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Seaside communities in New England are providing free beach access to Native Americans as the summer season kicks off this Memorial Day weekend. Officials in Narragansett, Rhode Island, earlier this month approved free seasonal beach passes for anyone with a valid identification card from the Narragansett Indian tribe. On Cape Cod in Massachusetts, the towns of Truro and Wellfleet are also...

A surfer who was hospitalized Wednesday after being pulled from the ocean off a Cape Cod beach has died, officials say. Wellfleet police said they received several 911 calls around 10:45 a.m. reporting a surfer attached to a surfboard who was face down at LeCount Hollow Beach. He had apparently fallen off his board and was unconscious. The first officer…

From the green wig to the four-leaf clover blazer, it’s easy to see Jack Bienvenue of Wellfleet, Massachusetts, bleeds Celtic green. But now, his emotions for the team are literally worn on his sleeve. Bienvenue got a tattoo of a mock 2022 Boston Celtics NBA Championship banner tattooed on his shoulder Monday. “Honestly a little nervous, but I truly do…

One man has so much faith in the Boston Celtics that he got a large tattoo commemorating the championship he believes they’ll win at the end of this season.

Police believe the fatal crash may have occurred as early as last night.

A police investigation is underway following a fatal car crash in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. The crash occurred near Route 6 and Old Wharf Road on Saturday night. Authorities have not released details including the exact timing of the crash or who was involved, but say drivers should expect to see police activity in the area on Sunday morning as part of…

An RV burned down in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, early Sunday morning, fire officials said. No one was hurt by the flames that blazed from the 30-foot vehicle, according to the Wellfleet Fire Department. Firefighters were sent to Cassick Valley Road just before 3:30 a.m., when neighbors saw the blaze and called 911. Wellfleet firefighters found heavy flames coming from the unoccupied…

Mosquitoes are nothing new in the summer, but they’re swarming Wellfleet, where residents say they’re dealing with a “horror story.”

A battle against mosquitoes is taking place in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, this summer. The Cape Cod Mosquito Control Project began applying larvicide to a large area of standing water between Duck Harbor and Bound Brook Island that has become a home for the pesky insects, as the Cape Cod Times first reported. Residents of Wellfleet say they are hesitant to even…

Three dolphins were stranded on a Cape Cod beach Tuesday morning and needed to be rescued. The dolphins stranded around 7:30 a.m. at Chipman’s Cove in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Crews from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) were able to get the dolphins out of the water. They released them back into deeper water in Provincetown at Herring Cove...

Three dolphins were rescued Tuesday after getting stranded at Chipman’s Cove in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

U.S. Navy bomb technicians were flown into Cape Cod this weekend to help dispose of nine live military-grade explosives that a homeowner discovered in his yard, fire officials said. The Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad was earlier called to the home in Wellfleet Saturday afternoon but their X-ray device wasn’t able to scan the unexploded ordnance, Wellfleet fire officials...

Officials in a Cape Cod town have approved the installation of a memorial bench to honor a man killed in a shark attack two years ago. The Wellfleet Select Board recently voted unanimously to install the bench in memory of Arthur Medici, 26, at Newcomb Hollow Beach, the Cape Cod Times reports. Medici, who lived in Revere, was attacked by…

The Wellfleet Select Board recently voted unanimously to install the bench in memory of Arthur Medici at Newcomb Hollow Beach, the Cape Cod Times reported.

Police on Cape Cod are investigating after two “Black Lives Matter” signs were vandalized. Signs were spray-painted last week on West Road and Old Truro Road in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, police announced Monday. Both signs were set up at the edge of the road. The vandalism in each case was discovered the day after it happened, police said. “The Wellfleet Police…

Swimmers were ordered out of the water at several Cape Cod beaches on Thursday morning due to shark sightings. According to the Sharktivity app, Nauset Public Beach in Orleans, Lecount Hollow Beach and Maguire Landing Beach in Wellfleet, Coast Guard Beach in Truro and Eastham and Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro were closed to swimming for an hour…

The Reigels, vacationing on Cape Cod from Pennsylvania, spotted several sharks Saturday about a quarter mile off the coast of Nauset Beach in Eastham.

There were at least two confirmed shark sightings Saturday at the beach in Wellfleet.

A total of five great white sharks were spotted off Massachusetts beaches Sunday.