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🌱 Why did a key recreation leader step down in Orleans?

Orleans, Massachusetts Patch AM: a 3 min read

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  • Why did a key recreation leader step down in Orleans?

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Today's riddle: What has a cap but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

  • Saturday: Partly sunny and not as warm, with a high of 66 and low of 53 degrees.
  • Sunday: Mainly cloudy, temps: high: 63, low: 57.
  • Monday: Lots of sun, a shower; breezy, with a high of 69 and low of 49 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Support Voiced For Former Rec Chair (capecodchronicle.com) — Orleans residents are rallying behind former recreation advisory chair Jamie Balliett after his resignation, praising his work on Eldredge Park and other town projects while questioning communication around possible recreation regionalization with Brewster. Town officials say they did not ask him to step down and are now revisiting committee charges, codes of conduct, and long-overdue ethics and Open Meeting Law training for the town’s many volunteer board members.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What has a cap but no head?" — A bottle (Thank you Glo M. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Orleans

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