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And yet as more vaccines are available than ever, uptake is slowing down. Sean O’Brien, head of Barnstable County’s Department of Health and Environment, said the county is used to dispensing hundreds of vaccines but a recent county vaccination clinic drew only 25 pre-registered individuals and 25 walk-ins. During a Thursday morning briefing by the Cape Cod COVID-19 Response Task Force, Cyr said he wants to see increased outreach to people of color, who have lower vaccination rates than white residents. A weekly vaccination report published Thursday by the Massachusetts Department of Pub...

The Rev. Will Mebane, rector of Saint Barnabas Memorial Episcopal Church in Falmouth, said the conviction Tuesday of former police officer Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd was no cause for celebration. “I don’t feel like celebrating," he said. "I don’t feel like cheering. I’m very sad. I, of course, continue to be sad not only for the lynching of George Floyd, but of Daunte Wright, Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and the whole list of others who were killed and justice was not served.”  Black and Brown men and women are just as much at risk after the verdict a...

FALMOUTH — A special worship service next week will commemorate the one-year anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The special service, called Year of the Pandemic, will be held by St. Barnabas Memorial Episcopal Church at 10 a.m. Sunday and will be streamed live on YouTube, the church said in a statement Monday. “The pandemic has brought some great sorrows — deaths, severe sickness, lost jobs, lost businesses and lost celebrations of graduations, weddings and other rites of passage,” the Rev. Will Mebane said in the statement. “People also rejoiced at the healings fro...