Jim Morelli, Boston 25 News

Mayor Kim Janey said she is leaning towards imposing a vaccination mandate on Boston’s 18,000 city employees, but if that step is taken, it will be done in a “thoughtful, worker-centered” way.

When the governor makes a decision on masks, he made it clear it will only be after multiple consultations.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised its guidance on reopening schools to recommend all children in grades K-12, vaccinated or not, wear masks indoors this coming school year.

Children in grades K-6 in Massachusetts should return to school wearing masks while indoors -- that is the recommendation from several doctors testifying before a legislative oversight committee Monday.

School districts in Massachusetts know when they’ll be welcoming students back for the 2021-2022 academic year.

By October, the U.S. could be mired in yet another Covid surge, this one especially concentrated in areas of the country where vaccination rates are low. And a new model projects upwards of 400,000 cases a day are possible.

After a quiescent late spring and early summer, a slow, steady and troubling rise in Covid infections began -- culminating in an explosion of cases over the weekend.

The state’s Department of Public Health said COVID-19 testing from Friday, Saturday and Sunday produced 717 positive results, which bumped up the 7-day rolling average past 1%, a level not seen since late May.

This is the point in summer when workers at Tangerini’s Farm would normally be picking the first tomatoes. But this has not been a normal summer.

Fourteen years ago, Kurt Upham founded ohDEER, which offered homeowners a natural way to repel deer from chomping on perennials and other landscape plants.