Bourne News

Kate Simon is the Travel Correspondent of The Independent and The Independent on Sunday.

The Bourne-Wareham Kiwanis Club will host a forum at 6 p.m. May 30 on the town's emergency readiness plan.

Cape Cod Cares for the Troops is seeking members of the military willing to take part in its ninth annual Troops in the Spotlight event Memorial Day weekend.

FERRIS, Timothy P., 33, 35 Rose Meadow Lane, East Falmouth; no inspection sticker, Feb.

One of the leaders of a massive drug operation on the Upper Cape has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison.

One person was taken to the hospital with serious injuries after an early morning rollover on Route 25 eastbound just over the Bourne town line.

DEAN, Ashley M., 25, 230 Lakeshore Drive, East Falmouth; larceny from building, receiving stolen property valued at less than $250, Aug.

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation encourages travelers to plan ahead and travel safely during the upcoming Mother's Day weekend especially for travelers using the Massachusetts Turnpike or traveling to Cape Cod.

The current contract is $37.51 per ton until 2015 for Cape Cod towns except Wellfleet, which pays $18.50 per ton and Bourne, which has its own landfill.

The Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority will offer weekend train service from Boston's South Station to Hyannis with several stops in between beginning May 24.

Courtesy photo Elizabeth Hand, author of 'Available Dark,' will participate in the third session of the Writer's Series, at Partners Village Store in Westport Sunday afternoon.

The downtown Buzzards Bay area got another boost Tuesday night when town meeting voters approved a bylaw that would fine building owners who don't keep their properties in good condition.

Bourne's Department of Public Works employees are half way there. Voters at Monday night's Town Meeting decided, 232 to 22, to authorize a Proposition 2 1/2 debt exclusion to pay for a new DPW facility.

Albert "Buck" Pye, age 85, of Buzzards Bay, MA died peacefully at home surrounded by his family on May 4, 2013.

A MedFlight helicopter landed at the state police barracks on the Bourne Rotary earlier tonight to transport a patient suffering severe medical problems, according to Mashpee Deputy Fire Chief Thomas Rullo.

Two people were hurt, one seriously, and the road was closed for more than an hour while crews worked the scene.

A Barnstable Superior Court jury convicted a Marstons Mills woman and her defunct charity Thursday of stealing tens of thousands of dollars from needy families.

Courtesy photo Sally Cabot, who also writes as Sally Gunning, will give a talk about her new novel, "Benjamin Franklin's Bastard," at Sandwich Public Library Wednesday evening.

As a foreman at the Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne it's Tony Franza's job to help other people bury their loved ones.

As the May 6 town meeting approaches, town officials are again lobbying for a new $11.1 million department of public works facility.