Taking to the trails on my new mountain bike
For quite a while I've wanted to try mountain biking since I did it about 20 years ago - although that mostly consisted of riding easy trails at Bass Hole in Yarmouth Port. Recently I bought a...
View ArticleSandwich Town Historian, Author Turning 100
Sandwich town historian emeritus and author of "Sandwich, A Cape Cod Town," Russell Lovell Jr. and his niece, Rebecca Lovell Scott, look through his book at home on Jonathan Lane. Mr. Lovell is turning...
View ArticleCape Cod Towns Leery of Recreational Marijuana IndustryIn six out of...
As Massachusetts opens its first retail marijuana shops, Cape Cod has set itself up as one of the hardest places in the state to start a recreational marijuana business. In six out of fifteen Cape...
View ArticleBeach Issues Dominate Sandwich Selectmen's Meeting
The fiber rolls that are used to stabilize the sand in front of beachfront homes on Town Neck were exposed after the storms last March. The fiber rolls that are used to stabilize the sand in front of...
View ArticleSandwich Family Escapes Fire As House Goes Up In Flames
A husband, wife, and daughter were able to get out of their house to escape a fire in Sandwich on Friday afternoon, November 30, with flames coming out the front door, according to a fire official at...
View ArticleDogs Perish In Fire That Destroyed Sandwich House
Smoke shrouds the scene of a house fire that killed four of the family's dogs on Route 6A in Sandwich on November 30. Smoke shrouds the scene of a house fire that killed four of the family's dogs on...
View ArticleHoliday Handbell Concert Returns To Sandwich
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View ArticlePush On To Preserve Scenic Pasture In Sandwich
An ancient pasture off Route 6A, arguably one of the oldest and most picturesque sites in Sandwich, is on the verge of being preserved forever in its natural state. Eugene Theroux, owner of 72 acres of...
View ArticleBald eagle population rebounding with state help
The number of bald eagles nesting in Massachusetts appears to be steadily growing amid three decades of efforts to re-establish a natural population of the nation's animal here. State wildlife...
View ArticleVolunteers Needed To Simplify Sandwich's Cable TV Contract Process
The contract between Sandwich and Comcast Communications-which provides cable television services for the entire town-will be up for renewal on July 27, 2021. Although the deadline seems like a long...
View ArticleSandwich Eyes Former Bank As New Site For Municipal Offices
The chairman of the board of selectmen announced Thursday night, December 6, that the town is looking to acquire the former bank building at the intersection of Route 6A and Tupper Road for use as a...
View ArticleMan Sentenced To Prison On Assault Charges
A man was sentenced to 15 to 17 years in state prison Tuesday, December 11, after he pleaded guilty in Barnstable Superior Court to assaulting his former girlfriend twice in the summer of 2017 in...
View ArticleSandwich Discovers New Hope For Abandoned Homes
The kitchen of this abandoned home on Wolf Hill is in shambles. A state program run out of the Attorney General's Office would allow the town to nominate a blighted property like this to get it cleaned...
View ArticleGift Of Sand Coming To Sandwich Next Week
A storm last March caused so much damage to this home on Town Neck Beach that it had to be torn down. A storm last March caused so much damage to this home on Town Neck Beach that it had to be torn down.
View ArticleSandwich COA Takes Building Push To The Streets
The Sandwich Council on Aging will take its quest for a new senior center directly to the voters in the coming months, even if doing so means fighting town hall. "The COA has been pushed aside and...
View ArticleJohn Richard Davies III
After fighting a fierce war with an implacable adversary, John Richard Davies III, died on Dec. 14, 2018, at the McCarthy Care Center in Sandwich. Rick was born in Springfield on Valentine's Day, Feb....
View ArticleQuiz: Most Adults Can't Pass This Basic 3rd Grade Test. Can You?
Questions from 3rd grade aren't THAT hard... are they?
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