Cape Cod Times story choices

Thursday night, Aug. 4, there were two big explosions at Camp Edwards in Bourne. We heard it all the way in Dennis. People were shocked and surprised by the noise from the explosion. In Friday morning's Cape Cod Times the story was buried on an inside page. I thought it should have been the lead story on Page 1. It affected a lot of people on Cape Cod. The next day --Saturday, Aug. 6 -- the Times ran a follow-up story, and it was, indeed, the lead story atop Page 1.

The Sunday Cape Cod Times, Aug. 7, included AP coverage of the British rescue of the submariners aboard the stranded Russian submarine. Because the Boston Globe's deadline is much earlier, all the Globe could report is that the rescuers were "racing against time."