Harwich News

Regional schools on Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard are facing deep reductions in money for student busing under Gov.

A police cruiser was struck by a car while the officer was responding to a report of a stabbing this afternoon on Great Western Road.

Two gas explosions early this morning slightly injured one worker at the Tri-Town Septic Treatment Facility on Overland Way.

Firefighters, Harwich police and the state fire marshal's office will investigate the cause of a fire that heavily damaged a vacant house around 12:18 a.m. today.

The police released a composite sketch and a video image of the two suspects linked to a break-in Tuesday afternoon at Monahan & Co.

ALTVATER, Clarissa M., 18, Hampton, N.H.; assault and battery, Sunday in Chatham.

Every request for help at Lower Cape Outreach comes with a story. A retiree who lost savings in the stock market crash needs a job but knows nothing about computers.

In an unusual daytime robbery on Main Street, two men worked together to smash a window and grab jewelry from Monahan & Co.

HUSSETT, Peter J., 56, 552 Westgate Road, Brewster; guilty of two counts assault and battery, May 4 in Brewster, one year probation, $780 costs and $400 fees.

When I attended the Oct. 17 gathering to meet Martha Coakley in Harwich, I was thrilled to see the house overflowing with Coakley supporters, many of whom I recognized as fellow activists during the Obama campaign.

BOBOSINK, Brock T., 32, 227 Clay Hole Road, Brewster; guilty of larceny of a value more than $250, April 9 in Orleans, 18 months probation; shoplifting, dismissed.

Mutiny in Orleans. The Chatham taxpayer uprising. Stewarts Creek. The list of recent public outcries over wastewater planning on Cape Cod reads like a wartime history book.

STEAMY AND SCARY Lucy falls under the spell of Count Dracula in the Harwich Winter Theatre production of the classic tale.

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Dear Write to Know: I recently brought home a partially completed hooked rug I found at the Treasure Chest in Harwich.

FOX, Nicole, 27, 154 Archie's Cartway, Brewster; guilty of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol , March 7 in Orleans, one year probation, 45-day license loss, $1,847.22 costs and $50 fee.

Several homes were evacuated at about 11:45 a.m. yesterday after a well driller cracked a natural gas main at the corner of Vineyard Avenue and Smith Street.

I think of mid-October as the golden days. Leaves are turning, goldenrod in meadows nods heavy with bloom, the air is hazy with yellow pollen and the low slant of afternoon sunshine bathes everything in a golden light.

This letter is in reference to the wonderful article Sept. 28 about the "green" houses being built in Harwich by Habitat for Humanity.

Karen McPherson considered auditioning to play Linda Loman, wife of the iconic down-on-his-luck salesman Willy in "Death of a Salesman," several years ago but decided she wasn't "emotionally ready" then.