Single-family Home Or Dorm? Editor: I was surprised to read about the Chatham Zoning Board of Appeals decision to allow Chatham Bars Inn to convert the 20 Chatham Bars Ave. property into a quasi dorm under the disguise of a “single family dwelling.” I believe the voters and taxpayers in Chatham have always believed that the definition of a “single family dwelling” was just that, a single family dwelling. Pe...

Adrianna is a 19-year-old college student from Romania whom I met while she was working as a clerk/bagger at a Harwich grocery store. She received permission from the U.S. State Department to visit the United States from early June through late September under its J-1 Visa Exchange Visitor Program under the summer work travel program category, one of 15 provisions that range from professors/research scholars to a...

The holiday we observe this week celebrates ideals enshrined in a document signed 242 years ago which continue to guide our government and society. These ideals are ingrained in the soul of America, and despite trying times, they remain our guiding principle. It may seem that the self-evident truths espoused in the Declaration of Independence – that “all men are created equal” and are endowed with “certain una...

Sally C. Powles               Sally C. Powles, 90, of Schenectady, N.Y. passed away on May 17, 2018.  A memorial service will be held on Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 11:00 AM at the Harwich United Methodist Church, 1 Church Street, Harwich, MA 02645. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Sally’s memory to Cape Cod Veterans, Inc., as our veterans were always near and dear to her heart.   ...

CHATHAM - Chatham resident Ryann McIntire used to be sure she understood all there was to know about Lyme disease. "I thought you got a bite from a tick, you got a rash then took meds and it was over." That was until her own personal battle with Lyme began and she started to realize the elusive nature of this pernicious disease. Her first step was trying to pin down what was wrong with her. McIntire grew up in...

ORLEANS — As you buzz by on your way to Nauset Beach, you've probably admired the historic homes, churches and cemetery along leafy, winding Main Street from Route 28 to Beach Road. There's another way to experience the stretch: walks with historian Bonnie Snow of the Orleans Historical Society. In addition to leading tours of Orleans Cemetery on July 27, Aug. 31, Sept. 28, and Oct. 26, Snow will take walker...

ORLEANS – Hurricane season has arrived, and with it concerns about readiness to ride out high winds, flooding, and extended power outages. To make sure townspeople can make informed decisions on how to respond when big storms threaten, the senior center is hosting an Emergency Preparedness Forum July 10 at 2 p.m. Last week, the event's planners – including representatives of the senior center and police, fir...

Wallis (Bud) Stuart         Wallis (Bud) Stuart of Punta Gorda, Fla. and previously Captains Walk North Chatham, passed away peacefully on June 6th, surrounded by his loving family.       Bud grew up in Hingham. He served in the USN during the Korean War, graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, R.I. and a Master’s Degree from Syracuse University in 1955.Bud moved to Chatham in 1970 an...

John K. Coleman Sr.                 John K. Coleman Sr., 91, former resident of Chatham, died on June 19, 2018 at Liberty Commons in N. Chatham after a long illness.                  Preceded in death by wife of 50 years Helene Fassbender Coleman who passed in 1998. Mr. Coleman is survived by his five children Patricia, John, Chris, Richard and Helena, his five grandchildren, his brother Joe and numerous ni...

CHATHAM – The St. Martin's Masonic Lodge, which has sold balloons at the July 4 parade and Friday night Chatham band concerts for the past seven years, won't be continuing balloon sales this summer. The decision comes after town meeting voted in May to ban the sale of balloons inflated with lighter-than-air gas. Even though the ban does not go into effect until Sept. 15, the Lodge won't be selling balloons at ...

CHATHAM – Downtown Chatham will come alive each week with music, activities and special events in a new festival debuting Monday, July 2. “Mondays on Main” will feature live bands performing outdoors at various locations along the downtown business district from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Each of the eight Monday nights through Aug. 20 will feature a different theme, and businesses are being encouraged to hold special eve...

Cars are at a standstill on Route 28 from the traffic light at Crowell Road all the way to West Chatham. No parking spaces are available on Main Street. Oversized tour buses hog the narrow roads. Day-trippers have no manners. These are some of the complaints about tourist-season Chatham heard Saturday during a forum called “Chatham in the 21 st Century: How Does the Town Cope with the ‘Unintended Con...

CHATHAM – The all-you-can-eat July 4 Pancake Festival, run for 50 years by the Kiwanis Club of Central Cape Cod, ended in 2014. With its membership dwindling, the club no longer had the numbers to pull off the event; it had to bring in folks from other Kiwanis Clubs to help in that final griddle marathon. But next Wednesday, the holiday Pancake Festival will be back again, this time sponsored by the Rotary Clu...

As many of us start the grocery shopping lists for Fourth of July cookouts, lots of other local families are left wondering where they’ll find their next meal. It’s a harsh reality that a large number of people on the Lower Cape – even in affluent neighborhoods in Chatham, Orleans and Harwich – suffer from “food insecurity,” or not knowing where their next meal will come from. But in the summertime, when secon...

CHATHAM – More than 100 floats, bands and groups of marchers are expected to fill Main Street during the town's Independence Day parade next Wednesday. The parade begins at 9:30 a.m. on July 4 at the corner of Main Street and Shore Road and concludes at Tip Cart Drive. Thousands of spectators are expected to line the parade route to cheer on entries based on this year's parade theme, “Hooked On Chatham.” “W...

CHATHAM — Residents who use town water to keep their lawns green will soon be giving up more green to do so. Selectmen, acting as water and sewer commissioners, voted Monday to adopt new controls on irrigation systems connected to the town water system, outlawing new connections in 2021 and requiring already-connected systems to be placed on separate water meters. Town officials say the demand that irriga...