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Cape couple open business importing wines from Czech Republic.

Cape couple open business importing wines from Czech Republic.

The multi-million dollar Herring River Restoration Project is the largest environmental restoration project on the East Coast.

The states weekly municipal COVID-19 report showed a lower case count in the past two-week span, with the majority of towns moving out of the state’s red zone.  However, higher virus positivity rates have been seen on the Islands, with Nantucket and three towns on Martha’s Vineyard being reported in the red zone. The town of Edgartown had the highest positivity rate at 10.13%, with 57 newly reported cases over the past two weeks.  On the Cape, the town of Yarmouth has the highest positi...

Cape health officials say a  perfect storm of variants and pandemic fatigue contributed to a third wave of COVID-19 cases that filled area hospital beds and closed the doors of the Capes largest school system for over a week this spring. By mid-March, the towns of Barnstable and Yarmouth had the highest positivity rates in the state. At one point Barnstables positivity rate was 10.20% , more than five times the state average. Areas of the Cape continue to remain in the states highest-ris...