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Yesterday | Cape Cod Times

What's happening on Cape - July 2-9

Fireworks, dusk, Friday, Rock Harbor, Orleans. Rain date: Sunday. Wellfleet Fourth of July Parade, gathers at 9 a.m. Saturday at town pier; classic car parade precedes parade of homemade floats and marchers in costume through downtown.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, 4th of July, Orleans, MA, Wellfleet, MA, Barnstable Metro, Barnstable, MA

Thu Jul 02, 2009

Cape Cod Times

Cape diversity is worth celebrating

From Provincetown to Bourne, from Harwich to Falmouth, Cape Cod will be "Celebrating Our Immigrant Communities; The Many Faces of Cape Cod" in a variety of ways from July 7-15. The Barnstable County Human Rights Commission is hard at work making plans for this second annual celebration, hoping all interested persons will gather to honor Barnstable ...

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Related Topix: Harwich, MA, Bourne, MA, Provincetown, MA, Falmouth, MA, Martin Luther King, Jr., Opinion

Tue Jun 30, 2009

Cape Cod Times

Orleans District Court

BULLOCK, Clarence A., 49, 228 Crowell Road, Chatham; guilty of three counts larceny of a value more than $250, two counts larceny of a credit card, credit card fraud of a value more than $250, and three counts breaking and entering a boat or vehicle in the nighttime to commit a felony, Dec.

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Related Topix: Orleans, MA, Chatham, MA, Dennis, MA, Harwich, MA

Sun Jun 28, 2009

Cape Cod Times

Volunteers spend day drilling for disaster

In December 2005, when strong winds brought trees down and wiped power out across the Cape, local shelters were left without enough cots to house those looking for a place to stay.

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Related Topix: Barnstable Metro, Eastham, MA, North Eastham, MA, Harwich, MA, East Sandwich, MA

Fri Jun 26, 2009

CapeCodOnline.com

Ex-Truro fire chief's pension to be reviewed

A county retirement board will likely review the pension application of former Truro Fire Chief E. Thomas Prada now that he has been convicted of assault and battery.

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Related Topix: Pension, Personal Finance, Truro, MA

Cape Cod Times

Off-duty Sandwich officer charged with beating man

A 10-year veteran of the Sandwich Police Department is being charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon after an alleged off-duty beating that left another man needing 37 stitches to his face, police said.

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Related Topix: Sandwich, MA, Dennis, MA, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Prison

Thu Jun 25, 2009

Cape Cod Times

Ex-fire chief admits guilt in assault case

Former Truro Fire Chief E. Thomas Prada will write two letters of apology - one to the victim and another to selectmen - for grabbing a female police dispatcher's breasts without her consent in February 2008 as part of a plea deal finalized yesterday in Orleans District Court.

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Related Topix: Truro, MA, Orleans, MA, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Tue Jun 23, 2009

Cape Cod Times

Former Sandwich man charged in sex assault

The police arrested a man yesterday on suspicion of raping and assaulting a child.

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Related Topix: Sandwich, MA, Barnstable Metro

Cape Cod Times

Centerville baby sitter faces charges in rape of 2-year-old

A 27-year-old Centerville woman pleaded not guilty yesterday morning in Orleans District Court to charges she repeatedly raped a 2-year-old girl she was baby-sitting in Dennis.

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Related Topix: Orleans, MA, Dennis, MA, Bourne, MA

Mon Jun 22, 2009

Boston.com

Mass. lawmakers take heat on Statehouse holidays

Momentum is building on Beacon Hill to do away with Evacuation Day and Bunker Hill Day, two little-known holidays for state employees celebrated only in Suffolk County, including the Statehouse.

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Related Topix: Boston, MA, Suffolk County, MA, Massachusetts, Worcester County, MA, Hampden County, MA

Sat Jun 20, 2009

Boston Herald

Cape woman accused of child rape

OUTH DENNIS Police have accused a Centerville woman of repeatedly raping a child within the past two weeks while the child was under her care, reports the Cape Cod Times .

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Related Topix: Dennis, MA

Fri Jun 19, 2009

Cw56.com

Cape Cod police start 'Guns for Groceries' program

Cape Cod law enforcement agencies have launched a nutritious way to get unwanted guns off the streets.

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Related Topix: Barnstable Metro

Thu Jun 18, 2009

Cape Cod Times

Barnstable residents balk at sewer project

Some Barnstable town planners see $56 million for sewer system expansion projects as a deal they can't pass up.

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Related Topix: Barnstable Metro, Barnstable Town, MA, Hyannis, MA, Wellfleet, MA, Chatham, MA

Wed Jun 17, 2009

CapeCodOnline.com

$30M could revive Cape wetlands work

A $30-million plan to improve the water quality of Cape Cod wetlands that had been set aside for eight years is back on the table.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science

Mon Jun 15, 2009

CapeCodOnline.com

Former Mashpee coach indicted on rape charge

A Barnstable County grand jury on Friday indicted a former Mashpee teaching assistant and soccer coach for allegedly raping a child.

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Related Topix: Mashpee, MA

Sat Jun 13, 2009

Cape Cod Times

Small ticks, big bite

As light as a salt crystal, and only slightly bigger, the nymph deer tick crawled slowly across Dave Simser's fingertip, on legs so small, they were barely visible.

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Thu Jun 11, 2009

Cape Cod Today

This will get thrown out at court. The stabbing victim

Monday night at 6:16 p.m., Yarmouth Police Officers were dispatched to a reported stabbing on MidTech Drive in West Yarmouth.

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Related Topix: Barnstable Metro, West Yarmouth, MA

CapeCodOnline.com

Walking through history in Barnstable

In the days before the Revolutionary War, Barnstable residents picked their drinking places according to their political preferences.

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Mon Jun 08, 2009

Cape Cod Today

This man will kill someone someday, if he doesn't kill

Today Judge Brian Merrick sentenced Rose to 2½ years in the Barnstable County Jail, but suspended the final six months of the term giving Rose credit for another three months he has already spent behind bars.

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Related Topix: South Yarmouth, MA

CapeCodOnline.com

Cape man charged with 15 OUIs pleads guilty

South Yarmouth resident William Rose pleaded guilty this morning to driving under the influence of alcohol last August.

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Related Topix: South Yarmouth, MA

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