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THE DREDGE REPORT

WELLFLEET — The select board unanimously agreed on May 30 to support a mitigation plan required by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that will enable the town to receive […]

WELLFLEET HOUSING

WELLFLEET — Bids on a master plan for housing at Maurice’s Campground were supposed to be due on June 21, and interest in the project was strong. But the committee […]

LAND USE

PROVINCETOWN — When local developer Thomas Tannariello purchased the land at 24 Conwell St. from the estate of Sherrill Watkins for $2.5 million in January, he knew it had an […]

HISTORIC PRESERVATION

TRURO — This town’s select board has joined Provincetown’s in objecting to the Request for Proposals the National Park Service issued on May 1 to invite bids on 10-year leases […]

PUBLIC WORKS

TRURO — The dept. of public works held “open houses” on May 10 and 23 at its existing facility at 17 Town Hall Road to give locals and board members […]

PUBLIC HEALTH

PROVINCETOWN — The virus that roared through the gay community on both sides of the Atlantic last summer subsided almost as quickly as it arrived. Mpox — formerly known as […]

RUMINANTS

EASTHAM — Dragon, Wizard, Myles, and little Bleu have spent the last two weeks eating invasive poison ivy, bittersweet, and autumn olive behind the Eastham Public Library on Samoset Road. […]

THE ARBORIST

Eugene Zhukau has always been interested in trees. He had a favorite in the neighborhood where he spent his childhood, in Minsk, Belarus. It was a horse chestnut tree, and […]

THE ESSENTIALS

When my daughter Amanda and her son, Orion, started planning their annual trip to the Cape last summer, they told us they’d be traveling with a friend this time. She […]

GADGETRY

EASTHAM — As shops and galleries all around scramble to greet the first wave of the summer season, volunteers inside the Chester Ranlett Tool Museum here are doing their part […]

DEPT. OF COMMERCE

The fact that Sal’s Place, the Provincetown Italian restaurant owned by Michela Murphy and her mother, Siobhan Carew, is a “very outdoors” restaurant is a plus in summer. But what […]

FIGURE SKATING

ORLEANS — For a split second, Morgan Philbrick is airborne, seemingly freed from gravity. Then, after making one and a half revolutions, she’s back on the ice to resounding applause. […]

WARRIORS WATCH

EASTHAM — Five Nauset High spring teams are headed to postseason play. The boys lacrosse squad defeated Hanover 15-2 on Thursday’s Senior Night to end the regular season with four […]

THE SCUTTLEBUTT

We finally got some guidance from the state about the new emergency-mandated striped bass rules, called for by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Striped Bass Management Board on May […]

RARA AVIS

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

ASTRAL PROJECTIONS

The first week of June is a special time of year out here in this little town at the end of a sandbar. The Strawberry Moon — the first full […]

PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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

TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join.  Monday, June 5 School […]

WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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 […]

EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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

THEATER

The playwright and sometime actor Stephen Adly Guirgis (pronounced GEER-giss, with hard Gs) is a major theatrical talent who isn’t nearly as well known as David Mamet, although Guirgis’s rhythmic, […]

SCIENCE

The environmental challenges in the Amazon rainforest and Arctic permafrost may seem far removed from those in Provincetown, but what happens in one place can drastically affect the present and […]

STORYTELLING

PROVINCETOWN — Tens of thousands of people descend on this queer haven at land’s end every summer to eat, drink, and be merry with chosen family. Adam Golub, the creative […]

ARTISTS

The Fine Arts Work Center hosted a lush and virtuosic exhibition last summer titled “Glitch Aesthetics.” In it were two heads by Alicia Henry, crudely cut from stained fabric, their […]

PRIDE

WNYC Studios’ Lulu Miller had an idea for Pride Month: “a fun little science story about same-sex mating and relationships in nature.” But “The Seagulls,” the episode of Radiolab, which […]

CABARET

Are you dreaming, as I am, of a bottomless martini with a side of regret? Clever lyrics wryly sung? Heartbreak delivered at 11 o’clock? If you answered yes to any […]

The Art of Their Lives A current exhibition and upcoming book launch at the Provincetown Commons (46 Bradford St.) illustrate the often unexpected ways in which paintings and the written […]

VIGNETTE

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THE YEAR-ROUNDER

There is a sadness in Provincetown’s East End Dwyer Woods today. It is a beautiful morning, with bright sunshine and enough breeze to make the mosquitos work for their blood […]

HEALING

I have planted three pink geraniums in the flower box next to Dr. Henry Seidel’s memorial bench at the marina overlooking Wellfleet Harbor. They are pink because I remember Dr. […]

INCIDENTALLY

I was the only customer in the Truro Post Office when I pulled my mail out of our box and found it included a large rolled-up Manila envelope. I didn’t […]

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Dennis Minsky is mourning the impending loss of Provincetown’s beech trees in his column this week. In their case, a tiny nematode seems to be the cause. Scientists don’t yet […]

OBITUARY

Thomas J. Pellegrino died unexpectedly on May 9, 2023 at Pleasant Bay Nursing Center in Brewster. The cause was complications of cardiac and circulatory disease, said his son. A lifelong […]

OBITUARY

A memorial service for Hazel Marie Cox, who died on March 17, 2023 at 88, will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 3 at the Methodist Church in […]

OBITUARY

A celebration of the life of artist Richard J. Pepitone, who died on Nov. 8, 2022 at age 86, will be held from 2 to 7 p.m. on Sunday, June […]

TIDE CHART

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from May 22 to May 26, 2023.  PROVINCETOWN  May 22. Paul Pysher to Kris E. McMurray. 135 Bradford St., Unit A. $699,999. […]

CLASSIFIEDS

FOR SALE  Art for sale. Grillo, Beauchamp, Trieff, and many others. Sat., June 10 and Sun., June 11. In Wellfleet. Call for details. Please call between 10 a.m. and 4 […]

Weekend of Colors (Thursday-Sunday, June 1-4) Womxn of Color Weekend runs from Thursday, June 1 through Sunday, June 4 and includes a variety of workshops, shows, parties, and shared meals […]

Town of Wellfleet Zoning Board of Appeals Public Hearing June 22, 2023 Pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 40-A, Section 11, and Wellfleet Section 235, the ZBA will hold a […]

Town of Provincetown Invitation for Bids Harbor Patrol/Rescue Boat The Town of Provincetown, MA is soliciting bids for a Harbor Patrol/Rescue Boat. Sealed bids shall be submitted to the Office […]

TOWN OF TRURO BOARD/COMMITTEE/COMMISSION VACANCIES The Truro Select Board is seeking applicants to fill vacancies on the following: TRURO SCHOOL COMMITTEE (1) UNEXPIRED TERM UNTIL THE ATE MAY 2024* *Submission […]

Town of Eastham Zoning Board of Appeals Public Hearing June 21, 2023 The Town of Eastham Planning Board will hold a public hearing at 5:00 pm on Wednesday, June 21, […]

RETROSPECTIVE

TRURO — Fifty years ago, on a stretch of shore known as Brush Hollow, nestled between the ocean and a high dune just south of Ballston Beach, multigenerational throngs gathered […]

DINING OUT

PROVINCETOWN — Long before Jimmy’s Hideaway opened in 2007, locals and visitors here knew Jimmy and Raife. Jimmy McNulty was a bartender at the Lobster Pot for 13 years — […]

RADIOACTIVITY

PLYMOUTH — Five radioactive isotopes and 22 nonradioactive pollutants were found in untreated wastewater samples drawn from the spent fuel pool, torus, and dryer-separator at the closed Pilgrim nuclear power […]

HOUSING

PROVINCETOWN — The 65-unit affordable housing project at the former VFW site at 3 Jerome Smith Road in Provincetown was funded by the state last week to a tune of […]

OUTDOORS ACT

TRURO — By the end of June, the Cape Cod National Seashore will be about three-quarters of the way through its demolition of 44 buildings — an undertaking being carried […]

CENTENARIANS

PROVINCETOWN — The hottest event in town on the afternoon of May 22 wasn’t at the Boatslip or the A-House. It was at Seashore Point, the independent elder living facility […]

THE JUSTICE SYSTEM

ORLEANS — Felony firearms charges against Barbara Boone of Wellfleet, stemming from an incident last spring, have been dismissed after six months of probation and 25 hours of community service. […]

LAW ENFORCEMENT

WELLFLEET — On Tuesday evenings in February and March, nine Wellfleet citizens — and one Independent reporter — attended the citizens’ police academy at Wellfleet Police Dept. headquarters on Gross […]

NATURALIZATION

EASTHAM — The class was on lesson six, “Important Symbols in Our Lives,” at the start of the third session at the Eastham Public Library on May 16, and all […]

POETRY OF PEACE

CENTERVILLE — “Wow,” said Nina Tepper, smiling as she watched a standing-room-only audience fill the pews, balcony, and vestibule of the South Congregational Church in Centerville on May 20, eager […]

CHEF’S REWARD

Alice Gong is an accidental sushi chef. “I didn’t set out to do it,” she says. “It’s just one of those things where you get a job, and it allows […]

GRAVEYARD SHIFT

Towns have myriad ways of honoring their war dead. Grand monuments, parks, and plazas are built for contemplation and reflection. Street corners named in a soldier’s honor are adorned with […]

STREET FASHION

PROVINCETOWN — Kelly Drew drove to Provincetown from her home in Greenfield for a weekend-long celebration of a friend’s birthday and a chance to be out on the town. “I […]

TO THE MAT

If you are anything like me, you suddenly have many things you want to do — too many things. As summer begins, it is easy to become scattered. This is […]

LOVE, ACTUALLY

PROVINCETOWN — Shawn Fiedler and Joshua Butts hopped on the morning ferry from Provincetown to Boston last weekend to elope. They were married at Old South Church next to Copley […]

THE SCUTTLEBUTT

Striped bass fishing was a bit spotty last week. They seem to be cruising north to south in the bay. From the Pamet to south of Billingsgate Shoals are where […]

CROSSWORD #42

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WARRIORS WATCH

EASTHAM — The Nauset boys track team won the Cape and Islands Championship at Monomoy on Monday with a team score of 106. Dennis-Yarmouth was second with 93, and Falmouth […]

ON THE BEACH

New England groundfishermen complained loudly two decades ago about increasing regulation of various fisheries, notably our region’s cod and haddock, which were easily its most lucrative species. Why cut the […]

RARA AVIS

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, May 23 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

ASTRAL PROJECTIONS

Prepare to share this space again, townies and washashores: It’s that time again. We’ll all have a little help from the Sun’s sextile with Mars. That should spark a lively […]

Those wishing to honor the sacrifice of local veterans on Memorial Day will have good opportunities to do so on Monday. Two back-to-back ceremonies begin at 10 a.m. at the […]

SMALL-TOWN NOISE

WELLFLEET — Trudy Vermehren has been in an argument with neighbors about noise ever since she moved her popular year-round gathering spot, the Fox & Crow Café, from its previous […]

PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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

TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join.  Thursday, May 25 Climate […]

WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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 […]

EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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

WOMEN’S WEEKEND

Natalia Zukerman has taken a “long and winding road,” to where she is now, she says on the phone. Primarily known as a piercing singer-songwriter and stalwart touring musician, Zukerman […]

ART AND ACCESS

“I wanted this room to be quiet,” says Gail Bell, sitting in her Wellfleet living room. Outside the windows, traffic and pedestrians flow along Main Street, but she has created […]

LINE BREAK

Parking lots in Provincetown are charging. The Dolphin Fleet is taking people out, and the ferries are already bringing the clack of roller bags down the pier and into town. […]

MUSIC

Only two musicians will be playing at the Hawthorne Barn in Provincetown on May 27. But the Oshima Brothers want the audience to feel like they’re experiencing the sound of […]

TRANSLATION

EASTHAM — When the German-speaking Czech writer Franz Kafka died in 1924 from tuberculosis, he ordered his close friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his work. Brod, […]

A Mother’s Eye, a Daughter as Muse From Edward Weston’s portraits of his son Neil (who grew up to be a photographer) to Sally Mann’s sometimes controversial studies of her […]

VIGNETTE

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CASUALTIES OF WAR

PROVINCETOWN — When Marine Corps veteran Craig Butilier was stationed on Okinawa in 2004, he told a recent meeting of the VFW here, “there were eight suicides in my unit.” […]

REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK

One of my off-season research and writing quests started with a question I feel personally: how can artists continue to gain access to this place? Ross Moffett showed up here […]

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The Cost of Eggs To the editor: I heartily agree with Peter Clemons’s view that the Provincetown Independent is a treasured local news resource that deserves our support [letter, May […]

OBITUARY

Wellfleet native and longtime parishioner of the United Methodist Church Hazel Marie Cox of Keene, N.H. died on March 17, 2023 at Genesis Healthcare in Keene. She was 88. The […]

