We sit down with Arielle Gray, WBUR's Arts Engagement Producer, to dive into this list.

There are some fascinating races: from the four women running to be the first female mayor of North Adams, to the first district-level city council elections ever in Lowell.

Plus, we get the latest on the sentencing of former Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia, and check in with someone working on the front lines of the state's contact tracing efforts.

Contact tracing is also about providing support for people during a potentially scary and unknown time. We hear from Alexander Bent, about this process. He's an investigator with the Massachusetts Community Tracing Collaborative, the contact tracing team with Partners in Health.

We talk to WPRI Investigative Reporter Tim White as we await breaking-news on Correia's sentencing.

We take listener calls with Dr. Philip Landrigan, a pediatrician, public health physician, epidemiologist at Boston College, and Dr. Shira Doron, infectious disease physician and hospital epidemiologist at Tufts Medical Center.

Boston Acting Mayor Kim Janey joins us to talk COVID, schools, housing, and policing, as well as reflect on the preliminary election.

Plus, an update on the effort to vaccinate raccoons in Cape Cod against rabies.

This fall, wildlife officials will distribute hundreds of thousands of rabies vaccine doses on the ground and by helicopter.

As part of our preview, we revisit a conversation between Patrick Gabridge and Radio Boston's Chris Citorik about a previous production at the cemetery, called "The Nature Plays."