 1 2 4 FG%: .580, FT%: .762. 3-pt. goals: 25-
Sr., Kabengele). Steals: 11 (Batum 3,
FG FT Reb Leonard 2, Ibaka, Jackson, Mann 2, Wil-
The Celtics trailed by 13 with 10:40 Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt PPG be a bench sparkplug, though, because Monk..... 21 2-7 0-0 0-4 2 0 5 45, .556 (Kleber 2-5, Finney-Smith 4-5,
Porzingis 8-13, Richardson 1-3, Doncic
liams, Kennard).
Totals .... 44-90 19-19 12-55 20 17 120 CHICAGO
left before clawing back and pulling Griffin ............ 35
Grant.............. 35
4-11
5-16
1-2
3-3
0-4
0-5
6
3
4 12 12.3
2 15 23.3
he went just 1 for 5 with 2 points and 1 FG%: .489, FT%: 1.000. 3-pt. goals:
5-8, Burke 1-2, Hardaway Jr. 2-6, FG FT Reb
Brunson 2-2, Cauley-Stein 0-1). Team Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt
within 95-93 on a pair of Theis free Stewart ......... 22
Ellington........ 20
2-3
1-9
1-1
3-4
2-6
0-2
1
1
3
3
5 5.5
5 11.1
assist in 28 minutes, 43 seconds. 13-36, .361 (Hayward 2-6, Rozier 6-10,
Zeller 1-1, Graham 0-5, Ball 2-8, Bridges
rebounds: 8. Team turnovers: 6 (7 Willims . 35 1-5 1-2 0-4 1 2 3
pts.). Blocks: 2 (Porzingis, Doncic). Temple . 30 4-8 0-0 0-5 1 1 10
throws at the 2:10 mark, but the come- Wright ........... 35 7-9 7-8 1-6 7 0 22 10.2 R Brown and Tatum were constantly 1-3, Monk 1-3). Team rebounds: 4.
Team turnovers: 20 (21 pts.). Blocks: 3
Turnovers: 6 (Porzingis 2, Doncic 3, Gafford ... 8 0-1 2-2 1-2 1 2 2
J. Jackson...... 31 3-9 7-9 0-5 2 3 14 12.6 Hardaway Jr.). Steals: 4 (Kleber,
back stalled there. Mykhailiuk.... 21 2-7 0-0 0-2 0 2 5 6.2 trapped and double-teamed in Thurs- (Rozier, Zeller, Biyombo). Turnovers: Finney-Smith, Doncic, Burke).
White .... 34 7-14 0-0 0-3 4 3 17
LaVine... 34 11-21 0-0 2-9 6 2 26
Bey................. 27 10-12 3-3 2-12 0 2 30 8.8 20 (Hayward 3, Rozier 4, Zeller 3, Gra-
“Obviously, we’d love to be winning Smith Jr......... 13 0-3 0-0 1-2 5 1 0 3.3 day’s win over Toronto, keeping their ham 3, Ball 4, Bridges, Biyombo, New Orleans ........34 31 36 29 — 130
Dallas.....................27 42 39 35 — 143
Young ... 25 6-11 2-2 3-6 3 2 14
Strnsky . 30 5-8 7-7 0-4 7 2 17
Totals....... ...... 34-79 25-30 6-44 25 20 108 Monk). Steals: 4 (Hayward, Ball 3).
every game we play right now, but we FG%: .430, FT%: .833. 3-pt. goals: 15-38, .395 (Griffin 3-6, point totals down and getting their assist Technicals: . A — 1,514 (19,200). T — 2:17. Officials Valntne. 23 3-9 2-2 1-3 0 1 10
— Scott Foster, Scott Wall, Justin Van Kornet... 15 3-6 0-0 0-3 0 0 7
Grant 2-7, Ellington 0-7, Wright 1-1, J.Jackson 1-5, Mykhailiuk
can learn a lot from every game we play, 1-4, Bey 7-7, Smith Jr. 0-1). Team rebounds: 5. Team turnovers: totals up. But they were able to operate Minnesota.............30 29 26 29 — 114
Duyne. Arciicno .. 4 0-2 0-0 0-1 0 1 0
Charlotte...............25 35 30 30 — 120 Felicio ..... 1 0-0 0-0 1-1 0 0 0
regardless if we win or not,” Tatum said. 13 (22 pts.). Blocks: 6 (Grant 2, Stewart, Wright, J.Jackson 2).
Turnovers: 12 (Griffin, Grant 4, Ellington, Wright 2, J.Jackson 2,
in a lot more one-on-one situations Mokoka .. 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0

“We’re learning a lot about ourselves
right now.”
Observations from the game:
R Theis entered the night shooting
45.1 percent from beyond the 3-point
line this season, providing an unlikely
lift for Boston. But he was 0 for 4 on Fri-
day, including two misses in critical
spots.
With the Celtics trailing, 93-87, with
5:30 left in the game, he was short on a
wide-open look from the top of the key.
Then with 1:04 left and Boston trailing,
98-95, Tatum picked up his dribble
when he was slowed by Delon Wright at
the right arc. He flipped a pass to Theis,
who was trailing the play, and then
made a backdoor cut.
But when two defenders veered in
Tatum’s direction, Theis stepped behind
the line — with no defender within 10
feet of him — and left another 3-pointer
short. Generally his attempts come on
catch-and-shoots, so the movement on
this play might have been slightly out of
his comfort zone. It’s hard to argue with
such a wide-open look, but it also
wouldn’t have been bad to get the ball to
Tatum or Brown.
R The Celtics tied their season-high by
registering 30 assists in their win over
the Raptors. The ball movement was
crisp and concise, and it seemed like
something to build on. Instead, there
was substantial regression Friday, with
Boston tying its season-low with 15 as-
Smith Jr. 2). Steals: 3 (Wright, J.Jackson, Mykhailiuk). Techni- against the Pistons and they took advan- SPURS 125, HAWKS 114 Totals .... 40-85 14-15 8-41 23 16 106
cals: def. 3-second, 10:59/2nd. KNICKS 109, WIZARDS 91 FG%: .471, FT%: .933. 3-pt. goals: 12-
32, .375 (Williams 0-1, Temple 2-3,
BOSTON tage. Brown, in particular, carved up De- SAN ANTONIO White 3-8, LaVine 4-7, Satoransky 0-2,
FG FT Reb FG FT Reb
Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt PPG troit’s defense with several strong and NEW YORK
FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt
Valentine 2-6, Kornet 1-3, Arcidiacono
0-2). Team rebounds: 4. Team turn-
Ojeleye .......... 23 3-5 1-2 0-5 3 2 9 5.8 Johnson 28 8-11 2-2 0-2 1 1 20
Tatum............ 41 9-22 12-13 0-11 7 3 33 26.6 swift drives. He exploited aging veteran Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt DeRozn . 26 7-11 9-10 2-6 8 1 23
overs: 13 (24 pts.). Blocks: 3 (Williams,
Gafford, White). Turnovers: 13 (Wil-
Theis.............. 31 4-12 3-4 4-9 1 4 11 9.6 Bullock.. 18 2-7 0-0 0-3 1 5 6 Poeltl..... 28 7-7 0-1 2-12 1 0 14
Pritchard....... 29 1-5 0-0 0-3 1 3 2 8.1 Blake Griffin several times. Randle .. 32 8-15 6-7 3-18 4 3 24 White .... 17 3-5 3-4 0-2 4 4 11
liams, Gafford 4, White 2, LaVine 2,
Young 2, Satoransky, Valentine).
Brown............ 36 11-21 4-7 1-6 0 4 27 26.0 Robinsn 20 5-6 0-4 5-14 1 1 10
Thompson..... 17 2-5 0-0 1-2 0 0 4 6.8 R One play that will drive Stevens cra- Barrett .. 26 3-13 2-2 1-3 4 4 8
Murray.. 24 7-13 0-0 0-6 5 2 16
Wtrspn.. 10 1-3 0-0 0-1 0 6 2
Steals: 4 (Temple, Gafford, Young, Val-
Green............. 12 3-3 1-2 1-4 0 3 7 4.8 entine). Technicals: Young, 3:30/4th.
Teague .......... 22 3-7 0-0 0-0 2 1 8 5.8 zy: After Javonte Green scored inside in Payton .. 23 6-12 0-0 2-3 2 0 12 Walker.. 19 4-10 2-2 0-1 0 4 11
Mills ...... 21 4-6 1-1 0-3 4 0 12
LA Clippers...........30 28 32 35 — 125
Burks..... 26 0-3 0-0 0-8 1 1 0 Chicago.................25 29 24 28 — 106
G. Williams ... 25
Edwards.......... 4
0-0
0-2
1-2
0-0
0-4
0-0
1
0
4
1
1 5.7
0 5.1
the second quarter, the Pistons inbound- Noel....... 16 2-5 0-1 1-4 1 3 4 Eubanks 20 1-2 3-4 3-7 0 5 5
Gay........ 18 2-10 0-0 0-3 2 2 5
Rose ...... 20 7-11 0-0 0-3 6 0 14
Totals....... ...... 36-82 22-30 7-44 15 25 102 ed the ball and caught Boston’s defense Quickly . 22 5-15 4-4 1-2 1 0 16
Vassell.. 12 1-5 0-0 1-1 2 0 3
WARRIORS 111, MAGIC 105
FG%: .439, FT%: .733. 3-pt. goals: 8-27, .296 (Ojeleye 2-4, Tat- Lyles........ 9 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 0
um 3-7, Theis 0-4, Pritchard 0-3, Brown 1-4, Teague 2-3, Ed- sleeping as Bey streaked in for a dunk as Toppin .. 16 4-5 0-0 0-3 1 1 8 Diop......... 8 0-2 3-4 0-1 0 0 3 Thursday night game
wards 0-2). Team rebounds: 11. Team turnovers: 10 (11 pts.). Knox II .... 4 0-1 0-0 1-1 0 2 0 Totals .... 45-85 23-28 8-46 27 25 125
Blocks: 2 (Theis, Green). Turnovers: 10 (Ojeleye, Tatum 2, he was fouled. That can’t happen. Gibson .. 12 2-5 2-2 1-3 0 0 6 FG%: .529, FT%: .821. 3-pt. goals: 12-
ORLANDO
FG FT Reb
Theis 2, Pritchard, Brown 2, Teague 2). Steals: 9 (Ojeleye 2, Pinson..... 3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0
Theis, Brown 2, Green 2, G.Williams 2). Technicals: def. 3-sec- R Robert Williams missed his second Rivers...... 3 0-0 1-2 0-0 0 1 1
31, .387 (Johnson 2-3, White 2-3, Mur-
ray 2-3, Weatherspoon 0-1, Walker IV
Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt
Clark ..... 16 1-2 0-0 1-2 1 1 2
ond, 8:17/2nd.
Detroit ........................................ 27 27 28 26 — 108 consecutive game because of hip sore- Totals .... 44-98 15-22 15-65 22 22 109 1-5, Mills 3-5, Gay 1-6, Vassell 1-3,
Bates-Diop 0-2). Team rebounds: 5.
Ennis III 39 7-12 0-0 4-10 1 4 17
FG%: .449, FT%: .682. 3-pt. goals: 6- Vucevic. 38 8-23 6-6 1-13 5 3 25
Boston ........................................ 23 29 20 30 — 102
A — (18,624). T — 2:24. Officials — Zach Zarba, JB DeRosa,
ness. 24, .250 (Bullock 2-5, Randle 2-3, Bar-
Team turnovers: 14 (17 pts.). Blocks: 6 Mason..... 4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0
(Poeltl 3, White, Eubanks, Vassell).
Suyash Mehta. . . . rett 0-1, Payton 0-1, Burks 0-2, Rose Turnovers: 13 (Johnson, DeRozan 2, Po-
Bacon.... 37 7-18 2-2 1-3 1 3 20
Ross ...... 41 8-27 2-3 1-6 3 4 20
0-1, Quickley 2-7, Toppin 0-1, Knox II eltl 2, Weatherspoon, Walker IV 3, Mills Okeke ... 35 3-9 0-0 2-5 5 0 9
When Smart was diagnosed with a 0-1, Gibson 0-2). Team rebounds: 10.
Team turnovers: 12 (19 pts.). Blocks: 4
2, Eubanks 2). Steals: 6 (Poeltl 3, White, Birch ..... 24 3-4 3-5 2-8 2 0 9
Murray, Gay). Technicals: Murray, Bamba .... 7 1-2 1-2 1-2 1 1 3
Grade 1 calf strain, the team said he was (Noel 3, Toppin). Turnovers: 11 (Randle
4, Robinson, Payton, Rose 2, Toppin,
7:10/1st. Totals .... 38-97 14-18 13-49 19 17 105
said. “We just didn’t guard him well.” expected to be sidelined for 2-3 weeks. Knox II, Rivers). Steals: 11 (Bullock, ATLANTA
FG FT Reb
FG%: .392, FT%: .778. 3-pt. goals: 15-
33, .455 (Clark 0-1, Ennis III 3-5, Vucevic
Randle, Robinson 2, Barrett 2, Payton,
Bey was 4 for 4 in the first half and But two weeks have now passed, and Rose 4). Technicals: Bullock, 5:23/3rd. Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt
Reddish 21 2-8 2-5 0-0 1 2 6
3-6, Bacon 4-7, Ross 2-8, Okeke 3-5,
Birch 0-1). Team rebounds: 9. Team
then connected on all three of his at- when Smart spoke to the media Friday WASHINGTON
FG FT Reb
Collins... 23 3-11 2-2 4-6 1 2 9 turnovers: 15 (24 pts.). Blocks: 6 (Clark,
Ross 3, Birch 2). Turnovers: 15 (Clark,
Capela .. 21 7-11 0-0 3-11 0 2 14
tempts in the second. He also added 12 night he did not sound like a player Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt Huerter. 24 2-8 0-0 1-2 4 2 5 Ennis III 3, Vucevic 3, Bacon 2, Ross 4,
Bertans. 31 2-6 3-4 1-5 1 3 9 Young ... 23 8-15 7-8 0-1 3 1 25 Okeke 2). Steals: 7 (Ennis III 2, Bacon 3,
rebounds for good measure. whose return is near. Hchmra. 33 4-11 2-2 0-5 0 3 10 Gallinari 17 1-4 0-0 0-2 1 0 2 Okeke, Bamba).
Snell ...... 17 0-3 0-0 0-1 2 0 0 GOLDEN STATE
R Semi Ojeleye once again started for “It’s tough, just because being hurt, Len ........ 21 4-7 0-0 0-4
Mathws 25 4-13 2-2 1-1
0
0
3
1
8
14
Hill......... 21 0-4 2-2 0-3 1 2 2 FG FT Reb
Okngwu 16 1-1 4-4 0-3 2 2 6 Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt
Boston, and he picked up where he left the whole process, it takes time,” Smart Westbrk 35 10-22 3-6 2-9 10 1 23 Goodwn 16 4-8 2-4 1-3 3 2 13 Andersn 21 4-10 0-0 2-5 2 4 9
Avdija.... 21 3-9 1-2 2-6 0 3 8 Fernndo 14 2-3 2-4 0-6 1 2 6 Wiggins 34 8-13 3-5 1-7 3 2 21
off on Thursday, drilling a 3-pointer said. “As a player, as a competitor, you Smith .... 12 0-3 0-0 1-2 5 0 0 Mays ..... 17 7-10 2-2 0-1 3 0 20 Green.... 37 3-7 2-3 1-6 11 3 8
Brown ... 21 3-7 2-2 0-5 1 1 10
from the right corner on the Celtics’ first obviously want it to be faster, but it Lopez .... 21 2-6 1-2 2-4 0 1 5
Knight... 10 2-4 2-2 1-2 0 0 6
Totals .... 39-90 25-33 10-41 22 17 114
Oubre.... 34 6-12 2-2 3-10 4 2 17
Curry..... 37 14-26 2-2 0-8 5 1 40
possession. He was active on the defen- doesn’t happen that way. You have to lis- Neto ...... 15 2-5 0-0 0-4 2 2 4 FG%: .433, FT%: .758. 3-pt. goals: 11- Wnmkr.. 13 0-2 0-0 0-0 1 0 0
Paschall 12 1-5 0-0 1-3 0 2 2
Wagner... 5 0-0 0-0 0-1 1 0 0 32, .344 (Reddish 0-2, Collins 1-3, Huert-
sive end and had 9 points, 5 rebounds, 3 ten to your body and let your body do Totals .... 34-89 14-20 9-46 20 18 91 er 1-3, Young 2-6, Gallinari 0-3, Snell Bazmre . 13 1-4 0-0 0-2 1 3 3
Mulder.. 17 4-6 0-0 1-5 1 2 11
0-1, Hill 0-2, Goodwin 3-5, Mays 4-5,
assists and 2 steals in 23 minutes. what it does.” FG%: .382, FT%: .700. 3-pt. goals: 9- Knight 0-2). Team rebounds: 12. Team Lee ........ 21 0-3 0-0 0-0 1 1 0
34, .265 (Bertans 2-6, Hachimura 0-2, turnovers: 12 (19 pts.). Blocks: 4 (Red- Totals .... 41-88 9-12 9-46 29 20 111
But his solid night was cut short Smart said there is no specific time- Len 0-1, Mathews 4-10, Westbrook 0-4, dish, Capela 2, Fernando). Turnovers: FG%: .466, FT%: .750. 3-pt. goals: 20-
Avdija 1-5, Smith 0-1, Brown Jr. 2-5). 12 (Collins 3, Capela, Huerter 2, Young 50, .400 (Toscano-Anderson 1-4, Wig-
when he injured his right leg after being line for his return, but that he is just tak- Team rebounds: 1. Team turnovers: 14 2, Snell, Hill, Okongwu, Goodwin). gins 2-5, Green 0-1, Oubre Jr. 3-7, Curry
(15 pts.). Blocks: 5 (Len 2, Mathews 2, 10-19, Wanamaker 0-1, Paschall 0-2,
called for a charge with 6:18 left in the ing it day by day. He is now able to walk Neto). Turnovers: 14 (Hachimura, Len,
Steals: 10 (Capela, Huerter, Young,
Gallinari, Hill 2, Okongwu 2, Mays, Bazemore 1-3, Mulder 3-5, Lee 0-3).
Westbrook 5, Avdija 2, Smith, Brown Jr. Team rebounds: 9. Team turnovers: 17
third quarter. with just a slight limp and put some 3, Lopez). Steals: 5 (Bertans, West-
Knight). Technicals: Collins, 7:10/1st.
(21 pts.). Blocks: 6 (Toscano-Anderson,
brook, Smith, Lopez, Neto). Technicals: San Antonio .........36 41 33 15 — 125
“That was a loss the way that he’s pressure on the calf muscle, and he is do- Bertans, 6:14/4th. Atlanta ..................29 19 24 42 — 114
Wiggins 3, Green 2).
Orlando .................19 36 25 25 — 105
playing right now,” Stevens said. “So ing some light jogging with basketball New York..............30 23 26 30 — 109 A — 1,451 (18,729). T — 2:10. Officials
— Curtis Blair, Gediminas Petraitis,
Golden State ........29 18 37 27 — 111
Washington..........23 19 22 27 — 91
we’re hopeful that’s not anything major, movements, and some light shooting. Derek Richardson.

