Town of Provincetown Historic District Commission Public Hearing August 2, 2023 The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, August 2, 2023, in […]
Archives for 2023
PICKUP GAME
Friday Evening in the East End
Happenstance and the love of a game unite locals and visitors on the court
A three-on-three full-court pickup game is underway at the East End basketball court on a balmy Friday night in July. The air is dense, salty. The players sweaty, smiling, but […]
OPIOIDS
Fentanyl in Drug Supply Spurs Community Response
Contaminated drugs may present dangers for unaware partygoers
PROVINCETOWN — Gwen Kavlouskas-Noyes, who owns Big Daddy’s Burritos in Provincetown, says that though she has long been aware of the problem of opioids, they always felt distant from her […]
SUBSTANDARD
Last Tenants at Truro Motor Inn Are Evicted
A years-long saga has forced multiple families off Cape
TRURO — Nicholas and Angela Rose and their two children were evicted from their home at the Truro Motor Inn last week — marking the end of an intractable chapter […]
DUNE SHACKS
Del Deo Rejects a 2-Year Permit From Park Service
Evicted, the 94-year-old artist seeks to defend ‘the principles of these shacks’
PROVINCETOWN — Artist and restaurateur Sal Del Deo, 94, has rejected an offer from Cape Cod National Seashore Supt. Brian Carlstrom of a two-year special-use permit for the dune shack […]
PUBLIC WORKS
Truro Select Board Picks Route 6 for New DPW Facility
Voters will need to approve use of the site at the next town meeting
TRURO — The Truro Select Board voted unanimously to place a new $30-million dept. of public works facility at 340 Route 6, a wooded area next to the police and […]
HABITATS
After 9 Years, 4 Habitat Houses Reach Final Wellfleet Review
And at Lawrence Hill, completion date is pushed back to 2026
WELLFLEET — Habitat for Humanity of Cape Cod will ask the zoning board of appeals at its July 13 meeting to take the final step in its review of a […]
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Hyannis Clinic Offers Medication Abortion, Ending Cape-Wide Drought
After 10 weeks, women must still travel off Cape for care
HYANNIS — Since 2008, it has been impossible to get an abortion on Cape Cod. But as of last week, just over a year after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, […]
DEVELOPMENT
Two Inclusionary Bylaw Projects Meet Different Fates
Both are now for sale, but only one received permits from planning board
PROVINCETOWN — A hotly-contested inclusionary housing project at 22 and 22R Nelson Ave. in Provincetown is currently for sale. After securing permits to build 12 townhouse-style condominiums on two adjacent […]
STATE HOUSE
Legislature Considers a Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics
Local community leaders are encouraged about their use in end-of-life care
WELLFLEET — In the 1960s, psychedelics were part of the American counterculture, banned because of their mind-altering power. In 2023, they’re the subject of a pending bill in the Massachusetts […]
CONGESTED WATERS
Reckless Boaters Increasingly Pose Risk for Whales
Ignoring whale watch rules could deter animals from feeding
PROVINCETOWN — Every summer for decades, the Dolphin Fleet has taken tourists out to Stellwagen Bank, just north of Race Point, where humpback whales, minke whales, fin whales, and endangered […]
IN SEASON
Wellfleet Yearns for the Lighthouse Blueberry Muffin
Pursuit of a recipe yields an outpouring of nostalgia for the place itself
Peter Simon didn’t really plan to make blueberry muffins when he wrote his post on the Wellfleet Community Space Facebook page asking for a recipe. It was February, and with […]
FARMERS
Chris Murphy Digs ‘the Most Important Job’
A good friend, a rare plot of land, and local markets make his farm possible
Off Hatch Road in Truro, rows of crops spill down a slope and surround farmer Christopher Murphy’s house. There, at Nestwood Farm, Murphy — friends and neighbors know him as […]
THE STORYTELLERS
Look Before You Leap
A collector doubts his ability to assess beauty
I hear my wife, Valerie, calling my name. “Oh, Wi-i-ll,” she sings, in a high, melodious warble reserved to signify the advent of the strange and the amusing. “Look what […]
THE COMMUNICATOR
‘Beware of Gypsy the Terrier’
On being taken for a ride by an adorable foulmouthed Jack Russell
I was pushing Sofia, my 16-year-old rescue mutt, in her stroller one recent afternoon when I ran into Thomas Nikolai and Brian Buckley with their dog, Gypsy, a 13-year-old Jack […]
