Wellfleet

As Monday wore on, only one room of the 5,100 square-foot house remained: a great room, featuring soaring wooden beams, white shiplap walls, and a ceiling fan turning in the breeze. Once that room was demolished, the outer wall of the home – the one that faced the ocean – was finally torn down around 2:00 pm.

The trust has big plans, including archiving of the books, art, furniture, and photographs.

Cape Cod has long been a stranding hotspot. But June marked the biggest dolphin stranding in U.S. history.

To get to the Wellfleet cottage designed by renowned Modernist architect Marcel Breuer, you drive a mile into the pitch-pine woods over a road of sand.

After decades of planning, hands-on work has begun to restore natural tidal flow to the Herring River and bring back hundreds of acres of salt marsh. It’s the state’s largest-ever repair of a damaged estuary.

The biggest element of the project is the removal of the Chequessett Neck Road Dike, which has blocked tidal inflow since 1909.

Oyster-shell recycling expands to four Cape Cod towns.

The massive number of mosquitos that plagued Wellfleet last summer should not be back again this summer.