Onset News

Divers searched the bottom of Onset's East River Friday afternoon after a kayaker reported seeing someone disappear under the water, but they did not find anyone, officials said.

When Joseph Baron talks, history comes alive. Baron, 98, remembers kerosene lamps, deliveries from the iceman and driving a 1926 Dodge.

CapeCast: Roundup of Fab Fourth fun! - 7/2/2009 On today's CapeCast: Here's the skinny on parades, fireworks and the Mashpee Wampanoag powwow as we help you make it a Fabulous Fourth! CapeCast: Through the canal! - 7/1/2009 On today CapeCast: Hop aboard a Cape Cod Canal Cruise out of Onset and see cool things from the water--bridges, boats and ...

The Gleason Family YMCA and the Onset Band Shell will be the sites of the Summer Food Service Program, according to a statement from the YMCA.

After nearly two years, the Board of Selectmen's lawyers have given the go-ahead for mediation in the lawsuits surrounding the library Board of Trustees.

It was not supposed to be this way. Wareham, with a long history of stormy politics, was turning a new leaf in the April 2007 town election.

Fishery managers trying to protect rare sea turtles from fishing nets have turned to a Cape Cod company for help.

Fishery managers trying to protect rare sea turtles from dying in fishing nets have tapped a Cape Cod company to build a device they think can help balance turtle protection with profitable fishing.

A one-woman comedy show will come to town on Father's Day to close Community Arts in Action's first season.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 offers $20 billion for energy efficiency programs, creating unprecedented opportunity for energy services companies .

The arrival of swine flu in the United States exposed gaps in the supply chain that delivers medication, masks and even testing swabs to hospitals and doctors' offices-shortcomings that could prove vastly more worrisome if a deadlier strain returns in the fall, officials say.

Firefighters are known to rescue cats in trees but on Friday, Onset firefighters saved a kitten that was stuck in a PVC pipe for days.

Police Chief Thomas A. Joyce will retire for exactly one minute just before midnight tonight.

Onset Computer Corporation , the world's leading supplier of data loggers, today announced that researchers have selected the company's HOBO water temperature loggers for environmental studies conducted in the Seychelles Island, Indian Ocean.

Pulling cats out of trees is old hat for many firefighters, but a team of rescuers from Onset faced a unique challenge this week when they found a tabby cat wedged in a PVC pipe.

One person received minor injuries during a fire that caused heavy damage to a building at Gosnold of Cape Cod early this morning.

Jun 6, 2009 4:41 pm US/Eastern WAREHAM 1 of 4 Little Piper stuck in the PVC pipe before she was rescued.

When the Wareham police chief announced his decision to step down last week in the midst of a townwide computer audit, some questioned the timing of his departure.

Onset Computer Corporation , the world's leading supplier of data loggers, today announced that the company's web-based HOBO U30 Remote Monitoring Systems are now compatible with NorthWrite, Inc.'s industry-leading Energy Expert software platform.

During the terrorist siege last fall in Mumbai, India, Gerrie Stadelmann wasn't scared so much by the gunfire she could hear from the third-floor hotel room where she and her husband were holed up, but by the thought of when it would reach them.