BREWSTER — Eight big floor looms stand in various stages of use in Gretchen Romey-Tanzer’s studio. The walls are lined with vibrant spools of wool and cotton and with the […]
Brewster
MEET THE MAKER
Dried Flowers Capture Summer Colors in Winter Wreaths
Grower Meryl Gartside brings her design skills full circle
It took a while for Meryl Gartside, the owner of Blue Lobster Flower Farm, to find a way to extend her flower-focused business into the winter months. “I don’t have […]
MEET THE MAKERS
Practicing the Ancient Art of Pyrography
Ellen Adamson and Rob Richardson turn and burn their designs into wood
Maybe you’ve seen Ellen Adamson playing her nyckelharpa at one of the local farmers markets. The instrument, which looks like a cross between a fiddle and an autoharp, is the […]
OLD EXIT 12: REDESIGNS
Brewster Slows Down Wing Island Boardwalk Plans
Select board agrees to request further study and revisions
BREWSTER — Stiff public opposition has prompted town officials to hit the brakes on a plan to connect an island purchased by the town in 1961 to the mainland via […]
HALLOWEEN
Nauset High Schoolers Haunt the Crosby Mansion
BREWSTER — The Nauset Players have created a first-ever haunted house at the Crosby Mansion at 163 Crosby Lane, Brewster. The carefully restored historic house, built in 1888 by Albert […]
PRESERVATION
Brewster Looks to Get Residents Onto ‘First Light Beach’
Former Sea Camps property is named to honor Wampanoag people
BREWSTER — The select board has voted unanimously for “First Light Beach” as the name of the town’s newest public beach on Cape Cod Bay. Town meeting approved the $20 […]
Brewster Legal Notices
TOWN OF BREWSTER HISTORIC DISTRICT COMMITTEE PUBLIC HEARING May 23, 2022 The Brewster Historic District Committee will hold a public hearing on Monday, May 23, 2022, at 7:00 pm to […]
TO THE DOGS
Brewster Follows Provincetown’s Lead on Dog Park
After 8 years of planning, the town is set to unleash its park by spring
BREWSTER — It took almost a decade of back-and-forth discussions and proposals, but there will finally be a place in town where dogs and their people can socialize. The acre-and-a-half […]
BREWSTER VOTES
Town Meeting OKs Buying Former Sea Camps Properties
The 120 acres come with a price tag of $26 million
BREWSTER — An overwhelming majority of the record 1,471 residents who turned out for last Sunday’s special town meeting at the Stony Brook Elementary School voted to have the town […]
OLD EXIT 12: THIS LAND
Brewster May Take Sea Camps Properties
Eminent domain is the agenda at a special town meeting set for Sept. 25
BREWSTER — A special town meeting in Brewster on Sept. 25 may determine the fate of the former Cape Cod Sea Camps (CCSC) properties. At a virtual public forum on […]
SEA CAMPS UPDATE
Brewster Flats Foundation Partners With Hale
BFF has raised more than $1.6 million
BREWSTER — A nonprofit group’s vision for purchasing the Cape Cod Sea Camps (CCSC) property on Route 6A has taken a significant step towards reality. The Brewster Flats Foundation (BFF) […]
OLD EXIT 12
Sherman Defeats Hastings in Brewster Vote
School choice petition fails at Orleans town meeting
BREWSTER — Sarah Harlow Sherman won a one-year term on the Brewster School Committee in the May 25 town election by defeating Rheanna Hastings. The vote was 1,675 to 839. […]
OLD EXIT 12: BREWSTER ELECTION
Critic of ‘Liberal Mob’ Recruits School Board Candidates
Two in Brewster have links to Lange’s United Cape Patriots
BREWSTER — Voters will have an array of school committee candidates to choose from at the May 25 town election, including one who wants to reduce the number of school-choice […]
OLD EXIT 12: SCHOOL CHOICE
Brewster Voters Reject Move to Ditch School Choice
The same proposition, by citizen petition, is on the Orleans warrant for Saturday
BREWSTER — The first of two citizen-petition articles seeking to reduce school choice enrollment in the Nauset Regional Schools was defeated by Brewster voters 144 to 75 at their May […]
