☀️Sunny and cooler, with highs in the 50s. Sunset is at 6:11 p.m. It’s day 9 of the federal government shutdown. Last night Israel and Hamas agreed to a first phase of a ceasefire. 

Think back to 2015: did you replace your smoke detectors with brand-new ones that had a sealed battery and a 10-year lifespan? Ones with buttons to hush the alarms when you need to? If so, state fire officials have a reminder for you: those detectors have served out their decade, and it’s time to replace them again. (And if you don’t know which type of detectors you have, here’s your friendly PSA to check!)

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“They don’t last forever,” said Westborough fire Chief Patrick Purcell. “Right now, the alarms that were purchased and put into service 10 years ago are reaching the end of their useful lifespan.”

A few tips: your smoke and carbon monoxide alarms have a manufacturing date written on the back with instructions on when to replace them — usually 5, 7 or 10 years. And don’t put your old detectors in the regular trash bin: a lot of them use lithium-ion batteries, which you can dispose of during your city or town’s designated household hazardous waste collection day.

Four Things to Know

1. Thirteen people were arrested Tuesday night at a protest on the Boston Common marking two years since the start of the war in Gaza, in which more than 66,000 Palestinians have been killed. Boston police officers accused some protestors of damaging or forcibly removing their gear — body-worn cameras, radios and bicycles — and said that one protestor, 21-year-old Roder Atwood of Somerville, broke an officer’s nose.

“Peaceful protests happen all the time in this city,” Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden said. “We support everyone’s right to protest. But these individuals chose against protesting peacefully and they are now facing the consequences of those choices.”

2. Gov. Maura Healey said State Police officers will take a more active role in cracking down on street takeovers — where groups of people block off intersections with their cars, set off fireworks, do doughnuts and otherwise cause a scene. It happened this weekend in Boston’s South End: officers arrested two young people from Rhode Island accused of setting a Boston Police cruiser on fire. There were similar scenes in Fall River, Middleborough and Randolph this weekend.

“It’s a social event, a social act, not a political act,” Northeastern criminology professor James Alan Fox said. “It’s doubtful that many of these individuals have firm views against the police. The police are really pawns for their festivities with their pals.”

3. More immigrants living in New Bedford have been on edge with frequent immigration raids in their community, Mayor Jon Mitchell told our Cape and Islands sister station, CAI. The city is trying to help by referring people to organizations that might be able to offer support, he said, but some people are still worried about going out.

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“It’s been a source of tremendous anxiety in our immigrant community,” Mitchell said. “I mean, we have a sizable immigrant community from not just from Central America, but the Caribbean. We have a growing Afghan population. I mean, all these folks are wondering, jeez, am I able to stay?”

4. Joan B. Kennedy, the first wife of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, died yesterday at age 89. Her son Patrick Kennedy and his wife Amy released a statement calling her “a quiet pioneer in publicly addressing challenges with alcoholism and depression at a time when few others would.”

“Her courage and candor helped break stigma and inspired others to seek help and healing. Her impact on the arts, mental health advocacy, her beloved Boston community and the nation will be remembered by many,” they wrote.

Mass. state reps say they can afford to spend more as they override Healey’s budget vetoes

Before signing this year’s $60.9 billion state budget, Gov. Maura Healey vetoed approximately $130 million in planned spending. The legislature had meant for that money — 0.2% of the total budget, for anyone keeping track — to go to a workforce program for nursing homes ($25 million), to charter school reimbursements (almost $20 million) and to hiring more trial court staff, among other things.

Yesterday members of the legislature voted to override $70 million in funds Healey had vetoed. That means nursing homes, charter schools, trial courts and a few other programs ($5 million for shelter workforce assistance, for example) will be part of the budget after all.

“With revenue stable so far in this fiscal year, and with a large amount of money left on our balance sheet to anticipate future shocks to our system, we believe that we can afford to override the vetoes that are before you today,” House budget chief Aaron Michlewitz said on the House floor, GBH’s Katie Lannan reports.

The leader of the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, a group that advocates for lower taxes and less government spending, said he was concerned about what overriding Healey’s “extremely modest” vetoes would mean for the state’s budget.

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“Beacon Hill politicians spent the better part of a year warning about fiscal uncertainty from Washington, and now that those cuts have arrived, they’re ignoring their own warnings,” Executive Director Paul Craney said in a statement. “Instead of learning to live within our means, the Legislature is proving once again that its only solution to a budget problem is more spending.”

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