Sep 30, 2026
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12 min read
Something unpopular about a restaurant that's closing
Barnstable
+6
9 min read
Barnstable's scallop season opens Thursday, Oct. 1. Off Kalmus Beach, a new 2.5-inch rule decides which ringed scallops stay in the water.
Spotlight
Dennis rejected an $8 million Sesuit package in 2025. On Oct. 6, Article 13 asks to borrow $5,484,000. Some answers are still missing.
8 min read
After 49 years with the O'Connors, Centerville's candy store is listed for sale. The records can't agree on when it was built.
7 min read
Wimpy's leaves 752 Main St. on Oct. 10. First, on Tuesday, Oct. 6, the dine-in hamburger goes back to its 1938 price.
The Extended Version · September 30–October 6, 2026
Sep 23, 2026
10 min read
Full moon Saturday at 12:49, plus a northeast wind that won't quit
One sentence on Whig Street starts Cape Cod's cranberry business with a winter wind. Up the road, a grower says she farms the very ground.
+5
A fire, the selectmen and thirty years of neighbors couldn't shut a Route 28 nightclub. A crane and a crowd holding coffee finally did.
Eleven of Saturday's prizes are for dachshunds only. One goes to a dog of any other breed dressed as a bun. The lot has no steps.
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One commercial fryer in a Hyannis dock shed outlived the fish market beside it. Now the family has offered the whole wharf to the town.
The Extended Version · September 23–29, 2026
Aug 19, 2026
Forty-eight years of Tiki Port went home in tote bags
5 min read
Mid Cape Weather, Tides & Notes from the Neighborhood : Wednesday, August 19 – Tuesday, August 25
The Extended Version · August 19–25, 2026
Aug 12, 2026
11 min read
The Uncommoner has scheduled its yoga, its Pilates and its sound baths. The one thing it has never put on a calendar is the tarot.
Restaurants
Thirty-five dishes on the new menu carry the same instruction: half order, thirty-two ounces, for two people. Full order, sixty-four, for four.
One ball, two people, eighteen par threes. There is no round of your own to hide inside.
The raffle list at Saturday's show tells you more about who this club is than any of the cars will.
Mid Cape Weather, Tides & Notes from the Neighborhood : Wednesday, August 12 – Tuesday, August 18
The Extended Version · August 12–18, 2026
Aug 5, 2026
15 min read
Eighty-seven years to the day, under a Rockwell Kent sky
3 min read
A beer garden opened in Dennis Port with no kitchen. Here's how it feeds 325 people anyway.
+3
4 min read
It isn't breeding in rain puddles. It's breeding in something older.
The pews in Dennis were cut for a congregation. They're still the seats.