OBITUARY

Stephen F. Royka of North Truro died at home in his sleep on April 24, 2023. He was 85. He was born on April 7, 1938, in Rochester, N.Y. to […]

OBITUARY

After a long career as a corporate executive, nonprofit leader, and civic advocate, Ellen Randolph Coolidge Burbank died at her home in Philadelphia on May 15, 2023. The cause was […]

OBITUARY

Dr. Susan M. Gatto of South Wellfleet died peacefully at home on May 10, 2023 after a prolonged bout with cancer. She was 76. The daughter of Charles and Mercedes […]

TIDE CHART

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from May 15 to May 19, 2023.  PROVINCETOWN  May 16. 18 Bangs Street LLC [Lyn A. Plummer, agent] to James R. Schmidt […]

CLASSIFIEDS

YARD SALES Yard sale, Provincetown. Collectibles and household: Italian coffee pot. Matching porcelain pitcher and bowl. Fish poacher. Outdoor pillows. Frames. Vintage clothing: Norma Kamali. Donna Karan. Eileen Fisher. Armani. […]

Walk the Walk (Friday, May 26) The weekly Provincetown Gallery Stroll kicks off the 2023 summer season on Friday, May 26 with dozens of galleries hosting viewings and artist receptions […]

Town of Wellfleet Conservation Commission Public Hearing June 7, 2023 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 Board of Health Public Hearing June 6, 2023  The Truro Board of Health will hold a public hearing on June 6, 2023 to review and approve amendments […]

Town of Provincetown Historic District Commission Public Hearing June 7, 2023 The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in […]

OCEAN VIEW DRIVE

WELLFLEET — England may have Banksy, but Wellfleet has its own mystery graffiti artist whose works have been popping up at the town’s beaches, painted on the plywood boards where […]

DEMOGRAPHICS

PROVINCETOWN — The Outer Cape’s sparse population has long been part of its appeal. But during the early months of the pandemic, that characteristic of our towns suddenly became especially […]

TRURO ELECTION

TRURO — Late on election night, the “unofficial results” for Truro’s May 9 town balloting showed a perfectly tied vote on the Community Sustainability Package — a bundle of three […]

HOUSING

PROVINCETOWN — If you’re subscribed to emails from your town’s government, you’ve probably received a message recently asking you to respond to the Cape Cod Commission’s Regional Housing Preference Survey. […]

SMALL-TOWN NOISE

WELLFLEET — Trudy Vermehren has been in an argument with neighbors about noise ever since she moved her popular year-round gathering spot, the Fox & Crow Café, from its previous […]

SPEECH

TRURO — The select board is no longer working on one of its goals and objectives for fiscal 2023, according to member Sue Areson: the implementation of a “civility pledge” […]

ENVIRONMENT

WELLFLEET — You will no longer find your favorite soft drinks or seltzer waters in single-serving plastic bottles on the shelves of Wellfleet’s markets and take-out windows. That’s because a plastic […]

BUSINESS

TRURO — Robert Martin has been selling firewood from a roadside lot at 100 Route 6 since he began renting it on Jan. 15. This spring, the business’s footprint seemed […]

TOWN ELECTIONS

EASTHAM — According to preliminary results released on the evening of May 16, town voters have elected Monica Montoya-Quintero and Debra Raymond to fill the two open seats on the […]

THE COMMUNICATOR

PROVINCETOWN — Not long after Smoochie Chute set out on his morning walk April 13 around his East End neighborhood with his brother, Love Bug, he returned, screaming in pain. […]

THE SCHOOL MUSICAL

Students at the Provincetown Schools wrapped up their theater season last weekend with sold-out performances of Once Upon This Island, Jr. The musical is an adaptation of the show that […]

ON THE LANDSCAPE

It was a lie-in-the-grass type of day, so I listened and lay in the grass. If a day has this feeling, and you have a moment, it’s a good thing […]

GARDENER’S NOTEBOOK

Text and Drawings by Abraham Storer Although it’s still early in the season, Fiona Mulligan’s Eastham garden is full of green, and her small hillside orchard is dotted with flowering […]

MILLION-YEAR PICNIC

Have you noticed the very bright star in the west these past few months? That’s the planet Venus. Among the denizens of the night sky, its brilliant blue-white light is […]

FROM THE LARDER

Once again, I sigh as I browse the produce aisle at the grocery store. There, standing between me and the blueberries or kale or lettuce, is so much plastic. Those […]

M.I.B.

TRURO — Fred Marshall was out hunting for sea glass on Cobb Hill Beach on April 16 when he thought he spotted treasure: a glint of cobalt blue — the […]

THE SCUTTLEBUTT

The 2023 striped bass season has officially begun on the Outer Cape. It may seem like we’ve been waiting a long time, but the truth is they are way ahead […]

WARRIORS WATCH

EASTHAM — Nauset boys track finished the season undefeated to claim the league championship, while the boys tennis team notched its fifth straight win during a busy week for Warrior […]

BEHIND THE WHEEL

Early in the relationship between mechanic and car owner, the questions a customer will ask are pretty straightforward: “Do you hear that clunk-clunk? What do you think it is?” or […]

RARA AVIS

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, May 16 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

ASTRAL PROJECTIONS

As the Sun moves into lively Gemini on May 21, the energy in the air shifts in a good direction. We can expect to be breathing a more dynamic and […]

10,000 BATTERIES

PROVINCETOWN — For the first time in years, the Outer Cape managed to avoid major power outages last winter. There were storms — including on Dec. 23, when several East […]

THE DREDGE REPORT

WELLFLEET — Town officials are finalizing plans to dedicate 28 acres of Blackfish Creek to oyster habitat enhancement as required by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to receive a […]

PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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

TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join.  Thursday, May 18 Pamet […]

WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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 […]

EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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

MUSEUMS

Sky Power points to a loosely defined shape in her painting Interior of a Landscape. It could be a boat floating in water: an orange rectangle rising from a half-moon […]

DRAG DESK

For all its fierce glamour and industrial-strength levels of hairspray, a drag show is a fragile thing. The delicate alchemy of performer, venue, and audience can be lost when an […]

‘BOUNDARY SCHOOL’

Even over Zoom, Antoinette Cooper’s presence radiates harmony. The poet, medical humanist, and spiritual practitioner is calling in from her home in New York City, where she says rodents have […]

THEATER REVIEW

When Harvey Fierstein’s Casa Valentina premiered on Broadway in April 2014 — only nine years ago — Obama was president, the Supreme Court decision that made same-sex marriage a Constitutional […]

Calling All Classical Musicians Open Mic Classical was founded in 2015 by clarinetist Monika Woods and violist and sculptor Robert Marcus to create a community of classical musicians of all […]

VIGNETTE

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THE YEAR-ROUNDER

Exactly 50 years ago, I met Charlie Schmid, or Dune Charlie, as he was known. He was what might have once been called a hermit, living by himself with his […]

OP-ODE

Late in Covid’s first October, my wife and I stuffed three days of provisions into a picnic cooler, downloaded two long audio books, and drove from Austin, Texas to the […]

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

 No one will be surprised to hear that as a kid I was a newspaper junkie. I delivered papers in the New York suburbs: the Times and the Herald Tribune, […]

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Miraculous Dune Shacks To the editor: I sincerely suggest that everyone — locals, natives, and much-appreciated visitors — subscribe to the Provincetown Independent. Not just during the summer months but […]

OBITUARY

Susan Catherine (Ford) Turcotte died peacefully at home in Wellfleet with her husband, Willie, by her side on May 7, 2023. She was 80. The daughter of the late Catherine […]

OBITUARY

In 2014, a man named Adam P. from Salem, N.H. posted a review of Mad as a Hatter after a visit to Provincetown. “For each hat we picked up, Peter […]

OBITUARY

Jacqueline Rae Charter of Wellfleet died on Feb. 12, 2023 at Cape Regency Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Centerville. In the days before her death, her son, Chad, and […]

TIDE CHART

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CLASSIFIEDS

ESTATE SALE  The family of Barbara Rushmore announces an estate sale at her home, featuring Roseville Pottery, Provincetown art, memorabilia, books, furniture, jewelry, rugs, and many odd things collected by […]

All the Single Ladies (Friday-Sunday, May 19-21) Single Women’s Weekend, featuring a lively schedule of speed dating, dance parties, mixers, scavenger hunts, comedy shows, and more, lands in Provincetown from […]

TOWN OF TRURO Board of Health Public Hearing June 6, 2023  The Truro Board of Health will hold a public hearing on June 6, 2023 to review and approve amendments […]

Town of Provincetown Planning Board Public Hearing May 25, 2023 The Provincetown Planning Board will hold a Public Hearing on Thursday, May 25, 2023, at 6:00 P.M. in the Judge […]

Town of Eastham Zoning Board of Appeals Public Hearing June 1, 2023 The Town of Eastham Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing at 5:00 pm on Thursday, […]

HISTORIC PRESERVATION

PROVINCETOWN — The National Park Service announced last week “the opportunity for any interested individual” to lease a historic structure in the Dune Shacks of Peaked Hill Bars Historic District, […]

TOWN MEETING

EASTHAM — With nary a cloud in the sky to darken last Saturday’s Eastham town meeting at the Nauset High School football field, voters approved all but the last article […]

TOWN ELECTION

PROVINCETOWN — Erik Borg, 38, and Austin Miller, 32, were both elected to the Provincetown Select Board at the town’s annual election on May 9. They will replace Bobby Anthony […]

THE DREDGE REPORT

WELLFLEET — Town officials are finalizing plans to dedicate 28 acres of Blackfish Creek to oyster habitat enhancement as required by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to receive a […]

MIGHTY NEIGHBORLY

EASTHAM — The owners of a property overlooking Boat Meadow marsh have agreed to compromise with their neighbors and downsize a plan to replace an existing cottage with a large […]

JOURNALISM

WALTHAM — The Provincetown Independent won 16 awards in the Better Newspaper competition of the New England Newspaper and Press Association, announced at the group’s annual convention on Saturday. The […]

EASTHAM ELECTION

EASTHAM — With annual town meeting in the rearview mirror, town elections are ahead on Tuesday, May 16. There are six positions on the ballot but only one contested race: […]

WALSH PROPERTY

TRURO — When Tighe & Bond consultant Gordon Leedy presented a draft conceptual plan for 224 housing units at the Walsh Property Community Planning Committee’s April 19 meeting, the plan […]

FIELD DAY

PROVINCETOWN — A master plan for Motta Field received positive feedback at a May 3 forum held by the recreation dept. and the design firm Weston & Sampson. In fact, […]

SURFING

Surfing is, in essence, being in a relationship with the sea. Before you learn to surf, you must learn to be close to the water. A learner soon finds that […]

FAMILY RECIPE

I always associate certain foods with particular holidays and times of year. Christmas dinner was synonymous with lasagna and my grandmother’s chicken and escarole soup. My birthday in October was […]

MEET THE MAKERS

Danielle Sargent and Julia Lund, owners of Honeybee Bouquets, are preparing for their busiest holiday. The two met waitressing at Mac’s Shack, an experience that has proved surprisingly helpful when […]

READING ROOM

When she first picked up Choosing Brave in her school library in Provincetown, Natoya Hermitt thought it was going to be “about a mother and her son, living in the […]

GOLF

BREWSTER — Nauset sophomore Jack Martin was the first person in Martha White Memorial Tournament history to sink a hole-in-one. It happened on Saturday, May 6, when he aced the […]

WARRIORS WATCH

EASTHAM — Nauset boys lacrosse climbed to the top spot in the MIAA Division 2 power rankings following dominant wins over Sandwich and Canton. The Warriors defeated Sandwich 18-8 on […]

THE SCUTTLEBUTT

The striped bass have arrived, and schoolie-size fish, which typically lead the charge north, are all the way up into the Race. That would indicate the keepers are probably not […]

RARA AVIS

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, May 9 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

ASTRAL PROJECTIONS

Let’s all breathe a big sigh of relief as Mercury, which has been in retrograde since April 21, finally stations direct on May 14. This shift in energy will gradually […]

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

PROVINCETOWN — From art to aquaculture, the potential breadth of a local “blue economy” was on display at the business incubator EforAll’s pitch session held at the Commons on April […]

DERELICTION

WELLFLEET — Among the colorful shops in Wellfleet’s commercial center, one particularly ramshackle building stands out. Makeshift curtains unsuccessfully try to screen what’s inside, but through the dingy windows one […]

PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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

TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, May 11 Housing […]

WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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 […]

EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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

MOTHER’S DAY

Sculptor Breon Dunigan comes from a long line of local artists. Her great-grandparents were the first in her family to move to the Outer Cape, drawn by Charles Hawthorne’s Cape […]

FILM

When Kit Zauhar began marketing her debut feature film Actual People on the festival circuit, she referred to it as “mumblecore for people of color.” “I don’t regret many things […]

