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
+6
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.
Oct 22, 2026
7 min read
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.
Wellfleet
+5
Sep 24, 2026
11 min read
Three empty historic houses on the National Seashore are up for lease. The government lists every fault. It won't price a single one.
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.
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
Jul 30, 2026
2 min read
The valve is installed. Nobody has turned it. Here's what happens when they do.
Jul 16, 2026
4 min read
The Outer Cape didn't make one famous painter. It made a century of them — and mostly went quiet about it.
+3
3 min read
One bad night in 1778, hundreds of shipwrecked enemy sailors washed up cold on Truro's shore. Here's what the town did.
Truro
+1
Jul 2, 2026
1 min read
No parade, no fireworks, no crowds to speak of — Truro spends the Fourth the way Truro spends everything: outdoors, unhurried, and a little contrarian.
