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MASHPEE — Nitana Greendeer of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe knows that children are the key to preserving the Wôpanâak language. “When you haven’t got 20, 30, 40 years of English […]

WELLFLEET — As the Dec. 7 deadline to change Medicare Advantage plans approaches, over 500 patients of Outer Cape Health Services (OCHS) must decide whether to choose a new plan […]

PROVINCETOWN — A cyberattack on the Provincetown IB Schools triggered a shutdown of the schools’ network from Oct. 17 to 28. The network, servers, and Windows computers were affected by […]

TRURO — Construction of a new Dept. of Public Works facility, which town officials had hoped to complete by 2027, appears unlikely to meet that deadline. The project is mired […]

WELLFLEET — Some 100 residents turned out for the Nov. 20 “visioning session” on the future of what is now Maurice’s Campground. The crowd was considerably larger than planners at […]

WOODS HOLE — Staff at WCAI, the Cape and Islands public radio station, learned on Oct. 25 that the station’s parent organization, GBH, had made plans to sell the house […]

ORLEANS — A planned $32-million overhaul of recreation facilities and playing fields at Eldredge Park and on the grounds of the Nauset Regional Middle School and Orleans Elementary School has […]

WELLFLEET — Another season has started for the 246 Community Kitchen, a nonprofit in town that dishes out weekly free meals all winter long. Not much has changed, says the […]

TRURO — Ten people chat and chop with oldies blasting from a hidden speaker in the basement kitchen of the Christian Union Church. It’s the Monday morning before Thanksgiving, and […]

PROVINCETOWN — On a cold Monday, 200 or so guests gathered at the United Methodist Church for lunch at the Soup Kitchen in Provincetown, or SKIP. Some had been in […]

EASTHAM — The food pantry in Eastham has been around for 44 years — longer than any other on the Outer Cape, said Joan Lockhart, who manages it. Nestled behind […]

For some people, the gatherings and celebrations of the winter holidays might be a welcome relief after an anxious election season. But for most, the winter holidays aren’t necessarily an […]

We ate a lot of convenience foods when I was a kid growing up in the 1970s. There were dinners of Hamburger Helper and Chun King chop suey, but the […]

The way markers were all odd, deceiving us, leading us astray, bending our perception of reality. It seemed like we’d entered a parallel universe. By the time the bulls charged […]

Greetings from sunny, warm Tortola — a place my mate and I love so much we visit twice a year. I often write about the challenges fishermen face in our […]

On a recent mid-November afternoon, I was the only person on the pond aside from a paddleboarder barely visible in the distance. A week after election day, it was sunny […]

EASTHAM — Caroline DeBrota and Shawyoun Shaidani’s road to the Turnip Festival began in 2023, when the Medford pair decided to dress up as fish and chips for Halloween. They […]

If your Acer turns a dull yellow in the fall, it’s probably not a native tree; while the sugar maple can hit that end of the spectrum, it does so […]

Highlights from bird sightings on the Outer Cape over a little less than the usual one-week period. The Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary tally for us ended a day […]

TRURO — Saturday dawned, but only barely. The light was low, and the rain was heavy as I exited the car at Truro Vineyards and sloshed my way over the […]

When it comes to the Thanksgiving meal, there is no such thing as too much gravy. It’s a saving grace for any bird that gets too dry, an indulgent complement […]

Cape Cod and lobster are as much a match as peanut butter and jelly. It’s hard to imagine a summer without lobster rolls or that quintessential Cape Cod food adventure, […]

This week the Sun trines Mars, squares Saturn, and moves into opposition with Jupiter. Those influences may have you feeling like you’re juggling lead weights. Not only that, but the Sun is […]

ORLEANS — At first, Karen Simpson wondered if the text alert had been a mistake. At 7:17 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 29, the alarm in her hair salon said it […]

November is a risky time to be a deer on the Outer Cape. Besides that it’s bow-and-arrow hunting season, collisions between deer and cars are most frequent in this month. […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join.  Monday, Dec. […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are held online and in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online attendance option. Click on the meeting you are interested in on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for details. All […]

John Cariani’s Almost, Maine — a collection of nine playlets about love in an isolated small town in northeast Maine — is such a crowd-pleaser that it’s easy to overlook […]

“We all know that we all hate the holidays,” says Tina Burner, the drag performer and comedian from New York City who starred in Season 13 of RuPaul’s Drag Race. […]

The 35 pieces by Varujan Boghosian now on display at the Cahoon Museum of American Art in Cotuit seem to suggest that to know the artist’s work is to know […]

At Wellfleet Harbor, Edward Boches wades in shallow water, photographing shellfishermen at low tide. He rides his fold-up bike along Ocean View Drive with a camera around his neck. He’s […]

When Shannon Davis was 16, she picked up her uncle’s jumbo acoustic Epiphone guitar. She had never known her uncle — he had died when she was a baby, but […]

A Story of Survival Told Through Sculpture Gallery owner Anne-Marie Zehnder’s ceramic sculptures line the walls at AMZehnder Gallery in Wellfleet. The rectangular slabs of fired clay are coated in […]

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There’s a gift in this Thanksgiving issue of the Independent. It’s a special section called Young Voices, a collection of articles from past issues of the newspaper written by next-generation […]

Losing Our Lobster Fishery To the editor: The decline of the lobster fishery in Cape Cod Bay, following the loss of the fishery in Long Island Sound [Nov. 21, page […]

Longtime Truro resident Martha Bicking Nagy died surrounded by her family on Oct. 25, 2024 at Seashore Point in Provincetown, where she was cared for during the last few years […]

Alice May Brock of Provincetown, made famous by Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 song “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” died on Nov. 21, 2024 at the Lily House hospice in Wellfleet. Her caregiver Viki […]

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Recorded at th­­e Barnstable C­ounty Registry of Deeds from Nov. 18 to Nov. 22, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN Nov. 18. 28-32 Standish Street LLC [Lyn Plummer, agent] to Susan Marlatt and Christine […]

SERVICES  Christmas Wreath Parties. Skip the Yankee Swap this year and throw a party where everyone makes the gift they want. We bring the supplies, fun, and a wreath for […]

Think Pink! (Friday, Nov. 29) Celebrate Pink Friday on Friday, Nov. 29 by shopping for the holidays at dozens of independent and LGBTQ-owned and -allied shops and galleries in Provincetown. […]

Town of Wellfleet Selectboard Public Hearing December 3, 2024 Notice is hereby given that the Wellfleet Selectboard will hold a rescheduled public hearing on Tuesday, December 3 2024; 6:00pm. virtually […]

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 […]

Town of Eastham Zoning Board of Appeals Public Hearing December 5, 2024 The Town of Eastham Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing at 5:00 pm on Thursday, […]

November is a risky time to be a deer on the Outer Cape. Besides that it’s bow-and-arrow hunting season, collisions between deer and cars are most frequent in this month. […]

Public transportation will be free in the new year for hundreds of thousands of riders statewide who rely on their regional transit authorities to get around. But not on Cape […]

PROVINCETOWN — On a windy Tuesday night here, shoppers who walked through the green light that runs across the entrance to Stop & Shop on Shank Painter Road encountered a […]

PLYMOUTH — A 41-year-old worker assigned to the decommissioning of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station for several months in 2021 claims he was poisoned by radiation and that Holtec Pilgrim, […]

This article was updated on Nov. 24. EASTHAM — When Library Director Melanie McKenzie came to work on Sept. 23, she found the area around the circulation desk flooded. There […]

PROVINCETOWN — Hadley Luddy, 54, was elected to the Massachusetts House on Nov. 5 to represent the 4th Barnstable District, which includes the four Outer Cape towns plus Orleans, Chatham, […]

TRURO — When Chris Kaufmann, who grew up in Pelham, N.Y., was eight years old, she saw Rupert Holmes’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood on Broadway. The only thing she […]

WELLFLEET — Kevin Sexton’s plans for two new subdivisions on lots he owns on Old King’s Highway have been awaiting planning board review since they were submitted in early April. […]

EASTHAM — If the wind was right, Eli Winslow would be out there. A member of Cape Cod’s small but tight-knit kiteboarding community, he loved nothing more than riding the […]

Friends’ Marketplace sells a lot of Eastham turnips — more than you might imagine for a humble root vegetable. “They’re starting to go through over 200 pounds of our turnips […]

When it comes to the Thanksgiving meal, there is no such thing as too much gravy. It’s a saving grace for any bird that gets too dry, an indulgent complement […]

Downstairs at the Commons, three celebrity judges and two hosts eyed 14 slices of pie. One slice was naught more than a sliver; another bulged precariously. One spilled meat and […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Nov. 19 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

People tend to be extremely biased about their Thanksgiving stuffings. They may try an unusual side vegetable or add a new pie recipe beyond the usual pumpkin and pecan (for […]

Cape Cod and lobster are as much a match as peanut butter and jelly. It’s hard to imagine a summer without lobster rolls or that quintessential Cape Cod food adventure, […]

Sheep laurel, one of several broad-leaved evergreen shrubs in the local understory, is prone to wilting — a defense mechanism that helps it conserve water during droughts and cold weather. […]

Mary Beck is sitting on the couch in the living room of her corner house in the West End. She’s a little hidden behind her oversize rectangular sunglasses. Beck is […]

This week the Sun moves from Scorpio into Sagittarius, the sign of the archer. This welcome transition acknowledges the importance of visionaries and seers, those who have the ability to […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, Nov. […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are held online and in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online attendance option. Click on the meeting you are interested in on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov. All meetings […]

Daniel Heyman says woodblock printing is a skill that takes a while to hone. He first learned it in Japan during a two-month stay as an artist-in-residence in the village […]

Painter Caroline Carney is out in L.A. now, but Provincetown is still on her mind. She moved out west with her partner, Sinan Papić, whose experience of living in the […]

At six foot six, sculptor Cole Cook’s head almost touches the ceiling of his garage studio in Truro. Two black lead pencils poke out of the chest pocket of his […]

Perception is an abiding interest for artist Sonita Singwi. “How do we see things and engage with the world around us?” she asked during a gallery talk at Farm Projects […]

Nic Gareiss turned 11 on the same day that he first laid eyes on his “dancestor” Liam Harney, two-time world champion Irish step dancer, performing solo at the 1997 Wheatland […]

Remembering Eric Maul With a Concert Provincetown flutist Eric Maul, who died on Sept. 12, had an expansive music taste. “He especially loved French music,” says Brian Calhoon, who owns […]

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Many years ago, in that time before cell phones, I was driving up Route I-95 when a familiar voice came on the radio singing “With a Little Help From My […]

Like so many others, I’m trying to find my bearings, my way forward. One moment, I’m ready for action, for the resistance (again), ready to fight Trump (again), but then […]

Billy Hough has been a Provincetown original for a long time, as fans of the singer and songwriter’s stage show “Scream Along With Billy” will readily confirm. Hough and bassist […]

Health Insurance Quandary To the editor: Thank you for your article informing the community how Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) has dropped Outer Cape Health Services (OCHS) from its Medicare […]

Master storyteller Barbara Mead Anthony of Wellfleet and South Yarmouth died peacefully at her Thirwood Place home on Nov. 3, 2024 from complications of dementia. She was 87. Barbara was […]

H. Alfred Yonce of Orleans died on Nov. 12, 2024 at Broadreach Healthcare in Chatham. He was 96. A graduate of the University of Maryland and Georgetown Law School, Al […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Nov. 12 to Nov. 15, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN Nov. 12. 28-32 Standish Street LLC [Lyn Plummer, agent] to Craig William Snethen and […]

MUSIC  Irish, old time, and country music sessions every Tuesday through the winter in Wellfleet. 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Hog Island, 842 Route 6, opposite Lieutenant Island Road. Upbeat fiddle tunes, […]

Girl Talk (Thursday, Nov. 21) Girls Will Be Girls, Shuchi Talati’s 2024 coming-of-age drama set in a boarding school in the Himalayan foothills, screens at Waters Edge Cinema (237 Commercial […]

Town of Wellfleet Conservation Commission Public Hearing December 4, 2024 Please take notice that the Wellfleet Conservation Commission, in accordance with M.G.L. Chapter 131, Section 40, and the Wellfleet Environmental […]

Town of Truro Conservation Commission Public Hearing December 2, 2024 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: The Truro Conservation Commission will hold a public hearing Monday, December 2, 2024, at 5:00PM; THIS […]

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 […]

Town of Eastham Zoning Board of Appeals Public Hearing December 5, 2024 The Town of Eastham Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing at 5:00 pm on Thursday, […]

PLYMOUTH — A 41-year-old worker assigned to the decommissioning of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station for several months in 2021 claims he was poisoned by radiation and that Holtec Pilgrim, […]

EASTHAM — Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School’s football team arrived at the Nauset High turf about an hour before the home team showed up last Thursday. By the time […]

PROVINCETOWN — Alongside choices for president, Congress, the state legislature, and five statewide ballot questions, voters on the Outer and Lower Cape had two more choices to make on Election […]

WELLFLEET — On the first day of open enrollment for Medicare recipients to choose a health-care plan, Catherine Hess received a notice that her current insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield, […]

WELLFLEET — The town’s historical commission has imposed an 18-month delay on the proposed demolition of the Capt. Joseph Hatch house. After a Nov. 6 hearing, the commission determined that […]

TRURO — A 10-foot-wide easement deeded nearly 50 years ago to the owners of a house at 63 Head of the Meadow Road in Truro paved the way for the […]

EASTHAM — Katia DaCunha arrived in the U.S. with her two children in 2003 with five dollars to her name. She recalls meeting a police officer at the Miami airport […]

TRURO — The select board worked through the Truro Motor Inn quandary, approved a seasonal condominium conversion for Anchorage on the Bay, and allocated $50,000 from the affordable housing trust […]

There is a meadow in Eastham just off the side of the highway that pulls my attention every time I pass by. The field is the site of the old […]

Mary Beck is sitting on the couch in the living room of her corner house in the West End. She’s a little hidden behind her oversize rectangular sunglasses. Beck is […]

There is something wonderfully primitive about foraging food. It feels like the way it should always be. There are no signs or sounds of civilization out in the dunes. Just […]

It’s hard for me to wrap my head around fish farming. I grew up commercial fishing the old-fashioned way, for one thing. Besides, it seems to me fish farming produces […]

A few years back, I figured out that I had a slew of dietary sensitivities. But since I really do love food, I have been on a quest to discover […]

My first telescope was a surprise Christmas gift. I’ll never forget my delight and also my frustration with early attempts to use it. It took time to acquire the knowledge […]

Should you find that the ground beneath you is no longer sure, that the once stable path you were halfway down is now eroding before your eyes, or that you’re […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Nov. 12 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

This week, prudence and planning will be required if positive change is on your mind. While the Sun moves through Scorpio, it subjects us all to a transition. How large […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, Nov. […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are held online and in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online attendance option. Click on the meeting you are interested in on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for details. All […]

Bathed in daylight and unnaturally still, Jim Brosseau resembles a marble statue. His hands are interlocked behind his head; his elbows jut in opposite directions, one toward the skylight above […]

Susan Werner grew up on a farm in the “pretty part” of Iowa, she says. That is, five miles southwest of Manchester, where there are hills and trees. She picked […]

Aside from some short stints of formal study, Richard Pepitone was a self-made artist. A sculptor by profession, he was energetic, prolific, and fearless in his work. Pepitone, who died […]

It seems like it takes a miracle to get an art studio in Provincetown. That’s how Janine Evers felt when she found a place at the Commons Community Studios, eight […]

Sophia Maymudes can tell you which goddess’s apple started the Trojan War. She can tell you where to find the island of Komodo, who won a Tony for playing Billie […]

Images That Celebrate Women Over 40 It’s something many women notice and discuss among themselves: when you reach a certain age, you are often made to feel invisible, as if […]

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I am a United States citizen in good standing. I have voted in every election since I was old enough to do so, received an honorable discharge from the U.S. […]

On a crisp autumn morning, I set out on a hike through the rolling sand dunes of Provincetown. I was on a quest to peek at the legendary dune shacks. […]

In the week since the election, I have read more than my fill of hand-wringing analyses, chilling predictions, and assignments of blame. I’m not going to add to that bleak […]

‘The World Is Stunned’ To the editor: A bird flew into my house on the morning of Nov. 6, a little chickadee. The windows had been opened to the fall […]

John Francis Maguire Jr., who founded the Provincetown Fudge Factory on Commercial Street in 1984, died at his Eastham home on Nov. 2, 2024. The cause was brain cancer. He […]

Peter Buffington, who was devoted to the annual Wellfleet and Truro road races, died on Oct. 17, 2024 at the Terraces skilled nursing center in Orleans following a steady decline […]

Ann Ward Curby, a pioneer in the field of computer systems analysis, died in her sleep at her home in East Cambridge on Oct. 27, 2024. She was 97. The […]

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Recorded at th­­e Barnstable C­ounty Registry of Deeds from Nov. 4 to Nov. 8, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN Nov. 4. Barbara L. Jacobs to Joseph Peppe and Ulises Rosa. 156 Bradford St., […]

SERVICES Wellfleet Chair Caning offers traditional hand and French caning, splint and reed weaving for porch chairs, Danish cord weaving, and Shaker tape weaving. Pickup and delivery available. Please call […]

Wrap It Up! (Thursday, Nov. 14) The annual Members’ Small Works Holiday Show & Sale opens at Cape Cod Museum of Art (60 Hope Lane, Dennis) on Thursday, Nov. 14, […]

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 […]

This article was updated on Nov. 7 to include preliminary election results from Truro. PROVINCETOWN — An anxiety-provoking presidential election contest came to an anxious end on the Outer Cape […]

TRURO — The Chapel on the Pond, a historic building that hosted a mostly Jamaican congregation until its owners said in January that they were “prayerfully repurposing” the building by […]

This article was updated on Nov. 8. Two companies have won leases for four of the eight available wind energy areas that were selected by the Interior Dept.’s Bureau of […]

For nearly two weeks, people across Cape Cod have been watching the weather with the danger of wildfires in mind. Since Oct. 26, a National Weather Service red flag warning […]

WELLFLEET — The estate sale of furniture, small appliances, and decorative items at the house that has loomed over the estuary and bay as well as over residents’ minds from […]

WELLFLEET — Nash Badams learned to ride a bike in the summer of 2012. He was four years old, living with his recently divorced mother in a tent at Maurice’s […]

EASTHAM — This town may follow in the footsteps of Provincetown and Nantucket and use short-term rental tax money to encourage owners to switch their properties to year-round rentals. Eastham […]

One of the things I love most about living here is being more in tune with nature’s rhythms. Watching tides, Moon phases, storm systems, and bird migrations, I’ve learned to […]

The pressure was on — an invitation to dinner from a close friend I’ve known since school days. Barbara and I often cook cooperative dinners, but this time I was […]

On fall mornings, Jordan Renzi can be found in the back of her truck making wreaths while she keeps company with the familiar voices on NPR. She works several jobs […]

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EASTHAM — High Intensity Interval Training, known as HIIT, isn’t the kind of exercise regimen that one would automatically associate with the over-65 crowd, but the program has been hugely […]

Thom Wall enjoys holding a knife between his teeth and balancing objects like wine glasses and playing cards on the pointed tip. The trick falls under a discipline called “mouthstick.” […]

There is some good news about the population of North Atlantic right whales: after seven years of declining numbers from 2013 to 2020, there has been a small increase in […]

It was a warm late October evening — one of those days when summer doesn’t seem ready to leave — when I spotted the rarest bird that I’ve ever seen […]

WELLFLEET — State and local officials wielding shiny shovels officially broke ground at the site of the Residences at Lawrence Hill on Oct. 30. Speaking to a small group of […]

A meadow plant that thrives in sandy soil with good drainage, hyssop-leaved thoroughwort (Eupatorium hyssopifolium) will show up at anthropogenic sites with similar conditions. The pictured specimen is a volunteer […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Nov. 5 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

We’re at the height of Scorpio season — or in the depths, depending on how you look at things. The Sun is leaving its trine with Saturn and moving into […]

Provincetown’s main Veterans Day program will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 11 at the Veterans Memorial Wall next to town hall. The placing of the memorial wreath […]

ORLEANS — Nauset Public Schools Supt. Brooke Clenchy has confirmed that her retirement at the end of the current school year, first announced last month in an email to parents […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option for both committee members and residents. Click on the meeting you want to attend on […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, Nov. […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are held online and in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online attendance option. Click on the meeting you are interested in on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for details. All […]

Antonia DaSilva returned to Cape Cod after graduating from Smith College in 2020 and took up gardening at her parents’ house in Orleans. “The natural world here was something I […]

Ryan Landry was at Provincetown Town Hall on Oct. 26, but he wasn’t there to produce one of his outrageous shows. He just had a question. No, really. “What is […]

Twelve-year-old Alison Long stands front and center onstage, a bass guitar in her arms, her face shadowed by long brown hair. Behind her, nine-year-old Trent Burritt holds his drumsticks above […]

We have compiled some of our favorite films and TV series, new and old, comfort shows or tension-inducing thrillers, that feature powerful women. Politicians, police chiefs, orchestra conductors, fight clubs, […]

The Provincetown Independent has never published fiction, but we’re thinking about it. We regularly publish poems (email submissions to [email protected]). What about short stories — specifically flash fiction (that is, […]

I had a love And then another love And then that other love Went away And still Love remains Jeremy Bearer-Friend teaches tax law in Washington, D.C. Submit poems to […]

Our friend Zehra is back for an exhibition of her work at the museum. Gone the grunge look and her dark hair is blond, cropped, dramatic. She’s wearing nice clothes […]

Is AI the Way to Write? Full disclosure: Artificial intelligence software was used to transcribe this interview with Jennifer Jean, senior program manager at the Fine Arts Works Center, who […]

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Dear Reader: I am writing to you from the past, specifically late October. If this column manages to get itself written, edited, and published, it will appear in the issue […]

“As is so with every story, once the end reveals itself the beginning and the middle can be understood anew.” —James Carroll (Constantine’s Sword, 2001) I’m reading James Carroll’s fascinating […]

As this most anxiety-provoking presidential election campaign comes to a climax, we are here at our desks with our heads down, working against the weekly deadline on stories about affordable […]

‘Don’t Cave In’ To the editors: Re “Contractor Says Demolition Did Truro ‘a Favor’ ” [Oct. 31, front page]: Despite the load of bluster from Thomas Pappas of Cape Cod […]

Brent Harold, a teacher, builder, and prolific writer with an indomitable and independent spirit, died at his home in Wellfleet on Oct. 29, 2024, attended by family and close friends. […]

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Recorded at th­­e Barnstable C­ounty Registry of Deeds from Oct. 28 to Nov. 1, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN Oct. 29. Nunneley Wellington Family Trust (Joshua T. Nunneley and David S. Wellington, trustees) […]

FOR SALE  Flow N Grow floating oyster grow cages. 20 available. Seventeen 9-bay cages, three 6-bay cages. Asking $200 per cage. Pickup only, please. Call Doug at 978-502-0775. [11-14]  Various […]

Sip and Savor (Thursday-Sunday, Nov. 7-10) The Provincetown Food & Wine Festival celebrates its fourth year with tastings, dinners, and art events at various venues from Thursday, Nov. 7 through […]

Town of Wellfleet Board of Health Public Hearing November 18, 2024 In accordance with the provisions of MGL. Ch. 111, Section 31, notice is hereby given that a the Wellfleet […]

Town of Truro ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS REMOTE PUBLIC HEARING NOVEMBER 18, 2024 2024-011/ZBA – Janet Despres and Richard Despres, for property located at 4 Kettle Hole Lane (Atlas Map […]

Town of Provincetown Select Board Traffic Proposals and Regulation Changes Public Hearing November 12, 2024 The Provincetown Select Board will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, November 12 at 6:00 […]

Fewer than 50 years ago, there were no coyotes on Cape Cod. Now, they seem to be everywhere. This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or […]

ORLEANS — Nauset Public Schools Supt. Brooke Clenchy has confirmed that her retirement at the end of the current school year, first announced last month in an email to parents […]

TRURO — Cape Cod Builders, without the town’s permission, demolished a cottage in early October instead of renovating it for use as employee housing as the firm’s contract required. Thomas […]

It makes sense that a ballot measure that would more than double the wages that must be paid to tipped employees would be popular with at least one large block […]

ORLEANS — Until they saw the roadside signs urging them to “Vote NO Question 7,” most Outer Cape voters had no idea there was a seventh question on the Nov. […]

After marking their choices for president, Congress, the state legislature, the county commission, and five statewide ballot questions, voters here will be presented with a sixth question that doesn’t appear […]

PROVINCETOWN — Among the many choices that Massachusetts voters face on Election Day is ballot Question 4, which would legalize and regulate several psychedelic substances. A “yes” vote would OK […]

WELLFLEET — The owners of a two-acre property at 19 School House Hill Road are overseeing the finishing touches on an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) built under the town’s still-new […]

WELLFLEET — There is an expression in French for when all of the elements are against you, said Marie-Anne O’Reilly: “Contre vents et marées. Against wind and tide.” O’Reilly, her […]

It bounds down the alleyways off Commercial Street, its black cloak trailing in the wind, dark laughter bubbling from behind its horrible metal mask. Children dash home in terror the […]

I have an image flaming in my head, and it’s glorious. Edward Gorey (or Ogred Weary, for he often used anagrams) drives up to his house in Yarmouth Port. He has […]

“Her toils are past, her apricots down, her scurvy and her love,” Robert Sweetman reads. “No, that can’t be right.” He kneels before the lichen-covered grave in Provincetown’s Old Alden […]

The results are in from the annual seine in the Chesapeake Bay to determine the status of the juvenile striped bass population, and the news isn’t good. Samples of fish […]

This Halloween, the threat of ghouls, goblins, or ax murderers pales in comparison to the terror of the following week’s presidential election. For me, the key to sustaining, and hopefully […]

Halfway through the upswing of my cast, I heard a snap and watched my silvery popper fly lazily overhead and plop in the fast-moving water a few dozen yards in […]

When certain shrubs are in the vicinity of fir trees, they can become infected with Pucciniastrum goeppertianum, a rust fungus that needs two different species to complete its life cycle. On […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Oct. 29 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

EASTHAM — It was a bittersweet evening for Nauset’s field hockey players when eight seniors bid a tearful goodbye to their teammates before heading home on Thursday, Oct. 24. While […]

Honestly, the word “Afro-Cuban” was not top of mind when I walked into the Sandwich Glass Museum. But as I looked in wonder at David McDermott’s huge glass sculpture hanging […]

