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MASHPEE — Plans for a Wopanaak language-immersion charter school are on hold for at least a year after the program did not move to the next round of this year's approval process.

Plans for a Wopanaak language-immersion charter school are on hold for at least a year after the program did not move to the next round of this year's approval process.

Collaboration has become a key to helping nonprofits escape the effects of the recent recession and find new paths to sustainable operations: That can mean anything from collaborating on a fundraiser to a merger.

Firefighters plucked a young terrier mix from the Cape Cod Canal on Sunday morning after the dog followed some gulls into the fast-moving water and was swept away.

A Mashpee man was taken to a South Weymouth hospital after a two-vehicle accident early Sunday morning in Sandwich.

A West Yarmouth man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after crashing into a mailbox and utility pole on Swan River Road on Friday night.

Heritage Museums is taking enrollment for the Hundred Acre School, its new preschool.

State officials notified the town Thursday that they are reviewing a permit that was issued last month by the town Conservation Commission for a stone seawall to protect a waterfront home.

Barnstable County towns and agencies have a total of $11 million in reimbursement requests for damage from Hurricane Sandy and the February 2013 blizzard still under review by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Artist Harry Holl, who died Thursday at Epoch Senior Health Care in Brewster, was renowned for his pottery and his devotion to art and education on Cape Cod.