South Yarmouth News Archives

Collecting bags full of candy is kid stuff, but Halloween also is a favorite holiday for many adults, and there are plenty of events on Cape that are specifically geared toward older revelers.

A long line of people waited for the South Yarmouth Registry of Motor Vehicles branch to open today.

On Oct. 19, voters in Mashpee rejected a petitioned article that would have created a restrictive bylaw aimed at pit bulls.

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It's been eight years since Christine Rathbun was diagnosed with breast cancer, and she's been reliving that crisis over and over onstage.

Because of incorrect information provided to the Times, an item in the Barnstable District Court Report on Page C5 of Tuesday's newspaper had an incorrect address for Raymond Rios, arraigned on a charge of armed robbery.

Dream Studios of Cape Cod has opened at 1 Reardon Circle in South Yarmouth. The performing arts school has a community center feel, with three studios, a parents lounge and a Wi-Fi homework room included in its facility.

Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High honored fallen U.S. Marine Cpl. Nicholas Xiarhos by retiring his football jersey over the weekend.

Oceanwinz Consign and Design has opened at 1124 Route 28 in South Yarmouth. Owned by Melissa Murphy, the consignment and co-op store offers upscale second-time-around furniture, as well as jewelry, clothing, glassware, Depression glass and other treasures.

The ninth annual Wellfleet OysterFest takes place on Saturday and Sunday. This two-day street party celebrates the town's famous oysters, clams and shellfishing traditions and brings together locals and visitors for a weekend full of hometown flavor and big time fun.

UNDER ONE MOON Carolyn McDade of Orleans has been writing music for decades. Her compositions combine spiritual and ecological concerns, going back to a signature song from the 1970s, "Under One Moon." Oct.

Just when the tourists have left and locals are talking about how much Cape Cod has slowed down already, coupled in conversation with anticipation of a dreary winter ahead and how Hyannis is already turning into a ghost town just when we're practicing our annual tradition in negative projection poetry rears its beautiful head with off-season events ...

Route 28 will be closed to traffic from about 11:30 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. Sunday for the 31st Annual Yarmouth Seaside Festival Parade.

Partisan politics appear to have played a role last night in filling a vacancy on the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District Committee.

Someone once observed: "Cape Cod is not a place. It's a thing with places on it." The Cape Cod Foundation has been holding a series of meetings about the places and, more to the point, about the people who inhabit them.

Renee Elizabeth Anderson, age 83 of South Yarmouth, MA died on Friday, October 2, 2009, in the Cape Regency Healthcare Center in Centerville, with her family at her side.

WINGBACK SOFA & CHAIR: We have a long, green wingback sofa in good condition, with only some wear on the bottom, and a brown faux leather wingback chair, also in good condition, with only one small tear in the material.