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PROVINCETOWN — Dress rehearsal is about to begin, and students are dancing around stage lights and props with all the giddiness of an ensemble that’s preparing to take the stage […]

PLYMOUTH — When Holtec International took ownership of the shuttered Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in 2019, it came with a decommissioning trust fund with more than $1 billion in it. […]

PROVINCETOWN — The last eight months have seen rapid changes in Provincetown’s commercial sector, with major properties including the Crown & Anchor, the Governor Bradford, the Brass Key, Crowne Pointe, […]

PROVINCETOWN — The town’s Sewer Team is ready with a plan for an expansion of the sewer system that would hook up almost every property in town by 2030. The […]

PROVINCETOWN — Two Republican candidates want to flip the Cape and Islands Senate seat and add to the three Republican-held seats — out of 40 — in the upper house […]

WELLFLEET — One after another last week, town department heads detailed the painful cuts they would need to make if a proposed $518,820 Proposition 2½ override for operating expenses doesn’t […]

Visionary LGBTQ+ activist and attorney Urvashi Vaid, who worked tirelessly for what she called “real equality,” died in a New York City hospital on May 14, 2022. The cause was […]

TRURO — Early in his career as an entomologist with the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension, Larry Dapsis received a “dad talk” from Bill Clark, his director. Clark peered over his […]

WELLFLEET — As you walk down Main Street, past quaint shops with nautical-themed signs, you might be stopped in your tracks by the sight of the doors at Wellfleet Preservation […]

HOME SAFE The F/V Angela & Mary III foundered around 10 a.m. on May 17 with four crew aboard. The men were able to make a Mayday call and climb into […]

PROVINCETOWN — High school sports were once a big part of this town. In the 1950s and ’60s, Provincetown had hundreds of young families — many in the fishing industry […]

WELLFLEET — The messages and phone calls came in all day. People asking, “Are you OK? I heard something happened at Lecount’s.” Messages and calls went out, asking the same […]

Last August, a week after I moved to Truro and joined the Independent, I spent a day scouting out my grocery options. The Wellfleet Marketplace sometimes has baby bok choy, […]

ORLEANS — Psychotherapists Lauren and Bob Jones finally saw the results of 11 years of hard work. The couple’s dream of creating a home for their son Alexander and other […]

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

At Truro Central School, the Menu Includes Local Choices TRURO — On a rainy April day at the Truro Central School, Stephanie Rein, the school’s resident farmer, is outside with […]

It’s funny how the weather goes around here. Day after day, we hoped all these northeast winds would go away so we could get out there and fish. And it finally […]

EASTHAM — The Nauset High baseball team lost to an undefeated Medfield team on April 23, 12-1. It was a tough loss for the Warriors, but it proved to be […]

A positive prelude to the summer that’s soon to be, the Sun’s annual passage through Gemini will have us scintillating — at least socially. Short trips, casual encounters, and an […]

WELLFLEET — Are Wellfleet voters ready to join the handful of Massachusetts towns that regulate the removal of well-established trees on public and private property? They will have the opportunity […]

HYANNIS — The nonprofit Sharing Kindness will host its fifth annual Suicide Awareness Walk on Saturday, May 21, beginning at Veterans Beach Park in Hyannis. This winter was brutal, with […]

Meetings Ahead Some meetings in Provincetown are in person, some are online, and some are both. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a link to […]

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 […]

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

Meetings Ahead Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting locations […]

Pulling Through, the title of Chris Kelly’s show at Gallery 444 in Provincetown, is both a nod to his Provincetown debut — he’s pulling through town — and a reference […]

It’s hard to know how to categorize Quinn Gorbutt’s artwork, hovering as it does in the space between photography, sculpture, and painting. In the artist’s statement accompanying his exhibition, Heart, […]

Julia Glass has never set out to write a political novel. “But if I write about contemporary life,” she says, “my characters are going to intersect with politics. Something is […]

WELLFLEET — Marcel Lajos Breuer — Lajkó to most people — was born in Pécs, Hungary into a cultured, middle-class family during the glory days of the Austro Hungarian Empire […]

Trees of Courage Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown will present a sprawling group show, “Trees of Courage,” featuring works from gallery artists as well as a series of photographs of […]

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Browsing a New York Times newsletter, I have to stop and re-read several times before confirming, via Google, my sense that the writer has gotten it wrong. The line in […]

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 It was exactly one year ago that we first reported the alarming condition of Wellfleet’s finances, after interim Town Administrator Charles Sumner revealed that the town did not have a […]

Covid Is Not Gone To the editor: The Covid-19 pandemic is still very much with us [“Cape Cod Has Entered Its 6th Covid Wave,” May 12, front page]. Now is […]

The former manager of Good Scents in Provincetown, Raymond Trevino Jr. died in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on April 1, 2022 after a brief illness. He was 65. Raymond was born […]

There is a spot in Robert Jackson’s family home in Guilford, Conn. fondly referred to as “the Russian wall” because it is covered with historical photographs of great 19th-century writers: […]

A memorial service to celebrate the life of Dowell B. Multer, who died on Nov. 22, 2021, will be held at the First Congregational Church of Wellfleet at 2 p.m. […]

HELP WANTED Part-time babysitter wanted in Provincetown for last week of June. Seeking a friendly, responsible person to watch a two-year-old for about four hours a day from Sunday, June […]

Drinks on Me (Friday, May 20) The Center for Coastal Studies and Twenty Summers host a collaborative “Happy Hour at Hawthorne Barn” at 29 Miller Hill Road in Provincetown on […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from May 9 to May 13, 2022. PROVINCETOWN May 9. William B. Hare to Matthew F. Gardiner and Joshua S. Miedema. 4 […]

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Town of Provincetown Public Hearing Historic District Commission June 1, 2022 The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, June 1, 2022, in […]

TOWN OF BREWSTER HISTORIC DISTRICT COMMITTEE PUBLIC HEARING May 23, 2022 The Brewster Historic District Committee will hold a public hearing on Monday, May 23, 2022, at 7:00 pm to […]

TRURO — This summer, when the “mud kitchen” behind the Truro Public Library is open for business, Leela Okeanos, who just turned six, plans on making vegan mud pies. The […]

PROVINCETOWN — The subvariants of Covid-19 that are currently prevalent in the Northeast — Omicron BA.2 and Omicron BA.2.12.1 — may not have their own Greek letters, but this scientific […]

WELLFLEET — Town officials are now backing away from their previous assurances that municipal accounts would be balanced, an audit completed, and free cash certified by the state in time […]

PLYMOUTH — The president of Holtec International, the company decommissioning the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, has pledged not to release radioactive water from the reactor into Cape Cod Bay without […]

PROVINCETOWN — The select board and other town officials are now backing Fire Chief Michael Trovato’s call to create a full-time emergency medical services department with 16 new staffers. This […]

PROVINCETOWN — Barnstable Fourth District state Rep. Sarah Peake has not had a primary challenger since 2006. Enter Democrat Jack Stanton, a 30-year-old Provincetown lobsterman and service worker who is […]

PROVINCETOWN — Amid a massive workforce housing crisis that threatens the survival of local businesses, one idea appears to be Heaven sent. The members of the vestry of St. Mary […]

WELLFLEET — Barbara Brennessel, a biologist from Wellfleet, was once approached by law enforcement near the wooded junction of Old Kings Highway and Black Pond Road just south of the […]

WELLFLEET — The Herring River Restoration Project is $29 million closer to beginning phase one. On April 27, the Cape Cod Conservation District announced that the project would receive $29 […]

“Don’t worry,” said Nete Balbino the first time we met. I was frazzled, trying to organize the move that would settle Christopher and me in a new cottage as Truro […]

In a corner of Truro’s Old North Cemetery is a group of stones with the name Sellew. They were Pond Villagers, as the folks in North Truro were once called, […]

Mark your calendars: there will be a total lunar eclipse on the night of Sunday, May 15, visible into the wee hours of the 16th. Lunar eclipses are different from […]

The unrelenting winds from the northeast continue to pummel the Outer Cape, and the prediction is for them to continue throughout this week. With these northeast winds come cooler than […]

Jennifer Thomas, who lives in Truro, bought her quilted jacket on a trip out west — to Great Barrington. “I found it in a shop that features items made by […]

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

EASTHAM — In three days last week, the Nauset Warriors baseball team came up with three big wins, improving to 8-4 on the season. All were away games. The Warriors […]

TRURO — Caitlin Townsend, 23, was elected on Tuesday to a five-year term on the planning board in the only contested race in the annual town election. She outpolled Steve Stahl […]

PROVINCETOWN — Both the new police station and the Cannery Wharf Park funding were approved at the annual town election Tuesday with 77 percent of the vote. As Proposition 2½ […]

Some meetings in Provincetown are in person, some are online, and some are both. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a link to an agenda […]

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 12 Economic […]

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

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting locations and any […]

Ukraine, Covid, the GOP, the radical right’s takedown of the Supreme Court — take your pick, or feel free to add your own favorite bogeyman that keeps you up nights. […]

Iran and Wellfleet are worlds apart, yet the painter Kamrooz Aram managed to find memories of his native country in the reflections of Wellfleet’s kettle ponds on two visits to […]

Duplicating a painting that vanished in 1990 might sound challenging. But Provincetown painter John Clayton, who is creating reproductions for Art Thief, a film by artist and gallery owner Arthur […]

PROVINCETOWN — “We don’t want thunder, we want rum!” bellowed reader Larry Williams, channeling the urgency of a stormy scene from Herman Melville’s classic novel, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. When […]

“Much of my work reckons with home and elsewhere as two foundational stories we tell to explain who and where we are,” says the visual artist and architect known as […]

Castle Hill’s Upcoming Season The Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill has announced its 2022 summer program, with a 50th anniversary gala planned for July 23. The center […]

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According to Salvatore Del Deo, the first shellfish warden hired in Provincetown, back in the 1950s, was a retired Portuguese fisherman named Joe Ventura. Before that, Joe had worked intermittently […]

While the full Moon may be dramatic in itself, layer on a lunar eclipse and it’s a full-on Greek tragedy — or comedy, depending on how you look at things. […]

As I prepare to leave the Independent for a new journalism job in the city, I think back over more than two years at this newspaper, amazed at the variety of subjects […]

Greed and the Common Good To the editor: Re “Wellfleet Offers $6.5M for Maurice’s Campground” (April 21, front page): My wife and I tented some 45 years ago at Maurice’s […]

Ruth Veronica White died on May 2, 2022 at her home in Provincetown, surrounded by her loving family. Two months shy of her 95th birthday, she was sharp as a […]

When WOMR presenter Scott Trask introduced himself to Sally Strawn at the First Encounter Coffee House in Eastham, Scott recalls, Sally gave him a smile that was “full of promise.” […]

Friends and family are invited to a celebration of Carolyn Crowell’s life from 3 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, May 22 at Van Rensselaer’s Restaurant, 1019 Route 6 in South […]

Nadine Valenti Beauchamp died on May 1, 2022 in New York City. She was 95. Beginning in the 1960s, Nadine lived in Provincetown and New York with her late husband, […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from May 2 to May 6, 2022.  PROVINCETOWN  May 2. Sharon F. Callahan to Michael B. Beard and James S. Flowers. 5-15 […]

HELP WANTED Office assistant for nonprofit in Provincetown. Full-time October through May, part-time in summer. Competitive salary. Responsibilities include processing donations, answering phone calls and e-mail, maintaining databases, office support […]

Open Season (Thursday, May 12 – Friday, May 13) Twenty Summers hosts an opening party to kick off its ninth season at the Provincetown Brewing Co. at 141 Bradford St […]

 WELLFLEET SELECTBOARD PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE May 24, 2022 In accordance with MGL Chapter 130 Sections 52, 57, 58, 60, and 68 and all applicable Town Shellfish Regulations, notice is hereby […]

  TOWN OF TRURO Zoning Board of Appeals Notice of Remote Public Hearings May 23, 2022 On Monday, May 23, 2022 at 5:30 pm the Truro Zoning Board of Appeals […]

Town of Provincetown Public Hearing Licensing Board May 24, 2022 The Provincetown Licensing Board will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 5:15 p.m. in the Judge […]

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EASTHAM — Two new works of art appeared along Route 6 last weekend — a large mural on the façade at the former Nickerson Service Center, and a smaller project […]

TRURO — Truro’s housing crisis took center stage at Saturday’s town meeting, which featured chilly temperatures, gusty winds, and heated debate over Article 50. That petitioned article would have changed […]

EASTHAM — In a show of support for the select board and town administration, more than 300 voters at Monday night’s annual town meeting passed all 13 nonpetitioned warrant articles. […]

TRURO — As the crowd dwindled after the first day of town meeting on Saturday, two-year-old Harper Richter and five-year-old Mica Richter ran from inside Truro Central School to greet […]

EASTHAM — “Aren’t we having fun?” Moderator Scott Kerry asked, as 312 voters settled into folding chairs in the Nauset Regional High School gym for the annual town meeting. Then […]

WELLFLEET — Incumbent Michael DeVasto and newcomer Barbara Carboni were elected to three-year terms on the select board in Monday’s annual town election. Just over 25 percent, 763, of the […]

WELLFLEET — Townspeople described Joseph Price, whose family owned 70 Main St. from 1931 through the early 1970s, as the “wood butcher” because of his untrained and unrestrained construction style. […]

WELLFLEET — David Wright, the curator at the Wellfleet Historical Society and Museum, has over the years compiled a list of houses in Wellfleet that had been moved from their […]

BOSTON — The Provincetown Independent won 17 awards in the Better Newspaper competition of the New England Newspaper and Press Association, announced at the group’s annual convention on Saturday. The […]

I was 10 years old when I had my first mango. It was on a rare trip with my dad to the island of Grand Cayman — before it became […]

PROVINCETOWN — Last Nov. 14, a Sunday, a record was set here: 200 people went clamming on one day. “Never have 200 people gotten together and dug clams in Provincetown […]

“She has honestly taught me so many things. I don’t know what I would do without her, and she acts as both a mom and a dad. I guess I […]

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EASTHAM — Nauset Regional High School’s baseball team suffered losses to Plymouth South on April 21 and Medfield Senior High on April 23, dropping the team’s record to 3-4. But […]

WELLFLEET — The annual Sonny Roderick Billingsgate Basketball Tournament is returning to town this year after a two-year pandemic hiatus. This year’s tournament will be a little different than in […]

Buttercup was not born in our back yard, but she was the kid that made me a goat mama. She and her sister came to us from another small farm […]

The cold spring weather continues to put the fishing season on hold. Flounder are beginning to bite off the Pamet, and a few tautog are being taken around rock piles, […]

It turns out that our bodies need a spring cleaning just like our homes do. Have you noticed feeling sluggish or stiff as spring comes on? In the winter, we […]

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

PLYMOUTH — A handful of state and federal officials, an attorney from a national advocacy group, and the president of Holtec International, the company that owns the shuttered Pilgrim nuclear […]

PROVINCETOWN — For nearly a year, an ambitious workforce housing project known as the “Barracks” has been stalled in Barnstable Superior Court by a suit filed by neighbors who argue […]

TRURO — Attorney Ben Zehnder did his best to make his client’s proposal to build a 5,100-square-foot house at 17 Coast Guard Road sound like a good thing for the […]

Some meetings in Provincetown are in person, some are online, and some are both. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a link to an […]

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. Friday, May 6 Concert […]

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

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

The Truro Public Library, like its peers on the Outer Cape, hosts an art collection donated by artists and patrons. This past month, Tom Wojtalak became the latest donor with […]

“I’ve known women and men — it’s kind of genderless — who think they’re making the right decision, then realize it was one of the worst,” says Provincetown author Randi […]

For this edition of the Indie Playlist, contributors were asked to write about the songs and artists they would bring to a summer music festival on the Outer Cape. The […]

Ellen Anthony’s ‘Paintings and Constructions’ Ellen Anthony is showing “Paintings and Constructions” at the Wellfleet Public Library, 55 West Main St., through May 28. There will be a reception on […]

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It was four days before my son, who is transgender, was to have gender affirming surgery, and my insurance company, Aetna, informed me that it would not be covered. This […]

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Mercury retrograde gets a heavy rap, but it’s really not so bad. Sure, when the planet of comms and tech turns tail in the sky, we might experience life on […]

People send us lots of press releases, often with a kindly cover note saying something like “Please publish this in the next issue of your newspaper.” We’re happy to get […]

‘Like the Hatfields and McCoys’ To the editor: Due to a terminal case of apathy or just plain not paying attention, Truro voters have managed to elect a select board […]

Michael Thomas Smith of Provincetown died on April 29, 2022 at Cape Cod Hospital after a brief illness. He was 62. Born in Hyannis on June 13, 1959, he was […]

A memorial service for Patricia Jackson, who died on Nov. 24, 2021, and for her husband, Roy Jackson, who died on March 21, 2022, will be held at 10:30 a.m. […]

A memorial service for Marie Carnevale Rogers, who died on May 13, 2020, will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 14 at Our Lady of Lourdes parish, 2282 […]

Edward Joseph Salvador died peacefully at his home in Plantation, Fla. on Easter Sunday, April 17, 2022, with his three children and their spouses by his side. He was 87. Born […]

Victor Powell, whose leather workshop above the Old Colony Tap on Commercial Street in Provincetown was legendary, died quietly at his home on March 27, 2022. His death at age […]

After 30 years of military service, Col. Paul Trahan was supposed to retire on Sept. 11, 2001. He reported to duty at the Pentagon that morning, but at 9:37 a.m. […]

PROVINCETOWN  April 27. Raymond S. Ingersoll to Jamie Mills. 254 Bradford St. $1,855,000. April 27. Roderick Family Realty Trust (Steven E. Roderick, trustee) to Conwell Properties LLC [Bonnie-Jean A. Nunheimer, […]

HELP WANTED Electrician jobs available. MA licensed electrician: full-time and/or part-time. Also electrician apprentice: full-time, preferably at least a year experience, education in the field. Must live on Cape, have […]

Herr They Come (Thursday, May 5) Friends of Herring River presents “Wampanoag Waterways: Herring Are Here!” at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, 335 Main St. During the talk on Thursday, May 5, […]

TOWN OF TRURO POSITIONS AVAILABLE LIBRARY PROGRAMMING AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH SPECIALIST & SEASONAL POSITIONS The Town of Truro is seeking applicants for the year-round, full-time position of Library Programming and […]

Town of Provincetown Position Openings Full Time Year Round The Town of Provincetown is accepting applications for a Department of Public Works Director, an Assistant Town Manager,  Town Treasurer/Collector and […]

WELLFLEET — To preserve eroding property and maintain beaches, thousands of cubic yards of so-called sacrificial sand is piled on coastal banks and bay shores here. It does not stay […]

PROVINCETOWN — At midday on Sunday, April 24, a fire in an abandoned car at the Old Reliable Fish House property at 227R Commercial St. sent clouds of dark smoke […]

TRURO — Voters at Saturday’s town meeting will take on practical matters from child-care vouchers to a Proposition 2½ override. They’ll also be asked to consider at least one seemingly technical […]

WELLFLEET — A surfer visiting from Maine died after being pulled from the ocean at Lecount Hollow Beach on April 20, according to the Cape and Islands district attorney’s office. […]

TRURO — It took five months and a handful of major tweaks, but the zoning board of appeals voted Monday to allow Tom and Kathleen Dennis of Springfield to move […]

BARNSTABLE — Towns may soon be able to submit requests for American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding through an application portal set up by the Board of County Commissioners, now […]

