Streets were flooded on Oceanside Drive in Scituate due to a breach in the seawall near 10th and 11th avenues during the first of many major snowstorms in 2015. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)A police vehicle hurries down Commonwealth Avenue, past a bicycle and parking meter almost buried in snow. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)A man wearing trash bags on his feet tows a dingy in Scituate. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Amy Poehler prepares to ride through the streets of Harvard Square on the back of a convertible on her way to accept the Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year award. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
The snowbanks along Market Street in Lynn made sidewalks tough to navigate. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)Seagulls hover over crashing waves at the base of the seawall along Winthrop Avenue. ( Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Lucy Manlick (left) hits an airborne Julia Jacobs (right) as Claire Gordy referees during a practice at Concord Carlisle High School. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Tom Peyton, the Blood Farm plant manager, walks in front of the newly built processing facility in Groton. A fire in December 2013 destroyed the processing facility forcing Blood Farm to close down for nearly a year. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Surrounded by Kennedys and other politicians, President Obama speaks at the dedication of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in Boston. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Former Marines Bill Newell, of Hopkinton, right, and John Ghilain, of Malden, during an emotional visit to Vietnam. They are Vietnam War veterans who served at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon during the final evacuation of U.S. and South Vietnamese troops and civilians on April 30, 1975. (Quinn Ryan Mattingly for WBUR)
At the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain, Hilary Samarel, of Cambridge, lifts her 3-month-old daughter, Noa, for her very first whiff of lilac flowers. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
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Tommy Chang eats with Lucia Aldon, a 9th grader from El Salvador at the Boston International High School in Mattapan . (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Surrounded by police and other clergy, the Rev. Mark Scott speaks at a gathering of Boston faith leaders calling attention to the potential dangers of toy or replica firearms. (Hadley Green for WBUR)
Yasmany Mejia (left), Isaias Ortiz (center) and Jose Cirino (right) watch as the ball drops into the net at the One Hood Peace Basketball League championship. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)
Matt Kressy and Brave Sharab count how much money they have collected. Students from MIT's first-ever integrated design and management program hit the streets of Cambridge with homemade instruments to busk for innovators 4 purpose, a Cambridge nonprofit that seeks to connect underprivileged children with creative thinkers. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Dr. Richard Boulanger, a professor of electronic music and design at the Berklee College of Music, tweaks knobs and patches cables between audio synthesizers to create sounds using a brainwave reading device. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Groupmuse, pictured hosting a classical music party in a Somerville living room, is one of the many classical music organizations getting performances out of symphony halls and into more informal spaces. (Hadley Green for WBUR)
During a team-building session at Boda Borg, Michael Kan reaches for a switch as Mahy Kouedi, left, watches during the Alcatraz quest. Escaping from Alcatraz is one of 16 physical and mental challenges at the Malden gaming center. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Archaeologist Sam Rousseau digs on the site of the Tabitha Nelson/Thomas Nelson House along Battle Road in Minute Man National Park. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Boston Public Library map curator Ronald Grim on Friday looks over a copy of the Carte Geographique de Nouvelle France, compiled in 1612 by explorer Samuel de Champlain. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)Google Editor's Picks
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