Beaches
+8
Nov 5, 2026
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5 min read
Saturday's open house comes in six separately listed pieces. Who should book which, and what the bay's buoy reads now.
Spotlight
+5
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.
Wellfleet
Oct 22, 2026
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.
+4
Oct 8, 2026
2 min read
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.
3 min read
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.
Chatham
+7
Oct 1, 2026
11 min read
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.
Sep 24, 2026
10 min read
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.
+3
Sep 17, 2026
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.
+9
Aug 20, 2026
8 min read
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
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.
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.
Aug 13, 2026
6 min read
Thirty years ago they dragged two lighthouses back from the edge. One of the estimates they made lands right about now.
Sixty-five years ago, much of the Lower and Outer Cape fought like hell over the park it now can't imagine living without.
4 min read
What a small ice-cream order costs at six stops from Orleans to Wellfleet. Same Cape, $2.01 apart.
Jul 31, 2026
August 20, seven o'clock, Schoolhouse Road. Eastham apparently had a connection.
+2
Jul 16, 2026
The sunset's behind you. The story's up the sand, on a tablet almost nobody walks over to read.
What came back to it changed the water off Chatham for good — and brought something with it.
Fourth of July 2026
+1
Jul 2, 2026
1 min read
The town saves its big parade for September, so Independence week here runs quieter — a Monday concert on the Green, a Friday market, and a library doing the real work of summer.
