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CAPTAIN DAVID KELLEY HOUSE
The Captain David Kelley House is a romantic bed and breakfast on Cape Cod, 1/2 mile from the warm ocean beaches of Nantucket Sound. Our central location provides easy access to all Cape Cod attractions.This charming Greek Revival home was built in 1835 by Sea Captain David N. Kelley and later sold to prominent Centerville citizen, Captain John Baker, Skipper of the "Pride of the Port."
The two first-floor guest rooms are named in their honor. The remaining guest rooms are named after Captain and Mrs. Kelley's children; Patience, Alexander, Rachel and Phebe.
A detailed historic restoration returned the Inn to its original classic character -- a 19th century Cape Cod Sea Captain’s Home. Craftsmen and decorators installed crown moldings, historic wallpapers, antique oriental carpets, nautical art and lovely antiques. All of the inn's major systems have been updated to ensure you a restful, comfortable stay.
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| *** WATCH *** High-Speed Chase Starts in Sandwich, Hits 125 MPH on Route 3 Before State Police Terminate Pursuit in Plymouth Monday August 17, 2026 |
| ABOVE: A marked Barnstable Police unit, lights and sirens activated, passes HN on Old Stage Road in an effort to intercept the Sandwich Police pursuit. [with HN overlay]
SANDWICH, MASSSACHUSETTS ? A Sandwich police officer initiated a high-speed pursuit Saturday evening that began in Sandwich, continued through Mashpee and Barnstable, and eventually reached reckless speeds of 125 mph on Route 3 in Plymouth before state police terminated the chase over public safety concerns.
According to radio transmissions monitored by Hyannis News, Sandwich police had stopped the vehicle earlier. The driver told officers he was headed to his girlfriend's house just off Route 130. It remains unclear from the radio traffic whether the driver fled that initial stop or whether the pursuit began sometime afterward. (The driver's name was not mentioned in the audio captured by HN.)
The driver, known to pursuing officers, has a history of fentanyl and crack charges. Responding officers were warned he could be under the influence. Multiple marked-lanes violations were observed as the vehicle crossed into Mashpee. Mashpee police officers were notified. Speeds on town roads reached 60 mph.
The suspect vehicle turned onto Route 130 southbound near Great Neck Road North. Barnstable police were alerted as the chase approached Route 28. Officers reported the driver was ?reaching around? in the front seat. As the vehicle entered Barnstable on Route 28 eastbound, Barnstable units were dispatched toward the pursuit. A Sandwich officer asked dispatch to ask Barnstable units about possible stop sticks while speeds remained at about 60 mph near Jimmy's Ice Cream parlor on Route 28.
The chase then turned north onto Route 149 in Marstons Mills toward Route 6. State police were notified shortly before the vehicle entered Route 6 westbound, where speeds climbed to 110 mph. A Sandwich supervisor ordered all Sandwich units to terminate the pursuit just before the Chase Road exit.
State police quickly located and re-engaged the vehicle still fleeing northbound on Route 3 from the Sagamore Bridge area. Pursuit speeds began around 80 mph, quickly exceeded 100 mph, and peaked at 125 mph, according to state police radio traffic. Troopers determined the vehicle was registered in Yarmouth and that the driver had warrants and prior assault-and-battery charges on his adult record.
State police units equipped with stop sticks?including one with a StarChase tracking device?moved into position. A state police lieutenant, citing the driver's weaving through traffic and high-speed passing in the breakdown lane, ordered troopers to terminate the pursuit. Units were authorized to follow from a distance without emergency lights. The vehicle was last seen in the area of Exit 13 on Route 3 northbound in Plymouth.
Hyannis News followed the chase at a distance and discontinued coverage at Exit 3 in Plymouth after troopers terminated. Sandwich police were contacted Monday morning for any updates and provided contact information for a sergeant who may be able to release further details. Official updates will be reported as they become available. The following HN Video highlights pursuit radio transmission, along with HN dashcam footage?
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| Man Found Bleeding with Eye Bulging Out at Hyannis Park [HN Photos] Sunday August 16, 2026 |
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HYANNIS, MASSACHUSETTS ? Shortly after 4 a.m. Sunday, Barnstable Police responded to a loud noise complaint at Aselton Park on South Street and found a disturbing scene: one man severely injured and bleeding from a forehead wound with his eye bulging out, the other passed out and unresponsive.
Officers arrived after a caller reported a group ?yelling on the green.? The injured man, a Hyannis resident, was bleeding heavily. Police immediately requested rescue. A Hyannis Fire Department ambulance crew treated him and loaded him onto a stretcher. As he was lifted into the ambulance, he mumbled what sounded like, ?I love everybody.? He was taken to Cape Cod Hospital.
The second man, 27 years old, remained unconscious at first despite officers using sternum rubs and pressure points. When he finally came around, he was highly intoxicated, unsteady on his feet, and considered a danger to himself. He cooperated while being handcuffed and placed in a cruiser for transport to Barnstable Police Headquarters in protective custody. An initial conversation with police indicated the man could possibly be new in town, having been here for only around 48 hours. Police were still trying to figure out where he was from at the time of this report.
