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BARNSTABLE — The race for a spot on the Barnstable County Board of Commissioners pits a self-proclaimed wonk with a nose for tracking down funding for local projects against an independent-minded farmer unafraid of going against the grain in...

HYANNIS — Attorney General Martha Coakley may be hot on the campaign trail, but her office is still fighting state energy regulators and a regional energy agency that supplies power to customers on Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard.

WEST YARMOUTH — Yarmouth Neighborhood Crime Watch block captains will focus on drug addiction and prevention at their meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the town's senior center on Forest Road.

ORLEANS — The first winter farmers market in the eastern towns of Cape Cod is coming in December, part of a plan to help local farmers extend their sales season.

ORLEANS — A community forum on affordable housing will be held 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the Church of the Holy Spirit at Route 28 and Monument Road.

SOUTH DENNIS — A prank 911 call reporting an active shooter at a Main Street home drew a massive police response and closed a portion of Route 28 for nearly an hour Wednesday night.

HARWICH — The eighth annual Cape Cod Tree of Life Conference on Israel and Palestine will be held from 9:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, 310 Route 137.

TRURO — The Board of Selectmen is seeking three community members for an ad-hoc committee to research the feasibility of pay-as-you-throw trash disposal and single-stream recycling programs.

Treasure hunter Barry Clifford says United Nation archaeological investigators were politically motivated and unscientific in their determination that the shipwreck he found off Cap-Hatien in Haiti is not Christopher Columbus’ flagship, the Santa...

B.J. Hill, 38, is walking across the state collecting messages from people he meets along the way. He is keeping them in a leather-bound journal that he will deliver to the new governor after the Nov. 4 election.