By late October, migration is winding down on Cape Cod. Many of our summer visitors are gone, our warblers are filing out to be replaced by sparrows, and our winter […]

This week should be interesting, as the New Moon falls on Halloween evening. This could be a moment of renewal if we’re willing to accept the changes this season has […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, Oct. […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are held online and in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online attendance option. Click on the meeting you are interested in on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for details. All […]

This election season had Jeff Zinn “burning up” with an idea to write a futuristic drama about the stakes of this year’s vote. “In a way, I wrote it for […]

A sculpture by Conrad Malicoat adorns the grave of Dr. Clara Thompson in the Provincetown Cemetery. It’s not a likeness of the woman it honors, but it’s figure-like, tall, sensuous, […]

While many artists of earlier generations came to Provincetown to capture its unique light, Ann Purcell arrived 40 years ago with more experiential interests. What she found, it seems, was […]

A conversation with a friend pushed Karma Kitaj to consider the narrative quality of her own artwork. “Why do you paint what you paint?” her friend had asked. It was […]

At long last, Provincetown has gotten the stylish and thoughtful cinematic representation it deserves. You can forget the trashy and formulaic law-and-order series Hightown and chuck the mean-spirited and woolly […]

Ginger Minj Resurrects Hokus Pokus Live! Drag performer and RuPaul’s Drag Race regular Ginger Minj says she became “obsessed” with the movie Hocus Pocus as a child and would use […]

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“Why We Don’t Endorse” was the title of a column I wrote in April 2023 explaining why the Independent was not endorsing any candidates in town elections that year. “We […]

Napi’s: ‘A Great Loss’ To the editor: Re “After Almost 50 Years, Napi’s Restaurant Closes” [Oct. 24, page A10]: The end of Napi’s Restaurant, how sad! As a yearly vacationer […]

Yvonne Joyce Colligan of Braintree and Provincetown died at her family home in Provincetown on Oct. 3, 2024 in her childhood bedroom. The cause was colon cancer, which she had […]

Nobody loved flowers, dogs, and being outdoors more than George Smithers, who died unexpectedly on Oct. 12, 2024 at the corner of Freeman and Bradford streets in Provincetown while out […]

Kay Cassill, a celebrated artist and writer, died peacefully on Oct. 12, 2024 at her home in Truro as the sun rose on a spectacular autumn day — as she […]

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Recorded at th­­e Barnstable C­ounty Registry of Deeds from Oct. 21 to Oct. 25, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN Oct. 21. Bradford Beauty LLC [John R. Richards, manager] to Michael John Meucci. 258A […]

FOR SALE  Where did you get that bag? A like-new vintage handbag is an accessory that stands out, provides many years of use, and goes with any outfit — that’s […]

Sweet Treats (Thursday, Oct. 31) The 10th annual Greet & Treat at Motta Field (25 Winslow St., Provincetown) on Thursday, Oct. 31, 4 p.m. features costumes, candy, and trick-or-treating for […]

Town of Wellfleet Historical Commission Public Hearing NOVEMBER 6, 2024 Notice is hereby filed that the Wellfleet Historical Commission will hold a remote Public Hearing on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2024, […]

Massachusetts Department of Transportation Open House for the Cape Cod Bridges Program November 18th, 2024 The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) invites you to attend an upcoming Open House for the Cape […]

Town of Eastham Old Town Center Historic District Commission Public Hearing November 19, 2024 The Town of Eastham Historic Commission and the Old Town Center Historic District Commission will hold […]

Town of Truro ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS REMOTE PUBLIC HEARING NOVEMBER 18, 2024 2024-011/ZBA – Janet Despres and Richard Despres, for property located at 4 Kettle Hole Lane (Atlas Map […]

Town of Provincetown Select Board Traffic Proposals and Regulation Changes Public Hearing November 12, 2024 The Provincetown Select Board will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, November 12 at 6:00 […]

WELLFLEET — Last Saturday dawned sunny and mild — rare weather for the first day of the annual OysterFest. This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in […]

PROVINCETOWN — Hydraulic dredging for surf clams has long been a contentious topic in Provincetown — where the town has been active in managing fishing off Herring Cove. This is […]

PROVINCETOWN — As recently as 100 years ago, the shallow waters around Cape Cod were home to thriving eelgrass meadows. These lush, rippling green stretches of habitat were hotspots of […]

TRURO — The lack of a full-time human resources coordinator continues to affect the town’s ability to fill essential staff positions, officials have said in the wake of recent reports […]

This article was updated on Oct. 24, 2024. WELLFLEET — After next year, there may not be anything “special” about a town meeting held in October. That’s because Wellfleet’s voters […]

WELLFLEET — Matthew Walker and Sally McCarthy, who live in Washington, D.C., have applied for a permit to demolish the Capt. Joseph Hatch House, a full Cape built around 1780. The […]

PROVINCETOWN — Just shy of its 50th anniversary serving sustenance and spectacle, the eclectic Napi’s, often referred to lovingly as “Provincetown’s most unusual restaurant,” closed its doors last month. Best […]

ORLEANS — The flap over the noisy roosters in this “right to farm” town may not be over, but the agricultural advisory council’s plan to institute some requirements on local […]

An Undecided Voter Liz Athineos, 71, owns the Bike Shack on Shank Painter Road in Provincetown and lives behind the shop with her mother and son. “Most Greek Americans are […]

Honestly, the word “Afro-Cuban” was not top of mind when I walked into the Sandwich Glass Museum. But as I looked in wonder at David McDermott’s huge glass sculpture hanging […]

It’s because of Málaga’s market that we are in southern Spain right now, eating meatballs, instead of in Truro, watching the northern lights. Even though we only briefly passed through […]

In contrast to its slow, gray springs, the Outer Cape is famous for its benevolent autumns. Just as the earliest crocuses and daffodils give me hope during what one friend […]

WELLFLEET — Main Street teemed with jubilant oyster appreciators last weekend, there to celebrate those bivalves. Courage — liquid or otherwise — spurred some toward the Wellfleet Public Library on […]

Whatever your political preferences, if you are paying any attention these days, you are feeling the unsteadiness of this time. Things feel wobbly. At times like this, for me the […]

By late October, migration is winding down on Cape Cod. Many of our summer visitors are gone, our warblers are filing out to be replaced by sparrows, and our winter […]

Slowly but surely the charter and party fishing boats are wrapping it up for the season. We had our last trip for the year on the Cee-Jay on Saturday and […]

WELLFLEET — A host of vampires will descend on Wellfleet next week, courtesy of the Nauset Regional High School drama club. Preservation Hall director Kate Ryan personally invited them in. […]

PITTSFIELD — Nauset High’s varsity golf team was a long way from home on Monday in the highlands of western Massachusetts. The golfers were at Berkshire Hills Country Club as […]

If you’re feeling a swell of anxiety as we approach the first Tuesday in November, maybe some panicgrass can help. The serene walking trail from Province Lands Road to Hatches […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Oct. 22 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

The spooky season is upon us, and with that and the Sun entering the constellation of Scorpio, transformation will be on tap this week. Those of us taking part in […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, Oct. […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are held online and in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online attendance option. Click on the meeting you are interested in on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for details. All […]

A broken fence post juts into the foreground in a painting of Corn Hill by George Yater. It’s a framing device that functions both formally and conceptually. The post’s prominent […]

It’s the 50th year of Provincetown’s Trans Week, formerly known as Fantasia Fair, and tickets are all sold out, although some events including keynote talks and the annual Follies! fashion […]

The Fine Arts Work Center’s 2024-25 fellows have been in Provincetown since Oct. 1 — their orientation wrapped up last week with a thrift-shopping expedition, bonfire, potluck, and the board […]

A book. How quaint. An anachronism, really. How do you turn this thing on? Not just a book, a novel. You know, like Jane Austen, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf. Who? […]

Dixie Krystals Is Sweet on the Spotlight Dixie Krystals isn’t just a character. She’s a genuine person: over the top, campy, a little dirty when she wants to be. “I […]

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Have you ever heard someone say that they were sorry they went for a swim? Neither have I. Even those hypothermic individuals hauled out of the water during this year’s […]

I like a good argument. That’s been true ever since I was a member of the debating club at Teaneck High School. We faced off against teams from other schools […]

Housing and Commuting To the editor: I agree with Chuck Leigh [letter to the editor, Oct. 17] that commuting is an answer to the lack of affordable housing here, but […]

Brian Lee Plummer, an easy-going father who loved family, friends, and golf, died at his Truro home on Oct. 10, 2024, surrounded by family. He died less than three months […]

Laurie J. deSousa of Provincetown and Colebrook, N.H. died peacefully on Sept. 8, 2024 at Royal Health Cotuit in Mashpee. The cause of death was complications of multiple sclerosis and […]

Thomas Christopher Funk, formerly of Provincetown and Wellfleet, died on March 11, 2024 surrounded by his family at Holy Cross Health in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The cause of death was multiple […]

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Recorded at th­­e Barnstable C­ounty Registry of Deeds from Oct. 15 to Oct. 18, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN Oct. 15. George M. Shimko to 29 Bradford St. LLC [The Corporation Trust Company, […]

ARTS AND MUSIC  Appalachian Irish Fusion Concert with Claudine Langille, banjo, formerly of the band Touchstone, and Deborah Silverstein, guitar, founding member of Boston’s New Harmony Sisterhood Band. Saturday, Oct. […]

Visionary Women (Thursday, Oct. 24) Claude Kerven teaches a five-week Open University of Wellfleet class on film directors Greta Gerwig, Kathryn Bigelow, Sofia Coppola, Kimberly Pierce, and Kemi Adetiba as […]

Town of Truro Conservation Commission Public Hearing November 4, 2024 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: The Truro Conservation Commission will hold a public hearing Monday, November 4, 2024, at 5:00PM; THIS […]

CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL The Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown Massachusetts, seeks proposals for the Broker of Record. The Center for Coastal Studies is a non-profit organization […]

Town of Wellfleet Historical Commission Public Hearing NOVEMBER 6, 2024 Notice is hereby filed that the Wellfleet Historical Commission will hold a remote Public Hearing on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2024, […]

Town of Provincetown Historic District Commission Public Hearing November 6, 2024 The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, November 6, 2024, in […]

TRURO — Cape Cod Builders Inc., the Bourne company hired by the town to renovate a cottage for employee housing, instead demolished it sometime over the weekend of Oct. 5-6 […]

WELLFLEET — From his farm, which lies where Loagy Bay meets Blackfish Creek at the end of Old Wharf Road in South Wellfleet, Andrew Jacob sells a catalog of uniquely […]

PROVINCETOWN — Cape Air’s decision to cancel all flights between Provincetown and Boston from Nov. 5 to May 15, announced in an Aug. 30 letter from CEO Linda Markham to […]

PROVINCETOWN — The coordinates came with a warning: “The information I just shared … is protected and confidential.” The sender, Alexander Richards, a Ph.D. student at UMass Boston, had gotten […]

EASTHAM — The select board voted 5-0 on Monday to approve a series of changes to the Timothy Smith Loan Policy, under which town residents can receive loans of up […]

Ronald Beaty Jr., who was elected to the three-person Barnstable County Commission as a Republican in 2016 and defeated in his reelection race in 2020, is running for a new […]

Mark Forest, a Democrat running for his second four-year term on the Barnstable County Commission, is no stranger to Cape Cod politics. He was district director for U.S. Rep. Gerry […]

Cynthia Stead, one of the two Republican candidates running for two seats on the Barnstable County Commission, is worried that voters will skip the commissioner race entirely. “I’m the last […]

Sheila Lyons, who served two terms as a Barnstable County commissioner from 2008 to 2016 and a third term from 2020 to 2024, is running for re-election this November. She […]

Photos by Emily Schiffer PROVINCETOWN — The town’s biannual — spring and fall, that is — communal yard sale is not called the Monumental Yard Sale because of its size. […]

After what felt like a glorious extra month of summer, someone hit the fast-forward button rather abruptly last week and we have landed, with a thud and a rustle of […]

Photos and story by Edward Boches The weather can be harsh, the winds frigid, the low tides so early it’s hard to get out of bed to work them. And […]

This article was updated on Oct. 24, 2024. Maybe you’ve heard: Earth recently gained a second moon. On Sept. 29, a small asteroid with the prosaic name 2024 PT5 wandered […]

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PROVINCETOWN — Chris McKernan turns the key in the lock at the Veterans Memorial Community Center gym at 5:30 p.m. every Wednesday night for pickup basketball. Open gyms like this […]

Driving deep into New England to leaf-peep, you won’t be likely to spy many sweetgums — the tree’s range comes to an end in Connecticut and western Mass. The predominantly […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Oct. 15 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

Fishing has remained good for striped bass. The weather has been great, and with no serious cold fronts coming through, water temperatures haven’t plummeted. Still, the bass have begun to […]

The crowd is smaller than usual tonight, I’m told. Most weeks, twice as many people are eating and drinking and talking over the musicians playing in the corner near the […]

A couple of weeks ago, I felt a chill in the air, and I knew it was time. I drove to Orleans, purchased a 40-pound sack of sunflower seeds, and […]

There is much happening in the sky this week. The question is: where should we direct our attention? The Sun continues to square Mars and begins to square Pluto, while […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, Oct. […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are held both online and in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online attendance option. Click on the meeting you are interested in on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for details. All […]

A show of paintings, ink-wash drawings, and lithograph prints currently on view at Orleans Modern Art captures a transitional moment in the career of George McNeil, an early participant in […]

Mary Trump has been coming to Provincetown since she was a six-year-old at Cape Cod Sea Camps in Brewster. In the early 2000s, she briefly owned Kensington Gardens, then a […]

A folded piece of watercolor paper peeks out of MP Landis’s jeans pocket. The artist stands in front of his work — two abstract oil paintings and 10 pieces from […]

The 20 winners of seven-month winter fellowships at Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center arrived in town on Oct. 1. As usual, the cohort includes 10 visual artists and 10 writers. […]

Rita Mae Brown says she came into the world knowing exactly what she wanted: “Horses, hounds, and literature.” The activist and writer, who is also master of hounds at the […]

We giggled nervously at our good luck Moving up the half-empty jazz club to the best seats. It began in force the next morning Insinuating into air vents Broadcasting in […]

Bringing Dracula Into the Light Since his childhood, Greg Williams has been interested in spooky things. He fondly remembers his mother taking him at eight to see Alex Nicols’s 1958 […]

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Massachusetts voters will consider five statewide questions on the Nov. 5 ballot. Barnstable County voters will have a sixth question to consider in addition to the statewide questions. Question #6 […]

It was a Native voice I heard say, “Settlers practice their religion by going inside and talking to God. Native people go outside and listen to God.” I like that. […]

“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” sang Bob Dylan in 1965. Now, the weathermen are warning us about winds that would have been unimaginable […]

Support for Recovery To the editor: I was featured in your article “Working the Winter Shift” [Oct. 10, page B1], and I feel there was important information missing from the […]

David John Spang, one of the first three naturalists hired by the Cape Cod National Seashore in 1963, died at his home in Truro on Oct. 5, 2024 after a […]

Sheila J. Kelley, the longtime owner of Kelley’s Flowers on West Main Street next door to the Wellfleet Public Library, died on Oct. 10, 2024 when the Toyota Sienna van […]

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Recorded at th­­e Barnstable C­ounty Registry of Deeds from Oct. 7 to Oct. 11, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN Oct. 9. John W. Tyler and Eric Ritter to John Huston Finley IV and […]

EVENTS  Wampanoag Health Equity Symposium includes two panel discussions, a special Wampanoag lunch, film screening, and traditional hand drum songs. Pre-register at tinyurl.com/weandland. Info: [email protected]. Free, donations welcome. Saturday, Oct. […]

Getting It Done (Thursday-Friday, Oct. 17-18) Project LPAC presents free screenings of Mike Syers’s 2023 documentary There Are Things to Do, a tribute to activist Urvashi Vaid’s contributions to the […]

Town of Wellfleet Selectboard Public Hearing October 29, 2024 In accordance with MGL Chapter 130, Sections 52, 57, 58, 60, and 68, MGL Chapter 30A, Section 2, and all applicable […]

Town of Truro Human Services Grant Program Proposals Invited The Town of Truro is soliciting funding requests from human services agencies serving the residents of Truro for FY26. Qualifying agencies […]

VISITOR SERVICES BOARD ANNOUNCES FY 2026 TOURISM FUND MARKETING GRANT OPPORTUNITIES Applications for the FY2026 grant program will open on October 7, 2024. Funds are available through the Provincetown Tourism […]

Town of Eastham Public Hearing October 16, 2024 A Public Hearing will be held on Monday, October 21, 2024 at 5:30 PM, in the Earle Mountain Meeting Room at the […]

The door is quietly closing on the season. Rowdy townie weddings replace stressed-out summer talk of divorce lawyers. The pier parking lot goes from $4 an hour to free. This […]

TRURO — After a year of work by town staff members, the select boards of Provincetown and Truro met jointly on Sept. 30 to learn more about the upcoming water […]

WELLFLEET — Surfers at LeCount Hollow Beach called the Wellfleet police on the morning of Sept. 28 to report that three anglers were fishing for sharks there, one of them […]

PROVINCETOWN — Last month, a long-term care reform bill that had failed to pass during the legislature’s normal session, which ended July 31, became law after the state House and […]

Robert Finch of Wellfleet, whose distinctive observations about life on Cape Cod and its nature and history drew comparisons to Thoreau, died on Sept. 30, 2024 at Liberty Commons in […]

Democratic state Sen. Julian Cyr, who often says he got his start in politics by waiting tables at his parents’ restaurant in North Truro, says he is focused on two […]

Republican state Senate candidate Chris Lauzon is running because he doesn’t like the changes he has seen on Cape Cod. “The way things are going, my kids won’t be able […]

This article was updated on Oct. 10, 2024. PROVINCETOWN — Ten bastions of North America’s crier culture came to town hall on Oct. 7, each one there to cry twice […]

ORLEANS — The predawn crowing of two roosters at 39 Hopkins Lane, who neighbors say announce the start of each day around 4 a.m., prompted several complaints at the town’s […]

The crowd is smaller than usual tonight, I’m told. Most weeks, twice as many people are eating and drinking and talking over the musicians playing in the corner near the […]

Back when we rented our house out for summer weeks, we’d drive away with trepidation. There were problems — nothing terrible, but we knew we hadn’t plugged enough of the […]

Jody Johnson is one of those rare people you can turn to when things fall apart. Last February, she was one of the stars of the Wellfleet Fix-It Clinic, saving […]

Striped bass fishing has been outstanding this past week as solid catches were reported by the few boats that ventured out. Once again, the area between Race Point Station and […]

A couple of weeks ago, I felt a chill in the air, and I knew it was time. I drove to Orleans, purchased a 40-pound sack of sunflower seeds, and […]

EASTHAM — Nauset High soccer has something of a reputation. The boys varsity won all 23 games in 2016, then did it again in 2018, when they finished third in […]

  After trudging over the blinding, desert-like mountains of sand that compose the first half of Provincetown’s grueling dune shack trail, a hiker then stumbling across the floating, twinkling hairballs […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Oct. 8 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

The week ahead may be a rocky one. Or maybe you’ll find it particularly rewarding. The way it goes for you might depend on your ability to let go of […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, Oct. […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are held online and in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online attendance option. Click on the meeting you are interested in on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for details. All […]

Jerome Greene paints what he sees. “I paint from my life,” he says. And although he grew up in Connecticut, studied in North Dakota, and toured New England as a […]

Singer-actor James Jackson Jr. doesn’t take well to other people’s preconceptions about what he should and shouldn’t be doing. He’s turned defying expectations into something of a trademark in his […]

Shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, Jessica Valenti began tracking the effects of the court’s ruling. Fueled by outrage, she decided to write […]

The cottage, an Airbnb in Provincetown, with its faded floral-print couch, unreliable landline phone, and feebly locking doors, feels like the set of a horror film, says Jojo (Susan Lambert). […]

For her fourth solo album, Silver City, Amy Helm had a muse: a young fan. “The first time I met her, she was in the deepest, darkest throes of addiction,” […]

Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who teaches my hands to battle and my fingers to fight. —Psalm 144 Phone call comes in: Lemme speak with Kelly. Which Kelly do […]

Diane Robertson’s Ways of Seeing Diane Robertson’s watercolor paintings — almost all of which are based on her own photographs — are currently on view in the Great Pond Gallery […]

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Walking with my dog on an East End beach one breezy, overcast afternoon, I encountered two young men engaged in a photo shoot, complete with props, just above the tide […]

I know that when I enter Provincetown’s West End salt marsh softly, without shoes, I feel certain that I am welcomed by something alive, something that wants to live. I […]

This week’s issue of the Independent includes our annual statement of ownership, management, and circulation (see page A19), which the U.S. Postal Service requires of all periodicals that are delivered […]

Truro’s Failures To the editor: The Independent has recently reported on matters falling into the black hole of Truro’s town administration for unconscionable periods of time, with consequences for the […]

Susan Soults Jackett, known for her genius at caring for and connecting with others, died of cardiac arrest in her husband’s arms at her Wellfleet home in the early morning […]

C. Lawrence Schuster, who spent almost three decades living in a dune shack on Provincetown’s back shore, died at his home in Steuben, Maine on May 18, 2024. He was […]

Artist and designer Douglas Totten Slade died peacefully at his home in Harvard on Sept. 15, 2024 after a brief struggle with bone cancer. He was 79. The son of […]

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Recorded at th­­e Barnstable C­ounty Registry of Deeds from Sept. 30 to Oct. 4, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN Sept. 30. Melanie Black, Laura Anne Simmons, and Carl David Black to Patrick Joseph […]

EVENTS  Wampanoag Health Equity Symposium includes two panel discussions, a special Wampanoag lunch, film screening, and traditional hand drum songs. Pre-register at tinyurl.com/weandland. Info: [email protected]. Free, donations welcome. Saturday, Oct. […]

Wine Time (Thursday, Oct. 10) Truro resident and vintner Jackie Fein-Zachary discusses her debut novel Harvest Dreams at Truro Public Library (7 Standish Way) on Thursday, Oct. 10, 6 p.m. […]

Town of Truro INVITATION FOR BIDS The Town of Truro is seeking sealed bids for construction of the Central School Roof & HVAC Renovations.  Bids will be received at the […]

Town of Provincetown Board of Health Public Hearing October 17, 2024 The Provincetown Board of Health will hold a public hearing on Thursday October 17, 2024, at 4:00 p.m. in the […]

Public Hearing October 16, 2024 A Public Hearing will be held on Monday, October 21, 2024 at 5:30 PM, in the Earle Mountain Meeting Room at the Eastham Town Hall, […]

PROVINCETOWN — An on-again, off-again effort to install a gap in the Long Point Dike, more commonly called the West End breakwater, took a small step forward last week at […]

WELLFLEET — Outer Cape Health Services has opened a new behavioral health facility in Wellfleet. It will be open year-round to help people recovering from substance use disorder. The A.I.M. […]

TRURO — Elaine Eliopoulos told the Truro Select Board on Sept. 10 that she and the other owners of the 13 residential units at the Anchorage on the Bay condominiums […]

WELLFLEET — A petition submitted to the National Marine Fisheries Service on Sept. 19 by a coalition of 20 nonprofit organizations led by the Tucson, Ariz.-based Center for Biological Diversity […]

PLYMOUTH — The state Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) determined in July that Holtec Decommissioning International’s proposal to discharge up to one million gallons of wastewater from the Pilgrim Nuclear […]

This article was updated on Oct. 18, 2024 with new dates for the community kickoff and wall-raising. WELLFLEET — The winners of a lottery to become owners of four affordable […]

WELLFLEET — The special town meeting set for Oct. 21 may be far from special. Town Administrator Tom Guerino told the select board on Sept. 17 that what voters will […]

NEW BEDFORD — Herman Melville’s Ishmael certainly must have scuffed his soles on the cobblestones of Johnny Cake Hill. I know he arrived thinking “…whenever it is a damp, drizzly […]

EASTHAM — Somewhat surprisingly, given that Cape Cod is an enormous glacial sandpile, the first European settlers to build permanent homes on the Outer Cape were in search of dirt. […]

It’s a hen-peck-hen world out there. By “out there,” I refer to the front garden of our house in Wellfleet, where our three hens are placidly sipping from a puddle. […]

PROVINCETOWN — The little chickens sitting on small soccer balls like round yellow eggs flew into a frenzy at the chirp of a neon whistle. They ran around, sometimes kicking […]

It’s weird how much I long for both the coming of summer and its end. We’re breathing a little more easily now, as the year shifts into a slower tempo, […]

EASTHAM — Jean Ehret stepped around a puddle and looked out across the rolling, recently mowed fields of Fort Hill in Eastham, which were taking on the browns and golds […]

Our recent inhospitable fall weather continued to dominate the waterfront, with east and northeast winds making going out and catching fish challenging. Despite the lack of southerly winds, though, water […]

We called it Spectacle Pond, but maybe that’s just a name we neighborhood kids made up. All I can find now on maps of Lexington is a tiny, roundish pond […]

PROVINCETOWN — The Rev. Brian Raiche made his way through a crowd of some 50 animal lovers and dozens of dogs gathered on the sunny lawn of St. Mary of […]

Glowing in the afternoon sun at Nauset Marsh like Chihuly art, Salicornia ambigua, the perennial glasswort, unambiguously lives up to its name. Evolved to survive the salt water as a […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Oct. 1 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

The Sun is in Libra, emphasizing our need to be heard. And now Mercury comes along, too, reminding everyone that it is your responsibility to communicate your needs and expectations. […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, Oct. […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online attendance option. Click on the meeting you are interested in on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for details. All […]

Megan Hinton’s first career survey show at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum reveals an artist whose work is instantly recognizable for its strong use of line, a line that […]

Monica Rizzio is singing something new. Her strong, sure voice fills the room; the guitar in her hands sounds bigger than it is. It creates its own kind of gravity: […]

Reggie Cabral bought the first landscape painting Hilda Neily sold in Provincetown over 50 years ago with $100 worth of bar change. Cabral, who owned the Atlantic House from 1949 […]

At his house in the Truro woods, journalist and radio host Jeremy Hobson sits at a desk in his unfinished basement. The air smells of exposed wood and cement floors. […]

The current ghost broom clean the measure of absence in the mud room no mud scuffed baseboards rusted sinks house we have worn you out mother locks the last door […]

A Very Gorey Dracula Five decades ago, illustrator and writer Edward Gorey channeled his fascination with the macabre to the stage with set and costume designs for an adaptation of […]

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Scroll down the Boston Globe’s homepage and you’ll come to a lineup of stories under the heading “From Our Partners.” They have headlines like “You can afford that big European […]

