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. […]
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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 […]
MIND AND BODY
Moving Past the Edge
A winter ritual enables a cold but joyous plunge
It isn’t always easy for me to jump in. At the edge there are those few difficult steps into the cold water before I am in deep enough to fully […]
READING ROOM
Big Feelings Find Their Way Out of a Jar
Readers choose the Outer Cape Mock Caldecott winner
Beau Silva, age four, listened with interest as his father, Ross Silva, read to him from Out of a Jar during a recent Friday’s “Read & Play,” a weekly gathering […]
FINAL WHISTLE
Jody Quill Remembers 50 Years of Games
At home at the Nauset gym as a student, a coach, and a scorekeeper
EASTHAM — Jody Quill was there when Nauset Regional High School’s gym opened in December 1971. And she was there when the final game was played in the gym on […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Runners Mahoney, Brown, Bebber, and Roche Qualify for Meet of Champions
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — Nauset’s indoor track and swim teams found success at their respective State Championships while the boys basketball team added a Cape and Islands Atlantic Division championship to their […]
ROUNDBALL STRATEGY
Provincetown Boys Lose Every Game but Win Every Heart
A team of six players takes on teams with three times as many
PROVINCETOWN — If sports were all about numbers, the Provincetown boys basketball season would not have been much fun.
THE COMMUNICATOR
Neptune Abelew Sees You
When warm summer sunshine wears a golden coat
I met up with Bonnie and Beth Abelew and their 14-month-old golden retriever, Neptune, at the benches outside Provincetown Town Hall. The sisters, who’d come in from North Truro, showed […]