PROVINCETOWN — At the annual town meeting on April 4, a hearty debate broke out on the merits of spending to promote tourism and housing. The proximate cause was a […]

EASTHAM — Back in December, the T-Time Development Committee submitted a lengthy list of recommendations for use of the town-owned parcel at 4790 State Highway, a former driving range. That […]

PROVINCETOWN — Eight LGBTQ business owners pooled their money in 1978 and started marketing Provincetown to gay tourists. They spent less than $1,000 on ads in New York theater magazines […]

WELLFEET — Spring brings some privileges to those who’ve waited out winter here. For skaters, these cool preseason days mean the chance to tool around the park until the sun […]

EASTHAM — George FitzGibbons became interested in bat boxes out of frustration. Not with bats, but with bugs. “My wife hates mosquitos,” he says. They would drive her nuts during […]

I’ve had my nose in the books. I spent this winter dragging the first draft of a food memoir out of the dish pits of my mind. As a counterpoint […]

The weather this past week — the temperatures remained cooler than usual and the winds howled — was not conducive to an improvement in fishing. With the water temperature in […]

It happens one night in early April. The air is warm, softened, the hard edges of winter worn away by gentle rain. In the woods, a sound that had almost […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, April 26 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

This week’s planetary whodunit begins with Uranus in Taurus. The planet of change has been drifting idly in the most material of signs for nearly three and a half years. […]

What strikes one person as gross can be another person’s lunchtime entertainment. That’s certainly true for veterinarians, whose social media news feeds are filled with X-rays of bizarre things animals […]

EASTHAM — The Nauset boys lacrosse team cruised through April vacation with two overpowering shutout wins over St. John Paul II and Bristol Plymouth Vocational Technical High School. The scores […]

Some meetings in Provincetown are in person, some are online, and some are both. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a link to an […]

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 28 Climate […]

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

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

If you’ve walked down Commercial Street in Provincetown, you’ve likely met the tourists standing outside the public library. Immortalized in bronze by sculptor Chaim Gross, the couple — a large-chested […]

You, reader of the Independent, grasping a newspaper or squinting at your laptop, probably already believe that writing matters. But not everyone does. Defending the written word’s worth is exactly […]

Vanessa Van Ryswood, who lives in Eastham, recommends We Planted a Tree, a poem by Diane Muldrow. The illustrations are by Bob Staake, who lives in Chatham. In the book, […]

One thing I love about the Outer Cape is how, more often than not, the person working at the grocery store, gas station, library, restaurant, hardware store, or coffee shop […]

“If Provincetown were wiped out — my house and my town gone — I would be as vulnerable as a hermit crab without its shell,” writes Mary Heaton Vorse in […]

Artists of ‘Exquisite Core’ Unite for Ukraine Relief Watching the war in Ukraine unfold, Eugene Zhukau was struck by how everyday people, including artists, were having to turn into soldiers. […]

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As a lifelong Cape Codder striving to make a life in this community, I believe Truro must take bold steps to stem the housing crisis. That starts with fostering a […]

This morning I awoke after a good night’s sleep. After a hot shower, I had a hearty breakfast and a couple of cups of coffee, while I perused a magazine […]

The map and sailboat are my interpretations in walnut ink on Quadrangle for Provincetown, Mass., 1972: U.S. Geological Survey. My work is overlaid on Eugene Zhukau’s cyanotype print of “Town […]

For an Eastham Conservation Fund To the editor: Eastham voters should support Article 16, to establish a conservation fund (CF), on the May 2 town meeting warrant. The town summary […]

April is coming to an end, and that means the fellows of Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center will soon be leaving us. But Provincetown, we have come to learn, will […]

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Frederick Wilson Todd died at his home in Truro on April 16, 2022, surrounded by family. He was 79. The cause was pancreatic cancer. The son of Gladys and Lewis […]

“One morning, I was on the 7 a.m. shift at Tip for Tops’n restaurant when two couples came in who couldn’t find a place to sleep the night before and […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from April 18 to April 22, 2022. PROVINCETOWN April 21. Dawn M. McCollough to Andrew Cuomo. 104-104A Bradford St., Unit 13. $500,000. […]

HELP WANTED Come join our sweet little team at Karol Richardson in Wellfleet. Full- and part-time boutique sales associate positions available. For consideration, please forward your resume to [email protected] We will […]

Current Struggle (Thursday, April 28) To kick off the Provincetown Public Library’s Moby-Dick Marathon, the Center for Coastal Studies presents “We Are All Whalers” on Thursday, April 28, 7 to […]

Town of Provincetown Public Hearing Licensing Board May 10, 2022 The Provincetown Licensing Board will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 at 5:15 p.m. in the Judge […]

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EASTHAM — The Eastham Conservation Foundation celebrated Earth Day a week early on April 16 with its fourth annual Earth Day Great Marsh Cleanup. And clean up they did, with […]

PROVINCETOWN — Donald R. Edwards bent low as he made his way through a child-size opening between the kitchen and the bar at the Governor Bradford Restaurant. When asked why […]

WELLFLEET — The select board has signed a purchase-and-sale agreement for the 72-year-old Maurice’s Campground and its 21.25 acres of land for $6.5 million. The board presented the purchase as […]

Suzanne Bryan Looks Ahead at Climate Crisis EASTHAM — “I’ve turned into that person who’s really interested in small-town politics,” says Suzanne Bryan, who is running for select board. She […]

TRURO — The annual town meeting will kick off at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 30 at the Truro Central School ballfield, where voters will be asked to approve a grand […]

TRURO — A regional study of emergency medical services in Truro, Wellfleet, and Provincetown, presented to the select board and finance committee on April 12, points to a phasing out […]

TRURO — A longtime cottage colony may soon be vanishing from Truro’s back shore. The property’s new owner, who paid $5 million for the seven-acre former Hi-Land View Cottages at […]

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article, published in print on April 21, incorrectly included the Wellfleet Veterinary Hospital in the list of practices owned by PetVet Care Centers.That […]

PROVINCETOWN — Until her death at age 73, Bertha Mulvihill Noon had nightmares in which she heard the screams of those who went down with the luxury liner Titanic. Mark […]

Apparently, shrimp is Mazatlán’s superpower. I have been hearing about the glories of the seafood of Sinaloa, particularly its shrimp, for months from Wellfleet neighbors who spend time on Mexico’s […]

Sadie Hill added two Nigerian dwarf dairy goats to her small farm in Brewster in 2015. Her plan was to show them in competitions and breed them to develop a […]

EASTHAM — The Nauset High School baseball team enjoyed a 14-3 victory over Burlington High on April 16, as the holiday weekend began. The team improved to 2-1 on the […]

Piper Springsong Dinwiddie was born at home in Brewster at 4:53 p.m. on April 1, 2022, just two and a half hours after her parents started timing contractions. She came […]

J. Young mixes tropical print and lace for a walk on Commercial Street. She’s from Washington, D.C., but here in Provincetown on vacation with her family. “My style?” she asks. […]

Not much to report on the fishing front, as the water is still a bit too chilled to get things percolating. Striped bass continue their slow, deliberate trek to the […]

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

The Sun has meandered into Taurus as winter, at last, begins its gradual recession. Taurus season favors a slow and steady approach to the business of life. Whereas Aries season […]

Some meetings in Provincetown are in person, some are online, and some are both. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a link […]

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 21 Climate […]

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

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

Christine Niles’s narrative challenges the myth, mostly believed by nonartists, that artists are born and not made. “I always enjoyed the arts, but I didn’t feel myself drawn to them […]

To those unfamiliar with cryptocurrency and NFTs, the term “non-fungible” sounds more like a type of mushroom than an economic term. But the buzz around non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, has […]

A thousand years ago, Sei Shōnagon set down on paper her wry observations of court life in Kyoto, the capital of Heian Japan. What was awkward to Sei? “The back […]

Beginning in the Cape’s dunes, Ben Shattuck’s Six Walks is a meditation on nature in Henry David Thoreau’s footsteps. Desperate to escape recurring nightmares, Shattuck turns Thoreau’s Cape Cod into […]

Erna Partoll ‘Captures Time’ A show celebrating Erna Partoll runs through May 7 at Berta Walker Gallery, 208 Bradford St. in Provincetown. At age 90, Partoll says, “Painting is capturing […]

Barreling northeast on I-35 from Austin to Dallas in early March, my sister, husband, and I tried to ignore the flag-festooned caravan in the right lane. But we couldn’t avert […]

The role of district attorney is crucially important in our civil society. It offers a unique opportunity to protect citizens, help people when they need it most, and build a […]

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Weeks ago, I wrote about the lack of progress in bringing better internet service to the Outer Cape. One question that has been raised but never answered in these discussions […]

The ‘Docs’ and the Cloverleaf To the editor: The article about the May 10 Truro Planning Board election in the April 14 edition of the Provincetown Independent [“Planning Board Hopefuls […]

Marie Allene Thibeault died on April 9, 2022, in Fairfax, Va. She was 93. Born on April 15, 1928, in Canton, Ohio to Marie Helene (Hickey) and Albert James Smith, […]

Early in her career in the 1950s and ’60s, Eleanor Munro spent summers in the Litchfield hills of western Connecticut. But in 1969, she married E.J. Kahn Jr., the noted […]

John F. McDermott was introduced to Truro in the summer of 1971 by his colleague Rosalyn Baxandall, with whom he taught at the State University of New York. He had […]

HELP WANTED Jobs available at The Gifford House Inn. Bar manager (housing available), bartenders, housekeepers (housing available). Good people to work with. Contact us at [email protected] or phone 508-487-0688. May […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from April 11 to April 15, 2022.  PROVINCETOWN April 11. Rapoport McCarthy Family Trust (Alan M. Rapoport and David P. McCarthy, trustees) […]

Winter Endures (Thursday, April 21) In celebration of National Park Week, the Salt Pond Visitors Center, 50 Nauset Road in Eastham, presents a free screening of The Endurance on Thursday, […]

Annual Town ELECTION                      Tuesday, May 10, 2022 from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.                    Provincetown Town Hall Commonwealth of Massachusetts Barnstable, […]

EASTHAM — Nauset Regional High School students packed the bleachers on Friday, Oct. 15, whooping, whistling, and hollering as clubs, one by one, paraded down the turf field. It was […]

PROVINCETOWN — The new executive director of the Provincetown Business Guild does not have a place to live for the summer. Stephan Hengst, who was hired in January to fill […]

EASTHAM — At a virtual meeting attended by more than 300 people on April 1, Cape Abilities CEO Kim McElholm announced that the nonprofit, which provides education, counseling, and employment […]

WELLFLEET — On beaches along this eroding coastline, it’s common to stumble upon strange artifacts, from PVC pipes to electrical wires to concrete rubble. The most recent discovery: a broken […]

PROVINCETOWN — Nineteen Gannett-owned weeklies across Eastern Massachusetts will cease print publication in May, according to recent announcements on the company’s “Wicked Local” websites. None of the 19 in the […]

TRURO — Two candidates, Caitlin Townsend and Steve Stahl, are on the ballot to fill the seat of retiring planning board member Steve Sollog in the May 10 town election. […]

TRURO — At the annual town meeting on April 30, Raphael Richter plans to approach the microphone on the Truro Central School ballfield and air his frustrations with the town’s […]

EASTHAM — It’s a chilly and windy Thursday afternoon at Nauset Regional High School. Classes have just ended for the day and the track team is warming up in the […]

Another season on the water is soon upon us and, with a little luck, we may not have Covid issues dramatically affecting everything we do. Still, the last two seasons […]

The spring season connects us with the light that we were so craving during the dark winter days. So, too, do this April’s holidays — Easter, Passover, and Ramadan — […]

During a morning surf, a young surfer-girl caught a big set wave. She scrambled to paddle as it reared up and hollowed. She made a late critical drop and disappeared […]

Clearing dead leaves and debris off the vegetable and herb beds on one of the first truly warm afternoons of this spring, I’m amazed to find that lemon balm and […]

If you read my 15-minute workout advice this winter, you know what’s coming. I promised to add a core routine to those basic upper- and lower-body programs. An effective set […]

“These are the Highlands of Cape Cod, the most dangerous point on the Cape,” wrote Shebnah Rich in his landmark Truro history. “No place, perhaps, has witnessed more shipwrecks, and […]

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

April’s full Moon, the Pink Moon, is in lovely Libra this week. That, coupled with the energy of the Jupiter-Neptune connection described previously, means you may find yourself seeing the […]

BARNSTABLE — Right up until the day of the vote, it looked like the Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates was going to steamroll the County Commissioners’ opposition to distributing $20 […]

EASTHAM — The Nauset boys baseball team got its first win of the season on April 7 after several scrimmages and games were postponed to start the season. The team […]

Some meetings in Provincetown are in person, some are online, and some are both. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a link to an […]

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 14 Climate […]

Most meeting in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are being held in person. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

“This place will always be a part of my life, more so than I ever imagined,” says the writer Vedran Husić. “The work that I’m doing here is so meaningful […]

Considering the origins of the Cape Cod National Seashore in 1961 doesn’t usually bring Ralph Waldo Emerson, the 19th-century transcendentalist, to mind. Or artists, either. In local imagination, the origin […]

If you walk into Provincetown’s Tin Pan Alley or The Club in the evening, you’re likely to hear Mike Flanagan’s fingers on the piano or the sound of his saxophone. […]

The picture at right is a family photo. It was taken in 1898 in Kyiv, Ukraine and is the original cabinet card — a thin photograph mounted on a 4¼-by-6½-inch […]

A Book Full of Broadsides Poems seen on street signs and paintings posted on boardwalks — hundreds of these “broadsides” have been released “in the wild” since Truro poet Elizabeth […]

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Cape Cod lost a powerful leader last week, and I lost a dear friend and colleague. Susan L. Quinones, Esq., who was coordinator for the Barnstable County Human Rights Advisory […]

Around his fourth birthday, my son, Noah, started asking probing questions about life and death. It began innocently enough. He wanted to know if he would become a baby again. […]

Not the Wild West To the editor: When most of us hear the word “sheriff,” we are transported back to the films of the 1950s, where the sheriff kept order […]

This issue of the Independent includes reflections on death and rebirth, street photos and interviews with people about faith and hope, and a holiday table reverie of spring vegetables — […]

Janice Virginia Walk died peacefully at her home in North Truro on Feb. 28, 2021, with her spouse, Janis Sommers, by her side. She was 70. The cause was the […]

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Real Estate Transactions  Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from April 4 to April 8, 2022. PROVINCETOWN  April 8. Barry J. Golden to BateRockTN LLC. 15 Winthrop St., […]

THE ARTS Monumental Art and the Figure. Online/in-person (hybrid) class M-F June 13-17, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Each day includes a presentation/demonstration, working from a model, and critiques within a compassionate and […]

Contain Your Excitement (Thursday, April 14.) The Eastham Senior Center, 1405 Nauset Road, hosts a workshop on Creative Container Gardening with Donelle Denery on Thursday, April 14, 1:30 p.m. Call […]

Town of Provincetown Invitation for Bids Public Works Annual Services Fiscal Year 2023 The Town of Provincetown is requesting bids for Fiscal Year 2023 (July 1, 2022 – June 30, […]

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PROVINCETOWN — Over the course of two nights, town meeting voters passed nearly every article on Provincetown’s 48-item warrant, including a long-sought funding authorization for a new police station and […]

Editor’s note: This article has been updated since its original publication in print on April 7 with new information about the June 21 special election ballot supplied by Wellfleet Town […]

TRURO — Abutters of a proposed recreational cannabis cultivation and processing facility on Old Bridge Road expressed concern at a recent planning board hearing that their properties would be engulfed […]

PROVINCETOWN — The sun broke through a dense fog. The town hall clock chimed, tourists rolled suitcases down Commercial Street, and there was something new: a glass elevator glided up […]

EASTHAM –– The town and the National Seashore are close to finalizing a plan for parking at both the Coast Guard Beach and the reconfigured Nauset Light Beach lots this […]

PROVINCETOWN — On foot and by bike, scooter, and car, some 400 people made their way along Commercial Street to town hall on Monday evening, headed to what turned out […]

EASTHAM — Fred LaPiana Sr. had a vision for the property along Route 6 that he bought in 1951. He wanted it to be the hub of the Eastham business […]

WELLFLEET — Last summer, the part of the Herring River estuary near Duck Harbor Beach became the epicenter of a miserable mosquito outbreak. Cape Cod Mosquito Control, following discussions with […]

EASTHAM — It’s an almost-balmy Monday in March, the kind of day that signals the end of sweater weather is nigh, but the students at the Yarn Club meeting at […]

All of a sudden, I’m seeing tiny buds on every branch. This sign of spring sends my vegetable-growing friends into expanding their garden beds. For chicken farmers like me, the […]

Spring recreation programs offering baseball, softball, soccer, and egg hunts are opening in all four towns of the Outer Cape, and the annual search for volunteers is on. “Spring is […]

You can get asparagus all year, but in November it just feels wrong. When spring arrives with its customary shyness, it’s perky asparagus that assures me that warmer days are […]

EASTHAM — The Nauset Regional High School boys lacrosse team got off to a blazing start with a 23-0 victory in its first game of the season against St. John […]

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

Astronomy rewards early risers. In the chilly hour before sunrise, darkness gives way to ghostly yellow along the eastern horizon. Look a little higher and the sky is blue. Straight […]

It’s a once-in-a-lifetime spiritual jamboree when Jupiter and Neptune align in their home sign, Pisces, on April 12. Expect growth on the spiritual and creative fronts. This is an exciting […]

Some meetings in Provincetown are in person, some are online, and some are both. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a link to an […]

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 7 Economic […]

Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

Austin Ballard creates undulating forms of rattan and clay that writhe and roll like kelp. The sculptures, which take weeks, and sometimes months, to complete, feel almost figurative;  whether they […]

H.R. Webster has a poem provocatively titled “Failure.” “I have made fun of the way language/ is always finding its own end,” she writes. “I have made fun of these […]

Wishes is a children’s book written by Muon Thi Van and illustrated by Victo Ngai. It chronicles one family’s migration from Vietnam. It was chosen by children in both the […]

I have a lot of feelings and always have. In fact, it’s why I began writing poems in high school. Feelings! So many feelings. Feelings that needed a safe place […]

“That’s a wrap on the cigarette wrangler!” comes a cry across the Herring Cove Beach parking lot. It’s Wednesday, March 23 and a crew has just finishing filming the first […]

Bert Yarborough Makes a Mark “Marked” is a show of selected works on paper by Bert Yarborough at Farm Projects, 335 Main St. in Wellfleet, running through May 2. There […]

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Standing on the beach the other night, I gazed up at the ink-black sky pierced with stars and found myself thinking about infinity — endless space going on and up […]

The March 17 edition of the Independent had an important story about the Americans with Disabilities Act, “On the Outer Cape, the ADA Doesn’t Change Much,” by Michaela Chesin. Many […]

Restoration or Sinkhole? To the editor: Who could possibly resist a project promising to enhance the environment and restore a vital resource? Back in 2008, that promise won the Herring […]

When Roy Jackson and his wife, Patricia, first came to Cape Cod in 1962, they were drawn by the names on the map. Yarmouth and Truro reminded Patricia of her […]

THE ARTS Monumental Art and the Figure. Online/in-person (hybrid) class M-F June 13-17, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Each day includes a presentation/demonstration, working from a model, and critiques within a compassionate and […]

PROVINCETOWN  March 29. Linton C. Watts to Tree Holdings Alden LLC [Eric D. Shapiro, agent]. 100 Alden St., Unit 201. $389,000. March 31. Juna LLC [Stanley A. Sikorski and Eva […]

