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Seal Pup Wanders Two Miles Inland To Parking Lot of Pizza Place

Matthew McDonald

The three-foot-long 40-pound seal pup was found in the parking lot of a pizza place on the other side of Route 6A in Yarmouthport on Cape Cod. Good Samaritans who put the seal in box for safekeeping were scolded by experts; the seal is fine.

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Two Stints As Brockton GOP Chairman, With Prison In Between

Matthew McDonald

The food and dental care are terrible in federal prison and the system that puts people there is harsh, says 66-year-old Lawrence Novak of Brockton, but the health care is good and he was treated all right by other inmates and by guards. Novak is the former and current chairman of the Brockton Republican City Committee, a position he resumed in April 2017 after spending 2009 to late 2015 in prison for money laundering.

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