Osterville News

The warrant for the Cotuit Fire District's annual meeting is a pretty ho-hum affair with just 17 articles, most of them routine.

On Sunday I ran the 4th Annual Piggy Trot at Dowses Beach in Osterville. You couldn't ask for better weather - it was like instant summer.

A worker who fell from an 8-foot ladder this morning was taken by ambulance to South Shore Hospital in South Weymouth, after a medical helicopter was not available due to weather.

Two Centerville brothers were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries after a one-car crash reported at 12:42 a.m. Saturday at Bumps River and Old Mill roads, Centerville-Osterville-Marstons Mills fire Capt.

This week: How much do lawn services cost? How much do you pay for your lawn service? And what does that cover - just mowing, or does it cover weeding, pruning, planting? Please share in the comments below - we promise we won't judge you! And if you've got a lawn service you love, tell us that too.

Following an editorial last month about the abundance of litter on Cape Cod, we invited readers to identify the worst hot spots for roadside trash.

The Powerball jackpot will hit $350 million for Wednesday's drawing. Though not the largest Powerball cash payout, the jackpot is inching closer to the $384 million that was given out in November 2012 in Arizona and Missouri.

The Barnstable Police Department provided the following. It does not indicate a conviction.

Monday afternoon at around 2:45 a woman was driving on Pine St. in Centerville when some debris or something hanging off the back of a truck smashed her windshield, according to Barnstable police.

At about 9 a.m. the West Barnstable and Centerville-Osterville-Marstons Mills fire departments received a call of a two-car accident at the intersection of Route 149 and West Barnstable Road, said West Barnstable Fire Lt.

Elly Mead is an Osterville mom with a passion for thrift store shopping that she has transformed into a personal styling business.

"Wow," Beckner said as she admired herself in a mirror wearing a peach-colored button-down shirt.

He was a big fella dressed in a dark T-shirt and dungarees. He had listened to others extol quite elegantly and at relative length the virtues and supreme sacrifice of fallen soldier Kevin Houston, for whom the town voted three weeks ago to name the Route 6 overpass.

The Barnstable Police Department provided the following. It does not indicate a conviction.

Since when is having less representation an improvement? Didn't our famous Founding Fathers fight for more say in government affairs? According to Karen Mazza, president of the local League of Women Voters chapter, less is better .

Greenfield Fire Chief Michael Winn has decided to take a job on Cape Cod, and Mayor William Martin has chosen Deputy Chief Robert Strahan to act as chief until a permanent one is hired.

INCREASED POLICE PRESENCE Police Chief Paul MacDonald, left, and Deputy Chief Craig Tamash tell Marstons Mills Village Association members that the department will open a station in the western villages next spring.

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.

A chap named Harold Cue, age 52, was just going about minding his own business on Cape Cod this week when he happened to drive into Wimpy's, a local seafood joint.

A Yarmouthport man is scheduled for arraignment in Barnstable District Court this morning after he allegedly intentionally drove his car into a restaurant.