The Week In Photos - March 17, 2023
175th Church Anniversary
The Reverend Nell Fields (right) and Barbara Schneider cut the cake at the 175th Waquoit Congregational Church anniversary celebration. The cake, topped with a replica of the iconic green-trimmed church, was made by Karen Wilson at Windfall Market.
- BRENDA M. SHARP/ENTERPRISE
Morning Indoor Walk
Libby Fox listens to an audio book while she rounds the new indoor walking track at the town’s new Center For Active Living followed by Patricia Day (left) and Sheila Smith. The recreation department is hosting morning walks on the track each weekday from 7:30 to 8:30. To register for the walks, go to the department’s website, sandwichma.myrec.com.
- GENE M. MARCHAND/ENTERPRISE
Mural
A mural, loaded with movie and pop culture references, covers the side of a building behind the Lobster Trap restaurant in Bourne. Lobster Trap owner Dave Delancey teamed up with L.A based artist Phil Bourque to create the 50x40 foot painting.
- CALLI REMILLARD/ENTERPRISE
John Miller
John Miller stands in the back room of his business, J Miller Pictureframer, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Mr. Miller’s daughter has expressed interest in continuing the business once he retires.
- ALEX MEGERLE/ENTERPRISE
Dune Restoration
Students from Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School were busy planting beach grass on the newly reinforced dunes at Wood Neck Beach last Friday. The conservation department and the Friends and Neighbors of Wood Neck Beach are working together to rebuild the beach’s dunes, which, in addition to persistent annual erosion, took a beating in December’s winter storm. Installation of dune fencing began yesterday.
- KARL AUDENAERDE
Frans de Waal
Bonobos are a female-dominated and highly sexual species, Frans de Waal told an audience in Woods Hole. Dr. de Waal has observed so much homosexual activity in bonobo societies that he classifies bonobos as bisexual. “For them, having sex is a bit like a handshake,” he said.
- GILDA GEIST/ENTERPRISE
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175th Church Anniversary
The Reverend Nell Fields (right) and Barbara Schneider cut the cake at the 175th Waquoit Congregational Church anniversary celebration. The cake, topped with a replica of the iconic green-trimmed church, was made by Karen Wilson at Windfall Market.
- BRENDA M. SHARP/ENTERPRISE
Morning Indoor Walk
Libby Fox listens to an audio book while she rounds the new indoor walking track at the town’s new Center For Active Living followed by Patricia Day (left) and Sheila Smith. The recreation department is hosting morning walks on the track each weekday from 7:30 to 8:30. To register for the walks, go to the department’s website, sandwichma.myrec.com.
- GENE M. MARCHAND/ENTERPRISE
Lori Hough
Lori Hough files her private petition seeking a repeal of the town’s prohibition on the retail sale of recreational marijuana at Town Hall.
- STEVE STROJNY
Mural
A mural, loaded with movie and pop culture references, covers the side of a building behind the Lobster Trap restaurant in Bourne. Lobster Trap owner Dave Delancey teamed up with L.A based artist Phil Bourque to create the 50x40 foot painting.
- CALLI REMILLARD/ENTERPRISE
Station Roof Work
Scaffolding surrounds the Buzzards Bay train station building that houses the Cape Cod Canal Region Chamber of Commerce office and visitor’s center.
- CALLI REMILLARD/ENTERPRISE
Sharp Shinned Hawk
A juvenile sharp-shinned hawk perches on a signpost next to the boardwalk at Town Neck Beach.
- GENE M. MARCHAND/ENTERPRISE
Semi-Autonomous Canine Enhances Security At Cape Cod Space Force Station
Spot is an unmanned ground vehicle that the Cape Cod Space Force Station will put on patrol in 2024.
- TIMOTHY SANDLAND
Sandwich vs Nantucket Semi Finals 3/11⁄23
Junior forward Jack Connolly works the puck around the offensive zone during the Blue Knights’ game against Nantucket on Saturday.
- ZACHARY FOLEY/ENTERPRISE
Town Neck Beach
Wind from this week’s storm whips up some waves along Town Neck Beach. The storm caused what town officials are calling “minor damage” to private private property along White Cape Path and Bay Beach Lane.
- GENE M. MARCHAND/ENTERPRISE
John Miller
John Miller stands in the back room of his business, J Miller Pictureframer, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Mr. Miller’s daughter has expressed interest in continuing the business once he retires.
- ALEX MEGERLE/ENTERPRISE
Falmouth Smoke Shop
In January, Vijay Patel (left) sold the Falmouth Smoke Shop to his mother, Minaben Patel (center).
- GILDA GEIST/ENTERPRISE
Rolling Papers
A petition article seeks to lift the ban on the sale of rolling papers in town.
Sandwich High's Aubrie Schwager
Aubrie Schwager
- RICH MACLONE/ENTERPRISE
Marie and Chase on Bus
Marie Younger Blackburn and Chase Blackburn on a bus
- COURTESY MARIE YOUNGER BLACKBURN
Dune Restoration
Students from Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School were busy planting beach grass on the newly reinforced dunes at Wood Neck Beach last Friday. The conservation department and the Friends and Neighbors of Wood Neck Beach are working together to rebuild the beach’s dunes, which, in addition to persistent annual erosion, took a beating in December’s winter storm. Installation of dune fencing began yesterday.
- KARL AUDENAERDE
Falmouth High's Jack Watson
Jack Watson
- RICH MACLONE/ENTERPRISE
Lawrence Librarian
John Turner
Frans de Waal
Bonobos are a female-dominated and highly sexual species, Frans de Waal told an audience in Woods Hole. Dr. de Waal has observed so much homosexual activity in bonobo societies that he classifies bonobos as bisexual. “For them, having sex is a bit like a handshake,” he said.
- GILDA GEIST/ENTERPRISE
Falmouth High's Jazz Fernandez
Jazz Fernandez
Harbor Management Public Workshop
Left to right, Kristin Uiterwyk of Urban Harbors Institute, Dale Oakley of the Wampanoag Tribe Natural Resources Department and Select Board chairman David Weeden
- ALEX MEGERLE/ENTERPRISE
FHS Cabaret Night
Falmouth High School junior Merritt Wilcox and sophomore Terrance Davison perform “I See The Light” from the Disney movie “Tangled” as part of the school’s Cabaret Night last weekend at Highfield Theatre.
- BRENDA M. SHARP/ENTERPRISE
Mashpee Girls vs Case
Hialeah Turner-Foster and the Mashpee girls’ basketball team gave an all-out effort against Cathedral but fell in the Elite Eight round.
- ZACHARY FOLEY/ ENTERPRISE
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