sists. That statistic can be somewhat
fickle, because a few missed open shots
can dent progress, but the offense gener-
ally seemed more stagnant.
“The thing that did not carry over
from last night was the ball movement,”
Stevens said. “And that made it difficult
to find great looks. And as a result, I
think we struggled.”
R Bey was no secret to the Celtics. He
made 7 of 11 3-pointers in the two
games between these teams in Detroit
earlier this season. Stevens said that
when the Celtics watched film on Friday
morning, Bey was a focus of the study.
“He was a huge emphasis,” Stevens
that it becomes a day-to-day type thing.
Losing wings is tough, because you lose
a lot of versatility and a lot of ability to
guard 1-4. Semi’s really gotten better at
that and he’s had a couple of good scor-
ing games.”
R Stevens said after Friday’s loss that
Detroit’s tough, physical style poses
matchup difficulties for Boston, and
that’s been clear. In addition to the two
losses, the Celtics needed a Tatum buzz-
er-beater to avoid being 0-3 against the
Pistons this season.
R With Kemba Walker sitting out to
rest his knee on the second night of a
back-to-back and Marcus Smart still
But there are obviously still several hur-
dles left to clear.
“I’m probably, I would say, 30 to 40
percent, running-wise,” Smart said. “But
just mostly doing a lot of testing, getting
my calf stronger and doing a lot of calf
raises and things of that nature to
strengthen it, and just getting ready to
hopefully get to the point of stage three
or four where I’m full-court running and
really just going all out to really test this
thing.”
Adam Himmelsbach can be reached at
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adam.himmelsbach@globe.com. Follow
him on Twitter @adamhimmelsbach. Former Celtic Terry Rozier had 41 points in the Hornets’ victory.
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celebrates his
grueling five-set
win Friday
night in the Hamlin is driven by
shot at historic win
Australian
Open, finished
before an empty
stadium
because of a
new COVID-19 By Jenna Fryer suspension for using a racial slur, is
lockdown. ASSOCIATED PRESS adapting to his new team.
Djokovic also DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Den- Kevin Harvick is looking to re-
said he suffered ny Hamlin, considered perhaps the bound after falling short of the se-
a torn muscle best NASCAR driver without a Cup ries title in last year’s nine-win sea-
during the Series championship, can look past son. He tweeted “She’s bad fast”
match. that hole on his record. He instead about his Ford, though it was Stew-
points to a pair of Southern 500 tro- art-Haas Racing teammate Aric
phies, a Bristol night race victory, Almirola who won the first qualify-
three road course wins, six at Po- ing race and said his car is strong.
cono and the big daddy of them all, Fellow Ford drivers and Team
the Daytona 500. Penske teammates Joey Logano
Hamlin has won NASCAR's and Ryan Blaney both seemed able
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Djokovic hurt in tough win

Torn muscle leaves
men’s No. 1 in doubt
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MELBOURNE — Novak Djokovic said
he tore a muscle during a fall in his five-
set victory in the Australian Open’s third
round and might
AUSTRALIAN need to pull out of
OPEN the tournament.
Hi s o p p o n e n t ,
American Taylor Fritz, wasn’t so sure. He
figured Djokovic definitely will be back
out there Sunday to continue his pursuit
of a ninth championship at Melbourne
Park and 18th Grand Slam title overall.
“If he can play like he played in the
fifth, I don’t see why he wouldn’t play,”
Fritz said. “He’ll beat pretty much any-
one.”
The No. 1-ranked Djokovic seemed to
be cruising along with a two-set lead Fri-
day night when his left foot gave out from
under him as he tried to change direc-
tions and he slipped awkwardly. He took
a medical timeout for treatment on his
side and later was helped more by a train-
er. Fritz got back into the match, before
Djokovic eventually won, 7-6 (1), 6-4, 3-6,
4-6, 6-2.
When it ended, Djokovic puffed his
chest, held his arms out wide and bel-
lowed, his voice echoing through an emp-
ty and otherwise silent Rod Laver Arena.
The match began with spectators present,
but they were forced to leave a little past
11:30 p.m. — about an hour before Djok-
ovic wrapped up his win — because a lo-
cal COVID-19 lockdown began at mid-
night.
During an on-court interview, he was
subdued.
And pessimistic.
“I know it’s a tear, definitely, of the
muscle. So I don’t know if I’ll manage to
recover from that in less than two days. I
don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know if
I’m going to step out onto the court or
not,” said Djokovic, who is supposed to
face 2016 Wimbledon runner-up Milos
Raonic with a quarterfinal berth on the
line.
“I am just very proud of this achieve-
ment tonight,” Djokovic said. “Let’s see
what happens tomorrow.”
The only man in the draw with more
Grand Slam trophies than Djokovic, No. 2
Rafael Nadal, has been complaining
about a bad back since last week. Nadal’s
bid for his men’s-record 21st major title —
breaking a tie with Roger Federer — con-
tinues Saturday in the third round
against Cameron Norrie.
Djokovic’s match was halted for about
10 minutes while the crowd was cleared
out, which bothered Fritz. No fans will be
allowed for at least five days.
“It’s going to be a rough few days for, I
think, everyone. But we’ll hopefully get
through it,” Serena Williams said earlier
Friday after beating 19-year-old Anastasia
Potapova, 7-6 (5), 6-2 despite 25 unforced
errors in the first set alone. “It’s been real-
ly fun to have the crowd back, especially
here. It’s been really cool. But you know
what? At the end of the day, we have to do
what’s best. Hopefully it will be all right.”
Williams now plays seventh-seeded
Aryna Sabalenka, who matched her best
Grand Slam showing by reaching the
fourth round with a 6-3, 6-1 win over Ann
Li.
Other women's fourth-round match-
ups established Friday: three-time Grand
Slam title winner Naomi Osaka against
two-time major champion Garbiñe Mu-
guruza, 2019 French Open finalist Marke-
ta Vondrousova against Hsieh Su-wei,
and two-time major champ Simona
Halep against reigning French Open
champion Iga Swiatek.
In early Saturday action, No. 61-
ranked Jessica Pegula reached the fourth
round by drubbing Kristina Mladenovic,
6-2, 6-1. She’s a Buffalo native and the
daughter of Terry and Kim Pegula, own-
ers of the NFL Bills and NHL Sabres.
Pegula will next play No. 5-seeded Eli-
na Svitolina, who beat No. 26 Yulia
Putintseva, 6-4, 6-0.
No. 25-seeded Karolina Muchova
staged an astounding second-set come-
back from a 5-0 deficit in near silence as
she beat No. 6 Karolina Pliskova, 7-5, 7-5.
and the last two years. On Sunday,
he will attempt to become the first
to win three consecutive Daytona
500s, a feat that would forever dull
the disappointment of his champi-
onship failures.
“This is something that no one’s
ever done before,” Hamlin said.
“Other guys have won champion-
ships, obviously. I would want to do
something no one else has done.”
Hamlin is the 8-1 betting favor-
ite but the Daytona 500 can be a
crapshoot, particularly in NA-
SCAR's condensed new schedule
forced by the pandemic. Speed-
weeks at Daytona International
Speedway for decades spanned
nearly two weeks but this year was
cut to just six days.
With only three practice ses-
sions and a pair of 150-mile qualify-
ing races, there is no clear indica-
tion who has cars capable of win-
ning the Daytona 500.
Hendrick Motorsports swept the
front row in qualifying with Alex
Bowman and William Byron, but
Byron crashed in the qualifying
race and will fall to the back in a
backup car at the start of the 500.
Bowman had an engine problem
that will cost him the pole if the mo-
tor needs to be replaced.
Chase Elliott is the reigning se-
ries champion but hasn’ t had
enough time to show if he’s a con-
tender for his first Daytona 500 vic-
tory. It’s also unclear how Kyle Lar-
son, new to the Hendrick stable this
season after last year's NASCAR
duel, setting him up for a possible
second Daytona 500 victory on the
20 th anniversary of Dale Earn-
hardt's death. Dillon drives Earn-
hardt's famed No. 3 on grandfather
Richard Childress’s team and un-
derstands how emotional a victory
would be in that Chevrolet.
“It would be amazing and huge
for the company, RCR and all the 3
fans out there,” Dillon said.
Dillon beat Bubba Wallace to
win his qualifying race in a dramat-
ic finish that showed Wallace might
finally have the equipment he
needs to be competitive. Wallace is
the only Black racer at NASCAR’s
top level and gained a national plat-
form last season for his outspoken-
ness on social justice issues.
He landed multiple sponsors
through his activism and Wallace
brought that funding to Michael
Jordan and Hamlin for the launch
of 23XI Racing. Jordan and Wallace
are the only Black majority owner
and driver combination in the
sport, and this team has the spon-
sorship and support that could fi-
nally give Wallace a chance at his
first Cup Series victory.
“He wants winning racecars, he
wants a winning race driver and he
took an opportunity to invest in me
and he has seen something that
sparked his interest,” Wallace said.
“We’re just going to go out and do
what I know how to do, not change
up anything, not try too hard be-
cause of MJ or because of Denny or
because of the opportunity.”

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Nets’ Durant set to return
By Matt Porter
GLOBE STAFF following virus quarantine
The Bruins placed no one on the NHL’s
COVID protocol list as of Friday’s game against Kevin Durant rejoined the Brooklyn Nets at
the Rangers, a 1-0 win at Madison Square Gar- practice Friday after missing three games for coro-
den. navirus health and safety protocol reasons, includ-
BRUINS The opponent, New York, ing a mandatory seven-day quarantine after being
NOTEBOOK sent forward Filip Chytil to the a close contact of a team employee who tested posi-
land of the unavailable. tive for the virus. Coach Steve Nash said the for-
Additionally, two more Flyers, Oskar Lind- ward will be “a full go” on a five-game road trip
blom and Scott Laughton, joined teammates that commences Saturday against a Golden State
Morgan Frost, Jakub Voracek, Justin Braun, club Durant won two NBA titles with . . . Heat
Claude Giroux, and Travis Sanheim on the list. guard Tyler Herro was cleared for basketball activi-
Boston is scheduled to play Philadelphia Feb. 21 ties ahead of Saturday night’s game at Utah after
in Lake Tahoe, Nev. missing one game while dealing with coronavirus
The Islanders, who host the Bruins Saturday, health and safety coronavirus protocols.
had no one on the list. The Devils, originally
scheduled to play the Bruins at TD Garden on COLLEGES
Monday, had 18 players on the list. They remain
on the schedule for Thursday on Causeway BC-Georgia Tech men moved
Street, but that does not seem likely. A men’s basketball game featuring Boston Col-
The NHL postponed 35 games in the first lege at Georgia Tech was moved from Tuesday to
four weeks of play. Of those, 17 have yet to be re- Wednesday at noon. Georgia Tech had been sched-
scheduled. uled to play four games in seven days as it makes
The league also released updated COVID up games postponed by COVID-19. Now the Yel-
safety measures, which will be in effect until at low Jackets have two days off after Sunday’s home
least Feb. 28. They include rapid testing — in ad- game against Pittsburgh . . . In women’s basketball,
dition to the lab-based PCR tests already in effect Christyn Williams broke out of a slump with 19
— on game days; asking players, staff, and offi- points and No. 2 UConn (16-1, 13-0 Big East) over-
cials to quarantine while not at the rink; con- came another slow start for a 64-40 win at George-
ducting all meetings virtually; and wearing town (1-10, 1-10) for its sixth straight win. Paige
KN95 face coverings at all times when not exer- Bueckers, playing 39 minutes on a sprained right
cising. ankle, had 19 points and nine assists . . . Michaela
The NHL and the Players Association also Onyenwere (25 points, seven rebounds) led No. 8
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agreed to “strongly” recommend that household UCLA (12-3, 9-3 Pac-12) to a 69-58 win at Utah (5-
members limit their activities outside the home, Bruins forward Nick Ritchie scored at 9:27 of the second period, the only goal of the game. 12, 4-12) . . . Oregon starting quarterback Tyler
and encouraged teams to find ways for families Shough is entering the transfer portal with three
to be tested for COVID-19 regularly. Bruins cap- years of eligibility remaining.
tain Patrice Bergeron supported the measure. ing near their respective team’s exits as the Zam- streak, the longest among active Bruins for-
“That’s something we’ve talked about in the bonis circled the rink, Zibanejad started taping wards.
past,” he said. “Your family should be free to do his stick. They finally settled it with a rock-pa- R The Rangers were without star winger Arte- No. 1 BC men skate to victory
whatever they want, but at the same time you per-scissors duel. Zibanejad (rock) beat March- mi Panarin, who is day to day with a lower-body In men’s hockey, top-ranked BC (12-3-1 Hockey
have to make sure they’re doing the right thing.” and (scissors). injury. That opened a spot for Colin Blackwell, East) got two goals and an assist apiece from Mike
Bergeron, who has three young children, ac- R Quiet night for David Pastrak, who went the former St. John’s Prep standout from Law- Hardman and Alex Newhook in a 7-1 rout of UM-
knowledged that staying safe is a bit more of a 0-0—0 and landed none of his six shot attempts rence, who landed three hits in 9:53. ass Lowell (4-6-0) at Conte Forum . . . Alex Vlasic
challenge, but said, “We are in a pandemic and in 18:39. Blackwell, a seventh-round pick (194th over- scored at 3:34 of the third period and Vinny Dup-
we have to be careful in what we’re doing. That R With Matt Grzelcyk out, Connor Clifton all) of the Sharks in 2011, was playing in his lessis made 18 saves to lead No. 13 BU (7-2-0
goes for everyone.” was back, lining up on his off side next to fellow 38th NHL game. Since his Prep days, he battled Hockey East) to a 1-0 win at Vermont (1-6-2) . . .
right-shot defenseman Brandon Carlo. Clifton concussions in a five-year stint at Harvard, spent Aidan McDonough’s hat trick paced No. 18 North-
They love New York has not recorded a point in seven games. a year each with the AHL affiliates of the Sharks eastern (7-5-2 Hockey East) in a 6-2 win at UNH
R The Bruins haven’t won four straight at R Netminder Jaroslav Halak started for the and Sabres, and had his first taste of the NHL (5-11-2) . . . In women’s hockey, Savannah Nor-
MSG since a four-game streak from March 15, first time since Feb. 1. After Friday’s win, Halak with the Predators, for whom he produced 10 cross tied the game in the second period and as-
1993 to Jan. 23, 1995. still has not lost in regulation (4-0-1). Tuukka points in 33 games over two seasons (2018-20). sisted on Cayla Barnes’s goal at 2:45 of overtime as
R No one has a better third-period goal differ- Rask will take the net Saturday on Long Island. Last October, the Rangers signed him for two No. 6 BC (13-3-0 Hockey East) took a 2-1 win over
ential than Boston’s plus-9. Calgary is also R With 6:38 left, former Bruins prospect Ryan years and $725,000 a season. He had 3 points in No. 10 Providence (10-6-1) at Conte Forum. Abi-
plus-9. Lindgren needed repairs after tangling along the his first four games with the Blueshirts. gail Levy made 30 saves for the Eagles . . . Tynka
R Brad Marchand and Mika Zibanejad were boards with Jeremy Lauzon. A 2016 second- Pátková and Maddy Skelton each had a goal and
on the ice for nearly 10 minutes at the end of the rounder (49th overall), Lindgren was flipped to Matt Porter can be reached at an assist and Jessie McPherson made 22 saves to
warm-up, neither wanting to surrender the su- the Rangers in the Feb. 2018 deal for Rick Nash. matthew.porter@globe.com. Follow him on lift Vermont (6-1-0 HE) to a 4-0 win at BU (4-4-0).
perstition of being the last one off the ice. Wait- R Charlie Coyle is on a six-game pointless Twitter: @mattyports.
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NHL Halak flawless as Bruins

Stamkos put on COVID-19 list
Tampa Bay Lightning captain Steven Stamkos
was one of five players added to the NHL’s COVID-

