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Featured

⚓Parade Secrets, Food Finds, and the Cape’s Best

Jul 1, 2025

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29 min read

⚓Parade Secrets, Food Finds, and the Cape’s Best

Stories & Finds from the Mid Cape

Arthur Radtke

Articles

⚓ Check your cabinet for a scorpion bowl

Aug 19, 2026

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12 min read

⚓ Check your cabinet for a scorpion bowl

Forty-eight years of Tiki Port went home in tote bags

Arthur Radtke

Spotlight

Three Dining Rooms Cape Cod Can't Go Back Into

Aug 19, 2026

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10 min read

Three Dining Rooms Cape Cod Can't Go Back Into

Tiki Port, Gina's by the Sea, and the Riverway — and the one that never actually went dark.

Spotlight

Cash Only. Closed Tuesdays. Comes Down Every Fall.

Aug 19, 2026

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9 min read

Cash Only. Closed Tuesdays. Comes Down Every Fall.

The Melody Tent, the Red Cottage, and Ann & Fran's — three Mid Cape institutions running models that shouldn't work.

Barnstable

The Town Is Taking Something From Under Eighteen Centerville Roads. There's No Check Coming.

Aug 19, 2026

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9 min read

The Town Is Taking Something From Under Eighteen Centerville Roads. There's No Check Coming.

Item 2027-011 gets its second reading Thursday. Here's the $10,000, the sixty-day clock, and the sentence worth reading twice.

Spotlight

The Ice Took the Boardwalk Again. This Time It Took Six Months, Not a Year.

Aug 19, 2026

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8 min read

The Ice Took the Boardwalk Again. This Time It Took Six Months, Not a Year.

Bass Hole is open in full. February 1978 is the reason that's worth measuring.

The Drift: The Storm Is the Cover Charge

Aug 19, 2026

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5 min read

The Drift: The Storm Is the Cover Charge

Mid Cape Weather, Tides & Notes from the Neighborhood : Wednesday, August 19 – Tuesday, August 25

Arthur Radtke