SLIDESHOW: The Final Step

Time ran out on Dennis-Yarmouth in the first half, but the Dolphins made up for it after intermission and won its sixth straight Thanksgiving Day Chowder Bowl game over Nauset that was much closer than the 29-7 final score indicated.

Accidents will happen, and sometimes they turn out for the best.
That was the case for the Falmouth football team as it pulled off a 26-21 victory over Barnstable in the traditional Thanksgiving Day rivalry.
 

It becomes harder and harder to keep secrets in this age of the Internet, blogging and 24-hour cable news.

A limited number of tickets are still available for the Cape Cod Baseball League’s ninth annual Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Saturday, Nov. 22, at the Chatham Bars Inn.

   Tickets are priced at $75 each and can be purchased by mailing a check to: Cape Cod Baseball League Hall of Fame Tickets, P.O. Box 266, Harwich Port, MA 02646.

Cape Cod Baseball League
(games thru August 5)
Standings

Cape Cod Baseball League
(games thru August 2)
Standings

Young and old are signing up for this year’s Jolly Jaunt. Team involvement has grown significantly; Sarah’s Team has 39 participants, most of them between the ages of 10-15. Latham Hawks has 18 team members.

Giant tuna have been in short supply off the Cape in recent years. The weekend after the presidential election giants galore appeared off Chatham, huge schools of bluefin tuna that, according to the fish stories, were virtually throwing themselves into boats.

This coming Holly Folly weekend is great for shopping but it’s about much more than that. It’s about coming together to share some fun.

Garrow Throops photographs, “Highlights of Patagonia,” will be on exhibit at the Truro Library beginning with a reception at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3 and running through the month.

Nestled in the shifting dunes along the shore of the great back beach expanse of the Atlantic Ocean in Provincetown are 17 small rustic cabins, the fabled dune shacks of the Cape Cod National Seashore.

Yarmouth, Barnstable, Orleans and Eastham are among many towns that are receiving notification today that all shellfishing in town has been closed until further notice.

Young and old are signing up for this year’s Jolly Jaunt. Team involvement has grown significantly; Sarah’s Team has 39 participants, most of them between the ages of 10-15. Latham Hawks has 18 team members.

Calendar of events, Lower and Outer Cape, Dec. 5 - 12

Young and old are signing up for this year’s Jolly Jaunt. Team involvement has grown significantly; Sarah’s Team has 39 participants, most of them between the ages of 10-15. Latham Hawks has 18 team members.

It took dozens of volunteers hundreds of hours over six years to transform the old Bass River Savings Bank into the Cultural Center of Cape Cod.

East Falmouth-based Woods Hole Group Environmental Laboratories has been awarded a $5 million contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

They tried to be nice; now it’s time to express some urgency.
This approach taken by Bourne selectmen, acting as sewer commissioners, is designed to force their Wareham counterparts to renew the two-town inter-municipal agreement through which Buzzards Bay sewage is treated at the neighboring Agawam River plant.

Gas prices in Massachusetts dropped by another 7 cents per gallon in the past week, according to AAA Southern New England. The motorists club reported on Monday that the state average for self-serve, regular gas fell to $1.85 a gallon, down from $1.92 a gallon a week ago. That’s less than two-thirds of the cost of gas at this time last year, when gas was sold for an average of just over $3 a gallon in the state.

The owner of a Cape Cod construction firm will pay $19,000 to settle allegations that he misclassified an employee as an independent contractor and failed to pay that person the proper prevailing wage.

East Falmouth-based Woods Hole Group Environmental Laboratories has been awarded a $5 million contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

If Texas is oil country, could Cape Cod be green energy country? Perhaps, but there are a lot more ways to be part of the push for clean energy than by building wind turbines off- or on-shore.

Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environment Ian Bowles headlined a forum on clean energy and Cape Cod at Cape Cod Community College Tuesday morning.

If the economic picture isn’t bleak enough, consider the latest news from Beacon Hill. Monday night Dennis-Yarmouth Superintendent of Schools Carol Woodbury told the school committee, “We don’t know if we’re going to see post-holiday cuts in this year’s state revenue, both in Chapter 70 and transportation funding.”

Approximately 78 million baby boomers are rounding the corner of retirement and will be looking for what’s next.

For countless reasons, from a bad economy, entrepreneurship, or for socialization and enrichment, many baby boomers aren’t necessarily ready to retire in the traditional way.

Orleans police officers and local residents are increasingly coming into contact with dirty hypodermic needles. Residents are finding needles in their neighborhoods as well as at public landings and parks. Police officers, while making arrests or doing routine traffic stops, are finding dirty needles during searches.

When most of Cape Cod west of Wellfleet lost power on Nov. 22 as the result of a car crashing into a utility pole in Wellfleet, there were two back-up systems that were supposed to ensure that the telephone lines in the Provincetown Police Dept. continued to work.