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PLYMOUTH — On a recent Tuesday morning, Viriato "Vinny" deMacedo was sitting inside his Mobil gas station off Route 3, paging through a pile of paperwork on the counter.

POCASSET — When Heather Mullins began collecting nomination signatures, most of the shoppers she approached in the Market Basket and Wal-Mart parking lots asked which candidate she was trying to put on the ballot.

FALMOUTH — As the murmuring began about Senate President Therese Murray possibly stepping down, Matthew Patrick picked up the phone and started looking around.

SANDWICH — The Zoning Board of Appeals upheld a building permit for an aerial adventure park at Heritage Museums & Gardens.

EASTHAM — Nauset Regional High School junior Paul Prue's smile stretched across his face as he sat at a table with three stunned looking freshman at the cafeteria Tuesday.

BOSTON — The state Supreme Judicial Court has affirmed the first-degree murder conviction of Edmond J. Carriere Jr., according to an announcement Tuesday from Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe.

BOURNE — No one was injured in an early-morning crash Tuesday on Route 25 when a state police cruiser was rear-ended.

WEST YARMOUTH — Three people were arraigned Tuesday in Barnstable District Court in connection with a burglary at a house on Route 28 in which two men allegedly threatened the residents with baseball bats and a tire iron.

SOUTH DENNIS — Voters at Tuesday's special town meeting overwhelmingly endorsed a plan to set aside 5 acres off Hokum Rock Road for a small housing community

MASHPEE — Joan Tavares Avant, a Mashpee Wampanoag elder, historian and writer, will explore the legend of Granny Squannit at a storytelling session at 4 p.m. today at the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Museum, 414 Main St.