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Despite many questions, Orleans town meeting last night agreed to spend $700,000 to design a police station at the station's current site on Eldredge Park Way.

A 1960s-era police station and a cramped and inefficient town hall annex will be replaced with state-of-the-art, side-by-side facilities on George Ryder Road as a result of a town meeting vote last night.

Before town meeting could act on the $370,500 tax override request for five new police officers last night, residents had to deal with another number: 24.

Three candidates will compete for two spots on the board of selectmen in the May 20 election. Brent Putnam is the sole challenger to incumbents Ahmed Mustafa and Catherine Bumpus.

Tomorrow at 7 pm the five Democratic candidates for two open seats on the Barnstable County Commissioners will debate at the Harwich Community Center at 100 Oak St.

In 1994, during the first winter that David Shaw lived in Bristol, Conn., the heating bills for his condominium reached as high as $400 a month — a sum that he found shocking.

The Neighborhood Service Station on Route 6 in Eastham - with its derelict bicycles, beer cans and trash - is not a good neighbor and hasn't been for going on 18 years.

OAK BLUFFS — A strong third quarter gave the Barnstable boys lacrosse team a 14-9 edge yesterday and held for a 14-13 Maritime League defeat of Martha's Vineyard.

CHATHAM — Melanie Clark's one-out, eighth-inning double drove in Hannah Farris and completed a strong comeback for Chatham High School in an 8-7 softball victory over Cape Tech.

BOURNE — Senior right-hander Dylan Flynn tossed a complete game no-hitter and Chatham baseball clinched the Mayflower League Division 2 title with a 13-0 win over Upper Cape yesterday.

HARWICH — In what is perhaps the strongest field in its history, eight top teams will battle for regional supremacy and a trip to the College World Series during the NCAA Division III New England Baseball Regional tournament beginning tomorrow at...

A group of people concerned about rising energy prices will meet tomorrow to discuss how they can own the problem. Literally.

Dennis police are investigating 13 car break-ins that occurred late Saturday night into early Sunday morning in the areas of Chadwick Lane and Pheasant Lane.

It is possible that by this summer, Cape Cod Bay will become the largest No Discharge Area in the state. Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Ian Bowles submitted the proposed no-discharge designation to the U.S.

The Nauset estuary in Eastham was closed last week to the harvesting of mussels after sampling by the state Division of Marine Fisheries showed elevated levels of red tide toxin.

Thirteen years and one and a half trials later, Melvin Ewing, 39, pleaded guilty yesterday to a 1995 rape and Judge Richard Connon sentenced him to 14 to 15 years in state prison.

Dennis police are investigating a break-in at the home of an elderly woman on Cedar Hill Road in East Dennis Sunday night.

A Hyannis man accused of trying to steal the collection basket from a church Sunday night will have a lot of time to consider his sins.

Even when Col. Arval Roberson retired from Otis Air Force Base, his heart never left. He retired in 1973, making him the last commander of the U.S. Air Force base before the Air National Guard took over.

A teenage girl was able to talk a masked assailant into letting her go early yesterday after he forced her out of bed and sexually assaulted her only yards from her Dennis home as her parents slept, the police said.

BREWSTER — Elaine M. Flaherty, of Brewster, died on April 29, 2008.

FALMOUTH — Robert G. McCombe, age 50, of Falmouth, formerly of Weymouth, died on Monday, May 12, 2008, at his home in Falmouth. He was a former employee of Scientific Atlanta in Burlington and MI Technologies of Quincy.

EAST DENNIS — Helen A. "Lennie" Cross, 85, died on May 9, 2008, at the Mayflower Place Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in West Yarmouth.

BREWSTER — Elsie Barrows Woolaver, 87, died May 9, 2008, at Pleasant Bay Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Brewster.

EAST FALMOUTH — Gerald B. Reynolds, 93, of East Falmouth, passed away peacefully at JML Care Center in Falmouth, on May 10, 2008.

COTUIT — Margaret A. (Robello) Vieira, 85, of Cotuit, passed away peacefully, on Monday, after a brief illness.

The Rehabilitation Hospital of the Cape and Islands is cutting 14 jobs because of decreased demand for inpatient services.