Wellfleet News

Cape Cod Times/Merrily Cassidy Rebecca Yeaw and her daughter, Clare, won a first-time homebuyers' lottery with the Wellfleet Housing Authority that allowed them to use $125,000 to reduce the purchase price of a house in Wellfleet.

Photo by E. Vernon Laux The immature male Lazuli Bunting currently visiting the Wellfleet Bay wildlife Sanctuary will look like this by early May.

PORTRAITS OF THE ARTISTS Coloratura Sarah Calinan and dramatic soprano Jane Shivick will challenge each other and delight audiences in Wellfleet and South Yarmouth next weekend.

LOOKING FOR A LIFT Staff and volunteers with the International Fund for Animal Welfare's Marine Mammal Stranding Network, shown here on the Lower Cape last month, have been struggling with a spate of unexplained dolphin strandings.

WELLFLEET, Mass. - The presence of a bird rarely seen on the East Coast at a Cape Cod wildlife sanctuary has set off an ornithological frenzy.

WELLFLEET, Mass. -- A pod of dolphins moved out from shallow waters near Wellfleet on Wednesday.

LIVINGSTON, David L , 54, 78 Center St, Apt 1-20, Dennisport; fugitive from justice on court warrant, February 4 in Dennis.

The unexplained beachings of scores of dolphins over the past month along Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is the largest "single-species event" of its kind on record in the northeastern United States, a marine mammal specialist said Monday.

WELLFLEET, Mass. -- Several more dolphins were found stranded Sunday on Cape Cod.

An animal welfare official told a group of congressmen today that the recent string of dolphin strandings on Cape Cod is the largest single species stranding in the history of the northeastern United States.

'It's day after day after day' ... two stranded common dolphins being rescued at Herring River in Wellfleet, Cape Cod.

At least 81 dolphins have been found dead or died shortly after being discovered on Cape Cod in a series of largely unexplained strandings that began early last month, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

On Saturday afternoon, a roomful of people listened to Michael Hopper, president of the Sea Run Brook Trout Coalition, describe a vision of West Tisbury's Mill Pond quite different from the dredge-maintained impoundment the town's Mill Pond committee is currently exploring.

A surging national debt. The delicate state of international affairs. The pressing need for alternative sources of energy to oil.

Three people were injured and the west bound side of Route 6 near Briar Lane was closed for an hour following a two-car crash Monday morning.

Whether they got lost, sick or swam astray chasing food, 77 dolphins that beached on Cape Cod in recent weeks have died, the second time in three months New England has seen a mass of marine mammal deaths.

A majority of two dozen common dolphins rescued and released in Cape Cod waters since Jan.

Six professional actors, directors and writers who have worked for years at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater are forming a theater company of their own - and planning to produce plays at the harborside theater ju st denied to longtime tenant WHAT.

But eight days later, 81 more had been found stranded on this craggy coastline, according to the International Fund for Animal Welfare, bringing the weekly count unusually close to the 120 animals the group typically responds to in high stranding season, which typically runs from January to April.

A number of dolphins have become stranded on Cape Cod since Jan. 12, 2012, FAW volunteers Swede Plaut of Wellfleet, left front, Mike Giblin of Eastham, right front, and John Beardsley of Wellfleet, rear far left, shown in this Jan.