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Your Ace Is Set to Change Owners Nov. 10. The Sign Stays.

Nov 5, 2026

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4 min read

Your Ace Is Set to Change Owners Nov. 10. The Sign Stays.

Paul and Lynn Fox plan to retire. Their East Harwich and Chatham stores are set to go to a 14-store owner and stay Ace.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Chatham

+7

After 1:59 on Halloween Night, the Clock Says 1:00 Again

Oct 28, 2026

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8 min read

After 1:59 on Halloween Night, the Clock Says 1:00 Again

Four days, Brewster to Provincetown, in start-time order, with two library parades and the hour the clocks hand back Sunday.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Chatham

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The Prize-Winning Chowder Has Flour. The Oldest One Had Wine.

Oct 22, 2026

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9 min read

The Prize-Winning Chowder Has Flour. The Oldest One Had Wine.

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.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Chatham

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The Famous Wellfleet Oyster Started Out as an Import

Oct 15, 2026

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11 min read

The Famous Wellfleet Oyster Started Out as an Import

OysterFest fills Main Street this weekend. The shell from your first dozen has a year at the transfer station ahead of it, and the town's founding oyster story has a neighbor's name penciled in the margin.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Chatham

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Chatham's Rental Fee Was $50 in July. Starting in January It's $325.

Oct 8, 2026

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2 min read

Chatham's Rental Fee Was $50 in July. Starting in January It's $325.

The second fee increase in two months, $200-a-day fines aimed at unregistered rentals on three streets, and a board that thinks its own count is low.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Chatham

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Route 6 in Harwich Will Start Closing at Night. Here's the Way Around.

Oct 8, 2026

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3 min read

Route 6 in Harwich Will Start Closing at Night. Here's the Way Around.

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.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Chatham

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She Went Looking for a Mahjong Store on Cape Cod. Nothing Came Up.

Oct 1, 2026

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3 min read

She Went Looking for a Mahjong Store on Cape Cod. Nothing Came Up.

Jill Boudreau wanted to pick up a set of tiles before she bought one. When she couldn't, she searched the commercial leases instead, and people started driving in from Maine.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Chatham

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Same Word on the Board. $18 Apart.

Oct 1, 2026

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11 min read

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
Arthur Radtke

Chatham

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

Sep 17, 2026

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3 min read

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
Arthur Radtke

Chatham

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Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

Aug 20, 2026

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8 min read

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
Arthur Radtke

Chatham

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Santa Comes In by Coast Guard Boat. Hallmark Noticed.

Aug 20, 2026

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3 min read

Santa Comes In by Coast Guard Boat. Hallmark Noticed.

Chatham is on Hallmark's list of twenty-five Christmas towns — the only one in Massachusetts. Voting closes September 4, and there are two things about how it works you should know before you click.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Chatham

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The Stake They Left Behind

Aug 13, 2026

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6 min read

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
Arthur Radtke

Chatham

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

Aug 13, 2026

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6 min read

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
Arthur Radtke

Chatham

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The Sandbar Was Empty When Your Parents Swam Here

Jul 16, 2026

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4 min read

The Sandbar Was Empty When Your Parents Swam Here

What came back to it changed the water off Chatham for good — and brought something with it.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Chatham

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Chatham's Big Day: A 9 O'Clock Parade, Strawberry Shortcake, and JAWS After Dark

Jul 2, 2026

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1 min read

Chatham's Big Day: A 9 O'Clock Parade, Strawberry Shortcake, and JAWS After Dark

One of the oldest parades in the country, fireworks two nights early, and a tow truck idling on Main Street before dawn. Here's how to do it like you live here.

Chatham

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Seventeen Thousand Pairs of Terns

Jun 25, 2026

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2 min read

Seventeen Thousand Pairs of Terns

Why Monomoy is a serious stop on the Atlantic Flyway, not just a pretty walk.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
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