Lower Cape News Headlines

District Attorney Robert Galibois looking into web camera. He is wearing glasses, a white short and
April 18, 2025
By focusing on human trafficking court charges increased heavily last year
By LowerCapeNews Editorial Staff April 18, 2025
18 April 2025 - TRURO, MA - A nearly-decade long process to create affordable rental housing in Truro finally broke ground this week. The 43-apartment project with a mix of affordable and market rate units expects to be open for renters by the end of 2026.
By LowerCapeNews Editorial Staff April 18, 2025
08 April 2024 - HARWICH, MA - Harwich is brimming with pride after being awarded the 2025 Excellence in Conservation Award from the Massachusetts Land Trust Coalitio. Years in the making, the Robert F. Smith Cold Brook Preserve restoration project is almost completed. Harwich Conservation Trustee President Tom Evans and Executive Director Michael Lach discuss the journey and the appreciation for the many staff and volunteers that made it happen.
18 April 2025 - On its 55th Anniversary, Earth Day continues to remind us to pause and consider how
By LowerCapeNews Editorial Staff April 18, 2025
Looking at waste reduction and the role individuals can play on this Earth Day and Earth Month 2025.
People in shallow water winter dipping
By LowerCapeNews Editorial Staff April 12, 2025
11 April, 2025 – Winter dippers are raising funds for teens with substance use challenges.
By LowerCapeNews Editorial Staff April 11, 2025
Iconic fundraiser to combat hunger on Cape Cod brings together community at Cape Cod Tech.
By LowerCapeNews Editorial Staff April 5, 2025
How do Cape Cod's agriculture impact the local economy?
Presentation on controlling invasive plant species
By LowerCapeNews Editorial Staff April 4, 2025
04 April 2025 - BREWSTER, MA - Native Plant Trust's Erik Sechler say home gardeners can tackle invasive plants and share a few tips for taking on the task.
Stony Brook gristmill
By LowerCapeNews Editorial Staff April 4, 2025
04 April, 2025 - BREWSTER, MA - Migratory herring will have an easier time returning home to Brewster's Herring River this year, as the town completes work on the herring run. It finished repairs on four weirs in time for this spring's piscine visits, with the remainder of the project slated for a fall completion. The work also shored up a 100-plus year old retaining walls and along the way uncovered a previously-unknown wooden sluice-way that has been shared with the Mass Historical Commission.
By LowerCapeNews Editorial Staff March 31, 2025
Could funding cuts impact senior nutrition – what do our representatives anticipate?
Artist Grace Hopkins in her Wellfleet Studio
By LowerCapeNews Editorial Staff March 29, 2025
5 MARCH 2025 -- WELLFLEET, MA -- Grace Hopkins travels the world to capture abstract images and reproduces them in various mediums - from canvas to glass, emphasizing color, form, and composition. Her unedited photographs reflect spontaneity and are influenced by her travels and Quakerism, seeking layers and depth.
Jay Coburn, CEO, CPD
By LowerCapeNews Editorial Staff March 28, 2025
28 March 2025 - ORLEANS, MA - This spring Orleans will see years of planning work becoming newly-opened housing at two different locations in town, adding 74 affordable housing units to the town, while a third project makes continued progress addressing the missing middle.
By LowerCapeNews Editorial Staff March 21, 2025
20 March 2025 - PROVINCETOWN, MA - Provincetown’s Lease to Locals program is just wrapping up its pilot year as a resounding success. The town announced it is moving forward into a second year with a second cohort of property owners and renters.
By LowerCapeNews Editorial Staff March 21, 2025
21 March 2025 - ORLEANS, MA - Lower Cape Pride says it is planning a multi-day celebration in June. Unity in Community includes the gentle small town joys of a multi-generational BBQ, inclusive pride parade, and afternoon of music and performance.
A baby squirrel drinking milk from a pipette
By LowerCapeNews Editorial Staff March 21, 2025
At Wild Care in Eastham spring kicks off with the arrival of baby squirrels.
Woman with brown hair and square shaped glasses looking into a web camera
By LowerCapeNews Editorial Staff March 14, 2025
Several hundreds of people have died in Massachusetts, including children.
Tom Cahir at outdoor podium
By LowerCapeNews Editorial Staff March 14, 2025
14 March 2024 - CAPE COD, MA - Cape Cod lost a true champion this week when Tom Cahir, administrator of the cape cod regional transit authority died suddenly and unexpectedly on Wednesday, March 12.
By LowerCapeNews Editorial Staff March 14, 2025
14 March 2025 — CHATHAM, MA — What better way to celebrate the magical number 3.14 than at Marion's Pie Shop! Pi day began in 1988 as a tongue in cheek way to celebrate mathematics and the beauty of that magic ratio, 3.14... Along the way it embraced its homonym, that flaky tasty PIE as its emblem.
Defibrillator on table
By LowerCapeNews Editorial Staff March 10, 2025
07 March 2025 - ORLEANS, MA - A vote at the last Town Meeting in Orleans set aside funds for a four new defibrillators; these potentially life-saving devices got their first test drive this week at the fire department.
By LowerCapeNews Editorial Staff March 7, 2025
State Epidemiologist on how bird flu affects the public
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