Elizabeth Saito

3 weeks ago | capenews.net | Elizabeth Saito

On a recent Tuesday just as the sun was setting, Joseph LaBrecque, a member of the Falmouth Soto Zen Sangha, picked up a small spruce branch resting in a bowl of water and gently tapped it on the heads of the 16 buddha statues arranged on a makeshift altar in a small room of the First Congregational Church’s parish hall. The touch of water on the figurines symbolizes the washing of the Buddha, the central act in the celebration of his birth.

2 months ago | capenews.net | Elizabeth Saito

At 5:54 AM on a recent Friday Boris Villatte, owner of Maison Villatte bakery on Main Street, took a long metal spatula and spread pastry cream across a seven-foot slab of croissant dough—he had already been at work for almost five hours. “I don’t sleep much,” said Mr. Villatte, who eats dinner with his wife and 11-year-old son before falling asleep at around 8:30 PM. “Sometimes I nap in the afternoon.

Jan 3, 2025 | capenews.net | Elizabeth Saito

At 8:37 AM on a recent Saturday, sitting in a upholstered chair at Coffee Obsession, David J. Kent took a sip of his medium black coffee and resumed talking with members of his informal social group, which has been meeting nearly every Saturday at the Palmer Avenue coffee shop for the past 24 years. “This is our church,” said Jesus J. Pineda, a native of Mexico and a benthic ecologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Mr. Kent balked.

Jan 3, 2025 | capenews.net | Elizabeth Saito

At 8:37 AM on a recent Saturday, sitting in a upholstered chair at Coffee Obsession, David J. Kent took a sip of his medium black coffee and resumed talking with members of his informal social group, which has been meeting nearly every Saturday at the Palmer Avenue coffee shop for the past 24 years. “This is our church,” said Jesus J. Pineda, a native of Mexico and a benthic ecologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Mr. Kent balked.

May 23, 2024 | capenews.net | Elizabeth Saito

Emily R. Curcio, 25, felt pleased when she accepted a research assistant position at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole in May 2022, and found a year-round rental in Sippewissett that she shared with five other people, all employees at Woods Hole science institutions. But in August, when the landlord raised the rent sharply and gave the tenants two weeks to sign a new lease, all six roommates decided to find someplace more affordable. That proved difficult.