WELLFLEET — “I love sitting with people of all ages and folding paper,” said Sheryl Jaffee, the Wellfleet Historical Society’s museum coordinator. The assembled — more people than would fit […]
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WARRIORS WATCH
Hockey Teams Sweep Codfish Cup
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — The Nauset Warriors and Cape Cod Furies hockey teams swept the Codfish Cup with wins over Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School on Monday to cap off the week in […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Swimmers Sweep Cape & Islands Classic
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — The Nauset Warriors swim team capped a strong week for the high school’s athletics program by sweeping the Cape and Islands Classic at Sandwich High School last Saturday. […]
GRAVEYARD SHIFT
Sarah Cleverly Atwood, Keeper of the Light
After tragic losses, a Wellfleet family’s new beginnings
With the April 1861 bombardment of Fort Sumter — the Union garrison in Charleston Harbor — civil war became a certainty. Appeals were made in the Northern states for troops, […]
IN VIEW THIS WEEK
THAT’S A WRAP
WARRIORS WATCH
Poulin Has a Third Hat Trick in Newton North Win
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — The boys ice hockey team’s dominant performance against Division 1 Newton North High School last Friday highlighted the winter break for Nauset Regional High School athletics. It was […]
BEHIND THE WHEEL
Is Your Car Blizzard-Ready?
Five things you need for winter car safety
I’ve been late for dinner before, but there are people in Buffalo who left work on Friday afternoon and still hadn’t gotten home by Christmas. The weather this week inspired […]
PHOTOJOURNALISM
In Review: Visual Histories, 2022
Two photographers revisit their favorite images of the year
THE COMMUNICATOR
Marcel, a Hamster Without Borders, Dreams Big
When your world is spinning, look forward, never up
“Tell me, good sir, have you ever seen a hawk?” Marcel asked. I’m the one who’s supposed to be asking questions as part of my ongoing investigation into the minds […]
HOCKEY
Sophomore Phenom Logan Poulin Paces Warriors’ Offense
Coach Connor Brickley says he’s ‘electric and fun to watch’
ORLEANS — Nauset Regional High School sophomore Logan Poulin has made a fast start in the current hockey season on a team he didn’t expect to be part of at […]
WARRIORS WATCH
O’Keefe’s 3-Pointer Sinks Nantucket at Buzzer, 60-58
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — The Nauset boys basketball team’s dramatic win on Nantucket highlighted a high school sports week that was disrupted by the winter storm that hit the region. The Warriors […]
MEET THE MAKER
Building Around Constraints Is a Crossword Constructor’s Pleasure
Sophia Maymudes enters the debates on grids, clues, themes, and symmetry
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 […]
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 […]
