EASTHAM — Nauset’s lacrosse teams earned hard-fought wins last week while boys and girls track overcame Barnstable High School to open the spring sports season. The boys lacrosse team pulled […]
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BASEBALL
Junior Chase Beach Is the Ace in This Year’s Rotation
His velocity tops out at just over 86 m.p.h.
EASTHAM — Nauset High junior Chase Beach eats, sleeps, and breathes baseball. “I’m thinking about baseball all the time,” says Beach. “When I wake up, I’m thinking about baseball, and […]
GRAVEYARD SHIFT
The Two Lives (at Least) of Eastham’s Ancient Pear Tree
In a 1937 WPA guidebook, fruit from a scion of Gov. Thomas Prence’s 1640s pear tree
As the Great Depression spread its pall, President Franklin Roosevelt implemented the New Deal, a series of programs aimed at restoring American prosperity. Among the initiatives were Works Progress Administration […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Seven Varsity Teams Open the Spring Season
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — Seven Nauset boys and girls varsity teams get their spring seasons underway this week, with golf highlighting a busy schedule with a pair of matches. The Warriors girls […]
SETTERS
The Truro Community Center Hosts a Semi-Serious Volleyball Season
The games are about having fun, but there’s a glint of competitiveness in players’ eyes
TRURO — With the spring equinox just past, a familiar antsiness is on the rise. To fight it, Outer Cape residents have flocked full throttle to the biweekly volleyball games […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Seven Varsity Teams Begin Practice for Spring
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — The Nauset Regional High School spring sports season officially got underway on Monday with seven varsity teams returning to practice. Nauset baseball starts its first season under Coach […]
CULTURE
The Red Hawk Singers and Dancers Bring Stories to the Stage
Wampanoag performers use song, dance, and narrative to teach about their tribe
PROVINCETOWN — CheeNulKa Pocknett and David Pocknett Jr. of the Red Hawk Singers and Dancers put on a program of music and dance at the Provincetown Schools’ Fishermen Hall on […]
ARCHITECTURE
At the Library, an Old Town Settles Into a New Design
Seven years after a renovation in Eastham, a look at where intentions meet reality
EASTHAM — Its architects proposed a purpose to practically every nook and cranny of the Eastham Public Library — a sunlit pondside edifice unveiled in 2016. Seven years later, it’s […]
MEET THE MAKER
Justine Ives Gives Up the Funk With Spray Paint
An illustrator takes on a winter job turning out brightly colored party buses
Photos and Text by Agata Storer TRURO — During the summer, Justine Ives is a manager of logistics at Cape Cab; in the off season, she’s the Funk Bus painter. […]
ON THE RUNWAY
Pets Parade at the Year Rounders Festival
Though some contestants stray due to excitement, curiosity, and smells
PROVINCETOWN — Paws strutted the runway at town hall on Saturday as the annual pet parade — a much-anticipated event of the Year Rounders Festival — got underway. But the […]
BASKETBALL
The Massachusetts Wolves Want to Go Far
Provincetown’s Jay Luster works to bring Cape Cod talent to a new ABA team
PROVINCETOWN — While Cape Cod and the Islands boast a strong culture of high school sports, the region has historically lacked a local college or professional team for residents to […]
NAUSET HOCKEY
Warriors Fall to Watertown in Quarterfinal
Building a hockey culture sometimes hurts
ORLEANS — At the end, the Nauset High boys hockey team deserved better than it got. This year’s team, led by a sizable senior class contingent, brought the program to […]
CONGREGATIONS
Wellfleet’s Congregational Church Gets a New Pastor
Jon Elsensohn joins a church in the Outlands he once read about
WELLFLEET — When Chip Hurd, the pastor of the Roslindale Congregational Church in Boston, heard about the Wellfleet Congregational Church’s search for a new pastor, his friend Jon Elsensohn came […]
THE LURE
Casting Flies for Holdover Trout and Nostalgia
At Gull Pond, fishing is a reprieve from daydreams about the striper run
Friends recently asked me what I fish for during the winter months. It was the evening of our odd one-day cold snap, and we were sitting around slurping fresh oysters […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Hockey Boys Stay Alive in Tourney With Overtime Win
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — The Nauset boys hockey team stayed alive in the Division 3 State Tournament thanks to overtime heroics, while the boys basketball team and the Cape Cod Furies each […]