It’s town meeting season, time for that strange civic ritual we like to think of as an exercise in pure democracy. This spring’s turnout looks good so far: 448 voters […]

Working Wonders (Thursday, April 7 – Friday, April 8) Poets Tiana Clark and Major Jackson kick off Opening to Wonder at the Fine Arts Work Center, 24 Pearl St. in […]

Town of Provincetown Public Hearing Historic District Commission April 20, 2022 The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, April 20, 2022, in […]

PROVINCETOWN — Since 1968, the Fine Arts Work Center here has welcomed artists and writers to its prestigious winter fellowship and hosted summer workshops led by an impressive faculty. Likewise, […]

T-Time Development Committee chair Karen Strauss has announced that the former driving range will become a driving range again. That’s a fine idea. Maybe golf and antique arcade games are […]

TRURO — In spite of the signs in residents’ yards and on windowsills proclaiming that “Housing Is a Human Right,” efforts to create an underground campsite as a solution to […]

EASTHAM — Three years after the town’s purchase of a parcel of rough at 4790 State Highway from Stop & Shop, and more than 10 years after the last bucket […]

WELLFLEET — A new business in town will take advantage of one of the town’s more pervasive resources: black sludge. While some of the silt was recently exhumed from the federal […]

Come April, ospreys — the large raptors also known as sea hawks — make their thousands-of-miles-long journeys from South America back to Cape Cod to nest. A peek inside their […]

PLYMOUTH — There is more to worry about than the possible discharge of a million gallons of radioactive water from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station into Cape Cod Bay. That […]

EASTHAM — Drew Locke, the former head coach of the Nauset Regional High School boys hockey team, was fired on Feb. 10, but in the seven weeks since, few details […]

WELLFLEET — After two January nor’easters, an eroding road has cut off six oceanfront property owners from access to their houses. “Each storm compromises the area even further,” said Douglas […]

BARNSTABLE — The two branches of Barnstable County’s government have been at odds for nearly a year about how $41.37 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds should be distributed. […]

BARNSTABLE — After 24 years, Barnstable County Sheriff James Cummings is leaving office. So far, two candidates, Democrat Donna Buckley, a former general counsel in the sheriff’s office, and Republican […]

PROVINCETOWN — Articles to establish a community impact fee on investor-owned short-term rental properties are on the town meeting warrants in Provincetown, Wellfleet, and Eastham this spring. According to Provincetown’s […]

PROVINCETOWN — Melissa Jerace, owner of the East End gallery Domingos En La Playa, faces two counts of forgery of a check and forgery of a deposit slip. The charges, […]

TRURO — An effort by the planning board to regroup after a barrage of criticism from the select board about its proposed zoning bylaw amendments fell apart last week, when the […]

PROVINCETOWN — Two measures on the warrant for Provincetown’s April 4 town meeting consider the removal of the two southern lanes of Route 6 from Herring Cove to Conwell Street. […]

TRURO — “Am I crazy?” Steve Wynne remarked to his colleagues on the Walsh Property Community Planning Committee. “We’ve never discussed this, and now we’re seeing a conceptual site plan […]

WELLFLEET — Nick Robertson starts work as the new town accountant this Monday, April 4. For the last five years he has been Provincetown’s assistant town accountant. He sees the […]

WELLFLEET — Of all the materials he handles daily at the Wellfleet Transfer Station, Renewliners are Michael Cicale’s biggest pet peeve. These insulated packaging materials “might be great for shipping, […]

As the days get longer, I find myself eyeing the grill on my back porch. Memories of the last time I fired it up are hazy — those steak-and-salad dinners […]

WELLFLEET — Obtaining a coveted spot at one of the kayak racks at a town beach just got a lot more random. To give some relief to those who have […]

EASTHAM — The Nauset Regional High School baseball team hasn’t forgotten how last season ended. In fact, it’s been on some of the student-athletes’ minds ever since. “Yes, I still […]

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

Some meetings in Provincetown are in person, some are online, and some are both. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a link to an […]

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 31 Climate […]

Most meeting in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are being held in person. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting locations and […]

Tom Pappas is what some call a “painter’s painter” — one immersed in paint’s possibilities, letting process determine the result. For Pappas, the results are modest-size abstractions with earthy colors […]

Drummers get no love, hunkered down behind the kit while the guitar and vocal frontline gets the glory. That’s just fine with Liam Hogg, who’s been pounding the skins for […]

“They came unarmed. They came/ half-masked. They came/ before the crow. They came/ with the moon. They came/ moonless. They came/ out of rain. They came/ as their enemy. They […]

Prints at Preservation Hall A show of original prints by members of the Printmakers of Cape Cod will be on view at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, 335 Main St., from Friday, […]

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Wellfleet officials recently described the town’s financial records as “a ball of yarn continually unraveling” and told this newspaper that “more than 1,000 errors were corrected in the town’s books […]

The new Moon in the first sign of the zodiac sets the tone for the year ahead. It’s an invitation to begin again by refreshing your routine and cultivating a […]

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has created an instant transformation in many people’s geographical knowledge of a previously little-known part of the world. Suddenly, places that hardly anyone had ever […]

‘My Hair Was on Fire’ To the editor: I take umbrage at K.C. Myers’s assertion that “no one said a word” about Wellfleet’s financial issues before the Dept. of Revenue intervened […]

Roland Joseph Santos died at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis on March 15, 2022 from complications of a lifelong battle with diabetes. It was his 43rd birthday. The son of […]

Shirley Clark Lauffer of Wellfleet died at the Windsor Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in South Yarmouth on Christmas Eve 2021. She had just turned 95. The daughter of Blanche […]

John F. Feeney III died peacefully at home in Provincetown on March 20, 2022, surrounded by his family and friends. The cause of death, confirmed by his husband, Paul, was […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from March 21 to March 25, 2022. PROVINCETOWN March 21. Colleen M. Gordon to 4 Bradford Acres E LLC [David J. Hallett, […]

THE ARTS Monumental Art and the Figure. Online/in-person (hybrid) class M-F June 13-17, 10am–2pm. Each day includes a presentation/demonstration, working from a model, and critiques within a compassionate and insightful discourse. […]

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You Say Oyster (Thursday, March 31) The Provincetown Public Library welcomes artist and marine biologist Thor Jensen, aquaculture specialist Abigail Archer, and shellfish farmers Kalliope and Michael Chute for a […]

Town of Provincetown Public Hearing Licensing Board April 12, 2022 The Provincetown Licensing Board will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 5:15 p.m. in the Judge […]

The Beech Forest Trail off Race Point Road in the Province Lands of the Cape Cod National Seashore beckons spring birdwatchers and seekers of peace. (Photo by Agata Storer) This […]

WELLFLEET — The new town administrator won’t have a long commute. His town hall office is a short jaunt from his home. Richard Waldo, Provincetown’s longtime public works director, was […]

The nonprofit International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and the biopharmaceutical company Moderna announced on Jan. 27 a phase-one human trial of “experimental HIV vaccine antigens.” The trial includes 56 participants […]

Editor’s note: This article has been updated since the deadline for the March 24 print edition. BARNSTABLE — A new disagreement over how to allocate more than $41 million in […]

EASTHAM — Voters at this year’s annual town meeting on May 2 will be asked to approve an ambitious set of appropriations and zoning changes focused on increasing the town’s […]

TRURO — A forum on youth suicide at the community center on March 16 attracted more than 50 people, many of whom talked about a broken mental health care system, […]

EASTHAM — A dozen neighbors have banded together to implore the town to do something about Marjorie and Sherman Lovering’s yard. They say the couple’s property at 10 McGuerty Road […]

WELLFLEET — Cameron Reiss Scott, the former head account clerk at Barnstable Superior Court, now has a longer commute to work from his home in Centerville, where he lives with […]

EASTHAM — As the municipal drinking water project nears completion, the town is gearing up to tackle its next big infrastructure challenge — what to do with its wastewater. At […]

Vaccines present our immune systems with hallmark fragments of the targeted disease (a target antigen, such as Covid’s signature spike protein), spurring our B cells to crank out antibodies, which […]

“I’ve had my eye on garbage for a long time,” says designer John D’Aponte. In Brooklyn, where he lived most of his life, he learned to pillage the detritus of […]

We cross paths regularly on our respective early morning coffee runs in Wellfleet. Now, without masks, it seems easier to strike up a conversation. She’s holding a copy of the […]

For a while, as Major League Baseball and its players association argued over a collective bargaining agreement, it looked as if the 2022 baseball season might not happen. The negotiations […]

“I just had a black hat,” says Beverly Callistini, standing outside the Wired Puppy coffee shop on Commercial Street in Provincetown. “I like to place found objects on it, then […]

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

I know some of you are not going to approve of what I do for my winter vacation. But if I didn’t love driving and engines, would I really be […]

Some meetings in Provincetown are in person, some are online, and some are both. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a link to an […]

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 24 Finance Committee, 3 […]

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

The title of S. Emsaki’s show at the Fine Arts Work Center’s Hudson D. Walker Gallery, “Some Things Last a Long Time,” refers to the plastics that she collects and […]

A huge water heater lives in the middle of writer Molly Anders’s tiny kitchen. “This is Louis,” she says, gesturing as she makes coffee. She says all the other Fine […]

A couple of Wednesdays ago, a dozen artists gathered in the Fine Arts Work Center’s printmaking studio. They had been invited to create prints and donate them to “A Day […]

Sneak Peek at CCMoA “First Look,” a show of recent acquisitions at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, runs through May 15 at 60 Hope Lane in Dennis. Among the […]

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I might as well confess it: I am geographically challenged. If you spent any time with me, you would know. Without a map, I have a hard time remembering where […]

David Comberg, Pamela Hovland, and Jacqueline Thaw are members of Class Action Collective, creating visual messages to advocate for social change. The group aims to challenge the way public issues are […]

Happy astrological new year. The Sun entered Aries on March 20, the day of the Spring Equinox. Light will overcome shadow, at last, and summer is no longer just a […]

Affordable Housing on Lawrence Road To the editor: I write to correct some of the statements in Edina Kopits’s March 17 letter to the editor [“For a ‘Workers Village’ ”] […]

After a brief illness, Jeanne Ethelwyn Katherine Boland Schmidt died on March 29, 2021 at Hospice by the Sea in Boca Raton, Fla. Her death was confirmed by her daughter […]

Patricia Chapman came of age when frugality was a virtue. She reused tea bags and wrapped her presents in repurposed gift paper, and every summer when she visited family and […]

Claire Sprague, a New Yorker who was a part-time resident of Provincetown for over 40 years, died on Nov. 13, 2021 at Whitehall Manor, an assisted living facility, in Whitehall, […]

Talking to public officials is a frustrating job. They have a tendency to talk in circles, or in legalese. They sometimes excuse dishonesty by saying that they’re trying to build […]

Longtime Provincetown summer resident and artist Jane Ellen Bloom died from injuries sustained in an accident on March 11, 2022. She was dining with a group of friends at a […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from March 14 to March 18, 2022. PROVINCETOWN March 14. Harriet G. Finkelstein to George E. Welch. 100 Alden St., Unit 104. […]

THE ARTS Two-session online workshop: Painting Through the Eyes of Hilma af Klint, Saturday, March 26, 10-2 and Saturday, April 2, 10-11:30 with Alana Barrett and Laura Shabott. Workshop includes […]

Whale Endowed (Thursday, March 24 – Friday, March 25) The Cape premiere of the documentary The Last of the Right Whales screens on Thursday, March 24, 7 p.m. at the […]

Town of Provincetown Public Hearing Historic District Commission April 6, 2022 The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, in […]

It was a quiet day in early March, but the Jewelry Studio of Wellfleet was buzzing with activity. Seven members of Girl Scout Troop 82548 were inside, soldering, hammering, and […]

WELLFLEET — The town’s continuing financial fiasco has now prompted the select board to postpone the annual town meeting until Saturday, June 11. The town charter requires that the annual […]

TRURO — Anne Greenbaum, chair of the planning board, presented the select board with seven articles for town meeting on March 8, ready to breeze through each one. “I don’t want […]

Editor’s note: Because of a fact-checking error, the print edition of this article, dated March 17, reported that the date of the annual town election had been changed to June […]

EASTHAM — Town officials tried to persuade the finance committee on March 9 that a $500,000 budget override was still needed despite $220,000 in savings since a preliminary budget was […]

EASTHAM — Nauset Regional High School Assistant Principal Patrick Clark has been named principal and will start on July 1. School Supt. Brooke Clenchy announced her choice on March 14 […]

TRURO — In an effort to stem the loss of residential property from the year-round housing stock, three Outer Cape towns are considering the adoption of an additional fee on […]

WELLFLEET — The Town Administrator Screening Committee has identified three finalists for the job, according to a March 11 memo sent by committee chair Bruce Bierhans to the select board. […]

EASTHAM — When Madeline Schnitzer was six years old, she participated in her first regional Irish step dance competition. “I had no idea what to expect and no idea how […]

WELLFLEET — When 84-year-old Carmen Castro had a major stroke in 2017 and needed full-time care, her daughter, Belinda, quickly stepped up, adjusting to the 24-hour routine of administering medication […]

WELLFLEET — The select board has proposed two articles for the June 11 annual town meeting aimed at addressing the town’s lack of both affordable and year-round housing. One would […]

The 2022 Indie Pie Contest, in recognition of Pi Day, 3/14, produced two winners, who were interviewed by Taste Editor Teresa Parker. —Ed. Golden Goose Award Winner: Carolina Marseglia Making […]

Two months ago, I wrote about how you can build strength in as little as 15 minutes a day. That piece covered the legs. Of course, you can’t just work […]

PROVINCETOWN — After three months of negotiations, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Union Local 328 secured a four-year agreement for Stop & Shop employees on Feb. 27. The […]

This week’s full Moon in the orderly, nurturing sign of Virgo brings clarity to chaos, illuminating the imperfections we try so hard to subdue. Instead of trying to manage disorder, […]

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

Some meetings in Provincetown are in person, some are online, and some are both. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a link to an […]

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 17 Climate […]

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

As an elementary-school student in Virginia, Elizabeth Flood found a Civil War bullet while digging in the sand at recess. “It was on my radar at a very early age […]

“My first love is theater,” says Jon Richardson, a Provincetown musician known for his piano bar gigs at Tin Pan Alley and the Crown & Anchor. Or, perhaps, you may […]

“Narrative weaves through many aspects of our lives in ways we are often not even aware of,” says the Turkish-born writer Zeynep Özakat. Her first novel, which she is working […]

“All it takes is two people to have an Irish session,” says fiddler Rose Clancy of Chatham, who has been hosting Celtic jam sessions in pubs and restaurants on Cape […]

A Musical Embrace “It’s like a marriage with ups and downs,” says accordionist Vincent Peirani of his collaboration with soprano saxophonist Emile Parisien. The musical “odd couple” are performing a […]

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Many of my friends in Poland have families from Ukraine in their homes now. One friend, Marta Shaw, a philologist at the Institute of Public Affairs at the Jagiellonian University […]

Basic issues of democratic process sometimes arise in the most apparently mundane proceedings. The Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates recently held a hearing on an ordinance proposed by the Cape […]

For a ‘Workers Village’ To the editor: Re Edward Ebert’s letter of March 10 [“Wellfleet’s ‘Financial Rotary’ ”]: Finally, a voice in the wilderness that makes sense. I wish to […]

A lot of readers of the Independent have been asking, “What can be done about Wellfleet?” I’m not sure what the answer is, but I have a few ideas. The […]

Anne MacAdam died in Provincetown on Feb. 25, 2022 after several months in hospice. Her death, at age 91, was confirmed by her daughter, Heather Dune Macadam. Anne was born […]

Peter Welker died in Sun City, Ariz. on Jan. 12, 2022 from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and Covid. The West Coast jazz musician, composer, arranger, producer, and sideman, […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from March 7 to March 11, 2022. PROVINCETOWN March 7. KCC Realty Group LLC [Claudio Gervasi and Kevin T. Moss, managers] to […]

THE ARTS Two-session online workshop: Painting Through the Eyes of Hilma af Klint, Saturday, March 26, 10-2 and Saturday, April 2, 10-11:30 with Alana Barrett and Laura Shabott. Workshop includes […]

Craic-ing Up (Thursday, March 17) Provincetown Dramatic Arts hosts a craic-filled St. Patrick’s Day celebration on Thursday, March 17, 6 to 9:30 p.m. at the Elks Lodge, 10 McKoy Road […]

Town of Provincetown Public Hearing Planning Board Proposed Zoning Bylaw Changes March 24, 2022 The Provincetown Planning Board will hold a public hearing pursuant to G.L. c. 40A in the […]

TRURO — The neat stacks of concrete pipes lined up along Route 6A in North Truro are not a public art project. They are being installed underground as part of […]

WELLFLEET — Shellfish from Outer Cape Cod may soon make its way to Europe again after a 12-year hiatus. What that means for local growers is not yet clear, but so […]

PROVINCETOWN — Voters at annual town meeting on April 4 may feel like they’re at the civic version of a double feature. The main attractions will be the police station proposal […]

TRURO — A public forum on raising awareness of youth suicide and its causes and prevention will be held at the Truro Community Center from 6 to 7 p.m. on […]

TRURO — The select board voted unanimously on Feb. 22 to waive beach fire and parking fees for Native American tribe members. Truro thus follows the lead of the town of […]

WELLFLEET — John and Ella Grannis retired from their small bookselling business in Montclair, N.J. in 2019 and moved to the Outer Cape to renovate a family summer cottage. Now, […]

Update: The boys hockey team lost in the Round of 16 to Lynnfield by a score of 7-1 on Wednesday night.  EASTHAM — The Nauset boys hockey team showed sheer […]

PLYMOUTH — The company decommissioning the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth has not said much about where the radioactive water it proposes to release into Cape Cod Bay would […]

PROVINCETOWN — The presence of great white sharks on the Outer Cape’s shores may not be the shocking news it used to be, but just how much of the time […]

When my sister-in-law and brother invited Christopher and me to join them on a hiking trip across Ireland’s Dingle Peninsula, you might be surprised to know, I didn’t say yes […]

TRURO — Turn toward the ocean at the sign for Edgewood Farm on Route 6 and follow the road up a short hill. There you’ll find a striking shingled barn, […]

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

Edward Rowe Snow, the master chronicler of New England sea stories, wrote a letter to the Provincetown Advocate in February 1964, seeking information about descendants of Capt. David H. Atkins, […]

Sallyanne Austin (left) of Nantucket and Helena Gomes of Stoughton leave brunch on Bradford Street in Provincetown, warmed by their faux leopard-print coats and hats, on a cold late February […]

Some meetings in Provincetown are in person, some are online, and some are both. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a link to an […]

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 10 Shellfish […]

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

Fine Arts Work Center visual fellow Nick Fagan knows the power of a good, weighty blanket. The bright colors and soft textures are a balm for troubled minds in turbulent […]

Clint Baclawski’s installation Bound/ary at Room 68 is a welcome reprieve of light and color on a blustery winter day in Provincetown. The installation consists of a folding screen where […]

As fans of Spanish writer-director Pedro Almodóvar well know, his films combine personal narrative obsessions and familiar stylized production design with a kind of raw, emotional reality that we all […]

Laura Cresté still has Mead notebooks full of the nature poems she started writing around age six. She wrote one after watching a seagull attack a crab while on the […]

Spring at Bakker Auctions Bakker Auctions will hold its spring fine arts auction on Saturday, March 12 beginning at 1 p.m. Women artists are well represented in the 145 lots, […]

