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Over the years, I have been fortunate to wear a few different hats during my professional and community time.

Climate change will bring heavier storms and our sewers aren’t ready Sabrina Shankman © Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff Volunteer Clarke Esler, of the Merrimack River Watershed Council, takes a water sample from the Merrimack River in Lawrence, MA on July 14, 2021. If the heavy rains of this summer are emblematic of our future normal as climate change progresses, then so, too, is this: Much of that rainwater overwhelms local sewers, triggering the release of hundreds of millions of gallons of raw, untreated sewage into Massachusetts waterways. When the rain falls, as it has s...

Chicago Fire Department One person died and another was seriously wounded in a fire Friday night in Brainerd on the South Side. The fire broke out after 11 p.m. in the 9400 block of South Halsted Street, according to Chicago fire officials. Still and Box on Halsted will be a fatal fire. One occupant non ambulatory was trapped inside. Flames too intense to make rescue. Adult male. pic.twitter.com/ACS4OUf7U9— Chicago Fire Media (@CFDMedia) April 10, 2021 Firefighters pulled a woman out of the home and she was transported to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in serious condition, fire offici...