BREWSTER – A collection of architectural designs by high school junior Lucas Wilson-Bevington was chosen for exhibition in a new Youth Artist Fellow Program at Brewster Ladies’ Library. The artistic projects by Lucas, a junior at Nauset Regional High School, are on display in the teen room at the library. Lucas has studied architecture at Nauset, but his designs on exhibit were developed through DiscoverArchit...

BREWSTER – After 20 years, even the best marriages may need a little work. Brewster’s Select Board has requested the Nauset Regional School Committee reopen the regional school agreement between the four member towns. They aren’t alone in the request to retool an agreement that hasn’t been altered in 21 years. Eastham, Orleans, Brewster and Wellfleet have been wed together since 1966 when what is now the mi...

Spring Rock Village Will Have 45 Units BREWSTER – Residents can be forgiven for being unable to give directions to Spring Rock Village as the project was only named a few months ago and doesn’t yet exist. Prior to that it was known as the Millstone Road Affordable Housing Project, and at least 24 Brewster families, perhaps more, will be able to take advantage of its affordability. The Massachusetts Execu...

BREWSTER – Millstone Road residents will soon be notified of finalized utility pole placement, but the major construction on the Millstone Road Improvement Project likely won’t start until at least spring. Construction cost escalations have bumped up the total project cost from an estimated $7.6 million to $10.3 million, Town Manager Peter Lombardi told the select board Monday. “We’ve finalized designs and all...

BREWSTER – The state has awarded up to $1.7 million in Community Development Block Grant Funding (CDBG) to the town so that more struggling low-income families can afford to pay for housing repairs and renovations and childcare. As a result of the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities grant, about a third of the housing renovation and repair requests and about half of the program’s available childc...

When he was approaching his final semester at St. Lawrence University in upstate New York, Tucker McLain realized he had never taken a writing course during his undergraduate years. However, only the highest-level writing course would fit into the schedule, and when he contacted the professor to ask if he could take the class, the answer was a resounding no. But the professor reconsidered and gave McLain work ...

BREWSTER – The Friends of Brewster Elders (FOBE) will hold their second annual Taste of Crosby Mansion on Sunday, Sept. 24, from 3 to 5 p.m. “Friendship is the essence of our organization, whether it’s joining new and old friends for an event, volunteering time at the Sea Captains’ Thrift Shop, or just the knowledge that there is someone who will listen and help you resolve a problem or need,” Friends Presiden...

BREWSTER – Eddy Elementary School is poised to award T-shirts, prizes and wristbands to students in grades three to five who consistently demonstrate the school’s core values when classes resume today. “Last year, our staff collectively articulated the core values that we want our students to develop and demonstrate by being ‘Eddy R.E.A.D.Y.’: Respect, Empathy, Accountability, Determination, and Your best,” sa...

BREWSTER – Deaths from opioids, particularly fentanyl, have soared since 2015 from around 5,000 to over 72,000 nationally last year, according to the CDC. As a result of a federal lawsuit, opioid settlement and remediation funds totaling $3.17 million are available to Cape Cod. Brewster should receive $103,104 of that, according to the Attorney General’s office. On Aug. 2, the board of health discus...

BREWSTER – On Aug. 21, the select board unanimously adopted the 2024-2025 Strategic Plan and a “primer” of sorts, with 25 top-of-mind goals. Available in the select board meeting packet, “the PowerPoint for the annual retreat included feedback we received from residents, committee members, and town staff about potential priorities and projects for the board to consider in updating their plan,” Town Manager Pet...

BREWSTER – The Brewster Historical Society has stepped in to administer the Brewster Memorial Scholarship honoring 1st Lt. Walter Ralph “Skip” Daley, who was killed in action in Vietnam in 1967. He was 24. Daley was a three-sport all star at D-Y Regional High School and a 1964 graduate of Springfield College. His efforts to save his Army platoon earned him a posthumous Silver Star, the third-highest U.S. honor...

Affordable housing may be tough to locate on the Lower Cape, but monarchs, red admirals, checkerspots and other lepidoptera have found a comfy home in Brewster. The Butterfly House at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History is open seven days a week until 2:20 p.m. “The Butterfly House continues to grow over the years,” Tyan Bassett, the animal care coordinator at the museum, explained via email. “It was sta...