Wellfleet News

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.

A man was arrested at Marconi Beach on Tuesday morning after allegedly assaulting a woman at a Spring Brook Road home.

Officials say it's possible the bear is looking for food, and police recommended that residents take down bird feeders and remove other sources of food from their yards.

While some of the beaches at Cape Cod National Seashore were hit particularly hard by Hurricane Sandy last fall and winter storms, park officials say repairs will be made in time for the high summer season.

Kevin and Tracy Keegan kiss their daughter Marina at her graduation from Yale in May, 2012.

This young killdeer, one of two surviving chicks from a nest in a Nantucket beach parking lot, is less than 2 weeks old and will not be able to fly until it has grown its flight feathers, which will take about another 20 days.

Beach stairs torn apart by storms this winter at Nauset Light Beach in Eastham and Marconi Beach in Wellfleet will be repaired by early June, allowing the facilities to open to the public, Cape Cod National Seashore Superintendent George Price announced today.

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.

The current contract is $37.51 per ton until 2015 for Cape Cod towns except Wellfleet, which pays $18.50 per ton and Bourne, which has its own landfill.

Auditions for 12 acting roles will be held May 16-18 for "Our Town: Billingsgate Becomes Wellfleet," an original play written by Dina Harris and David Wright to kick off a weeklong celebration of the town's 250th anniversary in August.

"Tend your gardens." So sayeth the bruised optimist at the end of Voltaire's Age of Enlightenment satire, "Candide." Whether you feel our age is enlightened or benighted, the advice is still good 250 years later, particularly this time of year, and on Cape Cod.

DEVINE, Eric, 45, 68 Uncle Bob's Way, South Dennis; admitted sufficient facts to violating a protective order, April 1 in Dennis, continued without a finding for one year then closed, $600 costs and $50 fee.

Five Lower Cape police departments will initiate what they hope is an annual voluntary gun "buy back" program May 11-19, as a way to help prevent gun violence following the school shooting Dec.

At a fateful town meeting May 6, Eastham will decide whether it is necessary to spend $114 million on a townwide public water system.

BLACKWELL, Chelsea, 20, 155 W. Main St., Wellfleet; possession of heroin, Feb. 28 in Yarmouth, dismissed on payment of $200 costs.

Three people are competing Tuesday for two positions on the board of selectmen, and the candidates are thinking ahead about education, housing, jobs, the economy and trash.

WELCOME RETURN Steve Shook is back on stage after a lengthy hiatus. He joins Daniel Shook , Mark Usher, and Kimon Kirk for a CD release party at WHAT May 3. Steve Shook, formerly of the band the Incredible Casuals, has been in a hiatus from the music scene for a number of years.

Voters will decide at the annual election Tuesday who should preside over town meetings for the next year: incumbent Bruce Bierhans, an attorney, or former Moderator Daniel Silverman.

Chatham is one of the latest senior centers to offer a weekly cafe lunch experience, designed to acquaint residents with their senior centers' programs and encourage healthful eating.