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.
Wellfleet
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4 min read
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.
Beaches
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Saturday's open house comes in six separately listed pieces. Who should book which, and what the bay's buoy reads now.
Spotlight
Oct 29, 2026
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.
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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.
Chatham
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Oct 28, 2026
8 min read
Four days, Brewster to Provincetown, in start-time order, with two library parades and the hour the clocks hand back Sunday.
The Drift
Oct 22, 2026
19 min read
The first rule for this season’s beach find is the one that feels wrong.
Cold-stunned sea turtles strand on Cape Cod Bay beaches from November to mid-January. Mass Audubon's five steps, and why each exists.
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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.
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.
9 min read
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.
Oct 1, 2026
3 min read
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.
Dogs
Between Labor Day and Nov. 2, the Lower Cape hands its beaches back to dogs town by town, while the National Seashore keeps its own calendar. Here is the order, and the invisible lines where the rules change mid-walk.
