ORLEANS – With funding secured through town meeting earlier this month, a task force will work to further plans for a new Snow Library. The Snow Library Feasibility Study Task Force is charged with looking at options for building a new library at the site of the existing building near the corner of Main Street and Route 28, as well as alternative sites for a new facility. The select board unanimously approved ...

Local residents will gather on Monday, May 29 for Memorial Day ceremonies honoring those who gave their lives for the country. Chatham Sponsored by the public ceremonies committee, the town’s Memorial Day ceremony begins at 10 a.m. at the World War I memorial at the community center. Guest speaker will be Chatham Coast Guard Commander Senior Chief Ross Comstock. Participants will include members of the se...

     On June 1, singer and guitarist Liz Simmons of the award-winning folk/roots band Low Lily will join forces with cellist Casey Murray of the quartet Corner House for a night of folk and roots music in Orleans. During this Brick Hill House Concert performance, Simmons will share music from her solo album “Poets.”      Born in San Francisco to itinerant musician parents, Simmons s...

     Nauset Regional High School students are getting the chance to perform on one of the area’s most beloved stages, while their drama teacher experiences a homecoming, as the school’s production of “The Drowsy Chaperone” takes the Cape Rep Theatre stage through May 27.      Cape Rep Theatre is hosting Nauset High School’s spring musical while their campus is under construction. The venue is a familiar one fo...

CHATHAM – The building at 193 Main St. has seen its share of controversy in recent years. After owners Tina and Hilary Foulkes failed to get permission from the town to move the building back from the street, the iconic structure was painted lime green in 2010. Although it is located in the Old Village National Register Historic District and falls under the jurisdiction of both the town’s historical commission...

CHATHAM – Having received encouraging test results from shellfish harvested there last week, town and state officials lifted the red tide shellfish ban for Chatham Harbor on Friday. The closure remains in effect for Pleasant Bay and its connected waterways, including Bassing Harbor, Crow’s Pond, Ryder’s Cove and Muddy Creek. The reopening is key because Chatham Harbor has a commercially important set of mussel...

CHATHAM – They may not be able to promise faster action replacing double poles, but representatives of Verizon, Eversource and other utilities are pledging better communication with the town and continued progress on long-term improvements. The select board invited utility representatives to its May 16 meeting to discuss concerns about dangerous, deteriorated utility poles around town. During a recent strong r...

CHATHAM – Saying they remain convinced that 1610 Main St. is the best possible spot for a new council on aging facility despite the proposal’s failure by just one vote at the May 16 annual town meeting, the select board Tuesday called a special town meeting in September to revisit the vote. For supporters of the $10.6 million project, it’s another chance to win the two-thirds majority needed to authorize const...

SOUTH CHATHAM – Where there’s smoke, there’s not always fire. In the case of a house on Wadsworth Road, the smoke that puffed through windows, doors and a hole in the roof this week and last signaled a valuable training opportunity for firefighters. The house at 10 Wadsworth Rd. is set to be demolished soon, and developer Polhemus Savery DaSilva agreed to allow the Chatham Fire Department to use the building f...

Local residents will gather on Monday, May 29 for Memorial Day ceremonies honoring those who gave their lives for the country. Chatham Sponsored by the public ceremonies committee, the town’s Memorial Day ceremony begins at 10 a.m. at the World War I memorial at the community center. Guest speaker will be Chatham Coast Guard Commander Senior Chief Ross Comstock. Participants will include members of the sele...

Public monuments tell stories. Some are tales of glory, others elegies to the ultimate sacrifice — “the last full measure of devotion,” in the eloquent words of Abraham Lincoln. In passing, Chatham’s Soldiers’ Monument in Sears Park — like so many memorials in America’s town squares — is an honor roll of the dead. It conveys the sadly all too familiar narrative of local sons lost on alien fields in distant war...

HARWICH – The partnership between government and land trusts is essential for the protection of sensitive natural resources. The Harwich Conservation Trust and the Barnstable Land Trust came together May 19 to celebrate that relationship. Representatives from conservation trusts on the Mid and Lower Cape gathered at the Robert F. Smith Cold Brook Preserve along Bank Street to recognize the importance of their...

HARWICH – Affordable housing trust member Judith Underwood tendered her resignation on Friday, four days after she learned the select board had voted to replace her when her term expires on June 30. Underwood served on the trust since 2018. "It has come to my attention by citizens of Harwich, not by the (board of selectmen) that I am to be put off the trust come July 1," Underwood wrote in her resignatio...

HARWICH – The message from the select board Monday night was "find the money" to fix the "hope and go" intersection where Chatham Road meets Route 39, just east of Harwich Center. "Waiting for the next accident is not plausible," said Select Board Chair Michael MacAskill. "Find the money." Traffic safety committee member Linda Cebula said her committee has been talking about the need to address the inters...

HARWICH – Nauset track and field coach Moira Nobili laid out the significance of Monday’s Cape and Islands League outdoors track and field league championships to her teams in simple terms. “I told them, ‘It’s the meet of champions, act like champions,’” Nobili said of her message. The Nauset athletes took their coach’s advice to heart. The Warriors left the league meet held at Monomoy with plenty of medals...

HARWICH – A who’s who of many of Cape Cod’s top girls high school golfers met Monday at Cranberry Valley Golf Course to take part in the Cape and Islands League’s individual championship, which served as a final tune-up before the South sectionals tournament is held Tuesday at Marshfield Country Club. Among those in attendance were a group of five Monomoy girls and three more from Nauset, which held off the Sh...