Sophia Maymudes has always had her own, perhaps odd, way with words. She remembers defining the word ungulate for her parents when it appeared in a clue of a crossword […]
Community
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TOWNIE CHRISTMAS
Kook Toy Drive Funds the Season’s Essentials
Pogo sticks and tricycles, but also groceries and heating oil
PROVINCETOWN — Taped to the walls at the Crown & Anchor for last Wednesday’s 24th annual Kook Toy Drive were images of pogo sticks (available for a donation of $50), […]
MOVEMENT
Traipsing With the Norkers
Nordic walking booms on Cape Cod’s trails
EASTHAM — Back in June, 11 curious locals holding trekking poles fashioned from flimsy driveway markers joined Carla Fogaren for a walk around Kent’s Point in Orleans. Six months later, […]
READING ROOM
Llamas Playing Dreidel
A picture book in rhyme about Hanukkah traditions
TRURO — Four-year-old Zella Beatrice Althaus, who is in the preschool class at the Truro Central School, was at the town library with her Bubbe, Fran Adams, on Friday. She […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Hockey Teams Both Ranked in Top 10
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — The Nauset boys hockey team kept its unbeaten start to the season going with a 6-3 win over Plymouth North on Saturday. It was a big win for […]
READING ROOM
Perfectly Pointy or Not, a Tree’s Best When It’s Surrounded by Friends
At the Wellfleet Public Library, a picture book about the search for perfection
Wellfleet resident Corinne Demas wrote The Perfect Tree for her two-year-old granddaughter Morgan. The book, with illustrations by Penelope Dullaghan, came out this year. Morgan is 14 now, but at […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Hockey Teams Win Their Openers
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — The Nauset Regional High School winter sports season got underway last week with all nine varsity teams in action. Boys and girls basketball and boys and girls hockey […]
EDUCATION
Provincetown Schools International Trips Resume
The 8th graders are headed to London
PROVINCETOWN — Nineteen eighth-graders will be heading to London this spring when the local school tradition of sending upper-grade students on an international journey returns for the first time since […]
GRAVEYARD SHIFT
Remembering the Rachel, Lost in the Long Storm of 1798
A marble tablet in a Truro cemetery names the crew ‘and one more’
What came to be known as the Long Storm of 1798 arrived on the New England coast on Nov. 17. One Portsmouth, N.H. newspaper, under the headline “Violent Snow Storm,” […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Seasoned Warriors Set to Open Hockey Season Against St. John Paul II
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — When the Nauset High School boys hockey team returns to the ice on Thursday night to face St. John Paul II at the Hyannis Youth and Community Center, […]
IN VIEW THIS WEEK
Wintery Mix
NAUGHTY YET NICE STUNNED COMPASS POINTS
WE THE PEOPLE
New Citizens Say Naturalization Is About Community
Passing the test and putting down roots on the Outer Cape
“I had never pictured myself living in the U.S.,” said Sandra Paredes, who grew up in Colombia. But then she fell in love with an American man, and it made […]
CRYSTAL PALACE
An Oasis of Oddities
At Buddha Bobs, sages sit among tchotchkes, geodes, and gems
EASTHAM — Tellis Dion isn’t always sure what he wants when he comes to Cape Cod. But he knows that whatever it is he will find it at Buddha Bobs. […]
SURFING
An Epic Tale, in Dialect, With Sound Effects
Footnotes for understanding a surfer’s meaning
Have you ever overheard a conversation between two surfers and wondered “What language are they speaking?” Surfer talk is a dialect that uses borrowed terms, completely made-up words, a wide […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Footballers Lose Heartbreaker in Chowder Bowl
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — The Nauset High School football team dropped a heartbreaker at Dennis-Yarmouth High School, 45-42, in the 26th edition of the Chowder Bowl on Thanksgiving Day. Sophomore defensive back […]
