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There's a 20-Minute Way Into the Turtle Lab. No Turtle Promised.

There's a 20-Minute Way Into the Turtle Lab. No Turtle Promised.

Saturday's open house comes in six separately listed pieces. Who should book which, and what the bay's buoy reads now.

Arthur Radtke
SpotlightSpotlight
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The Seashore Commission Six Towns Sit On Hasn't Met Since 2025

The Seashore Commission Six Towns Sit On Hasn't Met Since 2025

Its 318th meeting is Monday, Nov. 2, 1 to 4:30 p.m., at Salt Pond in Eastham, in person and online, with time for public comment.

Arthur Radtke
WellfleetWellfleet
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There's Always Someone Walking at Your Pace

There's Always Someone Walking at Your Pace

The club's first walk, at Kent's Point in 2022, drew 11 people. It now counts 3,000-plus members and asks every newcomer to take a clinic first.

Arthur Radtke
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Hap Farrell's Slip Is Going to a Captain Whose Grandfather Fished the Same Harbor

Hap Farrell's Slip Is Going to a Captain Whose Grandfather Fished the Same Harbor

After 46 years in the Rock Harbor charter fleet, Capt. Hap Farrell is retiring. The harbormaster said his slip transfer didn't meet the criteria. The select board approved it.

Arthur Radtke
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$1,499,000 Buys the Shack. Cobie's Isn't Included.

$1,499,000 Buys the Shack. Cobie's Isn't Included.

The Route 6A clam shack closed Sept. 6 after what it calls its 78th season. The building, the cottage behind it and 1.7 acres are now on the market. The name, the recipes and the business are not.

Arthur Radtke
ChathamChatham
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Same Word on the Board. $18 Apart.

Same Word on the Board. $18 Apart.

Mac's prints both on one board in Chatham. One came out of the tidal mud in 1916, the other out of Ipswich because it could survive a freezer, and one of the windows closes Monday.

Arthur Radtke
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He Wanted to Sell Cape Cod Air in a Can

He Wanted to Sell Cape Cod Air in a Can

He never found a can for it. He found uses for a fruit stand, a doomed house and a chicken coop, and one still opens at 9.

Arthur Radtke
ChathamChatham
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Two Eastham Lighthouses Sold for $3.50. One Tower Became the Kitchen.

Two Eastham Lighthouses Sold for $3.50. One Tower Became the Kitchen.

The Three Sisters were retired, auctioned, turned into a cottage off Cable Road, and finally walked back together into the pines. The lighthouse that replaced them came from Chatham.

Arthur Radtke
ChathamChatham
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Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

Thirty-five years ago this week, Hurricane Bob came up Buzzards Bay and took the summer with it. We're collecting your stories — and running them next Thursday, with your name on them.

Arthur Radtke
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There's a Federal No-Go Zone in Cape Cod Bay, and Almost Nobody Out Here Knows It

There's a Federal No-Go Zone in Cape Cod Bay, and Almost Nobody Out Here Knows It

A bomb squad blew something up in Orleans on Tuesday. The reason it was sitting on the beach involves a Liberty ship they shot at for years, an artillery range along the Wellfleet cliffs, and a thousand-yard circle of water you are still not legally allowed to enter.

Arthur Radtke
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A Ton of Onion Rings a Week

A Ton of Onion Rings a Week

Arnold's is in its fiftieth season. The line out the door is not the problem — it's the whole business model. And there are maybe three weeks left to stand in it.

Arthur Radtke
ChathamChatham
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The Stake They Left Behind

The Stake They Left Behind

Thirty years ago they dragged two lighthouses back from the edge. One of the estimates they made lands right about now.

Arthur Radtke