Word: falmouth
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After the failure of the Cape land bank proposal, State Rep. Eric Turkington (D-Falmouth), the sponsor of the bill, is pessimistic about another real-estate tax bill--for the Cape or for any other part of the state--passing any time soon...
...first is an alarming account, told with remarkable calmness by author Nichols, of his single-handed sail from Falmouth, England, most of the way, but not all the way, to Maine. As Nichols puts to sea in dodgy weather, the reader in his armchair considers omens (a necessary and enjoyable preliminary to the sport of reading about other people's mad adventures). Nichols is a highly experienced professional sailor, and Toad, his engineless 27-ft. sloop, is as strong and seaworthy as he and his ex-wife, whom he calls J., could make it. But now the marriage has broken...
Like his contemporary from Kansas, John Cole, whom I've known for 25 years, seems vigorous and sharp. But he'd mentioned the age issue himself recently in a column that appeared in the Forecaster, a weekly in Falmouth, Maine. In that column he concluded that since 73-year-olds don't think quite as quickly as they once did, they compensate by spending more time thinking--including times when they seem to be doing something else...
Jessica's quest to become the youngest person to fly across the continent began last Wednesday in Half Moon Bay, California. She was to fly east in three legs, laying over in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Fort Wayne, Indiana, before finally reaching Falmouth, Massachusetts, the town where she was born. She had bumped down in Cheyenne on Wednesday night in a heavy crosswind. "The wind was pushing us out," she told reporters. "You just have to give the plane more power." According to her father, she had been assisted in the landing by Reid, her flight instructor, a veteran pilot...
That night and the next morning, TV viewers were treated to a spectacle almost as disturbing as the accident itself: Jessica's eerily composed mother saying that if she had to do it over again, she would have done nothing differently. In Falmouth, where she got the news while waiting for her daughter's arrival, she declared, "I would want all my children to die in a state of joy. I would prefer it was not at the age of seven." The next morning she appeared on the Today show and told Katie Couric, "I'd have...