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CHATHAM — Lots of creatures and vessels now use the April Fool’s Cut to travel between the Atlantic and Nantucket Sound through an ever-widening breach in the barrier beach torn open by a nor’easter back on April 1, 2017. But it’s most regular visitor, the tidal waters of the open Atlantic, has proven to be the most devastating, assaulting the properties along the inner shore behind the barrier beach on high tides and storms. The intrusion of the ocean into the once-calm backwaters that connect to Stage Harbor and Nantucket Sound raised tides by a foot or more, exposing that coastlin...

COVID update, 'happy' New Year, Barnstable Notes The Barnstable Patriot So long 2020 The Osterville Village Library bids farewell to 2020 and welcomes the New Year with its “Winter Wishing Walk” located on the library green. No timetable; just stop by the outdoor decorative maze in search of the angel bell located at the center. Find the bell, and ring it loud and clear as you make your wish for 2021. Take a walk in the night air to see the holiday lights in the village and make a wish for health and happiness! Pay your respects to former Town Council President Jim Crocker at Armstrong Ke...

Bronwen Howells Walsh As head of Barnstable High School's new $1.2 million Environmental Science and Technology Lab, Michael Smith cannot wait to get to work. Now entering his 18th year of teaching at BHS, Smith teaching environmental science and biology in the school's student-driven Environmental Science and Technology Pathway. He also is collaborating with some of the region's most accomplished scientists – among them, Laurel Schaider of The Silent Spring Institute; Amy Costa of the Center for Coastal Studies; and Zenas Crocker, Barnstable Clean Water Coalition – to start a hi...