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I have never written a love letter to a building before, but the spirit moves me now. Provincetown Town Hall is doubly beautiful, first for her physical attributes but even […]

A friend told me the other day that she doesn’t know if it’s post-Covid brain fog she’s suffering from, or if it’s undiagnosed Lyme disease or some other sinister condition […]

Surfacing on the forward edge of the Aquarian Venus-Mars alignment that will bestow social graces upon us for the next month, the illuminating Sun and dream-weaver Neptune connect in the […]

Last week, a young mayor in the Ukrainian town of Kopychyntsi sought out journalists in America. He knew that telling his town’s story, his country’s story, was as vital as […]

That House at Ballston To the editor: In the first week of February, the building that was the former Pamet River Life Saving Station was moved back under emergency order […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Feb. 28 to March 4, 2022.  PROVINCETOWN Feb. 28. Erica D. Quitzow to Bryan E. Lasseter and Frederick J. Riccardi. 129A […]

LEARNING Free computer class started March 7. In “Introduction to Digital Culture,” learn to connect to the internet more easily, avoid scams and fraud, identify reliable health resources, virtually attend […]

Charles Philip Morton II died peacefully on Feb 25, 2022 at his home in North Truro with his fiancée, Annie (Jordan) Appling, by his side. The cause of death was leukemia. He […]

Elizabeth Seward Fleeson, known as Libby, died peacefully of natural causes at her Provincetown home on Feb. 11, 2022, nine days before her 66th birthday. The cause of death was […]

Reap What You Sow (Thursday, March 10) The Eastham Public Library, 190 Samoset Road, hosts its first Seed Swap on Thursday, March 10, 4 to 5:45 p.m. Bring any seeds […]

Town of Provincetown Public Hearing Annual Town Meeting – Building Committee Recommendations March 23, 2022 Per the Provincetown Charter 2-3-g, the Provincetown Building Commitee will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday, […]

In a one-hour conversation on Tuesday, Bogdan Kelichavyi had to relocate four times. He began our video call in his town hall office in Kopychyntsi, Ukraine but was interrupted almost […]

WELLFLEET — Three years ago, Fire Chief Richard Pauley raised an alarm about the nonexistent sprinkler system at the Wellfleet Elementary School — a violation of the state building code. […]

TRURO — A Truro man is facing a federal charge of illegally selling firearms after being indicted by a grand jury. A continuing investigation may result in additional charges, according to […]

An emotionally charged Feb. 23 meeting of all five school committees in the Nauset region ended with the members voting to relax the mask mandate that has been in effect […]

Officials in nine of the 15 Barnstable County towns want to see the entire $41.37 million the county will get in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds distributed directly to […]

PROVINCETOWN — In winter, it’s not uncommon to see a red fox trotting down Commercial Street at dusk. Foxes here have grown used to living near humans, enticed by our […]

EASTHAM — With less than two months to go until the May 2 town meeting, finance committee meetings have become a revolving door of department heads presenting their budgets. The […]

EASTHAM — “They’re confident, determined, and focused.” That’s how Jake Pickard, interim head coach of the Nauset boys ice hockey team, described his skaters as they prepared for a first-round […]

ORLEANS — Curling always mystified Ron Fancy. And so, he took up the sport. He had watched curling on TV, Fancy said, but “I just couldn’t understand how they did […]

The Outer Cape is known for many culinary delicacies: Eastham turnips, Wellfleet oysters, and Provincetown’s seafood-laden Portuguese stews. But maple syrup? That’s long been the pride of our neighbors to […]

It all started with the savory scent of slowly cooking garlic drifting up the street from Ciro and Sal’s restaurant. Working that summer of 1978 as a painter’s assistant in […]

The full moon you see rising in the east now actually rose 1.3 seconds ago. That’s how long it takes sunlight reflecting off the lunar surface to reach Earth. If […]

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

Get ready for a loosening of restrictions, cosmonauts. And if it’s not the abatement of pandemic-related rules — for which we are all desperately impatient — then it’s for a […]

Some meetings in Provincetown are in person, some are online, and some are both. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a link […]

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 3 Economic […]

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

In the stillness of the night, small creatures travel unseen through a rectangle of dust on the floor of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. These “gallery ghosts” leave faint […]

Tracy Fuad was born the same month as the internet: March 1989. In her most recent poetry collection, about:blank, published in October, she describes the web as a bridge between […]

Richard Neal’s show at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, running through March 29, takes its title from an English colloquialism and album by The Who. “Odds and Sods” are 20 small works […]

“There’s very little legitimate literature about Native people,” says Fine Arts Work Center writing fellow Sterling HolyWhiteMountain, who grew up on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana. “It wasn’t until I […]

It’s All About the Presentation Barry Katz is teaching a three-part online course on “Photographing Artwork” via Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill on Sundays beginning March 6, […]

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A divided Eastham Select Board in January decided once again to put off for a year a decision on whether to adopt the residential tax exemption (RTE), which would shift […]

‘The RTE Is Unfair’ To the editor: Re “Select Board Tables RTE Until 2023” [Feb. 3, page A9]: In 1982, we built our house in North Eastham. For 40 years, we […]

Charles Philip Morton died at his home in North Truro on Feb. 25, 2022. Calling hours will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. on Friday, March 4 at the […]

Albert George Jakubowski died peacefully in his sleep on Feb. 18, 2022 at his Provincetown home. His son, Jay Jakubowski, son-in-law Shawn Nightingale, and his beloved Havanese, Rosie, were by […]

Frederick E. Young of Wellfleet’s Holden Inn died on Feb. 13, 2022 at Cape Cod Hospital. He had suffered for many years from inclusion body myositis, a degenerative muscle disease, […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Feb. 22 to Feb. 25, 2022. PROVINCETOWN  Feb. 24. Hudson Harbor R.E. Properties LLC [Mitchel L. Klein, manager] to Iskren Georgiev. […]

LEARNING Free computer class starting March 7. In “Introduction to Digital Culture,” learn to connect to the internet more easily, avoid scams and fraud, identify reliable health resources, virtually attend […]

Saying Thanks (Thursday, March 3) Learn how to “Start a Gratitude Practice” with Gina Hamadey in a virtual talk via Wellfleet Preservation Hall on Thursday, March 3, 6 to 7 […]

Town of Provincetown Cape Cod Commission Provincetown Representative – call for nominees The Provincetown Select Board is seeking applicants for nomination as the Town of Provincetown’s representative to the Cape […]

Town of Eastham PROPOSED FY23 FEE SCHEDULE Public Hearing March 7, 2022 The Eastham Select Board will hold a public hearing on MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2022 at 5:30 PM at […]

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PLYMOUTH — An Environmental Protection Agency official criticized Holtec International last week for misleading the public about its proposed dumping of radioactive water from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station into […]

TRURO — Before Covid-19, summer evenings at 104 Shore Road hummed with restaurant-goers at Terra Luna, and, later in the night, seasonal workers would return to the clapboard cottages on […]

WELLFLEET — Town meeting voters will be asked to approve at least $1.3 million in Proposition 2½ overrides to fund last year’s budget shortfalls, maintain town services at their current […]

EASTHAM — Less than six weeks after the search for a new Nauset Regional High School principal began, one of the school’s two assistant principals, Patrick Clark, has emerged as […]

EASTHAM — The owners of a historic Sears, Roebuck and Co. Craftsman house on Nan’s Way recently demolished their bayside cottage without permission. The 787-square-foot home was built in 1936, […]

HARWICH — “All schools should have suicide prevention protocols,” Maura Weir told a roomful of about 50 people at a public forum on suicide at the Brooks Free Library on […]

TRURO — Liz Lovati remembers the day one of her employees from Jamaica had an abscessed tooth. The first dentist she called would not help because the employee did not […]

HARWICH — While some students may have landed in Scott Dalton’s journalism class by accident, they don’t regret it. Jacob DeFrancesco, a Cape Cod Regional Technical High School junior studying […]

EASTHAM — The Nauset High boys basketball team is having what could be a historic season, and senior JJ Alger is capturing it all on video. The Warriors are 16-3, […]

My friend Kathy, who lives in California, recently sent me a box of Meyer lemons she had picked on her daily walk. I was thrilled — Meyers have a floral […]

I spent five years teaching in a professional cooking school in New York City and without a doubt everyone had the most fun on pie-making day. Many folks have serious […]

The thing about being raised a Baptist in south Louisiana was that you ended up missing out on half the fun. Most of the idiosyncratic practices and traditions that gave […]

When we started keeping chickens, we kept them in a fortress-like coop with a luxuriously large, protected run. I didn’t want our hens to be deprived of space. But I […]

Proud parents Todd Prada and Grace Ryder-O’Malley of Provincetown welcomed son Cameron Thomas Prada to the world on Jan. 30, 2022. The Blizzard of ’22 was beginning as his parents […]

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

Christine Legere’s article in the Dec. 30 edition of the Independent about Provincetown’s approach to rat control triggered many memories for me. Some were traumatic, like the memories of wild […]

EASTHAM — The Cape Cod Furies girls ice hockey team finished out its regular season with losses to Pembroke and Falmouth. But not to worry: the Furies’ 13-4-3 record is […]

Don your Babylon boots, stargazers. A planetary mashup of Sun, Moon, Jupiter, and Neptune in imaginative Pisces gives you the inspiration you need to let go and let luck. Maybe […]

Some meetings in Provincetown are in person, some are online, and some are both. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a link […]

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, Feb. 24 Economic […]

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

Kevin Brisco Jr. paints too slowly, he says, for that to be his focus as a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center. Instead, he is working mostly on conceptual […]

Shastri Akella’s first novel, The Sea Elephants, begins with these lines: “My father left the country the year my sisters were born. He returned six months after I watched them […]

“What do you see?” teacher Abraham Storer asks 15 eager young artists sitting on the floor, doodling in their sketchbooks. He points to some paintings by abstract expressionist Robert Beauchamp, […]

Poets build poems within the shells of earlier work, caterpillar to moth. We learn to write by reading and echoing until something clicks that feels genuine and new. I love […]

Hope and Tenacity at the Commons It’s not too late to see Donna Pomponio’s show of portraits titled “Love, Trust, Support, Options = Change” at the Provincetown Commons. It runs […]

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Ella Baker grew up listening to her grandmother’s stories about life under slavery. Her grandparents bought and farmed land that was part of a North Carolina plantation where they had […]

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Last May I wrote about Frank Vasello, owner of the Provincetown deli and bakery Relish, who said he was so worried about finding employees in the housing crisis that he […]

Truro’s DPW Dilemma To the editor: Your Feb. 17 article [page A8] on the Truro DPW facility discussion is slightly misleading. First, while Mr. Alberti of Weston & Sampson did […]

Frances Edith Disner Biddle, who taught elementary school, helped her husband earn a Ph.D., raised two sons, doted on her grandchildren, enjoyed a half century of summers in Wellfleet, and helped elect […]

Albert David James of South Wellfleet died peacefully on Dec. 12, 2021 at Seashore Point in Provincetown. The cause of death, confirmed by his nephew Chris James, was prostate cancer. […]

Mary Grace Smith, a founder and longtime board president of Wellfleet Preservation Hall, died suddenly and peacefully in her sleep at home in Wellfleet on Feb. 14, 2022. Her death […]

Mary Grace Smith, who died on Valentine’s Day at her home in Wellfleet, raised table-hospitality not just to an art form but to a kind of transcending act of commonwealth, […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Feb. 14 to Feb. 18, 2022. PROVINCETOWN Feb. 17. The Estate of John Dennis Eder (Mischa B. Richter and Lisa Ventre, […]

Clay Time (Thursday, Feb. 24) Isabel Souza teaches the first session of “Thursday Night Clay” at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, 10 Meetinghouse Road, on Thursday, Feb. […]

Town of Provincetown Public Hearing Zoning Board of Appeals March 3, 2022 The Provincetown Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a Public Hearing at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 3, […]

LOVE Jessica Kent of Needham and Cody Edwards of Provincetown were engaged at Wequassett Resort and Golf Club last week. They plan a wedding there in May 2023. Cody runs […]

Every evening, just before dark, a miracle occurs. You can go see it, and each time you do, it will be infinitely different from the last time you watched it. […]

TRURO — David and Carolyn Delgizzi of Weston, owners of the Truro Motor Inn, were rebuked by a judge at a Feb. 9 contempt hearing and ordered to find and […]

Update: Nauset won 11-0 against Blue Hills Regional Technical School at Charles Moore Arena on Wednesday, Feb. 16 to clinch a spot in the postseason.   EASTHAM — Nauset Regional High […]

WELLFLEET — As April town meeting approaches, time is running out for the town to sort through its financial disarray. The Mass. Dept. of Revenue (DOR) has informed the town […]

PROVINCETOWN — The first large-scale battery backup system on Cape Cod is set to go online in Provincetown this summer. When it does, according to electric utility officials, power outages […]

WELLFLEET — Nancy Lange wanted to sell her vacation house in Wellfleet to a local family instead of to the highest bidder. So, she agreed to sell her three-bedroom, one-bath […]

TRURO — Plans for a new dept. of public works headquarters, which were put on a back burner in 2020, are heating up. On Feb. 8, the select board got an […]

PROVINCETOWN — Local developer Thomas Tannariello wants to build 12 condominium units on a .58-acre lot on Nelson Avenue. Two units would be deed-restricted as affordable dwellings. Tannariello’s company, Tri-T, […]

PROVINCETOWN — In need of a kidney transplant, Provincetown resident Bo Harris discovered that a rule blocked many of his friends from donating blood to show their support for him […]

TRURO — A roadblock preventing progress on building a rental housing development here has been removed. The Truro Zoning Board of Appeals and affordable housing developer Community Housing Resource of […]

EASTHAM — Three boys and eight girls from Nauset High’s swimming teams competed in the South Sectionals at Milford High School over the weekend. Among the boys, senior John Szucs […]

When my husband and I moved to Provincetown in 2014, we did it in pursuit of more time. We were tired of the constant grind of New York City, tired […]

Katie Scott started out helping people make their houses more beautiful. Now her mission is to make their surroundings healthier and greener, too. Growing up, Scott loved art. She felt […]

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

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The Sun enters the waters of Pisces this week, the terminal sign of the zodiac, ruled by Jupiter and Neptune. Pisces is the culmination of all the other signs — […]

Some meetings are in person, some online, and some are both. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch to see if a remote option is available. Thursday, […]

Most meetings in Truro are remote only. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, Feb. 17 Climate Action […]

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

In late February and early March, voters registered as Democrats or Republicans have a chance to choose who will represent them at the state conventions where each party’s primary candidates […]

When libraries grow tight on space, worn books are usually thrown out or given away. At the Eastham Public Library, they metamorphose into art. The fifth annual Repurposed Book Art […]

Sitting in her studio in Provincetown, Ellen Akimoto says she has “a weird feeling of being at home and definitely not at home.” Originally from California, Akimoto arrived as a […]

“I was born and raised in El Paso, Texas,” says Eduardo Martinez-Leyva, a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown who will give an online poetry reading on […]

Art Demonstrations at Addison  “Live Music and Art Demonstrations,” a benefit for Helping Our Women and the Cape Wellness Collaborative, will be held at Addison Art Gallery, 43 South Orleans […]

Sometimes the truth of a story is found between the lines, between the words, even. Not that the words are not true, but that there is a larger truth behind […]

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“Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable,” was one of Fannie Lou Hamer’s mantras. She fought passionately against attempts to deny Black people the right to vote. Born […]

Our two most significant institutions, democracy and capitalism, exist today in name only. Our political system has abandoned us, and our economic system has consumed us. Politics and social media […]

Last week we learned that the town of Eastham has taken possession of two duplex apartments whose owners, the Delgizzis of Weston, hadn’t paid property taxes on them for many […]

Christine Ann Leigh died at her home in Truro on Jan. 28, 2022. She had recently been released from Cape Cod Hospital, where she had been treated for pneumonia. She […]

In Leslie West’s telling, her father, Irvin Daubert, “was born happy.” Which is how he got his nickname. Once, West explained, young Irvin was acting silly at a birthday party. […]

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NEVER TOO LATE FOR LOVE To the center of my universe, my sun to warm my days, my moon to illuminate my nights, Jeanne Michaloski, your love fills me to […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Feb. 7 to Feb. 11, 2022. PROVINCETOWN Feb. 8. Nicklas Bengt Erik Oldenburg Revocable Trust (Nicklas Bengt Erik Oldenburg, trustee) and […]

Town of Provincetown Public Hearing Harbor Committee March 2, 2022 The Provincetown Harbor Committee will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday, March 2, 2022 , at 5:00 P.M., in the […]

Seal the Deal ( Thursday, Feb. 17) The Center for Coastal Studies hosts “Gray Seals Conservation & Fisheries” on Thursday, Feb. 17, 6 to 7 p.m. The webinar panel includes […]

On a series of walks with my camera in the weeks before Valentine’s Day, I stopped the people I saw on our winter-quiet streets and beaches to ask them about […]

EASTHAM –– The town could soon gain up to eight units of affordable or “workforce” housing, thanks to two sale agreements and two property takings for nonpayment of taxes. Town […]

TRURO — Housing is this year’s top priority for the community preservation committee (CPC), which plans to recommend that annual town meeting voters allocate $440,000 to efforts related to affordable […]

PROVINCETOWN — Hazard pay is top of mind for members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) International Union Local 328 as they negotiate their new contract with Stop […]

PROVINCETOWN — The select board praised frontline responders for their work during the Jan. 29 blizzard but had tough questions for Town Manager Alex Morse, who they said was unreachable […]

PLYMOUTH — The Mass. attorney general’s office has doubled down on a recent statement saying that Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station’s permits prohibit the release of radioactive water into Cape Cod […]

WELLFLEET — The zoning board of appeals has revoked the authorization given by an interim building inspector last fall for an excavating company to operate a contractor’s yard at the […]

As the Independent has reported, Stop & Shop purchased the former T-Time driving range property on Route 6 in Eastham in 2013 for $1.3 million, not because the chain wanted […]

EASTHAM –– A home monitoring system helped firefighters save a home at 935A Cable Road from a basement blaze early Sunday morning. No one was home or injured, according to […]

During a recent snowstorm, I made monoprint cards with my kids. It proved to be a fun, though messy, way to pass the time when the electricity went out. The […]

TRURO — Before the last two winter storms on Jan. 17 and Jan. 29, the dune at 133 South Pamet Road had been eroding steadily, losing on average of 2.8 feet […]

EASTHAM — The Nauset track and field program has had much success in the last few years, and the state’s athletic association has taken notice. Last month, head track coach […]

EASTHAM — The Nauset boys basketball team got revenge on Monday. The Warriors defeated Cape Cod Academy 62-56 in a hard-fought battle. CCA had an 11-1 mark heading into the […]

I love the snow. Except for our recent blizzard, it’s been in short supply here on the Cape. Several times, my son and I got our hopes up when a […]

As history buffs explore the Provincetown History Preservation Project’s collections online, one name, Althea Boxell (1910-1988), pops up repeatedly. But were it not for Provincetown artist John Dowd, we might […]

My winter midweek meals used to be more about nourishment than deliciousness. But one benefit of this unrelenting work-from-home era has been the chance to start dinner in the afternoon. […]

EASTHAM — Taking a civics course isn’t a graduation requirement at Nauset Regional High School (NRHS), but graduates of Michael McNamara’s civics and government course say it is helping them […]

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

Take heart, star gazers, and welcome the Leo full Moon. It always occurs opposite the Sun in Aquarius — at the height of winter when we need it most. The […]

