Bojan Bokic/Getty ImagesNantucket is sleepy in the winter. Billionaires like Google CEO Eric Schmidt and banking titan Charles Schwab have not decamped to their multimillion-dollar vacation homes. Weekenders aren’t wandering the picturesque lanes. Hollywood A-listers are not in town for the annual film festival.But behind the scenes, things are anything but boring. A protracted fight over a housing development with units for low-income residents has entered a bitter new stage, with a slew of cou
The new Cape and Islands district attorney Barnstable County sheriff took their oaths of office Wednesday, marking a change of politics and perspective in regional law enforcement.
DA Robert Gailbois and Sheriff Donna Buckley, both Democrats, were elected in November to positions held by Republicans for decades.
In remarks during back-to-back swearing-in ceremonies at Cape Cod Community College, they touched on themes of compassionate justice.
Buckley, the first woman elected to the role, pledged to work with local nonprofits to connect inmates with mental health treatment and addiction treatment.
The Boathouse & Field Club, an exclusive members-only recreational club in Edgartown, is being charged with corporate involuntary manslaughter in the 2021 drowning death of a 3-year-old boy, Henry Bowman Backer. The case was scheduled to go before a judge in Dukes County Superior Court on Friday morning, but thus far has not been called. […]