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Chatham Select Board members vote electronically at Saturday’s annual town meeting. TIM WOOD PHOTO

Chatham Town Meeting Bans Large Aircraft, Approves COA Renovations

CHATHAM – In a six-hour marathon session Saturday, town meeting voters approved funding to expand and renovate the Center for Active Living, turned...

Alexis Weglarz with her Lighthouse Award. ALAN POLLOCK PHOTO

Chatham Issues First ‘Lighthouse Award’

CHATHAM – On April 18, Alexis Weglarz was heading home from her job at the Center for Active Living when she spotted a person walking along Old...

Select Board Candidates Accused Of Misusing Town Seal

CHATHAM – Incumbent select board candidates Jeffrey Dykens and Michael Schell have been accused of violating state law by using the official town...

There were several standing counts over the two-day annual town meeting. Voters on Tuesday approved funds for electronic voting in future sessions. WILLLIAM F. GALVIN PHOTO

Petition Articles Fail To Get Traction At Town Meeting

HARWICH – On the final night of the annual town meeting, voters agreed to institute electronic voting at future sessions and defeated a series of...

Facility To Coat Firearms, Tools And Equipment

HARWICH – The planning board will be asked on Tuesday to approve a manufacturing permit for a company seeking to perform cerakote and powdercoat applications to firearm...

A youngster observes the "eelevator" which helps American eels access Grass Pond from Cold Brook. COURTESY PHOTO

Fishway Planned For Bank Street To Grass Pond

HARWICH - The town is planning major improvements to the Cold Brook culvert, which runs under Bank Street, including altering the fishway leading...

Budget Blinds

CCRTA

The town of Orleans purchased this property at 72 Tonset Rd. last fall. This summer, the plan is to use the property to allow public access to Town Cove. RYAN BRAY PHOTO

Kayaks, Water Access Eyed For Tonset Road Parcel

ORLEANS – A Tonset Road property purchased by the town last fall could provide public access to Town Cove and serve as a launching spot for...

Work continues on the commercial wharf reconstruction at Rock Harbor. The majority of the work is expected to be done by May or June, with the balance to be finished by the end of the year. RYAN BRAY PHOTO

Study Looks At Rock Harbor’s Economic Value

ORLEANS – How do you quantify the economic value of Rock Harbor? It’s a tall order, but the Cape Cod Commission took its best shot. The commission...

Cell phone data was analyzed as part of a recent study by the Cape Cod Commission to better understand the visitation patterns and trends at Rock Harbor. That data was aggregated and analyzed by a third party company, Placer.ai RYAN BRAY PHOTO

Cell Phone Data Sourced For Rock Harbor Study

ORLEANS – If you paid a visit to Rock Harbor in recent years, you may have unknowingly taken part in a new study conducted by the Cape Cod...

Brewster Chamber’s person of the year, Sharon Tennstedt, and Elton Cutler, director of the COA, take a break from dishing out toppings to pose for a photo. MACKENZIE BLUE PHOTOS

The Scoop Is In: COA Hosts Ice Cream Social

BREWSTER – Attendees were served a double scoop of happiness last Friday at the council on aging’s annual ice cream social. The Friends of Brewster...

State Representative Chris Flanagan (right) visited the Brewster COA in March to take part in the Meals on Wheels program. MACKENZIE BLUE PHOTO

Brewster Select Board Calls For Flanagan’s Resignation

BREWSTER – The Brewster Select Board has joined the evergrowing list of officials, including Governor Maura Healey, and organizations calling for...

Most of the 21 articles were handled summarily by voters. ALAN POLLOCK PHOTOS

Clicker Shock: Brewster Rejects Electronic Voting - Annual Town...

BREWSTER – By a margin of eight votes — too close for an old-fashioned hand count — town meeting voters rejected a petition article that called for...

‘50s and ‘60s Classics Fuel High-energy ‘Wonderettes’

"The Marvelous Wonderettes," a fast-paced, high-energy jukebox musical featuring over 30 classic '50s and '60s hits, will kick off the summer...

Bett Carreiro stands in front of East Harwich Stop and Shop’s Starbucks location. MACKENZIE BLUE PHOTO

The Contagious Compassion Of Bett Carreiro

If you’ve been anywhere near the East Harwich Stop and Shop, you are familiar with Bett Carreiro. Six days a week, she’s outfitted in a green apron...

