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FALMOUTH — A senior member of Gov. Deval Patrick's energy team will speak on Cape Cod from 7 to 9 tonight.

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US Sen Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, a senator to the nation but a neighbor to Cape Codders, was diagnosed yesterday with a malignant brain tumor.

BARNSTABLE — The Cape Cod Youth Empowerment Initiative will host a forum this afternoon at Barnstable Unitarian Church to discuss race and ethnicity in the region.

WEST YARMOUTH — A one-time summer reserve officer was sworn in as deputy chief of the Yarmouth Police Department yesterday.

OSTERVILLE — Voters in the Centerville, Osterville and Marstons Mills Fire District voted to fund a new $4.1 million fire station for Osterville last night at the annual district meeting.

TRURO — Officials suspect arson in a Corn Hill Road construction site blaze that was discovered yesterday morning by the builder, according to police.

ORLEANS — Incumbents David Dunford and John Hinckley will return to the board of selectmen, voters decided yesterday.

HARWICH — The police can say goodbye to smelly locker rooms, crowded hallways, sporadic electric fires and other odd working conditions.

WEST HARWICH — Harwich police and fire personnel were called to Division Street Monday afternoon after a woman found a suspicious metal object in her garden.

FALMOUTH — The Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve will receive $555,000 from the Department of Commerce, according to the office of Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.

FALMOUTH — Voters approved the cost overrun needed to complete renovations to Falmouth High School yesterday, and they simultaneously elected the newcomer to the board of selectmen who promised more accountability on the project.

DENNIS — A Hyannis woman was taken to Cape Cod Hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening after rolling her car on Route 6 yesterday afternoon.

TRURO — Orleans District Court officials have set June 9 for the arraignment of author Peter Manso on firearm charges.

MARSTONS MILLS — The Isaac Crocker Homestead, a gray-shingled Colonial, sits on 6.58 acres that overlook a pond on two sides. Flowering heirloom apple trees, a giant chestnut tree and buttercups dot the historic farm.

EASTHAM — Incumbent Selectman Linda Burt won a fourth term yesterday by garnering the highest vote total of all five candidates.

SOUTH YARMOUTH — Seniors Sandy Fitzsimmons and Sarah Romano won two events each to lead the Dennis-Yarmouth girls track team over Sandwich and Nauset, giving the Dolphins another Atlantic Coast League title.

BREWSTER — A proposal to create a planning department in town narrowly squeaked by at the polls yesterday. The $100,000 Proposition 2½ override question was approved, 345-324, in an election that saw the lowest voter turnout in recent memory.

BOURNE — Nick Vinson went 2-for-3 with four runs scored and three RBIs, and the Upper Cape Tech baseball team beat Avon 17-11 in a back-and-forth Mayflower League battle.

SOUTH YARMOUTH — The Barnstable High School softball team is within one win of a berth in Division 1 South Sectionals.

HYANNIS — Brett Serriello scored three early goals, Mark McNaughton made 14 saves and Barnstable High School knocked off previously undefeated King Philip 11-7 in boys lacrosse.

CHATHAM — The Chatham High School girls tennis team is the champion of the Mayflower League.

BOURNE — Voters rejected a library expansion project but approved hiring five more police officers, according to unofficial results in yesterday's election.

Budget Blinds in Mashpee is donating and installing more than $3,700 worth of blinds in the Noah Shelter in Hyannis.

MASHPEE — Van drivers and parents want the Mashpee School Committee to fully explore all options before voting whether to outsource special education transportation.

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HARWICH — A Centerville man was cited for running a stop sign and colliding with the oil truck that overturned and leaked an estimated 3,000 gallons of home heating oil, police say.

SOUTH YARMOUTH — An 82-year-old Sandwich man was cited for hoarding Monday morning after police officers working a road detail questioned his ability to see and to drive safely, police said.

NORTH FALMOUTH — Margaret Ann (Herlihy) Kane, 82, of North Easton and North Falmouth, formerly of Brockton and Abington, passed away Sunday, May 18, 2008.

HARWICH — Mary (Vacca) Schembri, 94, of Harwich and Naples, Fla., died Wednesday, May 14, 2008, in Florida.

EAST FALMOUTH — Joao Botelho, 90, died Monday, May 19, 2008, at Falmouth Hospital. He was married to Maria A. Botelho, who passed in 2005, for 55 years.

EAST FALMOUTH — Margaret M. Pope, 73, of East Falmouth, passed away at home May 16, 2008, after a long battle with cancer.

EASTHAM — John Ambroult, 60, died Sunday, May 18, 2008, while piloting an airplane carrying researchers doing a federal bird and wind study, near Eagleswood, N.J.