BREWSTER – Latham Centers plan a summer groundbreaking for a new community center along Route 6A at the site of the former New England Fire and History Museum. Established in 1970, the internationally recognized human services organization specializes in Prader Willi Syndrome (PWS), a rare genetic disorder characterized by chronic overeating. The organization treats about 80 children and 90 adults, some of whom...

BREWSTER – The Select Board last May 22 approved an amended host community agreement with Cape Cod Grow Lab, which is close to opening a 9,000-square-foot cannabis cultivation facility, pending an inspection and final license from the state Cannabis Control Commission. Burning Grinder LLC plans to run a cannabis cultivation operation at 95 Alexandra Ave., formerly 1399 Freemans Way, and later build an adjacent ...

BREWSTER – Official election results confirmed Ned Chatelain’s re-election to the select board last Tuesday, and the incumbent has been sworn in, Town Manager Peter Lombardi said Monday. “To be clear, at this point, Ned has been re-elected and sworn in based on the now official results from last Tuesday,” Lombardi emailed Monday. “The town clerk’s office is prepared to conduct a recount next week if petitions ...

BREWSTER – An estimated 400 people visited the former Cape Cod Sea Camps bay property Saturday to evaluate the discovery phase findings and ideas for community programming there and on the pond property. Town officials and Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architecture design team members spoke with residents, inviting them to review a series of information stations and place stickers indicating their favorite activi...

BREWSTER — Since it’s still brisk for an ocean swim, dip into nature and take in the Cape’s emerging spring at the Punkhorn Parklands — “punk” as in “dry,” as in tinder stored in a horn and used to start a campfire. The town acquired the 875 acres of conservation land by eminent domain from the Carleton Francis family and state funding in 1985. Town meeting voters overwhelmingly approved the acquisition in 198...

BREWSTER – After a vote of the family of its originator, the ship’s figurehead dubbed “The White Lady” is white again. “The family voted to paint her white the way she was on the bluff in Brewster of old, but to keep the gold trim,” Brewster Historical Society President Sally Gunning said Saturday. “This was apparently how her sister figurehead was painted on the ‘Glory of the Seas.’ “We didn’t have time t...

BREWSTER – Will Vice Chairman Ned Chatelain serve another three-year term on the Brewster Select Board? According to preliminary results from Town Clerk Colette Williams, Chatelain bested Laurel Labdon by just six votes — 1,147 to 1,141 — in Tuesday’s annual town election. A recount reportedly has been requested. Labdon and Carol Marie Anderson both campaigned as candidates for change. Anderson garnered 123 vo...

BREWSTER – Seafarers call her a ship’s figurehead. This one is a Sears family treasure, carved lifesize in yellow pine and restored by Pease Boatyard in Chatham in 2016, thanks to the generosity of the Ecker family. Brewster Historical Society (BHS) supporters and volunteers celebrated the return of the restored figurehead, most recently on loan to the Orleans Historical Society, back to Cobb House May 6 during...

BREWSTER – If your family’s pantry is looking a little lean and you’re having trouble making ends meet, the Family Pantry of Cape Cod can help. On Sunday, May 21, the Pantry is sponsoring its annual Food Grab-and-Go event at two locations on the Cape. From 10 a.m. to noon, or while supplies last, Pantry volunteers will be handing out food parcels to anyone requesting one, with no documentation or registrati...

Brewster’s annual town election takes place Tuesday, May 16, with polls open at Brewster Baptist Churc h, 1848 Main St., from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. The only contested race on the ballot is for the select board, with three candidates seeking one three-year term. Profiles of the candidates are below (because of other commitments carol Marie Anderson was not able to respond to our request to participate). Ned (Edward...

BREWSTER – Brad Crowell, first vice chairman of the Cape Cod YMCA, has announced a potential partnership to build a Lower Cape Y on the former Cape Cod Sea Camps bay property. On April 25 Crowell presented location survey results to members of the bay property planning committee, the culmination of an almost seven-year process since discussions about building a Lower Cape Y began. YMCA Cape Cod operates a f...

BREWSTER – Elton Cutler’s career has come full-circle. He’s back working in Brewster, where he began working in his field as a Latham Centers outreach coordinator. The immediate past outreach coordinator and director of the Truro Council on Aging, Cutler now heads the Brewster Council on Aging located in the yellow Victorian building on Route 6A. He is SHINE-certified, as are his eight staff members (five f...