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HYANNIS — Six days after a town employee was arrested on charges of receiving stolen goods, Barnstable Town Manager John Klimm promised yesterday to expand the use of criminal checks when filling town positions.

SANDWICH — Carol McManus knew when she snagged a child's bicycle out of the scrap metal pile at the town transfer station last month she was violating a town rule.

TRURO — A mere 12 percent of the town's voters turned out for yesterday's election, with one Proposition 2½ ballot question and one contested public office race in play.

Supt. Ann Bradshaw did not make the cut in Bridgewater-Raynham, according to that school district's administrative office.

BARNSTABLE - Barnstable County Commission meetings are now on television, courtesy of Channel 17.

ORLEANS — The second night of the annual town meeting started 45 minutes late last night after the 268th voter walked through the doors of the Nauset Middle School gym.

BOURNE - A nonprofit driving safety group is hosting a series of half-day courses for Cape drivers on Otis Air Base Friday through Sunday.

DENNIS — Voters agreed to pay for nearly $2.5 million in improvements to roads, sidewalks, harbors and heavy equipment last night by approving a one-time capital outlay exclusion, 1,647-897.

SOUTH DENNIS — Police investigators are looking into "every possible angle" after the kidnapping and sexual assault of a teenage girl who was taken from her second-floor bedroom early Monday morning as her parents slept nearby.

CHATHAM — A proposed bylaw change that would have made it easier for homeowners to create affordable accessory apartments failed to get the necessary two-thirds majority vote at Monday's annual town meeting.

BRAINTREE — A retired South Yarmouth man received the first of 20 annuity checks yesterday at state Lottery headquarters after winning $5 million on a $10 instant ticket, according to Lottery officials.

OSTERVILLE — The Osterville fire station, built in 1926, has been long in need of a face lift, fire officials say.

BOURNE - The Barnstable County Sheriff's Office will hold a blood drive Friday at the Barnstable County Correctional Facility in Bourne.

HARWICH — When the NCAA Division III New England Regional Baseball Tournament begins today at Whitehouse Field, there will be at least three reasons for area fans to watch the action.

HYANNIS — Barnstable High School girls tennis player Kortney Kelley set the school career victory record with her 85th win.

MASHPEE — Mashpee High School pitcher Mike McGinnis dominated Norwell in a 3-1 victory, his second win over teams at the top of the South Shore League in less than a week.

HYANNIS — The Martha's Vineyard Regional High School girls lacrosse team scored the winner in the final half-minute of a 10-9 nonleague thriller against Barnstable.

Because of incorrect information supplied to the Times, the date of Sheila Lyons' kickoff fundraiser for her campaign to become a Barnstable County commissioner was incorrect in a column on Page A-3 of the Monday edition.

SOUTH DENNIS — Judith Ann Dumont, born in Hyannis on Sept. 4, 1946, died on April 3, 2008, at the age of 61.

FORESTDALE — Mario DelVecchio, 72, of Forestdale, formerly of Quincy, passed away at his home surrounded by his devoted family, on Sunday, May 11, 2008, after a lengthy illness.

PROVINCETOWN — Michael Janoplis Jr., 77, of Provincetown, died peacefully on Monday, May 12, 2008, at his home with his wife, Carol, by his side, following a long illness.

CENTERVILLE —

WELLFLEET — Calling all lawyers.

BARNSTABLE — The two Sylvan Learning Centers that closed earlier this month were ordered shut down by the national corporation for failure to pay franchise fees, court records indicate.

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EDGARTOWN — An East Falmouth man was arraigned yesterday in district court for allegedly driving on a suspended license that had been stripped while he awaited trial next month on a motor vehicle homicide charge, according to police.

CHATHAM — A painter helped catch two teens suspected of breaking into a local house Monday afternoon, police said.

BREWSTER — A potentially explosive device was found in the basement of a Colonial Way residence last night, prompting the evacuation of several residents on the street, police said.

FALMOUTH — The cause of a fire that damaged the exterior of an unoccupied home at 19 Amvets Road early yesterday morning is under investigation, fire officials said.

BOURNE — Several federal, state and local agencies will stage a training exercise today at Otis Air National Guard Base for the Cape Cod Emergency Traffic Plan, which is intended to move a high volume of traffic off the Cape in case of a hurricane...

ORLEANS — Stormy weather has closed Nauset Beach to traffic from the public parking lot south to Chatham, Parks and Beaches Superintendent Paul Fulcher said last night.

PROVINCETOWN — A recount of two Proposition 2½ ballot questions affecting town employee raises and one full-time town job is scheduled for Friday.

Kevin Howard is one of 36 people in North America who are members of the Club des Sabreurs, certified to open Champagne the way Napoleon's calvary did - with a saber.

John LeBoeuf, the Barnstable assistant building inspector accused of receiving stolen property, and George Upton, a notorious Cape criminal, have known each other at least 20 years.