Osterville News

If the consistently clouded skies of the past two weeks are to break, the Town of Barnstable and those banking on its annual fireworks display hope that it comes on Saturday.

Randall Realtors GMAC Real Estate has acquired Kinlin Grover GMAC Real Estate, serving Cape Cod and the islands.

As has been the case for the past few elections, voters in some precincts will be headed to different places to cast their ballots.

From noon to 4 on Sunday afternoon, Osterville threw a block party on its main street to greet the season.

Despite the lack of sunshine, the rain held off through the very gray Wednesday morning last week as the Hyannis farmers market set up shop at the top of Main Street.

They appear mysteriously, a Cape and Islands version of crop circles. One day nothing.

A resident of Marstons Mills is giving back to her community in an unusual way. If you are struggling with cancer, she'll walk your dog for you.

Friends who own a Hyannis seasonal home have been advertising to lease their unfurnished loft-bedroom apartment over a garage a billet that a pretentious person might label a "carriage house" - and confided that it has become a tellingly sad contrast to Cape Cod's faade of summer enjoyment.

Weather continued to cause problems along the shoreline last night in Wellfleet, where two men had to be rescued from their swamped car, and in Osterville, where three people were plucked from Sampsons Island after their boat developed problems.

"Peter and Vandy," the closing show at the Provincetown International Film Festival this year, is a love story from a filmmaker homegrown on Cape Cod.

Tears echoed louder than raindrops through the Cotuit Elementary School yesterday as the school prepared to close its doors for the last time.

Tom McDonald brought a unanimous recommendation from the school facilities advisory committee to his colleagues on the school committee June 9: seek immediate requests for proposals to lease three elementary schools that are closing this month.

Randall Realtors, which has local offices in Mystic, Waterford, Westerly and Watch Hill, announced Monday the purchase of Kinlin Grover GMAC Real Estate, a well-known company from Cape Cod.

Last week, we sailed out on Sarah, the 1886 Crosby Catboat replica built at the Cape Cod Maritime Museum in Hyannis a couple of years ago, just for a nice time and to make a little contribution to the museum.

What are the odds of Mary Dunn Road's improvement being paid for by betterments from the local property owners? You might say they're 6,350 to 33.

It's not yet summer, but the really bad bugs have already come and nearly gone. Travel through Falmouth along Route 151, for instance, and there are areas with stands of trees that have lost 90 percent of their leaves, said Roberta Clark, horticulturist at the county extension service.

Color Me Mine At Color Me Mine we feel it is important for children to learn about and experience the arts.

DESIGN FOR LIVING This conceptual design for a housing development of 18 units in three buildings was prepared by Brown Lindquist Fenuccio & Raber Architects, Inc., of Yarmouthport.

Employees, hours and materials could be at stake at the Hyannis Public Library if town officials proceed with a proposed change to the library funding system, library supporters said this week.

The Barnstable Housing Housing authority is moving ahead with plans for 12 units of affordable rental housing at 70 Old Stage Road in Centerville.