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Remembering Ramen, a Chef Gets Back in the Kitchen Again

‘This is not over for restaurants; we need to support each other’

By Teresa Parker Apr 14, 2021

PROVINCETOWN — The last year has hit the restaurant world hard. “I’m not sure other people can really grasp what it has meant for those of us in it,” says Liam Luttrell Rowland. You figure there’s a certain kind of daring to being a restaurant person. The work can be creative, but also crushing. You know your career will involve … ▶

TRANSPARENCY

Broadbent Cut Budgets at Will, Department Heads Charge

‘We didn’t cut anything,’ says town administrator

WELLFLEET — With seven weeks until this year’s annual town meeting, the fiscal 2022 operating budget proposed by Town Administrator Maria Broadbent and Town … ▶

OLD RELIABLE

Tweaked Waterfront Hotel Plan Faces Uphill Fight

Lawsuit on hold while Barker goes before Provincetown planners again

PROVINCETOWN — The future of the disintegrating Old Reliable Fish House property on the Commercial Street waterfront will once again be in the hands of the planning … ▶

ANALYSIS

In Season Now: The Other Housing Crisis

With fewer rentals available, businesses ask how to house seasonal workers

PROVINCETOWN — The lack of affordable and available year-round housing is a crisis on the Outer Cape, but at least it’s one for which communities have tools — from … ▶

AQUACULTURE

License for Neglected Nauset Marsh Grant Is Revoked

The 2-acre shellfish bed ‘needs to be used’

EASTHAM — A two-acre aquaculture grant in Nauset Marsh that has gone largely untended for several years will be offered to new stewards. At its April 5 meeting, … ▶

TOWN MEETING PREVIEW

Voters to Be Asked for $3.5M to Fix Court Street Flooding

The town budget is up 8.2 percent; schools ask 18 percent more

PROVINCETOWN — Dept. of Public Works Director Rich Waldo said it is possible to fix the flooding that has for decades impeded pedestrians, harmed businesses, and … ▶

CLEAR-CUT CASE

Before the ZBA, Great White Realty Is Now 0-3

Special permits for an excavating operation are denied

WELLFLEET — “The zoning board is a good board,” said attorney Ben Zehnder in an April 6 interview with the Independent. “Next meeting, I’m sure the board will do the … ▶

JOURNALISM

The Indie Takes 14 New England Press Awards in Its First Year

Prizes for design, reporting, and the Arts & Minds section

The Provincetown Independent won 14 awards for journalism, design, and photography in the annual Better Newspaper competition of the New England Newspaper and Press … ▶

Nauset Schools

Interim Superintendent Chosen After a four-hour joint meeting of the Nauset school committees on April 12, Brooke Clenchy, 62, was named Nauset’s interim … ▶

This Week In Provincetown

Meetings Ahead

Meetings are held remotely. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. Thursday, April 15 Public Pier Corp. Board, 2 p.m. … ▶

This Week In Truro

Meetings Ahead

Meetings are held remotely. Go to truro-ma.gov, click on the meeting you want to watch, and open its agenda for instructions on how to watch or take part … ▶

This Week In Wellfleet

Meetings Ahead

Meetings are held remotely. From wellfleet-ma.gov, hover over a date on the calendar on the right of the screen and click on the meeting you’re interested in to open … ▶

This Week In Eastham

Meetings Ahead

Meetings are held remotely. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to read its agenda and find information on … ▶

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