MUSIC

Many Americans weren’t taught in history class about the U.S. government’s imprisonment of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II — much less that a swing band made […]

IN THE STUDIO

Julia Felsenthal likes to paint the same thing over and over again. In her Orleans studio — a small room in her house overlooking Pleasant Bay — stacks of watercolors […]

From the Inner Hebrides to the Outer Cape The Outer Cape and the Isle of Skye off the northwest coast of Scotland are separated by three thousand miles of mostly […]

VIGNETTE

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THE YEAR-ROUNDER

Of all the human shortcomings I can think of, the one that irks me most is complacency. Of course, a healthy sense of self is a positive thing, but being […]

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Our newsroom had a visit last week from Jay Ward Brown, a part-time Provincetown resident whose other home is in Virginia. Brown reads the Indie as well as his local […]

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Wellfleet Scholarships To the editor: At the recent annual town meeting, Wellfleet postponed consideration of a motion to contribute a significant amount of money toward a scholarship fund for Wellfleet […]

OBITUARY

Douglas Theodore Nichols of Ft. Myers, Fla. and Provincetown died at the Gulf Coast Medical Center in Ft. Myers on April 21, 2023 after an intense, brief fight against cancer. […]

OBITUARY

After a struggle with cancer, Richard A. Scoullar Jr. died at his mother’s home at 22 Court St. in Provincetown on April 12, 2023, surrounded by loved ones. He was […]

OBITUARY

Sandra (Barton) Proia died on April 5, 2023 at Bellamy Fields in Dover, N.H. under the care of the VNA hospice team. She was 78. Sandra was born in Middletown, […]

TIDE CHART

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PROVINCETOWN  May 4. Irv Morgan and Donald Vafides to Alan Marquis Craig and Jeffrey Paul Huard 2023 Trust (Alan Marquis Craig and Jeffrey Paul Huard, trustees). 56A West Vine St. […]

CLASSIFIEDS

YARD SALES  Yard sale featuring art and décor. Location: Harry Kemp Way opposite the exit of the Conwell Home Center. Dates: Fri., May 19 and Sat., May 20 from 10 […]

Grab a Seat (Thursday, May 11) The multi-instrumentalist Grab Brothers perform at The Pearl (250 Commercial St., Wellfleet) on Thursday, May 11, 3 p.m., to celebrate the opening day of […]

Town of Wellfleet Select Board Public Hearing May 16, 2023 In accordance with M.G.L. Chapter 138, notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held on Tuesday, May […]

Town of Provincetown Board of Health Public Hearing May 18, 2023 The Provincetown Board of Health will hold a public hearing on Thursday May 18, 2023, at 4:00 p.m. in the […]

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DERELICTION

WELLFLEET — Among the colorful shops in Wellfleet’s commercial center, one particularly ramshackle building stands out. Makeshift curtains unsuccessfully try to screen what’s inside, but through the dingy windows one […]

EASTHAM TOWN MEETING

EASTHAM — At town meeting this Saturday, voters will consider eight updates to Eastham’s residential zoning rules. Articles 7A through 7H center on a plan to regulate the size and […]

WELLFLEET OVERRIDES

WELLFLEET — With the opportune arrival of an influx of free cash, a largely agreeable gym-full of voters at Saturday’s town meeting left no article defeated. The six-hour meeting was […]

TRURO TOWN MEETING

TRURO — As the Truro Central School gym reached and then exceeded capacity before town meeting began on April 25, staff adapted to the unprecedented turnout — the highest since […]

DEVELOPMENT

PROVINCETOWN — Businessman Patrick Patrick and developer Christine Barker each have surveyor’s drawings showing the line between their waterfront properties on Commercial Street. But the two drawings show different locations […]

THE JUSTICE SYSTEM

Editor’s note: This article was updated with new information on May 6, 2023. PROVINCETOWN — Jonathan Bridges, the Provincetown resident who is facing felony charges from an incident that brought […]

EASTHAM TOWN MEETING

EASTHAM — This year’s annual town meeting will be outdoors again, on the Nauset Regional High School athletic field at 100 Cable Road. The meeting is this Saturday, May 6 […]

TRURO TOWN ELECTION

TRURO — To Paul Wisotzky, annual town meeting is not so different from Thanksgiving dinner. “You spend days cooking and then you eat the meal in 20 minutes,” he said. […]

WELLFLEET TOWN ELECTION

WELLFLEET — Select board incumbent Ryan Curley defeated challenger Jeanne Maclaughlan at the May 1 town election. And on May 2 the board asked Curley to serve another year as […]

ON THE LANDSCAPE

I sit in front of the window to write. A small desk is built into its frame, made from an old slab of maple that was milled with a chain […]

THE COMMUTE

PROVINCETOWN — About an hour before sunrise on Friday, May 5, a Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority bus will leave the affordable housing complex at Nauset Green in Eastham and […]

MEET THE MAKER

WELLFLEET — Before there was a Mac’s Shack, which is to say before there was butter-poached lobster on fresh corn risotto, there was the Bayside Lobster Hutt. It was Joe […]

ON THE BEACH

A year off from graduate school in 1972 gave me the chance to fulfill my dream of being on Cape Cod all year round. I finagled free winter digs in […]

COOK’S KITCHEN

Those ho-hum bundles flown in from the other hemisphere most of the year can’t fool me. I like to wait for real asparagus — and it’s finally here. The green […]

ROAD TRIP

When Charlie Bates departed from Provincetown on Dec. 16, 2022, he took a selfie with the Route 6 sign on the way out of town. “Bishop, CA 3,205 miles,” the […]

THE SCUTTLEBUTT

The word is migratory bass have begun to show up in the Canal and in estuary mouths along the Cape’s south shore. Some fish as large as 30 inches have […]

SOFTBALL

HYANNIS — Last season, Nauset’s softball team dropped its opener 22-1 at Wareham. This year, the team was rocked 12-0 by perennial juggernaut Sturgis East-West. But unlike last year, the Warriors […]

WARRIORS WATCH

EASTHAM — The Nauset boys lacrosse team held on to beat Scituate 14-13 on Friday in a battle between two high-ranking teams in their division. The Warriors are no. 4 […]

MILLION-YEAR PICNIC

“How did you know that’s where you’d find Saturn? How did you know the Moon would be right there? How did you know that was the North Star?” These “how […]

RARA AVIS

The report from Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary for the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, May 2 was delayed, wrote Mark Faherty, “because I ended up out […]

ASTRAL PROJECTIONS

As the vibrant colors of spring continue to blossom, so does a striking blend of astrological aspects that will influence, well, at the very least, our moves at the first […]

PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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

TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join.  Monday, May 8 Concert […]

WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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 […]

EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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

MUSIC

Rufus Wainwright has never been to Provincetown, though it’s been on his radar for a long time. “We’ve kind of been circling each other dramatically for a while now, P’town […]

MUSIC IN THE SCHOOLS

TRURO — First, Bart Weisman and his group played George Gershwin’s 1934 tune “Summertime” slow and easy — just like it was in the original production of the musical Porgy […]

INDIE SCREEN

At the beginning of the revelatory Belgian film Close, young Leo, whose parents own a flower farm, can think of nothing more than spending all his summer days with Remi, […]

ART AND ACCESS

The tenth season of Twenty Summers, a program of artist residencies and cultural events held in the Hawthorne Barn in Provincetown, begins this month. The barn’s history informs the organization’s […]

Listening to a World of Creativity Since the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod’s Creative Exchange podcast was launched four years ago, it has spotlighted eminent Outer Cape artists and cultural […]

VIGNETTE

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OP-ED

A recent exchange with a friend I hadn’t talked with in a while started in the usual way: “Hope you are doing well.” I’ve been thinking about his reply: “We’re […]

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

May 3 marked the 30th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day, first declared by the United Nations General Assembly in 1993. A free press, says the U.N., “is a prerequisite […]

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Preventing ‘Outsize’ Buildings To the editor: Re “ZBA Asks New Owners and Abutters to Compromise on Big House” [April 27, page A4]: Attorney Ben Zehnder, representing property owners who propose […]

OBITUARY

After nearly half a century providing nursing care for older Provincetown residents, Nancy Tarvers died at home on April 13, 2023 with her son, Michael, by her side. She was […]

OBITUARY

Peter Thrasher, a longtime resident of Provincetown and North Truro, died on April 21, 2023. He was 52. A native of Newton, Peter was the son of Jody Thrasher, born […]

OBITUARY

A celebration of the life of Duane Steele, the former publisher of the Provincetown Advocate who died on March 8 at 83, will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, […]

TIDE CHART

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Real Estate Transactions  Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from April 24 to April 28, 2023.  PROVINCETOWN  April 24. William G. Burton to Helen Molesworth and Susan Dackerman. […]

CLASSIFIEDS

SEEKING Wheels. One of our Indie summer fellows is looking for a used car. Nothing fancy. It is needed only for this summer and for getting around the Outer Cape […]

’Tis the Season (Friday, May 5) The Boatslip (161 Commercial St., Provincetown) kicks off the season with its first Tea Dance on Friday, May 5, 4 p.m. The legendary afternoon […]

Town of Wellfleet Select Board Public Hearing May 16, 2023 In accordance with M.G.L. Chapter 138, notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held on Tuesday, May […]

TOWN OF TRURO Zoning Board of Appeals Remote Public Hearings Monday, May 22 2023 at 5:30 pm 2023-004/ZBA Truro Atlantic View Realty Trust, Bruce A. Jacobson, Trustee for property located […]

Town of Provincetown Historic District Commission Public Hearing May 17, 2023 The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, May 17, 2023, in […]

INFERNO

TRURO — When Robert Byrnes stepped outside last Friday morning, April 21, he found a typewritten letter in his yard addressed to Todd Henning. This page is available to subscribers. […]

MIGHTY NEIGHBORLY

EASTHAM — The zoning board of appeals spent more than two hours on April 6 considering an appeal filed by abutters opposed to the planning board’s recent approval of a […]

FREE AT LAST

WELLFLEET — Town Administrator Richard Waldo received word on Friday that a key goal for the town had been achieved: the Mass. Dept. of Revenue had finally certified Wellfleet’s free […]

FACT CHECK

PROVINCETOWN — It’s town meeting season on Cape Cod — which means that in addition to the gray skies, spring blossoms, and allergy attacks, there’s another perennial popping up: questions […]

TRURO TOWN MEETING

TRURO — Voters at Tuesday’s annual town meeting approved three Proposition 2½ overrides totaling $1.4 million but rejected a fourth seeking $107,000 for a full-time “school resource officer,” which had […]

PROVINCETOWN ELECTION

PROVINCETOWN — Austin Knight is running on his record — and it’s quite a record. He’s been elected to the select board three times, in 2007, 2010, and 2013. He […]

PROVINCETOWN ELECTION

PROVINCETOWN — Austin Miller says he is “an incredibly details-oriented person.” He knows the name of the freshwater wellfield that Provincetown will need to expand to secure more drinking water. […]

PROVINCETOWN ELECTION

PROVINCETOWN — After running for select board in 2014 and again in 2017 without success, Gordon Siegel believes the time is right for his third campaign. A real estate agent […]

PROVINCETOWN ELECTION

PROVINCETOWN — Over the past decade, Erik Borg has been a weekend visitor, a reporter, a bartender, and eventually a year-round business owner and resident here. Now, the part-owner of […]

EARTH DAY

TRURO — Brian Weeden, chairman of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, asked for a moment of silence to remember the Paomet people. Weeden was standing on the grounds of the Highland […]

FISHERIES

There is perhaps no thornier marine management issue for regulatory bodies on the Atlantic Coast than what to do about horseshoe crabs, which are harvested as bait for the whelk […]

THE BIRD WATCH

I think just about everyone around here is familiar with the faceoff that took place earlier this spring between a pair of bald eagles and a very determined male osprey. […]

TO THE MAT

I love this time of year. It seems so full of possibility and promise. There is a new energy in the air, and practicing Parighasana or Gate Pose is a […]

CROSSWORD #41

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THE ESSSENTIALS

They’re here! After spending the winter offshore, squid arrive when the waters around Cape Cod begin to warm up. They come to spawn, with activity peaking from late April until […]

THE SCUTTLEBUTT

This past week we all got a grim reminder of how unforgiving the sea can be, particularly with a small craft taken far offshore. A 17-foot boat was found upside-down […]

MILLION-YEAR PICNIC

“How did you know that’s where you’d find Saturn? How did you know the Moon would be right there? How did you know that was the North Star?” These “how […]

WARRIORS WATCH

EASTHAM — The Nauset Warriors girls lacrosse team provided a highlight in a quiet April vacation week with a 14-12 road win over Cape Cod Academy in Osterville on Thursday. […]

