Cape Cod Star

07/03/2026

Guide to Cape Cod Craziness and Chokepoints:

Which one drives you berserk?

I live here. I drive these roads all the time — to show houses, to get to the grocery store, to reach the beach. I know where the chokepoints are, and I know wh

07/02/2026

Our fireworks guide:

Every Cape Cod and Islands fireworks display for 2026 — dates, times, locations and what to expect from Mashpee to Provincetown. Updated May 2026.

07/02/2026

Our guide to the 4th:

Fireworks and parades across Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket in 2026. Full schedule by date and start time. Plan your July 4th celebration.

06/02/2026

🏛️ The Hazel House is back on the market.

If you've walked the side streets of Provincetown, you've probably stopped in front of 4 Center Street. The yellow parsonage with the shocking acid green roof. The sculpture garden with the volcanic Buddhas and crystal-inlaid walls. The living work of art that Ron Hazel and his art collection created.

It didn't find a buyer the first time around. Maybe the photos didn't capture it. Maybe a property this genuinely, boldly Provincetown just needs the right visionary to see it.

Now it's back with better images and a second chance at $3,199,000.

This week's Bay to Sound Report also covers $23.7M in closed sales, 13 new luxury listings, and what the Cape Cod market is actually telling us about speed, patience, and contradictions.

268 Parker Road in Osterville closed in 3 days. 46 Freeman Lane in Orleans sat for 408 days.

Read the full report → https://capecodstar.com/bay-to-sound-report/volume-1/

05/19/2026

Have you ever gone online to try to plan your Fourth of July weekend and ended up with four different sites giving you four different answers?

We have. It's maddening. So we did the work.

Here is our complete 2026 calendar of every fireworks display planned on Cape Cod and the Islands this summer — most staged around the Fourth, a few that aren't, all verified as best we can.
Bring a blanket. The parking situation is not going to improve.

🎆 https://capecodstar.com/cape-cod-fireworks/

05/14/2026

Have you ever stumbled into something astounding completely by accident?

We were deep in the data, building our exhaustive Barnstable town guide — 516 home sales, ten zip codes, seven villages — and a question surfaced that we couldn't stop thinking about.

What does a square foot of Cape Cod actually cost?

Not median sales price. Not days on market. Price per square foot — the most honest number in real estate.

We had data for seven towns. The results go from surprising to jaw-dropping.

Yarmouth: $466/sqft
Barnstable: $440/sqft
Brewster: $472/sqft
Falmouth: $481/sqft
Eastham: $515/sqft
Chatham: $725/sqft
Provincetown: $1,308/sqft

Provincetown costs more per square foot than Boston. By $544.
This is the most honest look at Cape Cod real estate we've ever published.

https://capecodstar.com/what-a-square-foot-of-cape-cod-actually-costs/

05/03/2026

When is it going to STOP raining? Don't they know it's MOTHER'S DAY?

Cape Cod Weather is now on your phone — one click away, anytime you need it.

Add it in seconds: https://capecodstar.com/install-cape-cod-weather-app/

05/02/2026

From my little town, a huge FISHY event.

A whopping 94,542 fish have been tallied in the last two days. A reminder....Brewster in Bloom weekend is coming up. To celebrate, the gristmill will be open, grinding corn, and selling cornmeal on Saturday, May 2 between 10 AM and 2 PM.

05/01/2026

Have you ever tried to plan your day on Cape Cod and couldn't get a decent local forecast to save your life?

Boaters and fishermen — we hear you. For you it's not just frustrating. It's critical.

We got tired of it too. So we built something better. ⚓

Cape Cod Star now has a real-time Boating Forecast — conditions for all 12 Cape Cod harbors from Sandwich to Provincetown. Water temp, wave height, wind, tide times, and live buoy readings for the Bay, the Sound, Buzzards Bay, and the Atlantic. Updated hourly.

After a few gray days — sunshine and 58° today. Good window to get out on the water.

All free. All local. All Cape Cod. ⛵🌊⚓

Link below 👇