win their fifth straight

19 list, a day after he couldn’t play against Florida
with what the team said was a lower-body injury.
EAST The Flyers have seven players on the list with the
GP W L OL Pts. ROW GF GA additions of defenseman Oskar Lindblom and for-
BOSTON 13 10 1 2 22 8 40 26 ward Scott Laughton. Coyotes forward John
Philadelphia 13 8 3 2 18 8 46 41
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Pittsburgh 12 6 5 1 13 3 37 44 shot’s not going in, especially in this league Baker Award while at BU before a 12-year NHL ca-
NY Rangers 13 4 6 3 11 4 31 34 R When, where: Saturday, 7 p.m., at Nassau Coliseum,
. . . but when they’re forced to control re- Uniondale, N.Y. reer, was named general manager of the United
New Jersey 9 4 3 2 10 4 23 26
Buffalo 10 4 4 2 10 2 30 32
bounds, deal with traffic, sort some things out, R TV, radio: NESN, WBZ-FM (98.5). States men’s hockey team for the 2021 IIHF World
that’s where you start to get some goals.” R Goals: Mathew Barzal 5, Jordan Eberle 5, Anders Lee Championship (May 21-June 6, in Riga, Latvia).
4.
NORTH It was a bad one for Shesterkin, who didn’t
GP W L OL Pts. ROW GF GA have his short side sealed off. The Rangers
R Assists: Barzal 8, Noah Dobson 5, Nick Leddy 5.
R Goaltending: Semyon Varlamov (5-2-2, 1.98), Ilya So- Quetta to go to Atlanta hospital
Toronto 14 11 2 1 23 11 52 36 rokin (0-2-1, 3.65).
seemed irritated about that, or something else, R Head to head: This is the second of eight meetings.
Injured Bishop Feehan boys’ hockey player, AJ
Montreal 14 8 4 2 18 8 50 38
Edmonton 16 9 7 0 18 9 55 52
because the temperature spiked even higher. The Islanders beat the Bruins, 1-0, on Jan. 18. Quetta, is being transferred Monday to Shepherd
Trent Frederic and Brendan Lemieux R Miscellany: New York is 2-3-3 in its last eight games Center in Atlanta for at least three months. Quetta
Winnipeg 13 8 4 1 17 8 46 36
after starting the season 3-1 . . . The Islanders allow
Calgary 13 7 5 1 15 6 39 34 fought off the ensuing center-ice draw, taunt- 2.5 goals per game, fifth best in the NHL . . . Varlamov was injured when he went headfirst into the
Vancouver 17 6 11 0 12 5 51 66 ing and jawing at each other from the penalty is tied for the league lead with three shutouts . . . boards of a Jan. 26 game against Pope Francis at
Ottawa 15 2 12 1 5 2 32 63 Barzal is on a seven-game point streak.
boxes. Frederic certainly wasn’t satisfied, con- the Olympia Ice Center in West Springfield. After
CENTRAL sidering how Lemieux — the son of Claude, the initially being hospitalized at Baystate Medical
GP W L OL Pts. ROW GF GA former object of Cam Neely ’s loathing — Center in Springfield, Quetta has been at Mass.
Tampa Bay 12 9 2 1 19 9 44 25 jumped him off the faceoff, and landed six General Hospital for the past two weeks.“The care
Florida 11 8 1 2 18 7 37 30 quick rights before Frederic got his bearings. he has received at Massachusetts General Hospital
Columbus 15 7 5 3 17 6 45 50
Carolina 11 8 3 0 16 6 39 30
The latter recovered, and the two traded has been world-class,” school president Tim Sulli-
Chicago 15 6 5 4 16 6 44 47 wild swings before falling to the ice. Frederic van wrote on Twitter. “The doctors, nurses and
Dallas 11 5 3 3 13 5 37 30 was seen saying, “We’re going again” to Le- staff have been outstanding. It’s now time for the
Nashville 14 6 8 0 12 5 34 48 mieux as the two skated to the box. They next step in his rehab process.”
Detroit 15 3 10 2 8 3 29 49 KATHY WILLENS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
didn’t, but teammate Jeremy Lauzon later
WEST scored a decisive win in a scrap with Pavel Bu- Young star Mathew Barzal is on a seven- SOCCER
GP W L OL Pts. ROW GF GA chnevich. He also earned an extra 10 minutes game point streak for the Islanders.
St. Louis 14 8 4 2 18 7 47 44 for landing a couple extra shots after the pair Che loaned to Bayern Munich
Vegas 11 8 2 1 17 8 37 27 landed on the ice. German club Bayern Munich signed 17-year-
Colorado 11 7 3 1 15 7 38 24
The Bruins and Rangers wound up combin- Bruins 1, Rangers 0 old American defender Justin Che on loan from FC
Anaheim 15 6 6 3 15 5 30 39 At Madison Square Garden, New York
Arizona 13 6 6 1 13 5 35 37 ing for 58 penalty minutes, all told. FIRST PERIOD Dallas for the rest of the season. Bayern said Che
Minnesota 11 6 5 0 12 6 30 30 No scoring
It was a bounce-back game for the young Penalty — Boston, Clifton (delay of game) 0:56 will be part of the under-19 team but will also have
San Jose 12 5 6 1 11 1 34 46 Penalty — NY Rangers, Kakko (tripping) 6:02
defense, which showed its age with some slop- Penalty — Boston, Carlo (interference) 17:01 training opportunities with the reserve squad,
Los Angeles 13 4 6 3 11 4 40 44
ROW — Regulation plus overtime wins py play in Wednesday’s 3-2 win at MSG. Penalty — Boston, Coyle (slashing) 2:12
SECOND PERIOD which plays in Germany’s third division. The deal
FRIDAY’S RESULTS Boston killed all six of shorthanded stints, Penalty — NY Rangers, Lemieux (boarding) 4:23
Penalty — NY Rangers, Trouba, served by Blackwell, double minor
was possible before the age of 18, the usual mini-
Boston 1 at NY Rangers 0 St. Louis 4 at Arizona 1 the last of which came when Charlie McAvoy (roughing) 6:33 mum age for international transfers, because Che
Penalty — Boston, McAvoy (roughing) 6:33
SATURDAY’S GAMES flung a puck out of his own zone for delay of Boston 1, NY Rangers 0 — Ritchie 5 (Krejci, Lauzon) 9:27 is also a German citizen, Bayern added . . . Totten-
Penalty — NY Rangers, Lemieux, major (fighting) 9:28
Boston at NY Islanders 7 Tampa Bay at Florida 7 game with 1:02 left. The best defenseman on Penalty — Boston, Frederic, major (fighting) 9:28 ham was the latest English Premier League club to
Penalty — Boston, Marchand (cross check) 10:41
Washington at Buffalo 1 Columbus at Chicago 8 the Boston roster, who also tripped Kaapo Kak- Penalty — Boston, Kuraly (boarding) 10:41 have its next European game moved to a neutral
Penalty — NY Rangers, Howden (slashing) 10:41
New Jersey at Philadelphia 7 Carolina at Dallas 8 ko at 4:31 of the third, watched his mates seal Penalty — NY Rangers, Buchnevich, major (fighting) 15:14 country due to travel restrictions in England dur-
Penalty — Boston, Lauzon (misconduct) 15:14
Minnesota at Los Angeles 10 St. Louis at Arizona 8 the game, skating 4 on 6 with Shesterkin out of Penalty — Boston, Lauzon, major (fighting) 15:14 ing the pandemic. UEFA said Tottenham will play
THIRD PERIOD
Ottawa at Winnipeg 3 Detroit at Nashville 8 the net. No scoring Austrian side Wolfsberger Thursday in Budapest,
Vegas at San Jose 4 Calgary at Vancouver 10 Brandon Carlo and Kevan Miller helped kill Penalty — NY Rangers, Trouba (holding) 1:38
Penalty — Boston, McAvoy (tripping) 4:31
Hungary. Arsenal was moved for a second time,
Montreal at Toronto 7 it off, the Rangers landing zero shots until Ad- Penalty — Boston, McAvoy (delay of game) 18:58
SCORE BY PERIOD
and will go to Greece to host Benfica in the Europa
THURSDAY’S RESULTS am Fox’s rink-length slapper with two seconds Boston...............................................................0 1 0 — 1 League in the second leg in Piraeus on Feb. 25.
NY Rangers......................................................0 0 0 — 0
Washington (ppd.) at Buffalo At Winnipeg 5 Ottawa 1 left. SHOTS BY PERIOD
Boston...............................................................6 18 6 — 30
Pittsburgh 4 at NYI 3 (SO) St. Louis (ppd.) at Minnesota It was the final save for Halak (21 saves), NY Rangers....................................................10 6 5 — 21 MISCELLANY
New Jersey (ppd.) at Philadelphia Carolina 5 at Dallas 3
sealing the Bruins’ first shutout win of the sea- Power plays — Boston 0 of 4; NY Rangers 0 of 6.
At Florida 5 Tampa Bay 2 Arizona (ppd.) at Colorado
son. On an efficient, nearly rebound-free night,
Goalies — Boston, Halak 4-0-1 (21 shots-21 saves). NY Rangers,
Shesterkin 3-4-1 (30 shots-29 saves). Hermann wins women’s worlds
Referees — Ghislain Hebert, Kelly Sutherland. Linesmen — Tony Serico-
Edmonton 3 at Montreal 0 Anaheim 1 at Vegas 0
Halak was particularly troublesome for Alexis lo, Tyson Baker. Tina Hermann rallied in the final heat to win
Columbus 6 at Chicago 5 Calgary 3 at Vancouver 1 Attendance — 0 (18,006). Time — 2:30.
Lafrenière. He robbed the highly-touted rookie her third straight world skeleton championship,
At Nashville 3 Detroit 2 At Los Angeles 6 San Jose 2
twice on the same shift in the first period, com- beating fellow German Jacqueline Loelling, finish-
ing up with a kick stop when the rookie ing four runs over two days in 3 minutes, 52.97
whacked a puck out of midair, and turning seconds — 0.11 seconds ahead of Loelling, who led
BLUES 4, COYOTES 1
back a heavy one-timer from the slot. again, on Saturday on Long Island. The Bruins going into the final run at Altenberg, Germany.
Penalties — Larsson, Ari (illegal check
St. Louis .......................1
Arizona.........................0
0
1
3 —
0 —
4
1 to the head minor), 6:08. It was Halak’s first clean sheet since Dec. will try to avenge their only shutout (1-0) loss American Katie Uhlaender was sixth in her final
First period — 1. St. Louis, Faulk 4
Shots on goal — St. Louis 12-5-9 — 27, 2019 at Buffalo (26 saves). It was also the of the year. Rask will start. world championships. Sara Roderick of Truro, was
26. Arizona 9-8-8 — 25.
(Perron, Hoffman), 2:28 (pp). Penalties
Power plays — St. Louis 1-2; Arizona
51st shutout of his career, breaking a tie with “Tomorrow is a big one,” said Halak, the for- 24th in her first world championships. Germany’s
— Fischer, Ari (interference), 1:48.
Parayko, StL (holding), 14:01. 0-3. teammate Tuukka Rask (and Chris Osgood) for mer Islander (2014-18). Christopher Grotheer, who was third by 0.06 sec-
Second period — 2. Arizona, Larsson Goalies — St. Louis, Binnington 7-2-2 30th all time. Halak moved into a five-way tie But for this mentally-sound group, not big- onds at the midway point, won the men’s title in
1 (Oesterle, Hayton), 8:44. Penalties — (25 shots-24 saves). Arizona, Kuemper
Sundqvist, StL (holding), 2:10. Bortuz- 4-6-1 (25 shots-23 saves). for 26th, with Tomas Vokoun, Curtis Joseph, ger than it needs to be. 3:46.31. Austin Florian of Southington, Conn., was
zo, StL (holding), 15:22. Referees — Kyle Rehman, Justin Dave Kerr, and Rogie Vachon. 15th . . . Yoshiro Mori resigned as president of the
Third period — 3. St. Louis, Faulk 5 StPierre. Linesmen — Brandon
(Kyrou, Gunnarsson), 13:05. 4. St. Lou- Gawryletz, Julien Fournier. The only regulation loss to date for the B’s, Matt Porter can be reached at Tokyo Olympic organizing committee after sexist
is, Barbashev 1 (Schenn, Faulk), 18:52 A — 2,457 (17,125). T — 2:29. Jan. 18 against the Islanders, has faded out of matthew.porter@globe.com. Follow him on comments made last week, just over five months
(en). 5. St. Louis, Schenn 7, 19:35 (en).
view. But here come the grind-you-down Isles Twitter: @mattyports. before the postponed Olympics are to open.
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Canisius 74........................Quinnipiac 67
Merrimack 72..............Central Conn. 52 WAS DEN ATL ATL
By Andrew Lin the tone for the following three UMass-Lowell 79.....................Albany 71
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GLOBE CORRESPONDENT years,” Klick-McHugh said. OTHER EAST
Buffalo 86.......................W. Michigan 54 NBA, NBCSB NBCSB NBCSB
Caitlin Klick-McHugh “We’ve been so lucky to have so Iona 85...............................Manhattan 67
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Robt. Morris 88..................... Oakland 82
knows exactly what is at stake many great swimmers and div- St. Francis (Pa.) 80St. Francis B’klyn 66
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for the Westford Academy ers, not only talent-wise but al- Bellarmine 66............North Alabama 64 On the radio, unless noted: Bruins and Celtics, WBZ-FM 98.5
swimming and diving teams. so personality-wise, coming Campbell 64...................USC Upstate 49
Charleston So. 69............. High Point 68
For the girls, it was a matter through the program that it all Clemson 74...................Georgia Tech 72

of dominance: the Grey Ghosts just seems to keep going.”

have strung together six con-
secutive undefeated seasons,
winning eight of the last nine
MIAA Division 1 titles.
For the boys, it was a matter
of consistency: they hoisted the
Division 1 trophy in 2015 and
have finished in the top six ev-
ery year since 2011.
And in a winter in which
sectional and state meets will
not be held because of the pan-
demic, Westford was deter-
mined to continue its run of ex-
cellence.
“Swimming and diving is a
great sport in that kids know
what their personal best is and
they always want to push that
limit,” Klick-McHugh said. “So
just trying to improve on an in-
dividual level is another moti-
vation as well.”
In December, the Westford
School Committee gave the
green light for swimming and
diving, along with gymnastics,
Alpine skiing, and Nordic ski-
ing. But in the process, the
committee axed the basketball
and hockey seasons, by a 4-3
vote, citing the two sports as
high-risk activities.
Klick-McHugh said she be-
lieves the use of virtual meets
played a vital role in allowing
swimming to continue; it was
presented as an alternative
method of competition. While
virtual meets have sapped the
usual energy and atmosphere
at swim meets, they provided a
much-needed lifeline to the
program.
“We’re just thankful we’ve
been able to have a season to
get back in the pool,” said se-
nior captain Madison Leong,
who is committed to Hamilton
College. “It took us a bit longer
to get back in shape, but now
we’re finally looking better as a
JIM DAVIS/GLOBE STAFF
Senior Madison Leong and
Westford have perservered
despite the pandemic.
tionnaire? A great team cul-
ture.
Before the pandemic, the
swim teams would bond
through a variety of different
activities out of the pool such
as “spags,” a routine pasta din-
ner followed by mini-games,
and scavenger hunts. The activ-
ities not only helped ease new
players into the squad but also
tightened the chemistry within
the team.
“Spags is a time to loosen up
and have fun,” said Sam Grang-
er, one of three captains for the
boys’ team. “We normally do
games after we were done eat-
ing, like the first spag every
year we would always do a cap-
tain-led get-to-know-you game
where we pick on the freshmen
as like the initiation.”
“[Klick-McHugh] has done
a great job keeping everyone
motivated and keeping us in
good spirits,” said Leong. “By
doing different activities like
that, it’s definitely connected us
to each other and helped us re-
ally enjoy the season.”
But the presence of the pan-
demic has completely changed
the pre-pandemic routines.
With practices split into three
groups, the swimmers now
practice only three days per
week instead of five. Without
Diving in
R The Cape Ann League
championships are being held
virtually through Sunday; offi-
cials will compile the results by
Monday. Hamilton-Wenham
coach Natalie Kliss said that a
virtual conference champion-
ship, coupled with no MIAA
Tournament severely stunted
her swimmers’ motivation. But
completing the season in good
health is something to be
proud of.
“The season had many chal-
lenges and changes to the
team, but we were able to com-
plete the season,” Kliss said.
“[The lack of competitiveness]
had an impact on the swim-
mers’ performance which im-
pacted their times.”
Even so, the Generals
turned in solid performances to
finish off the season. Senior
diver Micah Katz ventured into
swimming for his senior year,
recording a season-high 295.05
six-dive score on the boards
and a 1:14.47 100 breaststroke,
narrowly edging teammate Ry-
an Luo (1:14.51).
R Also in the CAL virtual
league championship, New-
buryport’s Austin Hyer put on a
clinic for the Triton co-op,
which also includes swimmers
from Pentucket. The junior
dropped six seconds off of his
personal best in the 200 free-
style, setting a school record
with a time of 1:58.94. Josh
Thibeau set the previous record
of 1:59.07 in 2019.
Hyer then went on to set an-
other school record in the 100
breaststroke with a time of
1:09.97, breaking Thibeau’s re-
cord of 1:11.91.
Hyer wasn’t the only one in
top form, however. Pentucket
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group every day and I think
this is going to turn out really
well for everyone.”
The girls extended their un-
defeated run with a 4-0 record,
including a 108-77 win over
Concord-Carlisle, last season’s
Division 1 runner-up. The girls’
squad had originally scheduled
a meet against Weston and
Wayland last Sunday, but it was
postponed because of snow.
The boys have similarly posted
a 5-0 record and are currently
awaiting results from last Sat-
urday’s virtual meet against
Wayland, the reigning Division
2 champion, and Weston.
The biggest indication of
Westford Academy’s success
lies squarely in the swimmers’
feedback of their time with the
team.
Shortly after Westford Acad-
emy’s senior night virtual swim
meet, the seniors filled out a
questionnaire that asked them
to reflect upon their years with
the program. The prevalent
theme throughout the ques-
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the valuable in-person bonding
experiences, the teams are us-
ing online group chats to at-
tempt to fill the void and avoid
breaking COVID regulations.
“The biggest place we’re
missing out on this year is rid-
ing the bus together because if
you’re on the way home from a
meet you’ve won, it’s like a big
party where we have tons of
music and cheering and if we
lose, we console each other,”
Granger said.
On a similar note, Klick-
McHugh insisted that Westford
Academy’s success stems from
the leadership qualities of its
seniors year in and year out.
The Grey Ghosts have 17 se-
niors and seven team captains
this year: Kylie Hoar, Julia Tra-
canna, and Leong lead the
girls’ team, Matt Song, Ryan
Pillion, and Granger lead the
boys’ team, and Kaely Harding
is the dive captain.
“When you have an awe-
some group of senior captains
like we do this year, it just sets
sophomore Henry Brien bet-
tered his school record in the
100 butterfly with a time of
58.87, a half-second drop from
the mark he set last season. On
the girls’ side, Newburyport
freshman Abriana Constrom
swam in 1:02.44 in the 100
backstroke and 57.91 in the
100 freestyle, both personal
bests that would have qualified
her for the state championship.
“What these kids accom-
plished this year given all the
restrictions they were swim-
ming under was nothing short
of amazing, and I’m so proud of
them,” Triton first-year coach
Rebecca Burrell said.
R As the season wraps up,
the Dual County League hosted
its diving championship
Wednesday. With her six-dive
score of 329.6, Weston diver
Charlotte Martinkus broke her
DCL Championship meet re-
cord, which she set last year.
Globe correspondent Emma
Healy contributed.
Halftime: UMass Lowell, 26-24. 3-pt.
RODEO Jordan Spieth.................65-67–132 -12
goals: UML 8-16 (Al.Blunt 0-1, Withers Daniel Berger.................67-66–133 -11
3-6, Thomas 3-5, Daley 2-3, An.Blunt 10 p.m. PBR: Built Ford Tough Invitational (tape) CBSSN Henrik Norlander.......... 64-70–134 -10
0-1), Albany 7-17 (Champion 1-2, Rizzu- Patrick Cantlay..............62-73–135 -9
to 5-11, Healy 1-3, Hutcheson 0-1). Re- SAILING Paul Casey......................68-67–135 -9
bounds: UML 27 (Jordan-Thomas 9), Al- Tom Lewis......................66-69–135 -9
bany 25 (Lulka, Taylor 5). Assists: UML 10:30 p.m. Prada Cup final (tape) NBCSN Russell Knox...................66-70–136 -8
21 (Daley 9), Albany 12 (Horton 5). Akshay Bhatia................64-73–137 -7
Fouls: UML 19, Albany 15. SKIING Tom Hoge.......................67-70–137 -7
2:30 p.m. Alpine World Championships (tape) NBC
Nate Lashley..................65-72–137
Maverick McNealy........68-69–137
-7
-7
HOCKEY 4:30 p.m. Alpine World Championships (tape) NBCSN Cameron Percy..............67-70–137 -7
Brian Stuard...................66-71–137 -7
MEN
NEW ENGLAND MEN’S SOCCER Jason Day.......................69-69–138
Scott Brown...................69-70–139
-6
-5
Army 3........................................Bentley 2
Babson 4............................N.E. College 2
7:25 a.m. Premier: Liverpool at Leicester City NBCSN Jason Dufner..................68-71–139 -5
Will Gordon....................66-73–139 -5
BC 7.................................UMass-Lowell 1 10 a.m. Premier: Burnley at Crystal Palace NBCSN Max Homa......................69-70–139 -5
BU 1..........................................Vermont 0 12:30 p.m. Premier: Tottenham at Manchester City NBC Matt Jones......................67-72–139 -5
Colgate 2..............................Quinnipiac 2 Patton Kizzire................69-70–139 -5
SPEEDSKATING Francesco Molinari.......69-70–139 -5
Northeastern 6...............................UNH 2
Plymouth St. 4...................Anna Maria 1 John Senden...................70-69–139 -5
6 p.m. World championships (tape) NBCSN Cameron Tringale.........67-72–139 -5
Providence 4...............................UConn 0 Vincent Whaley.............68-71–139 -5
OTHER EAST
Canisius 5..........................................RIT 3
TENNIS Bronson Burgoon..........68-72–140 -4
Sebastian Cappelen......75-65–140 -4
MIDWEST 7 p.m. Australian Open Tennis
Adrian 8......................................Marian 4
Jim Furyk........................71-69–140
Branden Grace...............71-69–140
-4
-4
9 p.m. Australian Open ESPN2
Lake Superior St. 2.....Bowling Green 1 Mark Hubbard...............66-74–140
Hank Lebioda.................70-70–140
-4
-4
Miami (Ohio) 3.................St. Cloud St. 2 TRACK AND FIELD
Michigan Tech 3....................Ferris St. 0 Troy Merritt....................71-69–140 -4
Minnesota 3......................Notre Dame 0 4 p.m. New Balance Indoor Grand Prix NBC Scott Stallings............... 69-71–140 -4
Western Mich. 4.............Minn.-Duluth 0
Kyle Stanley...................70-70–140 -4
(schedule subject to change) Ben Taylor......................68-72–140 -4
Wis.-River Falls 6......Wis.-Stevens Pt. 2
WOMEN
Nick Taylor.....................69-71–140 -4
Vaughn Taylor...............67-73–140 -4
NEW ENGLAND Cameron Davis..............74-67–141 -3
BC 2......................................Providence 1 Doug Ghim......................69-72–141 -3
Castleton St. 2.............................. Utica 1 Brian Harman................ 67-74–141 -3
Plymouth St. 3..................N.E. College 1 Charley Hoffman...........69-72–141 -3
UConn 1............................... Holy Cross 0
Vermont 4..........................................BU 0 Schools Sung Kang......................73-68–141
Ryan Moore....................68-73–141
Matthew NeSmith.........74-67–141
-3
-3
-3
MIDWEST
Ohio St. 2..............................Minnesota 1
MAYFLOWER
Pat Perez........................69-72–141
Chez Reavie................... 74-67–141
-3
-3
Wisconsin 4.........................Bemidji St. 0
BASKETBALL W. Bridgewater 56........Bp. Connolly 27 Brendan Steele..............69-72–141 -3
MERRIMACK VALLEY Kevin Streelman............69-72–141 -3
MEN’S BOX SCORES BOYS
CAPE & ISLANDS
Andover 33....................... N. Andover 23 Michael Thompson.......67-74–141
Peter Uihlein..................69-72–141
-3
-3
Billerica 43........................ Tewksbury 38
Providence, 4-0 Marthas Vineyard 51.......Barnstable 32
Monomoy 66............Falmouth Acad. 23
Chelmsford 55..........................Dracut 33 Tim Wilkinson................67-74–141 -3
Sam Burns......................72-70–142 -2
MIDDLESEX
UConn (8-8-2)..............0 0 0 — 0 Nantucket 65.......................Sandwich 55
Wilmington 42..................Watertown 27
Joel Dahmen.................. 71-71–142 -2
Providence (9-6-4) .....2 0 2 — 4 CAPE ANN Brian Gay........................70-72–142 -2
Scoring: Prov, Tyce Thompson (Brett Amesbury 57......................Pentucket 50 SOUTH SHORE
Cohasset 48..........................Mashpee 44
Beau Hossler..................72-70–142 -2
Berard, Nick Poisson) 6:46; Prov, Pat- Ham.-Wenham 71...............Lynnfield 46 Chris Kirk........................69-73–142 -2
rick Moynihan (Greg Printz, Parker N. Reading 80.......................Rockport 46 Norwell 51..................E. Bridgewater 29 Rob Oppenheim.............72-70–142 -2
CATHOLIC CONFERENCE Rockland 44..................... Middleboro 36 C.T. Pan...........................70-72–142 -2
Ford) 15:05; Prov, Parker Ford (Tyce
Thompson, Nick Poisson) 6:14 (pp); St. Johns (Shrewsbury) 55.Xaverian 41 TRI-VALLEY Andrew Putnam............72-70–142 -2
Prov, Tyce Thompson (unassisted) DUAL COUNTY Medfield 62............................Ashland 37 Wes Roach..................... 71-71–142 -2
16:03 (en). Bedford 47............................Waltham 38 Medway 46.........................Hopkinton 36 Ryan Armour..................70-73–143 -1
Saves: Conn, Tomáš Vomáčka 28; HOCKOMOCK Millis 60.....................................Norton 28 Joseph Bramlett............73-70–143 -1
Prov, Jaxson Stauber 20. Attleboro 55...........................Foxboro 33
North Attleboro 52........Canton 50 (OT)
Westwood 48........................Holliston 25
NONLEAGUE
Scott Harrington........... 72-71–143
Scott Piercy....................69-74–143
-1
-1
Oliver Ames 66........................Sharon 47 Boston Latin 53................Cambridge 45 Zack Sucher...................72-71–143 -1
Boston College, 7-1

