Family Of Man Killed By Police Pushes For Training: Patch PM

MASSACHUSETTS — It's Monday, March 15. Remember that really warm day last week? That's gone. Here's what you should know this afternoon:

• Few teachers will be fully vaccinated by the time the education commissioner expects students back in class five days a week — and the state appears to be fine with that, even if educators aren't.
• This won't be just another race: The Boston Marathon will have fewer runners this year.
• One North Shore community takes on remembering superheroes in an unprecedented year.

Monday's Top Story

The family of Michael Conlon, who was fatally shot last month by police during a mental health crisis, is calling for more police training. If the efforts that Newton is now working on had been in effect last month, the 28-year-old might still be alive, his family said in a letter to the Globe.

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Today's Other Top Stories

Runners, take your mark — Fewer runners will take part in the in-person Boston Marathon this fall compared with previous years, race organizers said Monday. The in-person race was canceled last year and postponed this year because of the pandemic. The Boston Athletic Association and city and state officials said they believe October will be safe enough to have 20,000 people take the hallowed journey from Hopkinton to Boylston Street. It's usually around 30,000.

School drama —State officials have adopted the full-steam-ahead approach to getting students back in class, plowing through teachers' objections and shrugging at a vaccination timeline that doesn't quite add up. And the back-and-forth with educators hasn't been a subtle one: Teachers' unions say they want to be back with their students in school — but only when it's safe. The state, pointing to testimony from health experts, says that time is now. Read the full story

How to measure a year — Danvers thought it was right to recognize what everyone has gone through in the past year. The question was how to do that. Calling it an anniversary didn't seem right. It certainly wasn't a celebration. Dwelling on only the negative felt like the wrong tone as well given the recent promise of lower coronavirus numbers and increasing vaccinations. So, Danvers came up with the concept of a weeklong "Community Illumination" project designed to remember those lost during the pandemic, honor local "superheroes" who rose up amid the darkest days of the crisis and look forward to a brighter future.

'Just isn't worth it' — Boston residents and restaurant owners largely followed state guidelines and stayed safe the weekend before St. Patrick's Day, Mayor Marty Walsh said Monday at a news conference. "For the most part, everyone was in compliance," he said. Now he's asking for another week — despite the holiday.

They Said It

"If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it."

— "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler, the longtime middleweight champion adopted by New Englanders as their boxing icon, who died Saturday in his New Hampshire home.

By The Numbers

$2,000 — That's how much state Rep. Dave Robertson was fined over missing campaign finance filings in the 2020 election campaign. The Democrat failed to report over $15,000 in out-of-pocket expenditures in Aug. through Oct. 2020.