Spotlight
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Nov 5, 2026
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5 min read
Its 2026 season ends Nov. 28. Nitzi Rabin relayed a builder's estimate to the Select Board and made no commitment about reopening in May.
Beaches
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Saturday's open house comes in six separately listed pieces. Who should book which, and what the bay's buoy reads now.
Chatham
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Oct 28, 2026
8 min read
Four days, Brewster to Provincetown, in start-time order, with two library parades and the hour the clocks hand back Sunday.
Oct 22, 2026
Cold-stunned sea turtles strand on Cape Cod Bay beaches from November to mid-January. Mass Audubon's five steps, and why each exists.
Wellfleet
7 min read
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.
Housing
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Brewster approved higher rents for Serenity's 27 income-restricted units. The new move-in rate is $1,975 a month.
9 min read
Mac's menu says no flour. The Lobster Pot's prize bowl has a little. A 1751 recipe used claret and no milk. Pick your side.
Oct 8, 2026
3 min read
State bridge work along Route 6 in Harwich starts this month and runs into 2028, with overnight closures expected on work nights, Sunday through Thursday.
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.
Sep 24, 2026
One question was asked at a Brewster hearing. One line went into a Provincetown lease. Both were about what the new owners can't touch.
10 min read
Monday, a glass-doored box goes up on the Brewster COA's front walk. The rules say anyone can add to it. They're quieter about the rest.
+3
Sep 17, 2026
4 min read
Elijah Cobb lost his flour to revolutionary Paris, rode 74 hours to get it back, and watched the man who helped him go to the guillotine. Then he went back to his paperwork.
+9
Aug 20, 2026
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.
+6
Aug 13, 2026
What a small ice-cream order costs at six stops from Orleans to Wellfleet. Same Cape, $2.01 apart.
Jul 30, 2026
Forty-four parcels were studied. Six made the list. All six are in Brewster.
Brewster
Jul 16, 2026
2 min read
A Brewster kitchen where the showstopper arrives in a volcanic-stone vessel — and the room leans in to watch it land.
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Jul 2, 2026
1 min read
No parade, no town fireworks — and that's the point. Brewster spends the Fourth at Drummer Boy Park and on the bay beaches, watching someone else's show.
Jun 25, 2026
The numbers behind Brewster’s biggest land save, and what comes next.
