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Just like elsewhere in town, parking is tight at the municipal fish pier complex on Shore Road in Chatham.

In preparation for a Wounded Warrior Project bicycle ride that will be held on Cape Cod this weekend, a group of local residents hung a dozen U.S. and military flags off the Route 124 overpass over Route 6 in Harwich to support the participants.

Calling him charismatic and "able to light up a room," the Provincetown Board of Selectmen unanimously chose Richard Reinhard as the new town manager on Wednesday.

All Cape Cod police departments will take part Saturday in the Drug Enforcement Administration's ninth and final National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day.

The town of Barnstable's final hazardous-waste collection of the season will be held Saturday in Marstons Mills.

National Grid will begin a multi-month construction project on Route 6A beginning Monday.

The Yarmouth Parks and Recreation Department is offering a new program at the Flax Pond Recreation Area called Kid Fit Thursdays, for children in kindergarten through Grade 7.

Cape Cod Community College has changed the time of an admissions information session noted in an In Our Schools brief on Page A3 of Monday's Times.

​The deaths of two utility workers in Buzzards Bay could have been prevented and their employer now faces $168,000 in related fines, according to the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

HYANNIS - Savvas Yianasmidis may have died after dashing back into a burning shed to retrieve his laptop computer, according to a family member of one of other two boys involved in Monday's tragic fire.