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THE BLACK CAT TAVERN
Owners David Colombo and Scott Brownlee invite you to the harbor-side Black Cat Tavern overlooking the water in Hyannis, MA. The Black Cat strives to achieve the same high levels of food and service as Mr. Colombo’s other Hyannis restaurants, the Roadhouse Cafe, in operation for more than 30 years, and Colombo’s Cafe and Pastries.
The Black Cat is not simply a seafood shack. The restaurant has a spacious bar and piano lounge – with live music offered four nights a week – a roomy, heated patio and unbeatable ferry access. The expansive menu offers a variety of the freshest seafood, signature burgers, steaks and chops, and chef-driven specialties. The menu also incorporates local ingredients extensively.
165 Ocean St, Hyannis, MA
phone: 508-778-1233
map / details
| Barnstable Police announce passing of long time chief with 43 years of service Wednesday April 23, 2025 |
| HYANNIS ? From Barnstable Police: It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Retired Chief of Police Neil A. Nightingale. He passed away April 22, 2025 at the age of 91 peacefully at his family home. Chief Nightingale graduated from Barnstable High School in 1951 and joined the Barnstable Police Department [?]
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| Breaking: Tech rescue team called for worker in distress at Yarmouth water tank Tuesday April 22, 2025 |
| YARMOUTH ? The Barnstable County Tech Rescue Team was called to Yarmouth shortly before 3:30 PM Tuesday. According to reports, a worker was stuck in his harness inside the water tank on Buck Island Road. Shortly before 4 PM, the worker was lowered to the ground and put in an ambulance to be evaluated. CWN [?]
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| Barnstable In Focus With Town Manager Mark Ells - Discussing the Town's Budget Tuesday April 22, 2025 |
| Barnstable In Focus With Town Manager Mark Ells - Discussing the Town's Budget |
| No serious injuries after vehicle overturns on Route 6 in West Barnstable Tuesday April 22, 2025 |
| WEST BARNSTABLE ? A traffic crash left a vehicle on its side on Route 6 in West Barnstable. The collision happened westbound about a male before the Route 149 exit. No serious injuries were reported. Morning commuter traffic was reduced to one lane until the scene was cleared. Mass State Police are investigating the crash.
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| *** WATCH *** HEAVY DAMAGE AFTER FIRE EXTENDS INTO HARWICH HOME Tuesday April 22, 2025 |
| HARWICH, MASSACHUSETTS ? [HN VIDEO NOTES] ? According to a Harwich FD media statement, at 3:15 Monday afternoon a Barnstable County Sheriff's Officer received a 911 call from a resident on Teaberry Avenue reporting heavy black smoke, flames and an explosion at a house on Fernwood Circle. A first alarm assignment was dispatched for Harwich, with Automatic Aid from Dennis, Brewster and Chatham.
The Harwich FD media statement continues as follows:
?An off-duty Fire Lieutenant was first to arrive and reported heavy smoke and fire in the rear of a one-story wood frame house, extending to the interior. The first arriving company advanced a hoseline to the interior of the structure quickly knocking down the fire that had extended inside, while a second hoseline was stretched to the rear of the structure to attack the exterior fire.?
The home was unoccupied at the time of the fire.
Fire reportedly extended into the attic, first floor and basement. It was brought under control in about 30 minutes and companies remained on scene until around 5:15. The house sustained heavy damage to the attic, first floor and basement.
Brewster, Dennis, Chatham, Orleans, and Yarmouth assisted at the scene, while Orleans, Eastham, and Hyannis provided station coverage.
The cause of the fire is undetermined at this time, but is not believed to be suspicious, Harwich Firefighters say.
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| Barnstable County Tech Rescue Team called to Brewster for missing person search Tuesday April 22, 2025 |
| BREWSTER ? The Barnstable County Tech Rescue Team was called to Brewster Monday evening to assist in the search for a missing person. A Mass State Police helicopter was also involved in the search. A staging area was set up in the area of the Brewster ball field on Freeman's Way. CWN will bring you [?]
