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Dennis Senior Center eyes potential summer reopening, new name Patrick Flanary “It is hard to know who’s going hungry, because they do not like to ask for help,” says Marie Jainchill, executive director of the Friends of Dennis Senior Citizens. Juliet Pratt’s mother is 89, has arthritis and a bad back, and lives alone. In the seven years since her husband died, she rarely gets out of the house. But she allows only her three children to visit. “She refuses to have any help come in, so it’s up to us,” Pratt said from Connecticut, after her mother’s first COVID-19 vaccine shot in...

A fund is available to the Falmouth Public Library board of trustees over and above the library’s annual operational budget. Established in the 1890s by James M. Beebe, the trustees fund was formalized by Town Meeting vote in 1902. The fund has grown from $337 in 1897 to $23,000 in 1986 to nearly $681,922 today. “Over the last 30-plus years, we’ve gotten some bigger chunks donated to the library, which have been earmarked for library enhancement,” trustee chairwoman Judith Fenwick said. This includes a $274,990 bequeathment from the William Gallagher Trust in 2011, library...

The COVID-19 pandemic, and the unemployment that has come with it, has left thousands of Cape Codders struggling to buy groceries and pay rent. The Cape Cod Foundation, which has raised $65 million and helped establish 320 local groups since it started 32 years ago, is now hosting monthly virtual community forums to talk about what services are available on Cape Cod, what is still needed and how people can help. The first session, scheduled from 9:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. on Thursday, will deal with food insecurity. One in eight adults and one in six children on Cape Cod do not have enough to ea...

Happy birthday Nick, sailor yarns, Valentine spins, Town Notes The Barnstable Patriot In recognition of what would have been the 33rd birthday of U.S. Marine Corporal Nicholas G. Xiarhos, his namesake foundation and The Cape Cod Foundation partnered last week to issue $33,000 in community support grants. "Nicholas lived a life that brought joy and love to people he touched all over the world, a life that was dedicated to serving our great nation and the men and women who defend it," wrote Nicholas' father, Steven. "With your ongoing love and support, the Nicholas G. Xiarhos Memorial Foundati...

Jordan Hendricks is 12 years old, and Alberto Gomez, his “big brother,” is 38. They have been friends for four years since meeting through the Big Brothers Big Sisters of