North Eastham News

Children who live in states with laws requiring bicycle helmet use are much more likely to wear them, a new study reports.

In December 2005, when strong winds brought trees down and wiped power out across the Cape, local shelters were left without enough cots to house those looking for a place to stay.

The Barnstable County Regional Emergency Planning Committee will hold the first test of a regional emergency sheltering program Saturday.

A legal struggle has begun that five Lower Cape towns are watching carefully. Last Thursday, the Wellfleet Board of Selectmen signed a preliminary denial of a new 10-year contract with Comcast for a license to provide cable service in Wellfleet, according to Wellfleet Cable Advisory Commission chairman Tom Cole.

Prosecutors have dropped the criminal charge against a Brewster youth suspected of having a role in the alleged theft of a Provincetown police officer's handgun four months ago.

In this era of war and the tumbling economy it was refreshing to see the article featuring Cape Cod Emmy winner Jul3ia Richard Astatkie .

"Adult Orphans: Forging a New Identity After Parental Loss" is a new community support group forming June 18 at Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod, 765 Attucks Lane in Hyannis.

The all-important ages from birth to 3 were not mentioned in the front-page article May 28, "Study finds education reform incomplete." Yet one of the signal accomplishments of the 1993 Education Reform Act was to create the Massachusetts Family Network Program, serving ages birth to 3 in universal access programs.

After seven years as the country's "homelessness czar," Philip Mangano is heading home to Cape Cod.

I like to take a peaceful walk on a daily basis. My tranquility was interrupted by my encounter with a full-grown Akita and a small dog.

A local teenager has been charged with obtaining a semi-automatic handgun stolen from a Provincetown police officer's home in late February.

In a flurry of e-mails and fliers, Nauset parents are reacting with anguish to budget cuts at the district's middle and high schools that they think threaten their children's education.

The Town of Eastham will be holding a public information meeting at 10am on Saturday, February 21, 2009 at the Eastham Town Hall, 2500 State Highway.

Bernie Webber, who helped rescue 32 people off the coast of Chatham in 1952, died this weekend at his Florida home.

It was somehow fitting that Art Nickerson's last meal was a dish of his famous turnips.

The Wellfleet Police Department's K-9 unit found a local man wanted on two arrest warrants after the man allegedly ran from police Friday morning.