Spieth (67) surges to lead

By Doug Ferguson
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ry with the wedge and putter,
this was a steady diet of keep-
der, while the group at 9-under
135 included Patrick Cantlay,
UM Lowell (4-6-0) ......1 0 0 — 1
BC (12-3-1)...................2 3 2 — 7
Scoring: BC, Drew Helleson (Colby
Ambrosio, Jack McBain) 3:33; UML, Lu-
cas Condotta (Zach Kaiser) 4:20; BC,
Mike Hardman (Matt Boldy, Marc
McLaughlin) 12:46 (pp); BC, Alex Ne-
whook (Matt Boldy, Mike Hardman)
0:26 (pp); BC, Casey Carreau (unassist-
ed) 12:03; BC, Matt Boldy (Trevor Kun-
tar, Eamon Powell) 14:41; BC, Alex Ne-
MAYFLOWER Newton South 37.................Wayland 34 Josh Teater.....................69-74–143 -1
W. Bridgewater 62........Bp. Connolly 55 Danvers 64...............Salem Academy 37 Jhonattan Vegas........... 72-71–143 -1
Westport 77..........................Holbrook 42 OBryant 54..........Kennedy Academy 35 Will Zalatoris..................69-74–143 -1
MERRIMACK VALLEY CATHOLIC CENTRAL CUP Missed cut
Nelson Ledesma............71-73–144 -1
Andover 66....................... N. Andover 47 First round
Mark Anderson..............69-75–144 E
Central Cath. 52.......................Lowell 51 Abp. Williams 55................Cathedral 42
Aaron Baddeley.............70-74–144 E
Chelmsford 65..........................Dracut 58 PATRIOT CUP
Ryan Brehm................... 73-72–145 E
Haverhill 62...............Methuen 58 (3OT) Hingham 54............. Plymouth South 29
Roberto Castro..............71-73–144 E
MIDDLESEX Second round
Watertown 82..................Wilmington 59
NORTHEASTERN
Scituate 51..........Whit.-Hanson 45 (OT)
SOUTH COAST TOURNAMENT
Gloucester 63.........................Danvers 55
Semifinals

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. —
Jordan Spieth took on a bold
ing the ball inside the tree-lined
fairways of Spyglass, reducing
whose record-tying 62 at Pebble
Beach on Thursday was quickly
Latest line
whook (Jack St. Ivany, Matt Boldy) 1:17 Salem 60.................................. Saugus 46
Digh.-Rehoboth 61Somerset Berkley 31
(pp); BC, Mike Hardman (Alex Ne- SOUTH SHORE
Old Rochester 40...........Apponequet 39
whook, Matt Boldy) 12:28. Randolph 63..............................Carver 52
Saves: UML, Logan Neaton 8; UML,
TRI-VALLEY NBA

tee shot and pulled it off per-
fectly to set up birdie. He hit a
poor 3-wood that went off a
tree and back into the fairway
that led to another.
Whether it’s good golf or
good breaks, it’s making him
feel a lot better about his game
stress and making a few putts.
There was a 45-foot birdie
putt he holed on the tough
par-3 fifth hole. He also missed
a few inside 10 feet, and his
lone bogey was a three-putt
from 7 feet on the par-5 first
hole after he made the turn.
forgotten.
His opening tee shot at No.
10 on Spyglass hit a tree and
was never found, sending him
back to the tee. He opened with
a double bogey and eventually
got those two shots back until a
three-putt bogey on the par-3
Henry Welsch 25; BC, Spencer Knight Medfield 58............................Ashland 41
Westwood 48........................Holliston 41
29.
NONLEAGUE
South Shore 65....S. Shore Christian 36
Boston University, 1-0 Latin Acad. 66........................ Fenway 47
Madison Park 58........Boston United 54
Boston U. (7-2-0) ........0 0 1 — 1
Catholic Central Cup
Vermont (1-6-2)..........0 0 0 — 0
First round
Scoring: BU, Alex Vlasic (Jay O'Brien,
Thomas Jarman) 3:34.
Austin Prep 71....................Cathedral 54
CATHOLIC CENTRAL CUP
Saves: BU, Vinny Duplessis 18; Vt,
Gabe Carriere 29.
Second round
Bp. Feehan 77...........Card. Spellman 39
PATRIOT CUP
WOMEN’S BOX SCORES First round
Marshfield 62.....................Pembroke 47
HOCKEY
BOYS
CAPE & ISLANDS
Barnstable 6...............................Nauset 1
St. John Paul II 5Mashpee/Monomoy 2
CAPE ANN
Triton 3................................ N. Reading 2
CATHOLIC CONFERENCE
BC High 3......St. Johns (Shrewsbury) 1
St. John’s Prep 2........Cath. Memorial 2
Xaverian 3.......................Malden Cath. 1
HOCKOMOCK
Canton 6............................Oliver Ames 0
N. Attleboro 4....Stoughton/Brockton 0
Favorite
Saturday
Line Underdog
Phila.......................1 ..........At Phoenix
Indiana.................. 1½ ...........At Atlanta
Houston.................1½ .......At New York
Brooklyn................4 .At Golden State
At Utah..............OFF ..................Miami
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Favorite
Saturday
Line Underdog
At Florida St.......13½ .......Wake Forest
At Okla. St..............15 ......... Kansas St..
At Ohio St.............6½ ................Indiana
Loyola-Chi.............3½ ..............At Drake

at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-
Am. He shot a 5-under-par 67
at Spyglass Hill on Friday for a
one-shot lead over Daniel Berg-
er going into the weekend.
“I like where things are at,”
Spieth said, referring to more
than his name atop the leader-
board on the weekend for the
second straight week.
Winless since his British
Open title in 2017 at Royal
Birkdale, Spieth wasn't sure if
he was taking baby steps or a
giant leap. But one week after
relying so much on his wizard-
“A little bit improved off last
week, which was the goal this
week, to just try and feel like
I'm getting better each day,”
said Spieth, whose tie for fourth
in Phoenix was his best result
since May 2019.
Spieth was at 12-under 132,
his first 36-hole lead since
Birkdale.
Berger shot a 66 at Pebble
Beach by going 2-3-2 along the
ocean on a day filled will sun-
shine and a Pacific breeze.
Henrik Norlander had a 70
at Spyglass and was at 10 un-
third.
Five-time champion Phil
Mickelson won't be around for
the weekend, but he went out
in style. Mickelson hit two
shots in the ocean on the 18th
at Pebble Beach and took a qua-
druple-bogey 9 for an 80.
Rickie Fowler, who played
alongside Spieth and defending
champion Nick Taylor (at 4-un-
der 140), shot 75 and missed
the cut for the second straight
week. Fowler has gone just over
a year since his last finish in the
top 10.
Vermont, 4-0
Vermont (6-1-0)..........1 0 3 — 4
Boston University
.....0 0 0 — 0
(4-4-0)......................
Scoring: Vermont, Tynka Pátková
(Hailey Burns, Maddy Skelton) 1:51;
Vermont, Maddy Skelton (Tynka Pátk-
ová, Hailey Burns) 2:46; Vermont, Val
Caldwell (Lily Humphrey, Bella Paren-
to) 4:44; Vermont, Theresa Schafzahl
(Natálie Mlynková, Sara Levesque)
19:19 (en).
Saves: Vermont, Jessie McPherson
22; Boston University, Corinne
Schroeder 25.
Boston College, 2-1
Prov. (10-6-1) ..........1 0 0 0 — 1
BC (13-3-0) ..............0 1 0 1 — 2
Scoring: Providence, Bailey Burton
(Brooke Becker) 5:24; Boston College,
Savannah Norcross (Hannah Bilka)
9:53; Boston College, Cayla Barnes (Sa-
vannah Norcross, Hadley Hartmetz)
2:45.
Saves: Providence, Sandra Abstreit-
er 31; Boston College, Abigail Levy 30
Plymouth North 47..................Quincy 36
Second round
Hingham 67...........................Hanover 48
SOUTHEAST TOURNAMENT
Championship
Brockton 66........... Bridge.-Raynham 58
SOUTH COAST TOURNAMENT
Semifinals
Apponequet 58..................... Seekonk 56
Digh.-Rehoboth 74.Gr. New Bedford 55
GIRLS
BOSTON CITY
Latin Acad. 60........................ Fenway 57
CAPE & ISLANDS
Cape Cod Acad. 55..........Rising Tide 14
Falmouth 53..........Dennis-Yarmouth 28
Monomoy 44............Falmouth Acad. 32
St. John Paul II 44........ Sturgis West 19
Sandwich 69.......................Nantucket 31
CAPE ANN
Pentucket 42......................Amesbury 23
COMMONWEALTH
Gr. Lowell 36....................Shawsheen 34
Lowell Cath. 60Innovation Academy 20
DUAL COUNTY
Bedford 42............................Waltham 37
Concord-Carlisle 50...............Weston 31
HOCKOMOCK
Canton 67................. North Attleboro 51
MERRIMACK VALLEY/DUAL COUNTY
Chelmsford 5.........Dracut/Tyngsboro 2
Newton South 1...........Waltham 1 (OT)
NORTHEASTERN
Beverly 2...................................Danvers 1
SOUTH SHORE
Abington 7....................E. Bridgewater 0
SOUTHEAST
Dartmouth 1...............................Durfee 0
TRI-VALLEY
Dover-Sherborn/Weston 3...Holliston 2
Norwood 3...............................Medway 2
NONLEAGUE
Sandwich 3.............Marthas Vineyard 1
GIRLS
CAPE & ISLANDS
Cape Cod 2..............Dennis-Yarmouth 0
NORTHEAST
Marblehead 2..................Masconomet 1
Winthrop 2................Beverly/Danvers 1
TRI-VALLEY
Dedham 1............................... Norwood 1
Medway/Ashland 1.Medfield/Norton 1
R For updated scores and highlights,
go to bostonglobe.com/sports/high-
schools.
At W. Virginia.......3½ ...........Oklahoma
Tennessee................2 .................At LSU
At Texas.................12 ......................TCU
Iowa.......................... 5 .At Michigan St..
At Alabama.........13½ ...............Georgia
At Missouri...........1½ .............Arkansas
At Rutgers................8 ...........N'western
Villanova...................2 ...... At Creighton
At Virginia.............6½ ......... N. Carolina
Gonzaga..............17½ ..At S. Francisco
USC............................8 ......At Wash. St..
At Stanford..............5 .....................Utah
National Hockey League
Saturday
Favorite Line Underdog Line
At Winnipeg...-220 Ottawa...........+200
St. Louis..........-135 At Arizona.....+125
BOSTON..........-140 At NYI.............+130
Tampa Bay.....-140 At Florida.......+130
At Toronto......-125 Montreal........+115
At Nashville....-171 Detroit............+159
Carolina...........-120 At Dallas........+110
At Chicago......-110 Columbus......+100
Calgary............-131 At Vancouver+121
Vegas.............. -174 At San Jose...+162
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its gecko 8 Prefix with “scope”
39 “The Gift of 9 “The Irishman” star
the ___” 10 Strut down the
40 Non-native speaker’s runway
subj. 11 Huge event
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of Siberia 13 ’Do for a while 30 Box of oranges 41 Wrinkly fruit 51 British fellow
42 Occupied, like a 21 Tire filler 31 Permitted by law 42 Crept 52 A Great Lake
diner booth 23 Naughty or ___ 32 Musical set in 44 Suzuki of baseball 54 Gillette razor
43 Rod in old movies 26 Highest digits in Argentina 45 Title abbreviated 55 Animal in a pride
(last 3 ...) Sudoku 34 Feel unwell to its first and last 56 Perfect scores for
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Boston’s forecast SUDOKU
TODAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY

2 3 9 1
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.

HIGH Some sun will give way
25-30 to increasing clouds.
LOW Some snow will arrive
23-28 late tomorrow night,
perhaps mixing with some sleet
at times, especially south.
HIGH Some snow will contin-
31-36 ue, which can mix with
LOW sleet and freezing rain
27-32 in some spots. Mostly
cloudy with a few lingering flur-
ries into the night.
HIGH Clouds will continue to
34-39 hang tough with a bit of
LOW snow, sleet and freezing
27-32 rain at times. Snow is
likely at night, perhaps mixed
with ice in spots.
HIGH A storm system off the HIGH High pressure building
30-35 coast will continue to
LOW bring snow, sleet and
27-32 in from the west will
LOW finally bring some drier
6 5 3
3 5
13-18 freezing rain, likely end- 16-21 weather and more in
ing later in the day. Drying out the way of sunshine. Partly
into the night. cloudy and cold at night.

New England forecast Almanac Boston snowfall (5 p.m. yesterday)

6 8 4 1
TODAY: Dry weather will continue through the day as sun
fades behind increasing clouds west and south. A wintry
Yesterday’s high/low
Sunrise
Sunset
26°/11°
6:43 a.m.
5:14 p.m.
Yesterday
Total for February
Normal for February
0.0”
9.6”
10.9”
7 2
mix at night.
TOMORROW: Snow will fall in many areas,
especially in the morning. Snow will mix with sleet,
Moonrise
Mount Washington (5 p.m. yesterday)
8:04 a.m. Season total
Season normal
Degree days
32.7”
43.8”
Heat
5 2 6 9
9 6
PRESQUE ISLE Weather Partly cloudy
freezing rain and rain across southern areas. 21/0 Yesterday 46
Visibility 80 miles
EXTENDED: A little snow or a wintry mix Monthly total 432
could cause slick travel on Monday. Heavier Wind west-northwest at 38 m.p.h.

1 8 5
MILLINOCKET High/low temperature 15/-18 Normal to date 415
snow and ice are likely Monday night into Season total (normal) 3258 (3511)
21/8
Tuesday. Snow depth at 5 p.m. 9.0”
Last year to date 2914

NEWPORT
BANGOR
22/10
24 Hr. Precipitation
Yesterday 0.00”
Precip days in February 7
(valid at 5 p.m. yesterday)
Month to date 1.52”
Norm. month to date 1.31”
Year to date
Norm. year to date
3.54”
4.67”
5 6 7 8
10/3
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MONTPELIER
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7/3 Marblehead 12:0712:17 Chatham 1:14 1:20
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 Charlotte 41/37 R 46/40 R  New Orleans 54/44 Sh 54/45 Sh  Beijing 49/29 C 40/17 C  Moscow 11/6 Sn 12/-5 Sn
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Dallas 30/21 C 25/8 Sn  Philadelphia 30/28 Sn 37/32 I Mexico City 66/41 S 70/40 S Rome 47/29 R 47/31 S ♠ A J 10
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 Detroit 23/10 Sn 24/10 Pc  Salt Lake City 42/25 Sh 34/26 C  Toronto 17/10 Sn 25/17 Pc  Stockholm 26/19 C 29/4 Pc
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of close relationships and team- tations. Tonight: The good times Opening lead — ♥ 10
work of all kinds. Others will com- roll on.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Saturday, Tonight: Online communications municate their needs and make CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) “Simple Saturday” columns focus on improving basic
Feb. 13, 2021: and networking. suggestions. Listen carefully. You A difficult co-worker can be a technique and logical thinking.
Magnetic, brave, and hardwork- GEMINI (May 21-June 20) will hear what you need to know source of concern. There is an ac- The finesse — say, leading toward an A-Q in your hand
ing, you're a powerhouse of ener- Today highlights your sector of concerning an important relation- cent on community service, poli- and playing the queen after right-hand opponent plays — is
gy. You hit the ball out of the park fame and fortune. You will yearn ship. Tonight: Permit others to tics and charitable endeavors. A a useful technique. But because finesses lose as often as
when young. This year, you're for success and greater recogni- grow. neighbor or sibling can contact they win, they are good to avoid. You certainly don’t want
called upon to give your most yet. tion. Extensive study, career-relat- LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) you with a valuable invitation or to try more than necessary.
You succeed tremendously. If sin- ed future travel or brainstorming Surroundings affect your health. suggestion. A favor is returned. Against today’s six diamonds, West led the 10 of hearts,
gle, this year, efficiency, clarity, sessions with respected associates Avoid people and places that Tonight: Relax with a very good, and South took the ace and led the 10 of trumps to finesse.
and propriety allow you to meet are all significant factors in help- make you feel unwell. Observe old friend. When East won, the defense cashed a heart. South escaped
The One. If attached, individuality ing you move forward. Tonight: how New and Full Moons impact AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) for down only one when the spade finesse worked for him
is still always essential. SCORPIO Celebrate. your vitality. Use a Moon calendar Exercise careful judgement re- later.
can figure you out. CANCER (June 21-July 22) to determine which Moon signs garding a risky financial sugges- South took one finesse too many. Suppose the trump
Important responsibilities need mark times when you feel stron- tion made by another. Explore fi- finesse wins. To make the slam, South still needs a win-
ARIES (March 21-April 19) your attention. Maintain a posi- ger. Tonight: Proud of yourself. nancial opportunities and work ning spade finesse to discard his heart loser from dummy.
Old and poignant memories sur- tive mental outlook. Use diploma- SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) on your budget. Budgeting for a So whether the trump finesse works is only a matter of an
face today. Past life regression cy in all that you say or write. Ef- Today draws kindness and empa- special purchase is a consider- overtrick. South should lead a trump to the ace at Trick
might be useful to aid in under- forts made today will bring profes- thy your way. Music and color can ation. Talk it over with an elderly
Two and return the queen of spades.
standing and accepting the pres- sional advancement in the future. be powerful sources of inspira- female family member. Tonight:
Avoid a “practice finesse” whose gain will be negligible
ent situation. A deep rapport with Tonight: It is especially important tion. You encounter creative new Get enough rest.
even if it wins.
wild creatures and the spirit of to be constructive in your focus. ideas from others. You'll be able to PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
wilderness areas prevails. To- LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) spend more time with children or Intuitive, empathic and congenial,
DAILY QUESTION You hold: ♠ A J 10 ♥ A 6 3 ♦ Q 10 9 8
night: You feel like not talking or Shared monies, an inheritance a favorite project. Tonight: A focus you have a special ability to relieve
being alone. and other financial matters are a on joy and revelry. the suffering and anxieties of oth-
♣ A K Q. South in today’s deal opened one diamond with
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) focus. Investigate and gather in- SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ers. This you do today. Love con-
this hand. Do you agree with that call?
After weeks of soul-searching, you formation today. You will feel like Today you are more of a home- nections are tinted with tender-
ANSWER: South held 20 high-card points with balanced
come to realizations today con- a detective. Awareness of past life body than ever. Real estate trans- ness. Nurture a promising rela-
pattern, plus two 10s. Many partnerships agree that their
cerning your wishes and goals. recollections might give you a clue actions, interior decorating, and tionship, in love or in business.
range for a 2NT opening bid is 20 to 22 points; they would
Friends are interested and want to as to why. Tonight: Very intense online family gatherings are a fo- Tonight: It’s completely up to you.
have opened 2NT. If instead your partnership range is 21 or
help. A whole group might want dreams, which need recording. cus. Keepsakes and reunions
22 points, then to open one diamond would be acceptable.
to help as well. Romantic attach- VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) evoke a sentimental mood. A cycle (c) 2021 by King Features Syndi-
ments can deepen into true love. Today highlights the future path of joy begins when you issue invi- cate Inc.
Discuss with your partner.

