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Dog Ordered Confined After Killing 13 Chickens

CHATHAM – After reportedly killing 13 chickens, a West Chatham dog has been deemed a nuisance and ordered to be kept in a fenced-in area when...

Meredith Fry. COURTESY PHOTO

Meredith Fry Joins Crowded Field Of Select Board Candidates

CHATHAM – Meredith Fry, the current chair of the park and recreation commission, has joined the field of candidates running for the select board in...

The Barnstable County dredge Sand Shifter works to clear shoals in Aunt Lydia’s Cove. TIM WOOD PHOTOS

Aboard The Sand Shifter: Clearing Aunt Lydia’s Cove To Support...

CHATHAM – The sound of the powerful Caterpillar engineer is inescapable. It reverberates across Aunt Lydia’s Cove, buffered by the mainland shore...

Coach Glenn Rose converses with former Rough Rider John Larivee during a gathering several years ago. COURTESY PHOTO

Remembering Glenn Rose: A Basketball Legend And Student Mentor

HARWICH – Glenn Rose, a basketball legend and longtime youth mentor, passed away peacefully at his home on March 8. He was 83. Mr. Rose dedicated...

Harwich's representative to the Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates Elizabeth Harder. FILE PHOTO

Handler Calls For Town’s Assembly Delegate To Step Down

HARWICH – The Home Rule petition narrowly approved by the Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates seeking to establish a real estate transfer tax...

The Polar Plunge is hosted locally by the Harwich Police Department, through the Law Enforcement Torch Run. FILE PHOTO

Cops, Friends, Prepare To Plunge For The Special Olympics

SOUTH HARWICH – Maybe there’s no better way to say goodbye to the savage cold of 2025-2026 than to embrace it, one last time. That’s what...

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From left, freshman Jacob Dewey, sophomore Jenna Smith, senior Wyatt Carroll and junior Gabe Walsh cut a ceremonial ribbon celebrating the substantial completion of the new Nauset Regional High School campus in Eastham on March 14. RYAN BRAY PHOTOS

With New Campus, Nauset Community Embraces The Future

NORTH EASTHAM – “School is a building with four walls with tomorrow inside.” As the head of the English department at Nauset Regional High School,...

Plans for a new fire station in Orleans do not call for fire operations to be displaced from the current station during construction. FILE PHOTO

Fire Station Cost Prompts Questions From FinCom

ORLEANS – The proposed capital budget for the next fiscal year includes $62.2 million in spending at the coming spring town meeting, with the bulk...

Nauset Regional High School ceased operations as a local warming center Feb. 24 due to a heating failure in the building. FILE PHOTO

HVAC Failure Led To Warming Center Closure

EASTHAM – An HVAC failure is believed to have caused the shuttering of Nauset Regional High School as an area warming center during February’s...

Select board member Ned Chatelain will not be seeking re-election in the upcoming annual election. FILE PHOTO

Chatelain Won’t Seek Re-election In Brewster

BREWSTER – After six years on the select board, Ned Chatelain has decided not to seek re-election in the upcoming annual town election. One select...

Nationwide settlements have provided municipalities with funding to put toward opioid use prevention and recovery. The Lower Cape towns, along with Dennis, are hoping to make it a regional initiative. FILE PHOTO

Brewster Discusses Next Steps With Regional Opioid Settlement Funds

BREWSTER – Eight years after Massachusetts’ governor and attorney general joined nationwide class-action lawsuits against pharmaceutical...

Residents provided feedback on the draft bylaw, regulations and fee schedule for short-term rentals in Brewster, the first step in moving forward with a registration and inspection system. FILE PHOTO

Public Weighs In On New Short-Term Rental Regs

BREWSTER – Residents turned out at a public hearing on short-term rentals Monday to offer feedback, advice and concerns following the release of a...

Brewster Recreation Department Director Michael Gradone and members of the Outdoor Club out on a bike ride. COURTESY PHOTO

Minding Your Business- Brewster Recreation Department

The Brewster Recreation Department’s mission statement sums up their organization perfectly: “The Brewster Recreation Department strives to meet...

Comedy Night Benefits Monomoy High Sports Booster Club

Monomoy High School’s All Sports Booster Club is hosting its third annual Comedy Fundraiser featuring a night of stand-up comedy, a 50-50 drawing,...

Skate egg cases or dancers? MARY RICHMOND PHOTO

Nature Connection: Dreary Days

March is always a tough month here on Cape Cod. While our Southern friends are already luxuriating in early blooms and warmer breezes, we are still...

