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Recent Editorials, Letters, Guest Articles
With much talk about plans for new canal bridges and related local road infrastructure changes, the silence is deafening on how federal bridge funding will ever fit into th…
I am filled with sadness as once again there is a mass shooting, this time in El Paso, Texas. How many innocent Americans must be shot before our government leaders manage …
We need to publish an updated dictionary because the Democrats are accusing the Republicans of so many different phobias, I’m beginning to lose track of all of them.
The mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton 13 hours apart this past weekend have pierced the consciousness of a nation that has become desensitized by the relentless reoccurr…
What is being played out and filmed on the streets of New York City with the harassment of the thin blue line (the police) is the result of the not-so-subtle attack on the …
The number of upwellers is going up at Kingman Yacht Center on Red Brook Harbor in Cataumet.
Tuesday’s visit by a tornado to Cape Cod got us thinking about the relative amount of disruption, discomfort and mayhem posed by different sorts of storms that come knockin…
In your July 19 editorial in the Bourne Enterprise, you call President Trump a racist. His words that you invoke to support this refer to nationality, not race. Also, “wome…
Massachusetts author and activist Maureen Cavanagh sent the Enterprise a letter this week titled “An Open Letter To The Mother Of A Child Addicted To Heroin.” She timed the…
In the early 1960s, according to Wikipedia, Route 25 was initially designed by the MassDPW to connect to the Sagamore Bridge.
Like a hailstorm that won’t let up, the outrageous statements and blatant lies by President Donald J. Trump have been wearing down much of the nation over the past two and …
On behalf of the Bourne Recycling Committee, I would like to thank the employees in the departments of public works and integrated solid waste management for the profession…
Watching all the television retrospectives of tomorrow’s 50th anniversary of the first walk on the moon has brought back, to those of us old enough to remember watching the…
I’m an independent voter, and have voted on both sides of the fence, but lately the Democrat politicians and many of their followers have acted so extremely liberal they’re…
People of a certain age, as the expression goes, will recall a time not all that long ago when traveling the last several miles on the western approach to the Bourne Bridge…
I would like to take this opportunity to wish the members of Bourne’s select board much success as they begin their search for a new town administrator. This is the most im…
The athletic director and members of the school committee provided a very weak defense of football in their response to the Enterprise article in the June 20 edition about …
No big surprise that Mr. Markey and/or Keating would be advocating for millions of tax dollars for designs of new bridges. While these bridges certainly are not exactly ana…
As the Fourth of July dawned 166 years ago, there was a real question whether the United States would stay united.
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