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Archives for November 2020
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, November 26, 2020
From Joni Kosmach, Jeanne Washington, Mike Rice, Joan Fitzgerald, and Rosemary Parrett
On Town Managers’ Leaving To the editor: I have thoroughly enjoyed my subscription to the Independent and look forward to all the interesting subjects and news that it covers. The […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Thanksgiving Song
Everyone must be thinking about the things they will miss this year on Thanksgiving. At our house, it’s a weekend-long gathering of old friends who come here from the city […]
This Week In Wellfleet
Meetings Ahead
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 its agenda and see how to […]
WATERFRONT
Rock Harbor Panel Mulls Change of Plan
Committee rejects idea of repurposing antique house as office
EASTHAM — The Rock Harbor Improvements Committee will not recommend moving an antique half Cape from 60 Dyer Prince Road and turning it into the harbormaster’s new office. Instead, the […]
TOWN HALL
What’s Behind Revolving Door of Managers
Personal attacks and shifting select board priorities are the main problems
The smallest town on Cape Cod, Truro, with 2,000 residents, will be paying its new town manager $172,000 a year, about the same as the Barnstable County district attorney’s $175,000 […]
PANDEMIC
As Others Act, Outer Cape Still Lacks Asymptomatic Testing
Upper Cape and Nantucket adopt multipronged approach
PROVINCETOWN — In the popular children’s book Stone Soup, the soup is started with no great resources — in fact, it’s just a large pot of water with one stone […]
ELDER CARE
State Releases Partial Data on Covid Deaths in Assisted Living
One Cape Cod facility has had 11 previously unreported fatalities
Since late May, the state has provided detailed reports on fatalities from Covid-19 in nursing homes, but for assisted living facilities, the same information is hard to come by. The […]
REAL ESTATE
Former Medical Building Will Become Condos
Two affordable units are in the first ‘inclusionary’ deal
PROVINCETOWN — The former Provincetown Medical Group building on Shank Painter Road has been sold and will be redeveloped into a three-story building with eight condominiums. This story would not […]
BIG BIRDS
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! No, It’s Eversource.
“It was so loud I could not hear myself think,” said Elena Ruehr, a composer who splits her time between Brookline and Wellfleet. “I felt like there was a giant […]
MAYFLOWER HISTORY, PART II
For Some, It Wasn’t a Pilgrimage but Pure Hustle
John Howland’s unlikely rise from servant to patriarch
On Nov. 11, 1620, the Mayflower arrived in Provincetown Harbor. Four hundred years later, we — most of us, anyway, on the Outer Cape and all across the nation — […]
FISHING
Continuing the Family Legacy, Local Lobsterman Gets a Big Upgrade
Covid complicated the arrival of an import from Prince Edward Island
PROVINCETOWN — Jeff Souza came in hot one quiet November evening at MacMillan Pier. He was at the helm of his brand-new lobster boat, Crash, a custom-made Provincial 45’, which […]
MEET THE MAKER
Painting Without a Brush
Fibers make for tactile reflections of nature’s texture and color
WELLFLEET — I am an artist who “paints” with fiber. Inspired by my grandmother’s skilled needlework and embroidery and a lifelong desire to paint, I developed my own technique by […]
ROOTS
Eastham Turnip Festival Week
Just because we can’t hang out in person to taste treats like the famous (or infamous) turnip whoopie pie doesn’t mean we have to miss a day of celebrating Eastham’s […]
SOCCER
Nauset Boys Take Title; Girls Fall Just Short
Bittersweet season endings for two outstanding teams
EASTHAM — After finishing the regular season first in its conference with an impressive 7-1-2 record, the Nauset Regional High School girls soccer team felt like they still had something […]
