Dennis News

Last summer, Lily Flores, like so many teens across the country, read a gone-viral essay, "The Opposite of Loneliness," that Marina Keegan, 22, left behind when she died in a Dennis car crash shortly after graduating from Yale.

Cape Playhouse, 820 Route 6A, Dennis; 508-385-3911, 877-385-3911; www.capeplayhouse.com June 10-22, "Some Enchanted Evening," a revue of Rodgers and Hammerstein songs; June 24-July 6, "They're Playing His Songs," the world premiere of a revue tribute to composer Marvin Hamlisch; July 8-20, "Sweet Charity," a musical about a dance hall girl looking ... (more)

RUBENSTIEN, Mara, 21, Montreal, Quebec; guilty of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol , May 18 in Truro, one-year license loss, $500 fine, $125 surfine and $100 fees; negligent driving, dismissed; not responsible for two other traffic violations.

A man and woman from Dennisport have been indicted on multiple charges in connection with a series of break-ins that took place between September 2012 and January.

A necropsy was being performed this morning on a female bottlenose dolphin, one of two dolphins saved Monday evening by rescuers on the northside of Dennis but were found dead yesterday.

The annual Somerville High Scholarship Foundation raffle is this Friday evening, May 17, and tickets are still available the first price of $10,000 that will be awarded along with many other prizes.

Sesuit Harbor House in Dennis will combine its grand opening with a breast cancer fundraiser and bake sale event, "Sweet Summer Kick Off," on May 25.

Voters will settle contests for selectman and constable and decide on proposed tax increases for public safety during today's annual election.

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Voters in Tuesday's annual town election will settle a race for selectman and constable, decide on proposed tax increases for public safety and consider an initiative calling for the shutdown of Plymouth's nuclear power plant.

A newcomer to the political arena will take on two veterans of public office in the annual town election Tuesday, in a three-way race for two terms on the board of selectmen.

Well here we go again, I thought to myself when the e-mail came in that the Massachusetts Poetry Festival was happening.

Stuart W. Rapp has opened Sea Glass Realty Inc. at 749 Main St., Osterville. He will also serve as the real estate office's principle and broker.

Of course, it doesn't exist, even though a special zoning bylaw created an eligible area more than 10 years ago.

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To date, only a handful of Massachusetts towns have established zones to accommodate medical marijuana dispensaries, so it's not surprising that prospective applicants for the operations approached Dennis officials as soon as word circulated that a local bylaw was in the works.

Antoinette Marie "Toni" Vigneaux, 84, of Shrewsbury and York Beach, Maine, passed away peacefully Sunday, May 5, 2013, with family gathered beside her, after a courageous battle with Alzheimer's disease.

On Tuesday night, Dennis became the first community in Barnstable County to establish a zone for medical marijuana dispensaries, with annual town meeting agreeing to allow the businesses in the industrial district by special permit.

The Rev. David Akin of St. Pius X Church in South Yarmouth blessed hundred of motorcyclists gathered yesterday at West Dennis Beach for the Blue Knights' annual Blessing of the Bikes.

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