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BOURNE — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will resume the $12.3 million Sagamore Bridge painting project Monday, with lane restrictions that could last until the end of the year.

BREWSTER — One hiccup and your life can change forever. That's the simple, unvarnished wisdom uttered by Margaret Walsh, a lifelong resident of Southie, who has had more than her share of life's hiccups.

PROVINCETOWN — Boston firefighters, mostly from Engine Company 33 and Ladder Company 15, which lost two brothers in a Back Bay fire in March, are being honored with ceremonies and free vacations in Provincetown this week and next.

EAST FALMOUTH — Students from Cape Cod Community College will head to Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve this morning to deploy state-of-the-art water quality testing devices that will monitor the accumulation of dangerous chemicals in...

EASTHAM — Eight hours after putting down a blaze on Great Pond Place, Eastham firefighters returned to the unoccupied home early Friday morning after finding that the fire had rekindled.

PROVINCETOWN — A Provincetown man who was out on $25,000 bail on charges of cocaine and methamphetamine trafficking was arrested on similar charges Thursday afternoon.

FALMOUTH — A 28-year-old East Falmouth woman pleaded not guilty in Falmouth District Court on Friday to a drunken-driving charge after she allegedly sideswiped a car driven by an off-duty Falmouth police officer.

BOURNE — Bourne police were searching Friday for a man who allegedly fled the scene of a break-in on Tara Terrace.

SANDWICH — Sandwich police were searching Friday for a man suspected of breaking into a Sedgwick Lane house Thursday night.

OSTERVILLE — A Centerville man was arrested Thursday night after allegedly crashing a pickup truck, then fleeing a scene that was littered with full and empty beer cans, Barnstable police said.