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Matt McDonald, a Boston-area native, has decades of experience as a reporter, editor, and copy editor. His work has appeared in The Mashpee Messenger, Cape Cod News, and The Norfolk Boomerang.
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"Shark attacks," "shark-infested waters," shark "invasion," and shark "infiltration" should all be jettisoned as terms to describe huge increases in sharks off the coast of Cape Cod, a pro-shark environmentalist says. "Sharks are in desperate need of conservation and protection …"
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A movement to draft U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III to run for Ed Markey's U.S. Senate seat has put together a web site and Facebook page. Kennedy (D-Newton) so far says he's running in 2020 for re-election to the Fourth Congressional District, not
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A state judge who prosecutors say helped an illegal immigrant elude federal agents at a Newton courthouse will get back pay and start drawing her normal salary without working while she remains suspended. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled 5-1 on Tuesday that Shelley M. Richmond Joseph, who is under
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Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, a stately 90-year-old Romanesque church with an Italianate tower in Worcester, will be demolished sometime between Friday, August 9 and Wednesday, August 14, the pastor said. The church, built in 1929, stands next to Route I-290, which church officials say has contributed to its
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A non-citizen immigrant who admitted showing two men a gun and threatening to shoot them has had his quasi-guilty plea thrown out because the trial-court judge gave him one warning that he might be deported because of it but not two. Court papers say Denver Petit-Homme on August 6, 2016
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The discovery of a vernal pool on a piece of land where school officials want to build solar panels is stymieing the project. Vernal pools, also known as spring pools, are shallow depressions in the ground that typically have water for only a portion of the year. They can be
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Local, regional, state, and federal government officials afraid that supporters of hunting sharks and seals would dominate the discussion have kept meetings on Cape Cod's shark problem closed to the public. "The public and the media have been banned from meetings of the regional shark working group
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The chairman of a group seeking to ask voters to end a court requirement that public funds pay for abortions in Massachusetts says he has filed papers to put the measure on the November 2022 general election ballot. Thomas Harvey, chairman of the Massachusetts Alliance To Stop Taxpayer-Funded Abortion, said