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When Kevin Wright took the helm late last year as the new executive director of the Atwood Museum in Chatham, he and others at the historical museum were beginning to look toward a more hopeful 2021 season, following a year of pandemic restrictions and disrupted activities. That season that opens Friday, Wright says, hopes to build on several of last year’s exhibits that received limited exposure due to COVID closures. Visitors will be able to learn more about World War II in Chatham, the tow...

These P-town Properties Are Offering Free Eco-Tours to Guests May 03 2021 3:00 AM EDT Through May 14, guests staying at The Breakwater Hotel or Cape Colony Inn  in Provincetown, Mass., or Truro Beach Cottages on the Cape will receive complimentary off-the-beaten-path tours led by local scientists, actors, and writers. Provincetown has long been a refuge for LGBTQ+ artists, writers, and tourists. But even if youve been there before, these tours will offer you the chance to learn something...

On May 25 I will enthusiastically vote for Bill Henchy for Brewster Planning Board. I’ve had the honor of meeting Bill and understanding his deep commitment to the town’s people and character. I bought my home nearly 19 years ago. I chose Brewster for its enchanting country feel and “Olde Cape charm.” At the time I was a civil engineer pursuing a degree in interior design. Thankfully at that young adult age I had the experience to recognize the unique qualities Brewster offered without ...

Kevin Friel stood on the side of Thomas Landers Road in Falmouth looking skyward.  It was a soggy April afternoon, and cement truck after cement truck rumbled past en route to construction companies further down the road, drowning out the calls of a pair of ospreys circling a nest atop a utility pole beside the Route 28 overpass. Every few minutes, the birds soared over the nest to drop the sticks they carried in their hooked talons. They were preparing the nest — balanced on two parallel...

Cape Cod Times Gordon Peabody likes to say that his company, Safe Harbor, uses the power of the wind and waves to rebuild natural shoreline protections like beaches and dunes. One technique involves placing thousands of slats in random patterns on a beach mimicking stalks of beach grass. In theory, they slow down wave velocity causing the sand it carries to settle out and bulk up a beach instead of destroying it. If theres one trend Peabody has noticed in over 30 years of work, its the raw po...

Curious Cape Cod: The 7 Wonders of Bound Brook Island WELLFLEET — I was smoking bluefish with my barbeque coach, Connie Flagration, when a small earthquake tipped over the hot coals and sent them cascading down the hill toward the marsh. Connie wrapped me in a rug and rolled me after them: it was a hot and bumpy ride that ended with a mucky splash, but the brush fire was extinguished. As I removed shocked peepers from my trousers, I looked back up the hill and saw that the coals had burned st...

Several towns across the Cape exemplify the work that is needed to mitigate climate change. In this series, in conjunction with the Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative, we will review one town from each of the four quadrants that define the Cape. The towns being recognized for their work to mitigate climate change are Upper Cape—Mashpee; Mid Cape—Yarmouth; Lower Cape—Chatham; and Outer Cape—Wellfleet. From the Upper Cape, Mashpee demonstrates what it takes to reduce fossil...

Yarmouth fire Lt. Chris McMahon pulled into the parking lot of Harwich Port Community Health Center around 8:30 Tuesday morning. He was there to pick up dozens and dozens of doses of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, which he planned to distribute among five, two-person vaccination teams, each consisting of a paramedic and an EMT.  Armed with the single-dose shots, the teams were scheduled to fan out across town Tuesday to vaccinate about 60 homebound residents. By week’s end, McMa...

Osprey Spring, that cold, wet joke played on us Cape and Islands folk, begins in less than two weeks. Though it has felt pretty wintry recently, we’ve already ticked off several of our “spring can’t be far away” bird migration milestones. The first Killdeer, those large plovers that nest in grassy and gravelly places, were reported weeks ago - I saw five loudly interacting at the Chatham airport last week. Red-winged Blackbirds are now back in certain swamps and marshes, males loudly p...