RE sales, mortgages on the rise

Barnstable Patriot - Fri Nov 06

The county-wide volume of real estate sales in October was up 4.3 percent from October 2008, according to Barnstable County Register of Deeds Jack Meade.

One injured in Orleans septic plant explosions

Boston Herald - Thu Nov 05

Two gas explosions early this morning slightly injured one worker at the Tri-Town Septic Treatment Facility on Overland Way, reports the Cape Cod Times .. Police and fire responded to a reported explosion at the plant just after 8 a.m. Fire departments from Brewster and Eastham also responded according to a pre-determined response plan.

Progressive tax for health care plan

Cape Cod Times - Thu Nov 05

A recent My View commentary quite correctly identified the most difficult issue faced by the framers of the Cape Care Community Health Trust, which is, not surprisingly, the taxes necessary to fund it.

Brewster apts. evacuated after flea bomb

CapeCodOnline.com - Wed Nov 04

Three apartments had to be evacuated yesterday after Brewster firefighters were called to help someone who was having trouble breathing after setting off a flea bomb.

Cape home sales surge for first time in a year

Cape Cod Times - Wed Nov 04

For the first time in a year, real estate sales volume on Cape Cod increased in October, according to numbers released yesterday by the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds.

Truro's former fire chief keeps pension

CapeCodOnline.com - Tue Nov 03

The county retirement board will allow former Truro fire chief E. Thomas Prada, 66, to keep his pension although he pleaded guilty June 24 to grabbing a female police dispatcher's breasts while she worked.

Christy Mihos is crazy but probably harmless so long as

Cape Cod Today - Tue Nov 03

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Access for all

Cape Cod Times - Tue Nov 03

It's not always easy to get around the Cape and Islands. The things that make the region so attractive - stretches of sand, cobblestone streets and harbors filled with bobbing boats - are the same things that make it a nightmare for someone in a wheelchair.

Eastham man catalogs Cape's historic gravestones

CapeCodOnline.com - Mon Nov 02

Bob Carlson's fingertip lightly brushed Samuel Freeman's 297-year-old headstone.

Barnstable District Court

Cape Cod Times - Mon Nov 02

BETHUNE, Ricky L., 42, Worcester County House of Correction; guilty plea to two counts violating a protective order, June 1 and Sept.