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Governor Maura Healey visited the Cape Cod YMCA in Barnstable Wednesday to announce that the state is adding seven new school districts — including Barnstable and Wareham — to a program that provides grants for preschool education.
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Red lights on the turbines at Vineyard Wind are drawing attention. What happened to the developer's pledge to keep them dimmed?
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In a first for Massachusetts, the offshore wind farm is now generating 68 megawatts, enough to power 30,000 homes. On Thursday the Sierra Club hosted a celebration in Hyannis and encouraged supporters to keep advocating for offshore wind.
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Barnstable Land Trust to host weekend-long reading honoring Thoreau’s ode to Cape Cod.
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Experts will be able to measure the impacts of future storms, pollution, sea level rise, and other impacts of climate change in the harbor, using this baseline.
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Jennifer Ellis, a 24-year veteran of the department, was promoted this month from lieutenant. "You've got to have your finger on the pulse of what's going on in the community to be able to police it."
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"You could hear this whir — like a whirring, whooshing noise," Marcia Mitchell said. "And it just went really, really dark, and we just stayed there and hunkered down.”
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Using hand-carved puppets, Tim Johnson teaches children about pollen and 'the cycle of life.'
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At Barnstable Harbor Marina last week, a group of 16-to-19-year-olds painted five wooden pilings to show where the mean high tide is today and where it could be with one, two, three, four, and five feet of sea level rise, which could happen by the end of the century as a result of climate change.
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“This award is momentous and transformative for us,” Executive Director Lysetta Hurge-Putnam said.