Do you ever wonder how easy, safe or pleasurable it might be to live in the mid-Cape area as you get older? Do you have a friend or relative who is over 60? Wise Living Retirement Reinvented is hosting its first-ever Aging Well Expo on Wednesday, April 26 in South Yarmouth, and you might find some answers there for yourself or for a loved one. The expo offers “a little something for everybody,” organ...

What if you could make good friends while at the same time doing philanthropy work that would benefit the entire Cape Cod community? Actually, you can. By joining one of two local Cape Cod Hospital Auxiliaries you can have fun while raising money for the hospital’s new cancer services. When Robin Berlanti moved to Orleans from her longtime home in upstate New York, one of her neighbors recommended that she ...

The self-care book “Tiny Seeds: Sowing the Seeds for the Growth of Health, Wealth, and Happiness” (Fulton Books, 2022) offers a new twist on typical self-care advice — namely, you need to make sure your finances are in order. First-time author Sherri Mahoney, who has worked since 1987 in her own accounting practice called Taxing Matters, has heard a lot of stories from clients in 36 years. She is no stranger t...

     “ Everybody” will be centerstage at Cape Rep Theatre on Friday and Saturday, March 10 and 11 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, March 12 at 2 p.m. as Cape Rep’s Bold Company, BoldCo for short, takes on “Everybody.”      This modern riff on the 15th century morality play “Everyman” offers a playful and colloquial examination of the human condition in the face of mortality as we follow Everybody’s journey down a road towa...

     Artist Willem de Kooning once said that watercolor is the first and last thing an artist does.      For 87-year-old artist Larry Folding, watercolor is the first, the last and everything in between, as it is the medium to which he has dedicated his artistic life for nearly six decades. Folding’s painting “Bridges” was recently awarded the Gold Award at the New England Watercolor Society Signature Members’ ...

Gail Tilton has an affectionate nickname for the students in her Artful Living class. She calls them her Wellness Warriors. If the nickname sounds heroic, there’s good reason. Let’s face it. Finding ways to stay healthy, active and engaged throughout the winter season can be challenging, and the pandemic didn’t make things any easier. Exploring new methods of keeping fit and learning new things among friends is...

ORLEANS – On Monday morning, the sounds of The Specials' "Ghost Town" wafted through the air outside Las Chidas. Maybe that's a coincidence, but it's an apt description of the sleepy stretch of Route 6A near Town Cove, especially during the quiet winter months. But one step into Meredith Gallant's new artisan taco joint and it's clear the Harwich resident is interested in offering patrons more than just a good...

At the age of 68, many people begin to think about retiring, taking it a bit easy, maybe even slowing down after a long career.  Not Charlie Abate.  At age 68, 24 years ago, Abate began a new career as one of the most popular and appreciated fitness instructors on Cape Cod, an endeavor from which, at the age of 92, he has now chosen to take a well-deserved rest. It was a position he accepted out of a desire...

It's not always easy to find the resources you need on the Lower and Outer Cape. While there are plenty of agencies and organizations available to help with health, food, family support and other needs, they aren't necessarily easy to track down. What follows is a compilation of those resources, grouped into handy categories that can help locate the right help at the right time. Health The Samaritans o...

Primabee Founder Lives Out Company’s Mission Of Wellness CHATHAM – For many people on the Cape, the jury is still out on cannabis-based products. Paul Borde gets it. “ I was that guy,” he said. He was, that is, until a golf injury in 2018 led him to Cannabidiol, more commonly known as CBD. The pain was excruciating, he recalled, and Tylenol, Advil and other pain relieving medicines weren’t working. ...

        Common wisdom tells us that retirement is not the end of the road, but a curve.         If that’s true, the road has just gotten a lot more curvy for Bob and Nancy Gardner of Harwich, as Nancy has just retired from her 26-year career at Cape Cod 5, following Bob’s 2020 retirement after 50 years at Pate’s Restaurant in Chatham.         A native Chathamite, Nancy said that her new state of retirement, whi...