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The Orleans selectmen Wednesday agreed to use signs, fencing and fines if necessary to keep off-road vehicles out of Eastham's portion of the Nauset Spit.

The Brewster Fire Department has received a $42,710 grant to buy "personal escape devices" for each member of the fire-suppression staff and for training on the use of the equipment.

The Cape and Islands Suicide Prevention Coalition will hold a ceremony Sept. 11 to commemorate people lost to suicide and to support the friends and family they have left behind.

The Cape Cod Commission has changed the date of an upcoming Lower Cape public hearing on its draft regional water quality management plan.

The nonprofit that oversaw Highland Light tours and grounds for 15 years has been accused in an anonymous complaint filed with the Attorney General's office of misappropriating charitable funds.

On today's CapeCast: Hey, where did everybody go? Oh yeah--it's September on Cape Cod and this beautiful place is all yours--no beach sticker needed! Find some swell outside ideas in this video.

Because of a reporting error, a story on Page A1 of Tuesday's Times gave the wrong address for the Wychmere Beach Club. It is located in Harwich Port.

SOUTH YARMOUTH — A 30-year-old Brewster man who allegedly drove his Jeep into the water at Parkers River Beach late Sunday night was arraigned Tuesday in Barnstable District Court.

An 85-year-old Chatham man was arraigned Friday in Barnstable District Court on charges stemming from a head-on collision in March on Route 6 that sent four people to the hospital.

Firefighters spent about an hour responding to a natural gas leak Tuesday morning at a Hyannis motel demolition site.