'I feel like I'm not alone': Camp helps kids dealing with loss
During a one-day event at Camp Lyndon, bereaved preschoolers made superhero capes in arts and crafts while preteens who have lost a loved one kicked a ball on the beach and made new friends. The...
View ArticleMixed-Use Development Debuts Before Sandwich Planning Board
The Sandwich Planning Board has been given a glimpse of a mixed-use development that will be proposed for a 75-acre swath of land in Forestdale off Route 130. Although representatives for developer...
View ArticleThe Vineyard delights in record-breaking fair
Robinson's Racing Pigs emerge from a water tank as they race around a show ring at the 157th annual Agricultural Society Fair. - Caroline Brehman Jane Bollin cheers after winning the over-6,000-pounds...
View ArticleSelectmen: Route 6A Crosswalk In Sandwich Still Not Safe
Although the state Department of Transportation has already made a section of Route 6A more pedestrian-friendly, the town believes more lights and signs must be installed-and vegetation cut back-before...
View ArticleCanal Still Closed To Shellfishing
"The Division of Maine Fisheries has determined thata the Cape Cod Canala in the Towns of Sandwich and Bourne, no longer meet the National Shellfish Sanitation Program criteria for the harvest of...
View ArticleSandwich Elementary Schools See Building Improvements
A number of security and maintenance upgrades have been completed in the Sandwich elementary schools over the course of the summer. At both the Forestdale School and the Oak Ridge School, all of the...
View ArticleYoung People On The Upper Cape Talk Politics (Or Not)
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View ArticleBog Work In Sandwich Sparks Environmental, Legal Fracas
A chain-link fence covered by black netting now blocks access to the Roos Road property-and blocks neighbors' views-of the former cranberry farm's pastoral setting. An access road connecting North...
View ArticleBourne GOP Backs Mr. Beaty In 5th District Race
In the race for state representative from the Fifth Barnstable District, members of the Bourne Republican Town Committee have thrown the weight of their support behind challenger Ronald R. Beaty Jr....
View ArticleAuthorities search waters off East Sandwich Beach after report of shark
A report of a shark attacking a seal off a Sandwich beach Sunday caused officials from the fire department and US Coast Guard to spend much of the day patrolling the area, police said. The shark was...
View ArticleTown Of Sandwich Opens Beach Projects To Bidders
The Town of Sandwich has begun seeking bids for the long-postponed stormwater drainage project to clean up the waters of Old Harbor and Mill Creek and to make those areas more hospitable to shellfish...
View ArticleDebt Exclusions, Betterments On Horizon For Mashpee Wastewater Proposal
The Mashpee Board of Selectmen took a step this week toward implementing the town's several-million-dollar sewer project, but members were hesitant to dive in deep, at least for the time being. The...
View ArticleRandy Hunt Bests Ron Beaty Jr. In Primary
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View ArticleSchools Celebrate First Day Back To Class
Forestdale second graders Annah Kynock and Grace Bateman share a story while heading into school from the bus on the first day of class Wednesday. Second graders Isabelle Towns, left, and Kayleigh...
View ArticleLyons Family, In Memory Of Son, Raises Awareness For Rare Condition
A kindness rock at the beginning of the Sandwich Boardwalk is placed in memory of Nathan Lyons, above who died in 2017 at age 12. A kindness rock at the beginning of the Sandwich Boardwalk is placed in...
View ArticleBarnstable County To Celebrate Its Own Independence Day
In 1776, the American colonies declared independence from Great Britain, setting off to become a new nation. But two years earlier-on September 27, 1774-nearly 1,500 residents from Cape Cod gathered at...
View ArticleAtkins Road Cluster Housing Inches Forward
The much-debated Atkins Road subdivision received another green light from the planning board, but in keeping with its history, one of the neighbors objected to the revised plan. James Kalweit, who...
View ArticleSandwich woman convicted of killing toddler daughter in 2001 dies in prison
Massachusetts prison officials are investigating the death of a woman who was convicted of killing her 2-year-old daughter in 2001. A spokesman for the Department of Correction tells the Cape Cod Times...
View ArticleFirst Bike Your Park Day In Shawme-Crowell State Park A Success
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View ArticleSurtax Eyed For Funding Wastewater In Mashpee
Taxpayers in Mashpee could be asked in the not-so-distant-future to approve a new surcharge on their tax bills, which would be used for wastewater cleanup in a method similar to how the the town has...
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