Provincetown and Truro at the northern tip of Cape Cod are offering free preschool to try to keep families with children from leaving, because enrollment in the public schools is plummeting.
The two towns plus neighboring Wellfleet together have lost 24 percent of their school-age children during the last 10 years (from 444 to 336), according to The Cape Cod Times.
Governor Charlie Baker continues to oppose so-called safe injection sites for drug addicts because they're illegal under federal law and he sees no hard evidence that that they work.
The governor is in a decided minority of state officials in Massachusetts who have commented on the issue, bucking a recommendation earlier this month by a panel he appointed last year.
