WELLFLEET — When she was at Nauset Regional High School, Allie Bezio didn’t pay much attention to lacrosse. Soccer was her game. Now finishing her sophomore year at Dean College […]
Archives for June 2021
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, June 1 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Great White Realty and Zehnder Take Zoning Board to Court
They seek to reverse decisions blocking controversial property use
WELLFLEET — The Great White Realty Group has filed suit in Mass. Land Court to overturn recent decisions by the zoning board of appeals that stopped the development of 1.3 […]
MOVEMENT
Running With Dogs
Dryland mushing along the Outer Cape’s trails
My friend Liberty Schilpp has progressed from taking short jogs to becoming a devoted runner. She started just last year, following a run/walk program I wrote about in these pages. […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
A Gemini Sun Means Scintillating Socializing
But with Mercury in retrograde, it won’t all be on easy street
Happily heralding the impending season, the Sun’s transit through Gemini stimulates the social senses. Short trips and casual encounters — staples of Gemini’s spontaneous nature — ease us into post-pandemic […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
In View This Week
Wellfleet resident Walter Dorrell atop dune grasses at Race Point on May 19. (Photo Elizabeth Brooke) Fishermen at Pamet Harbor on Tuesday, June 1. (Photo Nancy Bloom)
WARRIORS WATCH
Girls Golf Team, 5-1, Gets Ready for League Tourney
A weekly preview of Nauset High sports
Thursday, June 3 Coed sailing: The Nauset sailing team takes on Sandwich at Oakcrest Cove at 4 p.m. Friday, June 4 Softball: The Warriors host the Falmouth Clippers at 4 […]
COURT REPORT
A Skiff Is Lost — on Land — and Found
Brought to Wellfleet’s ‘sandpit’ for safekeeping, a boat goes missing
ORLEANS — Had he arrived at his own bench trial on time, May 20 might have marked the end of Kevin Berry’s two-year boat odyssey. But arrive on time Berry […]
Nauset High Graduation Set for Saturday
Isabelle Nobili will give valedictory for Class of 2021
EASTHAM — Graduation will be held in person this year at Nauset Regional High School. The ceremony, scheduled for Saturday, June 5, will be held outdoors on campus at the […]
PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Should Pier Corp. Be Sunsetted?
Meetings Ahead
Due to the pandemic, meetings are held remotely. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. Thursday, June 3 Scholarship & Trust Administration, 2 p.m. Zoning Board of […]
TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
The Library Is Open, but…
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 online. Thursday, June 3 Climate […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
A Grant License Moratorium
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 its […]
EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Open House at the Police Station
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 how to view and take part […]
JOURNALISTS
Brian Vines Is Going In: This Time, to Provincetown
His talk on climate migrants is a ‘love letter to community media’
Brian Vines first learned to watch television — not just passively, but in an intellectually engaged way — from his grandmother who was blind. “I was her eyes,” he says. […]
MUSICIANS
From Brooklyn With Love
Alexis P. Suter brings her booming voice to Payomet
If thunder could sing, it would sound like Alexis P. Suter. The big-voiced blues belter from Brooklyn is a singer whose power and presence bring to mind Ma Rainey and […]