Some meetings are in person, some online, and some are both. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch to see if a remote option is […]

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, Feb. 10 Economic […]

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

Fine Arts Work Center fellow Lavaughan Jenkins insists that his work is not sculpture. Even though it inhabits space in three dimensions, even though you can walk around it, he […]

There’s some serious art hanging in the kids’ section of the Wellfleet Public Library. A mural by Juliet Kepes features stylized animals cavorting on washy fields of color. It’s light […]

Naya Bricher grew up around creative people. Her father is an artist and graphic designer who freelanced — he worked when he could, and he had a kind of freedom. […]

For this first Indie Playlist of 2022, contributors were asked to pick songs that brought them back to a particular moment in their lives. Listen at tinyurl.com/wva345xe. ‘When It Rains,’ […]

Del Deo at the Vorse House The Provincetown Arts Society offers “A Closer Look at Salvatore Del Deo” at the Mary Heaton Vorse House, 466 Commercial St., Provincetown, through Sunday, […]

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“The winter is so very cold, and dark, and when the dog leaves the bed to bark at the extended squirrel family in the attic, it leaves me colder, and […]

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Forty-two million dollars sounds like a pile of money. Until it gets divided up. Across the Cape this month, the glint of federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds has […]

Michael McNamara, known affectionately by his Nauset Regional High School students as “Mr. Mac,” has a reputation as a talented civics and government teacher with high standards. He pushes students […]

Financial Stability in Wellfleet To the editor: From what I’ve read in the Independent, we are likely going to be asked at Wellfleet’s town meeting this April to approve a […]

After a year of declining health, Jon Scott Groves of Provincetown died on Jan. 15, 2022 with his family at his side. The cause was lymphoma. He was 77. The […]

Love Thy Neighbor Hey Bruce, thank you for being an amazing boyfriend. Happy Valentine’s Day. —John I wanted to limerick with grace/ And send a note to your Baltimore place./ […]

Starry Night (Thursday, Feb. 10) “The Wonder of Winter,” Mass Audubon’s online series, continues with “Stars and Constellations,” Thursday, Feb. 10, 7 to 8 p.m. Doug Lowry is the guide […]

Town of Provincetown Public Notice Citizen Petitioned Articles The Town of Provincetown will be hosting two informational sessions to assist citizens with drafting petition articles for the April 4, 2022, […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Jan. 31 to Feb. 4, 2022. PROVINCETOWN Feb. 1. 12 Winthrop Street Realty Trust (Mark Lee Phillips, trustee) to Mercury Hotel […]

In Provincetown, Drifting Snow Trapped Many Indoors PROVINCETOWN — On narrow, tightly packed side streets, the winds whipped into curls and eddies and piled snow to the tops of some […]

TRURO — Before last weekend’s blizzard, Coastal Engineering Co. had an urgent message for Thomas and Kathleen Dennis, owners of the house at 133 South Pamet Road, which sits precariously on […]

ORLEANS — Expressing strong support for the candidate who has served as interim superintendent for the last seven months, school authorities chose Brooke Clenchy to be the next long-term occupant […]

Editor’s note: After this week’s Independent went to press, Mass. Attorney General Maura Healey’s office issued a statement about the release of radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay. The report below […]

PROVINCETOWN — January is budget season in town government, and at back-to-back select board meetings on Jan. 24 and 25 Town Manager Alex Morse laid out new plans for the […]

EASTHAM — Nonresidents now own more than half the homes here, but the select board has decided it is not yet time to adopt the residential tax exemption (RTE). On […]

EASTHAM — After two years of applications and revisions of plans, Willy’s Gym owner Barbara Niggel can expand her self-storage business. The planning board granted her a special permit during […]

Update: During Thursday’s meet against Barnstable, boys swimmers John Szucs and Keith Gagnon qualified for Sectionals in the 100 backstroke and 100 breaststroke respectively. Szucs also qualified for States in […]

Before weather reports bombarded us with storm tracking, our predecessors would observe their flocks or herds for changes in their behavior, noticing telltale signs that storms were on the way. […]

WELLFLEET — The top priority for the Community Preservation Committee (CPC) in the upcoming funding cycle has been the Wellfleet Elementary School playground. Members of the group plan to recommend […]

ORLEANS — Sandwich has had Nauset High’s number on the ice this season. There were just a few minutes remaining in regulation in the Nauset boys ice hockey game against […]

EASTHAM — At least 60 trucks and some 200 emergency electrical workers were stationed at the Four Points by Sheraton hotel here last Friday waiting for Saturday’s winter storm to […]

Light fluffy snow swirls brightly as I head out for a walk on the rail bed where I see lots of coyote tracks. When I get back to the frost-covered […]

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

With Venus having left her retrograde last week and Mercury stationing direct this week, we heartily welcome some emotional reprieve and levity. The tough lessons of the past weeks of […]

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When Juliette Brown began working at the Underground in Provincetown soon after it was founded in 2013, her coworkers found her tattoos a bit intimidating, but soon enough they marveled […]

WELLFLEET — A 47-year-old Eastham woman died when her 2008 Toyota Camry left Route 6 near Old Wharf Road sometime in the early morning of Sunday, Jan. 23. Local and […]

Some meetings are in person, some online, and some are both. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch to see if a remote option is […]

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, Feb. 3 Climate […]

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about locations and any […]

“Noam Chomsky made the comparison that zombies are a reflection of fear and desperation, and that we in the United States try to make something that we’re oppressing into something […]

When Joel Meyerowitz started taking photographs of the Outer Cape in 1976, it was a break from the 35mm point-and-shoot work he was doing on the streets of New York. […]

Boston Lyric Opera’s production of composer Ana Sokolovic’s Svadba begins not with music but with the sound of the wind at Truro’s Ballston Beach where it was filmed in October. […]

‘Empowerment’ at the Cultural Center Curated by recently appointed Executive Director Molly Demeulenaere, “Empowerment vs. Exploitation” opens at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, 307 Old Main St. in South […]

Daisy Gatson Bates was a newspaper publisher whose Arkansas State Press was dedicated solely to the coverage of the civil rights movement. In it, she and her husband, Lucius Christopher […]

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In December, I kept hearing the familiar Irving Berlin tune: “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know….” Of course, what we had was […]

Reporting on local government, I lean on public records — meeting recordings, press releases, select board packets — to fact-check things I hear over the phone. Back on my home turf, […]

Robbing Peter to Pay Paul To the editor: I commend the Independent for the excellent coverage of the accounting mess in Wellfleet. As a lawyer who spent many years in […]

LEARNING 2022 drawing/painting classes with a model: Take one or all three one-day workshops from the virtual PAAM Collection Series, “The Figure.” Part One: Hans Hofmann; Part Two: Robert Beauchamp; […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Jan. 24 to Jan. 28, 2022. PROVINCETOWN Jan. 24. Thomas Jung to Suzanne A. Kriegsman and Hitesh P. Trivedi. 300A Bradford […]

Katherine Margaret (Gavin) Perry died on Nov. 23, 2021 at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton. She was 85. The daughter of the late Katherine Jerome and Patrick Gavin, Kay […]

Roberta Barber Eggart, stage manager for Provincetown Theater productions as the long-time personal assistant to Michael Sottile, died peacefully on Jan. 26, 2022. Her death was confirmed by her daughter, […]

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Sketchy Sipping (Thursday, Feb. 3) Join artist and cartographer Mark Adams for “Drink & Draw” at the Provincetown Brewing Co., 141 Bradford St., on Thursday, Feb. 3, 6 p.m. There […]

Town of Provincetown Public Hearing Historic District Commission February 16, 2022 The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, February 16, 2022, in […]

The Old Harbor Life-Saving Station was built in Chatham in 1897, one of a string of life-saving stations that dotted our coast before the Coast Guard took over maritime rescue. […]

WELLFLEET — At the upcoming April town meeting, voters will be asked to approve a Proposition 2½ override of $750,000 to fund last year’s budget shortfalls and maintain town services […]

WELLFLEET — The second smallest municipal police department on the Cape has become the first in the county to outfit all its officers with body cameras. Wellfleet town meeting voters […]

PLYMOUTH — Cape Cod Bay is not a good place to dump one million gallons of radioactive effluent from systems at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, according to an expert on […]

BARNSTABLE — After almost 20 years in office, Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe will step down when his current term ends in January 2023, and, so far, two […]

School staff and parents at Nauset Regional High School in Eastham and Monomoy Regional High School in Harwich are struggling this week to support young people who are grieving the […]

TRURO — On her next birthday, Anna Rogers, a Truro resident with autism, will turn 22, making her ineligible for special education services through the state. But her mother, Amy, […]

Frank Tiano, one of three remaining finalists for the job of Nauset School Superintendent after the withdrawal of Sara Ahern last week, has also withdrawn his candidacy, leaving just two […]

Brooke Clenchy, one of two remaining finalists for the Nauset School Superintendent, set out to be a teacher before she even entered kindergarten. She and her brother played school at […]

When she was 14 years old, Andrea Schwamb moved to Orleans, and Cape Cod has been home ever since. Her family had moved from Alabama to Germany to Framingham, as […]

HARWICH — At Cape Cod Regional Technical High School, about 60 percent of seniors will head straight into the work force after graduation. Many of those seniors are revving up […]

After a tragic accident on the ice during a high school hockey game in Connecticut on Jan. 6, members of the hockey world have been reflecting on the safety of […]

I head downstairs for breakfast, round the corner of the first-floor landing, and find myself eyeball to eyeball with a water buffalo. Clearly, I’m not in Truro anymore. The buffalo […]

The Chinese Lunar New Year takes place on Feb. 1, so if you’re heading to a festival of lights, don’t forget to wear red for luck. This is the year […]

Winter is the season of Orion. As darkness falls, this constellation stands tall in the southeast, about halfway up the sky, and you’ll find it migrates higher and more southerly […]

Daniil Zakharevich’s handcrafted house on a dirt road in Provincetown appears to grow out of the surrounding woods. Using found materials, he has designed, renovated, and built an eclectic space […]

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

EASTHAM — Connor Brickley is sticking to his word in his first year as head coach of the Cape Cod Furies girls ice hockey team. Before the season started, Brickley […]

Some meetings are in person, some online, and some are both. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch to see if a remote option is available. Thursday, Jan. […]

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, Jan. 27 School […]

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

The Eastham Room of the town’s library is brimming with archival records. But just outside the room hangs a trio of 19th-century portraits of residents whose lives were rich with […]

David Maril lives year-round in the house on Bradford Street in Provincetown where his father, Herman Maril, painted every summer from 1958 until his death in 1986. David winterized the […]

Congressman Jamie Raskin’s new memoir is about surviving the end of his world, and a warning about preventing the end of ours. On Dec. 31, 2020, his brilliant and empathetic […]

Poetry is an invitation to slow down and think more deeply about experiences, observations, perplexities, beauties, enragements, and delights. Good poetry helps us see more honestly and accurately. Sometimes poems […]

Pluhar’s Paintings at Preservation Hall “Andrea Pluhar: A Survey of Painting” opens at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, 335 Main St., on Friday, Jan. 28 and runs through March 1. Pluhar, who’s […]

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I love my job. I get to deliver mail to people in the town where I live in all its splendor, all year round. The summer traffic is intense, and […]

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We have periodically reported on the glacially slow progress of efforts to improve internet service on the Outer Cape. In her story last week, K.C. Myers again noted that the […]

‘Get in the Water,’ said Harry To the editor: Having read the recent reminiscences of the Poet of the Dunes, Harry Kemp, and now having read about the gentleman who […]

LEARNING 2022 drawing/painting classes with a model: Take one or all three one-day workshops from the virtual PAAM Collection Series, “The Figure.” Part One: Hans Hofmann; Part Two: Robert Beauchamp; […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Jan. 17 to Jan. 21, 2022. PROVINCETOWN Jan. 18. John Burrows to 12 Masonic Place LLC. 12 Masonic Place, Unit 1. […]

Gerard Charles Wertkin of New York City and Truro died due to complications from Parkinson’s disease on Jan. 11, 2022 at Beacon Hospice Care in Hyannis. He was 81. The […]

Dana Ashton Noble of Provincetown died on Jan. 16, 2022 at Seashore Pointe Wellness and Rehabilitation Center. He was 88. Born in Prentiss, Maine on April 6, 1933, Dana was […]

Marilyn Hazel Coburn died peacefully in her Provincetown home on Dec. 26, 2021. She was 95. Marilyn was born to Ethel and Fred B. Pilkington of Allendale, N.J. on June […]

Town of Provincetown Public Hearing Community Preservation Committee February 9, 2022 Community Preservation Funds The Provincetown Community Preservation Committee will conduct a hybrid public hearing on Wednesday, February 9, 2022, […]

Crow Up (Thursday, Jan. 27) Mass Audubon’s virtual “The Wonder of Winter” series continues with “Winter Crow Roosts” on Thursday, Jan. 27, 7 to 8 p.m. Education coordinator Patti Steinman […]

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Bill Farmer died on Jan. 9, 2022 at sunrise in the peaceful bliss of morning light in his Provincetown home. His sisters Gale, Mary, and Martha, and his companion Jack Hudson […]

TRURO — Storm waters breached what’s left of the dune at Ballston Beach during this week’s nor’easter. Compare this picture, taken on Jan. 17, with one taken a year ago, […]

WELLFLEET — The town was shocked a year ago when Great White Realty Group, owned by Donna and Steve DiGiovanni of Truro, with no permits in hand, cleared their newly […]

PROVINCETOWN — A plan to extend a fiber-optic broadband network to 1,528 customers got a tentative green light from the select board last July 26. The idea was to use […]

WELLFLEET — With ads posted seeking both a town accountant and a treasurer, Wellfleet’s interim Administrator Charles Sumner has been talking with Eastham officials about a shared two-town finance department. […]

PROVINCETOWN — Last fall, the state government combined $2.5 billion in federal Covid relief money from the American Rescue Plan Act and an unexpected surplus of $1.5 billion in tax […]

PROVINCETOWN — Cape Air won’t be offering flights out of the Provincetown Municipal Airport until April 1 because of a pandemic-related shortage of pilots as well as airport construction. This […]

ORLEANS — The Nauset School District’s Superintendent Search Committee announced on Tuesday the dates and times of public forums with three remaining finalists. The announcement followed Sara Ahern’s Jan. 12 […]

PROVINCETOWN — The first recipients of a new journalism fellowship program created by the Provincetown Independent have been welcomed to town by the newspaper’s publisher, Teresa Parker, and staff. Lee […]

TRURO — For parents of children with disabilities, the path from the first signs of a child’s developmental delay to a supportive school setting is a difficult one. The first […]

EASTHAM –– Lisa Albino has worked in the Eastham Fire Dept. under seven chiefs. With 34 years of service, she is the town’s longest tenured active firefighter. And as of […]

 International Fund for Animal Welfare scientists have not been able to determine a cause of death for this 57-foot endangered finback or fin whale discovered on Jan. 4 at Jeremy […]

PROVINCETOWN — As business owners begin to plan for the season ahead knowing both workers and workforce housing are in extremely short supply, many will try to wrap wages and […]

EASTHAM — When he was in the seventh grade, Joe Navas, a 51-year-old Eastham resident who became one of Cape Cod’s best distance runners, began experimenting with caffeine pills. Sometime […]

I was never a fan of hummus. I had been scarred by memories of too many tubs of the bland, cement-like commercial stuff, consumed on dry carrot nubs after my […]

“A most remarkable picture was taken yesterday” read an item in the Sept. 30, 1851 issue of the Boston Evening Transcript. The story announced that the artists Ormsbee and Silsbee […]

It’s under 30 degrees out. The wind at Corn Hill Beach in Truro is cold enough to numb fingers and faces in a matter of minutes. Sunset colors glow on […]

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

EASTHAM — It’s been a grueling week for Dennis-Yarmouth, courtesy of the Nauset High Warriors. On Jan. 11, the Nauset boys and girls indoor track teams beat the Dolphins at […]

Get ready for the shakedown, star chasers. On top of that Mercury retrograde in Aquarius you’ve probably been noticing in your day-to-day affairs (the neighborhood lost power in the storm, […]

Meetings Ahead Some meetings are in person, some online, and some are both. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch to see if a remote option is […]

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, Jan. […]

Meetings Ahead All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions […]

Meetings Ahead Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn […]

Each year, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum welcomes the Fine Arts Work Center’s visual arts fellows with an introductory exhibition that gives a glimpse into their creative world three […]

Years ago — before the 1998 fire that swallowed the Provincetown Theatre’s original structure, known then and now as Whaler’s Wharf — glassworker Christie Andresen lived in a different Provincetown. […]

As a filmmaker, Paul Thomas Anderson has been compared to Orson Welles, and there’s a grain of truth to that hyperbole: both are fiercely creative and indulgent. Anderson, who exploded […]

Carol Procter was only the third woman cellist hired by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The Boston Symphony Orchestra year was 1965, and Procter was in her early 20s, recently graduated […]

A ‘Beloved’ Art Show “Creating Beloved Community,” a youth art show about racial justice, runs through Friday, Jan. 28 at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, 335 Main St. The show, organized by […]

“I ask that if you teach your children one new name from the heroes of black history, please let it be Bayard Rustin,” wrote Henry Louis Gates Jr. in The […]

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I have never written a political column and do not intend to do so now. We will see if I succeed in that. Provincetown is one of the bluest dots […]

Paying for Power To the editor: Gas leaks from faulty lines not only cause explosions like the one in the Merrimack Valley a few years ago but also contribute to […]

I’m writing this on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a national holiday since 1986, and thinking about what all the people born since then might know about the man. Elders […]

Michael Simon Zarin, who served for many years on the board of the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, died on Jan. 9, 2022 on Long Island. He was 89. Michael was […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Jan. 10 to Jan. 14, 2022. PROVINCETOWN Jan. 10. Delwyn Lyn Trent to Scot J. Groteguth Family Trust (Scot J. Groteguth, […]

LEARNING 2022 drawing/painting classes with a model: Take one or all three one-day workshops from the virtual PAAM Collection Series, “The Figure.” Part One: Hans Hofmann; Part Two: Robert Beauchamp; […]

Bleak Midwinter (Thursday, Jan. 20) Mass Audubon continues its online “Wonder of Winter” series with “Weather and Climate” on Thursday, Jan. 20, 7 to 8 p.m. Learn about seasonal weather […]

Town of Provincetown Public Hearing Historic District Commission February 2, 2022 The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, February 2, 2022, in […]

MASSDEP NOTICE OF TIER CLASSIFICATION 110 Kelley Way, Wellfleet, MA RTN 4-28642 A release of oil and/or hazardous materials has occurred at this location, which is a disposal site as […]

Mom Zella Swain and two-year-old Ceiba Chavez Swain of Truro, clamming at Pamet Harbor on Jan. 9. (Photo by Nancy Bloom) This page is available to subscribers. Click here to […]

PROVINCETOWN — A long-running effort to build affordable and community housing at the former VFW site on Jerome Smith Road received a big boost last week when the developer of […]

WELLFLEET — Neighbors of a contractor’s yard at the corner of Route 6 and Old Wharf Road have asked the zoning board of appeals to reverse an interim building inspector’s […]

ORLEANS — The Nauset Regional School District Superintendent Search Committee has named four finalists after interviewing seven from among a field of 17 candidates. The district’s 15-member expanded search committee, […]

EASTHAM –– After 14 months of work beleaguered by supply-chain disruptions, labor shortages, and a storm that overturned a mobile office trailer, the new bath houses at Nauset Light Beach […]

