EAST HARWICH – T h e Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School will hold its annual fundraising auction at the Wequassett Resort and Golf Club on Saturday, April 8 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. The event, l ive music, appetizers, a cash bar and games and door prizes is returning after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Spokesperson Kate Ryan said she is very excited about the...

  by William F. Galvin HARWICH – The Royal Apartments building at the corner of Bank and Parallel streets will be getting an exterior facelift. The historic district and historical commission last week approved the changes to the building, which is located in the Harwich Center Historic District. The property, which had previously housed The Royal at Harwich Village senior living facility, was purchased ...

by William F. Galvin HARWICH – The cost of violating restrictions during periods of public water supply emergencies could be  increasing, but a proposal to include fines for those on private wells has been sidelined.  Selectmen Monday approved the inclusion of an article in the annual town meeting warrant that will increase fines for violations of water emergency rules from $50 to $100 for the first offe...

Neighbors Voice Concerns Over Netflix Production CHATHAM – The biggest film production in town since “The Finest Hours” is set to begin rolling on April 3. Filming of the six-episode Netflix series “The Perfect Couple,” based on the novel by Elin Hildebrand, will continue through the second to the last week of June, with the final cleanup of locations beginning July 3, according to a filming permit approved...

CHATHAM — A package of water conservation regulations — including one that would extend the rules to properties that use private wells — won’t be included on the upcoming annual town meeting warrant. The select board is open to discussing bylaw amendments, but said they were received too late to allow a full public vetting before town meeting. On March 13, the water and sewer advisory committee voted to recomm...

CHATHAM — Thanks to a mysterious underwater obstruction and other challenges, the replacement of the bulkhead at the south jog of the fish pier is now slightly behind schedule. Town officials are still hopeful that the work will be done before commercial fishing picks up in earnest later this spring. “We were never able to determine what the obstruction was, or to remove it,” Health and Natural Resources Direc...

Buying Property For Town Pool Not Feasible, Officials Say CHATHAM — At last year’s town meeting, petitioners asked town officials to take a close look at purchasing the former Chatham Health and Swim Club for use as a town swimming pool. Architects recently completed their evaluation and concluded that it would take a large investment to buy the property and make the building suitable for municipal use. The se...

CHATHAM – It's been three and a half years since the Chatham 365 Task Force delivered its final recommendations to the select board. A review of the recommendations shows that while quite a few have been implemented, many others remain in the discussion stage or unaddressed. The progress that's been made, however, has not been insubstantial. Town meeting has been moved to Saturday, the immediate future of the ...

Navigate through the halls at Monomoy Regional High School and you’ll find a group of kids who are eager and excited to give back to their local communities. Working in conjunction with Stop and Shop, members of Monomoy’s SHORE post-graduate life skills special needs class maintain a food pantry offered to families in the Monomoy School District. The pantry, which operates weekly, offers a variety of free non-...

HARWICH – "It was a good day, a really good day," Deputy Police Chief Kevin Considine said of Saturday's Polar Plunge held at Red River Beach to raise funds for the Special Olympics. The event is expected to raise more than $45,000, he said, topping the $40,000 goal set for this year's plunge, put on by the Harwich Police Department. In the two years the annual event has been held, the department has raised mo...

HARWICH — Property owners adjacent to the Wequassett Resort and Golf Club are opposing a plan to redevelop three cottages along Round Cove. They say they are concerned about the financial impact to their property and the loss of personal enjoyment they have had for more than 30 years. "The impacts of this proposal on the Shelton family are really dramatic," said attorney Bill Riley, representing abutters Stanl...

HARWICH – The Harwich Fund of The Cape Cod Foundation has awarded $13,250 in grants to eight nonprofit organizations serving the community. The grants will help provide new, warm outerwear and sneakers for local children; support unique classroom field trips; alternative programs for at-risk youth; innovative cultural experiences; and services to increase housing stability among Harwich residents in need, acco...

by William F. Galvin HARWICH – “It was a good day, a really good day,” Deputy Police Chief Kevin Considine said of Saturday’s Polar Plunge held at Red River Beach to raise funds for the Special Olympics. The event is expected to raise more than $45,000, he said, topping the $40,000 goal set for this year’s plunge, put on by the Harwich Police Department. In the two years the annual event has been held, the dep...

Long before she was representing Team USA, Sara Roderick was a standout athlete at Nauset Regional High School. The Truro native was a star playing soccer, basketball and softball, though it was her success competing for the Warriors’ track and field team which led her to the University of Vermont, where she continued her athletic career on the track. It was at UVM that Roderick discovered skeleton, a winter s...

Brendan Pursel is no stranger to Monomoy lacrosse. Since 2018, he’s helped lead the Sharks’ boys program as an assistant in addition to leading the boys junior varsity program the past couple seasons. Now Pursel is gearing up for a new challenge: taking over the girls program as its varsity head coach. “This is my first time coaching girls and being a head coach,” said Pursel, an East Greenbush, N.Y. native...

CHATHAM – For the past few months, the fun that fills the Monomoy Middle School gymnasium during the school week has spilled into Saturdays. Due to construction on the gym at the old Harwich Cultural Center, now known as 204 Sisson, the Harwich Police Soccer Club’s indoor futsal program shifted to the middle school for this winter’s season, the 10 th  since the program began in 2012. “We had to pivot the we...