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Memorable Restaurants Of The Upper Cape

by | Apr 25, 2025 | April 2025, Front Articles 2 | 0 Comments

BY CHRISTINE LYNCH Ask 10 people about their favorite restaurant and you will get a dozen different answers. Dining places tap each of us personally, so that someone’s...

Choosing The Right Wine For Your Meal

by | Apr 25, 2025 | April 2025, Front Articles 2 | 0 Comments

Ingredients and culinary skills are not the only components that can bring out the flavor in a delicious meal. Wine can serve as the perfect complement to a meal,...

Plan A Fun Night Out With Friends

by | Apr 25, 2025 | April 2025 | 0 Comments

Spending time with loved ones increases the chances for fun days and nights. That is why nights out with friends are so popular. Such nights give people opportunities...

The First Step In Party Planning? Hire A Professional Full

by | Apr 25, 2025 | April 2025 | 0 Comments

Parties bring friends and family together in the name of a good time. There are plenty of reasons to celebrate, including personal and professional milestones. Much...

Wine And Dessert Pairings

by | Apr 25, 2025 | April 2025 | 0 Comments

Love is in the air come February, when plenty of sweethearts enjoy romantic evenings together. When the Valentine’s Day meal is through, it is prime time for something...

Years Of Springtime Magic: Spohr Garden

by | Mar 21, 2025 | March 2025 | 0 Comments

By DEB SCANLON In 1951, Charles and Margaret Spohr purchased a six-room house on two acres of overgrown wooded land looking out over Oyster Pond in Falmouth. “It was...

Gardening On Cape Cod Is For The Birds

by | Mar 21, 2025 | March 2025 | 0 Comments

By BARBARA CLARK He’s an adolescent, as tall as his mom, and he enjoys many of the strengths and smarts of an adult. But when it comes to getting his next meal without...

Celebrate The Marvel Of Bats On Cape Cod

by | Mar 21, 2025 | March 2025 | 0 Comments

By BARABARA CLARK The mystique of bats has played a major role throughout history, in our folklore traditions and in thousands of captivating stories about these...

Top Tools For The Garden

by | Mar 21, 2025 | March 2025 | 0 Comments

Spading Fork The ideal tool for turning soil the spading fork’s tines easily bite into compacted soil and the tines are thicker, shorter and fewer in number than its...

Heat Pumps – The System Helping Us Meet Our Climate Goals

by | Mar 21, 2025 | March 2025 | 0 Comments

By CHRISTOPHER KAZARIAN With the state of Massachusetts setting a goal of reducing carbon emissions by 50 percent by 2030, 75% by 2040 and net zero by 2050, it is...

Favorite Golf Holes On The Upper Cape

by | Mar 21, 2025 | March 2025 | 0 Comments

By MICHAEL RAUSCH I can remember, clear as day, the first time I picked up a golf club and went to play on a real golf course. Like most kids I had played miniature...

Musings From The Garden

by | Mar 21, 2025 | March 2025 | 0 Comments

By JOHN H. HOUGH Early spring in the garden. The winter has ground on with a freeze-thaw pattern that has mostly left the soil unworkable. We have been eager to get out...

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A New Emphasis  On Outdoor Living Spaces

A New Emphasis On Outdoor Living Spaces

By CHRISTOPHER KAZARIAN ‘Having a space outside you can enjoy, just like you might enjoy the living room, can hugely enhance your experience with the house.’  – Jacob Avakian,  owner of Vineyard Home Since last March, the relationship with the way we use our homes has...

Go Green When You Clean

Go Green When You Clean

By SHEILA HURST To add some green to your spring cleaning this year, you might want to consider going all natural by making your own detergents or trying a few plant-based cleaning products. Natural products are not only cost-effective, they’re better for the...

Natures Options – Mulch and Fertilizer for Your Garden

Natures Options – Mulch and Fertilizer for Your Garden

By DEBORAH G. SCANLON Pine needles, wood chips, leaves, and seaweed have been simple but valuable resources for Cape Cod gardeners for generations. Seaweed, in fact, has had many uses over the years. Our grandparents shared stories of it being used in the past as...

Pollinator Gardens

Pollinator Gardens

By CHRISTINE LYNCH By now we know that everything in Nature is interconnected. When one component is changed, it inevitably affects something else. At present, there are many detrimental factors depleting our butterflies and other pollinators such as bees, wasps,...

Heads Up –  Trellises And Vertical Gardening

Heads Up – Trellises And Vertical Gardening

By LAURA GROSS-HIGGINS Somehow at the end of winter, those perennial optimists called gardeners start contemplating what to grow in their gardens. The COVID pandemic, in fact, has reawakened many to the joys of digging in the dirt. My husband and I have long been...

Pasta Primavera

Pasta Primavera

By GAIL BLAKELY You may be surprised to learn that pasta primavera did not originate in Italy. In this country, back in the 1970s, there were two distinct types of Italian pasta and sauce categories: southern and northern, one being red, the other white. That was...