THE COMMUNICATOR

Lula the Pig said she would buy the flowers herself. “We’re having a party,” she said in a startlingly deep voice, one you might expect from a bear rather than […]

RARA AVIS

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, April 25 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

ASTRAL PROJECTIONS

Are you starting to feel a little dizzy? Between the ongoing Mercury retrograde in Taurus and the beginning of Pluto going retrograde in Aquarius on May 2, who isn’t? Here […]

PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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

TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join.  Monday, May 1 Conservation […]

WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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 […]

EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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

COVER STORY

Jane Rosenberg would probably rather not be talking to yet another reporter. “It’s been a lot of interviews since the Trump arraignment,” she told the Independent. As a courtroom sketch […]

MUSEUMS

Far from the heroic scale and subject matter of works by many of his contemporaries, Will Barnet’s flat, crisp compositions often depicted women (and their cats) in domestic spaces. Born […]

LINE BREAK

Spring is in the air and on the water. These past few weeks, I’ve been watching a colony of double-crested cormorants, back after wintering south of here, remake their nests […]

MOVIES

On a recent Tuesday morning at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, 20-year-old intern Mia Lima made sure the coffee and water were hot and plentiful and plates of donated homemade snacks were […]

From the Pamet River to East 10th Street Many of Andrew W. Young’s minimal compositions are inspired by the Outer Cape landscape and by the artist William Holst (1912-1995), who […]

VIGNETTE

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THE YEAR-ROUNDER

People have it easy on social media: they are always right. Sitting at home in their pajamas or underwear, drinking a beer — or two, or three — they can […]

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

It’s town election season, and there are contested select board seats in both Provincetown and Wellfleet this spring. The Independent isn’t endorsing any of them. And I don’t mean that […]

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Wisotzky Is Running To the editor: I’m excited to announce my candidacy for Truro moderator as a write-in candidate in the May 9 election. Truro has been a part of […]

OBITUARY

Paul N. LaFrance, former owner of the Corn Hill Cottages in Truro, died on Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023 at Regal Care in Harwich, with his daughter Marilyn by his […]

OBITUARY

Former Wellfleet Building Inspector Gerald Clay Sutton of Orleans, builder of the Mainstay Motel, died peacefully at home on April 15, 2023 surrounded by his family. Even in his last […]

TIDE CHART

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Real Estate Transactions  Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from April 18 to April 21, 2023.  PROVINCETOWN  April 18. RMJM LLC [Ralph E. Menold and James McNulty, managers] […]

CLASSIFIEDS

SEEKING Room or roommate. I’m returning to work for the Town of Provincetown again this season and looking for a room in a shared house or a roommate in the […]

Whale Tales (Thursday, April 27) The Center for Coastal Studies (5 Holway Ave., Provincetown), in conjunction with the Provincetown Public Library’s annual Moby-Dick marathon reading, presents a lecture by research […]

Town of Eastham Planning Board Public Hearing May 17, 2023 The Town of Eastham Planning Board will hold a public hearing at 5:00 pm on Wednesday, May 17, 2023 in […]

Town of Wellfleet Select Board Public Hearing May 2, 2023 In accordance with M.G.L. Chapter 138, notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held on Tuesday, May […]

Town of Provincetown Licensing Board Public Hearing May 9, 2023 The Provincetown Licensing Board will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, May 9, 2023 at 5:15 p.m. in the Judge […]

FAITH

TRURO — On a bright spring Sunday, the sound of gospel music fills a small chapel in North Truro. The verses flow over pastel-colored hats worn by women in the […]

TOWN MEETING PREVIEW

TRURO — Town meeting is less than a week away, and there are 42 articles on this year’s warrant. With four budget overrides, 10 Community Preservation Act articles, six citizen […]

YOUNG LIVES

Two teenagers discussed their paths out of life-threatening depression at a March 28 online forum on youth suicide prevention organized by the League of Women Voters. Sophia Ryan, a senior […]

RADIOACTIVITY

PLYMOUTH — Holtec International can’t release one drop of its million gallons of wastewater from the former Pilgrim nuclear plant into Cape Cod Bay because doing so would violate the […]

CYCLING

PROVINCETOWN — Turning disparate stretches of bike trail into a connected network can be like carpentry: the junctions and joinery require just as much attention as the long boards. One […]

WELLFLEET ELECTION

WELLFLEET — Select board chair Ryan Curley wants to finish what he started. At the annual town election on May 1, Curley will face former Wellfleet Principal Clerk Jeanne Maclauchlan, […]

WELLFLEET ELECTION

WELLFLEET — Jeanne Maclauchlan did not want her picture in the newspaper, but perhaps many people know her already. She retired from her job as the town’s principal clerk last […]

CIVICS

PROVINCETOWN — In the aftermath of the April 3 town meeting’s 90-minute dustup over Articles 18, 19, and 20 on short-term rental regulation, some of the 582 registered Provincetown voters […]

TOWN MEETING TACTICS

PROVINCETOWN — Leading up to the April 3 annual town meeting, texting campaigns both for and against three controversial petitioned articles proposing short-term rental regulations landed in the phones of […]

ON THE BEACH

The last time I used anything more than a single hook while fishing was a memorable mid-September day in 1978, when an enormous school of 15-pound bluefish cornered an even […]

FROM THE LARDER

It’s the end of our stay in my other hometown. We fill the car with our suitcases plus all our Mardi Gras accoutrements, including wigs, hats, a sequined dress, and […]

ON THE LANDSCAPE

WELLFLEET — Moving down the path that runs along the southern edge of Dyer Pond, I felt the cold northeast air move over the pond and chill my windward side. […]

ON THE COURT

EASTHAM — The Nauset Regional High School mock trial team is officially among the eight best high school teams in the state this year. On March 8, the team traveled […]

THE COMMUNICATOR

Lula the Pig said she would buy the flowers herself. “We’re having a party,” she said in a startlingly deep voice, one you might expect from a bear rather than […]

GRAVEYARD SHIFT

Swashbuckling pirates and mooncussing scoundrels, real or fictional, have long been characters in the Cape Cod story. So, too, have castaways, washed ashore after a shipwreck, or put ashore, as […]

RARA AVIS

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, April 18 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

THE SCUTTLEBUTT

The northern fringe of the striped bass migration reached Rhode Island this past week, and if we continue to get this unseasonably warm weather the bass could be in our […]

WARRIORS WATCH

EASTHAM — Nauset boys tennis stayed hot last week while boys and girls lacrosse picked up wins as the spring season kept rolling. The boys tennis team improved to 5-0, […]

FOR THE BIRDS

EASTHAM — Kerry Reid is conflicted about the fact that she keeps a parrot at her house. “I don’t encourage people to do it,” she says. “It’s a cool thing, […]

GOLDEN HOUR

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ASTRAL PROJECTIONS

A solar eclipse in Aries on April 19 will have lasting effects throughout the week, with the best ones being fresh beginnings. The Sun then moves into Taurus, and how […]

PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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

TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, April 20 Pamet […]

WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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 […]

EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online-attendance option. Go to eastham-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for details. All meetings at Town Hall unless […]

MUSEUMS

“The Provincetown Printmakers,” currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, makes a case for the significance of a group of mostly women artists who forged new directions […]

WRITERS

Jorrell Watkins is a student of many disciplines: playwriting, teaching, music, conflict mediation, and martial arts, among others. He’s developed theater productions, taught writing workshops, and earned a black belt […]

DOCUMENTARY FILM

Nadine Licostie has been in Provincetown long enough to know that scientific observation of its environment is just as much a part of life here as Carnival celebrations and the […]

NIGHTLIFE

If you’re having trouble understanding the title of the three-night event at the Crown & Anchor in Provincetown this weekend, a little explanation may be in order. CDXX is the […]

Black Artists, Black Lives Contemporary African American artists Amy Sherald, Kerry James Marshall, and Kehinde Wiley will be featured in a Zoom presentation by lecturer Bob Potter titled “Reclaiming Black […]

VIGNETTE

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AFTER TOWN MEETING

I grew up in Provincetown and returned home last year after graduating from college. Though I had no plans to get involved in town politics or government and wondered about […]

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

“I’ve always wanted to be older,” said 19-year-old Ella Mae Dixon, the cabaret singer who grew up in Wellfleet, in a recent story. “I can’t explain it.” Jennifer Senior writes […]

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Where Will Workers Live? To the editor: Re “Barker’s Waterfront Plan Is Deemed ‘Appropriate’ ” [April 13, front page]: The Provincetown Historic District Commission has a reputation for detailed consideration […]

OBITUARY

A celebration of the life of Allen R. Gallant, a beloved member of the recovery community who died on Aug. 12, 2022 at 74, will take place at 2 p.m. […]

OBITUARY

Photographer Renate Ponsold Motherwell, who was married to the late artist Robert Motherwell, died in her sleep on Feb. 3, 2023 at the age of 87. Her death was confirmed […]

TIDE CHART

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from April 10 to April 14, 2023.  PROVINCETOWN  April 10. Shire Max LLC [James Stephen Morrison and Arthur J. Bowman III, managers] […]

CLASSIFIEDS

SEEKING Room or roommate. I’m returning to work for the Town of Provincetown again this season and looking for a room in a shared house or a roommate in the […]

Whoo’s That? (Thursday, April 20) Snow Library (67 Main St., Orleans) presents “Wingmasters,” a live program about the world of owls for families and kids age five and up, on […]

Town of Wellfleet Conservation Commission Remote Public Hearing May 3, 2023 Please take notice that the Wellfleet Conservation Commission, in accordance with M.G.L. Chapter 131, Section 40, and the Wellfleet […]

TOWN OF TRURO Board of Health Public Hearing May 2, 2023  The Truro Board of Health will hold a public hearing on May 2, 2023 to review and approve amendments […]

Town of Provincetown Historic District Commission Public Hearing May 3, 2023 The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, May 3, 2023, in […]

TOWN OF EASTHAM Annual Town Warrant The Warrant for the Annual Town Meeting to be held at 10:00 AM on Saturday, May 6, 2023 at the Nauset Regional High School […]

HERRING RIVER RESTORATION

WELLFLEET — Shellfish Constable Nancy Civetta, Assistant Constable Johnny “Clam” Mankevetch, and five AmeriCorps volunteers got to the Chequessett Neck Bridge just before low tide on the morning of April […]

MUNICIPAL PLANNING

PROVINCETOWN — Engineers from the municipal contractor Weston & Sampson told the select board on March 27 that the town had three options for rebuilding the Veterans Memorial Community Center […]

OLD RELIABLE

PROVINCETOWN — Developer Christine Barker’s ambitious plan for 227 and 229 Commercial St., an expansion of her already-approved project at the adjoining Old Reliable Fish House site at 227R Commercial, […]

RETREAT

PROVINCETOWN — Following a tense zoning board of appeals hearing on April 6, Robin Reid, the attorney for the owners of the Foxberry Inn at 29 Bradford St. Extension, withdrew […]

TIDAL FLOW

TRURO — The select board voted on March 28 to replace the damaged culvert currently restricting tidal flow into Mill Pond with an 8-by-8-foot box culvert. Dept. of Public Works […]

LOCAL JOURNALISM

After 34 years as a journalist, almost all of them on Cape Cod, K.C. Myers has resigned from the staff of the Provincetown Independent, where she has worked since its […]

AGING IN EASTHAM

EASTHAM — Nearly half of Eastham’s residents are at least 60 years old, and a recent study shows the trend toward an expanding older population is expected to continue because […]

ON THE BEACH

“On the beach,” was the term sailors once used to describe being on land rather than at sea. Unlike its meaning in our modern beach-and-sun-crazy culture, the original catchphrase had […]

HERRING RIVER RESTORATION

WELLFLEET — Deep into the dense brush of Duck Harbor, a low rumbling sound reverberates off the pitch pines and oak trees. An enormous yellow machine munches through the understory, […]

MEET THE MAKER

Ed Christie’s career lending life to fabric started when he was five years old. And he had a following: kids from his Elmont, N.Y. neighborhood would flock to the puppet […]

FOR THE BIRDS

EASTHAM — Kerry Reid is conflicted about the fact that she keeps a parrot at her house. “I don’t encourage people to do it,” she says. “It’s a cool thing, […]

GRAVEYARD SHIFT

Mercy Otis Warren was born in West Barnstable in 1728 to a family of patriots. Their names are perhaps not as familiar today as John Hancock’s and Sam Adams’s. But […]

MEXICO CITY DISPATCH

I knew a winter trip to Mexico City would be a chance to improve my rusty Spanish and eat (a lot). This time I also found myself learning about art. […]

EGGS IN BASKETS

Parents on the Outer Cape were busy chasing kids who were chasing rabbits last week, with sightings in Provincetown on April 2 and Wellfleet on April 8. Children braved blustery […]

