Monument Beach News

An unidentified male was treated for reported smoke inhalation at the scene of a house fire on Bennetts Neck Drive in the Monument Beach section of Bourne Friday afternoon around around 5 p.m. The extent of the victim's injuries is unknown at this time, however, he was conscious in the back of the ambulance.

Voter turnout was light to moderate on Cape Cod on primary day, as voters selected Democratic and Republican candidates for U.S. Senate.

Dear Write to Know: I am looking for a used upright piano for my grandson for Christmas, one in good condition, of course.

Bourne Police take Caleb Savage into custody following a reported incident involving a threat with a knife to several Bourne Middle School students waiting for a school bus in Bourne, Massachusetts Friday morning around 7:15 AM.

Despite pleas from residents to make budget cuts from the school department's administrative salaries, the school committee cut one teacher and five other staff positions as part of $250,000 slashed from the town's school budget last night.

William R. "Bill" Andrews died in his sleep on Oct. 18, 2008, eight days before his 74th birthday.

With all due respect to Anna Manatis as a medical doctor and someone connected to health care delivery, she is incorrect in her constitutional interpretation of "rights" as she would have us believe in her My View piece of Sept.

We invited our online readers to send us their own guilty pleasures. We'll kick it off with one from features editor Anne Humphrey.

I suggest that every member of Congress be asked, individually, to answer each of the three following questions: Do you believe every citizen should have accessible, affordable health care? If so, what are you doing to make that available? If not, why not? And what other interests are influencing you? The media are best able to conduct this survey ...

Cape-based directors Dan Boylan and Guy Taylor are presenting a screening of their award-winning short films from 1 to 3 p.m. Aug.

Could the classic summer camp experience be the latest victim of the economy? The recession has meant high expenses and fewer kids for some Cape camps, but most directors say they are holding their own under trying circumstances.

A three-vehicle crash at western end of the Sagamore Bridge yesterday afternoon injured two drivers and snarled Route 3 traffic for about two miles, public safety officials and witnesses said.

The Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School Class of 2009 left its home of four years high above the canal yesterday, proudly marching out into an uncertain world that, for one sun-splashed day at least, seemed wide and wonderful.

BAKER, Glenn E., 51, 57 Carriage Shop Road, East Falmouth; driving with registration suspended April 29 in Falmouth, dismissed upon payment of $100 court cost; driving uninsured motor vehicle, dismissed upon payment of $100 court cost.