Osterville News

TALKING TO HERSELF and other citizens interested in running in the November election is Town Clerk Ann Quirk, who was conducting her first Candidates Night June 12. That's Precinct 10 council hopeful Sara Cushing listening.

A Cape inventor and his companies are in a pitched legal battle with a former business partner - another company with Cape ties.

The Centerville Civic Association could use villagers' help at the Fourth of July Parade, the annual meeting during Old Home Week and the full moon block parties July 21 and Aug. 18 at Craigville Beach.

STEPPING UP Forty-two Cape Cod Academy graduates pose with Head of School Phillip Petru on graduation day in Osterville.

The town's natural resources department has scheduled three free shellfishing classes for young people, to be held June 22 at 4 p.m., June 23 at 5 p.m., and June 26 at 8 a.m. at Osterville's Bridge Street landing.

1943: Barbara Bearse of Hyannis is the first female lifeguard in the town of Barnstable.

For anyone who has ever wanted to serve on Barnstable Town Council, now is the time to learn what it takes.

The fire broke at 7:14 p.m. at 52 Turtleback Road, said Centerville-Osterville-Marstons Mills Deputy Fire Chief Philip Field.

A 335-pound adult female Risso's dolphin washed ashore in Osterville Saturday morning, possibly blown north by tropical storm Andrea, was released in good condition, said CT Harry of the International Fund for Animal Welfare.

Workers from the International Fund for Animal Welfare helped get the gray and white dolphin to safety.

SCHOLARS ALL The winners of this year's college scholarships from the Marstons Mills Village Association line up June 4 for a photo.

A nightmarish scene unfolded along Santuit-Newtown Road Wednesday night, as a car sheared a utility pole in half, burst into flames and injured two occupants.

A limousine driver was arrested Tuesday after allegedly stealing $100,000 worth of jewelry and other valuables from a family he had picked up at the Rectrix Aerodrome Center at Barnstable Municipal Airport.

The home, with over 8,000 square feet of living space, sits on 1.5 to 2 acres of land overlooking the Seapuit River, at 177 Seapuit River Rd., said listing agent Robert Kinlin of Robert Paul Properties.

Billionaire William Koch has listed his Cape Cod oceanfront mansion for $15 million.

Firefighters were called at 10:01 a.m. Tuesday to a house on Barnard Road for what turned out to be a problem with a gas stove, a fire dispatcher with the Centerville-Osterville-Marstons Mills Fire Department said.

Roberta Schneiderman, author of Cape Cod Murder at a Gated Community , will be on hand to autograph copies of her book at the HYARTS Shanties at Hyannis Harbor during the weekend of May 31-June 2. Joan Harrison, author of Heavenly Hydrangeas: A Practical Guide for the Home Gardener , will speak and sign copies of her book from 1-2 p.m. June 7 at ... (more)

Need to stretch your waders? Jump in and head over to Dowses Beach in Osterville, where the town will transport volunteers to the Centerville and Bumps rivers to lend a hand with the quahog relay.

That's the one-word message this column wants to impart to the Hyannis Fire Commissioners and their designers who think it could be OK to blow $25.5 million on a Cathedral/Resort masquerading as a village fire station.

Born of sand and water, glass is known to some as "Earth's Splendor." And you can see it now in Osterville.