The Great Brush Off is Today!

The 27th Annual Art Festival

Saturday, July 8, 9:00 – 2:30 (rain date Sunday, July 9)
Cotuit Village Green
School and Main Streets

Join the Cahoon Museum for the BRUSH OFF, a day of summer fun celebrating the Cape’s art and artists. This annual art festival features silent and live art auctions, artists painting live on location, food and music on the Cotuit Village Green. Come experience heart-warming community spirit while benefiting the museum!

Click here for a sneak peak of the 2017 Live Auction Catalog

The Day’s Events:

9:00 – Noon – Watch artists painting live on the Cotuit Village Green and scenic Cotuit locations.
9:30 – Noon – Silent Auction: Bid on Silent Auction art and preview Live Auction Art
Noon – 1:00pm – Food: Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, Polar Cave Ice Cream and more! Music: Bart Weisman Smooth Jazz Group
1:00 – 2:30pm – Live Auction with Charley Bailey-Gates: Bring a folding chair and enjoy the fun! Bid on art to support local artist and the Museum!
All Day – Children’s Arts and Crafts, Cahoon Museum Pop-Up Gift Shop!

 

 

Shellfishing Closed

The Town of Barnstable is CLOSED TO ALL HARVEST OF SHELLFISH until further notice per order of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries.

Growers,
Please be advised that due to extreme rainfall, the Division of Marine Fisheries has issued an emergency closure for all conditionally approved and approved shellfish growing areas East of the Cape Cod Canal in the Towns of Sandwich, Bourne, Falmouth, Mashpee and Barnstable, and Lewis Bay in Yarmouth. The closure will remain in effect until further notice. For updates & additional information Contact  Dan Horn Marine & Environmental Director dan.horn@town.barnstable.ma.us or call MEA Supervisor, Douglas Kalweit
P 508-790-6272
F 508-790-6275
8:30a-4:15p, M-F

 

 

 

Cotuit Firecracker 5k TODAY!

JULY 5, 2017

Register HERE

Cotuit Firecracker 5k

Benefits: Cotuit-Santuit Civic Association & The Cotuit Athletic Association (The Cotuit Kettleers)

Where: 10 Lowell Avenue, Lowell Park, Cotuit, MA 02635

Start Times:

  • 5:40pm for youth six and under
  • 5:45pm for youth 7-12
  • 6:00pm for 5k

Distances:

  • Youth six and under 100 yards
  • Youth 7-12 ½ mile
  • Main run 5k

Start Locations:

  • Youth six and under – at entrance to Lowell Park
  • Youth 7-12 – At finish line of 5k
  • 5k – at the corner of Lowell Ave and Main Street

Awards: Prize money to first five finishers, male and female – $300.00 for first, $75.00 for second, $50.00 for third $37.50 for both fourth and fifth, medals to all youth twelve and under and first in each age group

Age Groups: 20 and under, 21 – 39, 40 – 49, 50 – 59, 60-69, 70 -79, 80 plus

Entry Fee:

  • 6 and under free
  • 7-12 $10.00
  • 13-18 $15.00
  • 19 and over-$30.00 until June 12, $32.50 from June 13th-July 3, $35.00 on Race day

Swag: Free cotton-t to first 150 to register

FOOD, MUSIC, ICE GREAM SANDWICHES FOR YOUTH UNDER 21, A FREE BEER FOR ALL 21 AND OVER

Register HERE until July 3 at 11:45 p.m only or on race day from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Lowell Park, Cotuit.

Link for the running route is HERE

 

Fourth of July Parade

The Cotuit-Santuit Civic Association proudly presents The Cotuit 4th of July Parade!

Promptly at 11 am, the parade will begin at the Cotuit Post Office, proceed down School Street, turn left onto Main Street ending at the rear entrance of the Waldorf School.

To participate in the parade you must register HERE .

Directly following the parade all are welcome to Lowell Park

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Town of Barnstable Fireworks

FIREWORKS DISPLAY: TUESDAY, JULY 4, 2017 (Shot off of a barge in Lewis Bay, Hyannis at dusk (9:00 PM) by Atlas Fireworks of New Hampshire.

Viewing: The main viewing locations for this year’s fireworks will be Aselton Park, Bismore Park, and Veteran’s Park Beach. Kalmus Beach will be available for handicapped parking only.

Fireworks Parking (Barnstable): A Parking Ban will be in effect South of South Street (Ocean Street, Old Colony Boulevard, Gosnold Street and all streets running off of Gosnold Street) from 5:00 PM to midnight to allow for pedestrian access. Parking will be available in the North Street parking lots and Town Hall parking lot. Tow Zones Strictly Enforced. Carpooling suggested.

Tune into 95.1 WXTK for the official soundtrack to the fireworks during the display.

ENJOY!