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Like much of the nation, the Town of Bourne continues to struggle in its efforts to contain, even curb, the opioid crisis. This is in spite of the efforts of

The sound of an explosion shook a neighborhood in Bourne, when a bomb was unearthed and later detonated.

The Bourne Charter Review Committee will recommend a number of changes to the town charter for residents to vote on at Special Town Meeting next month. The committee’s recommendations include

Two lawsuits brought against the Town of Bourne and former Bourne fire chief Norman P. Sylvester have been dismissed in US District Court for Massachusetts in Boston. The lawsuits alleged a violation of a former firefighter’s constitutional right to freedom of religion, and violation of state law for refusing payment benefits for work-related mental anguish. The dismissals were part of a decision handed down by Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV on June 28. Both the Town of Bourne and Chief S...

BUZZARDS BAY — One person was injured after they fell off a personal watercraft following a collision Thursday afternoon, according to a press release from the Bourne Fire Department.  At 1 p.m., the Bourne Fire Department crews were dispatched to Taylor’s Point Marina,  where they determined there was a collision between two personal watercraft near the docked Massachusetts Maritime Academy training ship, TS Kennedy.  Fire personnel out of the Pocasset station responded in one of t...

A woman died of injuries sustained after crossing the centerline of Sandwich Road in Bourne and colliding with a tractor trailer on Sunday, May 30, Bourne police said, citing an

Woman killed in head-on collision on Sandwich Road Sunday

Person killed in fiery crash near Cape Cod beach; Car found engulfed in flames, up against tree MassLive.com 1 hr ago Jackson Cote, masslive.com A fiery car crash near a Cape Cod beach early Tuesday left a person dead and the vehicle they were driving engulfed in flames, up against a tree, authorities said. Officers in Bourne received a call shortly before 1:30 a.m. about a car on fire in front of 330 Old Plymouth Road that may have crashed into a tree, the town’s police dep...

A letter of thanks was received by the Bourne Fire Department from officials with the Town of Oak Bluffs on Marthas Vineyard. The letter from Jason Balboni, chairman of the Oak Bluffs Board of Selectmen, thanked Bourne Fire and Rescue for the departments help in transporting a patient to a Boston hospital. On February 2, an Oak Bluffs ambulance was taking a cardiac patient to Massachusetts General Hospital when the vehicle broke down on Route 25. In his letter, Mr. Balboni noted that Bourne Fir...

Onset Firefighters quickly knock down house fire Wicked Local ONSET – Onset Firefighters quickly knocked down a fire on the rear exterior wall of a residence at 6 Pearl Ave. Sunday afternoon and reminded residents to dispose of ash away from the home. Onset Fire reported receiving multiple emergency telephone reports of a structure fire at 6 Pearl Ave. at 2:10 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 24. According to an OFD Facebook post, “The first arriving unit on scene had fire on a rear facing exterior wall. ...