TENNIS

EASTHAM — You can’t miss Nauset High senior Rufus McCleery on the tennis court. His shock of red hair is accentuated by his white polo with the embroidered Nauset “N.” […]

WARRIORS WATCH

EASTHAM — Nauset boys and girls lacrosse and boys tennis all remained unbeaten during a busy week of action. The boys lacrosse team overcame a two-goal first-quarter deficit en route […]

THE SCUTTLEBUTT

It looks like we’re finally getting the beautiful spring weather that towns inland have been enjoying for a week or two. We have been in an easterly fetch pattern, which […]

RARA AVIS

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, April 11 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

ASTRAL PROJECTIONS

It’s time to get in gear. Lucky for us, the Sun in Aries is quintile Mars in Cancer, giving us some much-needed motivation to get all kinds of tedious tasks […]

PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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

TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, April 13 Board […]

WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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 […]

EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online-attendance option. Go to eastham-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for details. All meetings at Town Hall unless […]

ARTISTS

Deb Mell’s uncanny artwork often leaves one wondering. Her paintings are populated with recurring characters — half animal, half human — rendered in meticulous black-and-white marks. They float through spaces […]

WRITERS

When poet John Murillo arrived in Provincetown last October for his second fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center, he wasn’t quite sure where his work would take him. Since […]

TV OR NOT TV

Picks by Independent staff and contributors The calendar says it’s springtime, but Outer Cape weather in April is a reminder of that old saw about what makes May flowers bloom. […]

ARTISTS

In 1975, after driving east from Los Angeles, the Dutch conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader set sail across the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat. The performance piece was never […]

A Celebration of Spring at the Addison Gallery The Addison Art Gallery in Orleans (43 South Orleans Road) hosts a spring celebration on Saturday, April 15, 4 to 6 pm. […]

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THE YEAR-ROUNDER

I have lived in Provincetown so long, loved it so much, and traveled so little in recent years that I sometimes forget there are other beautiful places in the world. […]

VIEW FROM THE BALCONY

Last week’s annual town meeting in Provincetown was a doozy — an efficient, productive one-night affair punctuated by a 90-minute tornado that swept over the warrant’s three short-term rental (STR) […]

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Is going to town meeting a waste of time? Is our peculiar brand of local government really an exercise in pure democracy, as we are often told, or is the […]

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Who Should Hire? To the editor: We have been watching the progress of town meeting warrant Article 42 to amend the charter by requiring the town manager to consult with […]

OBITUARY

The artist Constance J. Black died at her home on Priscilla Alden Road in Provincetown on April 5, 2023. She was 93. The oldest child of William A. Broadley Sr. […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from April 3 to April 7, 2023.  PROVINCETOWN  April 3. Luanne G. Lipkin to Christopher Incarnato. 60 Race Point Rd., Unit 3. […]

CLASSIFIEDS

SEEKING Talented drag performer who loves kids! Looking for a drag performer to host a read-aloud story hour for our son’s first birthday in Eastham on May 28. Email [email protected]. […]

Immerse Yourself (Friday, April 14) Wellfleet Preservation Hall (335 Main St.) hosts a reception for artists Terry Gips and Nancy Jenner’s exhibition “Immersive Nature: Observed and Imagined” on Friday, April […]

TRURO CENTRAL SCHOOL KINDERGARTEN  REGISTRATION  Kindergarten registration opened on April 6, 2023. Any questions can be answered by calling 508-487-1558. Children must be 5 years old by September 1, 2023.  […]

Employment Vacancy Provincetown IB Schools  The Provincetown School Department is now accepting applications for the following: Night Custodian 8-hour shift from 1:00 pm until 9:00 pm Monday through Friday. This […]

TOWN OF EASTHAM Select Board  Public Hearing April 24, 2023 The Town of Eastham will hold a public hearing at 5:30p.m Monday, April 24, 2023 at the Eastham Town Hall, […]

Emma Motta, age 3, of Truro encounters easy hunting on the lawn at the Pilgrim Monument on April 2. Clear skies but lots of wind greeted about 80 families who […]

WALSH PROPERTY

TRURO — The Walsh Property Community Planning Committee was enthusiastic about allocating space for trade and other “non-residential” uses at its March 29 meeting, the group’s first in four weeks. […]

TOWN MEETING

PROVINCETOWN — In the first 90 minutes of Monday night’s packed town meeting, voters passed Articles 1 through 16 on the 37-item warrant — including an unprecedented operating override to […]

911

EASTHAM — Teresa Martin had just returned from an afternoon trip to the transfer station on March 25 when she saw flames shooting from an electrical outlet on the porch […]

NAUSET HIGH SCHOOL

EASTHAM — Anyone who has ever been a student will tell you that some courses seem inseparable from their teachers. But Lisa Brown, who teaches Nauset Regional High School’s Exploring […]

RADIOACTIVITY

PLYMOUTH — An independent study of potential risks related to Holtec’s plan to release one million gallons of radioactive wastewater from the former Pilgrim nuclear facility into Cape Cod Bay […]

PLANNING

PROVINCETOWN — A measure to start a community planning process for Shank Painter Road passed at town meeting on April 3, with some voters raising questions about its scope. Article […]

CRISIS AVERTED

PROVINCETOWN — The twisting saga of the Lower Cape Ambulance Association (LCAA) and the fire departments of Provincetown and Truro took yet another turn this spring. Both towns are still […]

AFTERMATH

ORLEANS — The family of six-year-old Kyi Odeen Bourne, who died in a house fire on Feb. 4, has found a year-round rental but is still in temporary housing while […]

ON THE LANDSCAPE

Snow dusted the grass only a few times this winter, and the birdbath stayed full of water, not ice, for most of the season. There were, however, morning frosts, hard […]

PLEAS

PLYMOUTH — Bourne resident Ryan Collins, whose father and grandfather were fishermen, continues the family tradition. He has now become an advocate as well. Collins has collected more than 214,000 […]

EDUCATION

WELLFLEET — The Nauset Public Schools announced on March 30 that Adam O’Shea will be the new principal at Wellfleet Elementary School starting July 1. Mary Beth Rodman is retiring […]

SEXED

WELLFLEET — The bobcat that was found deceased on Chequessett Neck Road on Feb. 13 and then frozen by animal control officers was not, in fact, a Bob. U.S. Dept. […]

FROM THE LARDER

My grandmother possessed a solid repertoire of braises, etouffeés, and gumbos. Her fried chicken set the gold standard to which I still aspire. She must have cooked her way through […]

REVIVAL

EASTHAM — A silverprint photograph in the collection of the Eastham Historical Society depicts a dirt road and a grove of trees. A tree in the foreground is blurred, capturing […]

BABYCAKES

Max and Marissa Beal announce the birth of their son, Mason James Beal. Mason was born at Cape Cod Hospital on March 17, 2023 at 7:26 in the morning — a […]

WARRIORS WATCH

EASTHAM — Nauset’s lacrosse teams earned hard-fought wins last week while boys and girls track overcame Barnstable High School to open the spring sports season. The boys lacrosse team pulled […]

COCKTAIL HOUR

In a previous life I went to divinity school. Suffice it to say, at the time it seemed like a good idea. Perhaps because the school I landed at was […]

RARA AVIS

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, April 4 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

BASEBALL

EASTHAM — Nauset High junior Chase Beach eats, sleeps, and breathes baseball. “I’m thinking about baseball all the time,” says Beach. “When I wake up, I’m thinking about baseball, and […]

ASTRAL PROJECTIONS

We’re past the vernal equinox but still just waking up to Easter and other traditional celebrations of the arrival of spring. In a season that already brings the energy of […]

PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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

TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, April 6 Shellfish […]

WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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 […]

EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online-attendance option for both committee members and residents. Go to eastham-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for details. […]

JAZZ

NEW YORK CITY — Ella Mae Dixon took the stage at Birdland on West 44th Street in Manhattan’s theater district on Tuesday night, March 21. The legendary jazz club, which […]

ARTISTS

Over the past several months, Diane Messinger has been attending live broadcasts of performances from the Metropolitan Opera at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT). This month, her fellow opera fans […]

ARTISTS

Elizabeth Flood’s tempestuous paintings and ink drawings capture the striations of history, violence, extraction, and sublimity that accumulate in a landscape over time. So, it makes sense that after bearing […]

INDIE SCREEN

Amid the hoopla of the Oscars and award season, a couple of moving, astonishing, and beautifully crafted features by first-time woman directors slid by without much fanfare. One reason for […]

10 Seasons, 8 New Fellows at Twenty Summers Twenty Summers, the annual interdisciplinary program that has brought dozens of nationally and internationally known cultural figures to the Hawthorne Barn in […]

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LETTER FROM ACROSS THE POND

So many things to love in the Book of Genesis; so many things to take exception to. Here’s one of each. Love: the image of the world as being made, […]

THE SCUTTLEBUTT

The development of offshore wind farms as a solution to our desperate need for renewable energy has become a hot topic, and endangered whales have gotten caught up in it. […]

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Our friend and mentor Robert Kuttner wrote this week in the American Prospect about the death on March 28 of Margot Stern Strom, the Brookline teacher who in 1975 created […]

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

‘We Are All in Trouble’ To the editor: Re “Provincetown Fights Back Against Anti-Drag Laws” [March 30, front page]: Whether it is bingo, karaoke, a fundraiser, or a regular show, […]

OBITUARY

Robert John Foy of Provincetown died on March 26, 2023 after a short illness while in hospice care. He was 93. Bob was born on April 12, 1929 in Concord, […]

OBITUARY

John Thomas Tully of Provincetown died peacefully on Jan. 13, 2023 at 76. His death was confirmed by his daughter, Deborah Kleber. The son of the late Stuart and Irene […]

TIDE CHART

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from March 27 to March 31, 2023.  PROVINCETOWN  March 27. Irvin D. Morgan and Irmgard H. Morgan to Timothy Deahl. 100 Alden […]

CLASSIFIEDS

SEEKING Talented drag performer who loves kids! Looking for a drag performer to host a read-aloud story hour for our son’s first birthday in Eastham on May 28. Email [email protected]. […]

Sweet History (Thursday, April 6) Chequessett Chocolate presents a workshop about chocolate and its journey — from the cacao fruit tree to edible form — at the Provincetown Senior Center […]

Town of Truro FINANCE COMMITTEE HYBRID/IN PERSON PUBLIC HEARING Truro Community Center, 7 Standish Way FY2024 OMNIBUS BUDGET AMENDED LOGIN INFORMATION WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THE WEBSITE 48 HOURS BEFORE […]

Town of Provincetown Historic District Commission Public Hearing April 19, 2023 The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, in […]

TOWN OF EASTHAM Select Board  Public Hearing April 24, 2023 Mooring and Vessel Storage Regulation Revisions  The Eastham Select Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, April 24th at […]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts PUBLIC NOTICE TO ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE (EJ) COMMUNITIES PROJECT: Cannery Wharf Park Project LOCATION: 387 Commercial Street, Provincetown MA PROPONENT: Town of Provincetown Per Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act […]

CORNER STORE

PROVINCETOWN — Outer Cape native Oriana Conklin opened the doors to her newly purchased East End Market at 212 Bradford St. on March 11, 2022. This page is available to […]

BOOZE BAN

WELLFLEET — It’s looking like a dry summer down at Cahoon Hollow Beach. The Cape Cod National Seashore is moving forward with plans to ban drinking and open containers of […]

CIVICS

PROVINCETOWN — Local performers are pushing back against a raft of anti-drag bills across the country that characterize their work as pornographic — or worse. According to a Feb. 12 […]

TOWN MEETING

PROVINCETOWN — Jonathan Sinaiko plans to withdraw his controversial petition to extend the town’s historic district by one property when it comes up for discussion at the April 3 annual […]

PROVINCETOWN BUSINESS

PROVINCETOWN — The Gifford House Inn, a 33-room hotel in Provincetown’s historic district that includes three bars, a restaurant, and a commercial kitchen, has been sold by one local owner […]

THE COMMUTE

PROVINCETOWN — Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority (CCRTA) leaders assured the select board on Feb. 13 that they could run a pilot late-night and early-morning bus service this summer for […]

OBITUARY

Former Eastham selectman and stained-glass craftsman John Knight, whose work graces the police station and Methodist Church in town along with the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster […]

FAKE NEWS

DEVELOPMENT Monument Plan Could House up to 60 Workers A new waterslide would pay for it  PROVINCETOWN — In this town where creative problem-solving is the norm, officials have announced […]

PASCHAL TABLE

These spring holidays are contradictory ones, foodwise and in every other way, it seems to me. I grew up eating Easter hams and hunting for eggs laid by chickens, presumably, […]

ACCESSORY DWELLING

Sarah Manion has lived in a lot of places since leaving Cape Cod for college. After graduating from Swarthmore in 2007, she moved to Cameroon, where she served as a […]

