cape cod

Beach gets approval of seals

adamg — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:28:13 +0000

Paul Marotta photographed a herd of seals on a Provincetown beach yesterday.

Copyright Paul Marotta. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Fast ferry or car to Provincetown for the night?

adamg — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:56:33 +0000

Kaitlin Maud asks:

Going to PTown for a night. Should we drive or fast ferry?

Down the Cape, backlash begins against Earl hysteria before Earl even hits

adamg — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:09:31 +0000

Cape Cod Today harrumphs over evacuations and cancellations on the busy Labor Day Weekend:

Chatham officials urged evacuation due to possible flooding without apparently realizing the storm would hit there a low tide greatly reducing that possibility.

These decisions were made by the wrong people. As a chamber director say to me yesterday, "we have to take these decisions away from people who carry guns."

And, yes, the author is fully aware of the story of the mayor in "Jaws" and explains why that's not him.

If nothing else, Earl meant a stunning sunrise on the Cape this morning.

Poisoning ravens in the park

adamg — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:50:33 +0000

Channel 5 reports the National Park Service is telling ravens on the Cape: Nevermore. Workers will build fake piping-plover nests in the Cape Cod National Seashore and fill them with hard-boiled chicken eggs laced with crowicide to kill the birds going after endangered plovers.

Oh, the huge manatee, part II: Another manatee makes way to the Cape

adamg — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:18:50 +0000

So far, still alive, although who knows if the great whites or a truck will get him.

Judge questions why feds went easy on big-name blogger caught with pot

adamg — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:17:25 +0000

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly reports on a federal judge's anger that prosecutors agreed to dismiss a marijuana-possession case against Atlantic blogger Andrew Sullivan, allegedly caught with pot at the Cape Cod National Seashore - where federal, not state laws apply.

The judge noted the feds were not seeking dismissals against several other, lesser known people who faced the same exact charges the same day and questioned why prosecutors seemed so concerned about the adverse effect a guilty finding would have on Sullivan's immigration status.

With a link to the complete ruling.

When they start shooting frickin' laser beams, we'll know we're really in trouble

adamg — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:52:55 +0000

Channel 5 alerts us that at least one swimmer down on the Cape seemed determined to recreate the Jaws poster:

... "[The shark] sensed that swimmer in the water from a quarter of a mile away. And we all know that sharks have these extra-sensory ways of seeking their prey and this was visual proof to me," Breen said. ..

In other menacing news, Channel 5 also reports a rogue manhole cover attacked several cars on Rte. 2 in Lincoln this morning.

Nothing frightens Canadian bikers - except sharks

adamg — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:16:44 +0000

The Cape Cod Times chums things up:

Jackass gets run over on the Cape

adamg — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:05:36 +0000

She was 40 and known only as Genevieve, the Globe reports.

Things To Do: Blog

Boston Cube — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:49:21 +0000

From the time I was a small child, I was taught to write thank you notes for kindnesses, memorize othersâ€™ birthdays and anniversaries, honor the dead, be organized and tidy and evolve into a social creature that takes the time to remember. I think I received my first box of stationery from my mother when I was five. I was reading by three, writing certainly by five, and my mother did take the time to teach me how to write a thank you note. I am still in possession of a few sheets of paper and the lined envelopes my brotherâ€™s then girlfriend gave me for my seventeenth birthday.