March's best photos: Figure skating, Match day and high school championships
Lindsay Grimes, a horticulturist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, climbed a ladder in order to remove a 20-foot vine of nasturtiums from their trellis on March 25, as a team from the museum moved the nasturtiums from the greenhouse where they're grown to the museum's courtyard.
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The Wachusett Girls Basketball team celebrated after winning the D1 Girls MIAA basketball finals against Bishop Feehan High at Tsongas Center in Lowell on March 15.
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Theresa Lister, 16, a junior at North Andover High School, spoke to some of the students after they walked to the School Administration building on March 24 during a walk-out in support of their teachers and programs.
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Civil rights activist Dorothy Burnham (left) reached toward a guest during her 110th birthday celebration March 22.
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Victoria Ajayi from Nigeria was overcome with emotion after learning she will serve her residency at the Cleveland Clinic. Tufts University School of Medicine Class of 2025 opened their letters to learn where they will serve their residencies during National Match Day on March 21.
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Cellist Sofia Hernandez-Williams, 11, practiced before rehearsing with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra on Sunday, March 2. She is a Project STEP student who recently became one of the youngest semifinalists at the prestigious Sphinx Competition.
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University of Maine's Luke Antonacci celebrated his game-tying goal with teammates and fans against Northeastern University during the Hockey East semi-final game at TD Garden on March 20.
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Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum stuffed Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Doncic on his shot attempt during the third quarter at TD Garden on March 8.
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The New Bedford-Fairhaven Bridge cast a shadow over MacArthur Drive. Fisherman Alfredo "Freddy" Loya once confronted Officer Jorge Santos here after Santos allegedly stole pills from him. The police in New Bedford have a long history of abusing the confidential informant system in the fight against drugs, guns, and gangs.
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Members of the Colonel Henry Knox Color Guard Sons of the American Revolution made their way down the spiral staircase inside the Old State House for a wreath-laying ceremony in honor of the Boston Massacre anniversary on March 5.
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Demonstrators carried Palestinian flags during a 'standout' organized by Needham for Palestine on March 8.
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Protesters gathered outside of the Boston Public Library to advocate against the removal of the Boylston Street bus lane on March 18.
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The Catholic Memorial team celebrated after winning against Saint John's at the 2025 Boys D1 Ice Hockey State Championship on March 16 at TD Garden.
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Jeyden, 6, (left) and his cousin Sylvia, 5, played together in Jeyden's family's apartment. Jeyden's brother, 17-year-old Jose Adalberto Herrera who entered the United States as an unaccompanied minor in 2019, was released back to his parents and is now being held again in federal custody.
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Paula and Jeff Babel sampled a recent batch of maple syrup inside their sugar house in Mason, N.H., on March 7.
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Ace, a 2-year-old dog who was surrendered to the Animal Rescue League of Boston Dedham branch, attempted to look out the door on March 6.
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Survivors of the commercial sex industry (from left) Brittanie Adams, Audra Doody, Audrey Morrissey, and Stacy Reed watched a live broadcast of the Cambridge Court proceedings with client Mark Zhu shown on the screen. They are from the EMMA Coalition.
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Greg Bobst, 65, who lives in a tent in an abandoned lot in Bridgewater, had a cigarette in the rain on March 17. He said he doesn't feel safe in a shelter. 'I just want to have a mail in address and have a nice room by myself and just start my life over.'
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Members of the Tenth Regiment of Foot, a reenactment group portraying British troops at Lexington and Concord, underwent drills in preparation for the April 19 commemoration in the parking lot at St. Brigid's Church in Lexington.
