Chatham Elementary School In Spanish: Kindergarten and first grade students have been learning parts of the face with our friends at Monsters Inc. Second graders have been learning the days of the week with dialog and many songs. Third and fourth graders learned months in Spanish while doing the Macarena and fourth graders went a little further to say their birthdays in Spanish. Last week students took a qui...

Harwich Elementary School One hundred dictionaries were donated to third grade students from the Orleans-Eastham Lodge of Elks #2572. Every year third graders are gifted a dictionary from the Lodge. They have done this for many years, supporting students here as well as in many other schools on the Cape. Harwich Elementary School provides an integrated preschool program that is designed to meet the req...

The Academy of Performing Arts’ third reprisal of “Driving Miss Daisy” is a heartwarming period drama, rich with layers about discrimination, aging, the American South, and most of all friendship. American playwright Alfred Uhry immortalized his strong-willed grandmother, Lena Fox, in the role of Miss Daisy. The play won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was turned into a 1989 film, starring an all-star ca...

The holidays are over, the sounds of First Night have faded and it’s early January in Chatham. While some may think of heading south, several dozen members of the Friends of Monomoy Theatre are heading northeast to London. For 30 years the group has sponsored a biennial London theater trip in January, and with the exchange rate suddenly very favorable, there’s another great reason to go this year. In spite of ...

CHATHAM – For nearly 90 years, a small enclave on the shores of Mill Pond has seen the genesis of some of the most beautiful wooden boats built on Cape Cod. The tradition began with legendary naval architect F. Spaulding Dunbar and was carried on for the past 20 years by the Pease Brothers Boat Works and Marine Railway. As of Dec. 30, the tiller was passed to Woody Metzger and Jim Donovan, who have rechristene...

HARWICH – Hells Angels and thousands of hippies gathered in May 1972 at the Province Lands Visitor Center in the Cape Cod National Seashore for a raucous one-day rock concert. “It was a mistake,” said Bill Burke of Harwich, the National Seashore’s historian and cultural resource program manager. What was billed as a small concert turned into a melee during the course of which a part of the visitor center’s...

Harwich Elementary School   MAP Tests Online Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) will be administered in up to three classrooms at a time with portable laptops. Every student in kindergarten through grade four will taking the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) online winter assessment during January and early February. Thank you to the community for supporting the technology integration initiatives ...

More than a foot of snow – 14.5 inches was reported in East Harwich and South Chatham – fell in the area during Saturday's blizzard, leaving slick roads and canceled events in its wake. The storm also created a winter wonderland of sparkling landscapes and perfect surfaces for sledding, which kids and adults alike took advantage of at their sledding hills of choice throughout the area. Rain and milder temperature...

Chatham Elementary School Over the past two weeks, Mrs. Cleary's class conducted short research projects where students researched a winter holiday or celebration in another country. Students then gathered their research and organized it to write a five-paragraph expository essay. They also prepared a visual aid for their project that could have been a poster, tri-fold or PowerPoint presentation. We have inv...

When it opened more than a century ago, the Chatham Orpheum Theater, like most movie houses of the day, operated like a repertoire house – films were screened for a day or two before being replaced by new releases. Lengthy runs were rare. The Chatham theater, also like many other small hometown cinemas of the day, also doubled as a live venue for revues and staged plays, performed by traveling companies or loc...

It was a struggle, but with support from dozens of Cape Cod Chronicle readers – and a remarkable last-minute donation from an anonymous contributor – the 2016 “Helping Neighbors” campaign to benefit the Family Pantry met its fundraising goal. With the tally still about $4,000 short, the secret donor pledged the funds necessary to bring the campaign to its $60,000 target. The contributor, identified only as a N...

CHATHAM — In what promises to be a memorable evening, the Chatham Orpheum Theater will hold a special screening of the new feature film “Patriots Day” on Jan. 13 as part of a fundraiser for the Arrendondo Family Foundation. The evening features a reception and post-show question and answer session with authors Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge. The two wrote the bestselling book “Boston Strong,” the inspiration f...