PROVINCETOWN — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, which manages the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (SBNMS) — an 842-square-mile stretch of ocean three miles north […]

WELLFLEET — Select board Chair Ryan Curley has proposed increasing the town’s affordable housing stock by allowing deed-restricted houses to be constructed on lots that are currently classified as unbuildable. […]

We were still new to goat herding when the first icy storm of 2019 blew in. I felt sure our Nigerian Dwarf herd could not survive it outdoors and insisted […]

WELLFLEET — Daisy O’Neil has been dancing since she was very young. She began with ballet, but four years ago she took up what she says is a much more […]

BUZZARDS BAY — Massachusetts Maritime Academy’s training vessel, the T.S. Kennedy, departed the dock on Jan. 10 for its annual winter Sea Term three days late and an undisclosed number […]

Strength training is important because it makes you feel better. Its health-related virtues include decreased blood sugar and increased strength of bone, muscle, and other connective tissues, increased release of […]

There are artisans of all kinds among us. You may know one who is spending the winter holed up in a garage building a wooden boat or bent over a […]

Even though she went to culinary school and has a stack of cookbooks as high as our ceiling, my mother does not use recipes. So, for me, moving away from […]

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

EASTHAM — Nauset swimmer Kaitlin Bohannon qualified to compete in the Sectionals tournament in the 200-meter individual medley and 50-meter freestyle by virtue of her performance at the Warriors’ meet […]

Retrogrades aren’t all that bad. Sure, we might have to deal with interrupted travel plans, issues with technology, and communication breakdowns (Mercury rules these parts of our lives), but these […]

WELLFLEET — A report issued in late December by the Association to Preserve Cape Cod (APCC) singled out Wellfleet’s municipal water system as the only one among 20 on Cape […]

Some meetings are in person, some online, and some are both. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch to see if a remote option is available. Thursday, […]

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, Jan. 13 Cultural […]

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

Painter Julian Cardinal will tell you straight up that he doesn’t like green. “It’s a difficult color to work with,” he says, without a hint of self-consciousness, as if expressing […]

The Vermont- and Cape Cod-based band Sensible Shoes spent last summer gigging on the Outer Cape before quietly releasing its debut album, See It My Way, in August. Billed as […]

Joshua Prager was hitting one dead end after another in 2010. A former senior writer for the Wall Street Journal and the co-founder of Provincetown’s Twenty Summers series, Prager was […]

The White Lotus, HBO Max Although Mike White’s new series is set at the posh, isolated Hawaiian resort of the title (actually, the Four Seasons in Maui) and filled with […]

A Patron’s Collection at the CCMoA Donations from generous patrons are the lifeblood of regional art museum collections. A case in point is Ann F. Bengtson, a former Falmouth resident […]

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I’m a meeting guy. I have always been motivated to get together in a room with others and work to find collaborative solutions to the issues of the day. Serving […]

Alfred Jacob Pickard Sr. of Joppa, Md. died on Dec. 25, 2021. He was 82. Born in Wellfleet on Dec. 14, 1939 to Floyd D. and Mary Pickard, he attended […]

Ellen Sinclair Junger of Truro and Arlington was a painter who first came to Provincetown in the late 1950s to study with Henry Hensche. In the late 1980s, she was […]

Ronald Earl Weissenberger of Orleans died peacefully at Plymouth Beth Israel Hospital on Dec. 20, 2021. He was 76. Born in Huron, Ohio, he was the son of the late […]

Fondly known as the mayor of the Eastham Transfer Station, James Leo Goodrich died suddenly on Dec. 30, 2021 at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. His family was at his […]

The painter Joan M. (Senecal) Pereira of Provincetown died at Seashore Point on Dec. 29, 2021. She was 94. Joan was born on Jan. 19, 1927 in Buffalo, N.Y., the […]

Lucy S. (Rich) Keohan of Bedford died on Jan. 7, 2022. She was 93. Born on Dec. 29, 1928 in Hyannis, Lucy was the daughter of the late Katherine (Ball) […]

LEARNING Improve your boating skills in one day. The “Boat America” course for sailors, power-boaters, and paddlers is coming to the Orleans Police Station, Saturday, Jan. 15, 9:30 a.m. to […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Jan. 3 to Jan. 7, 2022. PROVINCETOWN Jan. 3. Robert P. Santos to James J. Scheske. 118 Commercial St. $2,000,000. Jan. […]

I started writing obituaries for the Independent last May, and in the months since I have written roughly 50. While I can’t say that the work gives me pleasure, I […]

Use ARPA Funds for Test Kits To the editor: Neither President Biden’s 500 million home test kits nor Gov. Baker’s gift of test kits to four Cape Cod towns (Barnstable, […]

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Town of Provincetown Public Hearing Licensing Board January 25, 2022 The Provincetown Licensing Board will hold a Public Hearing at 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, January 25, 2022 in the Judge […]

It’s a Wild Word (Thursday, Jan. 13) “Wilder Words,” the Fine Arts Work Center’s virtual reading series by 24PearlStreet faculty, will take place Thursday, Jan. 13, 6 p.m. The theme: […]

Provincetown sent off the old year with a bang in rainbow colors as fireworks soared over the harbor last Friday evening. (Photo by Jamie Demetriou) This page is available to […]

ORLEANS — A new superintendent for the Nauset Regional School District is expected to be announced on Jan. 29 at a 9 a.m. meeting after finalists’ interviews are conducted in […]

Wellfleet Finance Committee Chair Fred Magee says that the town’s financial crisis is motivating his committee to try to take on a “radically different” role in town management and oversight. […]

It’s been a tentative return to school for Outer Cape students after a nearly two-week-long holiday break. At the start of this week, school officials reported rising case counts and […]

PROVINCETOWN — Developer Christine Barker’s plan to demolish the Old Reliable Fish House, replacing its ruins with a luxury hotel, restaurant, and condo development, has been stalled for the last […]

PROVINCETOWN — At its first meeting of the new year, Provincetown’s select board will have a pleasant problem on its agenda: more money than it expected. With $2.2 million in […]

EASTHAM –– Property taxes are projected to rise by 3.48 percent in fiscal 2023 (or $177 for a property of average assessed value), Finance Director Rich Bienvenue told the select […]

PROVINCETOWN — Over New Year’s weekend, Cape Air grappled with a spike in symptomatic Covid-19 cases among its work force. As of Monday, Jan. 3, the airline had 30 staff members […]

WELLFLEET — Jay and Allison Bombara love history. Jay is president of the historical society in Farmington, Conn., where the couple live most of the year in an antique house, […]

WELLFLEET — In the summer, alewives and bluebacks — two species of herring that in spring migrate from the coastal marshes here to the Herring River’s kettle ponds — stay in […]

Surfing exemplifies simplicity: a human, on a board, riding a wave. There is a presence and purity to it. When you are surfing, everything falls away and the only thing […]

EASTHAM — The Nauset Regional High School boys basketball team finally played a game on its home court for the first time this season on Dec. 28, notching a 65-46 […]

EASTHAM — Hall of Famer Ted Williams was one of the greatest Red Sox players in history. The left fielder played from 1939 to 1960 (minus three years in military […]

While we may have come up against a few holiday hiccups — namely a pesky little thing called Covid canceling plans and flights — you can rest assured it’s not […]

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

I don’t know about you, but it’s going to take me a while to remember what true wanderlust feels like. The last two years, painful and disorienting as they have […]

Money from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 is already flowing into most cities and towns across Massachusetts. But not on Cape Cod. That’s because most of the county […]

Some meetings are in person, some online, and some are both. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch to see if a remote option is available. Thursday, […]

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

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

If you’re ever in Pilgrim Framing admiring Stephen Wells’s paintings, be warned — the artist, who operates the shop out of his Old Firehouse Road home in North Truro, might […]

Last summer, I received an intriguing Instagram message: “Hi, my name is also Saskia, but that’s not why I’m messaging you. I was Googling and came across your article on […]

Grace Hopkins doesn’t maintain an artist studio in the traditional sense. It is more of a processing center where she uploads digital photographs before printing them on squares of canvas […]

Organizations including the Pew Research Center, Anti-Defamation League, and American Jewish Committee all report an increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the last several years. These incidents have ranged from Holocaust […]

‘Pulp’ Fiction at the CCMoA Jane Eccles is best known for sensitive and vibrant plein air paintings of the Cape. But she also makes art using colored paper pulp. This […]

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It’s been more than a month since a juvenile humpback whale washed ashore, dead, on the inner beach near Long Point Light in Provincetown. News like this circulates and the […]

A small notice in the Nov. 18 edition of this paper caught my eye and started me thinking. It announced a memorial for Joe Corea, a good man. The notice […]

If you are driving by the Orleans rotary on Thursday, Jan. 6 between 1 and 2:30 p.m. you will see the local edition of a nationwide “day of remembrance and […]

Pilgrim’s Progress To the editor: For decades, individuals and groups of concerned scientists and environmental and civic activists have been ringing the alarm about the use and promotion of nuclear […]

THE ARTS 2022 drawing/painting classes with a model: Take one or all three one-day workshops from the virtual PAAM Collection Series, “The Figure.” Part One: Hans Hofmann; Part Two: Robert […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Dec. 27 to Dec. 31, 2021. PROVINCETOWN Dec. 29. Todd A. Elmore and Susan M. Elmore to ACDC Partners LLC [Anthony […]

Rodolphe Gerald Bessette, who was known as Jerry, died peacefully at Cape Cod Hospital on Jan. 1, 2022, after a brief illness. His wife and daughters were at his side. […]

Robert I. Patrick, the founder of the surplus and salvage story Marine Specialties, died in Provincetown on Dec. 21, 2021 after a long illness. He was 93. Bob was born […]

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Speed Reader (Friday, Jan. 7) The first meeting of the “2022 Reading Challenge” will take place in person at the Provincetown Public Library, 356 Commercial St., or via Zoom, on […]

Town of Provincetown Public Hearing Historic District Commission January 19, 2022 The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, January 19, 2022, in […]

The theme of this end-of-year art and photography edition is “The Divine Comedy,” after Dante Alighieri’s epic poem written in the first years of the 14th century. Its three sections […]

On the afternoon of Monday, Dec. 13, the Wellfleet AmeriCorps cohort — a band of eight 20-somethings, fresh out of college — rolled up near the Shank Painter Wildlife Sanctuary, just off […]

PLYMOUTH — The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station had slowly drifted out of the public’s consciousness in the years since the troubled reactor’s final shutdown in 2019. But the region’s residents […]

PROVINCETOWN — Rats are both intelligent and resourceful, requiring those same traits in the humans who would like to get rid of them without also poisoning pets and wildlife. On […]

EASTHAM — Nauset Regional High School Principal Chris Ellsasser announced last week that he was resigning as of the end of the school year. His replacement will be chosen by […]

WELLFLEET — The town’s interim administrator and accountants like to refer to the journals and records they are working to make sense of as a “ball of yarn” that is […]

PROVINCETOWN — The Covid pandemic has been called the “great accelerator,” because it took existing trends, like working from home, and societal problems, like the spread of misinformation on social […]

I’m partial to rituals to mark the parameters of life, to give contour to my days and punctuate some moments as special, worthy of celebration. They remind me to pause […]

EASTHAM — If you hadn’t been paying such close attention, you might not know how much has changed on Route 6 in Eastham this year. The cars still barrel along, […]

WELLFLEET — Throughout August, the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater spritzed the outdoor set of Nat Turner in Jerusalem with bug spray, so performers Ricardy Fabre and Robert St. Laurence could […]

Compiled by Cam Blair  Provincetown Independent writers were asked to look back over the stories we published in 2021 and choose some of their favorite sentences. Here are the results. […]

What if you don’t have Covid — but you still need a doctor? This question became more urgent in 2021, when many people moved to the Outer Cape to escape […]

There were times when it seemed like 2021 would be a year without sports. But coaches and athletes found ways to keep playing. I was glad for the chance to […]

This week brought mixed reports from my customers on the season of gift giving. You really appreciate your new wool socks. They are very nice. But you are, understandably, a […]

WELLFLEET — Dr. Margaret Tilton is out to change the ways people — both patients and physicians — approach treatment for depression and addiction. The starting point, she believes, is […]

Welcome, dear reader: here is your very own free ticket to the adventures ahead — the year 2022. All that’s required of you is to strap in, pay attention, and […]

EASTHAM — The Nauset High School boys basketball team was scheduled to play its first game of the season on Tuesday, Dec. 28 against Monomoy High School. This comes after […]

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

The new Moon is a time for creating purpose and pushing it forward into the future. The first new Moon of 2022 takes place in Capricorn this week, so let […]

The holidays brought a boom-and-bust cycle on availability of rapid, at-home Covid-19 tests. Town officials have been trying to hand out free kits to residents while pharmacies have been selling […]

Some meetings are in person, some online, and some are both. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch to see if a remote option is […]

All meetings in Truro are remote only. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Wednesday, Jan. 5 […]

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are held remotely. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting locations and […]

The title of Jane Campion’s haunting new film, The Power of the Dog (streaming on Netflix), comes from Psalm 22 in the Bible, which reads (in the King James version), […]

“Dance and swing. Turn your partner round and round! Chain across. Face your neighbor and do-si-do,” says John Alden over a microphone at Wellfleet Preservation Hall. “Looking good!” Alden is […]

Jessica Vosk at the Art House The Art House, 214 Commercial St. in Provincetown, welcomes vocalist Jessica Vosk for two nights: Friday, Dec. 31 and Saturday, Jan. 1 at 7 […]

I surf, but I hesitate to call myself a surfer. I have a complicated relationship with the sport — I love it, and I am terrified by it. It’s been […]

Hello, hello to 2522 from the year 2022. We have a saying: “How’s by you?” It’s a Jewish phrase that I like. How are you seeing the world these days? […]

For people living on Outer Cape Cod, the nearest abortion clinics are at least two hours away.  That means a trip will likely require time off from work or school […]

THE ARTS 2022 Drawing/painting classes with a model: Take one or all three one-day workshops from the virtual PAAM Collection Series, “The Figure.” Part One: Hans Hofmann; Part Two: Robert […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Dec. 20 to Dec. 24, 2021. PROVINCETOWN Dec. 22. Robert D. Williams to Daniel R. McCormick, Joseph D. Mateer, and Mac […]

For this year’s Divine Comedy-themed art and photography extra, most of the contributors chose Inferno. It’s not surprising, considering the hellish couple of years we’ve had. Not represented in this […]

Dredging the Estuary To the editor: Congratulations to the Eastham Select Board for having the courage, leadership, and vision to finally stop the folly of dredging the estuary [“Eastham Pulls […]

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Town of Provincetown Public Hearing  Licensing Board January 11, 2022 The Provincetown Licensing Board will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, January 11, 2022 at 5:15 p.m. in the Judge […]

Pedal to the Metal (Friday, Dec. 31) Pedal Ptown hosts the sixth annual “Light Bright Bike Ride” on Friday, Dec. 31, 4:30 p.m. Meet outside the Provincetown Public Library, 356 […]

Truro Central School Public Hearing Proposed School Budget January 13, 2022 In accordance with Chapter 71, Sec. 38N, of the Massachusetts General Laws, the Truro School Committee will hold a […]

Town of Wellfleet Public Hearing Community Preservation Committee January 11, 2022 The Wellfleet Community Preservation Committee will hold a public hearing during the virtual Wellfleet Selectboard Meeting on Tuesday, January […]

Christmas comes to Provincetown Harbor, where boats are bedecked with trees. This week’s stories include how, for the Outer Cape’s immigrants, holiday traditions evolve, what it’s like to live with […]

HYANNIS — Cape Cod Hospital has been dealing with a triple threat: a recent swell in incoming Covid-19 patients, a backlog of inpatient discharges, and a pandemic-driven staffing shortage. The […]

EASTHAM — At a joint meeting with the Orleans Select Board on Dec. 13, the Eastham Select Board voted unanimously to pull out of the Nauset Estuary Dredge permitting process. […]

WELLFLEET — More than a thousand errors have been corrected in the town’s books for fiscal year 2020, interim Town Administrator Charles Sumner announced to the select board at its […]

Payments from a massive class action lawsuit awarded to towns and counties hit by the opioid epidemic will be no more than a few thousand dollars a year. But the […]

PROVINCETOWN — A Barnstable Superior Court judge last month ordered the North Shore owner of a 70-foot sea clam boat to pay $7,500 in docking fees and obtain a permit […]

PROVINCETOWN — The local housing crisis will be on the table repeatedly at the 2022 annual town meeting in a slate of warrant articles to allocate money for housing, to […]

If our backyard farm were in my home country of Austria, we’d be trussing up a plump goose for our Christmas feast right about now. But here we are in […]

People have been telling stories about the stars for a long time. We have written accounts from the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians from 5,000 years ago and references to oral […]

Kevin Hume, a Jamaican living in Truro, will be making a simple stewed chicken with rice and beans on Christmas Day. “I would not go out of my way to […]

EASTHAM — Nauset Regional graduates Bobby Joy and Sunny Green were standout athletes in high school here. Now they’re playing college basketball and are learning that the transition is both […]

Attention is a form of prayer. —Simone Weil The season of gratitude is upon us. It’s plugged from every pulpit, platform, card, and commercial. It breathes down our necks as […]

Eduardo Rios isn’t sure what he’ll be roasting for Christmas dinner. It might be a turkey. Or if he can find one, maybe a big fillet of cod. What he […]

Monday, Dec. 27 Boys wrestling: The Nauset wrestling team travels to the Marshfield Holiday Tournament beginning at 9 a.m. The tournament is a two-day event, Monday and Tuesday. Boys ice […]

WELLFLEET — After a two-year delay, Wellfleet’s solar array is “on.” The power company Eversource and the solar contractor Ameresco flipped the switch on Dec. 9, bringing online 2,400 solar […]

PROVINCETOWN — Twenty years after an $18-million reconstruction, MacMillan Pier — the town’s economic and cultural heart — needs work. All agree on that. What is disputed is who should […]

If you think 2021 wasn’t as full of silver linings as 2020, you can thank the cosmic dance of Saturn and Uranus for making every molehill this year feel more […]

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

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Some meetings are in person, some online, and some are both. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch to see if a remote option is available. Thursday, Dec. 23 […]

There are no meetings posted for Truro this week. Conversation Starters Mask Up Effective Tuesday, Dec. 21, the Truro Board of Health instituted a mask order for businesses and public […]

There are no meetings posted for Wellfleet this week. Conversation Starters Mask Up Wellfleet has had a mask mandate in place since Nov. 18, according to the town’s website. Seasonal […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

“I’m almost a hundred years old,” says poet Hilde Oleson from her room at Seashore Point in Provincetown. “I’m not going to make myself a famous author, and that doesn’t […]

For Laurence Young, each painting is a journey into the unknown. “What I put down first on the canvas has nothing to do with what I’m going to do later,” […]

Built in 1930, Provincetown’s U.S. Post Office is a bustling place, but not many know that the second floor is rented out by artists. A plaque at the top of […]

The last oyster shack in Wellfleet was boarded up for around 50 years when metalworker and builder Steve Swain finished designing the Pearl restaurant across from the marina. Captain Higgins, […]

I remember reading long ago that actor Alan Cumming threw great parties. This bit of trivia tucked in my brain re-emerged as I dove into his second memoir, Baggage: Tales […]

‘Terra Form’ at the CCMoA Cape Cod Potters is celebrating 50 years with “Terra Form,” a juried exhibition at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, 60 Hope Lane in Dennis, […]

