East Sandwich News

What do you get when you cross that lowly staple of American commerce - the yard sale - with quirky, over-the-top Provincetown? Probably much more than you bargained for.

Folding chairs sit in haphazard rows on a creaking wood floor, about half-crowded with people who periodically venture to the back of the room for coffee and doughnuts.

Photo by E. Vernon Laux This male Downy Woodpecker, not the red on the back of the head, the smallest woodpecker in our region, was interrupted while making a racket drumming loudly and repeatedly on a dead tree limb in Chatham recently.

Voters will be asked next week to support a Proposition 2 1/2 debt exclusion to build a joint public safety building on Quaker Meetinghouse Road in South Sandwich and a substation near the high school.

An Evening with Dennis Lehane: The well-known author will speak and sign copies of his books at 7 p.m. May 4 at Sandwich Town Hall, 130 Main St., followed by Q & A. $10, limited seating, advance purchase only.

While lauded by classical music lovers, Mozart's Requiem in D Minor is also shrouded in controversy.