Orleans News

From the pen of my brother Dell: The further adventures of the Smith family, seen through the eyes of patriarch Wendell .

Christian Hobbs, 44, of Orleans, Mass. was sentenced Friday in Rockingham County Superior Court to charges he secretly recorded a Salem woman while living under her trailer.

I have a hard time figuring out why anyone in Eastham would vote against water for their home at $150 a year instead of using wells that are contaminated or will be in the future.

Motorists stuck in traffic as they head off for Memorial Day weekend getaways will see something new on many of the state's most congested highways today: digital message boards telling them how many more miles and minutes to major points.

Due to reporting and copyediting errors, a story last week on Hyannis West Elementary School's anniversary incorrectly described the Rev.

A woman leaving the Eastham Town Meeting, which defeated a proposed town water system on May 6, said, "It's simply too much money." Similar sentiments were aired in Sandwich and Orleans as big-ticket items went by the boards because of concern over hefty property tax increases.

Three dozen guns and over a thousand rounds of ammunition were brought in by residents to local police during the Outer Cape gun "buy back" program May 11 through Sunday, Wellfleet Police Chief Ron Fisette said Tuesday.

Ten members of the Cape-based watchdog group that has long called for the closure of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth were arrested Sunday and arraigned in Plymouth District Court on Monday for trespassing onto power plant property after a rally outside the gate.

The Waldorf School of Cape Cod in Cotuit is breaking ground this month on a hoop house that will provide fresh produce for school lunches - even during the winter - and will involve children as young as 3 in gardening and local food production.

Multiple Cape towns are searching for a missing person in the water off Brewster, according to Dennis Deputy Fire Chief Robert Brown.

In 2007 the Orleans Council on Aging voted to build a therapeutic garden at its facility on Rock Harbor Road.

The Cape Cod Chapter of the American Business Women's Association will host its annual open house and business expo from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the DoubleTree Hilton, 287 Iyannough Road , Hyannis.

Although food trucks have been around for hundreds of years and have increased in popularity over the past decade, they're still relatively new to the Cape.

"Quilters," a staged reading by Stage East Actors, will take place at 3 and 8 p.m. today at Parish Hall, Church of the Holy Spirit, 204 Monument Road, Orleans.

THEY'RE BOTH BEAMING Anthony Marshall, the artist's cousin, adjusts a lighthouse that will be part of T. Michael Thomas's exhibit at Zion Union Heritage Museum in Hyannis May 18 through July.

To date, only a handful of Massachusetts towns have established zones to accommodate medical marijuana dispensaries, so it's not surprising that prospective applicants for the operations approached Dennis officials as soon as word circulated that a local bylaw was in the works.

Massachusetts has a greater percentage of college graduates than any state in the country.

It's rare for a group of police chiefs to agree on something, Eastham Police Chief Edward Kulhawik says, half in jest.

"Benjamin Franklin's Bastard: A Father, a Son, and the Women Who Loved Them: A Novel," Sally Cabot Sally Cabot, aka Sally Gunning, of Brewster, is an accomplished historical novelist and mystery writer.

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.