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The crowd of about 400 people on the Oak Bluffs dock yesterday afternoon peered to see the spectacle: The next shark hunt contestant was hoisting his catch into the air to be weighed.

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has received a $1.8 million grant for an integrated, ocean-observation system, according to a press release from U.S. Rep. William Delahunt's office.

Truro water officials this week have begun a second year of drinking water quality monitoring by mailing water sample bottles and instructions to North Truro residents, says Kevin Kuechler, the town's water resources oversight committee's chairman.

The red tide bloom that has plagued much of the Massachusetts coastline, although leaving most of the Cape alone, is rapidly retreating.

A battle between the University of Massachusetts and the state Department of Environmental Protection over who owns data and a computer model used to design a multibillion cleanup of the state's coastal waters is now in mediation.

PROVINCETOWN — Residents woke up yesterday to an oversized cruise ship on the waterfront horizon, the Norwegian Dawn.

Muffle your car sound systems and loud motorcycles tomorrow because the Falmouth Police Department will be conducting "noise abatement enforcement" along the scenic shore route from East Falmouth to Falmouth Heights to Woods Hole.

Eight vehicles in an East Falmouth driveway were damaged Thursday, their tires slashed and windows broken in an early morning vandalism spree, the police said.

Two people were taken to Cape Cod Hospital yesterday morning for treatment of injuries suffered in a car accident on Route 28 in front of the Cavalier Motor Lodge, police said.

Guests at the Brentwood Motor Inn in Yarmouth awakened to thick smoke surrounding the motel early yesterday morning.

The doctor indicted for involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of a patient who died during an abortion procedure will be arraigned Thursday, according to Cape & Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe.

Family members are overjoyed to learn the whereabouts of a 26-year-old man who had been missing for more than a week.

A worker fell from the second floor of building at a construction site on Driftwood Terrace in Harwich yesterday afternoon after having a seizure, fire officials said.

To escape the noon heat, Francis "Flyer" Santos sits in the shade behind the West End Racing Club with an eye on young swimmers.

When the hillside across from the new Orleans Town Hall was scraped to bare ground last year, everybody asked Paul Fulcher what on earth he was doing?

A new study by a trio of visiting researchers at the Marine Biological Laboratory finds the circuitry the male midshipman uses to hum develops in the same part of the central nervous system that allows humans to laugh, frogs to croak and birds to sing.

An experienced sailor and prominent retired businessman was killed yesterday afternoon after a power boat collided with the sailboat he was aboard and threw him into the waters of Buzzards Bay.

BUZZARDS BAY — Richard A. Young, 82, of Buzzards Bay, formerly of Millis, died July 17, 2008, at Tufts Medical Center in Boston.

PROVINCETOWN — Thomas E. McGowan, 66, of Provincetown, died at his home on July 16, 2008, following a long illness.

YARMOUTHPORT — Walter J. McGauley, of Yarmouthport, died of cancer on July 17, 2008, at the Epoch Assisted Living at Brewster Place.

POCASSET — William James Markee, 82, formerly of Franklin, died Tuesday at his home in Pocasset, after a brief illness.

DENNIS — Harry Ernest Laurie, 71, of Dennis, died July 14, 2008, at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis.

YARMOUTHPORT — Marta ("Martita," "Tita") Bergendahl was born in 1925 in Hudson, N.Y., the only child of Henry and Mizzi Obando. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Syracuse University, and married radio executive William H. Schwarz.

HYANNIS — Ron "Hawk" passed away June 28, 2008, following a long and courageous battle of failing health.