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Barnstable officials are taking steps to ask the state to declare the current HyArts district in Hyannis a designated cultural district in hopes of bolstering the town's image as an art destination and cultural mecca.

's quote: "The stark difference between the two assessments in 2008 and 2011 threatens all fishing-related businesses in our city, and it is essential to reassess such wildly different findings and conflicting results, if a fishing community like Gloucester is to exist." - Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk .

The Salem Police made the following arrests on Thursday, Feb. 9. Joseph Castronova, 22, of 46 Prospect Pl.

Two men authorities say boarded and tried to rob a sailboat in Gloucester Harbor last summer while flying a skull and crossbones pirate flag from their own vessel have avoided jail time.

In a move that could bring increased hardship to an already struggling industry, a regional body that oversees fishing issues from Cape Cod to northern Maine voted yesterday to recommend that the federal government reduce substantially the amount of cod local fishermen can catch.

Two distinct bodies of work by Jon Sarkin are featured in an exhibit up at VSA Massachusetts Open Door Gallery Maybe you've heard of Jon Sarkin.

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Dumpster rentals company charge differently for different periods. Most of the companies offer their services for one week, but there are some companies which have services for some long time.

Police are expecting to formally charge a Gloucester, Mass., man for allegedly robbing the Sovereign Bank on Lafayette Road on Jan.

A man from Magnolia, a village in Gloucester, allegedly choked another man, according to a police report.

The Massachusetts-based Kingsley Flood, founded by frontman Naseem Khuri, first made a splash in 2010 with its debut album "Dust Windows," a rollicking, literate collection of Americana-style tracks that got the group more than its share of local notice.

John Steinbeck's classic The Grapes of Wrath shows a family battling weather and its toil on the land in the mid-west U.S. pparently Canadians talk about the weather more than residents of any other country, but while we may find the topic quite interesting, talking about weather is often considered what one does to fill awkward social silences.

German pianist Clemens Teufel will perform works by Beethoven, Schumann, and Debussy tonight at the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport.