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In Hyannis, The Cordial Eye finds ways to engage the Cape’s artistic kids
A few weeks ago, if you had been standing outside the Hyannis Public Library, you would have seen two big yellow school buses pull up and disgorge a mob of kids from Barnstable High School. Big mats covered with art supplies were spread out along the length of the three huge art panels that adorn the library’s exterior. All these kids were here to put up some new art. What I was seeing was the latest iteration...
Elder Services opens Café Saborosa at Mashpee Senior Center
Caribbean, Cape Verdean and Portuguese cuisine are coming to the Elder Services of Cape Cod and the Islands’ senior social dining. Café Saborosa opens on May 6 inside the Mashpee Senior Center. Each Monday, Elder Services will run the café serving up dishes from the Caribbean menu created by their partners City Fresh Foods, according to a press release.
Sunday photo essay: The colors of spring
This slideshow requires JavaScript. Cape Wide News was created in 1998 by Provincetown native Tim Caldwell to provide public-safety, spot-news coverage on Cape Cod. This includes the negatives--crimes, crashes and fires--but also positive events such as department promotions and retirements, charity functions and any other activities involving police and fire departments and associated agencies.
'The Cape Cod jungle': What you should know about invasive plants
The movie begins with a happy scene. It's a Cape Cod garden center in spring. Cheerful folks are selecting seeds and flats of plants, loading up on high quality cow poop and topsoil. Optimism is in the air and great green accomplishments are right around the corner. We cut to...
SmokeSygnals of Mashpee wins Small Business of Year award for creative work for museums
From Provincetown’s Pilgrim Monument and Museum to the National Museum of the American Indian to the Museum De Lakenhal in the Netherlands, SmokeSygnals, a Cape Cod production company, is creating art, exhibits, curriculum and videos that tell the true stories of Indigenous people, messages that are reaching international audiences. Named Small Business of the Year by Cape & Islands SCORE, SmokeSygnals will be recognized at a ceremony on May 8. But they are already getting rave reviews...
Garden Club Has Big Plans For Brooks Academy
HARWICH – While the historic Brooks Academy restoration projects may be stalled, the Garden Club of Harwich is making a commitment to putting the finishing touches on landscaping on the grounds surrounding the building. Club member Diane DiGennaro told the select board last week that the garden club has...
Theater review: Cape Rep 'Our Town' is tear-jerker, eye-opener, expertly executed
BREWSTER ― I’m surprised at how many in the theater audience say they’ve never seen “Our Town,” or that they saw it many years ago, and don’t remember it at all. The drama, at Cape Rep Theatre through June 2, is described by a central character as a journey that covers our human experiences of daily life, love and death. It will sneak up on you for sure. Everyone’s in for a surprise. What starts as an amiable, we’re-just-plain-folk country ramble – delivers a powerful story that many won’t see coming. ...
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