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The Chatham Orpheum Theater held its annual “Summer Evening” gala at the Wychmere Beach Club last Thursday, July 9. The sold-out event featured shrimp and sushi boats, a lavish buffet and dancing to the Mark Greel Band. Board members, benefactors and theatergoers mixed on the outdoor deck before dinner. Here, Patty Rottneier, Jennifer Brown, Maureen Shea and Dorothy Hearn enjoy the evening view. TIM WOOD PHOTOS

A Fine Summer Evening At Orpheum Gala

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Police Give Overview On Drone Use

ORLEANS – Imagine you’re going about your business when you see a drone flying overhead. It stops for about 30 seconds, then flies away. What do...

Chatham’s longtime Health Agent Judith Giorgio is retiring July 17 after 22 years on the job. TIM WOOD PHOTO

Chatham’s Longtime Health Agent Retires After 22 Years

CHATHAM – When she became the town’s health agent in 2004, Judith Giorgio had extensive experience in the field, but the changes in the job in the...

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...

Lilly Short and Dylan Meincke are among the staff that will be staying on at Stage Harbor Marina under its new ownership. TIM WOOD PHOTO

Stage Harbor Marine Sold; New Owners Have Local Ties

CHATHAM – Stage Harbor Marine, a landmark along the Mitchell River waterfront for more than 50 years, has been sold to a group of investors with...

Orleans manager Kelly Nicholson looks on as second baseman Adam Magpoc stands in the batter’s box against Yarmouth-Dennis last Saturday. Nicholson was Magpoc’s math teacher at Loyola High School in Los Angeles. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTOS

Math Teacher, Student Reunite As Manager, Player For Orleans Firebirds

ORLEANS – Walking around the halls of Loyola High School in Los Angeles, Adam Magpoc always knew his algebra teacher, Kelly Nicholson, was a...

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...

Birds may pant to cool themselves while rabbits stretch out on cool grass in the shade. MARY RICHMOND PHOTO

Nature Connection: Staying Cool

Baby, it’s hot out there. This isn’t exactly a shock since it is July, one of our hottest months of the year, but somehow it always manages to take...

Orpheum Benefit Honors Woman Lost In Winter Storm: Author Sebastian...

Every summer since 1860, members of Jada Samitt’s family have gathered in a house in Rockport that has been handed down through the...

Electrician’s Mate Second Class Seth Crenshaw (right) gets a hand from Senior Chief Ross Comstock, toting away one of Chatham Light’s two outdated drum lanterns. ALAN POLLOCK PHOTO

A New Beacon For An Old Lighthouse

CHATHAM – Keeping guard over the harbor since 1877, Chatham Light has just been equipped with a modern LED beacon, replacing inefficient World War...

This stone circle, or henge, is just off Brewster’s John Wing Trail and was designed and installed in 1997 by town resident and landscape and environmental architect Jeff Thibodeau, with permission from the town and volunteer help. Thibodeau hopes visitors (who should check tidal charts before walking the boardwalk to the island) find visiting the stone circle a contemplative experience. ANDY KIRKALDY PHOTO

Stone Circle Graces Brewster Trail

BREWSTER – Brewster’s town-owned John Wing Trail, which runs from Route 6A to Cape Cod Bay across Wing Island, offers in one place much of what can...

Roz Coleman, pictured outside the Chatham Marconi Maritime Center that she helped create. FILE PHOTO

Roz Coleman Remembered As Compassionate Problem Solver

CHATHAM – Blessed with a creative mind, the instinct to lead, and tenderhearted compassion, Dr. Roslyn “Roz” Coleman is being remembered for her...

Crowds at the Chatham July 4 parade were thick in some spots, like at the Eldredge Public Library. Rescue crews used a drone to locate victims of the day’s heat near the Red Nun. TIM WOOD PHOTO

FD Uses Drone To Locate Heat Victims During Parade

CHATHAM – An “eye in the sky” helped rescue crews locate victims of heat exhaustion during Saturday’s Independence Day parade. Firefighters Peter...

The zoning board of appeals in Orleans will continue its review of the mixed housing project planned for the site of the former Governor Prence Inn on July 27. FILE PHOTO

ZBA Satisfied With Prence Design Modifications

ORLEANS – The zoning board of appeals appears to be on board with the modified design of the proposed Governor Prence Inn redevelopment brought...

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