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TV CRITIC’S CORNER LOVE LETTERS

BY MATTHEW GILBERT BY MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN

I feel like ‘the girlfriend who got pregnant’

JOHN P. FLEENOR/FOX
Andy Samberg and Andre Braugher in “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.”
“[Everyone is] discussing how you make a comedy show
about police right now,” Samberg told People magazine last
year in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
Expect something different in final
season of ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’
One the better network comedies has reached the end of the road.
NBC’s “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” will be back at some as-yet unknown
point after the summer for season 8, with 10 new episodes. And that
will be the last batch; it’s unlikely to get picked up by yet another net-
work (NBC bought the show after Fox canceled it in 2018 after sea-
son 5). I hope it does come to an end. It’s time.
The final season may be a tad different. According to star Andy
Samberg, the writers have been doing some soul searching in the
wake of George Floyd’s death. They are “rethinking how we’re going
to move forward,” he told People magazine in July. “[Everyone is] dis-
cussing how you make a comedy show about police right now, and if
we can find a way of doing that that we all feel morally OK about. I
know that we’ll figure it out, but it’s definitely a challenge.”
I’ll miss the show’s great ensemble, not least of all Andre Braugh-
er, whose turn as Raymond Holt is endlessly amusing and original.
He is cool, cool, cool.
Q. A few months ago I found out I was pregnant with my boy-
friend’s child. We haven’t been dating for a long time, and this preg-
nancy has taken us by surprise. So far, he has been there for me,
supported me in every aspect, and has found us a home to start our
small family. Recently, we were having a conversation and he re-
vealed that in his previous relationship that ended around a year
and a half ago, his ex girlfriend had a miscarriage. I felt like a buck-
et of ice fell on top of me when he told me this.
He said it was a moment where their relationship was at an end
because his ex cheated on him with someone else. He did say that
after the miscarriage, she took some time off work and he took care
of her and her expenses. I understand his actions because I believe
it says a lot about him. But I can’t stop thinking about him already
going through the process of being an expecting father. I feel threat-
ened by his ex because they have gone through so much, compared
to my relationship with him, where it’s been so short.
I know it’s unhealthy to think this, but I feel like he is just with
me because of my pregnancy, although he says it’s not. I just can’t
help but feel jealous of his ex, knowing that they’d been together for
two years. She’d met his family and had been introduced as a girl-
friend, whereas, in my situation, I feel like I’m the girlfriend who
got pregnant.
ANONYMOUS
A. If he wanted to be with his ex, he’d be trying to get back with his
ex. The end.
And of course they went through a lot of experiences together.
Two years is a long time.
It makes sense that you have questions about why you and your
boyfriend are together, what might be fueling the commitment,
and how your relationship will play out over time. These are all fair
things to wonder about. But they have nothing to do with the ex. Fo-
cusing on her is useless. My guess is that it’s easier to think about
her than the real questions popping up in the relationship.
Not to say the wrong thing here, but there are many reasons
your relationship might flourish . . . or end. You have no idea what
any of them are, so stop guessing. I understand why this lack of
control is frustrating, but take a few deep breaths. There’s no pre-
dicting the future right now.
Also remember that by the day, you and your boyfriend are expe-
riencing so many milestones. You’re having huge experiences he’s
never had before, I swear. Try to keep a sense of humor about going
through these moments with someone who’s newer in your life. You
are the girlfriend who got pregnant. And he’s the guy who’s choos-
ing to be a partner and to see where this can go. Please join him.
MEREDITH
READERS RESPOND:
Stop thinking about someone who is no longer in HIS life. Be
happy that things with him are as good as they are. This jealousy
will drive him away.
FREEADVICEFORYOU
The pregnancy “took you by surprise?” You do know how babies
are made? It appears you do not take responsibility for yourself,
that things “just happen” to you. Under the circumstances, you are
correct in being unsure about your future. Be an adult and focus on
how you can provide your baby with a good life.
SEENITTOOS
You’re going to be a mother and you have to stop worrying about
irrelevant things. Who cares if you’re labeled the “one who got preg-
nant”? Does it really matter when it comes down to what’s impor-
tant? Who cares if there were girlfriends before your boyfriend met
you! Seriously, stop thinking about anything but how to make a
family unit and deliver a healthy child. Get resources to help you if
you feel you can’t do this on your own. Get help from your family.
Talk to your employer about your maternity leave. Your world is
about to completely change, so focus on that. Right now your bf has
stepped up, which is a good thing. Please stay positive and healthy.
Good luck!
LUPELOVE
This has nothing to do with his ex-girlfriend. It has to do with
this: ”but I feel like he is just with me because of my pregnancy.”
That is what you need to work through.
ASH
^Precisely. She needs to accept the fact that that is EXACTLY
why he is with her. The rest of the world would call that “reality.”
Once she accepts reality she can start working on what she wants to
do about it.
JIM-IN-LITTLETON
“So far, he has been there for me, supported me in every aspect,
and has found us a home to start our small family.” I’m not sure
how much more you can ask of him. He’s trying to make this work,
even though you don’t know each other well. Concentrate on hav-
ing a healthy relationship with your guy. His previous relationship
is irrelevant at this point.
JACQUISMITH
I don’t know how long you have been dating, so maybe your re-
lationship is on the fast track because of the baby. All you can do is
live day by day anyway. No one can predict the future, so there’s re-
ally no benefit in worrying.
LEGALLYLIZ2017
Congratulations on your pregnancy! The anxiety and visceral
jealousy you are experiencing could be caused in part by your surg-
ing hormones. Not to mention the shock of such a big surprise! So
cut yourself some slack. If you give birth to his first child and raise
it very well (showing him respect as the father the whole time), you
will supersede his ex completely. Don’t even think about her. . . . I
bet he isn’t even thinking about her at all!
WINDCHYME29
Send 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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Shares in HubSpot soar after earnings report Moderna

By Jon Chesto
GLOBE STAFF

HubSpot had the best performing

stock of any Massachusetts software
company last year. The Cambridge
firm, chief executive Brian Halligan as-
sured investors this week, is just get-
Marketing software firm banking on
becoming the go-to place for businesses
milestone, crossing the $1 billion
threshold for annual recurring reve-
nue.
relatively seamlessly, much like the
way consumers can easily pick through
apps on their phones. When various
HubSpot’s recent acquisition of
business-newsletter producer The Hus-
tle is one indication of where things
to increase
vaccine
could be headed. Halligan said Hub-
Spot was built around the idea of mar-
keting from a client’s own website and
other internally developed materials —

ting started.
Shares in the marketing software
firm rose 16 percent on Friday after its
fourth quarter earnings beat Wall
Street’s expectations, it forecasted
strong growth for 2021, and several an-
alysts raised their outlooks for the
stock. The performance on Friday
marked just the latest run-up in a long
climb: The stock was trading on Friday
above $500 a share, more than two-
and-a-half times its value a year ago
and nearly five times what it was worth
Investors seem to be betting on the
fact that HubSpot’s solutions for cli-
ents’ customer-management needs are
well suited for a new
world order accelerated
by the COVID-19 pan-
demic — one in which
significantly more mar-
keting happens online, digitally, and
remotely. Halligan and chief financial
officer Kate Bueker fielded questions
on a conference call Thursday from a
pack of largely effusive analysts.
customer-management programs are
cobbled together from different com-
panies, Halligan said, the user experi-
e n c e c a n s u ff e r. T h e
HubSpot platform, he ar-
gued, offers a more
streamlined alternative.
Halligan said Hub-
Spot is in “the bottom of the second in-
ning in our baseball game” as it broad-
ens its focus beyond its core marketing
app to field a range of business-to-busi-
ness demands. Halligan and Bueker
supply
instead of advertising with TV, radio,
newspapers, social networks, and
search engines. The Hustle newsletter
platform, and its related podcast,
should help further that fundamental
goal, he said.
FDA approves
But there are some issues brought loading additional
about by the remote work trend that
might be out of HubSpot’s reach. At doses into each vial
one point on the earnings call, a door-
bell rang. Halligan offered to take the By Sharon LaFraniere, Noah
next question, while a seemingly Weiland and Sheryl Gay Stolberg
aghast Bueker apologized for the dis- NEW YORK TIMES

during the stock market’s nadir last
March.
Signs of growth abounded. The
firm’s total revenue cleared $883 mil-
lion for the year, up 31 percent. Its
number of customers rose 42 percent,
year-over-year, to end at 104,000. And
headcount rose 25 percent, to 4,225
employees. HubSpot also hit a major
“This unusual year opened up ev-
eryone’s eyes to just how early we still
are in the digital transformation of the
economy,” Halligan said. “This is the
trend we’ve been seeing for 14 years,
and was sped up for obvious reasons
this [past] year.”
Halligan said clients now expect
business-to-business software to work
talked about the four software “hubs”
at the company now: marketing, sales,
customer service, and website manage-
ment.
“It’s still pretty earnings for Hub-
Spot,” Halligan added. “There’s a lot
more stuff in our heads … that we can
expose through additional hubs down
the road.”
ruption. No matter how many apps
HubSpot rolls out for clients, address-
ing work-from-home interruptions
with software might not happen any-
time soon.
Jon Chesto can be reached at
jon.chesto@globe.com. Follow him on
Twitter @jonchesto.
PHOTOS BY ERIN CLARK/GLOBE STAFF
WASHINGTON — The Food and
Drug Administration has informed the
drugmaker Moderna that it can put up
to 40 percent more coronavirus vaccine
into each of its vials, a simple and po-
tentially rapid way to bolster strained
supplies, according to people familiar
with the company’s operations.
While federal officials want Moderna
to submit more data showing the switch
would not compromise vaccine quality,
the continuing discussions are a hopeful
sign that the nation’s vaccine stock
could increase faster than expected,
simply by allowing the company to load
up to 14 doses in each vial instead of 10.
Moderna currently supplies about
half of the nation’s vaccine stock. A 14-
dose vial load could increase the na-
tion’s vaccine supply by as much as 20
percent at a time when governors are
clamoring for more vaccine and more
contagious variants of the coronavirus
are believed to be spreading quickly.
Two people familiar with Moderna’s
manufacturing, who spoke on the con-
dition of anonymity, said retooling the
company’s production lines to accom-
modate the change could conceivably be
done in fewer than 10 weeks, or before
the end of April. That is because while
the amount of liquid in each vial would
change, the vials themselves would re-
main the same size, so the production
process would not drastically change.
“It would be a great step forward,”
said Dr. Moncef Slaoui, who served as
the scientific leader of the Trump ad-
ministration’s vaccine development
program. “I think it will have an impact
in the short term.”
Last month, Moderna asked for per-
mission to increase the number of doses
in its vials to as much as 15 from the in-
dustry standard of 10. The change
would cut down on the time required
for the final manufacturing phase when
millions of tiny bottles are filled,
capped, and labeled, a longtime bottle-
neck in injectable drug manufacturing.
The company is also asking regulators
to approve changes in how its vaccine is
stored and to allow health practitioners
more time to use up the doses in a vial

VACCINATIONS BEGIN AT LOCAL RETAIL PHARMACIES once the rubber coating is punctured, all
steps to increase the flow into arms.
Slaoui cautioned that Moderna
might still have to gear up its drug pro-
On Friday, CVS Pharmacy began offering vaccinations as part duction so it had more vaccine to fill the
of the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program, a public-private vials. “Whether it will be 40 percent in-
partnership between the federal government, 21 national crease immediately or a 20 percent in-
pharmacy chains, and a network of independent pharmacies. crease at first” is unclear, he said. An-
Over 40,000 participating retail pharmacies, including other outside expert said the FDA might
require an on site inspection of the com-
Walgreens, Rite Aid, and in-store centers at WalMart and
pany’s manufacturing process if it
Costco, will now begin offering vaccinations to eligible changes.
patients at no cost. Supply for the initial rollout, which is a In a recent e-mail response to ques-
total of approximately of 250,000 doses across the 11 states, tions about the company’s discussions
is provided directly from the federal government (CVS has with regulators, Stéphane Bancel, the
also partnered with the state of Massachusetts to distribute chief executive officer of Moderna,
vaccines). The CDC worked with states to select initial sites wrote, “No comment.” Ray Jordan, the
company’s spokesman, said talks with
to target populations most at-risk of severe illness from
federal officials were continuing.
COVID-19. President Joe Biden calls the program a key On Thursday, President Biden an-
component of his administration’s efforts to “expand nounced that the federal government
equitable access to vaccines for the American public.” CVS had locked in a total of 600 million dos-
will have 38 pharmacies in Massachusetts that will offer the es of vaccine from Moderna and Pfizer,
vaccine based on rolling availability of doses. Once the which developed its drug with a Ger-
program is up and running, the company anticipates having man partner, BioNTech. Because each
Top: CVS pharmacy technician Leslie Carnejo (left) talked to registered vaccine requires two doses, spaced
the ability to administer between 20 and 25 million shots
nurse Claire Karas after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine at a CVS in East three to four weeks apart, that would be
per month nationwide. Boston Friday. Above: Carnejo waited for 15 minutes to make sure she enough to cover 300 million Americans.
JANELLE NANOS didn’t have a reaction to the vaccine. So far, about 10 percent of Ameri-
cans have received at least one dose of
vaccine. Pfizer has delivered about 52
percent of the nation’s supply while
Moderna has delivered 48 percent, ac-
cording to the CDC. While both compa-

