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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 […]
GRAVEYARD SHIFT
David Conwell Stull, the Ambergris King
In Provincetown, fame for finding melon oil and floating gold
It would be unthinkable today for the community to cheer on the chasing, corralling, and driving of frightened blackfish to their slaughter. But a little over a century ago, people […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Boys Knock Off Fitchburg to Advance in State Tourney
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — The Nauset boys basketball team secured a dramatic 59-58 comeback win over Fitchburg High School on Monday night in the MIAA Division 2 State Tournament to advance to […]