COMMUNITY COOKS

I read Sophie Mann-Shafir’s “Granola Bars With the Works” (March 23, page B4) with interest because I love granola bars and I, too, have struggled to find a recipe for […]

CROSSWORD #40

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GRAVEYARD SHIFT

As the Great Depression spread its pall, President Franklin Roosevelt implemented the New Deal, a series of programs aimed at restoring American prosperity. Among the initiatives were Works Progress Administration […]

RARA AVIS

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, March 28 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

WARRIORS WATCH

EASTHAM — Seven Nauset boys and girls varsity teams get their spring seasons underway this week, with golf highlighting a busy schedule with a pair of matches. The Warriors girls […]

ASTRAL PROJECTIONS

March has been chock-full of big transits, and the first week of April will deliver as well. We’re looking at a Sun-Jupiter-Mercury conjunction in Aries. If you’re an artist, this […]

PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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

TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, March 30 Finance […]

WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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 […]

EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online-attendance option. Go to eastham-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for details. All meetings at Town Hall unless […]

ART HISTORY

When artist Susan Baker showed her work at the Fine Arts Work Center in 1974, Mary Hackett, then in her late 60s, attended the opening. The next day, Baker visited […]

WRITERS

Growing up in a small farming village in southeastern Nigeria, Bhion Achimba was not supposed to become a writer. His family lacked the resources to send him to college, and […]

LINE BREAK

Questions about the promise and existential threat of artificial intelligence are everywhere these days. What can A.I. do? What should it do? As recently as last year, most of the […]

ARTISTS

Mark Joshua Epstein is not afraid of excess. In his paintings, saturated hues and whimsical patterns bump up against asymmetrical frames. Some pieces jut out from the wall in precisely […]

James Stanley’s Views of a ‘Narrow Place’ Wellfleet artist James Everett Stanley is showing a group of paintings in an exhibition titled From the narrow place at Hirschl & Adler […]

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THE YEAR-ROUNDER

We all live our lives where the sea meets the land, and it does so every day, twice a day. This meeting is foreordained — it is an encroachment really […]

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Writing on the editorial page of the New York Times on Monday this week, three humanist technology researchers delivered this prediction: artificial intelligence (A.I.) is probably going to destroy humanity […]

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Wellfleet’s Troubles To the editor: Having read in the Independent about Wellfleet’s 2021 audit, Buddy Perkel’s March 9 op-ed column, and Selectman John Wolf’s response, I have three comments about […]

OBITUARY

After being diagnosed with pneumonia a few days before the end of a five-week vacation in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Jerome Lee Costa of North Truro died unexpectedly on March 4, […]

OBITUARY

Clarice (Malaquias) Dutra of North Truro and Pittsfield died on March 24, 2023 in Pittsfield. She was 95. The daughter of the late Domingo and Louise (Enos) Malaquias, Clarice was […]

TIDE CHART

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from March 20 to March 24, 2023. PROVINCETOWN March 21. Sam Shalom to Robert F. Madry and Jonathan O. Wibberley. 26 Bangs […]

CLASSIFIEDS

SEEKING Talented drag performer who loves kids! Looking for a drag performer to host a read-aloud story hour for our son’s first birthday in Eastham on May 28. Email [email protected]. […]

Chew on This (Thursday, March 30) Eastham Public Library (190 Samoset Road) hosts a viewing party for the Japan episode of The Chewy Decimal Cooking Show with Elaine Lipton on […]

Town of Truro INVITATION FOR BIDS The Town of Truro is seeding sealed bids to install and furnish all labor, materials and equipment, and to perform all operations required for […]

TOWN OF EASTHAM INVITATION FOR BIDS Sealed bids for furnishing the following will be received at the Office of the Town Administrator, 2500 State Highway, Eastham, MA 02642, until the […]

Town of Provincetown Position opening Assistant Library Director The Assistant Library Director provides professional library and managerial services and ensures the effective and efficient delivery of operational and administrational functions […]

OBITUARY

James Dominick Russo of North Truro died at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis on March 4, 2023. He was 95. The son of Thomas and Rose (Cundari) Russo, Jim was […]

GEAR

PROVINCETOWN — A 21-year-old North Atlantic right whale known as Porcia was observed in Cape Cod Bay on March 18. The whale was seen swimming with her 2023 calf by […]

ELECTIONS

PROVINCETOWN — Four candidates have filed papers to run for the two select board seats that are up for election this May 9; Erik Borg, Austin Knight, Austin Miller, and […]

MENTAL HEALTH CARE

In the constant pursuit of help for their sons, Bonnie Nuendel of Eastham and Meegan Erving of Wellfleet have honed their stories into elevator pitches to perform for therapists, the […]

BUSINESS

TRURO — Lack of an onsite manager at a popular North Truro vacation spot last summer resulted in problems for guests as well as the neighborhood, and the board of […]

THE JUSTICE SYSTEM

PROVINCETOWN — A Provincetown man who was taken into custody after an eight-hour standoff with the Cape Cod SWAT team on Feb. 28 is currently being held at Bridgewater State […]

HOUSING

PROVINCETOWN — For years now, Provincetown has planned to build housing at the site of the old police station at 26 Shank Painter Road. A vision of 24 studio and […]

WELLFLEET ACCOUNTS

WELLFLEET — Nineteen months after Wellfleet was supposed to close its books on fiscal year 2021, the town finally received that year’s audit from Powers & Sullivan — and it […]

NEIGHBORHOODS

EASTHAM — Two abutters have appealed the planning board’s site plan approval of a new house that will overlook Boat Meadow marsh. At issue is the proposed house’s size: it […]

OBITUARY

“I don’t know that she could have survived anywhere but Provincetown,” said Cecilia Hall’s sister Ann. Plagued by physical and psychological disabilities dating back to infancy, Cecilia had a strong […]

SNACK TIME

This all started with Edouard Fontenot’s Indie-adapted Eleven Madison Park granola. I had to stop making it this winter because when I had it on hand it took over as […]

On the Landscape

I was driving up a sandy road on the ocean side the other day. I had been surfing in the early morning at a little sandbar. I was salty and […]

YARD ART

Jeanne Dore and Joan Cancilla’s house sits between Drummer Cove and Blackfish Creek in Wellfleet. At this time of year, the water glimmers through the pitch pines at high tide, […]

ON THE BEACH

I remember asking the old-timers when they thought the first spring stripers would appear. The answer was always the same: “Stripers show up when the lilacs start blooming.” My fishing […]

TO THE MAT

March is a lonely, windy month on the Outer Cape. But as it unfolds, we feel the good it brings. The days grow longer and the light brighter. Gradually we […]

SETTERS

TRURO — With the spring equinox just past, a familiar antsiness is on the rise. To fight it, Outer Cape residents have flocked full throttle to the biweekly volleyball games […]

RARA AVIS

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, March 21 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

WARRIORS WATCH

EASTHAM — The Nauset Regional High School spring sports season officially got underway on Monday with seven varsity teams returning to practice. Nauset baseball starts its first season under Coach […]

ASTRAL PROJECTIONS

Pluto is a major player this week as it makes its initial shift from Pisces into Aquarius on March 23. This is a big one. And it is likely to […]

PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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

TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, March 23 Finance […]

WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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 […]

EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online-attendance option. Go to eastham-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for details. All meetings at Town Hall unless […]

DOCUMENTARIES

Journalist and documentarian Bill Lichtenstein has uncovered major investigative scoops, won a Peabody Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and received a Special Recognition honor from the Mass. Association for Mental […]

ARTISTS

An imposing triptych — greenish on the left, then bluish, then purple — hangs on one wall of Siennie Lee’s studio at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Its […]

WRITERS

“When you forget parts of a history, patterns repeat themselves,” says Kim Coleman Foote. “This goes for the great human tragedies as much as for intergenerational trauma within families.” Foote, […]

WOMEN’S HISTORY

Although Truro-based artist, curator, and teacher Megan Hinton never met Florence Brillinger or Janice Biala, their work has strongly informed her own art practice. We met recently at the Provincetown […]

WOMEN’S HISTORY

In 2014, Breon Dunigan and Mike Wright curated the Women Pioneers exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum to highlight the important roles that women played in the history […]

The English Beat Keeps On Rocking Music fans of a certain age will remember the English Beat as a staple of early-1980s alternative radio and Friday Night Videos blocks. (The […]

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KEEPING WATCH

In 1969, when I was 19 and rode a motorcycle, there was a highway sign on Route 6 in North Truro alerting drivers that they could get to Provincetown by […]

OP-ED

I found myself skipping out to the mailbox on a recent bright day. Skipping is not as easy as it used to be, but the drive is long, and I […]

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Town meetings are coming, and we are wondering how local citizens and governments will navigate hot-button issues this year. At last spring’s town meeting in Truro, a proposed change in […]

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Suing the Auditors To the editor: Buddy Perkel’s March 9 op-ed, “What Wellfleet Deserved,” contains several inaccurate assertions. The select board has not filed a malpractice claim against the town’s […]

TIDE CHART

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Real Estate Transactions  Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from March 13 to March 17, 2023. PROVINCETOWN  March 16. 18 Bangs Street LLC [Lynn Plummer, agent] to Bradford […]

CLASSIFIEDS

SEEKING Talented drag performer who loves kids! Looking for a drag performer to host a read-aloud story hour for our son’s first birthday in Eastham on May 28. Inquiries please […]

Fabulous Fennel (Thursday, March 23) Fennel is the focus of this week’s Spice Club meeting at Wellfleet Public Library (55 West Main St.) on Thursday, March 23, 4 p.m. Free; […]

Town of Wellfleet Select Board Public Hearing April 4, 2023 In accordance with MGL Chapter 130 Sections 52, 53, 57, 58, 60, 68 and 80 and all applicable Town Shellfish […]

Town of Truro Conservation Commission Public Hearing April 3, 2023 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: The Truro Conservation Commission will hold a public hearing Monday, April 3, 2023 at 5:00PM; THIS […]

Town of Provincetown Historic District Commission Public Hearing April 5, 2023 The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, April 5, 2023, in […]

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TOWN OF EASTHAM Zoning Board of Appeals PUBLIC HEARING April 6, 2023 The Town of Eastham Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing at 5:00 pm on Thursday, […]

CULTURE

PROVINCETOWN — CheeNulKa Pocknett and David Pocknett Jr. of the Red Hawk Singers and Dancers put on a program of music and dance at the Provincetown Schools’ Fishermen Hall on […]

DEVELOPMENT

EASTHAM — The race to build mansions by the sea has come to Eastham. But more than three-fourths of the houses here are still under 2,000 square feet, and the […]

THEN THERE WERE FOUR

PROVINCETOWN — What used to be five marijuana dispensaries in Provincetown is now just four. Heal Provincetown, which was originally planned as a medical cannabis dispensary on Harry Kemp Road […]

GROWTH

PROVINCETOWN — A narrow strip of land that extends from Commercial Street southward to the harbor could, in the not-too-distant future, boast two new hotels with a total of 51 […]

HOWL

TRURO — One of the prickliest issues in town government is the regulation of dog owners and their pets, especially the question of when and where canines may run off […]

CONSERVATION

EASTHAM — In the past couple of years, Wiley Park has seen an uptick of foot and paw traffic that has led to increased destruction of habitat and vegetation, according […]

HOUSING

PROVINCETOWN — At the annual town meeting on April 3, voters will consider three citizen-petitioned articles proposing amendments to Provincetown’s general bylaw that would institute new regulations on short-term rentals […]

DPW PROJECTS

TRURO — Residents are rallying against Dept. of Public Works Director Jarrod Cabral’s plan to replace a damaged culvert that is restricting tidal flow into Mill Pond. Cabral told the […]

TOWN MEETING

WELLFLEET — The town’s budgeting process this year has been anything but easy, says Town Administrator Rich Waldo. “With not having support from a permanent town accountant and assistant town […]

ARCHITECTURE

EASTHAM — Its architects proposed a purpose to practically every nook and cranny of the Eastham Public Library — a sunlit pondside edifice unveiled in 2016. Seven years later, it’s […]

NEW ORLEANS DISPATCH

NEW ORLEANS — After the many indulgences of Mardi Gras, the Archdiocese of New Orleans publishes a list of antidotes in the Times-Picayune — “fish frys” to fill the Fridays […]

MEET THE MAKER

Photos and Text by Agata Storer  TRURO — During the summer, Justine Ives is a manager of logistics at Cape Cab; in the off season, she’s the Funk Bus painter. […]

MILLION-YEAR PICNIC

Spring begins on March 20 with the vernal equinox, a day of nearly equal daylight and darkness. There’s another equinox in September that marks the start of autumn. And between […]

ON THE RUNWAY

PROVINCETOWN — Paws strutted the runway at town hall on Saturday as the annual pet parade — a much-anticipated event of the Year Rounders Festival — got underway. But the […]