Hearing loss biotech Decibel makes a lackluster public debut
By Jonathan Saltzman
GLOBE STAFF
After raising $127 million in an ini-
tial public offering on Friday, Boston
biotech Decibel Therapeutics had a
lackluster opening day of trading,
with its stock price closing virtually
flat.
Decibel, which is developing gene
therapies for hearing and balance dis-
orders, had originally filed to sell 5.9
million shares on the Nasdaq ex-
change. But it ended up offering 7.1
million shares at $18, the high end of
the expected range of $16 to $18. It
closed Friday at $18.03, an increase of
just three cents. The company is listed
under the symbol DBTX.
The firm is headed by Laurence
Reid, who succeeded Steven Holtz-
man in January 2020 after the latter
retired as chief executive and became
a strategic business adviser.
Reid is a biopharma veteran who
previously served as chief executive of
Warp Drive Bio, a Cambridge biotech
that was acquired in 2018 by Califor-
nia-based Revolution Medicines. He
also serves as an entrepreneur in resi-
dence at Third Rock Ventures, the
Boston venture capital firm that has
created many life sciences firms.
Decibel is among several biotechs
working on cutting-edge therapies for
hearing loss. Its rivals include Fre-
quency Therapeutics of Woburn,
which plans to share some results next
month from a mid-stage clinical trial
of a potential treatment that harness-
es the body’s dormant stem cells.
In spite of the COVID-19 pandemic
— and in some cases because of it —
investors poured money into biotech
companies last year. In 2020, the sec-
tor recorded more than 100 initial
public offerings, nearly double the
number of the year before.
Interest remains high this year.
Among the local biotechs that have
debuted on the market in recent
weeks is Agrify, a Burlington firm that
develops technology for indoor agri-
culture, and Vor Biopharma, a Cam-
bridge biotech cofounded by oncolo-
gist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee to fight
blood cancers.
Jonathan Saltzman can be reached at
jonathan.saltzman@globe.com.
nies are accelerating production, fuller
vials from Moderna, if approved, could
push it into the lead.
Pfizer’s manufacturing is geared to
six-dose vials, but Moderna’s vials have
enough free space to accommodate extra
doses. Still, there are limits to how much
vaccine can be crammed into them.
Too much could lead to cracks in a
vial. Each vial must also contain enough
room to ensure enough remains to ex-
tract the final dose.
The regulations now specify that
once punctured, Moderna’s entire vial
must be emptied within six hours, so
fuller vials could lead to more waste if
pharmacists struggle to extract more
doses in that time frame.
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T h e B o s t o n G l o b e S A T U R D A Y, F E B R U A R Y 1 3 , 2 0 2 1
Warren seeks THE BOSTON GLOBE
Marketplace
tougher rules
on insider-
trading
Lawmakers are asking Wall
25
Index of publicly traded companies in Massachusetts
Globe 25 index
homes pets stuff Street’s top cop to review rules
meant to prevent insider trading af-
ter new research suggested existing
regulations may actually help some
people trade on material, nonpublic
information.
Democratic Senators Elizabeth
Warren of Massachusetts, Sherrod
Brown of Ohio, and Chris Van Hol-
len of Maryland sent a letter to the
Securities & Exchange Commission
asking it to review rules for so-
boston.com/ notices called 10b5-1 plans, which allow
& more
corporate executives to buy and sell
classifieds company stock at predetermined
days in the future.
‘‘These plans were designed to
prevent insider trading, but new ev-
LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES
idence indicates that executives —
Notification of Trade Certification
Notice is hereby given
ExteNet Systems, Inc. pro-
especially those in the health-care
The U.S. Department of Labor has determined that Allegro
MicroSystems, Inc., Cost Accounting and Enterprise Data poses to replace an existing
streetlight with a new 26-
industry — are abusing these plans
Management in Marlborough, MA has been adversely im-
pacted by increased imports. The subject firm has been foot 6-inch tall streetlight
with top-mounted antenna
to obtain huge windfalls at the ex-
certified for (TAA) Trade Adjustment Assistance benefits as
of 01/04/2021. and associated equipment
concealed in the base with-
pense of ordinary investors,’’ the
As a result, affected workers totally or partially separat- in the public right of way lo-
cated near 375 Cambridge
senators wrote in a letter dated Feb.
ed from employment on or after 11/02/2019 and before
01/04/2023 may be eligible to receive weekly cash ben- Street, Allston, Suffolk
County, MA 02134 (at the
10 to acting SEC Chair Allison Lee.
efits; financial assistance for remedial or vocational train-
ing programs; travel allowances to and from training; job northwest corner where Public companies disproportion-
search expenses; relocation allowances; Reemployment
Trade Adjustment Assistance (RTAA), Health Coverage Tax
Cambridge Street inter-
sects Franklin Street). Any ately disclose positive news on days
interested party wishing to
Credit (HCTC) and other reemployment services such as
resume preparation, employment counseling and job re- submit comments regard-
ing the potential effects when corporate executives sell
ferrals.
the proposed facility may
For information about these benefits, all workers should have on any historic prop- shares under predetermined Rule
erty may do so by sending
inquire and apply at MassHire Framingham Career Center
Worcester Road, Framingham, MA 01701 or their nearest such comments to: Project 10b5-1 plans, according to academ-
6121000679 – CR, EBI Con-
MassHire Career Center. Information about MassHire Ca-
reer Center services is available at www.mass.gov/lwd/ sulting, 21 B Street, Burling- ic research by Columbia Law School
ton, MA 01803, or via tele-
employment-services or by calling (617) 626-6007.
phone at (978) 877-3493. professor Josh Mitts that the law-
This notice is a requirement
This notice is also available for viewing at http://mass
of Section 106 of the Na- makers cited. When good news is
publicnotices.org.
tional Historic Preservation
disclosed, share and dollar volume
Act of 1966. Comments
City Of Boston Public Improvement Commission must be received within 30
February 11, 2021 days of this notice. of insider sales under 10b5-1 plans
Ordered: That due notice be given that this Commission T-Mobile USA is propos- are higher, according to Mitts, who
ing to modify an existing
is of the opinion that in said City of Boston the following
public improvements will be considered at the request of wireless telecommunica- analyzed sale data and material
the petitioner: 60 Kilmarnock (Boston) Owner LLC. tions facility on an exist-
ing building located at 138 events from 1996 to October 2020.
On a petition by the petitioner for the acceptance of a Pe- Harvard Avenue, Allston,
destrian Easement adjacent to the following public ways Suffolk County, MA 02134. ‘‘These findings show the urgent
in Boston Proper: The modifications will con-
need for policy reform in connec-
•Kilmarnock Street – on its northeasterly side at address
sist of the collocation of
antennas and associated
nos. 60-80, northwest of Queensberry Street; equipment at an overall tion with 10b5-1 trading plans,’’
•Queensberry Street – on its northwesterly side at ad- top height of 72-feet on the
dress nos. 83-89, northeast of Kilmarnock Street. 68-foot tall building. Any Mitts said in an e-mailed statement.
interested party wishing to
This Commission appoints February 25, 2021, at 10:00 submit comments regard- The SEC created the 10b5-1
AM, in Boston City Hall room 801, as the time and place for ing the potential effects
the Public Hearing to consider the petition of the petitioner. the proposed facility may ‘‘safe harbor’’ rule in 2000 to allow
have on any historic prop-
CHRISTOPHER OSGOOD erty may do so by sending corporate executives, who often
INDIRA ALVAREZ such comments to: Project
GREGORY ROONEY 6121000695 – CR, EBI Con-
sulting, 21 B Street, Burling-
have consistent access to company
SEAN LYDON
HENRY VITALE ton, MA 01803, or via tele- secrets, to sell their holdings with-
KRISTEN MCCOSH phone at (978) 877-3493.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT COMMISSION out engaging in insider trading.
While the plans were intended to be
Markets
A true copy of an order passed by said Commission on said
day.
set months in advance, they can be
Attest:
Karen M. Powell modified days or hours before a cor-
Interim Executive Secretary
City Of Boston Public Improvement Commission
February 11, 2021
porate announcement. Former SEC
Chairman Jay Clayton has recom- Late surge give markets a boost
mended the SEC enact a ‘‘cooling-
Ordered: That due notice be given that this Commission
is of the opinion that in said City of Boston the following off period’’ of four to six months be- Stocks are closing higher Friday after a late surge by technol-
public improvements will be considered at the request of
the petitioner: 60 Kilmarnock (Boston) Owner LLC. tween the adoption of a plan and ogy stocks led the S&P 500 to a new high. The wobbly week
On a petition by the petitioner for the making of Specific the execution of the first trade. of trading ended with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and
Repairs within the following public ways in Boston Proper:
BLOOMBERG Nasdaq at record highs also. Wall Street remains focused on
•Kilmarnock Street – on its northeasterly side at address
nos. 60-80, northwest of Queensberry Street;
•Queensberry Street – on its northwesterly side at ad-
trillions of dollars of potential government aid that could be
dress nos. 83-89, northeast of Kilmarnock Street. coming for the economy, as Democrats move forward with
This Commission appoints February 25, 2021, at 10:00 their stimulus package. The muted moves follow several days
Airlines against
AM, in Boston City Hall room 801, as the time and place for
the Public Hearing to consider the petition of the petitioner. of minor gains and losses for the broader market, but every
CHRISTOPHER OSGOOD major index is still on track for a weekly gain ahead of a long
INDIRA ALVAREZ
GREGORY ROONEY
SEAN LYDON COVID testing for weekend. US stock and bond markets are closed Monday for
Washington’s Birthday. Investors are hoping for a new round
domestic flights
HENRY VITALE
KRISTEN MCCOSH
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT COMMISSION of US government aid as the economic recovery falters. The
A true copy of an order passed by said Commission on said latest US government report on jobless claims reaffirmed
day. Experience Globe.com
Attest:
Karen M. Powell
Interim Executive Secretary
WASHINGTON — Leaders of
several major US airlines met on-
that employment remains a weak spot in the economy, even
as vaccine distribution ramps up in the hopes of eventually
City Of Boston Public Improvement Commission line Friday with White House offi- ending the pandemic. The University of Michigan survey of
February 11, 2021 cials to press their case against re- consumer sentiment came in well below expectations as well,
quiring coronavirus tests for pas- a sign that consumers are wary to spend in the face of eco-
Ordered: That due notice be given that this Commission
is of the opinion that in said City of Boston the following
public improvements will be considered at the request of sengers on domestic flights, saying nomic uncertainty.
the petitioners: DIV 1515 Commonwealth LLC, 1505 Com-
monwealth Avenue Realty Trust, Roman Catholic Archdio- it would undermine the already ASSOCIATED PRESS
cese of Boston, the Boston Housing Authority, and the City
of Boston Parks & Recreation Department. fragile industry.
On a joint petition by the petitioners for the Abandonment A person familiar with the dis-
of any and all rights to travel the public may have had with-
in Hospital Road (private way), Brighton, located between cussions said that the Biden admin- DOW JONES industrial average
1515 Commonwealth Avenue and Monastery Path.
istration is not currently planning
This Commission appoints February 25, 2021, at 10:00
AM, in Boston City Hall room 801, as the time and place to impose a requirement that pas-
for the Public Hearing to consider the petition of the pe-
titioners. sengers on domestic flights first
CHRISTOPHER P. OSGOOD pass a COVID-19 test. The airline
INDIRA ALVAREZ
GREGORY ROONEY CEOs talked with White House cor-
SEAN LYDON
HENRY VITALE onavirus-response coordinator Jeff
KRISTEN MCCOSH
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT COMMISSION Zients, according to the person,
A true copy of an order passed by said Commission on said who spoke anonymously to discuss
day.
a private meeting.
Attest:
Karen M. Powell The CEOs of American, United,
Interim Executive Secretary
Southwest, Alaska, and JetBlue all
took part in the meeting. The White
House declined to comment.
The meeting was arranged after
Transportation Secretary Pete Butt-
igieg and officials with the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention NASDAQ Composite index
said that such a testing requirement
was under consideration.
Airlines are strongly opposed to
requiring coronavirus testing be-
fore domestic flights, saying it
would further devastate air travel,
which has still not returned even to
half its pre-pandemic level. They
worry that the additional cost of a
test would discourage people from
flying.
The airlines argue that there
isn’t enough testing capacity to test
every passenger. More than 1 mil-
lion people went through check-
points at US airports on Thursday,
according to figures from the Trans- S&P 500 index
portation Security Administration.
They also say that requiring peo-
ple to take a coronavirus test before
flights would cause more people to
drive — merely shifting the risk of
spreading the virus from planes to
cars.
Airline unions have joined the
push against testing domestic pas-
sengers. On Friday, the Southwest
Airlines pilots’ union said a testing
mandate “would decimate domestic
air travel demand, put aviation jobs
at risk, and create serious unintend-
ed consequences.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS SOURCE: Bloomberg News
S A T U R D A Y, F E B R U A R Y 1 3 , 2 0 2 1
Maryland approves
country’s first tax on
Big Tech’s ad revenue
By David McCabe
NEW YORK TIMES
State politicians, struggling
with yawning budget gaps from
the pandemic, have made no se-
cret about their interest in get-
ting a bigger piece of the tech in-
dustry’s riches.
Now, Maryland’s lawmakers
are taking a new slice, with the
nation’s first tax on the revenue
from digital advertisements sold
by companies like Facebook,
Google, and Amazon.
The state Senate voted Friday
to override the governor’s veto of
the measure, following in the
footsteps of the state’s House of
Delegates, which gave its ap-
proval Thursday. The tax will
generate as much as an estimat-
ed $250 million in the first year
after enactment, with the money
going to schools.
The approval signals the ar-
rival in the United States of a
policy pioneered by European
countries, and it is likely to set
off a fierce legal fight over how
far communities can go to tax
the tech companies.
Other states are pursuing
similar efforts. Lawmakers in
Connecticut and Indiana, for ex-
ample, have already introduced
bills to tax the social media gi-
ants. Several other states, like
West Virginia and New York, fell
short of passing new taxes on the
tech giants last year, but their
proponents may renew their
push after Maryland’s success.
The moves are part of an es-
calating debate about the eco-
nomic power of the tech giants
as the companies have grown,
become gatekeepers for commu-
nication and culture, and started
to collect reams of data from
their users. In the United States,
l aw e n f o r c e m e n t a g e n c i e s
brought multiple antitrust cases
against Google and Facebook
last year. Members of Congress
have proposed laws to check
their market power, encourage
them to moderate speech more
carefully, and protect their users.
Biden: $350 billion is
needed at state, local
levels to fight COVID
By Josh Boak
and Kevin Freking
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — President
Biden met with a bipartisan
group of governors and mayors
at the White House on Friday as
part of his push to give financial
relief from the coronavirus pan-
demic to state and local govern-
ments — a clear source of divi-
sion with Republican lawmakers
who view the spending as waste-
ful.
As part of a $1.9 trillion coro-
navirus package, Biden wants to
send $350 billion to state and lo-
cal governments and tribal gov-
ernments. While Republicans in
Congress have largely objected
to this initiative, Biden’s push
has some GOP support among
governors and mayors.
“You folks are all on the front
lines and dealing with the crisis
since day one,” Biden said at the
start of the Oval Office meeting.
“They’ve been working on their
own in many cases.”
Republican lawmakers have
stressed that some past aid to
state and local governments re-
mains unspent and revenues
have rebounded after slumping
when the coronavirus first hit.
But state governments have
shed 332,000 jobs since the out-
break began to spread last Feb-
ruary, and local governments
have cut nearly 1 million jobs,
according to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
Republican Governors Asa
Hutchinson of Arkansas and
Larry Hogan of Maryland at-
tended the Friday meeting,
along with Democratic gover-
nors, including New York’s An-
drew Cuomo and New Mexico’s
Michelle Lujan Grisham. The
mayors of Atlanta, Detroit, Mi-
ami, and Arlington, Texas, also
were at the meeting.
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez,
a Republican, called the discus-
sion spirited and said the past
aid to local governments was in-
sufficient, so more money was
needed.
Maryland’s tax also reflects
the collision of two economic
trends during the pandemic:
The largest tech companies have
had milestone financial perfor-
mances as social distancing
moved work, play, and com-
merce further online. But cities
and states saw their tax revenues
plummet as the need for their
social services grew.
“ They ’re really getting
squeezed,” said Ruth Mason, a
professor at the University of
Virginia’s law school. “And this is
a huge way to target a tax to the
winners of the pandemic.”
Lobbying groups for Silicon
Valley companies like Google
and Facebook joined other oppo-
nents of the law — including
Maryland Republicans, telecom
companies, and local media out-
lets — in arguing that the cost of
the tax would be passed along to
small businesses that buy ads
and their customers. Doug May-
er, a former aide to Governor
Larry Hogan who now leads a
coalition backed by industry op-
ponents of the tax, said at a news
conference last week that the
law’s supporters were “using this
bill to take a swing at out-of-
state, faceless big corporations.”
The Maryland tax, which ap-
plies to revenue from digital ads
that are displayed inside the
state, is based on the ad sales a
company generates. A company
that makes at least $100 million
a year in global revenue but no
more than $1 billion a year will
face a 2.5 percent tax on its ads.
Companies that make more than
$15 billion a year will pay a 10
percent tax. Facebook’s and
Google’s global revenues far ex-
ceed $15 billion.
Maryland’s Democratic-con-
trolled Legislature passed the
tax with veto-proof majorities in
March. But Hogan, a moderate
Republican, vetoed the measure
in May.
The state’s lawmakers are ex-
pected to approve a second bill
in the coming days.
“Our residents got a fraction
of the help that they needed,” Su-
arez said at the White House
briefing, adding that the city is
“going to put the money to good
use.”
Under the relief package be-
ing crafted in House committees
this week, every state and the
District of Columbia would get
at least $500 million, but most of
the money going to states would
be distributed based on their
share of unemployed workers
nationally.
Hutchinson said he objected
to the plan’s $1.9 trillion price
tag and the strategy of using jobs
figures to guide the flow of mon-
ey to state and local govern-
ments.
“That’s really a disincentive
for economic growth and people
working,” Hutchinson told The
Associated Press. “I said the only
fair way to do it is to distribute
money to the states on a per cap-
ita basis.”
Local governments would get
$130.2 billion, and tribal gov-
ernments would get $20 billion.
The money could be used to
cover costs incurred because of
the pandemic and lost revenue.
Congress provided $150 bil-
lion in direct assistance to state
and local governments in an ear-
lier relief package signed into
law last March.
Members of the House Com-
mittee on Oversight and Reform
debated the merits of the spend-
ing for state and local govern-
ments on Friday.
Representative Carolyn Ma-
loney, the committee’s Demo-
cratic chair, said states and com-
munities are desperate for help.
“This money will allow these
governments to distribute vac-
cines faster, expand testing more
broadly and maintain vital ser-
vices across our country,” Malo-
ney said.
Republican lawmakers de-
scribed the proposed $350 bil-
lion in spending as a boondoggle
that in the long run could cause
inflation and an economic crash.
T h e B o s t o n G l o b e Business D3
MassDOT Highway Division Proposal
Electronic proposals for the following project will be received through the internet using 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.
All Bidders must have a valid vendor code issued by MassDOT in order to bid on projects. Bidders need to apply for a Digital ID at least 14 days prior to a scheduled bid
opening date with Bid Express.
The bidding for and award of the contract for the following projects are to be in accordance with the requirements of Mass General Laws Chapter 30 § 39M.
TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2021 @ 2:00 P.M. (NOON) PROJECT VALUE
DISTRICT 2: Bridge Deck Repairs and Related Work at Various Locations (610833) $677,000.00
REVISION:
CHELMSFORD & MEDFORD-SOMERVILLE: FAP# NHP(IM)-093S(495)X Resurfacing and Related Work on Sections of Interstates 93 and 495 (610724)
TITLE HAS BEEN CHANGED TO READ:
CHELMSFORD & SOMERVILLE TO STONEHAM: FAP# NHP(IM)-093S(495)X Resurfacing and Related Work on Sections of Interstates 495 and 93 (610724)
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.state.ma.us. The blank “Request Proposal Form (R109)” can be obtained at: https://www.mass.gov/prequalification-of-horizontal-construction-
firms.
An award will not be made to a Contractor who is not pre-qualified by the Department prior to the opening of proposals.
Proposal documents for official bidders are posted on www.bidx.com. Other interested parties may receive informational Contract Documents containing the Plans
and Special Provisions, free of charge. All parties who wish to have access to information plans and specification must send a “Request for Informational Documents”
to MassDOTBidDocuments@dot.state.ma.us.
Plans and Contract Documents will be on display and information will be available at the MassDOT Boston Headquarters Office and at each District Office wherein a
project is located.
MassDOT, in compliance with Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations Part 21 (Nondiscrimination 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 in any contract entered into pursuant to this
advertisement, minority business enterprises 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 an award.
DESIGN-BUILD PROJECT
Letters of Interest for the following Project will be accepted at:
MassDOT Bid Document Distribution Center
MassDOT Highway Division
10 Park Plaza - Suite 6261
Boston, MA 02116
Attn: Eric M. Cardone, P. E.,
Construction Contracts Engineer
Until the date and time stated below for:
The Bidding for and Award of the contract for the following Project is to be in accordance with The Best Value Design Build Procurement process shall be used for the
Project t as authorized under MGL c 149A ss 14 et seq.
THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2021 @ 12:00 P.M. (NOON) PROJECT VALUE
