Students at all seven public schools in Falmouth will be composting by the end of this school year.
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There aren’t many things that will get me out of bed at 5:30 in the morning. But bagels—or really just the prospect of learning how to make them—is one. Recently, I stood in Wellfleet’s Bagel Hound with owner Ellery Althaus, while the windows were still dark, staring a pile of dough.
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The first hummingbird was reported on the Cape, as expected for mid-April, but this eagerly anticipated annual event was overshadowed by spring overshoot fever — southerly winds brought, well, a windfall of rare birds to the Cape and Islands.
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Nantucketers take pride in our long history of stargazing and astronomy. Maria Mitchell, the first woman to work as a professional astronomer, was born here and discovered a comet in 1847 from the roof of the Pacific National Bank at the top of Main Street.
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This morning it's safe to drink the tap water again in North Harwich.Residents had been forced to drink only bottled water for two days, after firefighting foam affected a public well.
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Beau Valtz is standing in his Wellfleet kitchen in front of a giant pile of fresh garlic.He's wrapping heads of garlic tightly in tin foil.
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This week: An earthquake, an eclipse… what else could happen? Ahh, maybe better not to ask! Meanwhile, firefighting foam gets into drinking water in Harwich—it’s not PFAS foam, but it’s not good to drink, either. And: what happens to Cuttyhunk island if the ferry can’t get into the harbor?
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"Primrose Hill" is a gently nostalgic ditty by James McCartney, with cowriting credit to Sean Ono Lennon. On Instagram, McCartney said the song was inspired by an idyllic boyhood memory.
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NASA says the space debris that crashed into a home in Naples, Fla., last month was part of a pallet of old batteries jettisoned from the International Space Station three years ago.
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Hawaii's attorney general released the first phase of the investigations into the devastating wildfires on Maui. The fires killed more than 100 people and left thousands homeless.
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House Speaker Johnson is moving forward with foreign aid bills despite threat to oust him. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to GOP Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina about what moderate Republicans want.
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Students from across the state called on legislators to expand eligibility for the state's Medicaid program, HUSKY, to include children 18 and younger.