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Wareham student wins SkillsUSA diesel competition COURTESY OF SKILLSUSA MASS DIESEL EQUIPMENT TECHNOLOGY Orlando Guadalupe, a Wareham resident and senior at Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical High School, won first place in the Diesel Equipment Technology competition at the 2021 SkillsUSA Massachusetts State Championship held at Advantage Truck Group in Shrewsbury, where the state’s top diesel students competed in hands-on workstations that tested their skills and knowledge of diesel technology. As the first-place winner in the competition, Guadalupe qualifies to compete for the national Ski...

Madison Czopek May 26, 2021 Orlando Guadalupe, a senior from Wareham, was recognized with a number of awards for his achievements on May 25. From left to right: Upper Cape automotive instructors David Haskins and Dennis Theoharidis, Orlando and his mom Jennifer Guadalupe, another Upper Cape Tech instructor, automotive instructor Pedro Bento, Advanced Truck Group’s Rob Lynds and Universal Technical Institute’s Scott Boydston. Photos by: Madison Czopek Orlando Guadalupe’s first reaction when he walked into the automotive shop. Guadalupe (left) listens on as his mentor Doug Marti...

Robert E. Lee monument, Richmond, Virginia, 2020. Photograph by Joseph. Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). Criticism of the Lost Cause and Confederate symbols stretched back as early as 1870, when Frederick Douglass called out the “ nauseating flatteries of the late Robert E. Lee” that poured in after the Confederate general’s death, asking, “Is it not about time that this bombastic laudation of the rebel chief should cease?” Until his death in 1895, Douglass engaged in an uphill battle to dislodge the Lost Cause narrative that had gripped the national consciousness while still seeking to pr...