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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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Under mostly sunny skies, through a stiff wind at 57 degrees, about 40 people rallied at the Bourne Rotary to re-open Cape Cod on Sunday afternoon. It's the fourth weekend in a row that members of United Cape Patriots have come out to call for businesses to be
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Rhode Island talk show host John DePetro has published a video of a song he wrote poking fun at the coronavirus experience in the Ocean State. The song, called "Rhode Islanders Spring 20," describes isolation, weight gain, lack of haircuts, the governor's press conferences, the invasion
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Retail shops the state considers non-essential were allowed to re-open for business in Rhode Island on Saturday, May 9, but not churches. Churches did not make the cut for Phase One of Rhode Island's re-opening during the coronavirus emergency.
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Some people whose unemployment checks are higher than their normal paychecks are telling employers who want to re-open that they don't want to go back to work. And public officials aren't sure what to do about it.
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Religious leaders — including one from the Archdiocese of Boston — are expected to meet with the state's Reopening Advisory Board on Saturday, May 9 to talk about when the governor might authorize churches to open for public services again. Father Bryan Hehir, secretary for health care and social service
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Lawyers for a Worcester pastor at the center of the conflict over church closures are calling on Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker to lift the ban on religious services for more than 10 people before Sunday. Pastor Kris Casey's lawyers sent a letter to the governor late Friday afternoon.
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Firearms dealers in Massachusetts can re-open their stores starting at noon Saturday, May 9 and can see customers by appointment, a federal judge has ruled. The judge's preliminary injunction overturns Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker's executive order of March 23 closing gun shops as among what his
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In Connecticut, the threat coronavirus poses is mostly in nursing homes. About 88 percent of coronavirus deaths reported in the state last week were nursing home patients, according to The Hartford Courant. In all, there were 545 deaths, 481 of which were nursing home patients. The other 64 deaths came