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Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Sweeney revealed details about the 'laborious' search to find a coach to lead a Bruins team that will look much different from the one that started the 2024-25 season, and the edition that ended the campaign. Advertisement 'It's an encompassing process in the fact that it's laborious from the standpoint of the amount of time you want to spend and need to spend with each person, but it's insightful in a lot of ways,' said Sweeney. 'They're breaking down your team at some point in time. Now, our team looks far different than it did in the first part of last year, right? You go through the trade deadline; you realize that there's a much smaller core group of guys and what you're going to do is hypothetical in a lot of ways. So, you get into not as much your personnel side of things. The first phases for me have always been about what you are as a coach and then, how are you going to play, how do you expect your team to play? And then you can get into the personalities of how you interact with players and how things have gone. In some cases, guys have been head coaches and what experiences they've learned, what they might want to do differently, and things like that.' While the meetings are set to learn about the candidates, Sweeney finds they often have other benefits. 'You are gaining a lot of knowledge both about your own team and about your interactions, and how you need to continue to work . . . It's a chance to have some feedback and a bit of a critical eye, to tell you the truth, and you have to be receptive to things you need to do differently,' said Sweeney. 'Are these things the organization is willing to do differently? Because that's what a coach is presenting, he's not presenting how we see it, but at the end of the day I'm always pointing it back, 'No, no, no, don't ask how I see it. How do you see it? How do you want to play?' ' Advertisement Sweeney went through several rounds of interviews as he whittled his list and 'I did two initial screenings with most of the candidates and then we did very thorough Zoom calls, so the coaches were fully presenting, and I had [assistant GMs] Jamie Langenbrunner and Evan Gold in those meetings,' said Sweeney. 'I followed up with, once we talked about all the candidates that we had on Zoom, I followed up with secondary things that [Langenbrunner and Gold] had pointed out that maybe we can pull on this string and maybe we can ask this follow-up question, and then we narrowed it down to the four guys we felt comfortable with. And at that point in time, we brought four candidates in to meet, and [team president] Cam [Neely] and I sat down with them. Now, by the same token, after those meetings, I called up Evan and Jamie because they had been part of [the process], as well. Marco did come and meet with [chief executive officer] Charlie [Jacobs] and Cam, as well, when I made my recommendation.' Sweeney declined to name the other finalists. As for the qualities and reasons that made Sturm stand out above the others, there were numerous. 'I don't think it's the narrative of just bringing back a former player. I think it's a player who has passion, has familiarity with the marketplace, and knows what the expectations are, which is healthy in a lot of ways,' said Sweeney. 'He's got eyes wide open.' Advertisement Sweeney pointed to Sturm's extensive coaching experience from the prep school level to international competition, and his time in the NHL and AHL. All of those experiences helped him build a résumé for this job. Sturm began his NHL coaching career in the Kings organization as an assistant under Todd McLellan. Part of Sturm's duties consisted of helping a team that was always stout defensively evolve offensively to become more well-rounded. Sturm then decided he needed head coaching experience and took the top job with the Ontario Reign, Los Angeles's AHL affiliate, in 2022. 'He embraced the opportunity to go down and lead his own team and then he got a chance to work with some pretty good younger players there and develop them and watch them go on to be NHL players,' said Sweeney. Sturm's ability to work with and gain the trust of LA's development staff also impressed Sweeney, who said he will be adding another assistant to holdovers Chris Kelly, Jay Leach, and Bob Essensa. 'They trusted Marco at the NHL level as an assistant, now as a head coach working in the development side of it, watching him run his own team,' said Sweeney. Related : Sturm became adept at holding players to a standard they would need to follow in order to be successful in the NHL. 'He has enough confidence and pushback to say, 'Hey, this is the right path for this player. This is my recommendation. I respect what the organization wants to do, but I also have an understanding of what I think needs to be done as a coach,' ' said Sweeney. 'And I like that.' Advertisement The ability to coax and coach players should benefit some of the Bruins' core younger players, including Mason Lohrei, Matt Poitras, and Fabian Lysell, among others. 'These guys and the next guys, to tell you the truth. This has a longer-term growth opportunity for the organization because Marco's seen the success of those players. He can hold them to that standard,' said Sweeney. 'He can also have a conversation saying, 'I told [Kings defenseman] Brandt Clarke the same thing, Mason, if you don't go up and defend and play with a conviction, you might be able to run a power play but they're not going to trust you, they're not going to play you in the playoffs, they're not going to put you in situations that you can't handle and you have to respect that part of the game.' So, we're going to do that as an organization, but he can walk that walk. I like that part. I like the fact that he's put some guys in those situations, he's given him opportunities while also holding them to a standard.' Jim McBride can be reached at
