HARWICH — Like the gusty winds that mussed hairdos, sent mortarboards flying and caused the tent to creek at Sunday’s commencement, the last few years have been a bit turbulent for the Monomoy Regional High School Class of 2018. But their need to persevere, their drive to achieve, and their strong sense of community saw them safely to graduation and will help them as they enter young adulthood. ...

HARWICH PORT — While village businesses, the chamber of commerce and town officials are looking for more parking, steps were taken last week to limit parking in the name of public safety. Police Department Lt. Kevin Considine was before selectmen last Tuesday seeking approval for no parking zones in the village. The restricted parking areas being sought were along Cross Street and at the rear access and egress...

PLEASANT LAKE -- “There’s so much more to come,” Cape Cod Regional Technical High School salutatorian Madison Wallace said Saturday afternoon during the graduation ceremony. “We have finally made it.” Wallace, who studied in the electrical program at the Pleasant Lake school, said she had planned to attend the technical school since she was a child. At the school she met “some of the kindest, most accepting pe...

HARWICH – The Monomoy girls varsity lacrosse team put everything they had into their first-ever post-season game Tuesday, playing with passion, but in spite of a solid effort the Sharks fell to the Nantucket Whalers 14-8 in the first round of the MIAA Div. 2 South tournament. Abby Wallace had a hat trick in the outing, while Jess Currie, Alyssa Lyons, Leah Nash, Kelsey Olson, and Emma Mawn each had single goal...

The countdown clock on the Cape Cod Baseball League's website has reached the single digits and continues ticking away toward one of the most eagerly anticipated days of the year: Opening Day for all CCBL teams. Each of the league's 10 teams, including Chatham, Harwich, and Orleans, spent the off-season prepping fields and filling up rosters, many with new players, but there will be a handful of familiar faces...

CHATHAM — Though we might still like to complain about them, modern weather forecasts are undeniably better than they were even a few years ago, thanks in large part to sophisticated computer modeling. But those models are only as good as the data that’s fed into them, and that’s where Chatham’s Upper Air Station comes in. Twice a day, in all kinds of weather, Tim Morrissette and two colleagues launch radios...

As summer begins and visitors fill our sunny beaches and streets, what could be better than a cool evening’s entertainment at one of Cape Cod’s treasure-trove of fine theaters? Get out your calendar, because 2018 is sure to tempt you with more than one night of theatrical merriment. Whether at the Academy Playhouse in Orleans, Cape Cod Theatre Company: Home of Harwich Junior Theatre, Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Ca...

Three Young People Grow Up In Hard-hitting 'This Is Our Youth The Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater opens its 34th season with the high-energy “This Is Our Youth”— a play set in the '80s, the same time the theater got its start. First performed in 1996, playwright Kenneth Lonergan’s coming-of-age drama showcases three young adults adrift in New York City’s materialistic and cocaine-snorting Reagan years. W...

We are about to enter that time of year when the various and diverse segments of Harwich’s society attempt to live together in relative harmony. Full-time residents, second homeowners, returning snowbirds, business owners, employees, and customers, J-1 Visa holders, college sports players, vacationers and tourists; over the next three-four months all of these will interact in ways that hopefully will prove mutual...

If you're planning on going out on the waters of Chatham Harbor, Pleasant Bay, Nantucket Sound or Stage Harbor in the coming weeks, do yourself a favor. Attend Saturday's harbor update session sponsored by the Monomoy Yacht Club. This winter was not kind to east-facing beaches, the outer beaches and the above-mentioned waterways. Four nor'easters ripped sand from the shores, rearranged inlets and shuffled shoa...

Rosanne Can Tune Up Editor: Now that ABC cancelled her show due to a deplorable racist Tweet, Rosanne Barr will have plenty of time to perfect her rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. Remember when she screeched out the National Anthem at a Padre's game back in July 1990? Mike Rice South Wellfleet-based   Art And Film Happily Converge Editor: I wanted to take this opportunity to thank...

Leuella E. "Penny" Ray               RAY, E. Leuella, "Penny" 98, of Sarasota, Fla. /So. Chatham passed away peacefully surrounded by love ones February 16, 2018.             Born April 20, 1919 in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada. Penny is predeceased by her husband, Herbert L. Ray, Jr.; her parents, Saguna & Frank White; her brother, Ensley White; & her daughter, Salli Ray Govatsos. Survived by ...

John (“Jack”) Cogswell               COGSWELL, John (“Jack”) of Needham, formerly of Chatham, June 1, 2018.  Beloved husband for 59 years of Patricia A. “Pat” (Morrissey) Cogswell. Jack is survived by his daughters Julie A. Stone of Amesbury, Catherine J. Sanders and her husband Timothy P. Sanders of Uxbridge as well as his three grandsons, Jacob A. Stone, Isaac J. Stone and Kiernan J. Sanders.          ...

Frederick Andrew Szmit             SPOFFORD, N.H. – Frederick Andrew Szmit, 80, of South Shore Road in Spofford, N.H., passed away suddenly on May 30, 2018. He was the husband of 58 years of Frances S. Szmit (Slavin).             Mr. Szmit was born May 26, 1938 in Lowell, to Andrew and Jane Szmit (Dzikiewicz) where he graduated from Lowell High School, later graduating from Lowell Technological Institute wi...

John W. Mastalerz                 John W. Mastalerz, 92, passed away at his home in Chandler Arizona on June 1, 2018, surrounded by his loved ones. John was born in Three Rivers in 1926 to the late Sophie Koziel Mastalerz and John E. Mastalerz.                 He graduated from Palmer High School in 1944. He obtained his B.S. at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 1948, a Master’s degree from Purdue ...

You know you need more exercise to boost your energy, but you’re too tired to make dinner, much less go to the gym. It’s a vicious cycle, and one way to break it is, well, cycling. But with work and a busy schedule, who has time to go for a leisurely bike ride? Though it’s certainly not for everyone, cycling to work might be a good way to get regular exercise without consuming precious weekend time. The key, e...