Events
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Nov 5, 2026
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18 min read
Celebrate Lower Cape · November 5–11, 2026
Housing
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5 min read
Mac Hay plans to move within Provincetown in 2028. Local permitting on the 52-home plan at his address is on hold.
Spotlight
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4 min read
The town counted 284 veterans in 2022. Its roster now runs to RW 449, and one note shows how hard the counting gets.
Wellfleet
The Julie Harris Stage has a fuller calendar and an older name than you'd think. What's missing from it is a theater season.
Chatham
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.
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Oct 29, 2026
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.
6 min read
Three 1948 cottages go before Wellfleet's Historical Commission on Nov. 5, a public step toward a 2028 playwrights' center.
OCHS says its East Orleans site opens in November. Until then, the Harwich Port pharmacy is closed and its Quest lab is done.
The Drift
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Oct 22, 2026
19 min read
The first rule for this season’s beach find is the one that feels wrong.
Beaches
8 min read
Cold-stunned sea turtles strand on Cape Cod Bay beaches from November to mid-January. Mass Audubon's five steps, and why each exists.
7 min read
Kids in Holmes-era clothes work the aisles before curtain, a Chronicle critic writes. The theater is in season 75. Through Nov. 8.
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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.
Brewster approved higher rents for Serenity's 27 income-restricted units. The new move-in rate is $1,975 a month.
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Oct 15, 2026
3 min read
The proposed charter scheduled to go to Harwich voters in May 2027 would halve the signatures needed for a recall and bring back a fall town meeting. The public hearing is Oct. 22.
In 1984 Tommy "Chooch" LeBlanc was washing dishes at Pate's. Now he and Amy run Rock Harbor Grill in Orleans, and their first big decision came from the people already waiting at the door.
Oct 8, 2026
2 min read
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.
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.
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.
Oct 1, 2026
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.
Sep 24, 2026
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.
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.
Sep 17, 2026
Caleb Chase left West Harwich, built one of America's great coffee brands, and handed the town the Exchange. Seventy-one years later, Harwich had to choose between the building and Bell's Neck.
Aug 28, 2026
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.
Wellfleet's town clock keeps ship's time — and the man who built the mechanism by hand later asked them to tear it out.
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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.
