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A report on health trends in Massachusetts released Tuesday takes Cape Cod to task for high youth rates of hepatitis C, opiate overdoses, a dearth of physicians for lower-income patients — and barely a trickle of fluoridated water.

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Tina Meybohm was wheeling along the second-floor corridor at the Epoch Senior Living in Harwich one quiet Tuesday when she was approached by a handful of smiling women who presented her with a colorful arrangement of flowers.

PROVINCETOWN — Residents addressed several articles at Monday's special town meeting, but the vote that may be remembered most makes Provincetown the first town on Cape Cod to ban single-use plastic bags.

BOURNE — When the Massachusetts School Building Authority invited Bourne to begin eyeing fixes for the nearly 60-year-old James F. Peebles Elementary School, Christopher Hyldburg said, he felt as if he had just won the "golden ticket."

FALMOUTH — Police plan to charge a 23-year-old Brockton man involved in a weekend crash with drunken driving, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, a marked lanes violation and speeding, Falmouth police Lt. Sean Doyle said Monday.

A week after being accused of crossing the line with its flurry of negative campaign mailers, the Jobs First Independent Expenditure Political Action Committee filed a motion Monday to dismiss state Rep.

SAGAMORE BEACH — The male driver of a car was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth with life-threatening injuries after a single-car crash on Route 3 on Monday, according to Bourne Deputy Fire Chief David Pelonzi.

BARNSTABLE — A Monument Beach man was ordered to pay $1,450 in restitution in Barnstable District Court on Monday for plumbing work he promised in 2012 but never even started.

SANDWICH — An East Sandwich woman says the Board of Selectmen should pull the plug on a deal to sell 56 acres of town land to a developer planning a youth sports complex and hotel.