Building in Paradise To the editor: Why is it that land used for affordable housing raises so much ire, while land lost to large single-family homes does not? It has […]

Lorraine Ann Hart of Truro and South Deerfield died peacefully, surrounded by family, on Sept. 19, 2024 at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield of a rare and aggressive form of […]

Mark Nicholas Peters of North Truro died peacefully on July 24, 2024 at Cape Cod Hospital, with his stepdaughter by his side. The cause was acute renal failure. He was […]

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Recorded at th­­e Barnstable C­ounty Registry of Deeds from Sept. 23 to Sept. 27, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN Sept. 23. Charles Loring Revocable Trust (Charles Vincent Loring, trustee) to Jed Frank Lippard […]

ARTS AND MUSIC  Appalachian Irish Fusion Concert with Claudine Langille, banjo, formerly of the band Touchstone, and Deborah Silverstein, guitar, founding member of Boston’s New Harmony Sisterhood Band. Saturday, Oct. […]

Back in Black (Thursday-Sunday, Oct. 3-6) The 27th annual Mates Leather Weekend — featuring a leather market, fetish parties, a tattoo contest cookout, and more — heats up various locations […]

Town of Wellfleet Conservation Commission Public Hearing October 16, 2024 Please take notice that the Wellfleet Conservation Commission, in accordance with M.G.L. Chapter 131, Section 40, and the Wellfleet Environmental […]

Town of Truro INVITATION FOR BIDS The Town of Truro is seeking sealed bids for construction of the Central School Roof & HVAC Renovations.  Bids will be received at the […]

Town of Provincetown Historic District Commission Public Hearing October 16, 2024 The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, in […]

Provincetown is a high-density town. Case in point, what once was a small home in the East End with two buildings on a narrow lot recently became three condos squeezed […]

Braunwyn Jackett and Nate McKean describe their North Truro house as having an “old-school Provincetown” aesthetic. “This is how we grew up,” Jackett says. The couple have deep Outer Cape […]

We stood on the steps of the dune shack, chipped enamel cups full of strong coffee in our hands, and looked out over a world made clean and new. The […]

Keith LeBlanc has focused for years on designing landscapes and gardens that eschew suburban ideals of clipped lawns and formal flower beds while seamlessly blending into our Outer Cape ecosystem. […]

When the Cape Cod Modern House Trust was a fledgling organization, Thomas Moses signed up to advance its mission to restore the Outer Cape’s modern houses, many of which were […]

I knew I would have to make compromises when I was in the market to buy a house here a little over a year ago. Along the way, I saw […]

Fiona Mulligan is wearing a shirt that she hand-dyed using indigo she grew herself. The color is a dusty purple-blue that stands out against her deeply suntanned skin. Mulligan, who […]

TRURO — The annual Truro Vineyards Grape Stomp celebrates traditional winemaking. And even though that might not figure as a big part of the town’s history, for a lot of […]

PROVINCETOWN — The 12 apartments at 25-27A Bradford St. known as “Napiville” after their former owner, Anton “Napi” Van Dereck Haunstrup, were sold for half their assessed value last month […]

EASTHAM — The 22 seasonal workers who spent the summer employed at the Four Points Sheraton in Eastham as part of the J-1 visa program have now returned home. It’s […]

PROVINCETOWN — Sarah Peake is one week away from turning 67, but it turns out she’s not retiring after all. After announcing in January that her current, ninth term representing […]

HARWICH — An effort to secure more housing for working people on Cape Cod took a step forward last week when the Cape Cod Commission announced it would hold a […]

PROVIDENCE — The Provincetown Independent was named Newspaper of the Year among the region’s small weekly newspapers at the fall conference of the New England Newspaper and Press Association on […]

After three sunny, dry weeks, parts of the Outer Cape got over half a foot of rain between Sept. 19 and 22. The National Weather Service reported that Eastham recorded […]

TRURO — Torrential rain caused a one-day delay, but it couldn’t keep a treasure hunt at bay. Guided by eight clues, four teams set out on Sept. 22 by bicycle […]

WELLFLEET — It is common knowledge among local contractors here that getting work done in Wellfleet takes longer than it does in other towns. The difference has to do with […]

Apple trees were big when I was a kid. On annual apple-picking excursions with my family, I would clamber into the branches of trees in New Jersey and sometimes in […]

When I am not in Wellfleet, I spend a lot of time on the bench in my local dog park in Brooklyn, kibbitzing. Occasionally, an idea for an outing — […]

PROVINCETOWN — At the Bike Shack on Shank Painter Road, the squeal of mechanical parts harmonizes with the squawk of the house parakeets. “This bike’s been outside,” owner Liz Athineos […]

Just when we start enjoying epic weather and think we have a fall bass run commencing, here comes Mother Nature to slap us in the face with reality. In the […]

Bink! The sound pinged overhead as I walked along High Toss Road in Wellfleet. It was a crisp early autumn morning, and the north winds overnight had dropped a smattering […]

BREWSTER — On their last dive of the 2024 season, Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage retrieved an abandoned anchor, a half dozen golf balls, and at least a cooler-full of […]

The spooky season has a way of arriving overnight: one day candy corn suddenly appears on the grocery shelf, the next day shelves of candy corn pop up along the […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Sept. 24 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

Do you need to go to the RMV? I recommend you do it now. This week the stars are sending us all a major kick in the behind, urging us […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, Sept. […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online attendance option. Click on the meeting you are interested in on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for details. All […]

When Pete Hocking wanders in the dunes of Provincetown and Wellfleet, he stands quietly and listens to the ocean. He feels the cool air coming off the Atlantic, the heat […]

The faces, all handsome, all angular, none smiling, stare right back at the viewer. The way the paintings combine glamour and danger, they might be models’ portraits or mug shots […]

Actor and playwright Jacob Storms says that an extraordinary high-school experience of theater gave him the courage to write a one-man play in which he cast himself as an up-and-coming […]

I’ve been finding it difficult to write about Provincetown. This is, in part, because there already exists so much writing about the place. The territory is already charted. This town […]

Provincetown, the 1950s: Billie Holiday and Barbra Streisand are booked at the Atlantic House. Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut are meeting for cocktails. And Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann, considered one […]

Rediscovering the Life and Art of Earle Pilgrim A new exhibition at the Truro Public Library sheds light on a mid-century Black American artist whose life and work constitute a […]

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Last night a young friend (almost 27) said to me, “I am an old soul.” Those words got me thinking. Not about the soul — God help me from ever […]

I joined the Provincetown Fire Dept. as a part-time emergency medical technician this year. Our job is to provide support to residents and visitors on what is often one of […]

With this issue of the Independent, we complete Volume 5, our fifth full year of weekly publication — 261 issues in all. All those deadlines have kept us tightly bound […]

In Defense of OCHS To the editor: I have been going to Outer Cape Health Services in Wellfleet for the past eight years and am very happy with the care […]

Arlene B. (Dunn) Reed, who lived at Provincetown’s Seashore Point Wellness Center for six years, died on Sept. 16, 2024. The cause was acute respiratory distress with underlying chronic obstructive […]

A celebration of life for Ruth Anne Dykeman of Wellfleet, who died on Aug. 7, 2024 at 98, will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 6 at the […]

Eric Maul, a classical flutist who studied at the New England Conservatory and the Peabody Institute in his native Maryland, died unexpectedly on Sept. 12, 2024 at his home in […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Sept. 16 to Sept. 20, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN Sept. 16. Mark Scott to Davis Family Investments LLC [Evans & Davis PLLC, agent […]

EVENTS  October 2 is the International Day of Non-Violence. ArtPeaceMakers invite you to listen and participate in a nonviolence virtual teach-in at paceebene.org/events on Wednesday, Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. […]

I’ll Take Manhattan (Thursday-Saturday, Sept. 26-28) The annual Manhattan Short Film Festival at Wellfleet Preservation Hall (335 Main St.) from Thursday, Sept 26 to Saturday, Sept. 28 features 10 films […]

Town of Wellfleet Zoning Board of Appeals Public Hearing October 10, 2024 Pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 40-A, Section 11 and Wellfleet Section 235, the ZBA will hold public […]

Town of Provincetown Zoning Board of Appeals Public Hearing October 3, 2024 The Provincetown Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a Public Hearing at 6:00 P.M. on Thursday, October 3, […]

Town of Eastham Planning Board Public Hearing October 16, 2024 The Town of Eastham Planning Board will hold a public hearing at 5:00 pm on Wednesday, October 16, 2024 in […]

Town of Truro Select Board Remote Public Hearing FY2025 Tax Classification Hearing September 24, 2024 Notice is hereby given that the Truro Select Board will hold a remote public hearing […]

Eric Maul, a classical flutist who studied at the New England Conservatory and the Peabody Institute in his native Maryland, died unexpectedly on Sept. 12, 2024 at his home in […]

PROVINCETOWN — The large, decaying buildings that formerly housed fish-processing businesses, an industrial freezer, a pair of restaurants, and several apartments at 227, 227R, and 229 Commercial St. are mostly […]

The immunization of children entering kindergarten against preventable diseases in all four towns on Outer Cape Cod lags far behind statewide averages. In both Truro and Provincetown, less than 80 […]

PROVINCETOWN — Almost a year ago, town meeting voters endorsed two measures to regulate the ownership of short-term rental properties here and prevent consolidation of the industry in the hands […]

WELLFLEET — Fire Chief Joseph Capello issued a cease-and-desist order on Sept. 17 to prevent fuel delivery trucks and water tankers from driving onto the commercial L-pier at the town’s […]

EASTHAM — John Doane, who emigrated from England to the Plymouth Colony sometime between 1628 and 1632, became the patriarch of one of the first seven families that settled in […]

WELLFLEET — At select board meetings throughout the summer, wild oyster harvesters used the public comment period as a platform to decry the state of the town’s wild fishery. “I […]

TRURO — The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced the final sale notice for the Gulf of Maine offshore wind project lease areas on Sept. 16. The agency shrunk […]

WELLFLEET — The select board on Sept. 10 reviewed the only bid received for the leasing in 2025 of the town-owned sandy lot at 255 Commercial St. between Mac’s on […]

PROVINCETOWN — As the cost of living has become increasingly untenable for workers on Cape Cod, many local businesses have had to sign leases on rental properties, or buy properties […]

EASTHAM — The small house on the edge isn’t everyone’s idea of a dream vacation home. There’s no air conditioning, and a constant stream of visitors crowds the front lawn, […]

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Nicole Goveia tried painting and printmaking at school, but when she got a camera for her 16th birthday and taught herself the ins and outs of photography, it opened the […]

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Halo-halo, a beloved dessert from the Philippines — one that’s as valued as ice cream is in America — found me through PBS Kids and my Filipino godmothers, Rina and […]

PROVINCETOWN — Channing Wilroy takes a brisk walk through town every day, his shoulders rolled slightly forward as if they, too, are in a hurry. He rarely stops, because he […]

A fall bass run has evaded us for about six years, but this week there was clear evidence that one is underway. As everybody out here knows, the weather has been […]

Distances in space are enormous. Look up on any night and pick a star, any one you like. Then consider this: the sparkling light you see began its journey tens, […]

EASTHAM — It’s the first round, and I’m already getting bodied by a little kid in a Minecraft shirt. Seven-year-old Wesley Spoor jumps out of his chair, laughing hard, his […]

Along the quiet back stretch of the Beech Forest trail, a sea of serrated hearts has been patiently photosynthesizing since the spring, steadfastly preparing for its late summer show. The […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Sept. 17 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

The Sun moves from Virgo into the sign of Libra this week. The scales offer encouragement to strive for balance. Libra understands the virtue of decision-making, and now’s the time […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, Sept. […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online attendance option. Click on the meeting you are interested in on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for details. All […]

In Provincetown, the tide’s comings and goings are always in view. But in a small fishing village on Paros Island in Greece, where Barbara Cohen had an artist residency this […]

Even today, as Donald Trump recklessly exploits the xenophobia of American voters, the Statue of Liberty, rising majestically in New York Harbor, is a powerful symbol of New World freedom […]

If you want to see a fairy, says Andrew Warburton, all you have to do is find a four-leaf clover and place it on your forehead. He’s never found a […]

While New Yorker theater critic Vinson Cunningham’s Great Expectations is an autobiographical novel based on his experiences as a young staffer on Barack Obama’s first presidential run, it is not […]

For this installment of Indie Reads, we asked members of the Independent staff to offer some book recommendations now that summer is over and the transition from frothy beach reads […]

Immigrants’ Stories at Cape Rep Nina Zoie Lam was drawn to direct Lloyd Suh’s 2023 play The Heart Sellers at the Cape Rep Theatre in part because it reminds her of her […]

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A couple of weeks ago a reader wrote to say that he was “uplifted” by an obituary we had published. He said he would like to read more about the […]

The Cape Air Surprise To the editor: Cape Air’s discontinuation of air service between Provincetown and Boston [“Cape Air Drops 6 Months of P’town Flights,” Sept. 12, front page] was […]

Bonnie Adams Campbell died on Sept 10, 2024 in Spartanburg, S.C. after struggling with lung and coronary issues caused by exposure to toxins after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack. […]

Laura Runkel of Wellfleet died peacefully at home on Sept. 11, 2024. The cause was glioblastoma. She was 70. The daughter of Harry and Joan Runkel, Laura was born on […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Sept. 9 to Sept. 13, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN Sept. 9. Javier Barrientos to Michael S. Dunn and Carlo A. Real. 15 Creek […]

EVENTS  Outermost Contra Dance is back for a new season of dance. Dereck Kalish will kick us off, calling to the great music of Rose Clancy and Jacqueline Schwab. Friday, […]

Goodbye, Girl! (Thursday, Sept. 19) An all-star roster of local drag and comedy talent will be at the Post Office Café and Cabaret (303 Commercial St., Provincetown) on Thursday, Sept. […]

Town of Wellfleet Zoning Board of Appeals Public Hearing October 10, 2024 Pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 40-A, Section 11 and Wellfleet Section 235, the ZBA will hold public […]

Town of Truro Historical Commission Public Hearing October 1, 2024 The Truro Historical Commission will hold a remote Public Hearing on Tuesday, October 1, 2024, at 5:00PM to review a […]

Town of Provincetown Historic District Commission Public Hearing October 2, 2024 The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, in […]

EASTHAM — It was gray and blustery on First Encounter Beach, but nine teams of artists refused to let the summer end last weekend. The peal of a cowbell signaled […]

TRURO — Officials from the Internal Revenue Service knocked on the doors of tenants who rent from David Delgizzi here last week and instructed them to make their rent payments […]

PROVINCETOWN — Cape Air CEO Linda Markham announced in an Aug. 30 letter to Provincetown Airport Commission chair Brian Orter that the company was canceling all flights between Provincetown and […]

WELLFLEET — Outer Cape Health Services is regrouping after a rash of staff departures over the past several months left the organization with a shortage of top leadership and primary […]

PROVINCETOWN — Salvador R. Vasques III, that handsome boy from Washington Avenue who often went fishing on his dad’s dragger, jumped into a red Datsun 1600 convertible one day in […]

WELLFLEET — The board of health unveiled new regulations on Aug. 27 aimed at reducing nitrogen levels in Wellfleet Harbor and its estuaries. These regulations mandate cesspool removal and will […]

PROVINCETOWN — A recent safety grant from the state’s Seaport Economic Council will pay for the installation of six new ladders rising from the water of Provincetown Harbor onto MacMillan […]

PROVINCETOWN — Hundreds of swimmers braved cold water on Saturday, Sept. 7 for the 37th annual Swim for Life fundraiser. The event, which consisted of 1.2-mile and half-mile swims in […]

TRURO — The Cape Cod Commission voted 11-1 on Sept. 5 to grant a Development of Regional Impact exemption for a proposed 200-foot stairway from a house at 3 Corn […]

PROVINCETOWN — The intensity of the physical and emotional exertion I was about to undertake didn’t hit me until I was packed into the last Funk Bus full of neoprene-suited […]

I am an aspiring vegetarian. I love the idea of eating low on the food chain, and I think there are considerable ethical arguments for doing so (not to mention […]

HYANNIS PORT — We boarded the ship in the dark, 50 of us, schlepping backpacks and duffle bags and coolers of food. It was 5:30 in the morning, but most […]

PROVINCETOWN — Preident Ulysses S. Grant’s visit to Cape Cod and the Islands in late August 1874 was more than a mere celebration. Ostensibly, Grant was here to commemorate the […]

Let’s all take a deep breath in and let a big sigh out. With summer behind us, we begin to welcome the fall — to me the most beautiful time […]

There is perhaps nothing that more consistently occupies the minds and civic spaces of the Outer Cape than questions concerning our dogs. Between leash laws in Truro, dangerous dogs in […]

Well, it’s official: the fluke are back. After a 10-year absence, they are turning up both in Cape Cod Bay and on the backside beaches. This past week, good catches […]

Clematis terniflora’s common name, sweet autumn clematis, does a lot of PR work for this badly behaved garden vine, which is repeatedly guilty of reseeding itself into neglected spaces and […]

PROVINCETOWN — Diane Beruldsen spent last Friday afternoon on Motta Field with the Underground Loose Women, Provincetown’s team of flag football players, getting them ready for a weekend of games. […]

WELLFLEET — Jake Puffer beckons a group of touring visitors closer, asking if they want to peek inside the ridges of his farm’s oyster hats. Disks dipped in lime, sand, […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Sept. 10 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

This bright and beautiful not-quite-fall time is especially busy for some people here — a time for a final push before the season ends. For others, it’s about goodbyes as […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, Sept. […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online attendance option. Click on the meeting you are interested in on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for details. […]

Living for three weeks in a dune shack tucked in a hollow by the Atlantic, Lili Chin found the landscape both daunting and inspiring. “There’s a boundlessness that’s almost intimidating,” […]

In 1976, artist Lee Krasner took scissors to a pile of still-life charcoal and figure drawings from her late-1930s art classes with Provincetown’s Hans Hofmann. She turned the triangular shards […]

In 1992, a year after the collapse of the Soviet Union, American television producer and reporter Natasha Lance Rogoff accepted the role of executive producer for a new project: Ulitsa […]

It’s never a clear day in a Bowersock painting. His clouds — rising over sparkling water or looming over farmland — suggest narratives, but ethereal ones. “My skies aren’t real,” […]

In David Gonville’s painting July at Davis Farm, the outline of a gable-roofed house, sketched onto a landscape of yellow, looks as though it might float away. Not only that […]

Sweet Spring Summer in the Morning Afternoon Room-warm tea in the chipped blue cup. My husband — how I love him! — has gone off across the water we can […]

American Roots and Rock at Payomet The Adam Ezra Group is a case study in how seismic shifts in the music industry have radically altered the way musicians and fans […]

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Somewhere in my disheveled archives sits a tattered yellow news clipping from the New York Times, circa 1980, that was pinned to the bulletin board over my desk for decades. […]

Provincetown is the gateway to the Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, but you’re forgiven if you didn’t know that. In 1995, Don Young (R-Alaska), chair of the […]

The statements coming from the Republican candidate for president are setting many people’s nerves on edge. Our correspondent Mike Rice gives one example this week of an absurd accusation, repeated […]

Visitor Center ‘Nightmare’ To the editor: Re “Select Board Balks at Plan for Stellwagen Center” [Sept. 5, front page]: I am horrified by the proposed building of a huge visitor […]

Barbara Elizabeth Knapp of Eastham, who was branch manager of the Cape Cod 5 Bank in Wellfleet, died in hospice care in Milton on July 14, 2024 after an 18-year […]

Thomas Walter Murzyn died peacefully in his Eastham home on Aug. 1, 2024 after fighting metastatic cancer. He was 73. Tom was born on Aug. 12, 1950 in Hartford, Conn. […]

A Funeral Mass for John “JB” Browne of Provincetown, who died on July 7, 2024 at 79, will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28 at St. Peter […]

Maureen Ellen Cronin, who retired to North Truro in 2007, died peacefully at home on May 7, 2024 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease that she endured with grace. […]

A celebration of life for Robert Jones of Orleans, who died at 80 on July 2, 2024, will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28 at the First […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Sept. 3 to Sept. 6, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN Sept. 4. Jeffrey Mulliken and Elbert Ruff to Ptown House LLC [C T Corporation […]

EVENTS Outermost Contra Dance is back for a new season of dance. Dereck Kalish will kick us off, calling to the great music of Rose Clancy and Jacqueline Schwab. Friday, […]

Fall Harvest (Thursday, Sept. 12) The Autumn Sunset Market at the Provincetown Arts Society (466 Commercial St.) on Thursday, Sept. 12, 4:30 p.m. features seafood, produce, and flowers from local […]

Town of Truro Historical Commission Public Hearing October 1, 2024 The Truro Historical Commission will hold a remote Public Hearing on Tuesday, October 1, 2024, at 5:00PM to review a […]

Town of Provincetown Invitation for Bids Contracted Services Sealed bids for furnishing the following item will be received on the Towns electronic procurement system https://www.provincetown-ma.gov/37/Procurement For the following projects: Fire […]

Town of Eastham Planning Board Public Hearing September 18, 2024 The Town of Eastham Planning Board will hold a public hearing at 5:00 pm on Wednesday, September 18, 2024, in […]

PROVINCETOWN — There was no shortage of spectacle at the 36th annual White Party on Aug. 31, where 800 people gathered to admire each other’s white outfits and raise money […]

WELLFLEET — Two years after its first public announcement in August 2022, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) plans to hold public auctions for eight offshore wind energy leasing […]

PROVINCETOWN — Plans to build a visitor center for the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary on town-owned land at the base of MacMillan Pier hit a significant snag last week […]

TRURO — The select board decided at its Aug. 27 meeting to table a motion that would have executed the taking by eminent domain of the now-empty Truro Motor Inn […]

TRURO — Richard Pask, 72, came to the select board on Aug. 27 distraught. His wife, Carol Harris, 69, who had ALS, had died at home in hospice care on […]

EASTHAM — Roughly a quarter of the registered voters in Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet, and Eastham participated in the state’s primary election this year on Tuesday, Sept. 3 but included more […]

WELLFLEET — Duck Harbor, enjoyed by visitors as a bayside beach, is returning to its 19th-century roots as a salt marsh, according to Tim Smith, a restoration ecologist at the […]

WELLFLEET — Jake Puffer beckons a group of touring visitors closer, asking if they want to peek inside the ridges of his farm’s oyster hats. Disks dipped in lime, sand, […]

Of all the delights that can be made with beach plums — the jam and jelly, sauces, cakes, and tea — for me nothing matches the pure pleasure of beach […]

TRURO — Donna McLaughlin used to think of herself as a quilter. The colorful products of that particular penchant are draped over the couch and hang on the walls of […]

Fishing bounced back in a big way this past week with striped bass and bluefish biting well; many boats had some big catches. As has been the case most of […]

Gabrielle “Teddy” Ment’s passion for circus goes beyond physical skills and performances: “While we are teaching circus skills,” Ment says, “what we really want to impart is the essence of […]

A good friend of mine is convinced that humankind is composed of three distinct personalities: farmers, explorers, and seekers. According to her theory, exploration is part of each one’s purpose, […]

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As popular as the Nauset Light is as an Eastham tourist destination, it might have less buzz than the shining sumac nearby — at least while it’s in bloom. The […]

EASTHAM — Susan Everett, Carol Aro, Eileen Miller, and Dawn Skiba finished each other’s sentences. This tendency, like their golf games, evolved over their four-decades-long friendship, their strengths and foibles […]

WELLFLEET — Swells from the aftermath of Hurricane Ernesto and an eerie fog mixed with drifting smoke from Canada’s wildfires enveloped White Crest Beach on Aug. 18 as hundreds of […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Sept. 3 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

Virgo season is full of blessings in disguise. Mercury transitions into its sign of Virgo midweek, bringing clarity and making goals slightly more attainable, so try to keep your eyes […]

Townspeople are invited to gather at the Provincetown Fire Dept.’s headquarters, 25 Shank Painter Road, for a ceremony commemorating those who lost their lives in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks […]

meetings ahead Monday, Sept. 9 Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission, 1 p.m., Salt Pond Visitors Center and online This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, Sept. […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online attendance option. Click on the meeting you are interested in on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for details. All […]

Stare into Susan Bee’s Eye of the Storm, a painting prominently displayed at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and you’ll observe bundles of tightly knit red, white, and blue […]

Liz Collins takes some of her artwork off the wall of her studio at Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center. She lays it on the scuffed-up cement floor. The works are […]

Provincetown artist Larry Collins stands over the kitchen sink in his apartment on Alden Street stirring an iced coffee. Every turn of the spoon is considered. Collins’s hair is neatly […]

Henri Bendel, the store, was synonymous in the American imagination with good taste, astronomical price tags, and a certain uptown vision of the good life. To shop at Henri Bendel […]

AMZehnder Gallery (25 Bank St. No. 3) Kate McConnell, who splits her year between Provincetown and Washington D.C., picks out a piece from Lorrie La Pointe’s 21 “Emotional Landscapes.” Each […]

A Classic Whodunit on the Stage Anna Marie Johansen typically directs comedies. But she’s also a fan of Agatha Christie. So, Johansen said yes when she was asked to direct […]

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Leonard Cohen’s 1992 song lyrics suggesting that democracy might be coming to the U.S.A. have been very much with me lately. Ever since I sat under the Payomet tent with […]

I hope that readers have been noticing the collection of 34 essays by columnist Kai Potter that we published last month. His book is called Noticing, something that Kai does […]

Part-Time Matters To the editor: Re “Truro Part-Timers Worry About Housing and Health,” [Aug. 29, front page]: Your article quoted a part-time resident advisory committee (PTRAC) member suggesting folks ask […]

Judy Berkowitz, a bohemian New Yorker who was well known in Provincetown for a life of art and adventure, died on July 12, 2024 at the Throgs Neck Nursing and […]

A memorial service for Wellfleet resident and former Navy lawyer Thomas H. Peters III will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 14 at St. Mary of the Harbor […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Aug. 26 to Aug. 30, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN Aug. 26. Lenihan-Martin Trust (Brian M. Lenihan and Courtney H. Martin, trustees) to Ellen […]

EVENTSEarthstar Play School Ice Cream Social. Join us for an evening of music by SugarBucket, Lewis Brothers ice cream, snacks, and activities for the kids. $25 per person, $45 per […]

What a Doll! (Thursday-Saturday, Sept. 5-7) Everyone’s favorite evil AI companion robot doll comes to musical life in “MEG4N: The Unauthorized Musical Parody” at the Art House (214 Commercial St., […]

