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Calling the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance an "extremist Tea Party organization," the Massachusetts Democratic Party recently launched a website dedicated to debunking mailers the nonprofit organization has sent targeting state Rep.

HARWICH — When it comes to cleaning up the wastewater pollution of bays and estuaries, the wheels of politics and finance turn slowly as towns struggle to find a way to absorb unprecedented costs in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

HYANNIS — Old Town Road will be restricted to one lane for most of October for resurfacing, according to the Barnstable Department of Public Works.

WELLFLEET — Drivers should expect delays on Route 6 because of road repairs today and possibly Wednesday from 7 a.m. into the early evening hours, according to the Wellfleet police.

BOURNE — The U.S. Bureau of Justice recently completed a training film on the Barnstable County Correctional Facility's inmate residential substance abuse treatment (RSAT) program.

Because of a reporting error, a school was omitted from an MCAS chart on Page A7 of Sunday's Times. Eddy Elementary School in Brewster was ranked as a Level 2 school on a scale of 1 to 5, with Level 1 being highest achieving.

MARSTONS MILLS — Andrew "Andy" Munson was excited to sky-dive for the first time Sunday.

WEST DENNIS - A garden club that’s possibly the oldest on the Cape will celebrate its 90th birthday next week with the dedication of a granite meditation bench and Kousa dogwood tree at their meeting place, the West Dennis Graded Schoolhouse.

Barnstable Intermediate conducting donation drive

Two skydivers making a tandem jump died after crashing into a barn Sunday, Barnstable police and the Cape and Islands district attorney confirmed.