Here are four of the most popular stories on the Cape Cod Times website from the past week. Whitney Stancil — a Cape Cod pastry chef just named a 2026 James Beard semifinalist — will prepare a tasting menu of desserts each week, beginning this Valentine’s Day weekend, at Clean Slate Eatery in West Dennis.

According to the Boston Business Journal, the Lighthouse Inn changed hands in a deal valued at about $16.5 million on Feb. 12, 2026. That reporting notes the sale formally ends three generations of Stone family stewardship that began in the late 1930s.

Cape Cod potato chips will no longer be made on Cape Cod as of this spring.

The Fostering a Dream Fund helps Cape Cod's foster families with purchases like mattresses, sports equipment, summer camp fees - even prom dresses.

Mark Patinkin is sure sales will still be fine. But in terms of being true to their heritage, Campbell's blew it with Cape Cod chips move.

Shipwrecked owner Alex Khan seeks photos, memories for Old Casino; Clam Man gets second location; no samples this year at Osterville Chocolate Fest.

Researchers at a Cape Cod institute have discovered what they say is the earliest known audio recording of a whale. Archivists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth identified the recording of a humpback whale’s song from 1949, the institution announced Tuesday. The recording was found on a well-preserved audograph disc.

49 employees are set to lose their jobs in the closure.

A film, a fundraiser, and a shared sense of loss at sea are bringing Cape Cod fishermen together in support of Gloucester lost crew. Here’s how.