This Magic Moment
A Cape couple’s love for their community and each other kept their seaside wedding bright and breezy despite pandemic challenges. Jen Villa just naturally has the kind of star power that promises a wedding day like no other. The Hyannis resident’s big, warm-hearted personality and dark…
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Eat, Drink and be Merry!
As local brews and concoctions gain in popularity across the country, the Cape doesn’t miss a beat in making a splash in our libation landscape. There is something about the crispness of the fall weather that beckons to a fresh, frosty glass of thoughtfully, well-made…
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She Said Yes!
Things have always seemed to work out just right for Erin Ricciardi and Connor Schmitt. Connor reconnected with his former army platoon buddy, Kyle when they discovered they lived across the street from each other in Fort Stewart in Georgia, where they were both stationed.…
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Big Day On The Farm
A long engagement, a COVID delay, and a year of planning bring the community and one special couple together for a day to remember. “We just decided to go BIG,” Erik Van Buskirk states regarding his recent wedding to Deb Lemire Hazard. The Sandwich couple…
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Day Trip: Buzzards Bay
Bourne’s Downtown: A surge of growth and new business is making Buzzards Bay a destination for those looking for an unforgettable day. When you think about it, the village of Buzzards Bay is really the crossroads between the Cape and the rest of the world.…
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Taking a Shine to Bradford’s Ace Hardware
As Jack Torrance completes his introduction to the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King’s 1977 classic supernatural thriller, The Shining, the “in-season” caretaker Bill Watson gives him a tour of the premises and provides some insight into the nature of the resort (along with a hefty dose…
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Photo Portfolio: John & Pamela King
Into The Wild For John and Pamela King, their shared lifelong passion is to experience and capture the earth’s wild places and wild things through their photography. “We are a partnership,” shares John. Originally both commercial fishermen in Alaska, the couple met up there some…
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Promises to Keep
The Bourne Conservation Trust, the people of Cataumet, and local wildlife need everyone’s help to save an important piece of natural habitat on the shores of Squeteague Harbor, abutting Amrita Island. Not only were these 18 acres set aside to provide a home for wild animals…
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New Beginnings: A Wedding Planning Guide
The Big Day! It may seem at first glance to just be one day, but really it is so much more. A wedding day is a mix of lifetimes: parents, grandparents, and future generations as well. And it involves many, many days to plan, prepare for…
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Demon Tide Rising
In “Demon Tide” Chatham author Matt Fitzpatrick’s third novel, a once idyllic fishing town on the North Shore is drowning in the poison of opiates. For lawyer-assassin Justin McGee and his young protegee, an orphan named Michonne, things have turned personal as they find themselves…
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Good Reads in LIFE: Finding Your Zen
“I’ve had a windy path and it has been largely shaped around mindfulness–that’s the core of what I do.” “I have always been a writer, so the dream was to write a book,” shares author Rebecca Pacheco. Things really caught fire for Pacheco’s writing when…
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Good Reads In Life: The 54
“What began as a self-imposed discipline took on a life of its own.” For Cape artist Mimi Schlichter, painting from her car at beach parking lots was something she assumed she would always be able to do. Doing so one day at Chapoquoit Beach in…
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Gunkholing: From “The Foot of Buzzards Bay” To “The Head of The Bay”
About 40 years ago I first sailed into Buzzards Bay. I had gone to Roanoke, Virginia to buy a center-cockpit, motor sailor, which I named after my grandmother, “The Lady Carline.” I spent 28 days coming up the coast on my way to Cape Cod.…
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