BOSTON: Roadway, Ceiling, Arch, & Wall Reconstruction and Other Control Systems in Sumner Tunnel DESIGN-BUILD PROJECT (606476) $112,000,000.00
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) is soliciting Letters of Interest from parties interested in the RFQ
package for the Design-Build Project consisting of the completion of the design and construction for BOSTON, Roadway, Ceiling, Arch, & Wall Reconstruction and
Other Control Systems in Sumner Tunnel.
Project Location: The Project is located in MassDOT District 6 (Suffolk County) and the limits of the Project include the East Boston boat section and extend 1.1 miles
to approximate 100 ft past the Boston portal.
It is to be understood that the Project scope includes all aspects of design, demolition, and construction, compliance with all environmental permits to be secured and/
or amended by final design, coordination with utilities, public outreach, and any coordination with abutting or interested parties.
Summary
The scope of work includes both design and construction of the rehabilitation of the Sumner Tunnel. This includes, but is not limited to, the rehabilitation of the
roadway walls and ceiling of the Sumner tunnel box, circular section and East Boston boat section. In addition, this Project will upgrade the life safety systems to the
current standard and these include lighting, fire standpipe, CCTV cameras and fire alarm systems.
The reconstruction of the Project will include a 16-week traffic shut down of Sumner Tunnel between the months of June 2023 - September 2023. Additional
weekend and nighttime closures will be allowed prior to and post shutdown.
Tunnel Reconstruction
The Project includes removal of asphalt and hydrodemolition of surface concrete on the roadway slabs to the top flange of the roadway beams for the full length and
width of the tunnel, reconstruction of 2” minimum depth of ultra-high-performance concrete above the beams, and placement of an asphalt wearing surface. The
existing wall panels will be removed along with all attachment hardware and the concrete behind the panels will be repaired. The existing suspended ceiling will be
removed and replaced with a new ceiling system supported by transverse beams resting on new concrete corbels on either side of the roadway. The area of the tunnel
liner above the ceiling will be repaired by hydrodemolition and shotcrete for the full length of the tunnel. In the supply duct below the roadway, concrete spall repairs
will be conducted, and the exposed underside of the beams will be painted with a zinc-rich paint. Within the limits of the box section, both air ducts below the roadway
will be filled with a concrete or flowable fill material. In the East Boston boat slab section, the boat wall panel facing system will be removed and replaced and the boat
slab will be repaired.
Roadway Reconstruction
The Project includes minimal vertical modifications to reestablish the normal crown within the tunnel, replacement of 3 inches of bituminous wearing surface in both
the tunnel and the East Boston boat section. Work will also include all traffic management during construction, including temporary signing, pavement marking,
temporary barriers, impact attenuating devices, channelizing devices, inlet protection/modification, pavement markings.
Lighting
The Project includes the demolition of the existing roadway tunnel lighting system in its entirety and the redesign, furnishing, installation, and commissioning of a
new Tunnel Lighting System. The new system will generally include, LED Luminaires, Lighting Control system, mounting hardware, junction boxes, power conduits
and wiring. At a minimum the tunnel lighting control system will be a digital powerline carrier system with a redundant Lighting Contactor-Switching control system.
Luminaires will be individually monitored and integrated into the existing SCADA system. The Project will also include demolition and replacement of the existing
exhaust duct lighting system in its entirety and the redesign, furnishing, installation, and commissioning of a new wayfinding lighting system.
Electrical:
The Project includes the design of lighting and power panel boards to provide power for all the new normal and standby tunnel and new exhaust duct lighting systems
and power for all communication, CCTV, fire alarm systems. The design includes developing electrical one-line diagrams, sizing of raceway and cable systems,
branch circuiting both for normal and standby power (backed up by UPS), engineering calcs for voltage drop, short circuit currents etc. It also includes ensuring to
provide temporary construction power inside the tunnel.
Standpipe System
The Project includes the demolition of the existing tunnel fire standpipe system in its entirety and the redesign, furnishing, installation, and commissioning of a new
tunnel fire standpipe system. The new standpipe system generally includes piping, pipe supports, fire department connections, hose valves, hose valve cabinets and
the related accessories.
Air Quality Monitoring System
The Project includes the demolition of the existing tunnel Carbon Monoxide monitoring system in its entirety and the redesign, furnishing, installation, commissioning
of a new tunnel Carbon Monoxide monitoring system. The new Carbon Monoxide monitoring system shall also be integrated into the existing SCADA control system.
Ceiling Exhaust Duct
The Project includes the demolition of the existing tunnel panel ceiling system that serves as the exhaust duct in its entirety and the redesign, furnishing, installation
and commissioning of a tunnel ceiling system. This work includes the redesign of the exhaust duct ventilation ports, port air balancing plates, and balancing plate
settings, as well as field commissioning testing to validate the air flow balance in the ducts.
Communications
CCTV design used for traffic surveillance, security and incident response. SCADA system design to support tunnel lighting, storm water pumps, air quality sensors
and over-height vehicle detection. In-tunnel commercial AM/FM Radio Rebroadcast System with Emergency Override. Two-way radio design, and tunnel fire alarm
system.
The proposed Project cost is estimated at $112,000,000. The Best Value Design-Build Procurement process shall be used for the Project as authorized under MGL c
149A ss 14 et seq.
Letters of Interest: The deadline for receipt of Letters of Interest is March 25, 2021 at 12:00PM (noon).
All parties must send a “Letter of Interest letter” to MassDOTBidDocuments@dot.state.ma.us. Letters of Interest MUST include a contact name, address,
telephone number, fax number and email address. Late submittals will not be accepted. The Request for Qualifications (RFQ) package will be emailed on or
about March 26, 2021 to all parties submitting a Letter of Interest by the above date and time. The RFQ (without supporting documents) will also be available to be
downloaded from COMMBUYS on or about March 26, 2021. The posting on COMMBUYS is for public informational purposes only. Please note that Proposers MUST
submit a Letter of Interest by the stated date in order to become part of the procurement process for the Project. The Statement of Qualifications (SOQ) will be due on
or around April 23, 2021 by Noon (12:00 PM). Statements of Qualifications will NOT be accepted from any party not submitting a Letter of Interest by the stated date.
Envelopes are to be clearly labeled on the outermost cover:
Letter of Interest
BOSTON – ROADWAY, CEILING, ARCH, & WALL RECONSTRUTION AND OTHER CONTROL SYSTEMS IN SUMNER TUNNEL. Design-Build Project #606476
Briefing: A virtual briefing will be held to discuss the RFQ on or about April 2, 2021 at 10 AM. Meeting notices will be emailed to the point of contacts listed in the
SOQ.
Prequalification:
All Design-Builders must have a Major Participant that is prequalified by the MassDOT Architects and Engineers Review Board in the areas of:
• Complex Bridge Design and Rating
• Intermediate Roadway Design
In addition, all Design-Builders must have a Major Participant who is prequalified by the MassDOT Prequalification Committee in Bridge Construction with a Single
Contract Limit of at least $112,000,000. Design-Builder JV Partners may combine Prequalification SCLs in Bridge Construction to satisfy the prequalification
requirement.
Evaluation Criteria: Proposers (and/or their key personnel) will be evaluated on the following criteria:
• Similar type work experience, particularly for Tunnel Reconstruction.
• DB team member experience utilizing shotcrete for an overhead structural repair.
• Joint experience of the DB team members working together.
• Design-Build experience of the DB team members.
• Quality of performance on prior projects.
• Experience of Key Personnel to be assigned to the project.
• Experience and success in managing accelerated work schedules with key milestones.
• Financial Status.
• Litigation and Performance/Termination History.
• Safety Record.
• Reference Information, including banks, previous clients, and sureties.
• Volume of current work on MassDOT projects.
• Successful implementation of complex Traffic Management Plans and RTTM.
• Prior experience in utility protection/relocation/installation and coordination with construction operations.
• Prior experience with Electrical Systems, Highway Lighting, and Fire Standpipe Systems
• Prior experience in developing innovative project designs and construction methods of a type similar to this scope.
• Prior experience with Public Outreach and Abutter engagement in urban areas
• Other factors that the Selection Committee determines.
Additional: This Design-Build procurement will follow a two-phase Best Value selection process. An RFQ will be sent to all parties submitting a Letter of Interest.
Proposers are invited to submit a Statement of Qualifications (SOQ) to the MassDOT contact above in response to the RFQ. It is expected that the SOQ will be due on
or about April 23, 2021 at noon (12:00 PM). Firms/Contractors submitting a Letter of Interest by the due date will receive and be notified of addendums to the RFQ
up to the submission date of the SOQ.
Proposer are required to prepare an SOQ; be prequalified by MassDOT Architects and Engineers Review Board; and be prequalified by the MassDOT Prequalification
Committee. The Proposer must be able to produce evidence of 100% bonding capacity.
Time Period for Completed Project: MassDOT will require that all construction must be completed within 957 calendar days of Notice to Proceed.
MassDOT will be utilizing Bid Express for this project. All bidders shall use Bid Express for submittal of bids. Bidders shall subscribe to the BidExpress on-line bidding
exchange by following the instructions provided at www.bidx.com or by contacting:
Info Tech Inc.
2970 SW 50th Terrace
Gainesville, FL 32608-5076
email:customer.support@bidx.com
Complete instructions for the submission of qualifications are set forth in the RFQ. The Commonwealth reserves the right to reject any or all proposals it may receive.
MassDOT Highway Division projects are subject to the rules and regulations of the Architectural Access Board (521 CMR 1.00 et. seq.). Prospective bidders and
interested parties can access this information and more via the internet at WWW.COMMBUYS.COM.
BY: Jamey Tesler, Acting Secretary and CEO, MassDOT
Jonathan L. Gulliver, Highway Administrator, MassDOT Highway Division
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2021
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BY CITY AND TOWN
ANDOVER
FEELEY, Thomas Michael
BEDFORD
ROBERTS-EUNSON, Dorothy L.
(Agrillo)
BOSTON
FEELEY, Thomas Michael
TALBOT, James Joseph Jr.
CAMBRIDGE
RABITA, Rita C. (D’Andrea/Andrews)
CONCORD
ROBERTS-EUNSON, Dorothy L.
(Agrillo)
DENNIS
REYNOLDS, Margaret Elaine
HARWICH
FARREN, Paul Vincent
LITTLETON
McKENNA, William P.
MALDEN
TAMASI, Marcia (Newell)
MANSFIELD
DeGIROLAMO, Peter Jr.
MEDFIELD
TRAVERS, Joseph Leo, Jr.
MEDFORD
TRAVERS, Joseph Leo, Jr.
MELROSE
FEELEY, Thomas Michael
MILLIS
TRAVERS, Joseph Leo, Jr.
NEWTON
HARRISON, Ellen
RABITA, Rita C. (D’Andrea/Andrews)
NORTH READING
McKENNA, William P.
SAUGUS
ANDON, Sofia Louise
ANDON, Sofia Louise
Beloved Aunt,
Sister and
Godmother
Age 83, of Saugus, MA, passed away
suddenly on January 31, 2021. Beloved
aunt, sister, and godmother. She was
predeceased by her brothers, Andonaq
Andon, Michael Andon, and Charles
Andon; and her sister, Jeanette Andon
Mastrangelo. Louise is survived by
her sisters-in-law, Sandra J. Andon
and Donna J. Andon; her 11 nephews
and nieces; her 14 grandnephews and
grandnieces; and her beloved godson,
Brett Michael Brattvet.
Louise grew up in Everett, MA and
spent much of her adult life in Saugus,
MA, as well as with her sister’s family
in Florida. She was deeply dedicated
to her family and to the Albanian
Orthodox church in Boston. She will be
profoundly missed by all.
Funeral Services were held at St.
George’s Albanian Orthodox Church in
South Boston on Tuesday, February 9th,
followed by Interment in the family
plot at Glenwood Cemetery in Everett,
MA. In lieu of flowers, donations may
be sent to St. George’s Cathedral of
South Boston.
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LOCAL UNION 103,
I.B.E.W.
We regret to announce the death
of Brother James J. Donovan
(Ret). Services have already been
held. Brother Donovan was a
member of IBEW for 62 years.
Louis J. Antonellis
Business Manager/Financial
Secretary
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WEST HARWICH, MA, Sunday,
February 14th. Visiting Hours
are 1-5PM. There will be a Prayer
Service at the Funeral Home
at 8:30AM Monday, February
15th. Members are requested to
attend.
John R. Soares, President
Eric P. DesRoches, Treasurer,
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SAINATO, George D.
TEWKSBURY
ELLSWORTH, John M. Jr.
WAKEFIELD
FEELEY, Thomas Michael
WATERTOWN
RABITA, Rita C. (D’Andrea/Andrews)
WEYMOUTH
REYNOLDS, Margaret Elaine
WILMINGTON
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ANDON, Sofia Louise
SAINATO, George D.
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IERARDI, Philip
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BALBONI, Joseph J. Jr.
TALBOT, James Joseph Jr.
RHODE ISLAND
McKENNA, William P.
BALBONI, Joseph J. Jr.
Age 80, of Wolfeboro, NH, passed away
peacefully at home, surrounded by
his family, on February 9, 2021 from
CNS lymphoma. Joe was the loving
husband of Mary F. (Cronin) Balboni
and devoted father to Kevin Balboni,
Karen Donovan, Lynn McGowan and
Kim Richard.
Born in Malden, MA, on April 18,
1940, Joe was the son of the late Philo-
mena and Joseph J. Balboni, Sr. Joe was
raised in Somerville, MA, where his
lifelong passion for honest work and
community service was instilled in him
by his extended Italian family.
Joe began his career as a pressman
for the T.O. Metcalf Printing Company.
Learning and growing in the printing
industry for many years, he went on
to purchase his own printing com-
pany, Northeast Offset, Inc. (NEO), in
Chelmsford, MA.
Staying active and involved in his
community was extremely important to
Joe. A few of his previous involvements
include: President of Billerica Rotary,
President & Treasurer of the National
Association of Litho Clubs (NALC),
Board Member of the Genesis Fund,
Board of Directors Member of Special
Olympics Massachusetts, volunteer
fireman and President of the Hollis
NH Fire Department. Joe was also a
devoted communicant at St. Katharine
Drexel Parish in Alton, NH.
Joe is survived by his wife Mary F.
Balboni of Wolfeboro, his son Kevin
Balboni and his wife Maria of Carlisle,
MA, his daughters Karen Donovan of
Milford, NH, Lynn McGowan and her
husband Kevin McGowan of Nashua,
NH, Kim Richard and her husband Tim
Richard of Nashua, NH. Joe is also sur-
vived by his eight grandchildren: Ryan
McGowan, Vanessa Wickens, Kevin
McGowan, Jr., Michaela McGowan,
Andrew Balboni, Emily Richard,
Celeste Balboni, Jack Donovan, and his
great-grandson, Julian Wickens.
Also survived by his siblings
Lorraine Screnci, Barbara Pagliuca,
Lauretta Raffi, Richard Balboni and
Donna Ciampo and many nieces and
nephews.
Because of the current restric-
tions, Joe’s Visitation will be private.
A Funeral Mass will be held Saturday,
February 13, 2021 at 11am at Saint
Katharine Drexel Catholic Church, 40
Hidden Springs Road, Alton, NH
03809. For those unable to travel and
attend in person, the mass will be live
streamed at www.stkdrexel.org
A Celebration of Life in Joe’s honor
will be held outdoors later this year.
Funeral arrangements are with
www.lordfuneralhome.com
In lieu of flowers, at the family’s
request donations may be made in Joe’s
memory to the following charities:
Wolfeboro Police Benevolent Associa-
tion, Wolfeboro Children’s Christmas
Fund, or the Wolfeboro Food Pantry.
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DeGIROLAMO, Peter Jr.
Passed away Wednesday, February 10,
2021 at Tufts Medical Center. Due to
Covid-19 protocols, he was surrounded
by no one #fCOVID #werenotbitter.
Fortunately, he was loved and sup-
ported by family and friends through-
out his life.
Peter was born on July 11, 1942, son
of Peter and Mary (Narciso) DeGi-
rolamo, Sr. He was a lifelong resident of
Mansfield, a 1960 graduate from Man-
sfield High School and continued his
education at Northeastern University.
For many years he was the owner
of Peter DeGirolamo and Sons, Inc., a
company founded by his father Peter,
Sr. and now operated by his sons. He
was a strong leader in business. He led
by example and valued his long-tenured
employees. He took pride in his com-
munity and made countless contribu-
tions to it through the years.
An avid golfer, Peter was an active
member of Highland and Foxborough
Country Clubs. He was a full-time
sports enthusiast and supporter of
MHS athletics. He loved watching his
children, nieces/nephews, grandchil-
dren and grandnephews play a myriad
of sports. Of all the sports, football
was by far his favorite. He was a proud
member of the 1959 Class D Football
Champions and one of the founding
members of the Mansfield Pop Warner.
Peter was predeceased by his
parents, and his brother Paul. He is
survived by his wife of 57 years Susan
E. (Palanza) DeGirolamo, his sister-in-
law Janet DeGirolamo of Mansfield, his
brothers David DeGirolamo and wife
Nancy of Attleboro, Roy DeGirolamo
and his wife Cindy of Norton, and his
three children Ronald and his wife
Linda (Swenson) DeGirolamo, Theresa
(DeGirolamo) and her husband Michael
Nyhan, and Joseph and his wife Mi-
chelle (Gormley) DeGirolamo, all Man-
sfield residents, his four grandchildren
Michael, Christina and her husband
John, Anthony and Daniel and many
cousins, nieces and nephews.
Visiting Hours will be at Boston
Cremation (formerly Bolea), 115 North
Main Street, MANSFIELD, Sunday,
February 14, from 1-4pm. A Mass of
Christian Burial will be celebrated at
Saint Mary’s Church, 330 Pratt Street,
Mansfield, Monday, February 15 at
11:30. Followed by interment at St.
Mary’s Cemetery, Mansfield. All at-
tendees are required to wear masks and
abide by social distancing guidelines.
People unable to attend may view the
Funeral Mass at www.mansfieldcableac-
cess.com then click on “public live” tab.
In lieu of flowers, a donation can be
made to the Joe Andruzzi Foundation.
Gifts may be mailed to: Joe Andruzzi
Foundation, 49 Plain Street, Suite 500,
North Attleboro, MA 02760 or donate
online at joeandruzzi foundation.org
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ELLSWORTH, John M. Jr.
Age 74, “The Duke” of Tewksbury,
passed away Wednesday, February 10,
2021. He was surrounded by his loving
family at home after a courageous
battle with lung cancer.
He was the beloved husband of
Margaret M. (Cluett) Ellsworth, with
whom he shared 36 years of marriage.
He was born April 8, 1946, the eldest
child of John M. and Helen (McGurn)
Ellsworth. Born and raised in
Medford, graduating from Malden
Catholic High School.
Mr. Ellsworth proudly served
with the United States Navy from
1964 to 1969 as an electrician.
After his honorable discharge, he
began his career with the Everett
Police Department where he was
affectionately known as “The Duke.”
He was later promoted to Sergeant
and retired as The Prosecutor for the
Everett Police Department
in Malden District Court. He was
always very proud of his service to his
country and community and will be
remembered fondly for his many years
of hard work.
He also loved Friday lunch with the
guys, country music and sports, but
most of all his grandchildren and all
their accomplishments.
Besides his loving wife, Margaret,
he is survived by his children, Matthew
Ellsworth and his wife, Cecilia, of
Derry, NH, John Ellsworth and his wife,
Theresa, of Derry, NH, Tina English
and her husband, Paul, of Newmarket,
NH, Laura Henckler and her husband,
Charles, of Chelmsford, Danielle
Chaput and her husband, William, of
Tewksbury, as well as extra daughter
Beth Fronczak of Peabody; his beloved
grandchildren, Paul, Katie, Chelsey,
Chuckie, Cole, Billy, Gracie, and Noelle;
his brother, Barry Ellsworth of Danville,
NH; his two sisters, Joann Crockett and
her husband, Phillip, of Wakefield, Julie
Ann Cooke and her husband, Mark, of
Tyngsboro; as well as many nieces and
nephews and was predeceased in death
by his sister, Patricia Carraher. He will
be lovingly missed by all.
Visiting Hours: While wearing a
mask and following social distancing
guidelines, you are invited to his Calling
Hours from 4 until 8 p.m. on Monday.
On Tuesday, his Funeral will begin
at 9 a.m. at the Tewksbury Funeral
Home, 1 Dewey Street, TEWKSBURY
978-851-2061. His Funeral Mass will
be offered at Saint William’s Church,
Tewksbury at 10 a.m. Burial in the
Tewksbury Cemetery.
Tewksbury Funeral Home
978-851-2061
www.TewksburyFuneralHome.com
FARREN, Paul Vincent
Of Harwich, MA formerly
of Dorchester, passed
away peacefully at home
on February 10, 2021 surrounded by
his family. Paul was a member of the
Boston Fire Department for 35 years.
He rose through the ranks and retired
as a District Fire Chief, he loved his job.
A husband, father, grandfather,
brother, and friend, he was our rock
always there when we needed him.
Devoted husband to Michele (Drohan)
Farren of Harwich, MA. He is survived
by his brother James Farren of Scituate,
MA, sister Rose Feeney of Braintree,
MA and Katherine Scott of Rockland,
MA.
He was a dedicated loving father to
Michele and Bill Gustafson of Halifax,
MA Timothy Farren of Plymouth,
MA, Daniel Farren of Harwich, MA
and Jennifer and Nicholas Pratt of
Bourne, MA. Beloved grandfather
to Zachery Farren, Nicholas Farren,
Emma Gustafson, Lily Gustafson, and
Colin Pratt along with many nieces and
nephews.
With adherence to Covid-19 health
precautions and social distancing
rules, visitation will be held on Sunday,
February 14, 2021 from 1-5 pm at
Doane Beal and Ames, 260 Main
St. (Rte. 28), W. HARWICH, MA. A
gathering of family and friends will
take place 8:30 a.m. Monday, February
15, 2021 at Doane Beal and Ames
in W. Harwich followed by a 10 a.m.
committal service with military honors
at Massachusetts National Cemetery in
Bourne, MA.
In lieu of flowers, donations can
be made to VNA Hospice of Cape
Cod. To share a memory or for online
condolences, please visit www.
doanebealamesharwich.com
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FEELEY, Thomas Michael Sr. HARRISON, Ellen
November 19, Beloved mother,
1945 – February grandmother, wife
5, 2021 and community
dentist in Newton
For Tom Feeley, family came first.
He was a loving husband of 52 years,
Ellen Harrison of Newton, MA passed
father of four, grandfather to 9, brother
away on February 7, 2021 at the age
to 11, and cousin, uncle, great-uncle,
of 71. She is survived by her loving
and dear friend to too many to count.
Tom was born in Cambridge, MA, on family, including her husband, John
November 19, 1945, and grew up in a Guinan, Jr., their three daughters,
Sarah Harrison, Liza Ashbrook, and
large Irish-American family in Melrose,
Molly Harrison, four grandchildren,
MA. In 1968, he married the love of his
Charlie Van Heuvelen, 7, Ella Harrison,
life, Joan (Sullivan), one of nine chil-
dren from a family across town. Tom 4, Evie Ashbrook, 6, and Rowan
graduated from Melrose High School Ashbrook, 3, as well as her brother
