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1st Barnstable District State Representative Christopher Flanagan, D-Dennis, says a violation of campaign finance law was his responsibility and he has apologized to the people he represents at the Statehouse.
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Over the past few weeks our local snowbirds have been returning from their annual winter sojourns in the south. -
After a few months of garbled data from the long-serving Voyager 1 spacecraft, NASA has restored communications. CAI's John Basile talks with Dr. Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket about the effort to get back in touch with the space probe. -
The Massachusetts Army National Guard submitted a new plan to the Environmental Protection Agency after officials from the federal agency found the range’s initial design could contaminate the aquifer that runs beneath the base. That aquifer provides drinking water to hundreds of thousands of Cape residents and visitors. -
This week on the Local Food Report, a slaughterhouse in Westport. -
Right now, the terminal on the city’s waterfront looks mostly bare, with piles of stone and dirt. But the first deep-water berth could be finished sometime in June.
The Point
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Jazz Men: All about the lives and influence of Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie -
S JunkerNews Roundup: Radioactive water evaporation called out by fed delegation; machine gun range pushbackThis week: Our congressional delegation, including Senators Markey and Warren, want to know what’s going on with radioactive water being evaporated at the Pilgrim Nuclear plant. And, we’ve got reaction to new machine gun range plans. Also: New Bedford is gearing up to be a maintenance base for offshore wind. -
Derek Artz / USDA-NRCS; Barbara Driscoll; David Cappaert, Michigan State University, Bugwood.org; Xerces Society / Sarah Foltz JordanThe importance of pollinators and efforts to conserve them. -
NPR Stories
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Evgenia Novozhenina/AFP via Getty ImagesThe WNBA star, who is six feet, nine inches, says she felt like a zoo animal in prison. "The guards would literally come open up the little peep hole, look in, and then I would hear them laughing." -
Steven Senne/AP/Pool APVolodymyr Zhukovskyy was found not guilty on manslaughter and negligent homicide charges for his role in a 2019 crash in Randolph.
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Cuban American author Meg Medina is visiting the Nashua Public Library this Sunday, May 12, to encourage families to have more conversations at home about literature, whether it's about an article, comic or book. -
Meg Medina es la Embajadora Nacional de Literatura Juvenil, y visitará la biblioteca de Nashua el 12 de mayo para conversar con familias sobre cómo hablar más de libros en casa.
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Northwestern, Brown, Rutgers and University of Minnesota are among the handful of schools that have reached agreements with student protesters. Here's how they did it, and what could come next.
