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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

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Harwich Gained More Than 100 Revolutionary Soldiers After 2022

Nov 5, 2026

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4 min read

Harwich Gained More Than 100 Revolutionary Soldiers After 2022

The town counted 284 veterans in 2022. Its roster now runs to RW 449, and one note shows how hard the counting gets.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

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$80 a Barrel in 1998. About $22 at the Last Big Thacher Harvest.

Oct 29, 2026

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4 min read

$80 a Barrel in 1998. About $22 at the Last Big Thacher Harvest.

Ray Thacher Jr. keeps a two-acre bog by his home. He says the trust that bought the 50 acres takes over in January.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

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Her Story Starts Decades Before the House Did

Oct 28, 2026

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5 min read

Her Story Starts Decades Before the House Did

Frommer's put Orleans' 1875 inn on its most-haunted list. Its ghost reportedly worked there in the early 1800s, the list says.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

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The Play Starts Before You Find Your Seat

Oct 22, 2026

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7 min read

The Play Starts Before You Find Your Seat

Kids in Holmes-era clothes work the aisles before curtain, a Chronicle critic writes. The theater is in season 75. Through Nov. 8.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

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There's a Castle in the Truro Woods and It Came From Boston

Oct 22, 2026

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7 min read

There's a Castle in the Truro Woods and It Came From Boston

A granite tower from Boston stands in the North Truro scrub with no path to it, a famous legend attached and a 1981 federal file.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

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A Year Ago This Month, an Otter Walked Into the House Harwich Built for It

Oct 15, 2026

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6 min read

A Year Ago This Month, an Otter Walked Into the House Harwich Built for It

Twenty-five years to let one Harwich brook out of its pipe, and a cinder-block den with a camera inside, recording an empty doorway for weeks.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Wellfleet

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Wellfleet Chose the Land Over an 1802 House

Oct 15, 2026

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3 min read

Wellfleet Chose the Land Over an 1802 House

A family spent decades conserving land on Lieutenant Island. The last 2.5 acres come with a house the state grant won't allow.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

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Hap Farrell's Slip Is Going to a Captain Whose Grandfather Fished the Same Harbor

Oct 8, 2026

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2 min read

Hap Farrell's Slip Is Going to a Captain Whose Grandfather Fished the Same Harbor

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.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

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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

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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

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At the Men's Store, She Figured Out What Orleans Women Would Buy

Sep 24, 2026

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10 min read

At the Men's Store, She Figured Out What Orleans Women Would Buy

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.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

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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

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A Brewster Captain Asked Robespierre for a Meeting. The Reply Said 10 A.M.

Sep 17, 2026

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4 min read

A Brewster Captain Asked Robespierre for a Meeting. The Reply Said 10 A.M.

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.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

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Harwich Got Its Town Hall From a West Harwich Coffee Man for $1

Sep 17, 2026

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3 min read

Harwich Got Its Town Hall From a West Harwich Coffee Man for $1

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.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

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Ninety Percent of the Questions Are About Squirrels

Aug 28, 2026

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6 min read

Ninety Percent of the Questions Are About Squirrels

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.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

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They Floated Their Houses Across the Harbor. Some Are Still Wearing the Badge.

Aug 28, 2026

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6 min read

They Floated Their Houses Across the Harbor. Some Are Still Wearing the Badge.

A village of two hundred people packed up Long Point and rowed home — and a ten-minute walk in the West End will show you where the houses landed.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

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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

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

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The Family Story You Can Start Tonight

Jul 2, 2026

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5 min read

The Family Story You Can Start Tonight

No filmmaker, no memoir — just a phone and five minutes.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
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