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During a celebration event this week, staff from Buzzards Bay Coalition, who led the effort, explained what it took for them and an excavation crew to undo 80 years of farming impacts on the area.
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Gov. Maura Healey granted the designation Tuesday by executive order. The tribe is the fourth in Massachusetts to receive state recognition.
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All four leases sold for the minimum bid of $50 per acre. That's a big drop from 2018.
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Last Friday, staff here at CAI learned that our parent company, GBH, is selling the building that we broadcast from in Woods Hole. It’s an historic building that has been the station’s home since CAI first went on the air in 2000.
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“It’s the best thing since sliced bread,” Maryann Kulpa said of early voting in Harwich. She said she was feeling anxious about the outcome of the election. “So it’s over. I voted,” she said tearfully. “I came in early because there’s so much cold and flu going around that if I got sick I would be horrified if I didn’t vote.”
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Scientists said they couldn’t pinpoint what caused the growth in population size, but said some ocean management measures — like slow zones for boats and changes to entangling fishing gear — may have had a positive impact.
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With a flourish of handbells and calls of “Oyez!” or “Hear ye!” town criers from as far away as Ontario and Maryland did their best to wow the crowd Monday, as Cape Cod played host, for the first time, to an international competition of town criers.
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Michael Moore has spent decades studying critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. But the veterinarian, author, and scientist emeritus from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution had never seen an offshore wind farm up close — until last week.
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In the last two weeks alone, IFAW’s Yarmouth-based marine mammal rescue team has responded to 26 stranded dolphins, including 14 stranded bottlenose dolphins in Brewster on Monday. That event marked the largest recorded mass stranding of bottlenose dolphins in the U.S. Northeast.
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After 40 years, and some 15,000 hours watching the skies, monitoring for dark fins, and rescuing children from riptides, Gordon Miller has become an expert at the art of keeping beachgoers safe. It’s a role that’s sustained and fulfilled him since he arrived on Cape Cod in 1984 at 23 years old.
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The point of mobilizing the “Red Rebel Brigade” locally is to raise Labor Day tourists’ awareness about how climate change will affect the Cape and Islands, according to a statement from the group.
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The company that owns the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, Holtec International, has filed an appeal seeking to discharge radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay.