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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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The Republican Liberty Caucus of Massachusetts has published video of the group's reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of the Massachusetts State House on Thursday, July 4. The video, published on the organization's Facebook page, appears sideways and is wobbly. If you have
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The superintendent of schools in Middleborough is standing his ground when it comes to the schools' Sachem mascot, saying there's nothing disrespectful about it and that deciding how to represent schools should be a local matter. Brian Lynch, who graduated from Middleborough High School in 1979 and
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America's first serious openly homosexual candidate for president got a thunderous reception in the most homosexual town in America during a four-hour stop at the tip of Cape Cod. Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, drew about 400 people to a speech in Provincetown on Friday,
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The discovery of a small 1693 silver coin from Yemen in a field in Middletown, Rhode Island has helped an amateur historian determine that Rhode Island's first slave ship was a cover for the biggest pirate heist of all time. James Bailey, 52, of Warwick, who works in
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Town officials in Arlington are planning to hire a Coordinator of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to help increase diversity among town employees and to handle administrative tasks for the town's Human Rights Commission, Disability Commission, and Rainbow Commission. The new coordinator will also investigate complaints about disability accommodations
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As Massachusetts state officials struggle to figure out how to keep the damaged Red Line on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority running while it's getting fixed from a derailment June 11, there's one member of Congress they can't call on for help with federal
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The patent holder for chewing gum packaging has died on Cape Cod, at 96. Roger Putnam Jr. moved to Wellfleet in 1991 after retiring as chief executive and president of Package Machinery Company, in East Longmeadow, according to the Cape Cod Times.
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A rare original copy of the Declaration of Independence is scheduled to be on display at the Commonwealth Museum on Columbia Point in Dorchester today. Museum officials plan to exhibit the state's copy of the 1776 document, which is one of 14.