Police first ensured both men were safe?one receiving medical attention, the other secured in custody. Investigators are still piecing together what happened before their arrival. It remains unclear whether a fight or assault caused the serious head injuries. The investigation at Aselton Park is active and ongoing, with no further details available at this time.
Note: HN is working on audio and video from an earlier high-speed pursuit from the overnight that started in Sandwich, crossed into Mashpee and Barnstable, got onto the Mid-Cape, and sped over the bridge into Plymouth at speeds over 110 MPH. The pursuit was terminated due to reckless driving. HN will hopefully release the audio later today. Stay tuned!
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| Downtown Hyannis: God Bless Good Samaritans! [HN Photos & Video] Saturday August 15, 2026 |
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ABOVE: It's unclear how this young woman in her early twenties, visiting from off-Cape, became separated from the friends she had been out with earlier. Fortunately, several Good Samaritans spotted her passed out on the pavement behind the JFK Museum around 2 a.m. this morning. She was a long way from home and certainly did not belong on the ground in an area with a history of violent crime. Thankfully, she was found and safely transported to Cape Cod Hospital. God bless the Good Samaritans!
ABOVE: A Barnstable Police patrolwoman checks on an elderly gentleman in a wheelchair who was living next to the Hyannis Village Green shortly after 2 a.m. this morning.
ABOVE: Another man who happened to be sleeping near the green placed his towel over the elderly gentleman, who wasn't feeling well and said he was cold. (As a side note, the man placing the towel said he had my father as a mathematics teacher at Falmouth High School back in the early 1970s. He was on the green last evening simply because he missed the bus back to Falmouth, according to him. God bless him!)
ABOVE: A woman who was sleeping near the Hyannis Village Green last evening kindly held the elderly gentleman's hand as he began experiencing chest pains shortly after 2 a.m. this morning.
ABOVE: Thanks to Good Samaritans and first responders, the elderly wheelchair-bound gentleman was transported to Cape Cod Hospital by a Hyannis Fire Department ambulance crew, where he'll hopefully receive the medical care he needs.
ABOVE: A Barnstable Police patrolman checks on the well-being of a couple living behind the JFK Museum early this morning.
Midnight Grilling Outside Downtown Dunks [HN Video]
HYANNIS, MASSACHUSETTS ? Police investigated an open cook fire on private property early this morning next to the downtown Hyannis Dunkin'. The couple was setting up to grill food beside the building. The woman claimed to be a Dunkin' employee, but it was shortly after midnight and there was no way to confirm whether she was authorized to grill on the property after hours. The property was clearly marked at all entryways with signs reading ?PRIVATE PROPERTY ? NO TRESPASSING OR LOITERING.?
When HN arrived on scene, Barnstable Police officers were being polite and patient with the couple. I did not observe officers being rude, as the couple seemed to suggest.
Bottom line: Downtown Hyannis seemed like a poor choice of location for an open cook fire in the middle of the night.
Both the man and woman were upset at being asked to leave. But officers had already made contact, and their hands were tied. The property was clearly posted with ?PRIVATE PROPERTY ? NO TRESPASSING OR LOITERING? signs. Officers had little choice but to insist the couple move to a more appropriate location. If officers had ignored the open fire after making contact and something happened?a fire, someone getting burned, etc.?they would face scrutiny for not properly doing their job.
The following HN video shows the couple understandably upset? and it also shows officers doing their job. HN simply documented the encounter. The couple eventually complied, which is why I chose to give them a ?courtesy blur.? It must have been frustrating for them, but officers needed to respect the wishes of the property owners who posted the signs. Hopefully the couple found a better place to enjoy their midnight ?din-din.?
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| The Summer Sons: Cape Cod Baseball League Saturday August 15, 2026 |
| On a Cape Cod summer evening, on many a high school baseball field, you can enjoy our national pastime of yore for free. You will find packed bleachers, a small snack shop cooking up burgers and hot dogs, and picnic blankets and beach chairs ringing the area. Local community volunteers run the whole thing- from welcoming folks at the entrance to fundraising to hosting players in their homes. The coach and trainers get a stipend, but other than that, no one gets paid. It is all done for the love of the game.
We witnessed the culmination of the season-ending playoffs of theCape Cod Baseball League between Harwich Mariners and the Bourn Braves. The Mariners won in the rubber match in the three game series. I have been persuaded to write about the Cape Cod League by the avid baseball fans in my midst and I am channeling John here because , as many of you know, I am not much of a baseball fan!
The Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL or Cape League) is a collegiate summer baseball wooden bat league. One of the nation's premier collegiate summer leagues, thousands of players have spent a summer on the Cape before later donning a big league uniform. That includes Hall of Famers like Frank Thomas and Jeff Bagwell and former stars like Nomar Garciaparra, Thurman Munson, Barry Zito and Jason Varitek. Current stars- including Aaron Judge, Pete Alonso, Chris Sale and George Springer- all wore jerseys for Cape Cod Summer League.
