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The owners of Friends’ Marketplace in Orleans are interested in the Millstone Liquor store site on Millstone Road in Brewster as a potential home for a second Friends’ Marketplace. The Brewster Select Board recently approved the transfer of the liquor store’s annual all alcoholic beverages license to the Friends’ Marketplace ownership. ALAN POLLOCK PHOTO

Friends’ Marketplace Eyes Brewster Location, But Not Yet A Done Deal

August 12, 2026

BREWSTER – It’s not a done deal, but Brewster could get a new store that offers groceries and prepared food — plus much more — on Millstone Road....

Revised Nauset Agreement Better, But Still Needs Work

August 12, 2026

BREWSTER – The new regional agreement between the Nauset Regional School District and its four member towns is better than the existing pact but...

Attendees at Sunday’s Summer Starlight, the Cape Rep Theatre’s annual gala fundraiser, were treated to a preview of music from “The Hundred Aker Wood,” an original musical that will make its debut at the Brewster theater in November. The show and its songs, created by Paddo, Seamus and Macklin Devine and Maura Hanlon, are based on A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh books. Shown above performing one of the show’s songs are, from left, Seamus Devine, Zachary Johnson, Macklin Devine, Maura Hanlon and Paddo Devine. TIM WOOD PHOTOS

Summer Starlight Shines At Brewster Theater

August 12, 2026

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Reduced fertilizer usage at The Captains Golf Course in Brewster is being credited with helping the town zero in on its target nitrogen removal goals. FILE PHOTO

Golf Courses Contributing To Nitrogen Reduction Efforts

BREWSTER – The Captains Golf Course is one of the town’s most prized recreational assets. What’s less known is the role its management is playing...

Brewster Eyes Regional Plan For Opioid Funds

BREWSTER – In 2022, Brewster, along with other Massachusetts communities, including its neighbors, began receiving abatement funds from what...

The town of Brewster, working with the Brewster Conservation Trust, hopes to purchase a two-acre parcel of land between the Long Pond Woodlands and the Sea Camps pond property. BREWSTER CONSERVATION TRUST PHOTO

Brewster Trust To Fundraise For Ellis Property Acquisition

BREWSTER – The Brewster Conservation Trust hopes to secure the remaining funding needed for the acquisition of a two-acre parcel within the Herring...

The Crosby Mansion was the largest house on Cape Cod when it was built in 1888.

Brewster Completes Town-wide Historic Inventory; More Than 300 Old...

BREWSTER – A town-wide inventory of houses 100 years or older in Brewster has now been completed, with over 300 houses described. “It was a lot,”...

The Sweetwater Forest Cape Cod Family Campground has seen a drop in activity this summer. RICH ELDRED PHOTO

Economy, Gas Prices Impacting Local Campgrounds

BREWSTER – Campgrounds used to dot the Cape, attracting those who’d rather rough it a bit as opposed to lodging in a motel room for a week. Those...

Brewster Book Store Operations Manager Emma Lang shows off the space behind the 2648 Main St. shop the staff calls its “secret garden,” where on this Thursday evening, July 30, the store will host 17 Cape Cod authors and their books for an event they are calling “Rising Tides: Local Author Book Bash” between 5:30 and 7 p.m. ANDY KIRKALDY PHOTO

Meet 17 Local Authors At Brewster Book Store Event

BREWSTER – The folks at Brewster Book Store are asking readers a question: What’s better than meeting and greeting a local author who has written...

Members of the IFAW marine mammal rescue team kept watch at Skaket Beach last Tuesday, looking for signs that the dolphins might come ashore again. IFAW PHOTO

Historic Dolphin Stranding: What We Learned

BREWSTER – There are plausible theories, but no definitive explanations, for the largest recorded mass stranding of bottlenose dolphins in the...

Sarah Goyette and her son Asher are the new owners of one of two homes being built in Brewster by Habitat for Humanity of Cape Cod. CAMPBELL MULLIGAN PHOTO

Habitat Set To Build Brewster Homes

BREWSTER – Sarah Goyette laughed on Monday afternoon when asked how it felt on a scale from one to a jillion when she learned about her selection...

Winona Demello Kangas and Leppelin Brown paint shells provided by the Friends of Pleasant Bay at Brewster Conservation Day, held last Saturday. Sponsored by the Brewster Conservation Trust and held at the Sea Camps Bay Property, the theme of this year’s event was “Conservation Begins at Home.” CAMPBELL MULLIGAN PHOTOS

Bringing The Conservation Message Home

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APCC Cyanobacteria Warnings, Methods Disputed By Brewster Board

BREWSTER – What began two summers ago as a dispute between Brewster health officials and the Association to Preserve Cape Cod over the...

Most of the bottlenose dolphins that stranded on Cape Cod Bay beaches earlier this week were able to swim free at high tide, but five or six perished on the flats. ALAN POLLOCK PHOTOS

Rescuers Respond To Historic Dolphin Stranding

BREWSTER – While beachgoers sunbathed nearby, a drama unfolded on the shore of Cape Cod Bay earlier this week as rescuers responded to a historic...

Brewster Launches Historic Preservation Awards

BREWSTER – Do you have an old home you’ve restored, or perhaps you admire a historic structure or building in Brewster that has been brought back...

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