Spotlight
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Nov 5, 2026
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5 min read
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.
Housing
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Mac Hay plans to move within Provincetown in 2028. Local permitting on the 52-home plan at his address is on hold.
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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
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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.
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.
Oct 29, 2026
Ray Thacher Jr. keeps a two-acre bog by his home. He says the trust that bought the 50 acres takes over in January.
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.
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.
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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.
Oct 28, 2026
Frommer's put Orleans' 1875 inn on its most-haunted list. Its ghost reportedly worked there in the early 1800s, the list says.
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8 min read
Four days, Brewster to Provincetown, in start-time order, with two library parades and the hour the clocks hand back Sunday.
Oct 22, 2026
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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Kids in Holmes-era clothes work the aisles before curtain, a Chronicle critic writes. The theater is in season 75. Through Nov. 8.
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.
Brewster approved higher rents for Serenity's 27 income-restricted units. The new move-in rate is $1,975 a month.
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 15, 2026
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.
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A family spent decades conserving land on Lieutenant Island. The last 2.5 acres come with a house the state grant won't allow.
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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.
11 min read
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.
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.
