Osterville News

A soldier from Salem is one of two Massachusetts Army National Guardsmen who filed a class-action lawsuit this week against Halliburton and KBR alleging they were "poisoned" by burn pits while stationed in Iraq.

My son, born and brought up in the town of Barnstable, will soon be coming home from his second tour of duty in Iraq.

At 52, David Brewer was athletic and outgoing, a retired member of the Coast Guard who loved the water and worked as assistant harbor master for the three-bay area of Osterville, Centerville and Cotuit.

The American Red Cross, Cape Cod and Islands Chapter, is taking nominations for local heroes on Cape Cod and the Islands.

SMILING IN THE RAIN Kris Clark shares a farewell moment with volunteers Frank Thacher, Bud Marston, David Tremblett and Karen Tremblett on her last day at work as the shellfish technician for the Town of Barnstable.

LEGENDARY 1951 Barnstable High School graduate Jack Aylmer celebrates with longtime friend Ed Semprini when Semprini received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Barnstable High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2006.

The coyote problem is out of hand in Osterville. I am a second-home owner and I do not feel safe in the evening and early morning hours when I walk my dogs.

Even hurricanes have an eye toward job creation. And oddly enough, while recurring major storms in Florida brought abundant work to the building trades there, they also created a different kind of career on faraway Cape Cod for a former airline steward.

It's been nine years since the botched delivery that led to the death of Suzanne and Bill Powers' newborn child and left Suzanne clinging to life.

Mary Cox has joined the Centerville office of Coldwell Banker Joly, McAbee & Weinert as a real estate associate.

An Osterville couple and Barnstable police are hunting for a whale, stolen from a front yard sometime late last night or early this morning.

ALSTON, Gary R., 57, 56 Tower Hill Road, Osterville; guilty of driving on a license suspended for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol , Jan.

Folks are calling me a nut case, so I've written one more post to draw them a picture.... The $1 BILLION waste water treatment plant/sewer system in the western part of town to process septic waste from Cotuit, Centerville, Marstons Mills, and Osterille is a total waste of money, because it's impossible for the facility to reduce the level of ...

The Barnstable Charter Commission's work was completed in early May, but its members made a command performance at the Sept.

Catherine Conley of Hyannis has joined the Roberto Coin Boutique at Mashpee Commons as store manager.

BLASCHE, Robert F., 18, 5 Carlisle Drive, Osterville; admitted sufficient facts to operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol Aug.

The District of Critical Planning Concern for the Craigville Beach area was left to die on the vine, but a renomination of the same area will see the effort born again.

Cynthia O'Brien is giving the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's new memoir the "case" treatment.

The Barnstable Town Council did not rescind its vote on the Stewart's Creek sewer project, Phase II, and set a special election for Oct.

Less than a month after Cape Cod's largest solar grid premiered at an Osterville marina, the Hyannis Water Pollution Control plant could steal the title - and at no cost to the town.