Hyannis

In what will rank as one of the largest political demonstrations ever on Cape Cod, about 2,000 people turned out in Hyannis on Saturday afternoon, June 14, to demonstrate against the Trump administration.

Protesters gathered in several communities across the region Saturday afternoon as part of a nationwide demonstration against the Trump Administration called “Hands Off.”

Max Wolff works in a restaurant and art gallery in Sandwich. His art caught the owner's eye.

The school wants to expand programming beyond age 21, so alumni can maintain the friendships and community they have come to know, said Stewart Miller, executive director of Riverview.

Last week, a fire devastated the Brazilian Resource Center in Hyannis. Now, the organization is trying to raise money so it can keep providing people with free health programs, after-school programs, and other social services.

For the first time ever, the Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative is offering an in-person climate conference for free.

Firefighters cycled through different stations to practice their skills. Stations included medical triage, a simulated fuselage, a real fire, and smashed vehicles for practicing extrication.

The Hyannis PFAS Community Working Group has received a grant to analyze how PFAS — from the Hyannis Gateway Airport, the former Barnstable County Fire Training Academy, and elsewhere — are interacting with one another in groundwater.

Researchers from the Silent Spring Institute revealed this week that, among residents who lived in the community over a recent 10-year period, blood levels of PFHxS were more than three times higher than the median for the general population. Those researchers are now beginning the work of understanding the link between PFAS exposure in drinking water and specific health effects.

Barnstable County will install more monitoring wells in Hyannis this month to continue mapping PFAS groundwater contamination stemming from the former fire training academy.