Robert Emmett Long

Robert Emmett “Bob” Long, Jr., 87, died on Monday, February 23, in the care of loving family. Born on September 15, 1938, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Bob was the second of...

Robert Charles Carlson

Robert “Bob” Charles Carlson, 89, passed away peacefully in Chandler, AZ on February 21. Born in Ossining, NY in 1936 to Charles and Elsie Carlson,...

Martin ‘Tino’ Alexander Kamarck

Martin (“Tino”) A. Kamarck, son of Andrew M. Kamarck and Margaret E. Kamarck, was born on May 15, 1949, in Rome, Italy while his father was posted...

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Other Local Sports

Chet Peterson dribbles during a futsal game held by the Harwich Police Soccer Club last Saturday at the 204 Cultural Arts Municipal Building. The club’s winter season concluded last weekend, bringing in more than 200 kids to play indoor soccer. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTOS

Harwich Police Soccer Club Has Kids Having Fun Playing Game They Love

HARWICH – Certain national studies have found that most kids quit organized sports sometime around the ages of 11 to 13. The main culprit for why...

High School Sports

Junior Gavin O’Leary rips a shot during No. 16 Monomoy-Mashpee’s 6-3 loss against No. 9 St. Bernard’s in the Division 4 state tournament quarterfinals last Thursday. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTOS

Monomoy-Mashpee Make Deepest Tourney Run in Team History

STONEHAM – Heading into March 1’s tilt against No. 1 Stoneham in the second round of the Division 4 boys hockey state tournament, No. 16...

Junior Sam Mayhew jostles for the puck during No. 2 Nauset’s 5-0 loss to No. 3 Medfield in the Division 3 semifinals Sunday. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTOS

Nauset Reaches Semifinals For Third Consecutive Year, Falls In Bid...

BOURNE – Only one team in each division every year can claim the defending champions appellation such as Nauset boys hockey did during the 2025-26...

Athlete of the Week

Entering the Division 3 semifinals Sunday, Nauset sophomore goalie Patrick Shea had surrendered just two goals across three games (including a shutout) for the Warriors. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTO

Athlete Of The Week: Patrick Shea

BOURNE – The final score may not reflect it in totality, but sophomore goalie Patrick Shea had to, and did, make multiple significant saves for No....

Letters To The Editor: March 19, 2026

More Outside-The-Box Thinking NeededEditor:It's 2026 and we still worry about losing power every time gale-force winds blow, just like our...

Letters To The Editor: March 12, 2026

Harwich Housing Crisis RealityEditor:Chapter 40B adds deed-restricted affordable units, perhaps addressing the state’s 10 percent housing mandate...

Our View: Time To Go Underground

It’s time for our periodic polemic urging that utility wires be buried. But this time, with a historic blizzard that cut power to many residents...

Coach Glenn Rose converses with former Rough Rider John Larivee during a gathering several years ago. COURTESY PHOTO

Remembering Glenn Rose: A Basketball Legend And Student Mentor

HARWICH – Glenn Rose, a basketball legend and longtime youth mentor, passed away peacefully at his home on March 8. He was 83. Mr. Rose dedicated...

Harwich's representative to the Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates Elizabeth Harder. FILE PHOTO

Handler Calls For Town’s Assembly Delegate To Step Down

HARWICH – The Home Rule petition narrowly approved by the Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates seeking to establish a real estate transfer tax...

From left, freshman Jacob Dewey, sophomore Jenna Smith, senior Wyatt Carroll and junior Gabe Walsh cut a ceremonial ribbon celebrating the substantial completion of the new Nauset Regional High School campus in Eastham on March 14. RYAN BRAY PHOTOS

With New Campus, Nauset Community Embraces The Future

NORTH EASTHAM – “School is a building with four walls with tomorrow inside.” As the head of the English department at Nauset Regional High School,...

Fallen trees and powerlines caused widespread outages across the Lower Cape during the recent blizzard. FILE PHOTO

Underground Utilities? It’ll Cost You. Local Officials, Experts...

The Blizzard of ‘26 brought significant disruption to the region, from downed trees and wires to outages that left much of the Lower and Outer...

Remember When March 19, 2026

Chatham Rotary Club awards mid 1990s. FILE PHOTO

Remember When March 12, 2026

Chatham Rotary Club awards mid 1990s. FILE PHOTO

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