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Eve ZuckoffAfter 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. -
Eve ZuckoffThe 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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“Anytime that you see polyester, vinylaster coat, and PVC foams, these are all carcinogenic materials," said Valeria La Saponara. "So it's not going to kill you all in the next week. But there are possible long term consequences.” -
Three companies have submitted bids in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, and a third company only in the latter two states. -
For the first time in a decade, a panel from the National AIDS Memorial Quilt is back on display at the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod in Provincetown. -
New Bedford’s Feast of the Blessed Sacrament, a cultural festival with religious roots, is billed as the largest Portuguese feast in the world. It’s more than a century old, but this year, behind the scenes, something very big is changing. For the first time — and under threat of a lawsuit — women have been allowed to join the Feast Committee. -
This week, the House and Senate passed a bill that says come January 1, 2027, no firefighting turnout gear can be sold if it’s made with “intentionally added” PFAS. -
No one knows when the next major hurricane could hit the Cape, Coast, and Islands. But if and when the big one comes, it will bring days of wind, waves, and worries. And then the skies will clear. The economic impacts, on the other hand, could last for years. -
"What they worry about," said Barnstable County Emergency Preparedness director Chip Reilly on the Bourne and Sagamore bridges, "is a tractor trailer truck going sideways and flipping over and then tying up the bridge. And then where do we stand?" -
GE Vernova, the company that built the blade that failed on a Vineyard Wind turbine south of the islands, says it will re-examine every blade it has built for offshore wind. -
Rescue teams from the New England Aquarium, the Center for Coastal Studies, and the Barnstable harbormaster’s office came together to disentangle a six-foot-long, 400-pound leatherback. -
A North Atlantic right whale was recently spotted off the coast of Ireland—the first right whale to be confirmed along that island in 114 years.