BASKETBALL

PROVINCETOWN — While Cape Cod and the Islands boast a strong culture of high school sports, the region has historically lacked a local college or professional team for residents to […]

RARA AVIS

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, March 14 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

NAUSET HOCKEY

ORLEANS — At the end, the Nauset High boys hockey team deserved better than it got. This year’s team, led by a sizable senior class contingent, brought the program to […]

ASTRAL PROJECTIONS

Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall, all you’ve got to do is … well, let’s put it this way, you’re going to have to do a lot more than just call […]

PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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

TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, March 16 Climate […]

WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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 […]

EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online-attendance option for both committee members and residents. Go to eastham-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for details. […]

WOMEN’S HISTORY

While Anna Poor’s connections to the Outer Cape are deep and varied, a group of women artists, writers, and activists she has known and worked with over the years have […]

INDIE SCREEN

French filmmaker François Ozon is a bit of a chameleon. He’s best known for the film Swimming Pool, with Charlotte Rampling as a British mystery writer vacationing in Provence. But […]

WRITERS

Late at night, hearing the coyotes cry, Kieron Walquist watches as a red-tailed fox makes its rounds of the Fine Arts Work Center campus. When Walquist and the fox finally […]

TELEVISION

Rian Johnson specializes in satisfaction. The filmmaker behind Knives Out, Glass Onion, and the time-travel thriller Looper loves to construct narrative puzzle boxes where perfect solutions emerge in cathartic “aha!” […]

Zooming In to a World of Art On a good day, the drive from the Outer Cape to Falmouth can take the better part of two hours. But a series […]

VIGNETTE

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THE YEAR-ROUNDER

I knew there were not enough dead people in Provincetown to make their disposal profitable. I discovered recently that the same is true for Wellfleet. (Forget Truro — it’s a […]

WINTER DREAMS

I had a performer’s dream the other night. I was in a play, nodding off in my dressing room during a long offstage hiatus. I heard lines on the performance […]

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Words matter. They can be used to hide the truth or to reveal it. The Provincetown Select Board gave us a fine example of the latter this week. One month […]

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

‘It’s Hatred’ To the editor: Re “School Committee Did Not Know About Bullying Scandal,” March 9, page A8: A student is bullied and harassed because of her religion, and the […]

OBITUARY

Duane A. Steele died at home in Provincetown on March 8, 2023 of an interstitial lung disease. He would have liked the directness of that sentence, though definitely not its […]

OBITUARY

Lucille Kelley Roza of North Truro died on Dec. 28, 2022 after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 87. The daughter of Jack and Lucy Kelley, Lucille was […]

TIDE CHART

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SEEKING My Toyota is unrepairable, but the battery is brand new and looking for a good home. Meanwhile, I’m looking for a new (used) car to replace it. Hoping to […]

Start Your Engines! (Friday, March 17) Mackenzie and Austin host a weekly viewing party for the current season of RuPaul’s Drag Race at the Crown & Anchor (247 Commercial St., […]

Town of Truro Planning Board Notice of Remote Public Hearing Wednesday, March 29, 2023 at 4:00 pm View on television Channel 18 in Truro; or on the Homepage website (www.truro-ma.gov), […]

  Town of Provincetown Finance Committee Annual Town Meeting – Finance Committee Recommendations Public Hearing March 23, 2023 Per the Provincetown Charter 2-3-g, the Provincetown Finance Committee will hold a Public Hearing on Thursday, […]

TOWN OF EASTHAM Select Board and the Finance Committee PROPOSED FY24 OPERATING BUDGET AND FY 25-29 FIVE YEAR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN PUBLIC HEARING March 20, 2023 In accordance with Sections […]

SCHOOLS

PROVINCETOWN — When Gerry Goyette was made interim superintendent in June 2022, the Provincetown School Committee had one major concern: Goyette, who was serving as the school’s principal, was just […]

TOWN FINANCE

WELLFLEET — When the state Dept. of Revenue presented its bleak financial management review to the select board and finance committee on Feb. 28, Deb Wagner, a director at the […]

DEADLY FIRE

ORLEANS — A lawyer who routinely argues before Outer Cape regulatory boards on behalf of rich and powerful property owners is the owner of the building where a six-year-old boy […]

TOWN MEETING

PROVINCETOWN — Every year since 2006, town meeting voters have dispensed special funding measures called community preservation grants. The money comes from a 3-percent surcharge on property taxes and can […]

DISASTER AFTERMATH

PROVINCETOWN — The owners of East End properties that were flooded by wind-driven seawater during a December storm continue to struggle to get their buildings dried out, wiring and plumbing […]

TOWN MEETING

TRURO — Town meeting is not until Tuesday, April 25, but Truro’s select board is already discussing six citizen petitions that will appear on the warrant. Petitioned articles are authorized […]

DEVELOPMENT

WELLFLEET — The zoning board of appeals is expected to reverse its decision of two years ago and approve a plan on March 9 for a 2,500-square-foot two-story house on […]

CONGREGATIONS

WELLFLEET — When Chip Hurd, the pastor of the Roslindale Congregational Church in Boston, heard about the Wellfleet Congregational Church’s search for a new pastor, his friend Jon Elsensohn came […]

EDUCATION

ORLEANS — Nauset Regional School Committee members said on March 2 they had no idea the U.S. Dept. of Education’s Office for Civil Rights had investigated the high school and […]

KOPYCHYNTSI DISPATCH

When the Independent first spoke with Mayor Bogdan Kelichavyi of Kopychyntsi, a town of about 13,000 in western Ukraine, the Russian invasion was only six days old. It was March […]

ON THE LANDSCAPE

When the fires of late winter and spring are lighted, they awaken old memories. All through my childhood, my brothers and I, alongside our parents, would rake and burn for […]

THE LURE

Friends recently asked me what I fish for during the winter months. It was the evening of our odd one-day cold snap, and we were sitting around slurping fresh oysters […]

MEET THE MAKERS

Yarn is not the only material handled with dedication and nimble care at two weekly winter gatherings on the Outer Cape, though it certainly does lend purpose, texture, and polychromatic […]

FAMILY RECIPE

Saying that your mom’s eggplant parm is your favorite thing to eat is like admitting that the Mona Lisa is your favorite painting. It’s a well-deserved classic, of course, but […]

GARDENER’S NOTEBOOK

Text and Drawings by Abraham Storer Dave DeWitt has been working the same plot of land in the Truro woods since 1987, starting when it was a heather farm, Rock […]

WARRIORS WATCH

EASTHAM — The Nauset boys hockey team stayed alive in the Division 3 State Tournament thanks to overtime heroics, while the boys basketball team and the Cape Cod Furies each […]

RARA AVIS

This Week’s Bird Sightings Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, March 7 included the following, based on a report prepared […]

ASTRAL PROJECTIONS

We continue to find ourselves bathed in the mystical energies of Pisces this week, as the Sun, Mercury, and Neptune converge in a powerful conjunction in the eleventh house — […]

PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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 the […]

TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, March 9 Finance […]

WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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 […]

EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online-attendance option for both committee members and residents. Go to eastham-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for details. […]

LOCALS

Jim Zimmerman — camera around his neck — greeted me in the lobby of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum and led us through the museum’s expansive galleries with the […]

IN THE STUDIO

Kristy Hughes thinks in planes. A printmaker by training who says she “avoided sculpture” throughout her studies, Hughes now makes towering, vibrant, multi-part sculptures, many of which started out as […]

IN THE STUDIO

In a scene from Yahna Harris’s current film-in-progress, the artist’s aunt sits regally in an armchair. Shot from a low angle, she commands a domestic space. There is no movement: […]

BENEFIT CONCERT

It’s difficult to grasp the massive scale of the earthquakes that struck southeast Turkey and northern Syria last month. More than 53,500 deaths have been confirmed as of this week, […]

ALBUM REVIEW

Anyone who was lucky enough to be at the Mews in Provincetown on March 9, 2020 may have witnessed the early stages of a supernova. When Tianna Esperanza performed at […]

Ellen Anthony Gets Physical On her way to see Meredith Monk’s last dance performance in New York City five years ago, Ellen Anthony slipped on the ice and injured her […]

VIGNETTE

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RESTORATION QUESTIONS

The Herring River Restoration Project, which has been in the planning stage for decades, has finally begun. The clearing of dead vegetation in the Duck Harbor basin is underway as […]

MISMANAGEMENT

A while ago I swore that I would put Wellfleet’s financial troubles out of my mind and not write another letter to the Independent about this mess like the one […]

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Walking to our office in Whalers Wharf the other day, I passed by a busker outside Marine Specialties playing the guitar and singing an old Beatles song: “What would you […]

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

A Humanitarian Crisis To the editor: I applaud K.C. Myers for her heartfelt editorial column “Held Hostage by Slumlords” [March 2, page A2]. She used a word in the second-to-last […]

OBITUARY

Joan C. (Corley) Guerreiro died on Feb. 27, 2023 in her Provincetown home after a lengthy illness, with her husband, Rob, by her side. She was 72. Born in Framingham […]

TIDE CHART

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Real Estate Transactions  Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Feb. 27 to March 3, 2023.  PROVINCETOWN  March 2. Hope M. Valenti to Bennett Stavely. 104 Bradford St., […]

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SEEKING My Toyota is unrepairable, but the battery is brand new and looking for a good home. Meanwhile, I’m looking for a new (used) car to replace it. Hoping to […]

Celtic Sounds (Friday-Saturday, March 10-11) The Chatham Chorale and Chatham Chorale Children’s Choir perform traditional and contemporary Celtic music at the First Congregational Church (650 Main St., Chatham) on Friday, […]

Town of Wellfleet Zoning Board of Appeals Public Hearing March 23, 2023 Pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 40-A, The Zoning Act and to The Wellfleet Zoning Bylaw (4/28/03), the […]

Town of Truro Planning Board Notice of Remote Public Hearing Wednesday, March 29, 2023 at 4:00 pm View on television Channel 18 in Truro; or on the Homepage website (www.truro-ma.gov), […]

Town of Provincetown Board of Health Public Hearing March 16, 2023 In accordance with §2-3-g.6 of the Provincetown Charter, the Provincetown Board of Health will hold a Public Hearing on […]

MASSDOT NEW DATE CAPE COD BRIDGES PROGRAM The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) invites you to attend an upcoming Virtual Public Information Meeting for the Cape Cod Bridges Program. A live virtual public information […]

BUILDING EASTHAM

EASTHAM — With its white wooden shingles, lobster traps, and sunny yellow awnings, the Lobster Shanty on Route 6 evokes the Cape Cod that Patti Page sang about in her […]

DEVELOPMENT

EASTHAM — A 1.3-acre vacant lot located off Cable Road and within walking distance of Nauset Light Beach is on the market for $740,000 — and it is being touted […]

OPENING PARTY

PROVINCETOWN — Since David Weidner became the executive director of the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association of Provincetown — better known as the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum, or PMPM […]

WELLFLEET WOES

WELLFLEET — A long-awaited financial management review by the state Dept. of Revenue (DOR) blames a “lack of definitive leadership” for the town’s “years of distress, inconsistent financial planning, and […]

ENVIRONMENT

PROVINCETOWN — Reports in recent years from the Association to Preserve Cape Cod (APCC), which uses data collected by the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) at more than 100 testing […]

ON THE WATERFRONT

PROVINCETOWN — Developer Christine Barker secured a special permit from the planning board on Feb. 23 for the 31-room hotel, restaurant, bar, and residential condominium project she plans to construct […]

STRANGE ENCOUNTER

WELLFLEET — A 13-year-old girl was approached by a man driving a black van while walking down Chequessett Neck Road near Kendrick Avenue at noon on Saturday, Feb. 11. She […]

DE-ESCALATION

PROVINCETOWN — Around midday on Tuesday, Feb. 28, Outer Cape residents began noticing increased police traffic on Route 6 as departments from as far away as Bourne responded to an […]

LEGAL EAGLES

Eastham — It requires the precision of fencing, the flexibility of gymnastics, and the strategy of football. But it doesn’t take place on a field or in a gymnasium. It […]

GRAVEYARD SHIFT

It would be unthinkable today for the community to cheer on the chasing, corralling, and driving of frightened blackfish to their slaughter. But a little over a century ago, people […]

WATCHING BIRDS

I was lucky enough to be able to get away last month. My friend Bob, who lives in Tucson, always offers his warm hospitality during these cold months. But it […]

ON THE LANDSCAPE

In the early days of February, little shoots of yellow-green began emerging from the soil in my gardens, pushing up along pathways and around the roots of trees in the […]

FROM THE LARDER

In the end it will be the cheese that kills me. Not the red meat. Not the gin. Well, maybe the gin, a little, but mostly the cheese: hard or […]

