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Blockbuster snowstorm to strike New York, Philadelphia Matthew Cappucci and Andrew Freedman, The Washington Post Jan. 31, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Travis Fondow, right, and a friend, prepare to ski near the Washington Monument in Washington on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021.Photo for The Washington Post by Oliver Contreras A winter storm headed to the Northeast late Sunday and could continue into Tuesday, plastering the corridor from Philadelphia to Boston with heavy snow. Snow totals in that span cou...

No plans for state-sponsored mass vaccination site on Cape

Brightening up a dark time, the Falmouth Art Center’s new January exhibit is “Let There Be Light.” The show in the Hermann Gallery features 107 works by 77 local artists, mostly from the Upper Cape towns of Falmouth, Mashpee, Bourne and Sandwich. So many people submitted work to the show that the center is using an additional room to display the work. “We know from this show and others we have had over the past months that our local artists have been busy and they are engage...

First responders from around the region began getting their first doses of COVID-19 vaccine on Monday. CAI visited a clinic hosted by the town of Sandwich

SANDWICH — "As a leader, youve got to lead from the front," Sandwich Police Chief Peter Wack said. Wack was the first person to receive a shot of the Moderna vaccine during a Monday clinic for Upper Cape first responders at the Sandwich Human Services building. Police and firefighters don’t have the luxury of sequestering themselves during the pandemic, as they routinely enter people’s homes, Wack said. The goal is to vaccinate “a large majority of the population so we can end this viru...

Standard-Times The SouthCoast Community Foundation announced it is awarding over $600,000 of Stabilization Grants from its SouthCoast Emergency Response Fund to 60 nonprofits from the Southeastern Massachusetts region. “The selected group of 501(c)3 organizations clearly demonstrated a financial need due to COVID-19 and cover a range of areas of need including arts and culture, education, and economic opportunity,” a press release from the Community Foundation stated. The recipients also ac...

Mark Forest was only a few hours into his new role as Barnstable County Commissioner when he started getting barraged by constituent questions about the COVID-19 vaccine. “My phone hasn’t stopped ringing,” Forest said during a meeting of the three Barnstable County commissioners Wednesday. “We’re getting calls from people who are upset,” said Forest, who was sworn in Monday. People want to know, “Who do I call? Where do I go?” Forest said. Under the three-phase vaccination sched...

Sandwich will be administering the COVID-19 vaccine to first responders across the Upper Cape next week.

The first ones appeared like crocuses in early spring, beguiling business owners on Main Street in Falmouth. “We don’t know who dropped it off. It just showed up,” said Hugh Birmingham, the owner of Coffee Obsession. “Thankfully it didn’t go through the window.” Someone has been dropping off painted rocks on shop stoops and the edges of sidewalks around Falmouth, all bearing the same simple red heart. The first ones were about the size of an orange. They soon disap...

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