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| HN PHOTOS: Nobody hurt after sedan slams into Bamboo restaurant? Monday April 21, 2025 |
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HYANNIS, MASSACHUSETTS ? [HN PHOTO NOTES] ? Barnstable Police and Hyannis Firefighters responded to the Bamboo sushi bar on Route 132 after a vehicle crashed into the building at around 5:45 p.m. Thankfully, body was hurt. Damage from the crash extended to inside the restaurant. The building inspector was called to check the soundness of the structure. Patrons were able to remain inside dining as first responders worked the scene. The sheriff's crime scene unit arrived for photos. The Barnstable PD is investigating the cause of the crash.
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| Vehicle strikes Hyannis restaurant Monday April 21, 2025 |
| HYANNIS ? A vehicle reportedly struck the Bamboo restaurant at 574 Iyannough Road (Route 132) about 5:45 PM Monday. No reported. A building inspector was called to check the extent of the intrusion into the building. A parked SUV also received damage. Barnstable Police are investigating the cause of the fire. Further details were not [?]
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| Home Depot in Barnstable evacuated after gas line struck inside the building Saturday April 19, 2025 |
| BARNSTABLE ? The Home Depot store on Independence Drive was evacuated about 3 PM Saturday afternoon after reports a gas line was struck inside the building. Fire crews shut off the main gas feed to the structure and ventilated the interior. National Grid was called to make repairs. No injuries were reported. Further details were [?]
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| HN PHOTO NOTES: Comes now a beautiful couple, to be married despite the usual ugly violence on the green? Friday April 18, 2025 |
| Locksley Hall (1835)
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 't is early morn:
Leave me here, and when you want me, sound upon the bugle-horn.
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'T is the place, and all around it, as of old, the curlews call,
Dreary gleams about the moorland flying over Locksley Hall;
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Locksley Hall, that in the distance overlooks the sandy tracts,
And the hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts.
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Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest,
Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West.
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Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade,
Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
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Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime
With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time;
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When the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed;
When I clung to all the present for the promise that it closed:
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When I dipt into the future far as human eye could see;
Saw the Vision of the world and all the wonder that would be.?
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In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast;
In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest;
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In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove;
In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love [?]
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HN PHOTO NOTES: Ah springtime, when a young Hyannis man's fancy turns to thoughts of love?
? and pummeling one another on the village green.
The natives realize the hub of Cape Cod is a city of stark contrasts (especially as the young bucks become increasingly frisky, as the finer things begin to blossom); a lively harbor and breathtaking shoreline on one hand, violent frisky morons on the other. And this morning was no exception?
Shortly after 11:00 a.m. ? Good Friday, 2025 Anno Domini ? Barnstable Police officers and Hyannis Firefighters responded to the Hyannis Village Green for an assault victim. It was described as a ?simple assault,? which in cop parlance basically means officers did not have probable cause to make a warrant-less arrest should they ever happen upon the alleged assaulter. But nonetheless?
? a young adult male had suffered what were believed to be minor injuries. And he was eventually transported to Cape Cod Hospital for further evaluation.
It's boring stuff, reporting on the fat lips and black eyes from the frequent, frisky fisticuffs on the Hyannis Village Green ? so boring in fact, that if the injuries do not rise to ?major? or ?life-threatening,? (which wouldn't be unprecedented), HN often decides to not bother publishing what we long-suffering Hytown residents consider to be some of the less fortunate, uglier signs of spring?
? but then suddenly, the merciful news gods sent down a holy image from far, far above the daily mess outside of Barnstable Town Hall.
Out of the blue, it was a fresh-faced, handsome United States Marine and his strikingly beautiful bride-to-be!
The strapping young ?Ben? from Sandwich and the stunningly vibrant ?Mary? from Medway, Massachusetts, both in the springtime of their lives, joyfully followed a Justice of the Peace up the front steps to be married inside town hall.
Watching this miraculous, more attractive side of Hyannis living unfold, one instantly became oblivious to the violent nonsense which had occurred moments prior. It was a blessing from above, to say the least?
Ben told HN he once worked with a local towing company and remembers me from earlier crash scenes. He is still in the process of his specialized training as a U.S. Marine and expects to be soon assigned to a Marine Regiment in Fort Devens, Massachusetts.
Congratulations Ben and Mary! And thank you for today's inspiring gift amid the daily downtown nonsense! May God bless you both and keep you both safe and sound!
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