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People who serve on selectboards across the Cape — ditto for town council in Barnstable — are among my heroes.They subject themselves to elections that are intimate, demoralizing and embarrassing in defeat, full of elation in victory, inviting intense scrutiny and judgement from scores of people who are not as brave, or public-spirited.
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Dr. Natalie Mariano of West Falmouth may be a retired physician but she still has that sense of what might be ailing a lot of us.
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I finally do it. Retire. It happens almost spontaneously, though I’ve been thinking about it for years. I just know – now, it’s time.
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An essay dedicated to the librarians I love (all of you).
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I’m usually a positive kind of person. I’ve gotten through some pretty rough times with the simple mantra, “It’ll be OK. It’ll all be OK”. But these days…
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The New Year has brought with it a major upheaval in health care on the Upper Cape. It has nothing to do with insurance rates or preexisting conditions,…
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If a community is lucky, it has an Ed Jerome. A “go to” person.Ed Jerome of Edgartown died suddenly Tuesday, September 18. The news rippled across…
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When I was a little girl I used to lie in front of the kitchen door at five o’clock every afternoon and wait for my father to come home from the shipyard.…
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JoAnn Nadeau is a retired pre-school teacher who is still wondering about the Code Red Drills being taught in schools. Eleven years ago I began teaching…
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As dawn broke on the morning of February 7th 1978, I was one of the first people to gaze upon what was left of Coast Guard Beach in Eastham. After a night…