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CC Films Gwen Wynne interviewed; Bay Scallop Haul Best In Decades; Fifth grade sent back to Middle School; Truths we know; 'Golden Elders' upset with tribe leadership; Bourne 'Drug surveillance' probe; Tree trimmer dies after fall
Gov. Patrick chases stimulus cash for broadband for State and Cape
Hoping to win a new chunk of federal stimulus money, Governor Deval Patrick pitched the Obama administration yesterday on three proposals that would expand broadband access in areas of Massachusetts that lack adequate high-speed connections. Beginning a two-day visit to Washington, Patrick met with Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to lobby for projects totaling $154 million that would expand high-speed Internet availability in Western Massachusetts and Boston and on Cape Cod. Globe.
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REELING FILM FEST 2009
'American Primitive' woman Gwen Wynne
In the movie American Primitive, set in 1973, British widower father Harry Goodhart moves his two daughters to Cape Cod, where his business partner, Mr. Gibbs lives out back.
However, things are not quite what they seem-which come to a head when elder daugher Madeline sees her father and Gibbs at the Atlantic House gay dance club in Provincetown...
Was Cape Cod that enlightened about race but not homosexuality in 1973?
Cape Cod was probably one of the more diverse regions in the country in the 19th century because the Underground Railroad went through it. Black people and American Indians lived on the cape. I wanted to deal with class and race on the cape; Joy is an educated woman who went to Smith and is a journalist. Even in [ the movie ] Jaws, the newspaper reporter there is Black-and that was shot in '73... Windy City Times.
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Chatham Bay Scallop Haul Best In Decades
After meager harvests most of the past two decades, local fishermen finally have a substantial scallop crop to boost their fall incomes...
On Monday, between 85 and 90 boats were plying the waters of Stage Harbor and the Southway fishing for bay scallops. Most vessels had two people on board and were pulling in their limit of six bushels per person, Moore said. Fewer boats were out on Tuesday, but all were still "limiting out," he said. Most recreational shellfishermen who went out for scallops on Sunday also got their limit of one bushel each, Moore said... Chronicle.
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Harwich School Committee Votes Fifth Grade Return To Middle School
The Harwich Elementary School is experiencing overcrowding conditions. At the end of the school year last year, half of the school district population was housed in the recently refurbished school on South Street.
Following a Grade Configuration Study conducted last spring and public hearings, the school committee voted a couple of weeks ago to return the fifth grade to the Harwich Middle School next September.
It has been four years since the fifth grade left the middle school and located in the elementary school. Superintendent of Schools Dr. Carolyn Cragin said the decision to relocate the grade was made quickly in 2005, in the face of a failed override... Chronicle.
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Truths We Know
Among the first things we learn as children is that actions have influence on our surroundings: A touch to our skin creates feeling; objects can be picked up and moved; a cry garners a reaction. Nothing is cemented in our world. Everything can be manipulated and changed.
Convincing ourselves, then, that more than 6 billion of us -- each American, for his or her part, producing 4 pounds of garbage per day and emitting 20 metric tons of carbon dioxide each year -- haven't impacted the globe betrays the perhaps the first and most poignant thing we learn: Everything we do has an impact. Every sneeze, every step a reaction...
Even among those that are willing to recognize the severity of the problem we face, there's an intransigence. In the book "Cape Wind," Robert Whitcomb of the Providence Journal and Wendy Williams chronicle the battle of installing wind turbines in the Nantucket Sound. The story pits the well-moneyed interests of property owners on Cape Cod and Nantucket -- a portion of whom, at least, support the idea of wind power, so long as it's not on their coastline -- against the greater share of the Massachusetts public, which supports the $900 million project... Post Chronicle.
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A person could have a perfectly good reason for showing up at a house that the police are watching for drug sales.
My cottage in BBay was on the same street as a house that a drug dealer lived in for a while, and- once you got past the "willing to kill" part- they were always nice boys.
Regardless of whether they were selling cocaine or not, I still brought them some cookies over the holiday season, just like I did with all my other non-pushing neighbors. It's how things are done in France, and it's how things are done wherever I happen to be at Christmas.
I never bought any yayo, but I most likely ended up on some police file somewhere... especially where I was handing the dealers a foil wrapped package. I have a pretty good nose for cops lurking around, so I immediately went over to the rented surveillance house nearby and gave the detectives some cookies, too. I like to have both ends covered.