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WELLFLEET — Beate "Ati" Gropius Johansen and her husband, modern architect John Johansen, had a dilemma with their small house on Chequessett Knolls Drive. The house was very near Cape Cod Bay but the couple couldn't see the water.

WEST BARNSTABLE — Nate Robertson says he's "unrecognizable" from who he was two years ago. After overdosing and being revived by Narcan, Robertson was finally ready to get clean.

SOUTH DENNIS — Gravel pits and residential neighborhoods just don't mix, but operations that predate zoning designed to block such conflicting uses are grandfathered and can continue despite the aggravated homeowners around them.

Call it an academic SWAT team.

Talk about baking in the sun.

As the ninth and final national prescription drug take-back day came to a close, Barnstable police Detective Mark Butler placed dozens of cardboard boxes full of pills on a scale behind the station before loading them onto a U-Haul truck Saturday...

PROVINCETOWN — The death of a Barnstable woman who was found in a pond at Beech Forest on Saturday morning is not suspicious, according to the Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe.

HYANNIS — A 64-year-old woman was evaluated at Cape Cod Hospital after she crashed her car into a Main Street restaurant early Saturday afternoon, the fire department said.

WELLFLEET — Portions of Main Street and adjacent roads were temporarily closed Friday afternoon after a sport utility vehicle struck propane tanks at the Wellfleet Marketplace.