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At the Men's Store, She Figured Out What Orleans Women Would Buy

At the Men's Store, She Figured Out What Orleans Women Would Buy

Two women left Watson's to start a boutique on the other side of Main Street. The racks are going now, and nobody has named the last day.

Arthur Radtke
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Ninety Percent of the Questions Are About Squirrels

Ninety Percent of the Questions Are About Squirrels

Forty-three years behind the counter at Bird Watcher's General Store — a shop that opens at 9:17, and the man who hired himself when nobody else would.

Arthur Radtke
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They Hatch, and Then They Run the Wrong Way

They Hatch, and Then They Run the Wrong Way

Terrapin hatchlings turn their backs on the marsh — and the year the clutches got smaller was the best news Wellfleet's volunteers had seen.

Arthur Radtke
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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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Tip O'Neill Said They Hung Him in Effigy in Truro

Tip O'Neill Said They Hung Him in Effigy in Truro

Sixty-five years ago, much of the Lower and Outer Cape fought like hell over the park it now can't imagine living without.

Arthur Radtke
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Two Dollars and One Cent

Two Dollars and One Cent

What a small ice-cream order costs at six stops from Orleans to Wellfleet. Same Cape, $2.01 apart.

Arthur Radtke
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The Shoreline Doesn't Care About Town Lines

The Shoreline Doesn't Care About Town Lines

Forty-four parcels were studied. Six made the list. All six are in Brewster.

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Orleans Runs the Show: Rock Harbor Fireworks, a 10 O'Clock Parade, and 250 Years on the Common

Orleans Runs the Show: Rock Harbor Fireworks, a 10 O'Clock Parade, and 250 Years on the Common

If the Lower Cape has a capital for the Fourth, it's Orleans — the bay-side fireworks everyone drives to, a parade worth the name, and a 250th night at the water's edge.

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The Morning the Town Walks Into the Fire Station

The Morning the Town Walks Into the Fire Station

The Orleans Fire Rescue Association's annual Pancake Breakfast returns Sunday, July 5, 2026.

Arthur Radtke