BREWSTER – A year after Stephen Brown’s Main Street arboretum and herbal apothecary were first cited for building, health and zoning code violations, Stephen Brown Realty Trust and Great Cape Coop have reached an understanding with the town. Appearing before the zoning board of appeals (ZBA) on Brown’s behalf April 11, David Schlesinger and attorney Christopher Senie described their months of followup with Bui...

BREWSTER – With military precision, the members of the Brewster Colonial Artillery Company drilled with small arms and a field cannon at Drummer Boy Park Saturday, recalling the precarious days of the American Revolution. The reenactors, part of the Yarmouth Minutemen, were there at the invitation of the Brewster Historical Society, showing and telling about the time when local citizen soldiers were called on ...

BREWSTER – He’s currently in England performing a play about colonization. But Mashpee Wampanoag Hartman Deetz will return to the Cape to talk about unity on Sunday, May 7 at the First Parish Brewster Universalist Unitarian Church Meetinghouse “Voices of Cape Cod” speaker series. “I plan to talk about our special position on the Outer Cape,” Deetz said by phone last Thursday. “Our people have a long history of...

BREWSTER – The town’s May 16 annual election is going to be a referendum of sorts. Challenging vice chair Ned Chatelain, who is running for a second select board term, are Carol Marie Anderson and Laurel Elizabeth Labdon, both of whom are positioning themselves as voices of change. “The select board has prioritized some things in ways I don’t quite understand,” Labdon said by phone April 1. “I have respect ...

BREWSTER – Brittany Taylor quietly began the start of her first week as new director of the Brewster Ladies’ Library (BLL). She had had a week off between her old job as assistant director of the Provincetown Public Library. Instead of putting the final touches on Provincetown’s “Moby-Dick” Marathon Reading coming up April 29 to 30, she gracefully stepped into a full week of meeting new co-workers, hosting an ...

BREWSTER – Making good on its word, the select board on Monday resolved to create two new committee charges following last month’s special town meeting vote to halt plans for a raised boardwalk in the Quivet Creek marshes near Wing Island. The board approved a revised charge for the vision planning committee chaired by Sharon Tennstedt to update the town’s long range comprehensive plan (LCP), which town ...

BREWSTER – Joanne Wisniewski, president of Pause A While, Inc., and vice president Paul Dart spoke prior to the nonprofit’s open house last Friday at 250 Underpass Rd. to learn how the pandemic impacted delivery of vital support services. The facility serves as a location for a variety of recovery meetings and other services for residents from throughout the Lower and Outer Cape. For meeting schedules, visit www...

Vote Triggers $315,000 Budget Override For Elementary Schools BREWSTER – The select board on Monday voted 4-1 to approve a $10 million combined operating budget increase for Stony Brook and Eddy elementary schools in fiscal 2024. But the board voted 1-4 against the $14.9 million Nauset Regional School District budget, calling it “top-heavy” to the point of being “offensive.” “If ever there was a year ...

 BREWSTER – Fire Chief Robert Moran wasn't really fazed by the March 22 emergency call from a group of eight Wing Island visitors stranded by the high tide. “We received a call at headquarters from one of the adults, saying she had a dog and a couple of small babies with her,” Moran said. “She just called looking for assistance. She was very calm, cool and collected.” In total, there were three women and fi...

BREWSTER – After a two-year search, Pause A While, Inc. purchased a permanent home for the organization in November, and after months of renovations, the facility is up and running. The opening will be celebrated on Friday, March 31 at 2:30 p.m. at the new building at 250 Underpass Rd. Those who helped make the building possible will be thanked, including Lori Meads, president and CEO of Seamen’s Bank, Robert ...

BREWSTER – Voters will be asked to formally place Wing Island under the jurisdiction of the conservation commission at the May annual town meeting after the select board rejected placing a formal conservation restriction on the property. The decision was an outgrowth of the March 6 special town meeting at which voters endorsed protecting the Cape Cod Bay island and also directed the board not to spend any furt...

BREWSTER – The select board on Monday voted not to support a citizens’ petition asking town meeting voters to ban re-usable plastic food containers and cutlery by fall 2024. “We’re all trying to do the right thing,” Bud Ohman, co-owner of Kate’s Fried Seafood and Ice Cream, said. “I recycle every piece of cardboard in the restaurant. The last thing we need is another mandate. Try telling someone from New York th...