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☂️Rainy day with highs around 80 — then we head into a sunny long weekend. Sunset is at 8:23 p.m.

To prevent drivers from getting on highways going the wrong way, the state’s Department of Transportation is making some changes. You might see on- and off-ramps at more than 400 locations with added cameras, sensors, flashing lights, new signs and new pavement markings. 

That includes a place in Danvers, down the street from where a driver going the wrong way killed State Trooper Kevin Trainor last month. The new system stopped another driver from turning the wrong way Tuesday night, Highway Administrator Jonathan Gulliver said. “That system worked exactly as it should,” Gulliver said. “The driver was alerted that they were going the wrong way, and they turned themselves around without incident.” You can read more about the new systems here. 

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And a programming note: we will be off Friday for Juneteenth and back in your inboxes first thing Monday.

Four Things to Know

1. Last year the Trump administration started requiring entrepreneurs applying for Small Business Administration loans to be U.S. citizens or Green Card holders, excluding people in the country legally through other statuses. Over the past year, the Small Business Administration has increasingly limited which immigrants can access its programs, culminating in barring anyone but U.S. citizens from having a shot at the funds. Now more than 60 state lawmakers, Rep. Andy Vargas of Haverhill and Sen. Adam Gomez of Springfield, have signed on to a letter to the Trump administration asking them to change the rules.

“So many small businesses are struggling to get by, and in particular residents that are doing everything the right way, pursuing the American dream, now being shut off by a source of capital that’s really important for our small businesses here,” said Rep. Andy Vargas of Haverhill.

2. The family of a second teenager has accused Brockton Mayor Moises Rodrigues of inappropriate behavior. A letter the family sent to the city’s public schools accuses Rodrigues of commenting on a teenage girl’s appearance and touching her, and said she felt distressed by the interaction.

“To my knowledge, there is no second allegation,” said Sydné Marrow, Rodrigues’s chief of staff. Rodrigues is scheduled to be in court next week, when a judge will decide whether to extend a temporary harassment prevention order another teenager filed against him. 

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3. Fans of children’s books are remembering Jane Yolen, who died last week at 87. She lived in Hatfield, Massachusetts, near Amherst, and wrote more than 400 books, including “Owl Moon” and “How Do Dinosaurs Choose Their Pets?”

“I think picture books should stretch children. I think they should be full of wonderful, amazing words,” Yolen told New England Public Media in 2010. She said she hoped to share what mattered to her most: honesty. “Standing up for the underdog, being heroic in the small sense, if not the large sense,” Yolen said.

4. Three signs at the Bunker Hill Monument bearing six quotes about Black Americans, women, and immigrants — which members of the Trump administration ordered removed earlier this month — remain up at the memorial.

Yesterday was the Battle of Bunker Hill’s 251st anniversary. Visitors got a chance to see parts of the redoubt, a fort that members of the patriotic militia built the night before the battle. You can see some photos of it here.

On this South Walpole street, homeowners earn thousands selling front-lawn parking to World Cup fans

Time for a choose-your-own-adventure: You have tickets to a World Cup game in Foxborough. How do you get there?

  1. The Commuter Rail from South Station ($80 per person)
  2. The official Boston World Cup bus ($95 per person)
  3. Drive and park at the stadium ($175 per car)
  4. Park on a front lawn on Shufelt Road in South Walpole, then walk less than a mile on dirt paths to the stadium ($100 per car)

If you pick D, you’ll find yourself on a residential road transformed. The neighbors came together and decided to charge $100 per spot. Some houses can fit just a few cars, others as many as 27.
Shufelt Road resident Nadine Corletto said it’s “parking central.”

“I mean, it’s kind of a local gem,” Corletto told GBH’s Marilyn Schairer. “We love it, we love it! We’re kind of stuck in our houses in the neighborhood so we might as well have as much fun and enjoy it however we can.”

This week it was a party, with Iraqi fans dancing before they walked to the stadium. It’s also big money, both for the homeowners and kids selling lemonade.

“We have gotten $88, and we’ve only been selling for 30 minutes,” a young boy shouted out.

Join Schairer on Shufelt Road here. 

And if none of those options appeal, you can always find a local watch party or a fan group that rented a school bus. 

Dig deeper:

-Bentley University says ‘bienvenue’ to Les Bleus as French soccer team takes up residence

-FIFA didn’t offer GBH News media credentials for the World Cup. We went anyway.