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Keeping promises in Bourne By KAREN JEFFREY Cape Cod Times It is a place of silence and sorrow, a place of contemplation and comfort - 750 rolling acres in a corner of Cape Cod. Few might guess that this place, the Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne, is one of the Cape's most visited sites. And certainly, with an average of 10 burials a day, regardless of season or weather, it is one of the busiest.
Dredging plan stirs up ruckus Harwich shellfishing interests oppose boaters who would deepen a creek channel to make it easier to get their craft through. By DOUG FRASER STAFF WRITER Cape Cod Times HARWICH - Bob Dowling moved here 20 years ago from Connecticut to enjoy the simple pleasures of the Cape. That is especially true when it comes to shellfishing in his favorite spot, Oyster Creek, an arm of Allen Harbor.
To the rescue Provincetown center aids humpback whale By CONOR BERRY STAFF WRITER PROVINCETOWN - - Cape Cod Times A team from the Center for Coastal Studies freed a mother humpback whale that was entangled in fishing gear off the coast of New Hampshire on Tuesday. The rescue was the Provincetown marine research center's first successful disentanglement this year, according to center officials
Report: Chatham bays need urgent help by ROBIN LORD STAFF WRITER CHATHAM - Cape Cod Times The bad news is that Chatham's saltwater marshes and bays are in much worse shape than was previously thought. The good news is that they can be fixed. A draft state Department of Environmental Protection report on the condition of five Chatham estuaries shows that almost all are at or beyond their ability to absorb additional nitrogen from sources such as septic waste and fertilizers. 42 Acres on Cape Cod to be Protected (MA) From The Trust for Public Land Friday, June 13, 2003 HARWICH, Massachusetts, 6/10/03: The Trust for Public Land (TPL), a national nonprofit conservation organization, announced today that it has reached an agreement to purchase the 42-acre Monomoy River property on Bay Road in East Harwich from the current owner, the Shea Family Realty Trust. The land is a high protection priority because it lies along a half-mile of the Monomoy River, which flows into Pleasant Bay. As a result, its conservation will be an important step forward in the ongoing effort to protect Pleasant Bay's water quality. Mosquitoes bugging you? June 9, 2003 Get used to it JOHN LEANING STAFF WRITER Cape Cod Times DENNIS - It was like something straight out of "The African Queen," when Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn were driven frantic by hordes of insects during their river journey in East Africa. John Doane of Cape Cod Mosquito Control checks a cedar swamp in Dennis for mosquitoes last week. The area was dry all last summer. Only this was a freshwater swamp near busy Route 134 in Dennis. But the bugs - in this case, mosquitoes - were just as bad. And experts say it's going to get worse, all over the Cape. Soggy Cape Cod Baseball League Opener June 14, 2003 By ERIC WILLIAMS Staff Writer Cape Cod Times COTUIT - The Boys of Summer returned last night, but someone forgot to tell Mother Nature. She's been too busy dunking the Cape into a horse trough to think much about baseball. Cape Cod Film Festivals June 9, 2003 The reel world Four film festivals offer celebrities, workshops, parties - and movies, too. By TIM MILLER ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Cape Cod Times Attention movie nuts. It's time to get your traveling shoes on. It's film festival season again, with three to choose from this month and another just around the corner. Paul Giamatti and Hope Davis appear in a scene from "American Splendor," which won the Grand Jury Pirze for top dramatic film at this year's Sundance Film Festival. The Nantucket, Provincetown and Newport festivals are scheduled to screen it this month. The six-day Newport International Film Festival will start things off Tuesday. Then, closer to home, we'll have a duel of sorts as the Provincetown International Film Festival and Nantucket Film Festival overlap, the P'town fest running June 18-22 and Nantucket's June 19-22. Later, in midsummer, the granddaddy of the bunch, the Woods Hole Film Festival, celebrating its 12th year, will run from July 26 through Aug. 2. Seashore off-road permits sell out CAPE COD TIMES SOUTH WELLFLEET - It took just two weeks for the Cape Cod National Seashore to sell all 3,200 off-road permits for the season. The permits went on sale in April and were sold out by early May. Violent crime isn't new to Cape Cod By Joe Burns / [email protected] Thursday, May 22, 2003 A sadistic slaying in Hyannis, a young man stabbed to death in a South Yarmouth home invasion, a stabbing in a Truro home, a shooting on a Provincetown street. Four murders, all unsolved have shattered our sense of safety. You can hear the fear mongers screaming: "Are you safe on the Cape?" The answer is that as shocking as these murders may be, statistics show that not only is the Cape relatively safe, it is safer than it used to be. But violent crime is not new to the Cape, nor is murder with a twist. Springtime on Cape Cod By Bob Jones The Barnstable Patriot Alas! Spring has sprung. You can just feel it in the arctic air. Spring on Cape Cod is really a sick joke being played by Mother Nature. Just when you think that spring is really here and you have enjoyed a couple of warm days, it snows. It rains. The winds howl out of the North. It's raw. It's cold. Yes, springtime on Cape Cod is cruel and unusual punishment.
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