Snow’s Home and Garden team members, from left: Lee Ann Morris, Alex Mahally, Nancy Stroh and Madeline Kavanagh. MELISSA DE LA VEGA PHOTO

Minding Your Business- Snow’s Home and Garden

Snow’s Home and Garden in Orleans is a Cape Cod institution embarking on its 136th year in business. Snow’s defines what it means to be a...

Philip S. Ripa, formerly of Amherst MA, and a long-time resident of Chatham, died on December 21, 2024. He was the loving husband of Dorothy Meehan...

John Frank Ormento

John Frank Ormento, affectionately known as Johnny, 66, of Harwich MA, died peacefully in his home on April 27, 2025, after enduring 4 years with...

Kathleen Ann Kane

Kathleen Ann Kane, 66, of Brewster, died Thursday, May 1st, 2025.Kathleen was born to the late August and Joan (Guminski) Neher on April 7th, 1959,...

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High School Sports

Monomoy senior captain Finn Hyora drives the ball during the Sharks’ 17-0 win against Cape Cod Tech. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTOS

Monomoy Baseball Rolls Over Cape Cod Tech

PLEASANT LAKE – Monomoy baseball’s bats flourished against shorthanded Cape Cod Tech in a five-inning shutout last Thursday.The 17-0 win was...

Sophomore Hanadi Rezk hits a backhand during a first singles match Friday against Martha’s Vineyard. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTOS

Powered By Singles, Monomoy Girls Tennis Becomes Dominant Force

HARWICH – Two sophomores and an eighth grader make up what is, to Bill Burke, perhaps the strongest set of singles players he’s had in his 10 years...

Senior defender Tanner Dustin runs with the ball during Nauset’s 12-7 win Thursday over Bishop Stang High School. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTOS

Nauset Girls Connect To Best Bishop Stang

NORTH EASTHAM – The Nauset girls lacrosse team had a hole to fill during its April vacation week game against Bishop Stang High School. With the...

Athlete of the Week

Sophomore Lincoln Sanford pitched four scoreless innings for Monomoy in a 17-0 win against Cape Cod Tech. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTO

Athlete Of The Week: Lincoln Sanford

PLEASANT LAKE – Monomoy spread the wealth around at the plate as a number of players contributed to the scoring Thursday against Cape Cod...

Our View: A Different Endorsement

In discussing endorsements for this year’s Chatham Select Board race, our editorial staff had an unexpectedly hard time in coming to a conclusion....

Letters To The Editor: May 8, 2025

McCarley A Team PlayerEditor:Caroline McCarley would be an incredible asset to the Brewster Select Board. I worked with her for two years on the...

Our View: Yes On Middle School Repairs

The Harwich Select Board is to be acknowledged for changing its vote to support borrowing to fund repairs to the Monomoy Regional Middle School....

Chatham Select Board members vote electronically at Saturday’s annual town meeting. TIM WOOD PHOTO

Chatham Town Meeting Bans Large Aircraft, Approves COA Renovations

CHATHAM – In a six-hour marathon session Saturday, town meeting voters approved funding to expand and renovate the Center for Active Living, turned...

Alexis Weglarz with her Lighthouse Award. ALAN POLLOCK PHOTO

Chatham Issues First ‘Lighthouse Award’

CHATHAM – On April 18, Alexis Weglarz was heading home from her job at the Center for Active Living when she spotted a person walking along Old...

Select Board Candidates Accused Of Misusing Town Seal

CHATHAM – Incumbent select board candidates Jeffrey Dykens and Michael Schell have been accused of violating state law by using the official town...

Outer Cape Health Services’ Harwich Port offices. ALAN POLLOCK PHOTO

Health Page: Wequassett Guests Support Outer Cape Health Services

HARWICH PORT – Lounging on the patio overlooking Pleasant Bay, vacationers at the Wequassett Resort and Golf Club would be forgiven for not...

Cape Cod 5

Chatham Garden Club members spruce up the watering trough downtown, late 1990s.FILE PHOTO

Volunteers make repairs to the Chatham Scout Hall, 1990s.FILE PHOTO

Book sale at Eldredge Public Library, late 1990s. FILE PHOTO

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