in 1963, received his Bachelor of Arts Fred Harrison, her sister Amy Michael,
in Accounting from Salem State Col- her mother, Gloria Friedman, and
lege in 1968, his Master’s of Business her dog, Gus. Ellen passed suddenly
three weeks after contracting Covid-
Administration from Babson College
19. She had worked as a dentist in
in 1971, and his Master’s of Science in
Newton for over forty years. Ellen
Taxation from Bentley College in 1982.
Tom was elected to the Melrose Board loved the outdoors, hiking trails with
of Alderman from 1974-78 and served John throughout New England. She
particularly loved summer weeks with
as President from 1977-78. In 1978,
her family on Sandy Island, a family
Tom and Joan moved to Andover, MA
camp in New Hampshire. At home in
to raise their family. Over the last 15
Newton Highlands, Ellen nurtured
years he and Joan have divided their
many beautiful plants and enjoyed
time between Andover, Kennebunk,
watching birds visit her birdfeeder. An
ME, and Sanibel, FL.
avid reader, Ellen also loved reading
Tom was a fixture in the Boston
books with her grandchildren. She will
business and political community.
be so sorely missed. A virtual Memorial
In 1974, he started the Boston-based
Service will be held shortly on a date
accounting firm Feeley & Driscoll, P.C.,
and time to be announced. For updated
which he grew into one of the largest
information, a more complete obituary,
and most recognized CPA firms in
photos and a guestbook please visit:
Massachusetts before retiring in 2016.
www.oneillfuneral.com A donation
He was the President of the Massachu-
can be made in Ellen’s honor to the
setts Society of CPAs from 1985-86 and
Massachusetts Audubon Society, The
was on the Board of Directors for the
Nature Conservancy or the ACLU.
American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants from 1990-1994. Tom
volunteered for Mike Dukakis’ first
gubernatorial race in 1972 and contin-
IERARDI, Philip
ued to work with and advise local and
national politicians for the remainder
of his life.
Those who knew Tom were struck
by his genuine affection and his
generosity with time and attention. His
mix of business sense, street smarts, no
nonsense communication, good humor,
and empathy made him a natural men-
tor and confidant to people from all
walks of life, including senators, CEOs,
mom-and-pop business owners, recent
college graduates, and the musicians
at the local pub. His motivation was
always selfless—he simply liked to see
people succeed.
Tom raised money, volunteered time,
and made numerous philanthropic
donations to charitable organizations
1938 - 2021
including food banks, affordable hous-
We mournfully announce the passing
ing groups, medical research and treat-
of Philip Ierardi, 82, of St. Louis. Phil
ment centers, after school programs,
passed away on February 5th, 2021, in
and higher education.
Tom was a voracious reader, a politi-
Charleston, SC.
Phil was born to Vincent & Mary
cal junkie, and a die-hard sports fan.
Ierardi in Boston, Massachusetts. He
He loved his broad circle of friends,
attended Boston Latin High School
Irish music, spirited conversation,
golfing, and taking his grandkids out to
and went on to earn a degree in
Engineering at Northeastern University.
breakfast. He was a warm and generous
He was devoted to raising his son,
spirit, and he will be missed.
restoring and driving his antique cars,
Tom is survived by his wife, Joan;
children, Kelly Feeley of Boston, MA,
and playing his clarinet and Lowrey
organ.
Dan and Molly Feeley of Andover,
He is survived by his three brothers,
MA, Tom Feeley and Alexis Sullivan
of Topsham, ME, and Jon Feeley and
Dominic of Holbrook, Anthony (wife
Shirley) of Holbrook, and Joseph (wife
Jenny Lupica of South Portland, ME;
Mary) of West Palm Beach; his son
grandchildren, Hannah and Maddie
James (wife Nicole) of Charleston; and
Pogoda, and Maeve, Sam, Clementine,
two Grandchildren.
James, Ben, Maggie, and Cam Feeley.
We will miss him dearly.
He was the son of the late Francis X.
and Alice (Ahern) Feeley; the sibling of
Alice and the late Herb Carney, Carol
and the late George Lee, the late Rose
and Paul McDonald, the late Francis
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late Paul Feeley, Maureen and Jack
Woods, and David and Karen Feeley. You talk about many
Due to gathering restrictions, the things with your loved ones.
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Celebration of his Life later this year.
starts when loved ones talk
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For online remembrances, please visit
Gately Funeral Home at https://www. Download a free brochure
gatelyfh.com and Have the Talk of a
In lieu of flowers, the family requests
Lifetime today. It can make
donations in Tom’s memory to the Sa-
the difference of a lifetime.
lem State University Foundation, online
at https://participate.salemstate.edu/ tal kofalifetime.org
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McKENNA, William P. “Bill”
Of North Reading, Feb. 9th.
Beloved husband of Laura
(Marquis). Father of Kaitlyn
Quill and her husband Justin of
Littleton and Kelsey McKenna and her
fiancé Shaun Hawkins of RI. Son of the
late George, Sr. and his wife Catherine
“Louise” McKenna. Brother of George
McKenna, Jr. and his wife Elaine of
Reading. Cousin of Elizabeth “Betty”
Eustace and her husband Paul of
Malden.
Brother-in-law of Linda O’Brien
and her husband Robert of Tewksbury,
Donna Rochon and her husband Ken of
NH, Debra Arsenault and her husband
Richard of Malden, Paula Arsenault
and her husband Peter of North Read-
ing, Thomas Marquis and his wife Carol
of Tewksbury, and Sheila Porfirio and
her husband Tony of ME. Bill is also
survived by many loving nieces, neph-
ews and extended family. Relatives and
friends are most respectfully invited to
attend a Funeral Mass at St. Athanasius
Church, 300 Haverhill St., Reading on
Monday, Feb. 15th at 10:30am. Visiting
Hours at the Cota Funeral Home, 335
Park St. (corner of Park St. and Rte.
28), NORTH READING, at Reading
Line, on Sunday from 1-4pm. Due to
restrictions, 40% capacity is allowed
in the funeral home at one time and
masks must be worn at all times. Staff
will be on hand for assistance. Private
family interment will take place in the
VA National Cemetery, Bourne. Please
omit flowers and make donations in
Bill’s name to the American Diabetes
Assoc., P.O. Box 7023, Merrifield, VA
22116-7023.
Bill proudly served his country in
the USMC during the Vietnam War. He
was a dedicated member of the Ameri-
can Legion and a former exalted ruler
of the Malden Elks. Bill was an avid
sports fan and enjoyed playing a good
round of golf. He was a loving and loyal
father, husband, and friend.
We want to thank all of the staff and
doctors at both Lahey Hospital and
Beth Israel Hospital for the great care
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Andrews)
Age 91, passed away peacefully on
February 11, 2021. Born in Watertown,
she was the daughter of the late Victor
and Elsie (Sperguiro) D’Andrea/
Andrews. Loving wife of 55 years to
Vincent J. Rabita. Sister of Eleanor
Sarao, Victor Andrews and the late
Jeanne English and Vincent Andrews.
Rita was surrounded by many loving
nieces and nephews and also their
children, who loved spending time
with her and listening to her many
stories. Relatives and friends are invited
to visit in The DeVito Funeral Home,
761 Mt. Auburn St., WATERTOWN,
Monday from 8:00 am to 9:30 am
with a Funeral Mass to commence at
10:00 am in The Sacred Heart Church,
Watertown. Rita and Vinny spent many
years together living on Cape Cod and
spent their time together going to the
beach, gardening around their yard
or just sitting on their deck reading a
good book. Rita was an avid reader and
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REYNOLDS, Margaret
Elaine “Peggy”
Age 93, of Dennis, MA, formerly of
Weymouth, passed away on February 7,
2021. She was born August 1, 1927, in
Jamaica Plain, MA to the late John and
Margaret (Ferguson) Campbell.
In 1971, she moved to Cape Cod,
where she raised her family, and
later worked in retail. She worked at
Davenport’s 5 & 10 Store in Dennisport
and Marshalls in Hyannis. She was
a member of the Mid Cape Chorus,
enjoyed beach combing, loved animals,
traveled extensively including to
Scotland, and was an avid Red Sox fan.
Peggy was a parishioner of the Pilgrim
Congregational Church, Harwichport
for over 50 years, where she was a
member of the choir, and volunteered
in the office for many years.
In addition to being predeceased by
her parents, she was also predeceased
by her husband, Robert Reynolds and
her daughter, Jacqueline Tolman. She is
survived by her son, Stephen Reynolds
and wife Rosemary of Westwood,
MA, and daughters, Wendy Addo and
husband Lionel of North Attleboro,
MA, Joyce Watson of Dennisport, MA,
Nancy Reynolds of Portsmouth, NH,
Amy Downey of South Yarmouth, MA
and Sheryl MacDonald and husband
Ken of North Port, FL. She is also
survived by 15 grandchildren, 24
great-grandchildren and many nieces,
nephews and friends.
Visiting Hours will be held on
Sunday, February 14, 2021 from 2-6
pm at Doane Beal and Ames, 729
Route 134, SOUTH DENNIS, MA.
Private Burial will be held at Oakridge
Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be
made to Broad Reach Hospice in North
Chatham or MSPCA –Cape Cod in
Centerville, MA.
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ROBERTS-EUNSON,
Dorothy L. “Dottie”
(Agrillo)
Born on December 9, 1932 in Bedford,
passed away Fri., Jan. 22, 2021. She
raised her family in Concord for 22
years and was then a resident of
Bedford for 39 years. She was the
wife of the late Donald Eunson. She is
survived by her four children, Deborah
Ann, Linda, Stephen, James, Jr., and
his son William, and her late husband’s
three sons.
Dottie will be remembered as
selfless, putting the needs of her
family and friends first and lovingly
foremost above her own. There was
never a shortage of good people at the
dinner table, graced by and gracing the
community about her. She was always
happy to attend the MIT bridge club.
Dottie was a tireless servant to the
residents of Carleton-Willard Village,
assuring they were cared for and not
forgotten. Her love and interest in
people served her well in her many
years at the Concord Answering
Service.
Dottie taught and inspired others
with her passion for tap dance, baton
twirling and accordion playing. She
traveled the world and broadened
her horizons with experiences from
many cultures, yet she still enjoyed the
comforts of home and loved to tend to
her garden.
Her family is thankful to have many
happy memories to cherish of a loving
wife, mother, friend and good neighbor
to all who knew her. She was loved to
the moon and back. Due to COVID-
19, Funeral Services were private.
Shawsheen Funeral Home, BEDFORD.
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SAINATO, George D.
Age 86, of Somerville, MA, passed away
peacefully on Wednesday, February 3,
2021. George is survived by his loving
wife Linda Sainato, and his brothers
William Sainato, Danny Sainato
and sister Ann Gianino. A Memorial
Celebration of George’s Life will be held
at a future date.
TALBOT, James Joseph Jr.
Of Exeter, NH, died
peacefully on Saturday,
February 6, 2021,
surrounded by his loving daughters. He
was 88.
Jim was born in Boston. Orphaned
in his teens, he overcame adversity
and led a remarkable life, defined at its
core by his inner resilience and innate
goodness. His strength, humor, and
kindness extended beyond his family,
touching friends, neighbors, and busi-
ness associates with countless acts of
generosity, both large and small.
Jim’s drive for success began early.
He excelled at high school sports and
was elected president of his senior class
at Roslindale High School. He went
on to study at Boston College, paying
his tuition and expenses through a
series of jobs, including hanging signs
and helping to build a trestle bridge.
He never failed to joke while passing
over the Tobin Bridge that he had once
risked his life dangling from the rafters
to hang a sign on a windy day.
In 1951, Jim took a break from his
studies to join the US Navy, serving
with distinction as a radio operator
during the Korean War. Honorably
discharged in 1955 and determined to
complete his education, he followed a
Navy buddy to the University of Maine.
There, he met the love of his life, Mary
Mincher. The two married in 1958,
beginning an extraordinary partner-
ship that continued until Mary’s death
in 2015.
In business, Jim’s accomplishments
were equally distinctive. His work as a
salesman and later as a senior executive
in specialty chemicals took him from
the steel and paper mills of Bethlehem
and Buffalo to executive offices and
boardrooms in Europe and Asia. He
spent his later career living and work-
ing in Paris, where he and Mary divided
their time between their apartment in
the city and their cottage in Nor-
mandy—which they returned to every
summer after Jim’s retirement.
Throughout his life, Jim loved
nothing more than helping people
and never stopped seeking ways to do
so—everything from volunteering in the
community to repairing neighbors’ cars
and appliances. But nothing brought
him more fulfillment than being a good
father, and at this he truly excelled.
His admiration for his wife’s intellect
inspired in him a passion for women’s
education and advancement that was
truly ahead of his time and had a pro-
found impact on his three daughters,
whose studies and careers he supported
wholeheartedly.
Jim is survived by his daughters,
Elisabeth Talbot McHugh and her hus-
band David of Hingham, MA, Leslie A.
Talbot of Barnstable, MA, and Leigh M.
Talbot of Alexandria, VA. He also leaves
his nephews, William Wickman of
Norwood, MA, and Charles Wickman
of Southborough, MA, his niece Linda
Wickman Anderson of Salem, NH, and
numerous great and great-great-nieces
and nephews, of whom he was very
proud. He was predeceased by his lov-
ing sister Marilyn Wickman.
The Talbot family would also like
to extend their heartfelt thanks to the
nurses and staff at Riverwoods Exeter,
as well as to Jim’s personal caregivers,
for their support over the years, par-
ticularly through the pandemic.
A Memorial Service will be held at a
later date. In lieu of flowers, donations
may be made to: The Mary Mincher
Talbot Scholarship Fund, University of
Maine Foundation, Two Alumni Place,
Orono, ME 04469-5792, or to Toys for
Tots, a charity Jim supported: www.
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TAMASI, Marcia (Newell)
Age 86, lifelong resident of Malden,
passed away February 5, 2021. Born
in Boston, July 10, 1934, she was the
daughter of the late Peter and Grace
Newell of Malden. She was the eldest
of seven children. She was raised and
educated in the Malden School system.
She married her sweetheart the late
Joseph Tamasi in November 1951, who
passed away in 1995.
Marcia is survived by her siblings
Carol Sprague, Lois Horak, Audrey
Perry, Peter Newell, Rose Mary Newell
and Peg (Margaret) Stoodley. She also
leaves her sons Joseph L. Tamasi,
Leonard A. Tamasi, Steven R. Tamasi
and Anthony L. Tamasi, and many
grandchildren and great-grandchildren,
as well as many nieces and nephews.
Family and friends are invited to
visit Boston Cremation, 287 Main St.,
MALDEN, on Friday, February 19,
2021 from 9 to 11am. A Prayer Service
will be held in the Funeral Home at
10:30am. In lieu of flowers, donations
in Marcia’s memory may be made to
either: Mystic Valley Elder Services, 300
Commercial St. #19, Malden, MA or
to a Hospice or Autism organization of
one’s choosing.
TRAVERS, Joseph Leo, Jr.
Died peacefully on Friday, February 5,
2021 at Beth Israel hospital (in Boston).
He was 84.
Born in Medford, Massachusetts in
1936, he was the son of Joseph Leo
Travers Sr. and Anne (Crehan) Travers.
He was a 1958 graduate of Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute. After a brief stint
at Boeing as an aeronautical engineer
he spent much of the rest of his career
in technical sales. He ended his long
career at Parker Hanniffin in 2002. Joe
spent much of his adult life residing
in Millis with his wife Catherine. He
was very active in the town, serving
on the finance committee, the board
of selectmen and as a little league
manager. He was an avid reader, world
traveler, sports enthusiast and known
by many as “the man with the most
toys.”
Joseph recently lost his beloved wife
Catherine Francis Travers. He was the
loving father of Judy Travers and her
partner, Robert McPherson, of Revere,
Joseph Travers and his wife, Terry, of
Jacksonville, FL, Jeanne Travers Stetson
and her husband, Brian, of Norfolk,
Patrick Travers and his partner, Thao
Sands, of Boca Raton FL, Joanne
Travers O’Connell of Millis, the late
John Travers of Watertown and the
late Michael Travers of North Carolina.
He was also the brother of Brian
Travers of Peabody, Nancy Travers of
Yonkers, NY and the late James Travers
of North Carolina. He is survived by
10 grandchildren, Raleigh and Travis
Stetson, Colin and Austin Travers,
Caroline and Joseph Travers, Gavin,
Addeline, Reese and Avery O’Connell;
as well as many nieces and nephews.
Visiting hours for Joseph and
Catherine will be held at Roberts
Mitchell Caruso Funeral Home, 15
Miller St., MEDFIELD, MA 02052, on
Saturday, February 20, 2021 from 1:00
PM until 3:00 PM.
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contributions in Joseph’s name at The
Millis Fund, 142 Exchange St., Millis,
MA 02054-1212.
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Millie Hughes-Fulford, who died at 75, studied the effects of
weightlessness on the body’s immune system and bone mass.
Millie Hughes-Fulford;
conducted research on
space shuttle Columbia
By Richard Sandomir
NEW YORK TIMES
M i l l i e H u g h e s - Fu l f o r d ,
NASA’s first female payload
specialist, who conducted bio-
medical experiments on the
physical toll of spaceflight on
humans on board the space
shuttle Columbia in 1991, died
Feb. 2 at her home in Mill Val-
ley, Calif. She was 75.
The cause was cancer, said
her daughter, Tori Herzog. Ms.
Hughes-Fulford had received a
diagnosis of lymphoma in
2014, and cancer had recently
been found in her esophagus.
Ms. Hughes-Fulford had as-
pired to fly to outer space since
childhood. She achieved her
goal on the Columbia in 1991,
eight years after Sally Ride, the
first American woman in space,
flew on the Challenger.
The experiments that
Hughes-Fulford conducted on
the shuttle were only the start
of her yearslong examination
into the effects of weightless-
ness on the body’s immune sys-
tem and bone mass.
In addition to her work over
nine days aboard the Columbia,
which carried the Spacelab lab-
oratory, she oversaw experi-
ments on five shuttle flights
(four to the Russian Space Sta-
tion Mir and one to the Interna-
tional Space Station) and on a
Russian Soyuz and two SpaceX
missions (all to the internation-
al station).
Fifteen of the 29 Apollo as-
tronauts had infections in
space or soon after they re-
turned. In her experiments, Ms.
Hughes-Fulford examined how
microgravity, or weightless-
ness, caused the suppression of
T cells, the white blood cells
that lead the immunological
fight against disease.
A t t h e S a n Fra n c i s c o VA
Med i ca l Cen t e r, w h er e s h e
worked for 47 years, she led a
team of researchers that discov-
ered that when there is no grav-
ity, certain genes that activate T
cells are greatly inhibited or do
not switch on at all.
“There is a specific pathway
that is not working in the ab-
sence of gravity,” Ms. Hughes-
Fulford was quoted as saying in
Science Daily in 2005. “You’re
short-circuiting a whole lot of
the immune response — name-
ly, the ability to proliferate T
cells — which shouldn’t be a
surprise because life evolved in
Earth’s gravity field.”
Her research carried the
hope of helping to create treat-
ments to decrease the immuno-
suppression of T cells, especial-
ly among older people.
“Millie was joyous about sci-
ence,” said Carl Grunfeld, asso-
ciate chief of staff for research
and development at the San
Francisco VA Medical Center, in
an interview. “At one point dur-
ing her illness, she proposed a
different way to modify her
chemotherapy and got a won-
derful remission. When she
told me about that, it was with
the same joy about science as
she had in the laboratory.”
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NASA/NEW YORK TIMES 1984 FILES
Millie Elizabeth Hughes was
born Dec. 21, 1945, in rural
Mineral Wells, Texas. Her fa-
ther, Charles, owned a grocery
s t o r e . He r m o t h e r, L a n o r e
(Wilder) Hughes, was a home-
maker. Later in life, both her
parents became teachers.
At 5, Millie became infatuat-
ed with science fiction when
she watched the early “Buck
Rogers” television series. She
admired the character Wilma
Deering because she was a pilot
— and because she wore pants
at a time when Millie was al-
ways being told to wear a dress.
“And so I wanted to be Wil-
ma Deering, because she could
wear anything she wanted to,
she flew a spaceship and was a
professional woman,” said Ms.
Hughes-Fulford in an interview
for the Department of Veterans
Affairs website in 2014.
Ms. Hughes-Fulford became
a pilot and remained a science
fiction fan, with strong devo-
tion to the “Star Trek” televi-
sion series and the “Star Wars”
films, as well to the newest
“Star Wars” attractions at Dis-
ney World, which she visited in
2019, her daughter said.
Recognizing that NASA’s
missions in the 1960s and early
’70s were restricted to men, Ms.
Hughes-Fulford became a sci-
entist. She attended Tarleton
State University (now a part of
the Texas A&M University Sys-
tem) in Stephenville, where she
graduated in 1968 with a bach-
elor’s degree in biology. She
earned a doctorate in chemistry
and biology from Texas Wom-
an’s University in Denton in
1972.
As a postdoctoral fellow at
the University of Texas South-
western Medical School, she
studied the regulation of cho-
lesterol metabolism. She soon
moved to the VA Medical Cen-
ter, and she was working there
when she spotted an advertise-
ment in Family Circle magazine
announcing NASA’s search for
the first woman in space.
She was among 8,000 appli-
cants — and made the final 20
— but Ride was picked.
Ms. Hughes-Fulford found
another route to space. She
asked a colleague to apply for a
NASA bone research grant that
allowed him, once he received
it, to pick two people as poten-
tial payload specialists. He
chose her and himself, and in
1983 NASA named her.
But her scheduled mission
was scrubbed after the Chal-
lenger exploded in Januar y
1986, 73 seconds into its flight,
killing all seven crew members.
Her flight, aboard the Co-
lumbia, finally lifted off in June
1991, about eight years after
she was selected.
“When she went into space,
it was like, ‘OK, let’s do this,’”
her daughter said by phone. “It
was originally supposed to be
19 months of training. When
they went up, she was prepared
for anything that could happen.
She said her heart rate didn’t go
up when they launched.”
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Mercedes-Benz of Natick*
Herb Chambers Toyota of Boston*
Herb Chambers, 253 North Main St,
Rte 27, Natick 32 Brighton Avenue, Boston
866-266-3870 877-884-1866
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Mercedes-Benz of Shrewsbury*
760 Boston Turnpike Rd, Rte 9,
Shrewsbury
888-551-7134
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340 Mystic Ave, Medford
781-475-5200
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Herb Chambers MINI of Boston*
Kelly Volkswagen*
1168 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
888-994-1075 72 Andover St, Rte 114, Danvers
herbchambersmini.com 978-774-8000
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Wellesley Volkswagen*
231 Linden St, Wellesley
Colonial Nissan of Medford
104 Mystic Ave, Rte 38, Medford 781-237-3553
781-395-5300 buywellesleyvw.com
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Kelly Nissan of Lynnfield*
275 Broadway, Rte 1 North, Lynnfield
781-598-1234
Herb Chambers Volvo Cars Norwood*
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1120 Providence Hwy, Rte 1,
Kelly Nissan of Woburn*
“On The Automile,” Norwood
95 Cedar St, Exit 36 off I93 & I95, Woburn
781-835-3500 888-920-2902
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