Cape Verde News

Don't throw away day old bread, well, unless it is turning green and moldy. You can make a delicious treat with stale bread that even kids will like.

My 700th photo shown at TE shows a typical house from Santo Antao island/Cape Verde.

Norwich police are slated to discuss a plan aimed at recruiting women and minorities to the department.

At the meeting, the new CEO of MCC, Daniel W. Yohannes emphasized the fact that " Cape Verde is the first MCC partner country to be selected as eligible for a second compact" financial package.

Rene Victoria Hovanec, 9, sketches ideas for future glasswork pieces. Photo courtesy of MILDRED BALDWIN Left, Rene proudly points out a studio glassware piece by her father, Jerry Hovanec.

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November 22, 2009, 7:25 AM / Three graduates were honored by the Mount Mercy Alumnae Association at the recent Mercy Honors Dinner.

The normally loud and gregarious people of Cape Verde that we have come to know over the past few days, here are hushed.

As Lisbon's mellifluous Sara Tavares proved anew Friday night at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater, there is something special about singing in Portuguese.

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Sara Tavares. Sara Tavares, a Portuguese singer of Cape Verde origins, specializes in sweet melodies that express cheerfulness and gentle melancholy.

Sara Tavares has turned to music to define her own culture from a mixed Portuguese and Cape Verdean heritage.

Sara Tavares was born and raised in Lisbon to Cape Verdian parents. The young singer-songwriter juggles languages, global influences and styles to make music that places her as a potential successor to the diva of Cape Verde, Cesaria Evora.

For all the wondrous diversity Carnegie Hall has injected into its programming in recent years, the heart of its traditional mission lies in a few series of concerts each season: extended visits by the world's great orchestras.

The New Bedford School Department has launched a sister-city project with the Cape Verdean islands of Sao Filipe and Santa Cruz in a partnership that includes the Wareham and Brockton schools and Bridgewater State College.

For "gumshoe historian" Andrew Buckley and his crew of Hit and Run History, the trip to Cape Verde was supposed to be easy.

When Cape Cod native John Kendrick left Boston Sept. 30, 1787, on the first American-based voyage around the world, his crew must have felt some trepidation.

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Shipwreck artifacts that help tell their story remain boxed in storage and photos, ceramics, books and other objects have had to be turned away.

In what's being called the biggest dengue fever epidemic ever recorded in West Africa, the Red Cross reports some 13,000 suspected cases in Cape Verde.

International medical teams have landed in Cape Verde to fight a dengue fever epidemic that has killed six and is suspected to have hit 12,000 in a country of just over 400,000 inhabitants, authorities said on Monday.