Town of Wellfleet Selectboard Public Hearing September 10, 2024 Notice is hereby given that the Wellfleet Selectboard will hold a public hearing on Tuesday September 10, 2024, at 7:00p.m. virtually […]

Town of Provincetown Historic District Commission Public Hearing September 18, 2024 The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, September 18, 2024, in […]

Town of Eastham Planning Board Public Hearing September 18, 2024 The Town of Eastham Planning Board will hold a public hearing at 5:00 pm on Wednesday, September 18, 2024, in […]

PROVINCETOWN — The town’s 46th annual Carnival parade moved down Commercial Street with its typical buoyance on Aug. 22: painted props and bodies glittered in sunlight, and floats sent out […]

TRURO — At a forum organized by the Truro Part-Time Resident Advisory Committee on Aug. 19, several part-time residents advocated building more affordable housing in town, with some saying the […]

WELLFLEET — The town came close to being scammed out of more than $1 million last summer. According to the fiscal 2023 audit and internal emails between town officials, in […]

WELLFLEET — Following three resignations in the harbormaster’s office within a two-week period earlier this summer, members of the town’s marina advisory committee claimed former staff failed to address critical […]

TRURO — An organization established to provide opportunities for people with disabilities to engage in activities that others enjoy is locked in a dispute with the Truro Conservation Commission over […]

ORLEANS — Taylor Perkins, a hotelier based in York, Maine, purchased two motels and a vacation-rental property in three different Lower Cape towns in the last two years through a […]

WELLFLEET — Most beachgoers at Lecount Hollow on a Sunday morning in late August didn’t know that if they pulled out their phones they would find Wi-Fi waiting for them […]

PROVINCETOWN — The Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority received a $14.6-million federal grant in July that will pay for 13 new hybrid-electric buses at around $1 million each, along with […]

EASTHAM — The eastern half of Nauset Regional High School’s campus has been under construction since February 2023, pushing faculty and students into temporary modular classrooms, but with the new […]

WELLFLEET — Swells from the aftermath of Hurricane Ernesto and an eerie fog mixed with drifting smoke from Canada’s wildfires enveloped White Crest Beach on Aug. 18 as hundreds of […]

I saw the dark green, somewhat spindly plantlets this past May at Bayberry Gardens in Truro. The hand-lettered sign contained a single word that I’d never seen before — “couves,” […]

A friend had a significant birthday recently, which is to say that one day she turned a decade older than she used to be. By “recently” I mean over two […]

It was a vintage tunic that led Michelle Silva to found Amisha, the label she designs in Boston.  It was beautifully colored in saturated hues of red and pink, block […]

BREWSTER — I pulled into the parking lot of the Cape Cod Natural History Museum at 5:30 a.m. on a mid-August morning that was hot and humid even at that […]

Hugh Daugherty lingers under the low doorjamb of his 19th-century house in Eastham on a sunlit afternoon before he turns and leads the way through his office — what used […]

The intertidal zone around the circular 40-foot-deep Salt Pond in Eastham is divided into strata: the inner ring is composed of the tall saltmarsh cordgrass, which prefers the inundation of […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Aug. 27 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

As we roll from summer into fall, the fishing, regrettably, remains sporadic and most days just not very good. Bluefish are still hard to find, and the striped bass aren’t […]

PROVINCETOWN — It’s 7:30 p.m. and the sky is changing from navy blue to black. It’s squidding time. Squidding is a tradition passed down through generations, says Maxine Meads-Stojiljkovic, the […]

WELLFLEET — Jimmy Mulpeter stands under the shade of a patio umbrella on an August afternoon, holding oyster after oyster against a metal gauge before tossing them into one of […]

Virgo season continues, with Mercury finally stationed directly in Leo, leading to a welcome energetic shift. The stars beg us this week to temper action with a healthy dose of […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, Aug. […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online attendance option. Click on the meeting you are interested in on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for details. All […]

Designer Jimmy Lee Curtis has some answers to all the nostalgia for a Provincetown that was more outlandish and subversive than it is now and where eccentricity and whimsy were […]

Onstage, Matteo Lane radiates ease. Often, he says, he’ll get this comment after a show: “It felt like I was sitting there catching up with a friend.” On his podcast, […]

Broadway singer and actress Liz Callaway has performed a half-dozen times in Provincetown but returns Aug. 30 and 31 to a different venue — and with a new honor as […]

Blue lights cover the stage of the cabaret room at the Crown & Anchor. A voice seeps through the narrow opening in the curtain: “Another openin’, another show,” sings Delta […]

Cortile Gallery (230 Commercial St.) It’s been 24 hours since the Carnival parade ended, and Provincetown is still looking for a street party. Across from the Cortile Gallery, a Dixieland […]

A Hollywood Murder Revisited Note: The Casey Sherman talk on Aug. 29 has been canceled because of illness. The Wellfleet library hopes to reschedule. Casey Sherman believes that one of […]

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We were out at Race Point, looking over the flocks of shorebirds, terns, and gulls on the beach, when suddenly the mass of them rose into the air in their […]

I walked north up Newcomb Hollow Beach, away from the lounging crowds packed together under brightly colored umbrellas. From extended families to old people pairs, nearly naked toddlers to equally […]

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s suddenly ubiquitous word for the Republican ticket — “weird” — “is solidly Nebraskan and from the school of Carson,” writes Ian Frazier in the New York […]

Quick Thinking To the editor: This letter is to thank and commend the three young sailors, JJ Blake, Andrew Shope, and Kevin Woznac, as well as Assistant Harbormaster Jesse Boyd […]

After a long and happy life, Ruth Anne (Kemp) Dykeman died on Aug. 7, 2024, at Liberty Commons in Chatham. She was 98. Ruth Anne was born in Weymouth on […]

A celebration of the life of Norma Ellen Marcellino of Eastham and Brewster, who died on March 29, 2024, will take place from 4 to 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. […]

John O. Browne, known as “JB,” died unexpectedly at Cape Cod Hospital on July 7, 2024 of respiratory failure caused by sepsis. He was 79. “JB personified all the things […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Aug. 19 to Aug. 23, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN Aug. 23. The Lisa J. Drapkin 2016 Living Trust (Lisa J. Drapkin, trustee) to […]

AUCTIONS  Support local artists and Truro history. View artwork inspired by Truro Historical Society’s new railroad exhibit in museum lobby at 6 Highland Light Road. Bid online or in person […]

Good Value (Thursday, Aug. 29) Johnny Spampinato & the Value Leaders play as part of the summer concert series at the Truro Public Library (7 Standish Way) on Thursday, Aug. […]

TOWN OF WELLFLEET Zoning Board of Appeals Executive Session pursuant to G.L. c. 30A, Section 21(a)(3), to discuss strategy with respect to litigation in the matter of Great White, et […]

Town of Truro Request for Proposals – Grant Administration CDBG Program Grant The Town of Truro is requesting proposals for grant administration services for its CDBG FY24 CDBG Program that […]

Town of Provincetown Select Board Public Hearing Petition Installation of Electrical Equipment September 9, 2024 The Provincetown Select Board will hold a Public Hearing on Monday, September 9, 2024 at […]

PROVINCETOWN — Pier jumping is a tradition here. On almost any summer day when the tide is high, you’ll see people laughing, holding hands, and then leaping off MacMillan Pier […]

WELLFLEET — Local and state agencies sprang into action when a sheen — later identified as spilled hydraulic fluid — was seen coating the surface of Wellfleet Harbor on the […]

PROVINCETOWN — JJ Blake, Andrew Shope, and Kevin Woznac were biking down MacMillan Wharf on Aug. 19 to go pier jumping before their daily lessons at West End Racing Children’s […]

TRURO — After a morning walk on Ballston Beach over the July 4th weekend, Heather Murray noticed her four-year-old Portuguese water dog, Maple, behaving strangely. “She was just sort of […]

TRURO — In this town where several hundred people spent the spring in hot debates about voting, housing, lawn signs, and the meaning of the word “rural,” there is one […]

TRURO — The 180-year-old Greek Revival house at 7 Pond Road is quickly slipping past the point where it can be saved, according to members of the Truro Historical Commission […]

PROVINCETOWN — Residents and visitors to the Outer Cape spent nearly five days last week under a hazy, gray-brown sky that dimmed the Sun and tinted it orange and red. […]

PROVINCETOWN — The middle of August is a uniquely busy time on the Outer Cape. Children are a week or two away from going back to school, so families are […]

PLYMOUTH — Looking for a way to gain approval for disposing of a million gallons of contaminated wastewater into Cape Cod Bay, Holtec International, the company decommissioning the Pilgrim nuclear […]

EASTHAM — As a recent student of landscape design — an endeavor that involves examining the layout and imagery of the famous gardens of the world — I couldn’t help […]

Cucumber sandwiches are one of the indelible memories of my childhood visits to Chatham. My grandmother served them with warm milky tea after sailboat races in Stage Harbor. These were […]

PROVINCETOWN — With one week to go until the Carnival parade sets out on Commercial Street, Mark Adams is working late in his Miller Hill studio, painting the author’s name […]

PROVINCETOWN — It’s 7:30 p.m. and the sky is changing from navy blue to black. It’s squidding time. Squidding is a tradition passed down through generations, says Maxine Meads-Stojiljkovic, the […]

When I visit my grandma in Poland, she always prepares a meal that’s more than I can eat. Saying no to her cooking is not an option, though: food is […]

There are four rules that underpin a good interview, says Ira Wood, host and producer of The Lowdown on WOMR. Maybe the most important one, he says, is this: lavish […]

The straight stems and spherical inflorescences of Cephalanthus occidentalis are reminiscent of childhood craftwork, each cluster like a model molecule or solar system made from sticks and foam. The individual […]

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This has been quite an interesting week on the waterfront. Pogies have invaded Provincetown Harbor by the thousands, and that usually attracts predators such as tuna, striped bass, and bluefish. […]

WELLFLEET — Jimmy Mulpeter stands under the shade of a patio umbrella on an August afternoon, holding oyster after oyster against a metal gauge before tossing them into one of […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Aug. 20 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

The Sun shifts out of Leo this week, heralding the season of Virgo. May practicality and dependability reign supreme. Virgo season starts off strong with its ruling planet Mercury sextile […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, Aug. […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link […]

“Anything is possible” is written at the top of a painting by Sam Messer currently on view in “Edge Conditions,” a group exhibition of work by former visual arts fellows […]

Pianist, arranger, and musical director Tedd Firth says he has always had only one goal in life: “I just wanted to play.” He took piano lessons as a child and […]

August is a poet with a fellowship in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He’s lonely. The intoxication of procrastination and the cold fingers of autumn poking into his cabin […]

Once-“canceled” comic Kathy Griffin has been on a 10-week break in her 50-stop comeback tour since June, and her life and outlook have shifted. Griffin now has her natural voice […]

Dancer, choreographer, and teacher Jean Appolon has long found dance to be a vital way to communicate, a way to heal, and a way to bring people together. Dance can […]

In his powerlifting prime, Washington Post classical music critic Michael Andor Brodeur was able to lift 1,200 pounds of iron: the combined weight of his best deadlift, bench, and squat. […]

To Provincetown, With Love New York City-based singer-musician David Raleigh first came to Provincetown 20 years ago. Raleigh and his then-boyfriend (now husband) fell in love with the town, which […]

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In her July rulings that the Wellfleet Select Board had violated the Open Meeting Law, Assistant Attorney General Carrie Benedon wrote that the discussion at the board’s June 27, 2023 […]

Supporting Grandparents To the editor: The article on grandparenting on the front page of your Aug. 15 issue [“Grandparents Care for More Than 10% of Cape Children”] was eye-opening. I […]

Former Eastham Select Board member and Town Moderator David Schropfer, Sr. died peacefully in his sleep on Aug. 13, 2024 at Regal Care in Harwich. He was 84. He had […]

The friends of Lillian Atwood Chase, who died in Marlborough, Conn. on July 6, 2024, are invited to join her family for happy hour at JDs, 258 Commercial St. in […]

This article was updated on Aug. 25, 2024. Maria E. Redo always said she was a city girl through and through, but that she loved Truro more than any other […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Aug. 12 to Aug. 16, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN Aug. 12. David M. Amero and Matthew J. Dixon to Robert Michael Saltzman. 368 […]

AUCTIONS  Support local artists and Truro history. View artwork inspired by Truro Historical Society’s new railroad exhibit in museum lobby at 6 Highland Light Road. Bid online or in person […]

Round and Round (Thursday, Aug. 22) Meet at the Eastham Public Library (190 Samoset Road) on Thursday, Aug. 22, 6 p.m. to learn about the history of Eastham’s windmill with […]

TOWN OF WELLFLEET Zoning Board of Appeals Executive Session pursuant to G.L. c. 30A, Section 21(a)(3), to discuss strategy with respect to litigation in the matter of Great White, et […]

Town of Truro Request for Proposals – Grant Administration CDBG Program Grant The Town of Truro is requesting proposals for grant administration services for its CDBG FY24 CDBG Program that […]

Town of Provincetown Select Board Public Hearing FY2025 Property Tax Rate Classification August 26, 2024 The Provincetown Select Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, August 26, 2024, at […]

Town of Eastham COMMUNITY PRESERVATION ACTCOMMITTEE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING SEPTEMBER 11, 2024 5:00 PM EASTHAM TOWN HALL The Eastham Community Preservation Act Committee will hold a Public Hearing on […]

PROVINCETOWN — Jamaica’s Independence Day on Aug. 6 was celebrated in fits and starts here, as intermittent rainstorms moved across the sky and work commitments drew people away from the […]

WELLFLEET — More than a year after a closed select board meeting led to a schism among board members and former Town Administrator Rich Waldo, the mostly unredacted minutes of […]

EASTHAM — Barbara Niggel, the owner of Willy’s World Wellness and Conference Center, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, unable to pay off a $6.87-million short-term commercial loan on her […]

Approximately 15 miles south of Nantucket on Saturday, July 13, one of the blades on a non-operational wind turbine that Vineyard Wind was testing broke at its base, scattering debris […]

ORLEANS — Carla Koehl, the executive director of the Cape Cod Foster Closet, set out one year ago to answer a simple question: how many kids living on the Cape […]

PROVINCETOWN — All four Outer Cape towns have recently seen a decrease in the state’s subsidized housing inventory, or SHI, which measures how much of a community’s year-round residential housing […]

PROVINCETOWN — The 12-unit apartment complex on Bradford Street known as “Napiville” after its late owner, Anton “Napi” Van Dereck Haunstrup, that long provided housing for his restaurant employees and […]

WELLFLEET — When Dikke Hansen decided to “semi-retire,” giving up her position as director of behavioral health at Outer Cape Health Services in 2021 and taking up part-time work as […]

EASTHAM — For the last three-and-a-half years, Eastham’s task force on residential zoning and regulation has done intensive behind-the-scenes work to adapt the town’s zoning bylaws to its major strategic […]

ORLEANS — Complaints by neighbors about backyard farming operations in their midst may not be the most frequent grievances the health dept. gets, but they are among the most frustrating, […]

TRURO — After a controversy over election signs this spring resulted in multiple calls to the police dept., the town is still not enforcing its bylaw on temporary signs, according […]

PROVINCETOWN — Among the glitzy and glamorous denizens of this place in summer, a certain wig-wearing, sequin-bedazzled subset, one often displaying ostentation and flair, tends to be on the receiving […]

WELLFLEET — Jimmy Mulpeter stands under the shade of a patio umbrella on an August afternoon, holding oyster after oyster against a metal gauge before tossing them into one of […]

Leading the way to her living room, Ardis Markarian adjusts a visitor’s view of Provincetown. “You don’t have to be a writer or artist to live here,” she says. “You […]

Fishing took a bit of a nosedive this past week. Striped bass really thinned out between Race Point and Peaked Hill Bar, and although some moved down toward Head of […]

I had to leave the Cape for a couple of weeks just as summer settled in. Aside from all the other inherent longings of homesickness — in this instance mostly […]

The more time I spend in nature, the clearer it becomes that the four seasons are a myth. At the very least, they are too simplistic: how can we look […]

Chancing upon a nymph in her freshwater abode could be the inciting incident in a mythological tale, an encounter leading to glory or ruin. Fortunately, the Nymphaea odorata bathing near Blackwater Pond seems […]

Everybody who owns a rod and reel enjoys catching bluefish. They are aggressive, hard-fighting, love to come close to shore, and will eagerly hit just about any lure cast their […]

EASTHAM — While trying to avoid typing practice during a sixth-grade computer lab, I typed my name into Google to discover if there were any other Oliver Eggers out there […]

PROVINCETOWN — It was a dark Thursday afternoon with a squall moving in, the kind of conditions that might set the stage for the dramatic rescue of shipwrecked mariners but […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tue sday, August 13 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s […]

As Mercury takes a step back into Leo, it aligns with the Sun. That is, on Aug. 19, Mercury cazimis Leo at 26 degrees. This could be a significant moment […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, Aug. […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link […]

Outside her home in the woods of South Wellfleet, Sara Moran is making a shrine. The broken seat of a wooden chair leans against a piece of wood, which is […]

Don’t tell JD Vance, but a church is a great place to nurture a future drag queen. She can develop an arsenal of talents: singing, sewing, working a crowd. And […]

It isn’t much of a surprise to learn that Mozelle Andrulot was a musical child. “My mother said that I didn’t talk at first — I sang everything,” she says. […]

Over decades of artmaking, Ellen LeBow has forged her own path through stages and styles, figurative rather than abstract. The luminous scratchboard drawings she shows at Rice Polak Gallery in […]

There’s a threat weighing on the two couples who inhabit a pleasant living room in Brenda Withers’s hilarious new play, Westminster, at the Harbor Stage Company in Wellfleet through Sept. […]

So many friendships are born of circumstance — two people become roommates, neighbors, parents at the same time, or co-workers — and the experience can be intense for a time, […]

Night-Blooming Cereus It wakes us to say to bloom once is not nothing. Night Once in a while –– sparks between people –– so stars can see everything they’re missing. […]

I think I understand. Without sufficient love,             they compensate with hatred,             not seeing how bountiful             (how bountiful)                         it all really is… Rob Taylor’s Ads for Simplicity was published in 2013. He […]

Bob Mackie, Still Sparkling If you close your eyes and picture some of the most memorable celebrity fashion looks of the past half century — particularly the more revealing ones […]

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As if Provincetown needed any promotion going into August, the New Yorker magazine published a short profile of the town by Hannah Goldfield, titled “Beach Boys,” in its July 29 […]

I had just returned from a visit with my sister, who has lived at the Seashore Point Wellness Center in Provincetown since 2018, when I saw the Independent’s July 25 […]

After writing about artists here for two years, I was relieved to find myself hustling through the mist that hung over Commercial Street to PAAM a couple of weeks ago […]

Eastham’s Master Plan To the editor: Re “In Eastham, Housing Plan Must Wait Until 2035” [Aug. 1, page A7]: This article did not accurately reflect the presentation given to the […]

Robert Matthew Collis, a lifelong visitor to Provincetown who found acceptance and a spiritual home here, died on June 28, 2024 of lung cancer. He died in hospice care at […]

Elinor Joyce Reardon of Eastham died on July 23, 2024 at Cape Cod Hospital. The cause was metastatic breast cancer. She was 74. Elin was born in New Haven, Conn. […]

Richard Bernard Higgins, a longtime Provincetown resident, died peacefully at home in hospice care on July 31, 2024. He was 91. The son of Patrick Higgins and Helen (Foss) Higgins, […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Aug. 5 to Aug. 9, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN Aug. 5. Robert F. Cameron and Jennifer Elizabeth Muldowney to Edward J. Agolia and […]

Competitively Outbid, Give Your Filing Cabinet to, Hire, and Love Thy Neighbor EVENTS  Art and Spirit Online Auction. A charitable event featuring local artists. Open for bidding Friday, Aug. 30 […]

All That Jazz (Thursday, Aug. 15) The U.S. Air Force Jazz Ensemble performs on Eastham Windmill Green (2505 Route 6) as part of the Windmill Green Concert Series on Thursday, […]

Town of Provincetown Select Board Public Hearing FY2025 Property Tax Rate Classification August 26, 2024 The Provincetown Select Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, August 26, 2024, at […]

TRURO — The Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers performed here on Aug. 5 in front of a crowd that included the market’s usual Monday shoppers along with Mass. Dept. of […]

PROVINCETOWN — Massachusetts politicians at both the state and federal level have made recent moves toward tightening regulation of the long-term care industry, especially as private-equity firms continue to buy […]

This article was updated on Aug. 7. WELLFLEET — The historic property at 70 Main St., not far from Wellfleet’s center, has seen more than its share of woes over […]

The state legislature failed to act on final versions of nine major pieces of legislation last week, including bills about hospital oversight, clean energy, economic development, maternal health care, prescription […]

A group of scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is planning to release 6,600 gallons of sodium hydroxide into the waters south of Martha’s Vineyard in September to […]

PROVINCETOWN — A squad of marine educators has been deployed on the oyster flats of Provincetown in an attempt to teach the curious while protecting the livelihoods of those who […]

WELLFLEET — The excitement was palpable at the Adult Community Center as roughly 60 people filed in to discuss the future of Maurice’s Campground, the 22-acre parcel that the town […]

PROVINCETOWN — It was a dark Thursday afternoon with a squall moving in, the kind of conditions that might set the stage for the dramatic rescue of shipwrecked mariners but […]

“We made great time, just over the bridge,” said the text. Friends were arriving after a long drive — but hours earlier than I expected them to. I would have […]

PROVINCETOWN — The return of public sailing trips on the Kalmar Nyckel, a tall ship based in Delaware, after a five-year hiatus has revealed a pent-up demand for time aboard […]

PROVINCETOWN — Alan Weaver is a real estate broker in Hudson, N.Y. for most of the year, but this summer he’s a lifeguard at Herring Cove Beach in Provincetown. With […]

This is a strange time of year, when we are supposedly in more relaxed modes and keeping more relaxed schedules. But for most of us it’s a busy time, and […]

EASTHAM — While trying to avoid typing practice during a sixth-grade computer lab, I typed my name into Google to discover if there were any other Oliver Eggers out there […]

Through the windows of the mud room in her house in Summerfield, N.C., Janelle Robinson can see her farm: miniature cows, chickens, turkeys. The mud room doubles as her office, […]

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The Moon is the biggest, brightest object in the night sky, the most recognizable and familiar — and the most underappreciated. Over years of observing the stars with friends and […]

The volunteers at the Wellfleet rest stop, one of three on Cape Cod for last weekend’s Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC), had just one job: keep the thousands of cyclists who pass […]

Fishing remained good on the Outer Cape this past week, with August rolling in on a quiet note weatherwise. Striped-bass fishing was again solid from Race Point all the way […]

TRURO — The sun beats down on an 81-degree Sunday at Ballston Beach. The southwest wind whips, and the net writhes. It’s a battle against the elements at beach volleyball […]

It has been written that upon approaching our shores shipmen of old would take great pleasure in the sweet perfume of Clethra alnifolia that traveled over the waves to welcome […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, August 6 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

Retrograde season is in full swing with Mercury joining the ranks of Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto. This time around, things should start off fairly smoothly, as Mercury retrogrades in its […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option for both committee members and residents. Click on the meeting you want to attend on […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, Aug. […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link […]

Mounted on the wall at Jeff Soderbergh Gallery in Wellfleet is a large striped bass. From a distance, the fish looks natural and seamless — an iridescent specimen with a […]

About 70 people crowded into the Robert Charles and Lorraine Bauer Duffy Family Gallery at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum on July 31 to contemplate the question “What is […]

In Elspeth Slayter’s mixed-media works, paint is pressed on paint, layer after layer: a web of yellow covers a block of cayenne red; sky blue buoys are bruised with violet; […]

Nathaniel is a lawyer from Boston. (Actually, he’s from Milton, which sounds nice but also boring.) He’s here with his children, Teddy and Sophia. It’s Family Week in Provincetown, meaning […]

Theater artist Taylor Mac says he’s been misrepresented by headlines claiming that he wants to make audiences “uncomfortable.” That isn’t the whole truth. Instead, he says, “I use theater to […]

William-Scott Gallery (439 Commercial St.) Daniel Schwarz says Michael Costello’s paintings at the William-Scott Gallery might be a reference to American poet and critic Marianne Moore’s definition of art: “imaginary gardens with […]

Last September the people of Chile commemorated the 50th anniversary of the bloody, U.S.-backed coup d’état that changed the fate of their country and their lives on Sept. 11, 1973. […]

Jazz for All at the Provincetown Festival When Bart Weisman moved to Cape Cod after growing up in Washington, D.C., he didn’t see much in the way of jazz on […]

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When I moved here as a kid a million years ago — OK, not a million, but it was a different century — it was a very different Cape Cod. […]

Last week was Family Week in Provincetown, and Commercial Street was packed with people pushing strollers and hundreds of kids of every age and disposition. It’s an unusual and welcome […]

Leasing to Locals To the editor: I was very pleased to read about Provincetown’s “Lease to Locals” program [“Provincetown Aims to Lure Landlords Into Year-Round Rental Market,” Aug. 1, page […]

Pediatrician, hospital administrator, and affordable housing advocate Susan Spear of New York City and Wellfleet died at home on July 30, 2024 after fighting metastatic breast cancer for 10 years. […]

Move to the Beat (Thursday, Aug. 8) DJ Emerson spins at the free, family-friendly Beats on the Hill dance party at the Pilgrim Monument & Provincetown Museum (1 High Pole […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from July 29 to Aug. 2, 2024. PROVINCETOWN July 30. Laura F. Aronson and Brian Rizzo Living Trust (Brian Rizzo, trustee) to […]

SERVICES Local Window Cleaning. We clean windows before we wash them, providing thorough exterior and interior window cleaning (including sills, screens, sliding door tracks, window frames, etc.). We are insured […]

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TOWN OF WELLFLEET Conservation Commission Public Hearing August 21, 2024 Please take notice that the Wellfleet Conservation Commission, in accordance with M.G.L. Chapter 131, Section 40, and the Wellfleet Environmental […]

Town of Truro Zoning Board of Appeals Remote Public Hearing MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 2024 AT 5:30 PM PM2024-006/ZBA – Christine M. Murphy, property located at 9 Bay View Road(Atlas Map […]

Town of Eastham Historical Commission Public Hearing August 20, 2024 The Town of Eastham Historical Commission will hold a public hearing on AUGUST 20, 2024, AT 11:00 AM in the […]

Town of Truro Zoning Board of Appeals Remote Public Hearing MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 2024 AT 5:30 PM PM2024-006/ZBA – Christine M. Murphy, property located at 9 Bay View Road(Atlas Map […]