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I am not happy today. Don’t ask me why. I didn’t rest well last night; perhaps the magic balm of sleep did not take place. Or am I getting sick? […]

The auditors’ 2020 management letter to Wellfleet town officials raised more questions than it answered. Auditors Powers & Sullivan of Wakefield headlined the letter “Material Weakness.” In summary, it indicated […]

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Many readers sent us a link last week to a fine piece by Boston Globe columnist Renée Loth, titled “Saving Democracy’s Front Lines — Local Newspapers.” “Local newspapers hold a […]

HIPAA Replacement? To the editor: The senior communications officer of Outer Cape Health Services, Gerry Desautels, cited no state or federal statute or regulation to justify his organization’s lack of […]

Alberta M. Romano of Provincetown died on Dec. 15, 2021 at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis after a brief illness. She was 81. Born in New Haven, Conn., she was […]

Raymond Johnson of Truro died unexpectedly of heart failure on Dec. 10, 2021 at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. He was 66. Born in Washington, D.C., he was the son […]

THE ARTS 2022 Drawing/painting classes with a model: Take one or all three one-day workshops from the virtual PAAM Collection Series, “The Figure.” Part One: Hans Hofmann; Part Two: Robert […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Dec. 13 to Dec. 17, 2021. PROVINCETOWN Dec. 14. Richard E. Mayberry to Harriet Finkelstein. 100 Alden St., Unit 104. $395,000. […]

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Go Fish (Thursday, Dec. 23) The Wellfleet Shellfishermen’s Association is having a special holiday farmers market on Thursday, Dec. 23, 10 a.m. to noon at the Wellfleet Marina, 255 Commercial […]

Town of Provincetown Public Hearing  Historic District Commission The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, January 5, 2022, in the Judge Welsh […]

When questioned by photographer Nancy Bloom, this calf at the Mooney Farm on South Pamet Road denied posting “Keep Truro Rural” stickers around town. (Photo Nancy Bloom) This page is […]

EASTHAM — The Covid-19 pandemic continues to put up hurdles for student athletic teams. The Nauset High School boys basketball team had to suspend activities last week, said Athletic Director […]

Barnstable County officials are battling over who gets to decide on the distribution of $41.3 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds from the federal treasury. The three county […]

Judges in two separate courts rendered rulings in the last week that buoyed developers of rental housing in Provincetown and Truro. In both cases, the state’s new Housing Choice Act […]

Very few health-care workers on Cape Cod have been fired for refusing to comply with vaccine mandates, according to spokespeople at three major providers. The vaccination rates among staff at […]

Tucked in the magazine rack at the Wellfleet swap shop, a few reproductions of 17th-century Dutch paintings stand out among glossy periodicals. In one, a richly dressed figure commands the […]

ORLEANS — The Outer Cape has its wild cranberry patches, hidden in the dunes and alongside ponds. But it takes a road trip to Orleans to find a cultivated bog. […]

PROVINCETOWN — On a summer day around noontime you can locate Relish by the crowd of people waiting outside. In handsome tank tops or flowing beach gowns they gather, placing […]

In Wellfleet’s Duck Creek Cemetery, three remarkably well-preserved colonial headstones with classic iconography are a tangible reminder of the John Greenough family. The stones, like too many in Cape Cod’s […]

When the churches on the Outer Cape had to suspend all in-person activities in March 2020, there was a period of uneasy quiet for both leaders and members. For a […]

Christmas movie marathons, finding the pickle ornament hidden in the tree, folding tamales, regifting fruitcakes — the holidays inspire all kinds of traditions. For almost 20 years, our son, Asher, […]

See related story about postponement of some Warriors boys basketball games. Thursday, Dec. 16 Girls basketball: The Warriors play at Norwell High School at 6:30 p.m. After losing the season […]

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

As the days begin to wax again after the solstice, bringing longer light, we find ourselves at a turning point. Winter is settling in, and the full Moon in Gemini […]

PROVINCETOWN Inquiries and requests for assistance in accessing food programs in Provincetown should go to Mackenzie Perry, the community support liaison, at 508-237-7042 or [email protected] You can also visit her […]

Some meetings are in person, some online, and some are both. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch to see if a remote option is available. Thursday, Dec. 16 […]

Most meetings in Truro are remote only and can be watched online. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

Among the distinguished contributors to Our Provincetown: Intimate Portraits, a book of painted Polaroids by Barbara E. Cohen published last month by Provincetown Arts Press and edited by Dorie Seavey, […]

“I have honed my visual sense,” says Heather Pilchard. “I notice patterns, changes in color. It’s all about observation. I’m always looking.” Pilchard could just as easily be describing her […]

Obscured by trees, Rob DuToit’s Provincetown studio is easy to miss. Approached from the side, it appears as an innocuous whitewashed structure with a single door. But the odd angle […]

When Jerome Robbins — born Gershon Wilson Rabinowitz on New York’s Lower East Side — first came up with the idea in 1947 for what would become the musical West […]

An accountant and father of two, Bob Galvin, 67, leads a quiet, unremarkable life with his wife in Plymouth. That is, until you get him talking about music. Then his […]

A Chamber Music Festival ‘Encore’ The Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival relives part of its 42nd season with an “Encore Series” available for free throughout December at capecodchambermusic.org. The series […]

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One of the clearest lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic is that, for society as a whole to be healthy, everyone needs access to health care. Untested and untreated people in […]

A Provincetown scene in the not-too-distant future: Excitement mounts as crowds line up at the gate. The faint strains of “Mystere Rondo,” a Cirque du Soleil theme song, can be […]

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It’s 9:40 a.m. Tuesday (deadline day) when an email comes from my editor. “This just came in. Can you get the story?” he asks. Attached is an email from a […]

Accounting Down To the editor: Regarding Wellfleet’s seemingly abysmal fiscal situation: if a new town administrator is hired before the town’s accounting mayhem is straightened out and before a competent […]

WAGS Affectionate best-friend type, loves sunset walks on the beach. Brody the dog has returned to Provincetown. Like his late owner, he was always happiest here. He’s only six, still […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Dec. 6 to Dec. 10, 2021. PROVINCETOWN Dec. 6. Francis H. Phillips and Herman Emerson Hendrix to 2 Georges LLC [Claudia […]

After four months of hospice care at home, Jerrold Zindler died peacefully on July 30, 2021, surrounded by his family. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer, said his son, […]

Velma O’Donnell of Provincetown died peacefully in her sleep on Dec. 10, 2021 at Stevens Memorial Hospital in Norway, Maine. She was 97. Born in Provincetown on Jan. 15, 1924, […]

Town of Provincetown Public Hearing  Planning Board The Provincetown Planning Board will hold a Public Hearing on Thursday, December 23, 2021, at 6:00 P.M. in the Judge Welsh Hearing Room, […]

Kinda Blue (Thursday, Dec. 16) Those struggling with loss or seasonal stress can find support at “Coping with Holiday Blues” at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center, 715 Old King’s Highway, […]

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PLYMOUTH — After public pushback on the proposed release of radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, its new owner says it has decided to […]

Shawn Quinlan of Maynard stands in the early morning light at Pilgrims’ First Landing Park in Provincetown with his catch of quahogs and oysters. (Photo Elizabeth G. Brooke) This page […]

PROVINCETOWN — The select board, community housing council, and year-round market-rate rental housing trust will reconvene on Dec. 15 to tackle, for the second time, a slate of housing proposals […]

WELLFLEET — A half-dozen town officials have said no evidence of wrongdoing has been detected in a municipal accounting mess that dates back to at least July 2018 and has […]

TRURO — The owner of Babe’s Restaurant and Bakery at 65 Shore Road was denied a renewal of its seasonal common victualer license by the select board on Nov. 16 after […]

EASTHAM — The T-Time Development Committee is attempting to do it all. Its final recommendations for use of the 11-acre former driving range on Route 6 include housing for those […]

WELLFLEET — The select board has chosen consultant Richard White to lead the search for a new town administrator. The choice was made by a unanimous vote during the board’s […]

PROVINCETOWN — An appeal of the planning board’s approval of the workforce housing development known as the Barracks will remain in Barnstable Superior Court. Lawyers for the developer, Provincetown businessman […]

Celeste Hanlon sits in her Eastham studio surrounded by vintage Christmas ornaments and boxes of Barbies from the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s — most missing those fabulous fashions Barbie collected […]

WELLFLEET — By now, sea turtles, like hundreds of Outer Cape residents, have headed south to dodge the frost. Where these two seasonal populations diverge: reptiles actually paddle out of […]

TRURO — “There was a burst of spontaneous applause as the boat started to move,” said Brewster photographer and artist Steve Kennedy, who was among about 100 people at Longnook […]

Early on Sunday, I take my phone and open a daily fantasy sports betting app called DraftKings. I create a contest for the day and submit it to the 33 […]

We all love a quick fix, including when it comes to our bodies. It seems to me we’re especially vulnerable to exercise gimmicks around the holidays, when our routines are […]

Several years ago, we attended a memorable dinner at the famed New York restaurant Eleven Madison Park. This was before Covid shut down the world, and before the restaurant raised […]

Inflation has arrived at the worst possible time — the holidays. The costs associated with the traditional 12 days of Christmas gifts is up 5.7 percent from 2020, with this […]

The Nauset Regional High School winter sports season is in full swing starting with nine varsity basketball, ice hockey, swimming, indoor track, and wrestling teams in action this week. Thursday, […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Dec. 7 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

Some meetings are in person, some online, and some are both. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch to see if a remote option is available. Thursday, Dec. 9 […]

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

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

Anyone who’s spent time out on the tidal flats of Cape Cod Bay can attest to their allure. Stretching a mile or more at low tide, they can feel like […]

John Best has studied every stained-glass window made by prolific late-19th-century designer Louis C. Tiffany. But one forever changed his outlook: Mermaid With Goldfish. The design is based on the […]

“I’m going to cry,” says an emotional Allison Beavan, director of the Outer Cape Chorale. “I’ve wanted to hear you for over two years.” The group’s Chamber Singers, standing arm-spans […]

Between “Spotify Wrapped” and the omnipresence of holiday songs, the month of December is a busy time for listening. The staff at the Indie has some recommendations. Listen at tinyurl.com/47r387nk. […]

The Sun is halfway through Sagittarius, also known as the Archer. Unlike emotional, internally focused Scorpio, Sagittarius rules expansion of the mind via travel, philosophy, and a voracity for new […]

Seasonal Finds at Bakker Auction Bakker Antiques is holding its winter live online auction on Saturday, Dec. 11 at 1 p.m. On the block are 148 lots representing over 100 […]

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I am standing outside our beautiful town hall on a chilly, dark evening — late afternoon, actually, in this damnably short-day time of year. There are flickering candles all around […]

Regarding Art Nickerson’s recorded statement at the end of Cam Blair’s “When Turnips Were King in Eastham” (Nov. 18, page B7), I seriously doubt that there’s anyone alive who knew […]

In our issue dated Aug. 19 of this year, Stephen Kinzer wrote a stirring essay about President Theodore Roosevelt’s visit to Provincetown in the summer of 1907 to lay the […]

Trash Cans Were Missed To the editor: Kudos to the town of Truro, which, on second thought, has put back the trash cans at Coast Guard and presumably other town […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Nov. 29 to Dec. 3, 2021. PROVINCETOWN Nov. 29. Stand5 Nominee Trust (William P. Dougal and Richard J. Murray, trustees) to […]

Lifelong Truro resident Linnell Morris Nickerson died peacefully in her home on Nov. 6, 2021 after living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She was 75. Linnell was born and raised […]

Dowell Baten Multer died peacefully at Regal Care of Harwich on Nov. 22, 2021. The cause was Lewy body dementia, his wife Sarah Multer said. Dowell was 88. Although he […]

FOR SALE Shadow Boxes by Jill. Give a truly unique gift! Local Truro artist creates personalized shadow boxes to commemorate special people and occasions (weddings, baby showers, graduations, memorials to […]

Just a Blip (Friday, Dec. 10) Payomet Performing Arts Center presents the next in its series “Remembrances of the North Truro Air Force Radar Station” at the Truro Community Center, […]

Town of Provincetown Public Hearing Licensing Board The Provincetown Licensing Board will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, December 14, 2021 at 5:15 p.m. in the Judge Welsh Room at […]

TRURO — Part-time Truro resident Lynda West went with her father-in-law, Jock West, to Longnook Beach on Tuesday to take photos of the calm waters with his drone at low […]

WELLFLEET — The Blasch house is no longer Mark and Barbara Blasch’s problem. Ownership of the 5,817-square-foot house perched atop “the Gut,” a rapidly eroding strip of steep coastal bank […]

PLYMOUTH — The Pilgrim nuclear station here, the only nuclear power plant left in Massachusetts — and among the worst performers in the country in its final years — was […]

WELLFLEET — A dispute over the use of a commercial parcel at the corner of Route 6 and Old Wharf Road has entered a new phase after the owner, Great […]

PROVINCETOWN — With crayons and pages of coloring books scattered over the floor around them, Alaina and Kacey Vida sit in the waiting area of a Walgreens Pharmacy. It’s the […]

EASTHAM — A record 42 students participated in the Miles Tibbetts Chess Tournament that got underway at Nauset Regional High School on Nov. 23 — so many that the final […]

WELLFLEET — Sometime in June, a fleet of pickup trucks rumbled into the Dunkin’ Donuts parking lot and met for a handoff. Their drivers were “not making a drug deal,” […]

WELLFLEET — As president of the Friends of the Wellfleet Council on Aging, a home health aide with the Visiting Nurse Association (VNA), and a nursing home ombudsman for Elder […]

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

When I was in college, I liked to study in the uptown branch of the New Orleans Public Library on St. Charles Avenue. It occupied a sprawling, slightly decrepit mansion […]

Maybe you’ve sworn off that day-after-Thanksgiving rush. Or was it that second round of pie that kept you from transitioning into the shopping season last weekend? Whatever the cause of […]

New Moons can present the ripest moments in which to set intentions for the future. And a new Moon in Sagittarius would dare us to dream big. This week’s new […]

EASTHAM — The Nauset Warriors football team lost 14-0 to Dennis-Yarmouth in its final game of the season on Thanksgiving. It had been two years since the traditional rivals played […]

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EASTHAM –– It started with a police officer attempting to serve a no-trespass order on Saturday, Nov. 27. That turned into a physical confrontation, with the officer getting punched in […]

WELLFLEET — After serving as town treasurer for almost three years, Miriam Spencer submitted her resignation on Monday, Nov. 15. “It’s been a long time coming,” she told the Independent. […]

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

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

The first piece of copper that Michael Marrinan sold didn’t have much paint on it. The sheet — a scrap from a copper bar top he’d built for the Underground […]

Michael Hartwig is not one to let Covid cramp his style. During the pandemic, he and his partner, Steve Ridini, who split their time between Boston and Provincetown, chose to […]

In the third act of Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice, the stony guardians of hell’s gates instruct Orpheus, “You can’t sing here unless you sing in a dead language.” The libretto, which […]

Birds and Beasts at Wellfleet Preservation Hall Ben Achtenberg, a documentary filmmaker — his 1984 film, Code Gray, was nominated for an Academy Award — has a show of photographs […]

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The old woman brought her toddler grandson to the beach and watched placidly as he played in the sand at the water’s edge. Suddenly, a huge wave washed the child […]

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‘Let the Cloverleaf Proceed’ To the editor: In response to last week’s letter from Dan Katz [“Aggrieved by the Cloverleaf,” page A2]: Ted Malone does not build “monstrosities.” He builds […]

The Wellfleet Elementary School has not had a playground since March 2020, as staff reporter Jasmine Lu wrote in the Oct. 7 issue of the Independent. First, it was off-limits […]

FOR SALE Refills! Green Road Refill is a newly opened, Earth-friendly store on Route 6A in Brewster, in the Cumberland Farms Plaza. We offer refillable plant-based products for body, bath, […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Nov. 22 to Nov. 26, 2021. PROVINCETOWN Nov. 22. Timothy Alan Trani to Michael J. Bellante. 49 Commercial St. $2,100,000. Nov. […]

After a long and active life that ended in a sad decline of her physical and cognitive abilities, Patricia Jackson died at the Lower Cape Fear Hospice in Bolivia, N.C. […]

Daniel Lynn Wyatt, who practiced psychiatry at Outer Cape Health Services for nine years, died suddenly but peacefully in his sleep at his home in Fayetteville, Ark. on Nov. 23, […]

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Town of Provincetown Public Hearing Cemetery Commission The Provincetown Cemetery Commission will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 4:00pm in the Caucus Room, Town Hall, 260 Commercial […]

Give a Little (Friday, Dec. 3) “’Tis the Season for Giving,” a benefit for the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod, will take place at the Post Office Café, 303 […]

TRURO — In the early morning hours of Oct. 27, the night of the recent nor’easter, a tremendous gust of wind came swooping down over the ocean, across the tops […]

TRURO — When Caroline Townsend was finishing fifth grade at Truro Central School (TCS) in 2012, her parents asked her which sixth grade option she preferred: board the bus for Nauset […]

EASTHAM — Elaine Lipton got a call from an in-home aide who’d arrived to cook dinner for her 85-year-old dad and found his home empty. The car was gone, but […]

PROVINCETOWN — The sales of three important hotel and restaurant properties have been announced in recent days, with at least one more pending, as the frenzied real estate market on […]

WELLFLEET — Town officials imposed an indoor mask order for the second time on Nov. 17, after a meeting at which the police chief cautioned that the on-again, off-again orders […]

EASTHAM –– Last Friday evening a dozen Elks galloped in and out of the kitchen of Lodge #2572 as they prepared the weekly fish fry. On the other side of […]

When I arrived at my mother’s with my cooler full of turkey stock, homemade cranberry relish, and cubed bread for stuffing, the food was not my worry. For a while […]

TRURO — Not far from Route 6 but seemingly worlds away, Drew Locke raises chickens, cows, pigs, and turkeys on an expanse of land that has been farmed for seven […]

Edward Penniman, considered one of the most successful sea captains in New England, traveled the world hunting whales in the mid-19th century and amassed enough wealth to retire to Eastham […]

EASTHAM — The Nauset athletics program had a big announcement as the high school sports season turned from fall to winter. The Cape Cod Furies girls ice hockey team, which […]

As a kid, I wasn’t sure how I felt about Hanukkah in November. Whenever that happened, it meant we got presents before everyone else. That was fun. On the other […]

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In 1621, the year of the proverbial first Thanksgiving, and one year after the Pilgrims landed in Provincetown, Jupiter, the planet of purpose and of plenty, was in communicative air […]

As you read this, Comet Leonard is racing towards the Sun. It’s visible before sunrise with binoculars and small telescopes, and there’s a good chance it will become visible to […]

PROVINCETOWN — Sean P. Hallisey, 51, of Bradford Street crashed his ex-partner’s vehicle into the woods beside the entrance to the Old Colony Nature Pathway on Howland Street on Saturday, […]

Some meetings are in person, some online, and some are both. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch to see if a remote option is available. Town Hall is […]

All meetings in Truro are remote only and can be watched online. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

Singer and songwriter Billy Hough estimates that, since his stage show Scream Along With Billy began its run in 2006, he and bassist Sue Goldberg have covered around 300 records. […]

Nineteen writing and visual arts fellows arrived last month at the Fine Arts Work Center for seven-month residencies in Provincetown. One more fellow, Ellen Akimoto, is in Germany dealing with […]

From the outside, Bert Yarborough’s Truro studio, located in an industrial complex, doesn’t look like much. It is housed in a row of identical rented units, each with a windowless […]

