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Spotlight

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A Builder Says $1.5 Million. Chillingsworth Hasn't Said May.

Nov 5, 2026

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5 min read

A Builder Says $1.5 Million. Chillingsworth Hasn't Said May.

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.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Housing

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Mac's Isn't Closing. Nobody Has Named Its 2028 Address.

Nov 5, 2026

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5 min read

Mac's Isn't Closing. Nobody Has Named Its 2028 Address.

Mac Hay plans to move within Provincetown in 2028. Local permitting on the 52-home plan at his address is on hold.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Spotlight

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$90 Opens a 300-Wine Tasting. The Gallery Pours Are Free.

Oct 29, 2026

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5 min read

$90 Opens a 300-Wine Tasting. The Gallery Pours Are Free.

Free gallery pours Friday, a $90 Grand Tasting Saturday, pie judging Sunday, and the Lobster Pot's last day of 2026 in the middle of it.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

The Drift

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🐚 don’t put it back in the water

Oct 22, 2026

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19 min read

🐚 don’t put it back in the water

The first rule for this season’s beach find is the one that feels wrong.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Chatham

+8

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

Spotlight

+4

He Washed Dishes at Pate's in 1984. Now Rock Harbor Grill Is His.

Oct 15, 2026

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3 min read

He Washed Dishes at Pate's in 1984. Now Rock Harbor Grill Is His.

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.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Spotlight

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$1,499,000 Buys the Shack. Cobie's Isn't Included.

Oct 8, 2026

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3 min read

$1,499,000 Buys the Shack. Cobie's Isn't Included.

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.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Wellfleet

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The Listing Prices Everything at Van Rensselaer's Except the Name

Oct 1, 2026

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3 min read

The Listing Prices Everything at Van Rensselaer's Except the Name

The South Wellfleet restaurant across from the Marconi Beach road is listed at $2.95 million, and the seven rooms of staff housing out back may be worth more to a buyer than the raw bar. The name on the sign, it turns out, came out of the family.

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

Spotlight

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Before the Beer License, Brewster Asked About the Onion Rings

Sep 24, 2026

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7 min read

Before the Beer License, Brewster Asked About the Onion Rings

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.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Spotlight

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He Wanted to Sell Cape Cod Air in a Can

Sep 24, 2026

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10 min read

He Wanted to Sell Cape Cod Air in a Can

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.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Spotlight

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Every Day of the Year, He Sat Down at 5:15

Aug 28, 2026

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3 min read

Every Day of the Year, He Sat Down at 5:15

Napi's began as a Wednesday night dinner party, got built out of tin garages, stayed open through forty-nine Provincetown winters — and then ended somewhere nobody expected.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Spotlight

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A Ton of Onion Rings a Week

Aug 20, 2026

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8 min read

A Ton of Onion Rings a Week

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.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Wellfleet

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I Never Saw Them Open a Book

Aug 13, 2026

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3 min read

I Never Saw Them Open a Book

Sixteen years, five hundred people a day, and a traffic light at the door. This is the first August without it.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Wellfleet

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Two Dollars and One Cent

Aug 13, 2026

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4 min read

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
Arthur Radtke

Summer

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The Codfather's Pier

Jun 25, 2026

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7 min read

The Codfather's Pier

A field guide to eating outdoors from Chatham to the tip — line up, order at the window, find a wall.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
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