WELLFLEET — The Outer Cape is full of children of the ’60s. Some of those who have green thumbs have found in their home gardens a new way of reconnecting […]

PROVINCETOWN — When eight longtime employees of Marine Specialties owner Patrick Patrick arrived back on Cape Cod from Jamaica in 2019, their housing had fallen through.  After a fruitless search, […]

PROVINCETOWN — Since taking over the nursing home at Seashore Point in 2019, the current owners have used a complex network of companies to pay themselves hidden profits — possibly […]

EASTHAM — The Cape Cod National Seashore announced last week that the Bartlett House, a gray shingled ranch overlooking Coast Guard Beach, is no longer safe for habitation, as it […]

Editor’s note: The auction of the Seashore Park Inn that was scheduled for Aug. 8, as reported below, has been postponed to Friday, Aug. 23 at 11 a.m. ORLEANS — […]

EASTHAM — It has been five years since the town bought the 11-acre T-Time property for housing and commercial development. During that time, a nine-person committee spent four years gathering […]

PROVINCETOWN — When Steven Rayl and Scott Presley purchased a gallery space at 352 Commercial St. with an attached apartment in 2017, they planned to rent out the one-bedroom unit […]

PROVINCETOWN — Four years after Covid-19 brought live performances worldwide to a halt, the virus is still working its will on Outer Cape arts venues. The Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater […]

The leatherback turtles are here for their annual visit, feeding in Cape Cod Bay. The loggerheads are here too — though they’re more recent arrivals as climate change has made […]

August is peak trash season here, and the staff who run the Outer Cape’s transfer stations say there will be challenges in coping with volumes more than four times what […]

PROVINCETOWN — The owners of the former Provincetown Pet Resort at 79 Shank Painter Road, which for years was slated to become the Green Harbor cannabis dispensary, have petitioned the planning […]

PROVINCETOWN — Realizing there might be a limit to what can be done and learned in this world, I have taken to asking, when getting to know someone, “What are […]

I had a lot of things for the first time in college. Sex, for example — that was a keeper. And bagels. We didn’t have bagels where I grew up. […]

Across much of the Outer Cape, along wooded trails, the sides of roads, the edges of marshes, and the mouths of rivers, those who pay close attention to the land […]

It’s been another good week for catching striped bass and some bluefish. Provincetown charter and party boats all reported excellent catches, and we’re very grateful we’ve had a windless week […]

Building a campfire is a rite of passage. The first one I built on my own was one that kept me warm on a cool night in Vermont. It seemed […]

TRURO — It’s eight o’clock in the morning, and the traffic at Corn Hill Beach is heavy. This strip of sand on the bay side is a downtown of sorts […]

The native Lobelia cardinalis was named for its intense cardinal color, which in turn was derived from those certain Catholic clerics (who for centuries have fancied frocks of the brightest […]

The beginning of August is just about the hottest point of the year on Cape Cod. This year has already proved to be a warm one: a mid-June heat dome […]

ORLEANS — The Firebirds will have to slog through a tough schedule of back-to-back games to secure a playoff spot in the final days of the Cape Cod Baseball League’s […]

If you were to picture coral right now, your mind’s eye would surely see tropical reefs with crystal-clear turquoise water. But that image is incomplete: the temperate seas around the […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, July 30 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

Last week we talked about avoiding blowups. This week we’re seeking them out. The precarious placement of the Sun sextile Mars is changed when Jupiter joins the party. Jupiter, the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Monday, Aug. […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link […]

In Abraham Storer’s painting Heart, a painfully red disk-shaped object unabashedly occupies the foreground. It’s the top of a large wooden spool. Visible to the left of it: the edge […]

Certain motifs appear repeatedly in artistic depictions of Provincetown: the sweep of the dunes, the silhouette of the Pilgrim Monument, the transcendent quality of the storied Cape light. But photographer […]

Michael Prodanou’s abstract figures are composed slowly but energetically. First, he considers a nude, making sketches and drawings in charcoal. Later, painting from these sketches, Prodanou moves fast, applying oil […]

Tonight the west wind is blowing through Aaron’s small window over his half-size bed, his toddler’s body. Where does wind come from? he asks. The sky, the weather, the whole […]

The car slowly passed, back and forth, then at last crept up our half-washed-out driveway. An electric window slid down. “We’re looking for Moses Hinkley,” the driver said. I took […]

The light leads down the long white ropes it fills the swing, it swings the seat Each night each night the moon is full the long white ropes, the sucked-in cheeks […]

Gordon, the 24-year-old antihero of Thomas Grattan’s queer coming-of-age novel In Tongues, craves attention the way Wall Street traders crave cocaine: with a slick kind of desperation and the certainty […]

For this installment of Indie’s Playlist, we asked six members of the Independent team to describe their songs of the summer: the song that best encapsulates the feeling of the […]

Yeesun Kim says she and her Peregrino Zanetto cello, built in 1576, have a happy marriage. She accepts its shortcomings — its struggle, once, to project powerfully enough against an […]

Agata Storer Connects Time, Place, and Memory Photographer Agata Storer is interested in how we remember. She’s long been obsessed with documentation, something she attributes, in part, to a life […]

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Walking on the East End beach at low tide with my 11-year old granddaughter, I pointed out the rivulets of groundwater streaming onto the flats. All the water in the […]

Last week’s article by Jack Styler on the substandard care at the nursing home at Seashore Point in Provincetown, now formally called AdviniaCare at Provincetown, was one of the more […]

The Latest Resignations To the editor: Re “Tensions Are Bared by Rash of Resignations” [July 25, front page]: Thanks for covering the latest episode in Wellfleet’s ongoing problem holding onto […]

Marine biologist, research scientist, and Woods Hole Fisheries Aquarium Curator Frederick Eugene Nichyparowich died at Falmouth Hospital on July 3, 2024, surrounded by his four daughters. The cause was congestive […]

Visiting hours for Robert Kearin, 74, of Eastham, who died on July 22, will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 4 at Nickerson Funeral Home, 77 […]

John Brock died on July 3, 2024, at his home in Orleans after a long fight against COPD and emphysema. He was 71. Born at Fort Dix, N.J. on Oct. […]

Paul Firmin Goetinck, a biologist and longtime Wellfleet resident, died peacefully at home in hospice care on July 15, 2024. The cause was a rare, incurable blood condition caused by […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from July 22 to July 26, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN July 24. Michael B. Beard and James S. Flowers to Sutherland ADK Holdings LLC […]

EVENTS Truro Historical Society’s annual party. Join us for an unforgettable evening at Truro Vineyards. Enjoy delicious cuisine from Cosmo’s Catering, dance to the lively tunes of Toast & Jam, […]

En Plein Air (Thursday-Saturday, Aug. 1-3) The Eastham Painters Guild presents an outdoor fine art show on the lawn of the 1869 Schoolhouse Museum (25 Schoolhouse Rd., Eastham) daily from […]

Town of Truro Historical Commission Public Hearing August 15, 2024 The Truro Historical Commission will hold a remote Public Hearing on Thursday, August 15, 2024, at 5:00PM to review a […]

Town of Provincetown Licensing Board Public Hearing August 13, 2024 The Provincetown Licensing Board will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, August 13, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. in the Judge […]

Town of Eastham Historical Commission Public Hearing August 20, 2024 The Town of Eastham Historical Commission will hold a public hearing on AUGUST 20, 2024, AT 11:00 AM in the […]

PROVINCETOWN — In a late-afternoon speech at a Biden-Harris Victory Fund event at the Pilgrim Monument on Saturday, July 20, Vice President Kamala Harris sounded practically presidential. This page is […]

WELLFLEET — Less than two weeks after Wellfleet’s harbormaster quit his post to take the same job in Provincetown, two more staff members have walked out, with one telling the […]

PROVINCETOWN — This past spring, a Provincetown resident who the Independent has agreed not to name to protect the person’s privacy checked into the Seashore Point nursing home for rehabilitation […]

PROVINCETOWN — Developer Christine Barker has won two victories in her years-long attempt to get plans for redeveloping the derelict Old Reliable Fish House property over the finish line. She […]

EASTHAM — Local officials on the Outer Cape have for a month been calling for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to hold a public information session here about […]

EASTHAM — When a Truro resident with Alzheimer’s went missing on Monday, a fleet of at least three drones was dispatched to join the search — one from the Barnstable […]

PLYMOUTH — State environmental officials won’t allow the company decommissioning the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station to dump one million gallons of filtered wastewater containing radionuclides and other contaminants from the […]

HYANNIS — In the year since medication abortion became available on Cape Cod for the first time since 2008, the landscape of access has continued to shift. Access to prescriptions […]

EASTHAM — The Orleans District Court has upheld the select board’s determination that two Boreen Road huskies are dangerous dogs. Assistant Clerk Magistrate Katie Sugermeyer, who oversaw the decision, also […]

PROVINCETOWN — For an event aimed at reelecting an 81-year-old president, the Biden-Harris Victory Fund fundraiser here on Saturday, July 20 featured a roster of notably young leaders. Boston Mayor […]

PROVINCETOWN — After an eight-hour shift at Tin Pan Alley, Isheka Morgan sits on a bench on MacMillan Pier waiting for the Flex bus to take her home to Eastham. […]

Determining whether a plant is a weed is a subjective thing. Most gardeners define them as plants that just happen to be in the wrong place. But there’s another layer […]

As soon as I spot peaches ripening on the little tree in a corner of our yard, I count them. If there are enough to eat straight off the tree […]

If you were to picture coral right now, your mind’s eye would surely see tropical reefs with crystal-clear turquoise water. But that image is incomplete: the temperate seas around the […]

On Father’s Day I pick the meat off a big lobster in honor of my father, who spent his winters dreaming about getting back to Provincetown and eating freshly cooked […]

Rebecca Orchant had me with grilled cheese sandwiches for breakfast. Her father made her one every morning in the kitchen of their house on Quixote Drive when she was growing […]

Coffee spilled from our mugs as we drove over the big tree root at the end of the driveway. It happens every time Eli and I go to check the […]

Fishing around the Outer Cape is heating up with this summer weather, which has been ideal; we are getting a fraction of the heat they’ve been feeling on the mainland. Striped […]

PROVINCETOWN — With its reggae clam dances and its groovy homemade posters by the likes of comic artist Al Jaffee, the Provincetown Tennis Club has long had a reputation as […]

The conspicuous red-orange blooms of the wood lily are runway lights to certain overhead fliers, guiding them in for landing like air traffic control. Lilium philadelphicum requires a large vehicle […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, July 23 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

There are a few placements this week to look out for, depending on where you’re sitting. The Sun and Mars are sextiled and locked in a position that is sure […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, July […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link […]

Ted Chapin pulls the guts out of machines — “eviscerating them,” he says. That’s how he assembles his intricate wall sculptures, which combine machines like typewriters with natural elements like […]

The first time The String Queens showed up for a gig as a trio, they were hired by one of their own: Dawn Johnson, the violist, was having a birthday […]

Most of us who are familiar with The Rocky Horror Show know it from the 1975 film version (the Rocky Horror Picture Show), which is the quintessential cult movie — […]

Eight members of the Dirty Rotten Vipers came to Provincetown for the season last year, and the band made the alleyway next to Marine Specialties on Commercial Street their summer […]

Back when their thumbs up or down held some sway over box office sales, movie critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert both named 1981’s My Dinner With Andre among the […]

On the desk where I spent most of my first winter in Provincetown were tokens that introduced me to this place but only obliquely: a wooden carving of a semi-erect […]

The merest touch of breeze or rain or passerby in early June sets pitch pines off in green-gold pollen spasms: old efficiencies of hazardous excess, their clouds stain everything they […]

Poems of Truro resident Mary Maxwell’s five collections first appeared in Paris Review, Salmagundi, and Yale Review, among other publications. Submit poems to [email protected]. Include your full name, complete home […]

A Cape-Wide Celebration of Chamber Music The 45th annual Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, which takes place in several venues for two weeks this summer, begins on Tuesday, July 30 […]

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In the summer of 2008, I published a quickly forgotten book titled Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium. It was not optimistic. But it came out […]

When Twitter launched in social media’s early days (it was 2006 when Jack Dorsey sent out the first tweet) most journalists scoffed at the idea of living by 140-character soundbites. […]

Part-Timers and Voters To the editor: Your July 18 article “Truro Now Has Two Part-Time Residents Groups” [page A9] was factually in error about me in serious and harmful ways. […]

Longtime Truro resident Jane Hutchings Peters, who worked for many years for Cape Cod Bank and Trust in Provincetown, died peacefully at the McCarthy Care Center in Sandwich on June […]

Richard Avald Bergman of Provincetown died at the Village at Rancho Solano Memory Care facility in Fairfield, Calif. on July 8, 2024. No cause of death was given. He was […]

A celebration of the life of Nathan Thomas Berrio, who died at 47 on May 6, 2024, will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, July 28 at […]

Robert Jones, who co-founded Orleans Psychotherapy Associates in 1986 and the Cape Cod Village for adults with autism in 2020, died on July 2, 2024 while attending an AA meeting […]

In addition to the official Family Week 2024 schedule presented by Family Equality and COLAGE, many organizations and facilities on the Outer Cape will present special events for families, kids, […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from July 15 to July 19, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN July 15. Damian Szary and Amy Carlson to Elizabeth Bradford LLC [Barbara Clarke, agent]. […]

EVENTS Truro Historical Society’s annual party. Join us for an unforgettable evening at Truro Vineyards. Enjoy delicious cuisine from Cosmo’s Catering, dance to the lively tunes of Toast & Jam, […]

Love Story (Thursday, July 25) Author David Levithan discusses his young adult queer romance novel Ryan and Avery at Wellfleet Public Library (55 West Main St.) on Thursday, July 25, […]

TOWN OF WELLFLEET Conservation Commission Public Hearing August 7, 2024 Please take notice that the Wellfleet Conservation Commission, in accordance with M.G.L. Chapter 131, Section 40, and the Wellfleet Environmental […]

Town of Truro Invitation for Bids  The Town of Truro is seeking sealed bids for the supply and delivery of a closed top ejector trailer. Bid specifications may be obtained […]

Town of Provincetown Historic District Commission Public Hearing August 7, 2024 The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, August 7, 2024, in […]

WELLFLEET — Plans for permitting the construction of wind farms in the Gulf of Maine have been in the works at the U.S. Dept. of the Interior since at least […]

PROVINCETOWN — It has been nearly 50 years since the select board approved the idea of a memorial statue dedicated to local fishermen lost at sea. It’s a monument that […]

EASTHAM — Lisa Albino joined the Eastham Fire Dept. as a call firefighter in 1986. Now she is set to become the department’s next chief, and she’ll be making history […]

TRURO — Twelve test pits dug at Truro’s current DPW site last week unearthed piles of metallic debris that had spent at least two decades underground, Director Jarrod Cabral said. […]

WELLFLEET — A Land Court judge has settled a dispute between the town and Kevin Sexton over the June 2021 clearcutting of a swath of woods on his family’s land […]

PROVINCETOWN — The 28 apartments in the former timeshare complex at Harbor Hill will not be sold by the town — at least for now. That’s the decision reached earlier […]

PROVINCETOWN — Outer Cape hoteliers have been warned to check that their websites comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) following a spate of lawsuits from a single attorney. […]

This article was updated on July 19. TRURO — As Cape Cod’s most seasonal town, Truro has been a hotspot for questions about whether people have the right to vote […]

WELLFLEET — The Mass. attorney general’s office has cited multiple violations of the Open Meeting Law related to a closed meeting of the select board on June 27, 2023. In […]

ORLEANS — Farmers tilling the soil on large plots of town-owned land at Putnam Farm, just off the Route 6 rotary, range from enthusiastic first-timers interested in producing their own […]

PROVINCETOWN — The Summer of Sass began in 2017 to help young queer people from less-accepting parts of the country — such as Shreveport, La., where founder Kristen Becker grew […]

PROVINCETOWN — Susan Avellar is the first to arrive at the West End Racing Children’s Community Sailing (WERCCS) clubhouse around 8:30 on a foggy Monday morning. Ms. Avellar, as she […]

Sometime during the early spring of 2020, a friend told me about an enterprising young couple who were, for a reasonable fee, building victory gardens in and around Wellfleet for […]

When Kelly and Chris Berardi found out the Nauset Lantern Shop in Orleans was looking for a new owner, it seemed as though destiny was calling. Chris, a builder, had […]

The summer of 2024 will be remembered on the waterfront as the summer of wind. Apart from a few windless days here and there, we have been pummeled day in […]

Bi, lesbian, femme, butch, Cancer, Libra. What do these labels really tell you about a person? And is your chosen label invalidated when you deviate from its traditional meaning at […]

Paula Erickson walks among delicate dots of yellow, purple, and white. She is searching for something with a touch of wildness to complete her bouquet. Rows of sweet pea, foxgloves, […]

When you walk into the campground area north of the parking lot at Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Sanctuary, you’ll likely hear the twittery trill of birdsong emanating from the pines. […]

Whether you’re an early riser, twilight stroller, nighttime stargazer, Moon lover, planet fan, or meteor enthusiast, there’s something for you in the night sky this summer. Here’s a suggested itinerary, […]

EASTHAM — There is the prototypical single-line diamond kite suspended and stagnant above the flier’s head. And then there are sport kites, which carve the air, spin tight circles, and […]

The tan flower stalks of Deschampsia flexuosa seem out of place this early in the season, presaging the end of summer just when we were getting warmed up. A cool-season […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, July 16 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

No matter that Pride month is behind us. The energy of this week will take a noticeable shift as the Sun moves out of Cancer into its home sign of […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, July […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link […]

The poor thing, he’s seen so much. Death sprawls across the field, bodies lying next to one another like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. How do you walk through a […]

A line has formed outside the Post Office Café: some men, but mostly women, many middle-aged, their hair styled into mullets and pixie cuts, their faces framed by fringes and […]

Provincetown hasn’t been compared to The Godfather or Star Wars very often, but those are the examples actor and singer Darren Criss names in acknowledging that his July 21 town hall appearance will be […]

Though often overshadowed by her famous father, Ben Shahn, Judith Shahn, who died in 2009, was the star at Wellfleet’s Cove Gallery, which has promoted her artwork since she first […]

Summertime: the livin’ is easy, and maybe the reading should be, too. Dipping into Jamie Brenner’s new novel is like massaging your soles in the sand while anticipating that first […]

Eastham photographer Arthur Nichols was standing on a causeway at the edge of Onota Lake in Pittsfield during a wet snowstorm in late March 1972. He was looking at trees. […]

AMZehnder Gallery (25 Bank St. #3) At AMZehnder Gallery, Provincetown-based artist Pete Hocking, whose work is also currently hanging on the walls, takes a long moment to consider Patte Ormsby’s […]

Chara Percussion Ensemble Explores ‘Uncharted’ Sounds The Chara Percussion Ensemble is aptly named. A Greek word meaning “finding joy despite circumstance,” chara is visible on the musicians’ faces whenever they […]

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Lately I have been trying to imagine what it’s like to live in Truro. Really, I have no idea. Although I have been next door, in Provincetown, going on 60 […]

I received my official 2024 vote by mail application today from the Mass. Elections Division, and it reminded me of the systems, checks, and balances that make sure our elections […]

Alternates Voting To the editor: Thank you for your coverage of the recent Provincetown Planning Board elections [“Mulliken Quits After Failed Bid to Become Chair,” July 11, front page]. I […]

Air Force veteran and Truro resident David S. Foster Sr., who earned a Bronze Star for his service in Vietnam, died peacefully at Cape Cod Hospital on July 10, 2024 […]

After years of health struggles, Robert Alvin Taylor died on June 3, 2024 at Seashore Point in Provincetown. He was 67. The son of George and Gladys Taylor, Bobby was […]

Benjamin Weinryb Grohsgal of Philadelphia, New York City, and Provincetown died on July 13, 2024 after a year-long battle with glioblastoma. A scholar, linguist, software engineer, and artist, he was […]

The death of Provincetown fisherman and chef John O. Browne, who was known as “JB,” on July 7, 2024 was reported by his wife, Frannie Coco, and family. A 1964 […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from July 8 to July 12, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN July 9. Joyce Coleman and Deborah Haynor to Ronald C. Berry Living Trust (Ronald […]

EVENTS  Annual bake sale for the Wellfleet Democratic Town Committee will be held Tuesday, July 23 from 9 a.m. to noon at Preservation Hall, 335 Main St., Wellfleet. Purchase or […]

Make a Splash (Thursday, July 18) AWOL (59 Province Lands Rd., Provincetown) hosts “Gender Splash,” a trans-inclusive/trans-centered pool party, on Thursday, July 18, noon. Preregistration required, and suggested admission is […]

Town of Truro Invitation for Bids  The Town of Truro is seeking sealed bids for the supply and delivery of a closed top ejector trailer. Bid specifications may be obtained […]

Town of Provincetown Invitation for Bids Contracted Services Sealed bids for furnishing the following item will be received on the Towns electronic procurement system https://www.provincetown-ma.gov/37/Procurement  Bulk Gas/Diesel, Liquid propane, and […]

Town of Eastham Select Board Public Hearing August 5, 2024 The Town of Eastham will hold a public hearing at 5:30p.m Monday, August 5, 2024, at the Eastham Town Hall, […]

PROVINCETOWN — The Fourth of July parade unfolded with the usual pomp and circumstance last Thursday. The town crier and a drum corps led the procession down Commercial Street. Weary-looking […]

PROVINCETOWN — Jeffrey Mulliken, vice chair of the Provincetown Planning Board, resigned from the board on June 28, one day after his bid to replace Dana Masterpolo as chair failed […]

WELLFLEET — The unique sounds known as “signature whistles” that all the dolphin species found in Cape Cod waters use to identify themselves may be the key to finding out […]

PROVINCETOWN — Mildred Champlin remembers a time when piping plover chicks were in constant danger of being run over by cars on Race Point Beach. She has spent every summer […]

This article was updated on July 12. PROVINCETOWN — When Vice President Kamala Harris comes to Provincetown to meet with donors on July 20, she will face a crowd of […]

EASTHAM — He may still owe the Internal Revenue Service and others millions of dollars, but David Delgizzi has paid his taxes in Eastham, allowing his Lobster Shanty restaurant on […]

PROVINCETOWN — As the waters off Outer Cape Cod warm and beaches fill, John Chisholm, the man working the virtual tip line at Sharktivity, knows his workload is about to […]

PROVINCETOWN — Atop Mount Gilboa, perhaps more dune than mountain, sits a large light blue water tower whose paint has begun to fade and flake. A radio antenna sticks out […]

ORLEANS — Residents of Hopkins Lane and Mayo Way are early risers, but it’s not by choice. The crowing of a rooster at 39 Hopkins jolts them awake at 4 […]

PROVINCETOWN — Four winter storms in the last seven years have pushed seawater across Commercial Street and into neighborhoods, inundating homes and businesses near town hall in 2018, along Howland […]

PROVINCETOWN — Just after 9 p.m. on July 4, the lights of MacMillan Pier were shut off, fireworks began to launch from a barge in Provincetown Harbor, and hot streaks […]

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It’s hard not to brag about the wonderful seafood we have here: the freshest bluefish, meaty striped bass, pearly scallops, hard and soft clams, and world-class oysters. I enjoy salmon […]

All the pleasures of summer are upon us. And so are the crowds. If you’re one who really loves the hubbub, lucky you. But for many of us drawn to […]

Fishing for striped bass took a giant leap forward last week as the area between Race Point and Peaked Hill Bar exploded on July 4 like the fireworks that were […]

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I should have known the chickens would not go into their coop until it was properly dusk. I had stopped in at my mom’s place to shut the chickens in […]

Oyster hats, dipped in cement to roughen their surfaces, sit in a dinghy at Chipman’s Cove, ready to be set in this corner of Wellfleet Harbor. Like many oyster farmers, […]

Laura Brown, who works at Bayberry Gardens in Truro, planted this container to create the illusion of cooler temperatures on hot days. She chose an aluminum trough for its watery […]

PROVINCETOWN — After two weekends of dangerously high winds, the forecast for July 7 predicted winds of seven to nine knots — “perfect conditions” for the Provincetown Yacht Club’s first […]

’Round these parts, venturing off the forest trail and into the brush is not without some risk. Poison ivy is common, Lyme-bearing ticks lie in wait, and the native vine […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, July 9 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

Things are starting to heat up, and I don’t just mean the weather. As the Sun begins to leave its trine with Saturn, it enters a sextile with Mars. This […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, July […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, locations for those held in person are noted. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch for […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link […]

Provincetown artist Paul Kelly begins to work on a new painting by creating architectural graphite sketches. There is a certainty to Kelly’s sketches — a commitment to contrast and shape. […]

There’s a game elementary students used to play, usually in P.E. class, stretched out on the grass or the polished wood of the gym floor. It involved a rainbow parachute, […]

Since Jinkx Monsoon was last in Provincetown for Halloween 2022, she’s achieved many firsts for drag artists and transgender performers: she’s been featured in a record-breaking Broadway-musical run, starred in […]

The Sam Feinstein exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum charts his lifelong commitment to abstraction and color. The paintings span his early years in Provincetown as a student […]

When Hedwig and the Angry Inch premiered in 1998 at the small Jane Street Theatre in Manhattan’s West Village, the transgender rights movement had little of its current visibility or […]

The concerned citizens file onto the stage: 12 adult actors dressed as well-to-do parents and respectable high school students. One couple is holding hands. A girl wears the sash of […]

A theatrical warning about fascism and liberal complacency was performed on 21 stages across the country one week before the national election of 1936. The play was It Can’t Happen […]

Aparna Nancherla at Payomet “Maybe she’s born with it — maybe she’s trapped in a societal prison of impossible beauty standards” goes stand-up comic Aparna Nancherla’s riff on that old […]

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We started this newspaper with plans focused on the future — one where small-town newspapers thrived again. But some of the things we hoped for were old-fashioned. We wanted people […]

‘Put Your Money Where Your Mud Is’ To the editor: In his July 4 letter, Joe Aberdale, chair of the Wellfleet Marina Advisory Committee, says that Wellfleet Harbor could accommodate […]

Jean Gail Rose died peacefully at home in Wellfleet on July 6, 2024. She was 84 and had been living with dementia. “She was the strongest person,” attentive, loving, and […]

Philip Mastrobattisto, a fisherman, wanderer, explorer, craftsman, and artist, died on April 18, 2024 at his friend Eric Lindholm’s Eastham home at age 68. The cause, according to his family, […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from July 1 to July 5, 2024. PROVINCETOWN July 1. Van Derek Trust (Bernard F. McEneaney, trustee) to Harbour House LLC (Michael […]

