Happy Days (Thursday, Dec. 12) The “Days of Yore” holiday event at Eastham Public Library (190 Samoset Road) on Thursday, Dec. 12, 4 p.m. features music by the Nauset Ringers […]
Archives for 2024
Provincetown Legal Notices
Town of Provincetown New Sewer Design-Build-Operate (DBO) Contract The Town of Provincetown (Awarding Authority), acting through the Department of Public Works (DPW), is seeking technical and price proposals for the […]
ON POINTE
A Sweet Taste of Ballet at Town Hall
Excerpts from The Nutcracker performed by talented students, directed by one ‘nutty lady’
The bunheads took the elevator in shifts, one giggling gaggle at a time, bound for the second-floor auditorium of Provincetown Town Hall. It was Saturday, Nov. 16, and the HeartStrings […]
DOWNTOWN
Bylaws Aimed at ‘Keeping the Life in Provincetown’
Boards consider zoning changes and funding for accessory dwellings
PROVINCETOWN — If an autumn evening spent in a meeting room with the select board, planning board, affordable housing council, and Year-Round Market-Rate Rental Housing Trust doesn’t sound like a […]
EARTH KEEPERS
Middle Schoolers Study Indigenous Past and Present
Farming, cooking, and time outdoors are part of ‘place-based education’
ORLEANS — A pair of place-based education classes at Nauset Regional Middle School aim to help students gain a deeper understanding of their home by putting Indigenous knowledge at the […]
RADIOACTIVITY
NRC Finds Apparent Security Violations at Pilgrim
‘Escalated enforcement action’ may be needed to protect spent fuel storage area
PLYMOUTH — Inspectors from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) have found apparent violations in the security measures being used to protect the spent fuel storage area on the grounds of […]
TRURO HOUSING
Five Years of Fits and Starts for Walsh Property
A new ad hoc committee is told that water supply is the project’s next major hurdle
This article was updated on Dec. 10, 2024. TRURO — Political roadblocks, infrastructure challenges, and bureaucratic delays have kept the 69.9-acre Walsh property in a kind of limbo since Truro’s […]
PUBLIC HEALTH
Officials Want Handlers of Rabid Raccoon to Seek Care
If tests show the animal was from here, wild animals will be vaccinated in spring
EASTHAM — A dead raccoon that turned up on Smith Lane with a face full of porcupine quills on Nov. 17 tested positive for raccoon variant rabies — a variant […]
IN THE DEEP
$2M Grant to Fishermen’s Alliance Means More Boats Gathering Ocean Data
Center for Coastal Studies will install sensors to expand a measurement network
CHATHAM — Strange things have been happening in recent years in the Gulf of Maine, the 36,000 square miles of relatively enclosed ocean stretching from Cape Cod to Nova Scotia. […]
MEET THE MAKERS
Finding Flow and Balance in Metal and Stone
A shop where two sisters sketch, weld, grind, hammer, and polish their jewelry into existence
WELLFLEET — In the sunlit back room of a Bank Street shop are workbenches scattered with loops and lengths of metal and wire; heavy metalworking equipment sits in the corner; […]
FAMILY RECIPES
Abuela’s Arroz con Dulce
A Puerto Rican dessert is well loved by (almost) everybody
First a little history. When the Moors invaded Spain in the Eighth Century, they introduced rice and saffron into the Spanish culinary oeuvre. Delicious, savory paella and sweet arroz con […]
GRAVEYARD SHIFT
The Sea Captain’s Daughter Who Sang Puccini
A once-famous Wellfleetian didn’t seem to merit a grave marker
Many might remember the anxious feeling of being urged by a well-intentioned parent to perform for relatives at a family gathering. For Martha Atwood of Wellfleet, the family gathering was […]
THE SCUTTLEBUTT
A Look Back on the Fishing Season
In 2024, fewer bass and blues on the bay side and the return of fluke
As we wrap up the year, there’s some recent news: the early arrival on Nov. 18 of two North Atlantic right whales. Scientists from the Center for Coastal Studies were […]
MORNING FLIGHT
Not Just Birds of a Feather
In the off-season, mixed flocks of disparate birds work together instead of apart
Winter is not easy if you’re a bird. The abundant food supply you relied on all summer is gone, you use a lot of energy keeping warm, and without leaves […]
GAMBITS
Nauset Chess Is a Winning Tradition
Lucas Wilson-Bevington bests Joey Smith in Miles Tibbetts Tournament
EASTHAM — Few onlookers were surprised when Joey Smith and Lucas Wilson-Bevington sat down across from each other at a table in Nauset Regional High School’s new cafeteria for the […]