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Get Globe Rhode Island Food Club A weekly newsletter about food and dining in Rhode Island, by Globe Rhode Island reporter Alexa Gagosz. Enter Email Sign Up And so, too, does the Advertisement 'American Idiot' has made its way onto the Advertisement Written by Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong and Broadway/Metropolitan Opera veteran Michael Mayer, the musical enriches the album's thin and scattered narrative with intriguing theatricality. And with the aid of Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tom Kitt, who wrote the score for the modern opera 'Next to Normal,' the album's angst-ridden guitar riffs, omnipresent and inventive bass lines, and angry, rapid-fire drumming are complemented with more traditional pit instrument orchestrations. All this makes 'American Idiot' something unique: a musical that bears a resemblance to the traditional theatrical artform, but which comes draped in defiance, sarcasm, and youth-fueled exuberance. In this Wilbury production, under director Josh Short and musical director Milly Massey, there is enough youth-fueled exuberance to light up all of Rhode Island. It is accompanied by a team of terrific local musicians that include Chloe Cordeiro on drums, Ernie Lau on violin, James Lucey on bass, Nick Mendillo on guitar, and Christine Perkins on cello. They are particularly good when leaning into ballads like 'Wake Me Up When September Ends,' but someone needs to turn up the volume so that their spot-on rendition of the no-frills anthem 'St. Jimmy' and the hard rocking 'Give Me Novacaine' causes a greater ripple of vibration in our ribcage. After all, this is a punk rock opera. Short and his designers – Scott Osborne (scenic), Alexander P. Sprague (lighting), and Andy Russ (sound and video) – make sure that this production does not resemble the traditional theatrical artform too closely. There's more performance space than seating – which includes ramps, scaffolding, a trap door, a band stand and a band pit. Everything is littered with urban decay and surrounded by large video screens that display images that establish a sense of time, place and mindset. Actors rock punk fashion is courtesy of designer Dustin Thomas. Advertisement Much of the aforementioned defiance and sarcasm is communicated through Ali Kenner Brodsky's choreography as performed by an ensemble of frustrated, passionate, and aimless youth, played by the talented Perry Barkett, Jenna Benzinger, Alexander Boyle, Sofia DaSilva, Michael Eckenreiter, Grace Graham, Annabelle Iredale, Elisabet Ober, Paige O'Connor, Henry Stanton, and Justin Alice Voena. The dance emerges as edgy, explosive movement that would seem organic and guttural if not for the occasional moments when it appears a tad premeditated. Eckenreiter, as Johnny, has the prerequisite hair, physicality, acting chops, and guitar virtuosity to play an endearing antihero. Just not the extraordinary voice needed to sell his solos or stand out in shared songs like 'Jesus of Suburbia' and 'Tales of Another Broken Home.' Fortunately, extraordinary voices – as well as incredible intensity and remarkable stage presence – can be found in Benzinger as Johnny's short-term girl, Whatsername; O'Connor as the walking pharmacy, St. Jimmy; Boyle and Stanton as Johnny's best friends, Tunny and Will; and Iredale as Heather, Will's pregnant girlfriend. Green Day was inducted into the AMERICAN IDIOT Book by Billie Joe Armstrong and Michael Mayer. Music by Green Day with Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong. Directed by Josh Short. At Wilbury Theatre Group, WaterFire Arts Center, 475 Valley St., Providence. Through June 22. Tickets are $5-$35. 401-400-7100, Advertisement Bob Abelman is an award-winning theater critic who formerly wrote for the Austin Chronicle. Connect with him
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Could Patrice Bergeron or Zdeno Chara join Marco Sturm behind the Bruins' bench? Dream on.
Much of Sturm's success will be tied directly to July 1, the day GM Don Sweeney will pick through the NHL's annual free-agent swap meet and, ideally, hand his new coach at least a couple of bona fide point producers. A body or two with the kind of pop Sturm delivered in his playing days — eight seasons of 20-plus goals — would be just what the franchise rehab doctor ordered. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up A No. 1 center would be the gift of gifts for the new coach. What's a swap meet without a pipe dream? Advertisement Key to Sturm's success, and a point Sweeney did not address on Thursday in Advertisement The 2024-25 Bruins couldn't score enough and couldn't defend at crucial times. Other than that bit of Tesla spontaneously combusting in the driveway, you know, great ride, was it not? What an intriguing thought to have Sturm aided back there by both Patrice Bergeron and Zdeno Chara. Like Sturm, neither of those future Hall-of-Famers ever has coached at the NHL level, but so what? All three were good pals during Sturm's five years here. All three helped create and curate the culture of discipline and professionalism and competitiveness that defined the team until it began to erode, in chunks, following the summer '23 retirements of Bergeron and Krejci. Best to think, for now, of Bergeron and Chara in coaching roles as two more pipe dreams. Bergeron in his latter playing years repeatedly evinced very little interest (read: zero) in coaching upon retirement, particularly any time soon after calling it quits. 'For now, it's the same answer: I don't think it's in the cards,' said Bergeron on Friday in an interview with the Globe. 'Never say never. Time will tell. Right now I don't see it as something I would like to pursue. I guess I'm getting started coaching two of my sons. We'll see exactly. Never say never.' All that said, who wouldn't want Bergy in the mix? Even if his job description was just 'assistant coach, special services, solely in charge of the power-play bumper.' Chara, in the late stages of his playing career here, was a tiny bit more open to something in the coaching sphere. He has been around the team more in recent months at Sweeney's behest. It has been an unofficial role, one that both have yet to define. Advertisement In my conversation with Chara last week, just days after he was 'We're still determining the specifics of the role right now. I'm some sort of advisor, mentor and … we still have to determine which part of that need is the most important," he said. 'I enjoy the part of leadership and helping guys to be better leaders and better players, and that also depends on the new coach. You need to have that conversation, like, where am I going to be needed the most?' Overall, Big Z added, he wants to help the franchise grow, inspire players, and 'just be part of it.' 'Because, to be honest, my heart is always going to be with the Bruins,' he said. 'I spent the majority of my career with the Bruins and I really care about them. When I came here in '06, and when I left in [ Advertisement 'So I am attached. I am emotionally attached and living here, so I am physically here, too. I care. I care. I want to help. I want to be part of this turnaround and make it work again … but anything I do is for a new coach and Donny to sign off on it.' Kevin Paul Dupont can be reached at