EVENTS  TCK’s Summer Festival at Truro Vineyards. A cheerful fundraiser supporting Truro Community Kitchen’s free community meal program. This night of fun features live music by Sarah Swain and the […]

Over & Over (Thursday, July 11) Tusk, the “#1 Fleetwood Mac tribute band in the world,” performs at Payomet Performing Arts Center (29 Old Dewline Road, North Truro) on Thursday, […]

TOWN OF WELLFLEET PUBLIC NOTICE All licenses and permits can now be purchased online. All departments that issue licenses and permits, excluding shellfish and beaches, will be moving to Open […]

Town of Provincetown Board of Health Public Hearing July 18, 2024 The Provincetown Board of Health will hold a public hearing on Thursday July 18, 2024, at 4:00 p.m. in the […]

PROVINCETOWN — The reds and greens of flags and scarves and the percussive sounds of drums and ratchets that accompanied the Provincetown Portuguese Festival all weekend brightened a foggy, windy […]

WELLFLEET — Last week’s mass dolphin stranding here is thought to be the largest in at least a quarter century, and its causes may never be fully explained. One hundred twenty-five […]

PROVINCETOWN — As summer ramps up, so too does a nightlife scene that draws throngs of gay men to the tip of the Cape. Nightclubs like Purgatory and the Paramount […]

EASTHAM — Richard Moore wants to overturn the select board’s April determination that his two huskies are “dangerous dogs” — a designation that allows the town to order steps to […]

PROVINCETOWN — Sophia Feuerhake and Jacob Scola meet at the entrance to Clapps Pond off Route 6 and unload a box full of equipment — tubes, nets, bottles, and a […]

TRURO — Voters approved three Proposition 2½ debt exclusions at a special election on June 27, allowing the town to move forward with long-discussed projects. But the hiring of a […]

PROVINCETOWN — Almeda Segura, Eva Silva, Mary Jason, Bea Cabral, and Frances Raymond. Since 2003, these five women have kept an eye on Provincetown Harbor — or rather, their portraits […]

PROVINCETOWN — Christine Barker’s ambitious and long-delayed proposal for the redevelopment of the derelict Old Reliable site on Provincetown Harbor has been altered in an attempt by the developer to […]

PROVINCETOWN — A legislative push by towns on Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket and in the Berkshires and metro Boston for the right to impose a transfer fee of […]

TRURO — The transfer station’s usual seven-days-a-week summer schedule is the latest casualty of a waning local workforce. It will be closed on Wednesdays and Thursdays “until further notice.” Four […]

PROVINCETOWN — Marsha Sirota and her wife, Carol MacDonald, arrive at the Carrie A. Seaman Animal Shelter (CASAS) in Provincetown around 8 a.m. every Sunday. They spend about an hour […]

For most clam lovers, the labor involved in enjoying the bivalves is about as rigorous as scooping them baked and stuffed out of their shells, or perhaps balancing them, along […]

PROVINCETOWN — MacMillan Pier was busy on the misty morning of the Blessing of the Fleet on Sunday as our family rushed past the twirling skirts of dancers in Lopes […]

Jenny Faw steps lightly up the wooden front steps of what she calls her “princess shed” — a small, sturdy outpost built for her by her husband, the architect Peter […]

I called ahead and ordered an Italian from Angel Foods. I’m eating it as I walk down Commercial Street to the far East End, chomping as a tomato slips out […]

After one of his days at the beach, Christopher sees nothing wrong with inviting friends to get together for drinks without giving the first thought to what we’ll serve with […]

I’ve always loved visiting nature in ways that make me feel out of my element. We have so dominated nature, so domesticated it, so segregated it from our normal lives […]

I’m not a scientist, but as a more-than-casual observer of all things ocean-related, it seems to me that it’s been getting windier out here. What I have known since childhood […]

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Ice cream is always a good idea. But with so many choices, a good idea can easily become an intense deliberation: where is it creamiest, which flavor to choose, is […]

The last days of May saw the first beachside blooms of the naturalized Asian species Rosa rugosa, and June was filled with the dramatic, arching white displays of multiflora rose, […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Monday, July 1 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

Fireworks may fill the sky this week, but let’s not forget that behind them always are the stars, trying to express a message for us all. Saturn begins its four-and-a-half-month […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Saturday, July […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link […]

Nearly everyone who lives in or visits Provincetown knows about its vibrant artistic community. Far fewer know the names and faces of the artists who compose it. “I didn’t know […]

Ten apricots, a bunch of grapes, three blueberries, a skull tipped over, a half-empty glass: these subjects would be just as at home on the walls of the Rijksmuseum in […]

Varla Jean Merman has been on television, on Broadway, and, she says, on welfare. She’s been on the front page of the New York Times and, for 35 years, on […]

A spiral staircase leads to artist Malu Tan’s second-floor studio in North Tryon, an industrial district in uptown Charlotte, N.C. Her building is a converted bomb shelter. The studio is […]

Long and white, prone to blowing like a whale’s salty plume it’s the first thing you notice: his panache, his dare his disguise. And then the eyes a quiet blue, […]

It was really like that. Autumn brown night washed the avenues and we talked of nothing important, just power and pleasure and paradise. Nothing was, but the slope of her […]

Almost half of the four-year-olds in Utah are enrolled in preschool online. They watch animated videos and sing songs to learn “pre-reading,” which education administrators in the Beehive State apparently […]

Stories of a Gay Mormon Dad Claybourne Elder has a shorter commute to perform in Provincetown this year than he did last summer. The Broadway and television star is spending […]

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EASTHAM — Ten Nauset Regional High School juniors spent the last week of school building a whole new government from the ground up. We were among a few hundred students […]

It’s hard for me to understand those people who believe there is a “deep state” of corrupt government officials determined to take away our rights. The fabrications and fantasies of […]

While enjoying my cup of chocolate chip on the porch outside Wellfleet’s Gelato Joy, I watched a woman approach the counter. She scanned the list of flavors, then turned to […]

Holtec and the Whistleblower To the editor: Christine Legere’s report on the Holtec whistleblower letter [“Holtec Confirms Pilgrim Worker Was Contaminated,” June 20, front page] highlights the fact that the […]

Irma Ruckstuhl died peacefully in her North Truro home on June 23, 2024. The author of Old Provincetown in Early Photographs, she was an antiques expert, gift shop owner, and […]

Dorothy Ross, a pioneering historian of the origins of modern social science and the first woman chair of the history department at Johns Hopkins University, died at her home in […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from June 24 to June 28, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN June 25. Bruce K. Huie to Nancy E. Peplau and Margaret B. Costello. 32 […]

THE ARTS  Did you read the blog Wellfleet Today? Blogger Sandy Grabbe is pleased to announce the publication of her short story collection, The Nansen Factor, written in Wellfleet. Mark […]

With a Bang (Thursday, July 4) Provincetown’s annual Independence Day Parade begins at the Harbor Hotel (698 Commercial St.) at 11 a.m. and proceeds down Commercial Street to Franklin Street. Fireworks over […]

Town of Provincetown Historic District Commission Public Hearing July 17, 2024 The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in […]

WELLFLEET — It’s been so long since the mooring field in the harbor was dredged that those most familiar with the marina can only guess how many boats it might […]

EASTHAM — Nauset Neighbors, an all-volunteer nonprofit that assists more than 300 older adults living alone on Cape Cod, began turning away new members requesting the organization’s help in May. […]

PROVINCETOWN — In two separate letters, Provincetown Fire Chief Mike Trovato and 18 members of the town’s “call,” or volunteer, fire dept. announced their intention to resign as of midnight […]

PROVINCETOWN — Nick Jefferson lives to rock climb. “I work so I can go climbing,” he told the Independent. So, when Jefferson, who moved to Provincetown in 2013, cut a […]

TRURO — David Delgizzi of Weston, the owner of numerous dilapidated rental properties on the Outer Cape, has once again run afoul of the Truro Health Dept., this time for […]

PROVINCETOWN — The select board’s proposal for a “walk only zone” on the densest part of Commercial Street between Memorial Day and Labor Day, which sparked vocal opposition and little […]

PROVINCETOWN — Paul Schofield, the innkeeper charged last fall with assaulting a Bulgarian student, destruction of property, and disorderly conduct, was found not guilty by a jury at a March […]

TRURO — Two houses that were pulled down the highway in late February to be renovated and used to house some of the town’s seasonal staff stand side by side […]

PROVINCETOWN — Preservation of the town’s historic structures is always preferable, but in some cases, it just can’t be done. That’s the conclusion the town’s historic district commission came to […]

WELLFLEET — It’s not just you — even the county’s mosquito control experts say 2024 is shaping up to be a bad year for the bugs. They’re also worried that […]

PROVINCETOWN — Every year on one winter night, homelessness workers across the country fan out for a census of America’s unhoused population: people sleeping in shelters or who are unsheltered […]

Tucked away at the southernmost end of the Truro’s Old North Cemetery, a small tract of land is girded by a split-rail fence where a sign reads: “Old North Cemetery, […]

I attended a swanky dinner party on an early summer night when the weather was still cool enough to ward off mosquitoes and invite indulgent feasting. It was at an […]

Story and drawings by Abraham Storer  Keri Thomas and David Smile’s garden comes as a surprise to a visitor arriving on Oak Ridge Road in Eastham, not far from Cooks […]

PROVINCETOWN — As drummers walked through the crowd to energize a Wednesday afternoon gathering, some 150 people converged on the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House to hear James Jackson Jr., Jordan […]

Every year since I was 15 years old, I’ve biked the Cape Cod Rail Trail end to end. The tradition started when I was even younger; my best friend and […]

Knowing a backshore beach’s structures — the deeps, shallows, and river-like troughs between the shore and the first sandbar — is as important to catching fish as knowing the tides, […]

The fish cannot seem to make up their minds about where they want to be for more than a day at a time. It looked like they were settling in […]

PROVINCETOWN — The 28th Provincetown Portuguese Festival begins Friday, June 28 with live music and dancing in Portuguese Square on Ryder Street. During the three-day-long celebration, there will be a […]

WELLFLEET — Of the past 100 years, Grace Ebert remembers only the exceedingly good and exceedingly bad days. “If I have to think hard to remember a day, it could […]

PROVINCETOWN — Fourteen eighth-graders graduated from the Provincetown International Baccalaureate Schools at its annual promotion ceremony on June 21. Three of the newly minted middle-school graduates will attend Cape Cod […]

There are many threats to the survival of the monarch, that iconic orange-and-black butterfly that migrates each summer from Mexico to the Northeast and back over multiple generations. One is […]

ORLEANS — Each year, while the best collegiate players are occupied in Omaha at the NCAA Division I College World Series in June, coaches across the Cape Cod Baseball League […]

Tradition has it that students from Wellfleet Elementary School head to Newcomb Hollow Beach on the last day of school for good times and a beach picnic. This year’s excursion […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, June 25 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

The stars this week foretell quite a bit of interplay between the social and romantic aspects of our lives. When it comes to passion, though, most of us tend to […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, June […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link […]

One of Polly Burnell’s most recent paintings, The Whale Dream (5 years before I came here), is of a whale that seems to be ascending from the water toward a […]

In Ari Shapiro’s cabaret show Thank You for Listening, at the Gifford House in Provincetown this weekend, he’ll sing songs he’s never performed for an audience before and tell personal […]

Even if you are not the kind to frequent galleries, you’ve seen Jackson Lambert’s art. He worked with Anton “Napi” Van Dereck Haunstrup, making the paintings, sculptures, and signs that […]

Musician John McDaniel first accompanied two-time Tony nominee Kate Baldwin last year on an Alaska cruise. Now he’s the force behind her Provincetown debut this weekend in a show titled Sing […]

On Center Gallery (352 Commercial St.) Katie Faria from Middleborough looks thoughtfully at Lorraine DeProspo’s Kiss the Day. Mounted on the wall at On Center Gallery between two other paintings […]

Glisson, Reedy, and Salas Return to Alden Gallery Over the years, an exhibition for the artists Robert Glisson, Linda Reedy, and Anne Salas has become the summer season opening tradition […]

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I imagine Lawrence Schuster as a child in 1950s Pennsylvania being asked “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and answering, with steely blue eyes and a […]

There are certain words that pop up frequently in news stories and set off alarms in an editor’s brain. Several of them appeared in our report last week about an […]

Tall Structures and Energy To the editor: William von Herff’s Reporter’s Notebook “Lighthouses and Windmills” [June 20, page A2] made me think about other tall structures, like power-plant smokestacks in […]

Timothy Michael Sherlock of Wellfleet died peacefully at home with his three sisters by his side on June 15, 2024. He had faced esophageal cancer with great courage. He was […]

David W. Griffiths, a clinical psychologist, was for many years an instructor at Harvard Medical School; he was well known in the Boston area for his decades of professional service […]

An interior designer and restorer of classic homes in Provincetown and Truro, Vernon Lee Brown III died on April 17, 2024 after several long illnesses. The cause of death, confirmed […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from June 17 to June 21, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN June 17. 9A Conwell Realty Trust (Alan Thanh Tang, trustee) to Thomas Francis Walsh. […]

TOWN OF WELLFLEET Conservation Commission Public Hearing July 17, 2024 Please take notice that the Wellfleet Conservation Commission, in accordance with M.G.L. Chapter 131, Section 40, and the Wellfleet Environmental […]

THE ARTS  From Here to There: How Is Movement Created in Art? This lecture with Laura Shabott explores a century of Cape-affiliated artworks while focusing on movement both visually and […]

Get Crafty (Thursday, June 27) The Wellfleet Oyster Alliance’s first weekly Makers Mart of the season, featuring handmade goods from local artisans, takes place at Mayo Beach (101 Kendrick Ave., […]

Town of Provincetown POSITION OPENINGS 2024 SEASONAL DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS POSITIONS The Town of Provincetown is accepting applications for the following seasonal positions with the Department of Public Works: […]

Town of Eastham Planning Board Public Hearing July 17, 2024 The Town of Eastham Zoning Planning Board will hold a public hearing at 5:00 pm on Wednesday, July 17, 2024 […]

TRURO — The Pamet is not just a tidal river but an entire estuarial system — albeit an altered one — that stretches the width of Truro. At its eastern […]

WELLFLEET — Town meetings on the Outer Cape rarely happen in the summer, but Town Administrator Tom Guerino told Wellfleet’s assembled electorate on Monday that the matter at hand was […]

PLYMOUTH — An incident that exposed a worker at the shuttered Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station to airborne radioactive contamination was confirmed on June 14 by Patrick O’Brien, spokesman for Holtec […]

PROVINCETOWN — Standing at the crosswalk on top of the hill where Bradford Street meets Prince Street, Michael Hart observes the flow of car traffic. “I’m never going down that […]

PROVINCETOWN — The AIDS Memorial Quilt, which now includes 50,000 cloth panels honoring more than 110,000 people who have died of AIDS since 1981, has long been too large to […]

HARWICH — Cape Cod Regional Technical High School’s June 1 graduation ceremony was full of reflection. Student speeches recalled the obstacles of starting high school in the middle of the […]

This article was updated on June 20, 2024. EASTHAM — A small tour plane made an emergency landing between Marconi Beach in Wellfleet and Nauset Light Beach in Eastham Sunday […]

The Provincetown Independent, in collaboration with its nonprofit partner, the Local Journalism Project, last week welcomed its fifth cohort of summer journalism fellows for 10 weeks of work and learning […]

The Provincetown Independent, in collaboration with its nonprofit partner, the Local Journalism Project, last week welcomed its fifth cohort of summer journalism fellows for 10 weeks of work and learning […]

The Provincetown Independent, in collaboration with its nonprofit partner, the Local Journalism Project, last week welcomed its fifth cohort of summer journalism fellows for 10 weeks of work and learning […]

The Provincetown Independent, in collaboration with its nonprofit partner, the Local Journalism Project, last week welcomed its fifth cohort of summer journalism fellows for 10 weeks of work and learning […]

At this time of year, a unique birdsong rings out over the parking lot at Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. It’s jumbled and metallic, almost bubbly, and unlike any […]

PROVINCETOWN — George’s Pizza is packed on a rainy Friday night for Game 4 of the NBA Finals between the Boston Celtics and the Dallas Mavericks. A man at the […]

I was looking at an iris the other day, watching a bee tumble and bumble its way through the folds, ripples, and petals, drunk with pollen-dusted happiness, and I thought: […]

I wrote last week that fishing being what it is, we could have a 180-degree turnaround from the slow showing of bass. Well, we did. Striped bass made a big […]

Every year I tempt fate and plant my peas dangerously early. It’s worth the risk so that I can look out on gray, chilly spring days and see green poking up in the […]

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Yellow-blooming species of the Coreopsis genus are not native to New England, though several have come from elsewhere in the country to naturalize here. The most widespread visitor is Coreopsis lanceolata, a tough […]

Our solar system has eight planets, including Earth. Of these, five are visible to the unaided eye: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Uranus and Neptune require a telescope. Of […]

ORLEANS — At Eldredge Park the first-base line is blanketed with lawn chairs. Children wearing baseball caps and carrying gloves roam the outer edges of the field in search of […]

PROVINCETOWN — The Provincetown skyline was transformed in early April by what looked like a new 10-story structure: a bright-green encrustation from certain vantages, a translucent scrim from others. It […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, June 18 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

With the Sun shifting from loquacious Gemini to the more sensitive but ever-resilient Cancer, let’s all exercise a little compassion for ourselves and others. Cancer can be characterized as intuitive […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, June […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link […]

Madonna is depressed. Not because — as in her appearances as the Virgin Mary since the Renaissance — she knows that her kid, the baby Jesus, is going to be […]

Picture it: early ’90s, a cruise ship sailing down the coast of Mexico. I was but a squirrely young thing on my first RSVP cruise rushing to the cabaret room […]

Three Provincetown painters — Trevor Mikula, Josh Wilmoth, and Andy Towle — will be showing new works at the Provincetown Commons starting next week. The concurrent shows open Tuesday, June […]

Dina Martina says she was born nine months early. “I looked like a poached egg,” she confides. Her grandmother looks just like Colonel Sanders. “Beautiful, hirsute lady,” says Martina. “She […]

There’s a coyote about town. Several, in fact. One is the shadow you see disappearing into the dunes off Route 6, gone in such an acute flash you wonder if […]

A Musical Trip to Planet Bitch In the late 1990s, Bitch and Animal, a self-styled punk dyke duo with what Bitch says was an “otherworldly connection,” played a summer of […]

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When my friend Elizabeth came to visit me in Wellfleet for a weekend, one of the things she wanted to see was a “real” Cape Cod lighthouse. We drove over […]

The Importance of Community To the editor: Re “Van Dereck Estate Remains a Tangle of Secrets” [June 13, front page]: Community is important. Familiarity is important. It is especially important […]

Paul Mendes was grocery shopping in 2009 when he saw a man in his early 40s wearing a Marine Corps buckle. A Vietnam vet of the Corps and longtime Provincetown […]

A lover of Wellfleet and the world, Barbara Cole Kirk died peacefully on May 16, 2024 at Seashore Point in Provincetown surrounded by family, friends, and caregivers. She had lived an […]

A memorial service for Jane Hutchings Peters of North Truro, who died at 81 on June 5, 2024, will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 29 at the […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from June 10 to June 14, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN June 12. Christoper M. Cameron to Karen Sontag. 586 Commercial St., Unit 10. $555,000. […]

THE ARTS  From Here to There: How Is Movement Created in Art? This lecture with Laura Shabott explores a century of Cape-affiliated artworks while focusing on movement both visually and […]

Sun Records Serenade (Thursday, June 20, continuing) Million Dollar Quartet, a musical about the 1956 impromptu jam session at Sun Records in Memphis with Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee […]

Town of Truro TRURO HISTORICAL COMMISSION Notice of Remote Public Hearing Monday, July 11, 2024 at 5:00 pm The Truro Historical Commission will hold a remote Public Hearing on Thursday, […]

Town of Provincetown Planning Board Public Hearing June 27, 2024 The Provincetown Planning Board will hold a Public Hearing on Thursday, June 27, 2024, at 6:00 P.M. in the Judge […]

Bay Sails Marine Pursuant to M.G.L. c. 255, Section 17, Bay Sails Marine, Inc. has a lien for boat storage in the amount of $4335.00 plus interest on a 25’ […]

EASTHAM — The Nauset Regional High School Class of 2024 walked confidently onto the football field on Friday, June 7 for their graduation ceremony. Among the 186 graduates from across […]

PROVINCETOWN — In the years since restaurateur, art collector, and landlord Anton “Napi” Van Dereck Haunstrup died and left his estate, estimated at $17 million, to his wife, Helen, a […]

PROVINCETOWN — A years-long push for legislation that would allow towns to impose a real estate transfer fee of 0.5 to 2 percent on residential and commercial real estate sales […]

BARNSTABLE — A judge in Barnstable County Probate and Family Court denied a motion filed by Independent reporter Sam Pollak to unseal documents related to the guardianship and conservatorship of […]

PROVINCETOWN — The owners of the Gaslamp Bed & Breakfast are looking to demolish the 170-year-old Victorian at 97 Bradford St., where they currently operate an eight-room guesthouse. The goal, […]

TRURO — Longnook Beach reopened on May 16 after a two-month closure caused by extreme coastal erosion. The dune under the steep sandy pathway that leads from the parking lot […]

WELLFLEET — For most of the winter and spring, repeated flooding has left Bound Brook Island periodically cut off from the rest of town. For months, the island’s 11 property […]

ORLEANS — Eastham developer Tim Klink is trying to make good on his promise to build a mixed-use project at 177 Route 6A. But his proposal includes below-grade apartments, which […]

PROVINCETOWN — Christopher McGregor’s taxi business is braced for a tough season. He said he’s heard a new rideshare company is coming soon to the Outer Cape. The rumor is […]

If you are in the right place and at the right time, you might find yourself among the dragonflies and damselflies as they emerge from their natal coastal ponds and […]

One thing my dad has learned since moving to Cape Cod from Hot Springs, Ark. is that the main difference between people here and the people he really relates to […]

PROVINCETOWN — The Provincetown skyline was transformed in early April by what looked like a new 10-story structure: a bright-green encrustation from certain vantages, a translucent scrim from others. It […]

PROVINCETOWN — In morning’s early light, Kingsley Samuel, known around town as KG, loads recyclables into the bed of his Chevrolet low cab forward parked outside Spiritus Pizza. KG handles […]

After all those quiet months, suddenly there is so much to do. June’s arrival on Outer Cape Cod can make a person feel scattered. That is why this month I’m […]

Suzanne Sinaiko never wanted a vegetable garden in the plot near her East End home. “My mother said to me right at the beginning, ‘Look, I can get vegetables at […]

Getting to inspect the blooms of a tulip poplar while out for a walk is a treat, since they’re often visible only to those equipped with wings. The tallest native […]

Striped bass fishing slowed this past week, as the fish seem to have moved out of the bay, and the few that are around are down on the ocean side […]

EASTHAM — The fifth-ranked Nauset boys lacrosse team fell 19-5 to top-seeded Medfield in the MIAA Division 3 Final Four match on Tuesday. Senior Colby Smith led the way with […]

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Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, June 11 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

What would the world look like if we didn’t have the ability to lie or misrepresent things? Can you even imagine what it would be like to live with radical […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, June […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link […]

Amy Arbus did not take photographs of circus performers until a year ago. But as soon as she started, she thought, “I know that I can do something interesting here.” […]

It’s so annoying, isn’t it? Aging parents, needing help, expecting you to just drop everything and take care of them when you’ve got so much going on. What’s an American […]

Queer cinema has been an important presence at the Provincetown International Film Festival since it began in 1999. Several past Filmmaker on the Edge award winners, such as Christine Vachon […]

Joel Kim Booster was squatting on the corner of Carver and Bradford in Provincetown, wearing just a jockstrap. He held his phone to his ear. He had just been at […]

Jonathan Fielding admits he was only a casual fan of Harold Pinter’s classic drama Betrayal when he took the role of Jerry, who’s having an affair with his best friend’s wife. […]

Poet Laureate Ada Limón Can Imagine If you close your eyes to consider the bones, sinews, and arteries composing this flexed arm of sand and land, you might see the […]

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My father was born near the end of the 19th century (1897); I arrived near the middle of the 20th (1945); my four grandchildren, early in the 21st (between 2005 […]

At Wellfleet’s recent town meeting, a voter asked why we had to spend $350,000 to upgrade the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system for a fire station that’s only […]

Sometimes it feels as if being a journalist consists mostly of waiting for return phone calls from people who are never going to call you back. The other day I […]

The Formula Business Bylaw To the editor: Re “Luke’s Lobster Is Exempted From Formula Business Bylaw” [June 6, page A6]: I take exception to the word “exempted” in your headline […]

Dermot Meagher, the first openly gay judge in Massachusetts, who was also a writer and artist, died on Dec. 28, 2023 at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He […]

Fisherman and parking lot owner Donald L. Morris Sr. of Provincetown died on June 6, 2024 at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. He was 90. Born on Oct. 19, 1933 […]

Custodio Joseph Silva Sr., known as Joe, died peacefully at home on June 4, 2024 at 97. He was born in New Bedford on Christmas Day 1926 to Custodio Charles […]

Meredith Bradford died on April 13, 2024 at her home in Truro after a brief battle with complications from bladder cancer. She was 80. Born in Boston on March 23, […]

Kerin Francis Brodie of Harwich died on June 5, 2024 at Mass. General Hospital in Boston from complications of sarcoidosis. She was 56. Kerin was born in Hyannis on March […]

Malcolm Rose died peacefully at the Lodge at Aspen Village, a memory care facility in Dallas, Ga., on Oct. 22, 2023. The cause was complications of dementia. He was 86. […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from June 3 to June 7, 2024. PROVINCETOWN June 6. JJDJJF LLC (John J. Dougherty Jr., manager) to Andrew E. Zobler. 110 […]

TUNES  The Music Is Back! Weekly Irish and Old Time music sessions, Tuesdays in Wellfleet 6:30-8:30 p.m. indoors at Hog Island Surf Lodge, Route 6 opposite Lieutenant Island Rd. Upbeat […]

The Olympic Gaymes (Thursday-Monday, June 13-17) Frolic Weekend, five days of social mixers, club takeovers, and pool parties for queer and trans men of color, remakes Provincetown into the ultimate […]

Town of Provincetown Select Board Proposal to Update Traffic & Parking Regulations to Define Electric Bicycles Public Hearing June 24, 2024 The Provincetown Select Board will hold a Public Hearing […]

