ESTATE SALE Wellfleet estate sale. A grandmother’s Venetian antiques, CBS soap opera items, good furniture: birdseye, marble topped, and inlaid, china cabinets, chandeliers, Versace drapes, art, trays, and trays of […]
Archives for 2023
Indie’s Choice
Indie's Choice from Thursday, September 28, 2023 to Thursday, October 5, 2023
Ahoy Mates! (Thursday-Monday, Sept. 28-Oct. 2) The 26th annual Mates Leather Weekend — including parties, contests, a leather market, and free daily health screenings — takes place in Provincetown from […]
Town of Truro Legal Notices
Town of Truro ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS PUBLIC SAFETY BUILDING Sealed bids for construction of the Public Safety Building Envelope Improvements for the Town of Truro, Massachusetts, will be received at Truro […]
Provincetown Legal Notices
Town of Provincetown Board of Health Public Hearing October 5, 2023 In accordance with §2-3-g.6 of the Provincetown Charter, the Provincetown Board of Health will hold a Public Hearing on […]
STORM CHASERS
Storm Offers Rare Encounters
Birders gather to see species blown ashore by Hurricane Lee
The night before Hurricane Lee tore through the coastal waters of Massachusetts, most Cape Codders were stocking up on food and hoping the storm wouldn’t hit too hard. Birders, meanwhile, […]
TOWN MEETING
Wellfleet OKs Wastewater Treatment, Town Planner
Inclusionary zoning is approved; only the nips ban gets nixed
WELLFLEET — The Sept. 18 special town meeting was a bylaw bonanza. Voters approved 10 bylaw amendments as well as an inclusionary zoning bylaw that drew lengthy debate but then […]
LITIGIOUSNESS
Former Principal Clerk Maclauchlan Sues Wellfleet
She accuses the town administrator of age and disability discrimination
WELLFLEET — Former Principal Clerk and select board candidate Jeanne Maclauchlan is suing the town and Town Administrator Rich Waldo for employment discrimination. The lawsuit, filed in Barnstable Superior Court […]
HOUSING
First $25K ADU Incentive Goes to Eastham Family
CDP program sees year-round rentals as key to keeping young professionals here
EASTHAM — Katie Castagno and Natalia Redyk call it the “Cape Cod shuffle.” They’ve been doing it since landing jobs here nearly three years ago. “We moved here to start […]
HEALTH CARE
40 Days of Anti-Abortion Protests Planned at Health Clinic
Cape chapter of a Texas group says it will hold prayer vigils
HYANNIS — For 15 years, people seeking abortions had to leave Cape Cod for care; the nearest clinic was over 100 miles away. But in July, Health Imperatives opened in […]
HEALTH CARE
Outer Cape Health to Have a Doctor as Its New CEO
Damian Archer has been OCHS’s chief equity officer since April
WELLFLEET — Outer Cape Health Services announced on Aug. 26 that Dr. Damian Archer will replace Patricia Nadle as CEO on Dec. 1. Since April, Archer has been the chief […]
PERMISSIONS
Five Years and Counting on a Fix at Beach Point
Plans, money, time, permits, and neighbors converge at Ebb Tide condos
TRURO — The Ebb Tide on the Bay Condominiums at Beach Point are closer to the water than any of the other Shore Road dwellings around them, and over the […]
NIPPED
Wellfleet Loves Its Nips and Notable Trees
Syntactical and typographical errors, not so much
WELLFLEET — It was raining steadily on Monday night as a few hundred denizens of Wellfleet filed into the elementary school gym for the special town meeting. Looking out at […]
HURRICANE WHO?
Kite Surfers Embrace Lee’s Gentler Side
EASTHAM — The Outer Cape prepared for the worst as Hurricane Lee made its way up the Atlantic late last week. But on Saturday, we saw little of the storm’s […]
CHECKING IN
A Weekend at the Provincetown Inn
Regulars and their rituals in a nostalgia-infused room with a view
PROVINCETOWN — The Provincetown Inn was opened in 1925 by Joshua Paine as a two-story, 28-suite hotel with a restaurant, but its footprint and offerings have been shaped and reshaped […]
FINAL BOWS
Mark Cortale Says Farewell to the Art House and Hello to Broadway
A theater lease is ending amid new plans for both venue and producer
Mark Cortale has been saying a grateful goodbye to the Art House, the Provincetown theater where he spent 12 years as the producing artistic director — an experience that he […]
