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Co-owners Jamie Surprenant and Tim Souza opened the doors to Five Bays Bistro in the summer of 2002. They both grew up in the restaurant business, filling various roles in their families’ establishments. Executive Chef Tim Souza has over 30 years of experience in the restaurant industry, and is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America. He and General Manager Jamie Surprenant strive to offer an innovative menu that takes full advantage of fresh local ingredients, together with a carefully selected wine list to complement each dish.
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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 [?] |
| Barnstable County Tech Rescue Team locates missing 17-year-old in Eastham Wednesday August 12, 2026 |
| EASTHAM ? Early this morning, Wednesday, August 12, 2026, at approximately 1:10 AM, the Eastham Police Department Received a report of a missing 17-year-old male from a residence in the area of Boat Meadow Beach. The 17-year-old had left the residence several hours prior to the report being made and had not returned home. Eastham [?] |
| Speeding N.J. Rental Barrels Into Quiet West Yarmouth Condo Lot After 60+ MPH Dash Through Neighborhood Wednesday August 12, 2026 |
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ABOVE: Early-morning scene in a West Yarmouth condo complex parking lot: a dark Hyundai sedan sits stopped with several young adult occupants, surrounded by multiple Yarmouth Police patrolmen, appearing slightly annoyed?
WEST YARMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS ? Shortly after 2 a.m. Wednesday, a tandem Yarmouth Police patrol unit radioed that they were trying to catch up to a dark-colored Hyundai sedan racing westbound on Route 28 at more than 60 mph.
Officers were attempting to get close enough to read the vehicle's New Jersey registration when the car suddenly turned south onto Baxter Avenue ? a thickly settled residential street ? and continued at estimated speeds exceeding 60 mph. Fearing the driver was refusing to stop, additional Yarmouth patrol units raced to the area.
A witness reported the Hyundai eventually barreled into the parking lot of a quiet condo complex before finally coming to a stop for police. Radio traffic indicated the sedan was a rental from Wayne, New Jersey.
The driver, identified over the radio only as ?Dave? with a last name that sounded like ?Sajinski,? produced a valid New York license listing a Middle Village address in Queens, New York. His full name had not been officially released at the time of this report.
According to police sources, the man was issued a citation and faces criminal motor vehicle charges. Officers, sources noted, were less than thrilled about the high-speed intrusion into the residential neighborhood in the middle of the night ? thankfully, nobody was hurt!
ABOVE: After dark at Keyes Beach on Sea Street in Hyannis, a Barnstable Police patrolman chats congenially with several gentlemen grilling dinner in the park's picnic area. The friendly check was part of stepped-up nighttime beach patrols targeting unpermitted bonfires and other ordinance violations following recent reports of unruly behavior. (Officers later found and had firefighters extinguish an illegal pallet fire at the end of Bone Hill Road on Barnstable's north side, sending a group of teens home after some of their parents were contacted, according to radio transmissions.)
ABOVE: Shortly before 3 a.m., Mashpee police officers respond to an automated crash notification and discover a vehicle that left the roadway and crashed into a wooded area along Great Neck Road North. Emergency lights illuminate the dark scene as officers investigate; the driver was not injured, and sources confirm no criminal charges were filed following the crash investigation.
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| Barnstable Police assist Derry, NH PD with arrest of alleged child sexual abuse suspect Tuesday August 11, 2026 |
| DERRY, NH ? Via Barnstable Police: On Monday August 10, 2026, at approximately 3:54 pm the Derry Police Department took the following individual into custody on a Derry Police arrest warrant: Matthew K. Rettig DOB: 08/12/1992 41 Oakdale St. Weymouth MA 02188 Mr. Rettig has been charged with: . Nine (9) counts of Distribution of [?] |
| Two people taken to hospital after head-on crash in Barnstable Tuesday August 11, 2026 |
| BARNSTABLE ? Shortly after 8 AM Tuesday. two vehicles collided head-on on Main Street (Route 6A) near Marstons Lane in Barnstable Village/ Two people were transported to Cape Cod Hospital with unknown injuries. The crash, which is under investigation by Barnstable Police, caused major traffic delays on Route 6A. Photos by John P. Carroll/CWN |
| Barnstable Kids Day 2026! Monday August 10, 2026 |
| Barnstable Kids Day 2026! |
Next Barnstable Cape News Update at 6:30 AM EST
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