In Massachusetts, 2.6 percent of children are raised by grandparents. But on the Cape and Islands, the rate is almost four times higher, at 10 percent.
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The summer season is ramping up with ample opportunities to engage with the arts, including live theater.
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On a Cape Cod blueberry farm, a newly arrived colony of bumblebees takes flight, beginning the careful work that transforms spring flowers into summer fruit.
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The former congressman was politically engaged until the end.
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Our panel of behavioral health experts talk about how unconscious fears, childhood experiences, jealousy, envy, grief, and denial shape our relationships.
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This week’s spring migration reached spectacular heights as rare southern visitors mixed with huge numbers of songbirds pouring into Cape Cod from across the Atlantic.
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CC0 - Michael Giorgio Castielli - email: michael.castielli (at) gmail.com - Creative Commons Zero Free License/WikicommonsMemorial Day is coming up: the time we think about putting out the more tender plants like tomatoes and basil.
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A review of the top local headlines of the week with our region's leading jouralists.
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Carla Kaplan has written a new biography of Jessica Mitford, a British aristocrat who became an American communist and advocate for social justice.
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After a decade as general manager, Robert Davis stepped down and was replaced in January of this year by Alex Kryska.
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Now that the U.S. government must refund most tariffs, Walmart says it might put its refund money toward lowering store prices. Executives say the cost of gas has shoppers increasingly under stress.
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As Maine's Senate matchup is all but set, incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins urges voters to pick her over Democrat Graham Platner because she can fund state priorities due to her seniority.
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As Republicans work to approve a reconciliation bill to fund ICE, some in the party are pushing back against a proposal to include $1 billion in funding for Secret Service and Trump's ballroom.
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NPR's Leila Fadel asks political analyst and podcast host Chuck Todd what the tension between the president and Republicans in Congress means for Trump's agenda.
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Colorado's Democratic Party voted to formally censure Gov. Jared Polis for commuting the sentence of Tina Peters, a former county clerk convicted over a plot to promote false 2020 election claims.