Neighbors Voice Concerns Over Netflix Production CHATHAM – The biggest film production in town since “The Finest Hours” is set to begin rolling on April 3. Filming of the six-episode Netflix series “The Perfect Couple,” based on the novel by Elin Hildebrand, will continue through the second to the last week of June, with the final cleanup of locations beginning July 3, according to a filming permit approved...

CHATHAM — A package of water conservation regulations — including one that would extend the rules to properties that use private wells — won’t be included on the upcoming annual town meeting warrant. The select board is open to discussing bylaw amendments, but said they were received too late to allow a full public vetting before town meeting. On March 13, the water and sewer advisory committee voted to recomm...

CHATHAM — Thanks to a mysterious underwater obstruction and other challenges, the replacement of the bulkhead at the south jog of the fish pier is now slightly behind schedule. Town officials are still hopeful that the work will be done before commercial fishing picks up in earnest later this spring. “We were never able to determine what the obstruction was, or to remove it,” Health and Natural Resources Direc...

Buying Property For Town Pool Not Feasible, Officials Say CHATHAM — At last year’s town meeting, petitioners asked town officials to take a close look at purchasing the former Chatham Health and Swim Club for use as a town swimming pool. Architects recently completed their evaluation and concluded that it would take a large investment to buy the property and make the building suitable for municipal use. The se...

CHATHAM – It's been three and a half years since the Chatham 365 Task Force delivered its final recommendations to the select board. A review of the recommendations shows that while quite a few have been implemented, many others remain in the discussion stage or unaddressed. The progress that's been made, however, has not been insubstantial. Town meeting has been moved to Saturday, the immediate future of the ...

'Perfect Couple' To Begin Filming In April CHATHAM – Chatham will stand in for Nantucket in a six-episode Netflix series based on Elin Hilderbrand's novel “The Perfect Couple.” Filming is tentatively scheduled to begin in mid April and will be completed by the end of June in various locations around town. Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman is reportedly set to star in the series, although casting has not ye...

CHATHAM — On Monday, Rob Faley started work as Chatham’s new DPW director. He was greeted by a flurry of meetings, lots of unfamiliar faces, an office that’s in the midst of being renovated, and an approaching storm expected to bring an inch or two of snow. As first days go, it actually wasn’t that bad, Faley said. After all, the same storm would likely bring more than a foot of snow to Vermont, his previous h...

Town To Seek Its Own Surfboat After Station Downgrading CHATHAM — Saying the Coast Guard has abdicated its search and rescue responsibilities, town officials are taking steps to ensure the safety of commercial and recreational mariners by asking voters to appropriate money to purchase a surf-capable vessel to be operated by the harbormaster department. “It is a function of the U.S. Coast Guard to do this...

CHATHAM — Even though the cost estimate has gone up more than $2.2 million in two years, building a new senior center on donated land in West Chatham is the last real chance for most residents to see a new council on aging facility in their lifetime, the select board said. “This is it. We can’t do better than this,” board Chair Jeffrey Dykens said last Wednesday. The board voted unanimously to support the town...

CHATHAM — Each April 1, Chatham firefighters and other self-proclaimed April Fools take a bitter plunge into Nantucket Sound to raise money for local families in need. This year, they’ll be diving in to help one of their own. It’s been a trying year for Chatham Firefighter-Paramedic Vance Bates and his wife, Adrian. A former Eastham firefighter who joined the Chatham department in 2005, Mr. Bates was diagnosed...

CHATHAM – Steve Wardle found himself hemmed in by live wires when he went out for an early morning drive March 3. With heavy rain falling, he suddenly heard the sound of something scraping across his car roof. “It made a hell of a noise,” he recalled. He had driven into a dark spot between two streetlights, and stopped 15 feet from where a section of a utility pole had snapped off and fallen into the roa...

CHATHAM – Town meeting voters will be asked to approve $200,000 to cover the cost of trimming trees on private property within the approach zone to Chatham Municipal Airport. The select board voted unanimously to back the article, which will appear on the May 6 annual town meeting warrant. It is designed to supplement a petition article that calls on the airport commission to do the work on all properties in q...