14 Mar, 2025

Sick passenger on cruise ship off Cape Cod medically evacuated by Coast Guard

Local News The passenger reported experiencing abdominal pain and had been vomiting before she was medically evacuated. The Coast Guard medically evacuated a sick passenger aboard a Carnival Legend off the coast of Cape Cod on Monday night. Courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard A Coast Guard crew medically evacuated a cruise ship passenger who […]

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It was a very rainy summer on Cape Cod. How have businesses (and crowds) fared?

The Boston Globe Visitors filled parts of the Main Street sidewalks in downtown Hyannis just ahead of Labor Day weekend. Barry Chin/Globe Staff By BETH TREFFEISEN, The Boston Globe updated on September 5, 2023 | 11:51 AM HYANNIS – Walking down Main Street in the heat of summer lends itself to a stop at Katie’s […]

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Cape Cod strands more dolphins than anywhere else. Now they’re getting their own hospital.

Local News The welfare fund has responded to more than 400 live stranded dolphins, whales and porpoises in the region in the past five years alone. An International Fund for Animal Welfare team carries a stranded common dolphin to a waiting vehicle while another waits to be rescued at Herring River, Jan. 19, 2012, in […]

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Legal Sea Foods is leaving its harborfront plant. But the cod will remain.

The Boston Globe The new owner of Legal Sea Foods has reached a deal with Stavis Seafoods to turn over a last remnant of the Seaport’s working waterfront. A metal codfish sculpture sits above the roof of the former Legal Sea Foods plant, which has been sold to Stavis Seafoods. PAT GREENHOUSE / GLOBE STAFF […]

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As Cape Cod aims to expand its underused airport, some residents wonder why

The Boston Globe Passenger traffic has plunged at the Hyannis airport in recent years. Now, its operators want to lengthen the runway to handle bigger new plans from New York. Aircraft at the Cape Cod Gateway Airport in Hyannis. VINCENT ALBAN FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE By Beth Treffeisen, The Boston Globe updated on August 16, […]

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‘Not an ideal uninvited guest’: Police help remove large snake from Cape Cod home

Local News “Not something you see every day in Orleans.” A snake was found in an Orleans home. Orleans police A Cape Cod resident made an unsettling discovery in their home on Friday — a “very large” snake in their closet. Orleans police responded to the residence to help remove the reptile, which the department […]

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Cape Cod woman sues N.H. ski resort over ‘catastrophic injuries’ she allegedly suffered in tubing crash

Local News The plaintiff alleges that she crashed because a Loon Mountain employee gave her a children’s tube to use even though this is against the resort’s rules. A Cape Cod woman is suing a New Hampshire ski resort over “catastrophic injuries” she allegedly suffered as a result of a tubing crash at the mountain.  […]

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Medfield teen pleads not guilty to charges in Cape Cod boat crash that killed teen girl

Crime David Sullivan, 19, is facing charges in connection with the death of 17-year-old Sadie Mauro, who died in a July boat crash in Dennis. David Sullivan, 19, is arraigned on charges related to the July boat crash in Dennis that resulted in the death of 17-year-old Sadie Mauro. WCVB A 19-year-old Medfield man has […]

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