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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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You know the scene early in It's A Wonderful Life where Mr. Gower the druggist looks at a photo of his son who has just died of the flu while away at college? (It's at 8:11 of the movie.)
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The bishop of Fall River has directed a pastor on Cape Cod to stop commenting on the coronavirus vaccines. Father Michael Fitzpatrick, pastor of St. Francis Xavier Church in Hyannis, read a letter from the bishop at the end of Mass on Sunday, December 5.
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Many religious schools may have to give up prekindergarten and child care if President Joe Biden's Build Back Better federal stimulus bill passes in its current form, school officials say. The bill would provide about $400 billion in federal funds designed to expand access to early childhood services,
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Worried about the pre-meal prayer in front of non-religious people on Thanksgiving? Try singing "This Little Light of Mine," says Bishop William Byrne, the Roman Catholic bishop of Springfield.
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While most Americans are celebrating Thanksgiving today, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe on Cape Cod is marking National Day of Mourning. Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe flags are flying at half-staff at several sites in the town of Mashpee, where the tribe is headquartered.
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The outgoing mayor of Newburyport hosted a ceremony accepting a flag from a local American Indian tribe bestowed on the city in recognition of city officials' recent adoption of "Indigenous Peoples' Day" in place of Columbus Day. A flag raising at Newburyport City Hall took place
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Cape Cod is awash with wild turkeys these days. They take over roadways, crowd paths, and even occasionally try to get into a store in downtown Falmouth. But there were roughly zero turkeys on Cape Cod between 1851 – when turkeys were eradicated everywhere in Massachusetts – and 1989, when 18 of
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The woman who ran Michelle Wu's successful campaign for mayor of Boston hung a Black Lives Matter poster in her classroom when she taught at a public school in Louisiana. A profile of Mary Lou Akai-Ferguson published in The Boston Globe on Sunday, November 7 includes the following