WARRIORS WATCH

EASTHAM — The Nauset boys basketball team secured a dramatic 59-58 comeback win over Fitchburg High School on Monday night in the MIAA Division 2 State Tournament to advance to […]

WHAT’S OPEN

The sun is up so early now and still in the sky (if it has turned up at all, that is) at 5 p.m. In related good news, this means […]

RARA AVIS

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Feb. 28 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

ASTRAL PROJECTIONS

The stars are urging us to focus on communication. This Pisces sun is serving up a healthy dose of empathy and intuition. Couple that with Mercury in Aquarius, the sign […]

PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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

TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, March 2 School […]

WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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 […]

EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online-attendance option for both committee members and residents. Go to eastham-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for details.  […]

HISTORIES

Rachel Maddow’s hit podcast Ultra is a tightly crafted work of historical research, a fable for our current fascism-tinged political landscape, and a love letter to the Library of Congress. […]

INDIE SCREEN

Canadian child actor turned writer-director Sarah Polley continues to prove she’s one of the great filmmaking talents of our time. Her four features — Away From Her (2006), starring Julie […]

IN THE STUDIO

Carol Fitzsimons’s richly colored and textured works are painstakingly created by adhering small strips of string to canvas board with a toothpick and Elmer’s glue. “It’s like painting with fiber,” […]

INDIE PLAYLIST

For International Women’s Day this year, members of the Independent staff sat down with Denya LeVine of WOMR for a roundtable discussion about women and music. You can tune in […]

What a Difference a Day Makes Think of what you’ve accomplished in the last 24 hours. Does it involve writing, rehearsing, directing, and performing an original play before a live […]

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THE YEAR-ROUNDER

Most of the philosophers I have ever met have been from Maine. I am not sure why, but they seem to crank them out up there. Perhaps it is their […]

REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK

The Truro Health Dept. threatened in 2019 to close down the Truro Motor Inn where 50 people, including several children, were living in overcrowded motel rooms. Electric service designed for […]

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Those Big Cats To the editor: The story “Wellfleet Discovers — and Freezes — Its First Bobcat” by Sam Pollak (Feb. 23, page A4) prompts me to retell my “Pamet […]

ELEGY

One day last summer, Mac urged me to come visit him in his Wellfleet garden that afternoon. He wanted me to see how his late peonies overlapped with his early […]

OBITUARY

Milton McCormick Gatch, a professor, librarian, and longtime priest-in-charge at the Chapel of St. James the Fisherman in Wellfleet, died on Feb. 21, 2023 at his apartment in New York […]

TIDE CHART

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Real Estate Transactions Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Feb. 21 to Feb. 24, 2023. PROVINCETOWN  Feb. 21. Trevor’s Trail II LLC [Thomas G. Tannariello, agent] to […]

CLASSIFIEDS

TIDINGS On February 4, my husband died despite the Herculean efforts of the Wellfleet EMTs and the amazing ICU team at Cape Cod Hospital. My daughter, Ariana, son, Adam, and […]

Close Knit (Thursday, March 2) Wellfleet Public Library (55 West Main St.) presents a free knitting for kids workshop on Thursday, March 2, 3 p.m. The workshops will continue every […]

BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT VIRTUAL PUBLIC HEARINGS: Notice of Availability of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for SouthCoast Wind Energy LLC’s Proposed Wind Energy Facility Offshore Massachusetts You are […]

Town of Provincetown Select Board Finance Committee Proposed FY2024 Operating Budget Remote Joint Public HearingPublic Hearing March 13, 2023 In accordance with §6-4-g of the Provincetown Charter, the Select Board […]

Town of Wellfleet Conservation Commission Public Hearing March 15, 2023 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, March 27, 2023 at 5:30 pm 2023-002/ZBA – Steven and Deborah Dillon, 19 Highland Avenue (Atlas Map 32, Parcel […]

TOWN OF EASTHAM Notice of Request for Proposals To Provide the Following Professional Services: North Eastham Form-Based Zoning, Design Standards, and Overlays Date:  February 23, 2023 The Town of Eastham […]

PROVINCETOWN TOWN MEETING

PROVINCETOWN — Voters at the April 3 annual town meeting will consider a plan to create a 40-foot gap in the town’s West End breakwater, more formally known as the […]

ENVIRONMENT

WELLFLEET — The Cape Cod and Islands Water Protection Fund may be running dry. Financial models in last year’s annual report projected that the fund would be in arrears by […]

WALSH COMMITTEE

TRURO — “This is a very painful thing for both of us,” said Fred Gaechter at the Feb. 15 meeting of the Walsh Property Community Planning Committee as he and […]

VIOLATIONS

ORLEANS — The fire that killed six-year-old Kyi Odeen Bourne on Feb. 4 broke out inside an apartment constructed illegally on the second floor of 177 Route 6A in downtown […]

HOUSING

PROVINCETOWN — It’s been three and a half years since the first year-round tenants moved into Harbor Hill, the 28-apartment, four-building West End complex that used to be a timeshare […]

MIND THE GAP

PROVINCETOWN — Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority (CCRTA) staff spent half an hour on Feb. 13 telling the Provincetown Select Board about the bounty of buses the government-funded organization offers […]

LICENSING

PROVINCETOWN — The owners of the Foxberry Inn at 29 Bradford St. Extension were granted a request to expand their liquor license to allow for an outdoor bar and permit […]

ELUSIVE FELINES

WELLFLEET — Provincetown has bears, Truro has its puma, and now Wellfleet has bobcats — or rather, a bobcat. Or at least it did have one. A lone bobcat was […]

FROM SCRATCH

There’s a marked difference between the menace of blizzard snow, icy and gravelly against the window, and what’s happening here today. Today, the sun is just barely shining through the […]

MEET THE MAKERS

TRURO — A rich confectionary scent wafts through the air in Chequessett Chocolate’s production room. It’s a perfume that can make ordinary visitors swoon. But co-founder Josiah Mayo is on […]

MIND AND BODY

It isn’t always easy for me to jump in. At the edge there are those few difficult steps into the cold water before I am in deep enough to fully […]

MILLION-YEAR PICNIC

Comet ZTF made its closest approach to Earth on Feb. 1 at a distance of 26 million miles. That’s pretty close. Mars, for example, is, on average, 140 million miles […]

ON THE LANDSCAPE

When I was 12 years old, I moved into a cabin in my parents’ Wellfleet yard. It was down by the chicken coop, 10 feet by 12, made of pine […]

READING ROOM

Beau Silva, age four, listened with interest as his father, Ross Silva, read to him from Out of a Jar during a recent Friday’s “Read & Play,” a weekly gathering […]

FINAL WHISTLE

EASTHAM — Jody Quill was there when Nauset Regional High School’s gym opened in December 1971. And she was there when the final game was played in the gym on […]

WARRIORS WATCH

EASTHAM — Nauset’s indoor track and swim teams found success at their respective State Championships while the boys basketball team added a Cape and Islands Atlantic Division championship to their […]

CROSSWORD #39

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RARA AVIS

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Feb. 21 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

ASTRAL PROJECTIONS

Last week we said goodbye to my dear Sun sign, Aquarius, and entered the 12th and final sign of the zodiac, Pisces. The transition into Pisces season is a welcome […]

PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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 […]

TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

Meetings Ahead  Most meetings in Truro are still being held remotely. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, […]

WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

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 […]

EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online-attendance option for both committee members and residents. Go to eastham-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for details.  […]

ARTISTS

Georgia Dickie, who is from Toronto, and Tinja Ruusuvuori, who lives and works in Tampere, Finland, had never met before arriving in Provincetown for their Fine Arts Work Center fellowships […]

LINE BREAK

I recently saw an exhibit on the second floor of the Provincetown library: a case alongside the Rose Dorothea containing a whaling harpoon and line, a few images, and a […]

WRITERS

It’s an exciting time for Fine Arts Work Center writing fellow Gothataone Moeng. Her first book, a collection of short stories set in her home country, was published earlier this […]

BOOKS

One of Barbara Bosworth’s most prized possessions is a collection of bird eggs she inherited from her great-grandfather, who collected them in the wild, blew out their interiors, and saved […]

Floating New Ways of Collaboration For the throngs of visitors who come to Provincetown every August, Carnival is a time to let loose and enjoy the spectacle. For local businesses, […]

VIGNETTE

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CHOOSE YOUR OWN EPITAPH

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TEACHABLE MOMENTS

One of the greatest joys for a teacher is when students encounter the magic of the tangent: the moment when an event, a question, or an opinion takes a carefully […]

AUTHORITY

Anne Needel’s great piece on this page last week [“The Kids Are Watching Us”] was a sight for sore eyes. Yes, adults need to model moral courage, for children and […]

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

A lot of us live on Outer Cape Cod because someone drew us here. My sister, Harriet Miller, was the one who got us to Wellfleet. She served on the […]

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Defending ‘All Lives Matter’ To the editor: Your Feb. 16 article “ ‘All Lives Matter’ Sign Raises Questions at Nauset High” [page A7] was a misrepresentation of Nauset’s Black Student […]

OBITUARY

After a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease, Heinrich J. Sirucek, “war refugee, immigrant, teacher, builder, long-time Fleetian, father to four, and friend to many,” in his son Nicholas’s words, died […]

TIDE CHART

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Real Estate Transactions  Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Feb. 13 to Feb. 17, 2023.  PROVINCETOWN  Feb. 17. Meili West LLC [Edward M. Roach and Lisa M. […]

CLASSIFIEDS

SEEKING  Looking for a studio or larger, Eastham to Provincetown, for a single father with a wonderful boy who goes to Provincetown IB school. I’m a freelance filmmaker, new to […]

Build Battlements (Thursday, Feb. 23) Kids are invited to build their own castle — using recycled materials and cardboard boxes — at Snow Library (67 Main St., Orleans) on Thursday, […]

TOWN OF EASTHAM Notice of Request for Proposals To Provide the Following Professional Services: North Eastham Form-Based Zoning, Design Standards, and Overlays Date:  February 23, 2023 The Town of Eastham […]

Town of Truro Select Board Eversource Hearing Remote Public Hearing February 28, 2023 The Truro Select Board will conduct a remote public hearing on a petition from Eversource Energy to […]

Town of Provincetown Licensing Board Public Hearing February 28, 2023 The Provincetown Licensing Board will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 5:15 p.m. in the Judge […]

ROUNDBALL STRATEGY

PROVINCETOWN — If sports were all about numbers, the Provincetown boys basketball season would not have been much fun. This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in […]

FIREARMS LAWS

WEST BARNSTABLE — Introducing a panel discussion on guns and suicide at Cape Cod Community College last Thursday, state Rep. Michael Day of Stoneham said that Massachusetts gun laws have […]

LAND USE

WELLFLEET — Lawyers for Great White Realty and the town have asked a state Land Court judge to sign off on an agreement that could put an end to three […]

FACT CHECK

TRURO — The debate over how much affordable housing Truro needs was for years focused on the 3.9-acre Cloverleaf parcel on Highland Road, which will have 39 apartment and duplex […]

RECREATION

PROVINCETOWN — After several months of community input, Provincetown’s recreation dept. and the design firm Weston & Sampson unveiled two potential master plans for a rebuilt Motta Field at a […]

ON BEACON HILL

PROVINCETOWN — Despite its reputation as a progressive stronghold, Massachusetts has long trailed red and blue states alike when it comes to legislative transparency at the state level, particularly in […]

SCHOOLING

EASTHAM — A banner posted in the main administration building at Nauset Regional High School to celebrate Black History Month has upset some students because it includes the message “All […]

TOXIC GOODS

Cape and Islands state Sen. Julian Cyr and Rep. Kate Hogan of the 3rd Middlesex District have filed a bill to ban by 2030 a group of “forever chemicals” known […]

WILDLIFE

PROVINCETOWN — Preliminary test results on the great black-backed gull carcasses found on the harbor beach are consistent with avian influenza, confirming suspicions reported in the Independent last week. MassWildlife […]

CIVICS

EASTHAM — If Aimee Eckman had not been politically active, the town might have established its own beach in 2008. And voters might never have adopted municipal water. Eckman, who […]

COOK’S KITCHEN

Mardi Gras, a.k.a. Fat Tuesday, is next week — the last hurrah before the 40 days of fasting and self-reflection of Lent begin, for those who observe it. Besides prompting […]

BOOK MAKERS

When the Eastham Public Library takes books out of circulation, either because they’re damaged or haven’t been checked out in years, they give them to students at Eastham Elementary School, […]

THE COMMUNICATOR

I met up with Bonnie and Beth Abelew and their 14-month-old golden retriever, Neptune, at the benches outside Provincetown Town Hall. The sisters, who’d come in from North Truro, showed […]

TO THE MAT

February can be a sedentary time of year for many of us. Short days, long nights, and cold weather and wind can keep us indoors and sitting around more. On […]

WARRIORS WATCH