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Review: Three days left to see 'Little Shop of Horrors' showing in Falmouth or Cotuit
FALMOUTH — Your eyes don’t deceive you — there’s another exceptional performance of “Little Shop of Horrors” opening on the Cape this week. In Falmouth, the nationally renowned College Light Opera Company (CLOC) is taking on the horror comedy as one of nine productions this summer season. The result is a hilarious, sonically stunning, thought-provoking show featuring the best young performers from across the country. Name of show: “Little Shop of Horrors” by Howard Ashman; music and...
Oak Bluffs Council on Aging: August 2024
9 am, Exercise with Patience Campbell and Marilyn Miller. Coffee and tea all day, 9 am to 3 pm. Refreshments are served during all of our programs. Blood Pressure Clinic with Nurse Faith Laskaris, August 5 and 19, 12:30 – 1:30 pm. Tech Time with Clair Yi-Pellegrino, 11 am...
Jewel comes to the Campground
Working to sustain and maintain the beautiful Campground in Oak Bluffs, with its charming and colorful architecture and storied history, is part and parcel of Kelly Feirtag’s job as general manager of the MV Camp Meeting Association (MVCMA). No small task, but it’s not her first Grand Illumination by a long shot.
Built on Stilts celebrates 28 years
Built on Stilts exemplifies the shared language of dance through a beautifully egalitarian and inspiring six-night festival. This season features the work of performers from the Vineyard and beyond, with an amalgam of professionals, amateurs, young and old. What began in 1997 as a one-night concert featuring the work of seven choreographers has since ballooned into a Vineyard institution that reflects the Island’s remarkable artistic spirit.
Assistant superintendent hiring plan approved
The Vineyard’s All-Island School Committee has approved a plan to advertise a new superintendent role at $75,000 for a one-year contract, despite some members’ concerns that the salary isn’t enough for a qualified individual. Superintendent Richie Smith said a one-year position could help the district pay more for a full-time, higher-salary assistant superintendent role afterward.
Dartmouth Athletics upgrades sailing boathouse
Dartmouth’s sailing boathouse on Mascoma Lake, the varsity women’s and open sailing teams’ primary facility, is under construction. The project, which will replace the preexisting 70-year-old Allen Boathouse, began this summer and is set to finish in September or October, according to athletics director Mike Harrity. The...
Cape Cod Baseball League roundup: Y-D Red Sox beat Wareham Gatemen in clash of top teams
The Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox edged the Wareham Gatemen 3-2 in a shortened game at Red Wilson Field on Thursday night. The Red Sox (20-9-4) took a 2-0 first inning lead before the Gatemen (20-12-1) tied the game with a pair of runs in the fourth. Easton Carmichael (Oklahoma) then scored the go-ahead and winning run on a wild pitch in the bottom half of the inning. South Carolina’s Ethan Petry (two hits, one run) hit a two-run...
Swim Across America Nantucket Aims For New Fundraising Goal On Saturday
After a record-breaking event last year where over $730,000 was raised, Swim Across America Nantucket returns for its 12th year this Saturday to help raise money that will be donated to Nantucket Cottage Hospital, Palliative & Supportive Care of Nantucket, and the Mass General Hospital Cancer Center. “The buildup has...
As Hullonians use less water, sewer bills to jump 2.5% beginning next month
A townwide reduction in water usage means that sewer bills are going up, begnning next month. Ratepayers will notice a sewer rate adjustment of 2.5% on their August bills, along with a $10 a month base rate increase. “The typical increase will amount to about $144 per year, which includes...
Contaminated soil, decades-old gas tank removed from former 7-11 site
The building has been vacant since the 7-Eleven store closed in 2021. It previously housed a franchise of the Tedeschi Food Shops chain; A Street Liquors occupied the second unit before relocating across the street. In June 2022, surveyors discovered a gasoline storage tank near the Nantasket Avenue border of...
Cape Verde's Olympic athletes will take the field in outfits designed in Quincy
Friday evening, millions of spectators will witness the lighting of the Olympic torch. And as athletes from each country fill the arena, a Massachusetts clothing brand will make its debut as the clothing designer for the Cape Verde team. ISLNDZ is a clothing brand based in Quincy, founded in 2018...
New Bedford Research & Robotics to elevate City’s innovation efforts
“NEW BEDFORD – Many have held the City’s ceremonial gold scissors at ribbon-cutting events over the years to celebrate the opening of businesses, parks, and schools. But for the first time in the City’s long and storied history, a robot did the honor of cutting the ribbon Thursday morning to celebrate the opening of New Bedford Research & Robotics on Purchase Street.
Family mourns man shot and killed by moped driver in Boston, no arrests made
BOSTON - The family of a Boston man is looking for answers after he was gunned down near the Forest Hills MBTA stop by a shooter police say was on a moped. "I lost a friend, I lost a brother, a really good guy," said Francis Gonzalez of his 35-year-old friend Andy Baez Manan also known as Jusepy. On Thursday, family and friends gathered at a funeral home in Dorchester wearing a T-shirt that memorializes him and the number he wore on his softball team. They say they're still trying to understand what happened the night of...
Two ways of looking at DA Paul Walsh Jr.’s legacy
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In the 1990s and early 2000s, New Bedford was a different place. The grand old Irish-dominated political Machine was still muscular. It may have eventually lost the mayorship to Fred Kalisz, but it still controlled much of the City Council, most of the School Committee, the New Bedford Housing Authority and a bunch of minor boards and bureaucracies.
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