Adam Sennott

5 days ago | bostonglobe.com | Adam Sennott

The scouts are coming! The scouts are coming!More than 150 boys and girls from across Massachusetts will gather in Concord this weekend to learn about, and commemorate the 250th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War, according to Scouting Boston Youth. The kids will “get the ultimate hands-on history lesson” starting with a huge campout in Concord Center on Friday night, the organization said in a statement.

1 week ago | horizonmass.news | Adam Sennott

It has been 250 years since Cambridge’s Cato Boardman and Cato Stedman joined 68 other militiamen on the Lexington Green and faced down 800 British troops on April 19, 1775. But Boardman and Stedman weren’t just patriotic heroes standing against British tyranny, they were also likely enslaved at the time, according to the National Park Service, and were among at least 18 men of color, both enslaved and free, who served in the colonial militia companies in Lexington and Concord that day.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Adam Sennott

Brian Trefry was driving south on Route 24 in Raynham with his wife shortly before noon on Sunday to pick up their children at grandma’s house. They ended up a bit late, because Trefry, a lieutenant on the Whitman Fire Department, first had to save a life, with the help of a couple Good Samaritans. He had spotted smoke rising along the highway. A closer look showed an overturned SUV in a ravine. Trefry carefully steered his vehicle across the busy highway before springing into action.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Adam Sennott

School officials in Fall River are investigating after someone gained access to parts of the district’s internal cybernetwork, but they do not believe any personal data was accessed , the school district said Monday. The district’s chief information officer discovered suspicious activity indicating that an unauthorized party had accessed sections of the district’s internal systems Monday, the school district said in a statement.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Adam Sennott

Two children were rescued after their canoe flipped over in a pond in Ipswich Saturday morning, local police and fire officials said. Rescue crews were dispatched to Hood Pond, across from 53 Boxford Rd., after receiving reports of two juveniles yelling for help after their canoe flipped over at about 11:59 a.m., Ipswich police and fire said in a statement.