Cape Cod

Repairs to the aging Sagamore Bridge during the spring have slowed traffic leaving Cape Cod to a crawl most nights and backed it up for miles on Sundays, culminating in a Mother's Day morass when the stalled line of cars stretched past multiple exits on Route 6 and triggered all-day gridlock on nearby Route 6A. "Whoever conceived of this plan should be fired," said Anne Kilguss, a Boston social worker and psychotherapist with a second home in...

BARNSTABLE — A 78-year-old Cape Cod man was sentenced to the mandatory sentence of life without parole Wednesday, one day after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder in the death of his ­estranged wife more than three decades ago. Edmond Carriere Jr. was convicted in Barnstable Superior Court of paying $10,000 to two men to kill Frances ­Carriere, who was found stabbed to death in the bathroom of her home in the ­Buzzards Bay...

Construction on the Sagamore Bridge and heavy traffic coming from Cape Cod caused long delays into the night Sunday on Route 6 and its feeder roads, according to State Police. According to the Department of Transportation, construction on the Sagamore Bridge, which began Sunday and restricts westbound traffic to one lane, is expected to continue through Saturday. At around 5:30 p.m., according to State Police Trooper Thomas Murphy, traffic was backed up for 7 miles from the Sagamore Bridge and for 2 miles from the Bourne Bridge.

Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod (as of May 16) as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society. Mass Audubon's annual Bird-a-thon fund-raiser was held, bringing birders from all over the state to the Cape in hopes of big species lists. One of the highlights was a sandhill crane seen by many teams at both the Beech Forest in Provincetown and the Pilgrim Heights hawk watch. Lots of night birding produced many secretive owls and rails, including clapper rails in Wellfleet, Brewster, and Harwich, Virginia rails in many locations, a sora in Chatham, and Northern saw-whet owls in several...

Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod (as of Feb. 29) as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society. The lazuli bunting continues to attract a crowd to Mass Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, where a yellow-bellied sapsucker, 4 Northern bobwhites, 7 field sparrows, a winter wren, 3 common grackles, 4 brown-headed cowbirds, 7 Eastern bluebirds, and a hooded merganser were also noted. A Pacific loon is still being seen close to shore at the east end of the Cape Cod Canal and a common raven was seen near the Bourne Bridge.

One of the videos on display at the bustling Yellow Umbrella Books in Chatham over the holiday weekend was "The Lightkeepers," the Richard Dreyfuss movie that filmed around the Cape two years ago. A clerk told us that it's selling well, and that locals are also still picking up "The Golden Boys," a comedy starring David Carradine and Rip Torn that filmed around town in 2007. That movie was originally called "Chatham. "

The drive between Boston and Cape Cod can be 60-plus miles of nightmare, depending on the time of day and road conditions, as surprised commuters discovered on Mother's Day, when construction allowed only limited access to the Sagamore Bridge. That work should wind down by the end of the month, but seasonal slowdowns await. So it's disappointing that a plan to extend weekend service on the MBTA's Middleboro commuter rail line to Hyannis this summer has been shelved for now. The Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority's decision to wait until next year seems reasonable, based on the need to make...

Repairs to the aging Sagamore Bridge during the spring have slowed traffic leaving Cape Cod to a crawl most nights and backed it up for miles on Sundays, culminating in a Mother's Day morass when the stalled line of cars stretched past multiple exits on Route 6 and triggered all-day gridlock on nearby Route 6A. "Whoever conceived of this plan should be fired," said Anne Kilguss, a Boston social worker and psychotherapist with a second home in...

Construction on the Sagamore Bridge and heavy traffic coming from Cape Cod caused long delays into the night Sunday on Route 6 and its feeder roads, according to State Police. According to the Department of Transportation, construction on the Sagamore Bridge, which began Sunday and restricts westbound traffic to one lane, is expected to continue through Saturday. At around 5:30 p.m., according to State Police Trooper Thomas Murphy, traffic was backed up for 7 miles from the Sagamore Bridge and for 2 miles from the Bourne Bridge.

Construction on the Sagamore Bridge and heavy traffic coming from Cape Cod has caused long delays into the night Sunday on Route 6 and its feeder roads, according to Sandwich police and State Police. According to the Department of Transportation, construction on the Sagamore Bridge, which began Sunday and restricts westbound traffic to one lane, is expected to continue through Saturday. At around 5:30 p.m., according to State Police Trooper Thomas Murphy, traffic was backed up for seven miles from the Sagamore Bridge and for two miles from the Bourne Bridge.

Rescue workers say the pilot and a passenger were not hurt when their small plane that was flying over Cape Cod suffered mechanical failure and made an emergency landing into a small lake. Chatham Fire Capt. Kate Hansen says the plane sunk into Lover's Lake after landing there Saturday afternoon. Emergency responders checked the pilot and a passenger at the scene and released them. There was no immediate information on the identities of the pilot and passenger, the origin of their flight and their destination.

A movie director who has admitted he inflated expenses when he applied for Massachusetts film tax credits has been sentenced to two to three years in state prison. A Boston judge on Thursday also ordered Daniel Adams to pay nearly $4.4 million in restitution and to serve 10 years on probation. The penalties had been announced when he pleaded guilty last month to charges including larceny and making a false claim. Attorney General Martha Coakley's office had accused Adams of exaggerating expenses for two films shot on Cape Cod, "The Golden Boys" and "The...