Cape Cod Branch News Today

Celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. on his 95th birthday with these Cape Cod organizations.

Art. music, stories, poems and re-enactments, plus a visit from the freed slave ship Amistad, are all happening on Cape and Islands.

Get out your calendars: This week is a busy one on the Cape and Islands with Nantucket Book Festival, Sandwich car show, a Broadway benefit and more.

Dolores DaLuz is the keynote speaker at a Hyannis event this Sunday in commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.

1892: The most disastrous fire ever witnessed in Hyannis occurred Friday when the old business corner at Pleasant and Main streets was completely wiped out

Mashpee High School Class of 2021 graduate Morgan James Peters II, known professionally as The ZYG 808, has earned 11 scholarships from the local community that will help him to pursue his music career at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, this fall. Morgan received five scholarships that are arts- and academics-based, four of them requiring work samples to be considered for the award. The NAACP Cape Cod Branch was one of these five organizations to award Morgan a scholarship for his work ...

Cape Cod Times Even though the use of lead shot for hunting waterfowl was banned in 1991, wildlife hospitals on Cape Cod continue to see 50-70 cases of lead poisoning a year.  Most of these tend to be waterfowl, such as swans, ducks and geese. Lead poisoning in waterfowl is an issue with a long history, not just in the Cape area, but nationwide.  Wild Care Cape Cod in Eastham receives and treats 10-20 patients per year, while the Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable, a branch of New England...

Hunting and fishing gear cited as source of lead in waterbirds

Jack Sheedy: Early Files 1861 The Season and the Sleighing: Now that the winter is half through, we have just had our first snow in quantity sufficient for sleighing. Only about four inches in depth, we presume it will soon disappear again, and sleighs freighted with both old and young are busy in the enjoyment of it. (Note: Winter being “half through” was a case of wishful thinking since it was only mid-January at the time.) 1871 Pickerel are quite plenty in the ponds in this town. Several...