Police in Lynn, Massachusetts, are looking for a missing man who has dementia.
The Lynn Police Department said 74-year-old Carmelo Almonte was reported missing Tuesday.
Almonte was last seen Tuesday morning in the Market Square area.
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Rescuers work to save bottlenose dolphins after ‘unprecedented’ Cape Cod stranding
A rescue team has been working to ensure the safety of a group of bottlenose dolphins that became stranded along Cape Cod’s shores.
The International Fund for Animal Welfare says 14 of the marine mammals were stranded Monday afternoon at Linnell Landing in Brewster, Massachusetts — the largest mass stranding of bottlenose dolphins ever in the Northeast.
Three of the dolphins were confirmed to be dead, and IFAW worked to save the rest.
“Upon arrival, 11 dolphins were still alive, and the team immediately began preparing to refloat them with the changing tide,” IFAW biologist and animal responder Kira Kasper said in a statement Tuesday.
Rescuers fitted the dolphins with temporary identification tags, putting a temporary satellite on one of them to track them after their release. Just before 7 a.m. Tuesday, IFAW found the animals had restranded in Wellfleet.
Crews responded with IFAW’s custom-built mobile dolphin rescue unit, a vehicle that is able to transport them.
“The tide was incoming until 11:16 AM, but the dolphins could not be released where they stranded,” Kasper said. “Our team moved quickly to extract the animals from treacherous mud, provide necessary health assessments and treatments, and transport the dolphins to Herring Cove in Provincetown, where they were all released back to the ocean.”
IFAW noted that 26 common and bottlenose dolphins had been stranded in the last two weeks. Kasper said 175 live dolphins have been stranded since the end of June, “which is over 2.5 times our annual average.”
“This mass stranding comes toward the end of an unprecedented summer for our team due to the sheer number of dolphin strandings,” Kasper said.
Marine animal strandings are common on Cape Cod due to its unique features, with dolphins often becoming disoriented by tidal movements and sandbars in the shallow coastal waters, IFAW said.
Tropical Smoothie Cafe opens in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood
[This story first appeared on Boston Restaurant Talk.]
A Georgia-based chain of restaurants featuring salads, sandwiches, smoothies, and more has further expanded into the Greater Boston area, with its first one within the city itself opening …
Northeastern wins court ruling for Nahant expansion
A planned expansion of a Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center in Nahant can move forward after winning a state appeals court ruling.
The ruling on Monday revolved around a long-ago assurance from the university that part of the sit…
Boston Marathon lowers qualifying times for most prospective runners for 2026
Runners hoping to qualify for the 2026 Boston Marathon are going to have to pick up the pace.
The Boston Athletic Association has updated its qualifying times for the world’s oldest annual marathon, asking most prospective competitors to run a 26.2-mile race five minutes faster than in recent years to earn a starting number.
“Every time the BAA has adjusted qualifying standards — most recently in 2019 — we’ve seen athletes continue to raise the bar and elevate to new levels,” Jack Fleming, president and CEO of the BAA, said in a statement posted Monday. “In recent years we’ve turned away athletes in this age range (18-59) at the highest rate, and the adjustment reflects both the depth of participation and speed at which athletes are running.”
The BAA introduced qualifying times in 1970 and has expanded and adjusted the requirements through the decades. Runners participating in the event to raise money for charity do not have to meet the qualifying standards.
The latest change means men between the ages of 18 and 34 will have to run a marathon during the qualification window in 2 hours, 55 minutes or faster to earn a spot in the 2026 race — five minutes faster than for this year’s edition.
Women and nonbinary applicants need to complete the distance in 3:25.
The slowest competitors that can earn qualification are in the 80 and over age group. The men in that category must complete a marathon in 4:50, while women and nonbinary competitors have 5:20 to finish. Those numbers were not changed in the most recent adjustment.
The BAA said it had 36,406 qualifier entry applications for next year’s race, more than ever before.
“The record number of applicants indicates the growing trend of our sport and shows that athletes are continuously getting faster and faster,” Fleming said.
The qualifying window for the 2026 race began on Sept. 1 and will run through the conclusion of the registration period of that race next September.
Next year’s Boston Marathon will take place on April 21.
New teen arrested in April armed robbery of postal worker in Nashua, NH
An 18-year-old from Massachusetts was arrested Tuesday for allegedly directing two other people to rob a U.S. mail carrier in Nashua, New Hampshire, this spring.
The April 16 armed robbery on Blacksmith Way was captured on surveillance camera …
