We're in the dog days of summer now on Cape Cod but that doesn't mean the news is taking break. We've had a popular Dennis bakery known for its big muffins open a new location in Hyannis, an abundance of motorcycles at a new exhibit being featured at the Cape Cod Musuem of Art, and a look at new leadership at local schools as the upcoming school year gets underway.
Sports is as busy as ever, too, with continuing coverage of Cape League games and golf action. And don't forget to check out the Cape Cod Times lifestyle page, where you can find all of the latest arts and entertainment news, including a preview of the upcoming .
In case you missed all this and more, here are the most read stories of the week on the Cape Cod Times website.
Sea turtles return home after being saved
It was a day of celebration at West Dennis Beachon Tuesday as fourKemp’s ridleysea turtles and a loneloggerheadwere returned to the sea after spending the last several months at theNew England Aquarium'ssea turtle hospitalin Quincy.
"These turtles have been through a lot," said New England Aquarium President and CEO Vikki Spruill. "We rescued 394 turtles this year, and that's just a remarkable thing."
The turtles — Tulip, Lupine, Bluebonnet and Violet, all endangered Kemp's ridley turtles, and the 100-pound Marsh Mallow, a threatened loggerhead — were rehabbed after being found cold-stunned on the beaches of Cape Cod last fall and winter.
Among those in attendance for the release was U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, D-Massachusetts, who has been working to advance theSea Turtle Rescue Assistance and Rehabilitation Act— a bipartisan and bicameral bill that creates a permanent $30 million grant program through theDepartment of Commerceto fund stranded sea turtle rescue, rehabilitation and research.
Between 2020 and 2023, the number of cold-stunned turtles rescued from Cape Cod beaches during the late fall and winter rose from 50 to 900.
Rescuing sea turtles:More sea turtles are washing up on Cape Cod beaches. Rehab saved 100-pound Marsh Mallow.
New offshore wind projects delayed
It was announced this week that it's going to be at least another month before contenders for thestate's fourth, and largest, offshore wind procurementwill be unveiled.
Thestate Department of Energy Resourceson Tuesday indicated in a letter submitted toDepartment of Public UtilitiesSecretary Mark Marini that selection of projects will be postponed until Sept. 6. The agency's evaluation team was originally scheduled to announce the selected bids and the start of negotiations on Aug. 7.
The delay will also push out completion of long-term contracts and memoranda of understanding to the DOER from Oct. 9 to Nov. 8, and the deadline to submit long-term contracts for DPU approval from Nov. 13 to Dec. 18.
In March, when bids for the current fourth procurement were due, Massachusetts received proposals fromAvangrid Renewables,South Coast Wind Energy, andVineyard Offshore.
Selection of wind projects postponed:New offshore wind projects delayed by state, including areas off Martha's Vineyard
Iconic Cape Cod summer house sells for $2M
After years of discussions, Cape Cod Modern House Trust bought Marcel Breuer's iconic four-bedroom house on Black Pond Road in Wellfleet from the legendary architect's son, Tamas, for $2 million, according to a deed recorded with the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds on July 24. The trust had raised around $1.3 million and secured a pre-approved bank loan to cover the remaining balance of the asking price.
This is a is a "big step" for the trust, said Peter McMahon, who founded it in 2007.
"We haven't owned a building before. We have restored and managed four buildings, but they're all owned by the Cape Cod National Seashore. This was a big deal, we raised over $2 million to actually purchase it," said McMahon. The mission to save historic buildings is important "not just as objects but as a window into people's values and how they lived and what was important to them," he said.
Breuer was a Hungarian-German architect and furniture designer known for his use of bent, tubular steel to create his furniture. He spent summers at the house from 1949 until he died in 1981 at 79. Breuer's ashes, along with his wife Connie's, and her sister's and husband's ashes, are buried under a stone slab on the property.
Breuer house has a buyer:Marcel Breuer's iconic Cape Cod summer house sold for $2M. Here's what's planned there.
Popular bakery opens second location
After 50 years of baking oversized blueberry muffins every summer in Dennis Port,Woolfie’s Bakeryhas added a year- round location inHyanniswhere you can get the mammoth muffins.
Woolfie’s ― Breakfast, Lunch & Tavernopened in June at 477 Yarmouth Road, near the intersection of Route 28, in a spot formerly occupied by the Willow Street Tavern.
The new location is open 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. serving breakfast and lunch Mondays through Saturdays and 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sundays. Expect those hours to expand later this month to include dinner once the tavern’s liquor license is issued.
“Once we’re approved for our liquor license, by the end of August, we will add a pub-style dinner,” said Woolfie’s owner Dale Shadbegian.
Woolfie's bakes up a new spot:Woolfie's Bakery in Dennis (home to signature, huge muffins) opens 2nd spot in Hyannis
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