Town of Truro Zoning Board of Appeals Notice of Remote Public Hearing Monday, June 24, 2024 at 5:30 pm 2024-004/ZBA – Amy Holt, for property located at 113 Castle Road […]

Town of Eastham Select Board Public Hearing June 17, 2024 A Select Board Public Hearing will be held on Monday, June 17, 2024, at 5:30 PM, in the Earle Mountain […]

EASTHAM — For at least the last couple of hundred years, the boulder near Coast Guard Beach known as Doane Rock has been a popular spot for rock climbers and […]

TRURO — Nancy Medoff and Susan Girard-Irwin were elected to the select board on May 29. The election drew 950 voters — a 41 percent turnout, well above last year’s […]

EASTHAM — David and Carolyn Delgizzi will not be allowed to open the Lobster Shanty this summer because they haven’t paid their taxes. The select board voted unanimously on May […]

TRURO — Complaints that campaign signs were removed from private property are based on misconceptions about where property lines are, Town Manager Darrin Tangeman and DPW Director Jarrod Cabral both […]

PROVINCETOWN — Outer Cape towns’ efforts to help families afford child care are being stymied by a lack of space and staffing. Some families with young children are unable to […]

PROVINCETOWN — Luke’s Lobster currently has 17 lobster “shacks” in the Northeast, two in Las Vegas, five in Japan, and four in Singapore — but when it opens a full-service […]

PROVINCETOWN — Almost 160 people, including many of Provincetown’s nightclub owners, bar managers, and hotel and restaurant staff, came to town hall on June 3 for an unusual kind of […]

TRURO — Students at Truro Central School, be they kindergartners or fifth-graders, know that the florets that sprout at the top of kale plants are to be picked. And eaten. […]

WELLFLEET — The beginning of summer brings a few things denizens of the Outer Cape are wary of, bridge traffic and a bump in gas prices among them. But perhaps […]

When I think back to my childhood here, I remember days spent in the woods and fields and on the marshes and the dune tops. The memories have an enchanted […]

Living at the ocean’s edge means ready access to many rare treats local fishermen bring in. When friends arrive for summer suppers, the ones I like best, because they’re at […]

In Tessera C. Knowles’s painting Saltine at Egg’s Isle, Provincetown’s drag mistress of political satire sits in a chair on the sand behind the Julie Heller Gallery surrounded by an […]

Striped bass fishing is heating up in the bay, and Billingsgate Shoals is the place to be. A few days ago there were a lot of bass off Wood End […]

Pollen season has arrived. With it comes the revelation of one of nature’s wonders: spiderwebs. By design they are almost invisible, but pine pollen now dusts them into full view […]

TRURO — In the world of birding, there are a few categories with their own histories and techniques. Seawatching, where a birder peers out at the sea with a scope […]

The iris shares its name with the Greek goddess of the rainbow, ostensibly for the multitude of colors found across its hundreds of species worldwide. In this neck of the […]

EASTHAM – “There’s a whole group that are antsy to take your spots,” Nauset Regional High School Principal Patrick Clark told the school’s seniors who are bound for college competition […]

EASTHAM — The Nauset High boys and girls lacrosse and baseball teams all advanced in their respective Division 3 state tournaments this week. No. 16 ranked baseball defeated No. 17 […]

PROVINCETOWN — We don’t quite remember how it started. There was surely a need for physical catharsis after a winter spent too much indoors, and perhaps we had notions of […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, June 4 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

The new Moon is on June 6, and it carries a message of love — or of loss. In astrology, new Moons represent change, endings, or renewal. This month, it […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, June […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link […]

When you walk into the Urvashi Vaid and Kate Clinton Community Room at the Provincetown Commons, you see a collection of jackets and shirts hanging on the walls. The 25 […]

If you were to flip through Andrew de Lory’s portrait photographs, you might come face to face with Prince Charles playing polo or Odetta, eyes closed, serenading an unseen crowd […]

A maximalist by nature, Julia Salinger indulges in all that she finds curious and delightful. She’s a voracious collector of paper ephemera and a compulsive creator. “I basically live inside […]

Under the pergola of his friend’s house on Bangs Street in Provincetown, filmmaker Ahmed Ibrahim sits hunched over his MacBook typing an email to his manager. Bo, a border collie-black […]

These days, in the world of “theatrical” movies — films screened in theaters — surviving and thriving are challenging at best. That’s certainly true for the Provincetown International Film Festival, […]

Lee McColgan and A House Restored The first thing Lee McColgan wants you to know is that preserving an 18th-century New England house is not like an episode of HGTV’s […]

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A letter to the editor in the May 23 edition of the Independent expressed concern about “the high turnover at Outer Cape Health Services” and vacancies in key positions there. […]

When I heard that Provincetown was hosting an “active shooter attack prevention and preparedness” training session, my initial reaction was skepticism. The town’s press release said, “This crucial training event […]

Truro: A Role Model To the editor: I was sorry to read that employees of the town of Truro have been facing harassment and intimidation [“Truro Stops Enforcing Bylaw on […]

Athlete, photographer, and owner of Tumbleweed, a “hippie shop” in Ridgewood, N.J., Patrice Gordon of Provincetown and Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J. died at home on March 30, 2024 after a long illness. […]

Provincetown artist Elisabeth Pearl, who painted colorful street scenes in works such as Carnival Parade, Gathering at Spiritus, and Book Sale at the Old Library, died on May 25, 2024 […]

Every year, James Butler insisted on his “first dunk” in the ocean off Truro on Memorial Day weekend “no matter what,” according to his friend Mark Battista. Jim died at […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from May 28 to May 31, 2024. PROVINCETOWN May 28. Machinaw LLC [Robert R. Anderson and Christine M. Anderson, signatories] to Paul […]

TUNES  The Music Is Back! Weekly Irish and Old Time music sessions, Tuesdays in Wellfleet 6:30-8:30 p.m. indoors at Hog Island Surf Lodge, Route 6 opposite Lieutenant Island Rd. Upbeat […]

Body Electric (Thursday, June 6) The Provincetown Health Dept. and Outer Cape Community Solutions are putting on a local health fair at Provincetown Town Hall (260 Commercial St.) on Thursday, […]

Town of Truro Planning Board Notice of Remote Public Hearing Wednesday, June 26, 2024 at 5:00 PM View on television Channel 8 in Truro; or on the Homepage website (www.truro-ma.gov), […]

Town of Provincetown Position Opening Harbormaster The Harbormaster enforces state and local laws and regulations for the protection and safety of the professional and general boating public on Provincetown’s waterways. […]

Town of Eastham Public Hearing June 17, 2024 The Town of Eastham will hold a public hearing at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, June 17, 2024, at the Eastham Town Hall, […]

Members of the U.S. Coast Guard and the Provincetown Police Dept. make up the color guard in front of town hall on Memorial Day, May 27. From left, Patrol Officer […]

TRURO — The town has stopped enforcing its bylaw regulating temporary signs, Town Manager Darrin Tangeman and Town Planner Barbara Carboni said this week. The decision followed controversy over the […]

PROVINCETOWN — When employers here first began hearing from their returning J-1 visa students in Bulgaria that they had received emails in April from the U.S. embassy there telling them […]

PROVINCETOWN — The Mass. Dept. of Environmental Protection has proposed revisions to its wetlands regulations aimed at providing better protection to coastal floodplains from the effects of climate change, sea […]

WELLFLEET — Town Administrator Tom Guerino is officially here to stay. Guerino and the select board signed a three-year contract at the board’s May 21 meeting after Guerino had served […]

PROVINCETOWN — This year, May 15 marked the beginning of the lobster fishing season on the Outer Cape. The fishery is not an insignificant one here. There are 42 fishermen […]

With the end of school fast approaching, towns are readying summer recreation programs. In Eastham and Truro, hopeful families are already putting their names on waiting lists. Besides being fun, […]

PROVINCETOWN — We don’t quite remember how it started. There was surely a need for physical catharsis after a winter spent too much indoors, and perhaps we had notions of […]

That lady you saw make a U-turn on Route 6 just past the handwritten roadside sign advertising “Fresh Eggs”? That might have been me. Besides that there’s no comparison between […]

Story and drawings by Abraham Storer  If you’ve ever driven up Bradford Street in Provincetown, you’ve likely seen Reed Boland’s garden — or part of it. The tiered landscape stretches […]

A yellow sticky note on the door outside Jan Kelly’s third-floor apartment on Alden Street reads, “My horse rides high as the devil rides by.” The sound of someone beating […]

The summer season is officially upon us, and now is the time to enjoy all our marine environment has to offer. Whale watching has been fantastic, and people on board […]

EASTHAM — The Nauset High boys track team placed fifth overall at the MIAA Division 4 Track and Field State Championship hosted by Westfield State University last weekend. The girls […]

To the visiting bee, the flower of Cypripedium acaule, the pink lady’s slipper, looks like a friendly spot for an easy meal of nectar or pollen. Once entered, the slipper is […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, May 28 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

It was the kind of afternoon a fisherman dreams about all winter — one spent wading in the spectacular beauty of the Herring River, casting surface lures into receding waters […]

“Competitive birding” sounds like an oxymoron. People think of birding as a deeply personal hobby. It’s supposed to be about one’s connection with nature and desire to know one’s place […]

On a calm and sunny Monday morning in May, Samuel Rouse hops into his small skiff to make an easy commute, zipping across Provincetown Harbor toward a 37-foot sailboat that […]

Ah, the interesting case of the shifting stelliums. For those not in the astrological know, a stellium is a grouping of three or more planets in one sign (or house). […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, May […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link […]

Comics artist and writer Phil Jimenez was alone a lot when he was growing up in Long Beach, Calif. “Drawing was a way to entertain myself,” he says. Known for […]

Imagine the dreaded Zoom call: monotonous droning, endless PowerPoint slides, pairs of eyes dissociating in cyberspace. Now, imagine the opposite, or at least an absurdist doppelgänger. Here’s one vision: A […]

Born in 1870, Arthur V. Diehl emigrated from England to the United States in his early 20s and hustled throughout his life to earn a living as a painter. In […]

“I could turn this gallery into a pinhole camera,” says Marian Roth. Her retrospective “Then and Now — Reflecting on Forty Years” is at On Center Gallery in Provincetown and […]

Walking up our road On a chilly April morning I encountered two locals Did you see those daffodils? The tall one asked by way of greeting One day they were […]

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey from a thorn. —Louis Adamic The raccoon boldly strode through the garden. Attuned to my presence she merely slowed, turned […]

Most of the people who’ve seen Mitchell Anderson’s one-man show, You Better Call Your Mother, were already familiar with at least one part of his autobiographical story. Anderson, 62, has […]

All That Jazz The tenth annual Provincetown Cabaret Festival takes place June 3 to 9 and celebrates “The Golden Era of Night Clubs.” The weekend includes master classes, awards ceremonies, […]

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On the way to the beach, I passed a trellis festooned — indeed, overpowered — by English Ivy. Let’s call it a hedge. I had to stop, because emanating from […]

The Independent’s otherwise comprehensive coverage of Wellfleet’s May 20 town meeting (“Wellfleet OKs Gaza Ceasefire and Pesticide Petitions,” May 23) failed to mention the nearly unanimous vote to approve a […]

I taught writing to college freshmen back in the 1980s, when the internet was young. As a tool for doing research, the new technology seemed almost magically powerful and seductive. […]

Wellfleet’s Gaza Resolution To the editor: The Gaza war resolution adopted at the Wellfleet town meeting on May 20 is both ill-advised and blatantly one-sided. It is purely a political […]

Described as “saltier than a Scully Joe” by his daughter, Ashley, master fisherman Peter Cabral, who earned his first full share on a commercial fishing boat when he was eight […]

A celebration of the life of musician and teacher Charles A. Griffeth of North Truro and Wilton Manors, Fla. will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 8 at […]

Writer, actor, teacher, and visual artist Thomas Langdon Wolfson died on May 14, 2024 at his South Wellfleet home with his wife, Michele, by his side. He had been fighting […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from May 20 to May 24, 2024. PROVINCETOWN May 21. David R. Jenkins to Michael Idengren. 16 Holway Ave., Unit 2. $1,395,000. […]

THE ARTS  The Music Is Back! Weekly Irish and Old Time music sessions, Tuesdays in Wellfleet 6:30-8:30 p.m. indoors at Hog Island Surf Lodge, Route 6 opposite Lieutenant Island Rd. […]

Strengthen. Educate. Celebrate. (Thursday-Sunday, May 30-June 2) The parties, mixers, and workshops of “Womxn of Color Weekend” begin on Thursday, May 30, at 7:15 a.m. at Outermost Yoga (494 Commercial […]

Town of Truro Planning Board Notice of Remote Public Hearing Wednesday, June 26, 2024 at 5:00 PM View on television Channel 8 in Truro; or on the Homepage website (www.truro-ma.gov), […]

Seamen’s Bank Annual Meeting Tuesday, June 11, 2024 The Annual Meeting of the Corporators of the Seamen’s Bank for the election of Officers and the transaction of any other business that […]

Town of Provincetown Position Opening Council on Aging Cook/Meal Coordinator The Town of Provincetown is accepting applications for the position of Council on Aging Cook/Meal Coordinator. Responsibilities include menu planning, […]

THOMASTON, MAINE — Four years after a collision in Long Island Sound nearly sank the Schooner Hindu, a stem-to-stern rebuild of the historic boat has progressed enough to put her […]

HYANNIS — Cape Cod Hospital has agreed to pay the federal government $24.3 million to settle allegations that it knowingly submitted hundreds of Medicare claims between 2015 and 2022 for […]

PROVINCETOWN — After the managers of the seven-building, 12-unit residential complex at 25-27 Bradford St. known as Napiville did not meet the town’s deadline for making it safe to live […]

EASTHAM — Steven and Cathy Sanders’s deed to 75 South Eastham St. includes a right-of-way allowing them access to Town Cove on the other side of Route 6. The couple’s […]

WELLFLEET — Roughly 300 voters at Monday’s annual town meeting reveled in a budget with no overrides and whipped through the first 12 financial articles on the 35-article warrant in […]

TRURO — As the Outer Cape braces for its seasonal population swell, businesses are unlatching their doors for the surge. In Truro, several of them are also in transition — […]

EASTHAM — Sometimes, when a bird arrives at Wild Care, the wildlife rehabilitation center here, Executive Director Stephanie Ellis knows instantly what it is suffering from. She recalls when a […]

Walking through Dani Niedzielski and Meghan O’Connor’s Provincetown shop, the Captain’s Daughters, is a lesson in personal style. The shelves are loaded with temptations from one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces to cheeky […]

I love going to the grocery store almost as much as my mom hates taking me there. She says I’m a spendthrift. I prefer the term epicurean. To her point: […]

On a calm and sunny Monday morning in May, Samuel Rouse hops into his small skiff to make an easy commute, zipping across Provincetown Harbor toward a 37-foot sailboat that […]

The Provincetown waterfront is coming alive with the lifting of the bay-wide 10-knot speed limit. Our first high-speed ferries from Boston arrived this week. Our first cruise ship also came […]

“Competitive birding” sounds like an oxymoron. People think of birding as a deeply personal hobby. It’s supposed to be about one’s connection with nature and desire to know one’s place […]

EASTHAM — The Nauset boys and girls track teams placed second and third, respectively, at the Cape and Islands League Championship at Barnstable High School on Monday. Barnstable won the […]

Squatting among the beach grass, plums, and roses that decorate the coastal bank bordering Wellfleet’s Mayo Beach is a colony of blue toadflax, a diminutive native wildflower whose beauty isn’t […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, May 21 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

At the end of last week, the Sun moved from Taurus into Gemini. With that the astrological forces move from embracing times of comfort to inviting times of sociability and […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, May […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link […]

“My work is always telling a story,” says Traci Harmon-Hay. Pieces from her new series, “Hovering Boats,” will be exhibited from May 24 to June 17 at Farm Projects in […]

Following a decade marked by the horrors of war and on the cusp of another that would secure America’s global ascendancy, Provincetown’s Forum 49 was more than an art exhibition […]

In 2020, Sarah Dineen unearthed a 19-square-foot painting that she had made as a graduate student at the School of Visual Arts in New York. “I call it my adolescent […]

Artist and gallerist Nick Lawrence was the sole juror for the show “Departures,” currently on exhibit at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis. Lawrence selected 53 works from […]

Philosophy professor John Kaag has a lot of fun in his latest book, American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation. He tells the stories of selected members of […]

Jay Sefton Confronts the Past in Unreconciled When Jay Sefton was 13 and living in a town on the outskirts of Philadelphia, he won the starring role in a Catholic […]

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From early June to mid-September, rain or shine, I go for a swim at each day’s end. At some point, my late afternoon swims became more ritual than routine, without […]

There is so much to fear. Hard-won progress in civil rights, reproductive rights, and gender equality has rapidly eroded; we are beyond the overture of a climate catastrophe; war and […]

Managing the Library To the editor: Last year at the Truro annual town meeting, voters strongly supported a petitioned change in the town charter that would restore the involvement of […]

A descendant of the Mayflower’s Stephen Hopkins, Muriel A. Roby died peacefully in Burlington on May 12, 2024 with family by her side. She had spent a lifetime of summer […]

Master landscaper and former art teacher Robert C. Canepa of Provincetown died suddenly in his sleep at a friend’s home in Quincy on May 16, 2024. The cause has not […]

A descendant of the Mayflower’s John Alden, Priscilla Mullins, and Stephen Hopkins, Judith Turner Parmelee of Eastham died on May 8, 2024. A nurse and medical researcher, she was 86. […]

Nathan Thomas Berrio died unexpectedly of organ failure at his home in Wellfleet on May 6, 2024. He was 47. The son of Charles “Chickie” Berrio and Jane (Dalby) Budreau, […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from May 13 to May 17, 2024. PROVINCETOWN May 13. Coastal Land Trust (Thomas Walter, trustee) to Frank Wirthwein. 9 Oppen Ln. […]

THE ARTS  Memory Eel Day with Anne Hutchinson. Come enjoy an all-new hour of stand-up comedy from Anne before all the legitimately talented entertainers return for the summer. Thursday, May […]

Spare Infinities (Thursday, May 23) Poet, Truro resident, and Fine Arts Work Center alum Keith Althaus reads from his latest collection, New & Selected Poems, at Truro Public Library (7 […]

TOWN OF WELLFLEET Planning Board Public Hearing June 5, 2024 The Wellfleet Planning Board will hold a public hearing on June 5, 2024, at 7:00 pm at the Wellfleet Adult […]

Town of Provincetown Historic District Commission Public Hearing June 5, 2024 The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in […]

Town of Eastham Zoning Board of Appeals Public Hearing June 6, 2024 The Town of Eastham Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing at 5:00 PM ON THURSDAY, […]

TOWN OF TRURO     SOLICITATION FOR QUOTATIONS BEACH FOOD VENDOR CONCESSIONS HEAD OF THE MEADOW BEACH  *  CORN HILL BEACH The Town of Truro is soliciting proposals from qualified mobile […]

WELLFLEET — On hearing there was a solar storm on the way, Jeremy Storer went online to find maps of where the northern lights might appear for those of us […]

TRURO — At a well-attended candidates forum on May 7, the four people running for two seats on the select board in the May 29 town election stated the priorities […]

PROVINCETOWN — According to a preliminary tally of the May 14 annual town election ballots, select board incumbent Leslie Sandberg has been elected to a second term on the board […]

PROVINCETOWN — Disagreement about public safety on Commercial Street kept the select board from finding a consensus on May 13, with three members supporting a “walk zone” that would require […]

PROVINCETOWN — Developer Jay Abbiuso has proposed building a 14-unit condominium complex encompassing five buildings on what is now a vacant lot at 33 Conwell St. Because the proposal includes […]

WELLFLEET — The dept. of public works expects to complete construction on a project to raise a section of Old County Road leading to Bound Brook Island by Memorial Day. […]

TRURO — Of the osprey, Henry David Thoreau wrote, “Its shrill scream seems yet to linger in its throat, and the roar of the sea in its wings.” At the […]

PROVINCETOWN — Many town residents are familiar with the name Motta — either because they have used Motta Field, the town’s 4.5-acre, rather antiquated sporting green, or because they have […]

The marine ecosystem around Cape Cod is built on the backs of Atlantic herring. These baitfish school in massive numbers, providing food for marine mammals, seabirds, and large fish like […]

PROVINCETOWN — The public leasing contest for eight dune shacks on the windswept back shore of Provincetown and Truro that began on May 1, 2023 has nearly come to an […]

When people design a back yard suitable for wildlife, they tend to create places that are appealing to birds and butterflies. That makes sense, because these animals are appealing visitors […]

It’s no secret: I’m promiscuous. About condiments, that is. I’ve almost never met a condiment I didn’t like. In my experience, having some good ones on hand means almost anything […]

Richard Cuencas holds a silver ring in his hand. “This was once a fork,” he says. “And this is made with black coral from the beach.” He points to a […]

Last month I watched the solar eclipse from a park in Westport, N.Y. by Lake Champlain. The lake and mountains beyond were a beautiful sight — a proper setting for […]

The bass are here, and the right whales are not. The whales left a week ago, and the latest aerial survey found no right whales in the area, so NOAA […]

EASTHAM — Nauset High’s baseball team (13-4) won three straight games over Dennis-Yarmouth, Martha’s Vineyard, and Wareham in the last week. Sophomore Jake Doherty had another solid outing, throwing a […]

The native Sassafras albidum is a tree full of wonders — scents of cinnamon and citrus from root to bark to tip; whimsical leaves shaped like mittens and tridents and footballs; resplendent […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, May 14 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

The placements of the planets this week offer us the opportunity to spread joy even in these troubling times. The Sun is throwing around a lot of energy right now, […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, May […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link […]

It’s hard to imagine now how different the worldview of the gay male community was in New York in 1985, when the city was the epicenter of the HIV-AIDS epidemic. […]

There is a shock of recognition. The photo looks like ones we’ve seen before — a Black man is tied up, suspended in the air. “When people see a picture […]

For the artist Siân Robertson, physical borders are not a limit but an invitation to expand and play with perception. She works with old maps, carving up rivers, roads, bus […]

May Erlewine’s songs speak of love, loss, and life’s dilemmas. Some have supported social causes, expressed the pain of women’s history, and voiced political worries about “being lost in the […]

If you’ve spent enough time driving around Massachusetts, you’ve probably seen road signs that say a neighborhood is “Thickly Settled.” It’s an exclusively New England expression, and though the signs […]

Bring on the British Bops The British may be known, stereotypically at least, for keeping a stiff upper lip. But there’ll be no such signs of restraint when the Outer […]

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Last Friday night I joined a crowd in Provincetown’s beautiful town hall to celebrate the life and career of Charles “Stormy” Mayo III. With all those who were there, I […]

We started this newspaper in 2019 because we saw journalism dying here. The Provincetown Banner and the Cape Codder, once robust, were struggling. Word was readers and advertisers didn’t care […]

A Graceful Moderator To the editor: A big thank you to Truro’s new town moderator, Paul Wisotzky, for handling a very contentious town meeting with grace and good humor. After […]

A celebration of the life of political strategist and LGBTQ rights activist Ann Marie Maguire will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 1 at the Arlington Street Church, […]

Charlotte Adele Guertin of Truro died on May 4, 2024 at her daughter’s home in Marblehead after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 90. The daughter of the […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from May 6 to May 10, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN May 7. Marsha A. Morello and Michele H. Beckerman to Maurice Grunberg. 100 Alden […]

THE ARTS  Weekly Irish and old-time music sessions happening every Tuesday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., starting May 21 indoors at Hog Island Surf Lodge, 842 Route 6 in Wellfleet opposite Lieutenant Island […]

Whimsical Walls (Thursday, May 16) Grab a peek and a slice at Terry Catalano’s two-week solo exhibition, which opens at Spiritus Pizza (190 Commercial St., Provincetown) on Thursday, May 16. […]

Town of Eastham Zoning Board of Appeals Public Hearing June 6, 2024 The Town of Eastham Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing at 5:00 PM ON THURSDAY, […]

Town of Provincetown Licensing Board Public Hearing May 28, 2024 The Provincetown Licensing Board will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, May 28, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. in the Judge […]

TOWN OF TRURO     SOLICITATION FOR QUOTATIONS BEACH FOOD VENDOR CONCESSIONS HEAD OF THE MEADOW BEACH  *  CORN HILL BEACH The Town of Truro is soliciting proposals from qualified mobile […]

TOWN OF WELLFLEET Selectboard Public Hearing May 21, 2024 Notice is hereby given that the Wellfleet Selectboard will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, at 6:00p.m. virtually […]

TRURO — Last weekend’s town meeting marathon saw overwhelming support for multi-pronged efforts to build affordable housing. But when it came to plans to upgrade a dept. of public works […]

WELLFLEET — Voters whose thumbs are sore from opening their wallets will find relief at this year’s annual town meeting, scheduled for May 20 at 6 p.m. at the Wellfleet […]

EASTHAM — Town meeting voters overwhelmingly approved a $44.2-million fiscal 2025 operating budget with a $1-million Proposition 2½ override on Saturday, May 4. By an even larger margin, they endorsed […]

PROVINCETOWN — At the town’s annual election on Tuesday, May 14, voters will choose between two candidates for one seat on the select board — incumbent Leslie Sandberg and challenger […]

The U.S. Dept. of the Interior announced last week the proposed auction of eight offshore wind lease areas in the Gulf of Maine. The areas selected by the department’s Bureau […]

TRURO — Eight years after the owners of Horton’s Camping Resort in Truro illegally cleared 11 acres of land abutting the Cape Cod National Seashore, a habitat restoration project is […]

EASTHAM — The owner of two huskies designated as “dangerous dogs” by the select board last month is seeking to overturn that ruling and the accompanying requirements in Orleans District […]

WELLFLEET — About a dozen ham radio operators were here on April 27 to mark the 150th birthday of Guglielmo Marconi. It wasn’t really the inventor’s birthday — that’s April 25 […]

WELLFLEET — The select board has called a special town meeting for June 17 and a town election for June 18 to ask voters to consider the purchase of the […]

TRURO — Moderator Paul Wisotzky made it clear at the top of the meeting: no clapping, no booing, no laughing, no “oohing.” But the mood under the tent outside Truro […]

EASTHAM — While it wasn’t exactly the frozen tundra of Green Bay’s Lambeau Field, a very chilly Nauset High School football gridiron was where Eastham voters assembled on the first […]

I’m judgmental about food packaging. Some of it I find infuriating: All that waste! You know what I mean: lettuce in plastic boxes, green beans trapped in sealed bags. But […]

