Split Board Votes To Pursue Design CHATHAM — On a 3-2 vote of the select board, the town will move ahead with a scaled-down redesign of the intersection at Crowell Road, Route 28 and Queen Anne Road. Despite earlier concern voiced about the cost of the project, a majority of the board felt that the intersection poses safety and accessibility problems that can’t be ignored. The town has been wrestling wi...

This is the first in a series of stories on the ongoing housing crisis. After graduating from Chatham High School in 2010, Christina Caron knew she wanted to stay on Cape. She'd loved her high school years and made lifelong friends, but as the realities of life began to settle in for Caron and her future husband Charles, also a CHS grad, she watched a familiar scenario play out. “All of our friends moved ...

CHATHAM – For the second year in a row, the town's premier summer event, the Independence Day parade, has been cancelled. Instead, the town's Independence Day parade committee will focus on assembling a virtual parade, just as it did last summer. Both the committee and the board of health recommended that the parade be called off, and on Tuesday the select board concurred, voting unanimously to cancel the l...

The Monomoy Regional School District administrator's recommendation to create upper and lower elementary schools at Chatham and Harwich elementary schools does not sit well with many of the district's parents, judging from feedback at a community forum held by the school committee last week. “I don't think this will be good for either our children or our community,” said Meara Baldwin, a Chatham resident with ...

An upper and lower elementary school model makes the most sense for the Monomoy Regional School District, administrators told the school committee last week. Making Harwich Elementary School a pre-K to grade 2 school and grouping grades 3 and 4 in Chatham Elementary School would provide the best education for students and bring grade-level teachers together for better collaboration and curricular consistency, ...

Advanced bookings of hotels and vacation homes point to a busier-than-usual summer, travel and chamber of commerce officials say. With many people eager to travel but wary of flying, destinations like the Cape, within driving distance of tens of millions of people, are attractive getaways. Many local businesses worry that they won't have the staff to deal with the influx of visitors. That concern is especially...

CHATHAM – Chatham Elementary School Principal Robin Millen will be leaving her post at the end of the school year to become the director of curriculum assessment and student learning for the Nauset Regional School District. “It's my passion, truly,” Millen said of curriculum development. She was not actively looking for a new position but when the Nauset job came up, “I couldn't pass it up,” she said. She star...

CHATHAM — While there’s clear evidence that progress is being made in the fight against COVID-19, there is still no feasible way to hold the town’s Independence Day parade while ensuring that crowd capacity limits are maintained. That’s the view of both the board of health and the Independence Day parade committee, which issued their opinions in the last week. The health board also voted to reaffirm that, de...

The benefits of reading to toddlers and pre-schoolers are well documented. It helps with language development, better prepares them for school, and can actually improve intelligence. But not everyone has access to books to read aloud to their kids or help them begin to learn how to read. Putting a new, age appropriate book into the hands of every family in the Monomoy school district is the goal of the “My Fav...

CHATHAM – Completion of the West Chatham Roadway Project may be less than two months away. Officials anticipate final paving of the 1,700-foot Route 28 corridor between Barn Hill Road and George Ryder Road will begin the week of May 17, if the weather cooperates, and final traffic markings, landscaping and cleanup could be done by the middle of June. Construction on the $4 million project, in the planning s...

CHATHAM – A battle of the donuts could be looming, with a proposal for a Honey Dew Donuts outlet just one mile down the road from Dunkin Donuts. Traci and Tony Gionfriddo, who own and operate Honey Dew stores in Hyannis and Dennis Port, are proposing to open a third store in the former New England Pizza building at 1200 Main St. The proposal is scheduled to have its first regulatory review by the historic b...

CHATHAM – Danielle Tolley isn't worried that Chatham Elementary School will close. She's more interested in the way the conversation around the school's future developed, how it snowballed from concern over low enrollment to demands that the town increase its share of the Monomoy Regional School District budget. “It feels like something is on fire, when it clearly isn't,” she said. It's important to get to ...