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Archives for 2021
Real Estate Transactions
for the week of November 15, 2021
Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Nov. 15 to Nov. 19, 2021. PROVINCETOWN Nov. 16. Emmanuel J. Speare to Kenneth Hale. 33 Franklin St. $1,675,000. Nov. 17. […]
CLASSIFIEDS
Classifieds November 25 – December 1, 2021
Neighborly connections about all kinds of stuff
FOR SALE Refills! Green Road Refill is a newly opened, Earth-friendly store on Route 6A in Brewster, in the Cumberland Farms Plaza. We offer refillable plant-based products for body, bath, […]
Provincetown Legal Notices
Town of Provincetown Public Hearing Licensing Board The Provincetown Licensing Board will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, November 30, 2021 at 5:15 p.m. in the Judge Welsh Room at […]
Indie’s Choice
Indie's Choice for the Week of Thursday, Nov. 25- Wednesday, Dec 1
Cold Turkey (Thursday, Nov. 25) There will be an unofficial Turkey Trot on Thursday, Nov. 25, 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Runners should meet at the Pilgrims’ First Landing Park, 1 […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Nov 25 through Dec 1
‘Gratitude’ at Addison Gallery Addison Gallery, 43 South Orleans Road in Orleans, is hosting “A Benefit Show of Gratitude,” running through Dec. 31, with work by Paul Batch, Paul Schulenburg, […]
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Rot Puts a Bump in Plan to Fix Lieutenant Island Bridge
Residents face a spate of scheduling challenges
WELLFLEET — William Huss, the president of the Lieutenant Island Association, got an urgent call from DPW Director Jay Norton on Oct. 29. Coastal Engineering, the contractor making long-planned repairs […]
FISCAL CRISIS
DOR’s ‘Plan B’ Enables Wellfleet to Send Fall Tax Bills
FY2022 tax rate set at $7.78; short-term borrowing may be needed
WELLFLEET — After telling the select board on Nov. 2 that property tax bills could not go out this fall, interim Town Administrator Charles Sumner returned a week later with […]
CLOVERLEAF APPEAL
Truro Housing Plaintiffs Ordered to Post $25,000 Bond
Judge’s ruling may be first under new provision of Housing Choice Act
TRURO — In what could be the first use of a new provision in the Housing Choice Act, a state Land Court judge has ordered residents appealing the town’s permitting […]
SAL'S PLACE V. CONNORS
Judge Recognizes State Ownership of Intertidal Zone
Reversal means Carew may not have to pay fines and attorney fees
PROVINCETOWN — The owner of Sal’s Place may not have to pay $78,499 in legal fees plus fines for putting restaurant tables on the beach behind her neighbor’s house. In […]
BEACON HILL
Cyr and Peake Direct Federal and State Relief at Housing Efforts
Legislative earmarks could bring $4.5 million to Cape Cod
PROVINCETOWN — Spending bills being finalized in Boston this week will allocate $2.4 billion in federal relief money from the American Rescue Plan Act, which Congress passed in March, and […]
REVOLVING DOOR
New Wellfleet Building Inspector Quits After 2 Days
Next up: James Badera of Orleans
WELFLEET — Wellfleet had a permanent full-time building inspector for two days last month. But he resigned after hitting the housing wall. Vincenzo Tirone, the former building commissioner in Monson, […]
ODD LOT
DCR’s Route 6 Lot Is ‘Not a Parking Area’
The state agency says property ‘will be gated and locked’
WELLFLEET — The state Dept. of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) is finishing work on a new parking lot at 2520 Route 6 as part of its construction of a bike […]
PLAYOFFS
Boys’ Soccer Season Ends With a Heartbreaker
Warriors push Longmeadow ‘to the brink,’ but penalty kicks seal the game
EAST LONGMEADOW — One of the most thrilling high school soccer matches this season took place on Nov. 14 as the eighth-seeded Nauset boys played the top-seeded East Longmeadow Spartans […]
HANDSOME ROOTS
When Turnips Were King in Eastham
How Art Nickerson saved the town’s tasty tuber
EASTHAM — One hundred eleven years ago, the sandy fields of Eastham yielded 10,710 bushels of turnips, more than every other town from Provincetown to Yarmouth combined. When local farmers […]