As early as the 1860s, baseball teams representing various Cape Cod towns and villages were competing against one another. The earliest newspaper account is of an 1867 game in Sandwich between the hometown ?Nichols Club? and the visiting Cummaquid team. Though not formalized as a league, the games provided entertainment for residents and summer visitors.
Players in the Cape Cod all live with host families who live on the Cape, becoming members of those families along the way. Hosts often refer to them as their ?summer sons?.
?The league has enabled people to come together under the auspices of baseball, and build deep and abiding relationships,? says Boston Globe journalist Christopher Price, author of Baseball by the Beach: A History of America's National Pastime on Cape Cod. Price's grandparents met at a Barnstable game in the 1930s. ?The game connects generations over time. That's a legacy that any sport would be proud of.? |
| Breaking: Dive team activated after multiple people reported caught in rip current at Herring Cove Beach in Provincetown Friday August 14, 2026 |
| PROVINCETOWN ? The Barnstable County Dive Team was activated to Provincetown. Several people reportedly got caught in a rip current at the far North end of Herring Cove Beach. Two people were rescued by the Provincetown Fire Marine Unit. A woman was unaccounted for prompting the dive team activation. CWN will bring you further details [?] |
| *** WATCH *** Woman Accused of Receiving Stolen Van Found Snoozing in Hammock by Hyannis Artist Shanties?Husband Arrested Too After Denied Kiss Request Sparks Chaos Friday August 14, 2026 |
| HYANNIS, MASSACHUSETTS ? A search last evening for a stolen work van packed with expensive tools ended with an unexpected discovery: a woman dozing in a hammock behind the Hyannis Artist Shanties, and a brief family drama that landed both her and her companion in handcuffs.
Barnstable Police launched an investigation after a work van was reported stolen sometime yesterday from the area of Spring Street. The vehicle was later spotted driving around Hyannis, prompting a BOLO just as a downtown patrolman located it shortly before 10 p.m. parked in an Ocean Street lot behind the Hyannis Village Green bandstand.
The van's driver's-side vent window had been smashed?believed to be the point of entry?and the keys had reportedly sat in a cup holder inside. Video from the Ocean Street parking lot reportedly identified the female suspect leaving the vehicle only a short time earlier. While a Barnstable County Sheriff's Crime Scene Unit member photographed the damage and dusted for prints, officers found the keys hidden behind a nearby tree behind the bandstand.
Hyannis News was accompanying a Barnstable Police sergeant searching the area around Barnstable Town Hall when the sergeant spotted the woman sleeping in a hammock behind the Hyannis Artist Shanties. Additional officers arrived and took her into custody.
As she was being escorted to a cruiser, the woman?seen in the following Hyannis News video?apparently sought a kiss from a man identified as her husband who was standing nearby. When officers did not allow it, she resisted by dropping to the ground and was warned against attempting to kick them.
The husband grew agitated after a sergeant confronted him about failing to mention his wife was sleeping in the hammock just behind where he had been seated. He insisted he had been truthful when he said he had not seen anyone ?running through? the area?a semantic distinction that did not satisfy the sergeant. The exchange escalated, and the man was arrested for disorderly conduct even though he had been free to leave just moments earlier.
Both were transported separately to Barnstable Police Headquarters. Neither got that kiss.
The woman was identified as Leita Burbank, 34, of Hyannis. She faces multiple charges, including three previous arrest warrants, receiving a stolen motor vehicle (for allegedly being behind the wheel of the van), and resisting arrest. Her companion remained unidentified at the time of this report.
Back at the recovered van, officers collected a pair of white sneakers believed to belong to Burbank?she was only wearing socks when arrested?along with additional video evidence.
The initial details in this report are based on radio transmissions and information from police sources. The defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. The investigation remains active and ongoing?
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| Severe Thunderstorm Warning for western Barnstable County until 3:30 PM Thursday August 13, 2026 |
| The National Weather Service in Boston/Norton has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for? Western Barnstable County in southeastern Massachusetts? Southern Plymouth County in southeastern Massachusetts? Central Bristol County in southeastern Massachusetts? * Until 330 PM EDT. * At 225 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Middleborough, or near Bridgewater, moving southeast at [?] |
| Developing Story: Barnstable Police search for missing 15-year-old Thursday August 13, 2026 |
| HYANNIS ? Barnstable Police are asking the public to be on the lookout for a 15-year-old boy who was reported missing Wednesday evening. According to a post from the Barnstable Police Department, Ryan L'Hommedieu was last seen at approximately 4:30 p.m. Wednesday on North Street near CVS. Police said L'Hommedieu was last seen wearing a [?] |
| Breaking: Multiple assets respond to reported diver in distress off Dennis Wednesday August 12, 2026 |
| DENNIS ? Multiple assets responded to a location off Sesuit Neck in Dennis about 5 PM Wednesday after reports that a diver failed to resurface. Dennis Fire along with the regional dive team, Barnstable and Sandwich marine units, Massachusetts Environmental Police and the Coast Guard were all alerted to the situation. CWN will bring you [?] |
Next Barnstable Cape News Update at 8:30 AM EST
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