Barnstable
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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.
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.
Sep 23, 2026
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.
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10 min read
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.
Aug 19, 2026
Tiki Port, Gina's by the Sea, and the Riverway — and the one that never actually went dark.
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The Melody Tent, the Red Cottage, and Ann & Fran's — three Mid Cape institutions running models that shouldn't work.
Item 2027-011 gets its second reading Thursday. Here's the $10,000, the sixty-day clock, and the sentence worth reading twice.
Bass Hole is open in full. February 1978 is the reason that's worth measuring.