In the garden today looking for the first signs of fruit and smelling nothing but garlic chives, I figure the Outer Cape’s first strawberries are still about three weeks out. […]

Since moving to the Outer Cape a few years ago I’ve enjoyed encountering the influence of Portuguese culture here. There’s the annual Blessing of the Fleet and the generations of […]

If I had a nickel for every time someone has said, “I can’t do yoga because I’m not flexible,” I’d have enough for a trip to Kripalu. You do not […]

When I was growing up in the small town of Preignac, in southwest France, the days of the week could be counted in culinary rituals. Wednesday was the day for […]

As I sit down to write about the birds I’ve seen recently — classic summer birds like barn swallows and Baltimore orioles, the first yellow warblers, and common terns are […]

The striped bass are continuing to move into our area, and there seem to be a fair number of fish in Buzzards Bay, but the fishermen to our south in […]

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EASTHAM — Nauset sophomore Violet Roche took home the MSTCA Outstanding Field Event Athlete from Saturday’s Jim Hoar Freshman Sophomore Invitational at Weymouth. Roche won the high jump with a […]

The spring-blooming shrubs and trees of the widespread, mostly North American genus Amelanchier have a long list of common names, many referring to their timing. Some people call them Juneberries because their […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, May 7 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

Whether it’s evident here on Cape Cod or not, the Sun is working overtime this week, giving a boost to anyone who asks. Whatever your focus is this week, it’s […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, May […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link […]

It happens from time to time: Tim McNulty, the owner and executive chef at the Lobster Pot in downtown Provincetown, will step outside and find an artist peering up at […]

In 2019, when Adam Moss left his powerful perch as top editor of New York magazine after 15 years, he decided to devote himself to painting. It didn’t go well. […]

For three years in the late 1970s, Rosalind Pace worked on a series of paintings: eight large canvases in black and white that would read like a visual language. She […]

Michael Joseph’s first visit to Provincetown left him underwhelmed. “I don’t understand it,” he thought. “Why do people love this town?” The photographer made the requisite stroll down Commercial Street […]

Twenty Summers Expands Its Space and Season Every spring, the Twenty Summers cultural program extends over five weeks in Provincetown. This year, it seems program director Alice Gong doesn’t want […]

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The articles about keeping horses by Jack Styler and Katherine Rossmoore in the May 2 edition of the Independent brought back so many pleasant memories of a simpler time in […]

Jack Styler is a young writer who will be joining our newsroom as a staff reporter next month. He’s a Midwesterner; he graduated from the University of Wisconsin two years […]

Time Travel With Dad To the editor: So it goes, indeed. Thanks to Robert Kuttner for his essay “Time Travel With Kurt Vonnegut and My Dad” [May 2, page C3]. […]

Joan Elizabeth Lenane-Fuxjager of Provincetown died peacefully at home on May 5, 2024.  She was 92. The younger of two daughters of Samuel and Margaret (Soden) Goodemoot, Joan was born […]

Affectionately known as “the mayor of Eastham,” Keith Hayes died unexpectedly on April 24, 2024 at Massachusetts General Hospital with his parents and brother by his side. The cause was […]

Lobster boat Capt. Jeffrey Walter Johnson of Truro died at home on Jan. 19, 2024 from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 67. The son of Walter and […]

Third-generation scallop boat Capt. Russell Louis Murphy Sr. of Wellfleet died peacefully at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis on April 27, 2024 with his family by his side. He had […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from April 29 to May 3, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN April 29. Cohorts Inc. LLC [Leslie A. Brock, president] to 167 Commercial St LLC […]

SEEKING  Retired male seeking small house or condo with parking in Provincetown. One week per month May to October. No smoking, drinking, drugs, parties, pets, or bull. Local references. Email […]

Time for Tea (Friday-Sunday, May 10-12) Resident DJ Maryalice drops beats and ushers in the summer during weekend two of the 2024 season of Tea Dance at The Boatslip (161 […]

TOWN OF WELLFLEET Zoning Board of Appeals Public Hearing May 23, 2024 Pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 40-A, Section 11 and Wellfleet Section 235, the ZBA will hold public […]

TOWN OF TRURO LICENSING DEPARTMENT NEW SEASONAL ALL ALCOHOL ON-PREMISE POURING LICENSE AND NEW BUSINESS LICENSE COMMON VICTUALER The Truro Select Board will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, May […]

Town of Provincetown Select Board Public Hearing May 13, 2024 Curb Cuts:  21 Commercial Street. The Provincetown Select Board will hold a Public Hearing on Monday, May 13, 2024, at […]

Town of Eastham Select Board Public Hearing May 20, 2024  The Town of Eastham will hold a public hearing at 5:30p.m Monday, May 20, 2024 at the Eastham Public Library, […]

WELLFLEET — Barbara Austin got her first horse, Duchess, when she was 10. The two went everywhere together, and their trust in each other was absolute. At Wellfleet’s kettle ponds, […]

TRURO — This weekend’s double town meeting is widely expected to break Outer Cape records. About 1,000 chairs will be set up under a heated tent on the Truro Central […]

WELLFLEET — Challenger Sheila Lyons and incumbent John Wolf were the top vote-getters in a four-way race for two seats on the Wellfleet Select Board at the town’s annual election […]

ORLEANS — Two houses owned by David Delgizzi and seized by the Internal Revenue Service attracted a high bid of $180,000 at an IRS auction held on April 23. The […]

WELLFLEET — Barton Morris stands in the Duck Harbor parking lot and surveys the floodplain to the north. It’s a cool April day, and it’s been about two weeks since […]

PROVINCETOWN — In a meeting between U.S. Rep. Bill Keating and a team of State Dept. officials on April 29, the agency assured the congressman that Provincetown “is not being […]

PROVINCETOWN — Laurence Pagnoni, who founded a New York City-based consultancy in 1995, bought a condominium in Provincetown in 2021, and worked as a substitute teacher at the Provincetown Schools […]

PROVINCETOWN — I’ll admit it: the first thing I did when I arrived at the harbormaster’s office on MacMillan Pier at 4:44 a.m. on April 16 was lie down on […]

When Nick Craciun was 17, he began exhibiting signs of psychosis. At 20, he disappeared from home. He told his parents he was living at a friend’s house. By the […]

When I was a teenager at Provincetown High School in the 1970s, I knew many girls who hung around the horse stables so they could ride horses. Back then, we […]

Mexicans have their botanas con bebidas down to an art. Their street-food-inspired snacks and sips range from the elegantly spare slice of jicama tossed with lime juice and sprinkled with […]

I’m driving home to Truro from the hardware store in Provincetown when I see the poster-waving crowd on Route 6 across from the fire station. Maybe I’m going a tiny […]

There’s a path off North Pamet Road in Truro that slowly climbs around a bearberry-covered dune up to a soaring overlook of the Atlantic at the top, but there’s another […]

The striped bass are finally heading our way. Reports from south of the Cape indicate slot-size fish have entered the west end of Long Island Sound and the bigger-than-slot-size fish […]

EASTHAM — The Nauset High boys track team finished fourth overall at the MSTCA Division 4 Relays hosted by Dracut High School on Saturday. Wakefield Memorial was first, followed by […]

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Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, April 30 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

As the Sun shines from the constellation of Taurus, it carries with it the bull’s influence. You’ll feel the urge for comfort and luxury, beauty and art. That celestial message […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Go to the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to attend […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, May […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link […]

“My great-grandmother used to say, ‘Idle hands are the devil’s workshop,’ ” says Provincetown artist R.C. Patterson, “so I like to keep busy.” Patterson’s space at the Foley House on […]

My father, PFC Arthur Kuttner, was in the Normandy invasion of June 1944. His unit, the 28th Infantry Division, was not in the first wave, so he survived that ordeal. […]

Fans often call Taylor Swift’s music “diaristic”: at their best, her lyrics feel like the delicate and sometimes ugly truths most of us don’t dare utter aloud. “And I hate […]

At four years old, Slovah Davida Shana bas Hannah Rachel Ross — she prefers the simpler “Rossi” — was already irate about gender inequity in the synagogue, and she was […]

Cold Chocolate at Wellfleet Preservation Hall Boston-based Americana band Cold Chocolate comes to Wellfleet Preservation Hall on Friday, May 3. The band is currently on tour for its latest album, […]

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Some things are difficult to think about. The difficulty could lie in their complexity. I can’t wrap my brain around quantum mechanics, black holes, or the Electoral College. But other […]

In a front-page story in last week’s Independent, Paul Benson took a look at some of the supposed facts that have surfaced in talk about affordable housing on the Outer […]

‘A Sustainable Truro’ To the editor: I moved to Truro in 2021, and I have been shocked by the housing affordability crisis on the Outer Cape. In the three years […]

A celebration of the life of Buddy Perkel, who died at 94 on March 22, will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 11, 2024 at the […]

Pioneering television documentary filmmaker and longtime Truro summer resident Peter Poor died on April 4, 2024 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, where in the 1950s he had […]

A graveside Veterans Military Honors service for Johnny Strong, who died at 86 on Jan. 25, will take place at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 18, 2024 at the Provincetown […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from April 22 to April 26, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN April 23. Provincetown Unit 49 Trust (Sandra Jean Pata and Rebecca Pata Gray, trustees) […]

SEEKING  Retired male seeking small house or condo with parking in Provincetown. One week per month May to October. No smoking, drinking, drugs, parties, pets, or bull. Local references. Email […]

In the Cards (Thursday, May 2) Susan Mitchell leads a “friendly and light-hearted” tarot card workshop at Provincetown Public Library (356 Commercial St.) on Thursday, May 2, 6 p.m. Free; […]

TOWN OF TRURO LICENSING DEPARTMENT NEW SEASONAL ALL ALCOHOL ON-PREMISE POURING LICENSE AND NEW BUSINESS LICENSE COMMON VICTUALER The Truro Select Board will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, May […]

Town of Provincetown Historic District Commission Public Hearing May 15, 2024 The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, in […]

TOWN OF WELLFLEET Zoning Board of Appeals Public Hearing May 23, 2024 Pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 40-A, Section 11 and Wellfleet Section 235, the ZBA will hold public […]

PROVINCETOWN — Time is running out for Borislav Ivanov and his family. On May 15, the lease expires on the Commercial Street apartment where he, his wife, Iliana, and their […]

TRURO — The board of registrars heard a final set of challenges to voter registrations on Tuesday, April 16 and upheld all three. Truro voter Jon Slater had disputed the […]

Spring has arrived on Outer Cape Cod, and along with the robins and pollen, another seasonal visitor is making the rounds: electioneering letters. Town meetings in Wellfleet and Eastham are […]

The forests of the Outer Cape have undergone major changes throughout their history, affected by big forces, from fires to farming to 20th-century development. The next wave of change, however, […]

WELLFLEET — Two months into his tenure as Wellfleet’s interim town administrator, Tom Guerino has reached a tentative agreement to take the helm as the town’s permanent administrator. At an […]

WELLFLEET — On the night after Alex Hay, Garrett Smythe, and Sebastien Taffara closed on a deal to buy the Wicked Oyster, the trio brought their families to the restaurant […]

ORLEANS — Agroecologist Peter Jensen placed a hose along the road above the Church of the Holy Spirit and turned it on. The water flowed into a dirty channel between […]

EASTHAM — In this town where the elderly population is growing and enrollment at the elementary school is steadily falling, young and old join forces every spring in a spelling […]

WELLFLEET — Music is in the air at Wellfleet Elementary School. On the heels of their annual spring concert, performed earlier this month, students have been preparing to perform The […]

The house Marcel Breuer built in Wellfleet in 1949 represents the modernist ideal. It is above all simple. Pilings hold its small and seemingly lightweight box-shaped rooms just above the […]

We are still waiting patiently — or not so patiently in some cases — for the warmer weather to return to get those striped bass moving north. Water temperatures remain […]

Hummingbird cake, like its namesake bird, has a migration story, though it’s one that’s hard to follow. Many articles about the cake claim it was originally a creation of the […]

In the couple of seconds it takes you to read these first few words, a ruby-throated hummingbird will flap its wings approximately 110 times. Its heart will beat 42 times. […]

If the endangered plants and animals of the Shank Painter Pond Wildlife Sanctuary are the rubies and diamonds of Provincetown’s ecological crown jewel, as the sanctuary is often described, then […]

EASTHAM — Senior Coral Punch is one of the standouts of the Nauset Regional High School girls lacrosse team. She recently eclipsed 100 career points for a team that has […]

EASTHAM — Nauset High baseball (7-1) extended its winning streak to 6 games with victories over Bristol Plymouth RVT and Bishop Stang on Friday and Monday. The Warriors swept the […]

You would think that after 50 years of obsessive globe-trotting in search of new and better places to fish, the last place I’d find would be a pond in my […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, April 23 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

The season of the bull is here, the sign that exalts comfort and luxury over all else. This should be a period for rest and relaxation, but the cosmos may […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, April […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link […]

In the summer of 1949, a series of avant-garde art seminars and exhibitions took place in Provincetown. They covered a wide range of subjects, from painting and poetry to architecture, […]

Michelle Axelson grew up in Framingham, where her mom’s closest friends were Joyce and Judy. Former nuns, they’d left that life to run a child-care business. They lived together and […]

Before she was a transphobe, J.K. Rowling was a writer. In her Harry Potter series, the villain Voldemort is so feared that everyone believes it is dangerous to utter his […]

Southern California teenagers can be a shallow bunch, especially in the movies that are made about them. From the beginnings of the postwar “youth” film — Rebel Without a Cause […]

Bob Cohen’s Life Becomes Musical Art After more than a decade of playwriting, Bob Cohen has written his first musical comedy. With a soundtrack of classic songs from the 1930s […]

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Over the past year, I’ve seen a rise in misinformation on Truro’s Facebook community pages, especially regarding affordable housing at the Walsh property. Some of it comes from the TruroNews.org […]

Is writing a dying art? Sometimes I wonder. Years ago, I taught expository writing to freshmen at a college where many of the students were intensely ambitious. The ones who […]

Paying for Housing To the editor: I am writing in response to the excellent letters in recent issues of the Independent about housing in Truro. It is refreshing to hear […]

Deborah Louise McCutcheon of Truro died at the Cape Regency Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Centerville on March 18, 2024 after a 15-year struggle with Parkinson’s disease. She was […]

Jerelyn Denise Fields, who spent 40 summers in Provincetown, died peacefully in her Hartford, Conn. home on April 11, 2024 surrounded by family and friends. The cause of death was […]

Wellfleet resident and former Navy lawyer Thomas Harrison Peters III died peacefully on April 18, 2024 at Rosewood Manor in Harwich after a long illness. He was 75. The son […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from April 16 to April 19, 2024. PROVINCETOWN April 16. Betty E. Comey Revocable Living Trust (Julie N.W. Goodridge, trustee) to Janice […]

SEEKING  Looking to rent a small house or condo in Provincetown with parking for 1 week per month this summer (starting in May) and maybe into the fall. It could […]

Group Show (Thursday, April 25) Truro Center for the Arts resident artists Elizabeth James-Perry, Mara Manning, and Alexandra Thompson exhibit recent work in an open studio at Edgewood Farm (3 […]

TOWN OF WELLFLEET Selectboard Public Hearing May 7, 2024 Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, at 6:00 p.m.  both virtually […]

TOWN OF TRURO Zoning Board of Appeals Notice of Remote Public Hearings Monday, May 20, 2024 at 5:30 pm 2024-002/ZBA – Jennifer Cabral (Nearen & Cubberly Nominee Trust, Christopher Snow, […]

Town of Provincetown Invitation for Bids The Town of Provincetown is seeking proposals for the renovation of Fire House 2 upper floors Bid documents can be found on the town’s […]

Beach houses have evolved since the modernists built their getaways on Outer Cape Cod starting in the late 1930s. But their work is still present in the minds of today’s […]

Nancy Barrington can’t remember the first time she visited Pochet Island. “I’m sure Mom and Dad brought me when I was just a few weeks old,” she says, “and it’s been […]

The Outer Cape has provided the bedrock of inspiration for ceramicists Michael Ceraldi, Paul Wisotzky, and Isabel Souza. Ceraldi takes creative nourishment from this place most literally, gathering clay from […]

“The gaiety and brilliancy of the flowers surrounding the studio of Blanche Lazzell attract and hold our attention whether we glimpse it from the waterside or through its narrow approach […]

Bob Henry paints all sorts of things but periodically he sets up his easel and paints the rooms he lives in. In these paintings, a few of which can be […]

When it comes to home renovation projects, sprucing up a basement falls low on most people’s priority lists. To some degree this makes sense: What could be more satisfying than […]

The dunes of the Province Lands were in full bloom. It was May, and the tops of the sandy hills were crested pink with Rosa rugosa. Beach plum, covered in […]

Anise Hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) has flower spikes that look like fuzzy upright caterpillars the color of lavender. It blooms at intervals throughout the summer. This is a member of the […]

With the piping plovers returning to their breeding grounds here to nest in the dunes, April 14 was the last day paragliders could launch from their favorite Outer Cape spot […]

ORLEANS — The Internal Revenue Service has seized two properties in Orleans owned by David Delgizzi of Weston, an absentee landlord notorious on the Outer Cape for allowing the buildings […]

PROVINCETOWN — Frank Vasello, owner of the sandwich shop Relish in the West End, heard on Friday, April 12 from a Bulgarian student who worked for him last summer that […]

PROVINCETOWN — Jere Miller, one of two candidates for select board on the ballot for the May 14 town election, is the subject of multiple restraining orders imposed in Orleans […]

PROVINCETOWN — A 969-foot-long and 10-foot-wide public walkway that Ann and Chuck Lagasse promised to build on the Provincetown Marina in 2017, not long after they became its new owners, […]

WELLFLEET — Every spring, horseshoe crabs arrive on the sheltered beaches of Cape Cod, crawling up onto the shore to lay their eggs in the sand. For years, during this […]

PROVINCETOWN — Last season was producing director Mark Cortale’s last at the Art House, the intimate Commercial Street venue that launched his now-international career. Since 2011, Cortale had brought summer […]

PROVINCETOWN — Seven third-graders from the Provincetown Schools took the stage at the Fine Arts Work Center on April 11 to thank artist Vicky Tomayko for showing them how to […]

You would think that after 50 years of obsessive globe-trotting in search of new and better places to fish, the last place I’d find would be a pond in my […]

“April is the cruelest month,” a friend said to me recently, involuntarily quoting T.S. Eliot. I instantly understood all the ways they both meant it. The trees almost have buds, […]

Spring in winter and winter in spring. That’s what this crazy year has brought us so far, along with copious amounts of rain. The more unpredictable the weather seems, the […]

Strangers see me standing next to my telescope on the street in New York or on First Encounter Beach in Eastham and think I might know the answers to any […]

Something about the beach felt different that morning. The feeling was quiet but persistent — a background sound humming below louder thoughts. I’d walked an eighth of a mile before […]

On the Outer Cape, the swamp maple (Acer rubrum) can often be found with its feet wet, growing vigorously in low spots like the Atlantic white cedar swamp in Wellfleet. […]

TRURO — The gymnasium at Truro Central School may not be vast, but until spring is in full swing, its perimeter is ample enough for 15 local elementary school girls […]

EASTHAM — After dropping its opening game, the boys lacrosse team (5-1) reeled off 5 straight wins with 3 victories last week. The Warriors beat Martha’s Vineyard, Groton-Dunstable, and Central […]

WELLFLEET — Capt. Richard Bailey was fascinated as a child by two oil paintings that hung side by side in his great-aunt’s cabin on Chequessett Neck Road. On occasion, he […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, April 16 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

Though the retrograde may have seemed rough at the start, it’s a best-case scenario, as these transits go. Mercury continues its retrograde into next week as it enjoys a little […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead  Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, April […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link […]

Sasha Wortzel says that her current work in film, photography, and printmaking is a form of kriah, the Hebrew word for “tearing” that refers to the Jewish practice of rending […]

Candy Darling’s face could not be forgotten. It glued itself to the minds of the auteurs of late ’60s New York, her beauty playing out ad infinitum in their songs, […]

Three Wellfleet galleries — Off Main, Burdick, and Marrinan — won’t be opening their doors this summer. The closings mark the end of a chapter for the three spaces, each […]

Wistful Exurbia far enough apart     our farms nothing for show     flowers incidental     roadside lilies in June our neighbors sold out for less than you’d […]

All at Once When I was five I was five. Recalling being four, I turned six. It’s always been like this — one foot in the grave, one in gravy. […]

For this latest installment of the Indie Playlist, we asked Independent staff and contributors to reflect on the idea of newness, especially as it relates to the season marked by […]

Four Writers on Their Favorite Books The Fine Arts Work Center’s 24PearlStreet online program — named for FAWC’s physical location — was established to bring writing workshops, resources, and community […]

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We are more than halfway through April, and the air is already full of birdsong. It seems every other bush in town hosts a song sparrow, lustily bellowing his qualifications […]

Last week the Boston Globe reported “a rare bit of good news on the housing front — at least for vacationers” on Cape Cod: “renting at a reasonable rate might […]

‘A House Divided’ To the editor: My wife, Anne, and I, a schoolteacher, bought land in Truro 52 years ago and with the help of family, friends, and local subcontractors […]

As director of the Research Center for Mental Health at New York University from 1953 to 1971, Robert R. Holt supervised “scientific research dedicated to the clarification and testing of […]

David Abraham Raboy, who ran a zoo in Provincetown in the 1970s and lived most recently in Newport, R.I., died at Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River on April 6, […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from April 8 to April 12, 2024.  PROVINCETOWN April 9. Caren M. Block and Jennifer A. Kroll to Yordan G. Georgiev and […]

SEEKING  Looking to rent a small house or condo in Provincetown with parking for 1 week per month this summer (starting in May) and maybe into the fall. It could […]

Spark It Up (Thursday-Saturday, April 18-20) Mackenzie stars in “Honey, I Smoked the Weed,” the fourth annual celebration of all things cannabis at the Crown & Anchor (247 Commercial St., […]

TOWN OF WELLFLEET Selectboard Public Hearing May 7, 2024 Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, at 6:00 p.m.  both virtually […]

TOWN OF TRURO Zoning Board of Appeals Notice of Remote Public Hearings Monday, May 20, 2024 at 5:30 pm 2024-002/ZBA – Jennifer Cabral (Nearen & Cubberly Nominee Trust, Christopher Snow, […]

Town of Provincetown Historic District Commission Public Hearing May 1, 2024 The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in […]

THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION – HIGHWAY DIVISION NOTICE OF A PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETING Project File No. 608020 A live Virtual Public Information Meeting will be hosted […]

PROVINCETOWN — Christine Barker’s proposed pier and floating marina, recently redesigned and enlarged to extend 1,270 feet into Provincetown Harbor from the site of the derelict Old Reliable Fish House, […]

EASTHAM — Voters at the May 4 annual town meeting will be asked to approve two Proposition 2½ overrides totaling $1.32 million to fund the town’s fiscal 2025 budget — […]

TRURO — Voters at annual town meeting on May 4 will be asked to authorize the town’s taking of the Truro Motor Inn at 296 Route 6 by eminent domain. […]

PROVINCETOWN — A proposed settlement in antitrust lawsuits against the National Association of Realtors (NAR) grabbed headlines across the country in March and spurred speculation of a significant drop in […]

A ruling in state Land Court last month will likely force towns across the Cape and Islands to vote on new zoning bylaws for short-term rentals — a complex proposition […]

EASTHAM — There are two separate races for select board this year: a three-year seat, for which incumbent Jamie Demetri has filed for re-election, and a two-year seat to complete the […]

WELLFLEET — A group of town residents has been working for the last year to bring Wi-Fi to three beaches on Wellfleet’s backshore. And it looks as if beachgoers may […]

EASTHAM — The 309th meeting of the Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission began like many others at the Salt Pond Visitor Center and was even called to order by […]

EASTHAM — Most mornings, the grounds of the Penniman House at Fort Hill are a peaceful setting for birds, squirrels, and the occasional tourist. But on the morning of April […]

TRURO — At the instruction of property owners Bob and Kathy Valleau, Pastor David Brown and his parishioners moved out of the Chapel on the Pond before the month of […]

WELLFLEET — Capt. Richard Bailey was fascinated as a child by two oil paintings that hung side by side in his great-aunt’s cabin on Chequessett Neck Road. On occasion, he […]

Pickles can be polarizing. There are those who favor the fresh crunch of half sours and others who hew to the notion that its sweet edge makes the bread-and-butter pickle […]

PROVINCETOWN — It’s hard to predict when you might find a rare bird. You might try after a hurricane, a good night of migration, or some other event that seems […]

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The striped bass spring migration has come to a screeching halt for now. There has been no evidence of any significant movement north in the past week. It seems that […]

At first glance, the native evergreen Epigaea repens looks a bit haggard. Its rough, leathery leaves, which have bite marks and brown spots left by the visiting insects it hosts, […]

EASTHAM — Nauset High School senior Nicole Boyce comes from a tennis-mad family. Her dad plays, her mom plays, and her grandparents play. For them, the sport truly is a […]

EASTHAM — The weather continued to disrupt early spring sports at Nauset Regional High School. But it didn’t stop boys lacrosse (2-1) from picking up a pair of wins, including […]

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Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, April 9 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

I’d love to tell you it’s going to be a smooth week astrologically, but that would be a lie. Mercury is retrograding, forming a cazimi with the Sun on April […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

Meetings Ahead Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, April […]

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link […]

Rehab El Sadek has made herself at home since arriving in Provincetown this past October as a visual arts fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center. The vibe in her […]

Matthew Dunn, the operations manager at Provincetown’s Outermost Community Radio (WOMR), has waist-length dreadlocks and wears galaxy-print shirts. Both amplify his gravitational pull. In his corner office at 494 Commercial […]

You’ve likely noticed while watching RuPaul’s Drag Race that host RuPaul Charles rarely gets physically close to the contestants. Some of this is likely a Covid holdover, but the pronounced […]

It was an inspired choice when the Provincetown International Film Festival’s gave Julio Torres, the writer-director-star of a fanciful new comedy, Problemista, one of its Next Wave awards last June. […]

A Bicoastal Musical Dialogue Comes to Wellfleet Anne Stott met Arielle Silver four years ago online during the first week of the pandemic lockdown. The two singer-songwriters were participants in […]

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Sitting in my cozy kitchen with the sun streaming in, I find myself torn up by the terrible state of our world and the unconscionable brutality of the wars raging […]

Two weeks ago, page 3 of the Independent was our annual April Fool’s fake front page. We’ve done this for five years, and you might think that readers would have […]