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Ever-shifting sands are eroding the town’s authority over Lighthouse Beach. The Patricks and Erdekians, residents of Morris Island Road, are claiming rights to a wide swath of land that has drifted onto their shores over the past 10 to 20 years because...
Tags: Chatham, Cape Cod, Coastal geography, Beach, Hospitality Recreation, New England, Dune
A house on Gull Pond Road was gutted by fire yesterday morning after what fire officials believe was a short circuit of faulty or antiquated electrical wiring. There were no injuries, said Wellfleet Fire Chief Dan Silverman. But fire crews searched the...
Tags: Gull Pond Road, Dan Silverman, Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Wellfleet Massachusetts, Barnstable County Massachusetts, Disaster Accident
The police are investigating dozens of damaged headstones at the Oak Grove Cemetery, reports the Cape Cod Times . The police received a report Wednesday of several headstones knocked over or broken at the cemetery off Sea Street, Barnstable police Lt.
Tags: Cape Cod Times, Boston, Cape Cod, Barnstable County Massachusetts, Barnstable Massachusetts, Law Crime, Headstone
The former girls junior varsity soccer coach at Mashpee High School has pleaded guilty to having an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old player. Stephen Weixler was ordered to serve six months in jail with two years suspended after pleading guilty...
Tags: Mashpee High School, pleading guilty, Boston, Law Crime, Cape Cod, Education, Mashpee Massachusetts, Barnstable County Massachusetts, Barnstable Massachusetts
National Grid Plc and Cape Wind have agreed to enter negotiations for a long-term contract under which the power utility operator would buy power generated by Cape Wind's proposed offshore wind farm, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said on Wednesday....
Tags: Cape Wind, wind farm, nantucket sound, Nantucket, Nantucket Massachusetts, Wind power, Martha's Vineyard, Environment, Cape Cod, Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, Politics, Business Finance, Wind power in the United States
E ver since coyotes first appeared on the Cape nearly 25 years ago, naturalists have been trying to reassure people that they had more to fear from their own dog than the people-shy coyote. Even after a 3-year-old Sandwich boy playing on a swing set in...
Tags: Boston, Cape, Cape Cod, Coyote, Barnstable County Massachusetts, Sandwich Massachusetts, Canines
A 49-year-old man suffered a severed finger in a wood-cutting accident yesterday morning, a fire department official said, reports the Cape Cod Times . The man, who fire officials declined to identify, was using a hydraulic log splitter at about 11:40...
Tags: Dennis Police Department, Yarmouth, Cape Cod, New England, Barnstable County Massachusetts, Dennis Massachusetts, Hyannis Massachusetts, Barnstable Massachusetts, Medflight, Yarmouth Massachusetts, Log splitter, Disaster Accident, Law Crime, Human Interest
Joseph Kuzava, roused from sleep by an early morning explosion, busted through a window to escape his burning house, his sister said yesterday, reports the Cape Cod Times . "He was literally trapped in the house, and he broke out through the window,"...
Tags: Sandwich, Cape Cod, Gas explosion, New England, Barnstable County Massachusetts, Geoffrey Chaucer, Sandwich Massachusetts, Disaster Accident, Gas
Dozens of people who live within the boundaries of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore celebrated their final Thanksgiving in their homes Thursday, months before the government is set to take possession of their properties. The lakeshore will claim...
Tags: National Park Service, George Bagnall, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Beverly Shores, Beverly Shores Indiana, United States National Lakeshore, Cape Cod, Lakeshore, Indiana, Costa Dillon, Porter County Indiana
A man was seriously hurt in an explosion and fire at his Chaucer Street home early yesterday morning and was flown to a Hub hospital for treatment, authorities said. Joseph Kuzava, 50, suffered second-degree burns to his face and torso and was placed...
Tags: seriously, man, flown, fire, Joseph Kuzava, Sandwich, Heating ventilating and air conditioning, Cape Cod, Plumbing, Heater, Halifax Explosion, Home appliances, Geoffrey Chaucer, Barnstable County Massachusetts, Sandwich Massachusetts, Boilers, Disaster Accident, Water heating