Barnstable
+6
Sep 30, 2026
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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.
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.
+5
Sep 23, 2026
10 min read
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.
+7
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.
Aug 19, 2026
Item 2027-011 gets its second reading Thursday. Here's the $10,000, the sixty-day clock, and the sentence worth reading twice.
+3
Aug 5, 2026
4 min read
It isn't breeding in rain puddles. It's breeding in something older.
Three market mornings, four farm stands, and the water argument everybody on the Cape is getting wrong.
Jun 24, 2026
6 min read
An honest audit of Mid Cape waterfront dining, from $9 chowder on a river patio to a $75 plate over the Sound.
