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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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Police in the city of Newburyport are investigating an incident in which a white man is accused of yelling a racial slur at a 14-year-old black boy. The boy was one of three youths (the other two white) who bought Munchkins at a Dunkin' Donuts on State Street in
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Cuttyhunk, the most remote of the Elizabeth Islands, now has 8 positive tests for coronavirus, town officials said. Four of the people who tested positive were on the island as of Monday, July 20, and four had since left, a selectman told The Vineyard Gazette. No one was hospitalized, the
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Vice President Mike Pence plans to go to Nantucket this coming weekend for a fund raiser to help President Donald Trump's re-election campaign. The $25,000-a-head event Saturday, July 25 is expected to draw about 30 people and raise about $1 million, a Republican National Committee official told
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Nine current and former employees of Whole Foods stores in Cambridge are among 14 suing the company nationwide for not allowing them to wear Black Lives Matter masks and other clothing while on the job. The plaintiffs are claiming that the supermarket company's "selective enforcement of its
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A prominent Democrat running for governor of New Hampshire supports a proposed pipeline for natural gas that would run from the town of Exeter in the Seacoast area of the state to its largest city, Manchester. The 16-inch underground pipeline, called Granite Bridge, would run along Route 101, an important
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Two venues in the tip-of-Cape-Cod town of Provincetown are offering live entertainment outdoors, including drag queen shows, this summer. That's down from the 20 or so live-entertainment venues usually available during summertime in Provincetown, which has the highest percentage of same-sex couples in the United States.
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Former state representative Dale Crafts won an approximately 45 percent plurality in the Republican primary for Maine's Second Congressional District, which seems likely to get him the nomination. Crafts, who was endorsed by former Maine governor Paul LePage, a conservative, is leading a three-way race that will now
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Plimoth Plantation has announced a forthcoming name change to incorporate the Algonquin-speaking Indians who lived in the area when the Pilgrims arrived in 1620. The museum, which was founded in Plymouth in 1947 to re-create and explain the Pilgrims' story, has introduced a new logo that ditches "Plantation&