The 2016 movie Jackie, which stars Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and is directed by the Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín, was an unexpected gem. It delved into the mind […]

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In Michigan, the United Auto Workers was the quintessential labor union. We breathed cars and trucks, and our economy rose and fell in direct correlation to auto sales. Every family […]

Seven weeks ago, as we passed the two-year mark and began Volume 3 of the Independent, I wrote about our finances and where we stood in relation to our projections. […]

There Is No Alternative Bike Route To the editor: The Independent reports that the Dept. of Conservation and Recreation “continues to believe that the safest and best approach for users […]

Kathleen Gonsalves of Truro died peacefully at her home on Nov. 11, 2021, surrounded by the love of her family. She was 72. Born in Hyannis, she was the daughter […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Nov. 15 to Nov. 19, 2021. PROVINCETOWN Nov. 16. Emmanuel J. Speare to Kenneth Hale. 33 Franklin St. $1,675,000. Nov. 17. […]

FOR SALE Refills! Green Road Refill is a newly opened, Earth-friendly store on Route 6A in Brewster, in the Cumberland Farms Plaza. We offer refillable plant-based products for body, bath, […]

Town of Provincetown Public Hearing Licensing Board The Provincetown Licensing Board will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, November 30, 2021 at 5:15 p.m. in the Judge Welsh Room at […]

Cold Turkey (Thursday, Nov. 25) There will be an unofficial Turkey Trot on Thursday, Nov. 25, 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Runners should meet at the Pilgrims’ First Landing Park, 1 […]

‘Gratitude’ at Addison Gallery Addison Gallery, 43 South Orleans Road in Orleans, is hosting “A Benefit Show of Gratitude,” running through Dec. 31, with work by Paul Batch, Paul Schulenburg, […]

WELLFLEET — William Huss, the president of the Lieutenant Island Association, got an urgent call from DPW Director Jay Norton on Oct. 29. Coastal Engineering, the contractor making long-planned repairs […]

WELLFLEET — After telling the select board on Nov. 2 that property tax bills could not go out this fall, interim Town Administrator Charles Sumner returned a week later with […]

TRURO — In what could be the first use of a new provision in the Housing Choice Act, a state Land Court judge has ordered residents appealing the town’s permitting […]

PROVINCETOWN — The owner of Sal’s Place may not have to pay $78,499 in legal fees plus fines for putting restaurant tables on the beach behind her neighbor’s house. In […]

PROVINCETOWN — Spending bills being finalized in Boston this week will allocate $2.4 billion in federal relief money from the American Rescue Plan Act, which Congress passed in March, and […]

WELFLEET — Wellfleet had a permanent full-time building inspector for two days last month. But he resigned after hitting the housing wall. Vincenzo Tirone, the former building commissioner in Monson, […]

WELLFLEET — The state Dept. of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) is finishing work on a new parking lot at 2520 Route 6 as part of its construction of a bike […]

EAST LONGMEADOW — One of the most thrilling high school soccer matches this season took place on Nov. 14 as the eighth-seeded Nauset boys played the top-seeded East Longmeadow Spartans […]

EASTHAM –– One hundred eleven years ago, the sandy fields of Eastham yielded 10,710 bushels of turnips, more than every other town from Provincetown to Yarmouth combined. When local farmers […]

Provincetown marked Veterans Day this year with a solemn gathering on MacMillan Pier, with Jim Keefe serving as master of ceremonies. It was the 103rd anniversary of the signing of […]

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

George Avery Downing, who is called “Geo,” was born on Oct. 26, 2021 at Cape Cod Hospital to elated parents Catherine Graciano and Vanessa Downing. The family lives in Brewster, […]

I won’t blame you if you have your doubts when I tell you that your Thanksgiving dinner might be more authentic if you served fish instead of turkey. There’s not […]

In just four weeks, we’ll be celebrating the winter solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year. Pre-pandemic, this time of year always felt frenetic. We were all […]

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A bronze tablet attached to a boulder in Eastham’s Cove Burial Ground is one of the few tangible reminders of the Ralph Smith (or Smythe) family, who arrived in Eastham […]

PROVINCETOWN — The results of a town diversity audit are in: Provincetown year-rounders are mostly white and older, on average, than the rest of the state, and the community is […]

Some meetings are in person, some online, and some are both. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch to see if a remote option is available. Thursday, Nov. 18 […]

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

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the agenda. Thursday, […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

“The root of a lot of what I do is the Group of Seven,” Chris Firger says, speaking by phone from his Salem studio after a long day’s work preparing […]

Katrina Walker first met Frank Milby in 1983 at Provincetown’s Café Edwige, now closed, where Milby’s wife, Karen, worked. “Frank came up to our table,” recalls Walker. “He looked at […]

Urban renewal today conjures images of destruction and displacement. But in her most recent book, Saving America’s Cities, historian Lizabeth Cohen brings readers into the post-World War II mindset that […]

AMZehnder Gallery’s Holiday Show AMZehnder Gallery, 25 Bank St. #3 in Wellfleet, is mounting a holiday art show through Jan. 1. There are paintings and small works by gallery staples […]

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I believe I have mentioned my fierce love of Provincetown. I believe, too, that I am not unique in this respect. Indeed, one of the defining attributes of people on […]

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As a boy growing up in the 1950s, paradise was a pine-paneled cottage in the Surfside Colony at Lecount Hollow Beach. A few of you cringed as you read that […]

‘Pain as Well as Joy’ To the editor: Coming into a nursing home is frightening when you are old and fragile. At least, that is what they tell you. Then […]

FOR SALE Refills! Green Road Refill is a newly opened, Earth-friendly store on Route 6A in Brewster, in the Cumberland Farms Plaza. We offer refillable plant-based products for body, bath, […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Nov. 8 to Nov. 12, 2021. PROVINCETOWN Nov. 8. Studio Realty Trust (Edward J. Kennedy and Robert E. Kennedy, trustees) to […]

A celebration of the life of Elaine Lillian Romagnoli will be held on Sunday, Nov. 21 at 11 a.m. at the Stonewall Inn, 53 Christopher St. in New York City. […]

Raymond A. Sawyer died at home in Provincetown of natural causes, surrounded by his family, on Nov. 10, 2021. His death was confirmed by his daughter Shannon. He was 84. […]

Linda Christine (Johnson) McSweeney of Eastham died peacefully at Seashore Pointe in Provincetown on Nov. 7, 2021. She was 72. Born on Aug. 23, 1949 to Ralph and Eleanor Johnson, Linda […]

A memorial celebration of the life of Joseph Corea, who died on Sept. 22, 2020, will take place at 12:30 p.m. this Friday, Nov. 19, 2021 at Montano’s Restaurant in […]

Nancy Kelley Boire of Truro and Hudson died peacefully from complications of Alzheimer’s disease on Oct. 20, 2021 at the Bridges, a memory-care assisted living facility in Mashpee. Her death […]

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Once in a Lifetime (Thursday, Nov. 18) Lifetime Learning at Snow Library, 67 Main St. in Orleans, continues with “Slavery in Massachusetts Before the Civil War” on Thursday, Nov. 18, […]

Town of Provincetown Public Hearing Historic District Commission The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, December 1, 2021, in the Judge Welsh […]

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The greens, golds, pinks, and reds of just a few weeks ago have given way to a sepia-toned world, awash in amber, russet, and ash. I pull up to my […]

Jenny Muschinske and her husband moved from New York to Wellfleet in March 2020. Then, she got pregnant. Suddenly, finding a local doctor became urgent. She had been “seeing” her […]

WELLFLEET — The task force charged with recommending the best developer to build and manage 46 units of affordable rental housing on Lawrence Road has selected a national nonprofit organization […]

EASTHAM –– Benten Niggel resigned from the Eastham Elementary School Committee on Oct. 15 after charges emerged that he had “promoted the use and sale of marijuana” to high school […]

TRURO — The fire and rescue dept. has weathered what town officials called a “severe staffing shortage” last month when, according to an Oct. 12 press release, the department was down […]

PROVINCETOWN — Police are investigating the disappearance of a white 2011 Chevrolet Star Crafter student activities mini-bus. It was apparently stolen sometime overnight on Thursday, Nov. 4 from the public […]

PROVINCETOWN — Lawyers for the developer of a proposed workforce housing project — known as the Barracks — and the town’s planning board, which approved the development, have asked a […]

EASTHAM — The T-Time Development Committee that has been studying the 11-acre former driving range for two years has wrapped up the public input phase of its work. At three […]

Michael Cabral retired as a sergeant in the United States Army in 2013 with a chest full of medals. He also had PTSD. Cabral fractured his back twice in training […]

PROVINCETOWN — For 10 years, Provincetown’s hotel and guest house industry has been characterized by two trends. The total number of hotel rooms has been gradually decreasing, as many properties, […]

Isabelle Nobili is a 2021 Nauset Regional High School graduate who has ambitious college plans. She’s going to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. What she wants to study there is […]

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

The rain is coming down hard from a low, leaden sky, and the wind is whistling down Paradise Hollow so fiercely that we fear for the roof. On such a […]

Motivation has been a theme for me this fall — I find that’s true of a lot of people I work with. As the weather cools, most of us need […]

EASTHAM — It was a tough season for the Nauset Warriors football team. Like other teams, Nauset struggled to field enough players this fall. But on Friday, Nov. 5 it […]

EASTHAM — Donald Sack, 69, remembers staring a rodeo bull in the face while standing just a few feet from the animal in an arena in Rome, Ga. in August […]

Some meetings are in person, some online, and some are both. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch to see if a remote option is available. Tuesday, Nov. 16 […]

All meetings in Truro are remote only. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Friday, Nov. 12 […]

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

“I’m not a city person,” says the artist Susan Lyman, chatting in the far East End Provincetown home she designed and built in 1987 with her late husband, Doug Trumbo, […]

“Listen, we have a long, rich history,” says Stephen Borkowski, sitting in the Provincetown library’s Cape Cod room. “Provincetown saw the founding of American democracy. The origins of American theater. […]

Alexandra Marshall was just 26 when her husband, Tim Buxton, normally joyous and enthusiastic in the face of challenges, committed suicide. It was 1970 and the couple was in Ghana […]

Lynn Smiledge began her career producing medical films in the pre-computer era of the late 1970s, creating educational animations and advertising for pharmaceutical companies. Back then, “It was all pen […]

Dennis Cunningham’s Poetic ‘Stations’ “Stations of the Peaked Hill Bars” is an installation by Wellfleet actor, filmmaker, and Renaissance man Dennis Cunningham. It’s based on the Roman Catholic tradition of […]

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We are moving deeply into November, the month now recognized as containing the National Day of Mourning for the Native Peoples of this land. Looking wistfully for optimism, or something […]

The last week of October brought fierce winds, broken trees and poles, and power outages. In Provincetown, no one had electricity for the first day, and in large sections of […]

Take a breath before you look ahead, as November will culminate with series of notable celestial events, starting with a Full Moon and partial lunar eclipse in the sign of […]

Five weeks ago, we published a story with the headline “Truro and Wellfleet Will Fail to Meet Their Housing Goals.” It summarized the four Outer Cape towns’ affordable housing production […]

Truro’s Housing Plan To the editor: Thank you for your recent focus on housing production on the Outer Cape, including “Truro and Wellfleet Will Fail to Meet Their Housing Goals” […]

FOR RENT Space available for licensed independent mental health professionals. Large private corner office in Orleans. Office shared with two established practitioners. Shared overhead expenses, furnished waiting room. Storage space. […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Nov. 1 to Nov. 5, 2021. PROVINCETOWN Nov. 2. William K. Robinson to Mira Patel. 586 Commercial St., Unit 3. $525,000. […]

Ronald E. Martin, known to many as “Gus” or “Gussy,” died at home in Palmyra, Va. on Oct. 16, 2021. He was 83. The family did not disclose a cause […]

Carolyn H. Crowell of Wellfleet died on Oct. 25, 2021 at Cape Cod Hospital with her family at her side. The cause of death, confirmed by her husband, Chandler, was […]

See the Light (Thursday, Nov. 11) The annual lighting of the Pilgrim Monument, commemorating their first landing in Provincetown, will occur on Thursday, Nov. 11, 6 p.m. Though there is […]

Town of Provincetown Position Openings DPW/Transfer Station & Recycling Center Working Foreman – AFSCME The Town of Provincetown is accepting applications for a Working Forman position in the Department of […]

WELLFLEET — Chopper Young was working on his oyster grant one day when a shrill note pierced Chipman’s Cove. Stranded in the mucky tidal flats was a woman in a kayak. […]

PROVINCETOWN — When Chuck and Ann Lagasse bought Fisherman’s Wharf in 2016, the Chapter 91 license they secured from the state required them to construct a harbor walk on the […]

WELLFLEET — After meeting with a team from the state Dept. of Revenue (DOR) on Tuesday, interim Town Administrator Charles Sumner had more bad news about the town’s financial condition: […]

PROVINCETOWN — It sounds ironic, but the island of Nantucket is a good place to ride out a nor’easter like the one that struck on Oct. 27, bringing wind gusts […]

EASTHAM — Threatened with demolition, two historic houses, one in Eastham and one in Wellfleet, were temporarily protected by local bylaws that delayed the destruction while alternatives could be explored. […]

EASTHAM — Before this fall’s high school golf season started, Nauset freshman Jack Martin had never heard of the New England Championship. On Monday, the 14-year-old was the only member […]

The Provincetown waterfront once again took a severe beating from a coastal storm which, other than Hurricane Bob, was probably as intense as any coastal storm we’ve experienced in recent […]

EASTHAM — The thrift shop run by the Friends of the Eastham Council on Aging first opened in what had once been a general store on Massasoit Road in 1984. […]

EASTHAM — Kathleen Masterson-Lavalley doesn’t go to the beach for its waves or for its sunsets. Instead, her eyes sweep the sand for the perfect stones — flat, round ones […]

TRURO — After a four-day Outer Cape cleanup held in late September, the Marine Debris Team of the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) took a deep dive into the […]

BREWSTER — It took almost a decade of back-and-forth discussions and proposals, but there will finally be a place in town where dogs and their people can socialize. The acre-and-a-half […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Nov. 2 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

EASTHAM — The regular season is over, with Nauset High School boys and girls soccer teams both looking to the upcoming playoffs. Halloween proved to be a scary day for […]

Surfers pee in their wetsuits. I’ve never met one who doesn’t. All those people you see out there in the ocean, looking calm and free? They are. They’re peeing. This […]

In the shadow of this week’s New Moon in Scorpio, truth’s clarion call rises from the depths of our hearts. Expect honest, emotional exchanges that spark unwanted but overdue transformation. […]

1. Denial Tuesday, 4 p.m. Child 1: “My French teacher said we probably won’t have school tomorrow.” Parent 1: “OK… Wait, what? Why?!” Child 1: “A storm.” Parent 1: “That’s […]

If you are any kind of cook, chances are that in the weeks ahead you are going to be called on to make at least one pie. Showing up with […]

ORLEANS — The Nauset Beach retreat project, dredging at Rock Harbor, and a preschool support program were among the articles passed at the Orleans special town meeting held on Oct. […]

Some meetings are in person, some online, and some are both. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch to see if a remote option is available. Thursday, Nov. 4 […]

All meetings in Truro are remote only. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Friday, Nov. 5 […]

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

“I’m interested in weird,” says Truro artist Ellen Anthony. “So much of our culture is about ‘getting it right’ and ‘doing it well,’ and I’m just not into that. Take […]

If you’re looking for treasure, Mike Parlante has some advice for you: “Look down.” That’s how he found the majority of the Native American artifacts currently on display at the […]

“I think it grew out of my frustration as a painter,” Daniel Wagner says, looking around at the many canvases lying about his cluttered Provincetown Commons studio. “What do I […]

PROVINCETOWN — After more than five years, the renovation of the Fine Arts Work Center campus is nearly complete. “This is the beginning of our shakedown, to see what it’s […]

Our playlists are often eclectic, as contributors are given musical free reign. This one is especially so. Listen to some unmasked rap, countertenor cabaret, Chinese pop, and classic Billy Joel […]

CAMBRIDGE — Two days ago, while I sat on my bed talking on the phone, a rat scrambled across my bedcovers and slipped down between the mattress and the wall. […]

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The British inventor Lord Kelvin famously said that if you can’t measure something, “your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.” I heartily disagree. The most important things in […]

I’m glad E.B. White is dead. The New Yorker staff writer and author of Charlotte’s Web famously wrote an impassioned warning against sponsored content in 1976. I wouldn’t want him […]

Taking, and Not Taking, Positions To the editor: We have two responses to last week’s Letter From the Editor (“A Silver Lining,” Oct. 28, page A2). First, in response to […]

The Rev. John Ferris “Jack” Smith, well known on the Outer Cape as a longtime leader of the Episcopal Chapel of St. James the Fisherman, died in his sleep at […]

Marguerite Paradise Dahl of Orleans, who was known as Peggy, died on Oct. 25, 2021 at the McCarthy Center Hospice in Sandwich. She was 83, and had faced cancer bravely. […]

MUSIC & ART Thank you to all the artists who took courses and submitted outstanding art to student shows. To view their work, go to www.shabottbarrett.com/gallery. Want to know about […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Oct. 25 to Oct. 29, 2021. PROVINCETOWN Oct. 25. Richard C. Holland Trust (Richard C. Holland, trustee) to Tony D. Origlio […]

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Workshops at 24PearlStreet The Fine Arts Work Center’s online writing program, 24PearlStreet, is hosting two workshops that run Nov. 8 through Dec. 2. June Sylvester Saraceno is teaching “Creating Unforgettable […]

Double Dip at the CHO (Thursday, Nov. 4 – Friday, Nov. 5) Vinegrass presents Americana singer-songwriter Jeffery Foucault, performing live at the Centers for Culture and History in Orleans (the […]

Town of Provincetown Department of Public Works Public Notice General Bylaw Chapter 11-6-6, Trees & Shrubs Obstructions in the Public Ways: In order to preserve and promote the safety of […]

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Naruto and a Lego Nexo Knight, characters from two different anime shows, fuel up an hour before Monday’s soccer practice with egg and bacon sandwiches and by climbing trees outside […]

PROVINCETOWN — For her family and friends, Veronica Silva’s 80th birthday party on June 15, 2012 was more of a living funeral than a celebration, recalled her son David Silva, […]

PROVINCETOWN — The Community Builders, the Boston firm that built 50 apartments at Province Landing on Shank Painter Road 10 years ago, has won the bidding to construct affordable housing […]

TRURO — Six residents who were suing the town and the developer in an attempt to halt the proposed Cloverleaf affordable housing project on Highland Road have decided to withdraw […]

WELLFLEET — The number of new cases of Covid-19 was down slightly this week, according to the town’s health agent, Hillary Greenberg-Lemos, following the emergence of a cluster of cases […]

PROVINCETOWN — The final design of the East End Waterfront Park includes fewer trees but has that bathroom that people requested. The cost to turn the existing crushed-shell parking lot […]

EASTHAM — The concession stand was easy for Lisa Still and Dawn O’Neil to manage during the Nauset High homecoming football game on Oct. 15. That night, students at the […]

PROVINCETOWN — How heated is the debate about the West End pickleball courts? If the swear words were left in everyone’s statements, this article would be two inches longer. “I’m […]

At Nauset Regional High School, says Way Yin Yuen, he was known as “that Asian kid.” But, the 1996 graduate says he was largely spared racial smears growing up — save […]

Carolyn Souza first learned to knit when she was in the Girl Scouts in Truro, where she grew up. “We all knitted little squares,” she says. Then all the girls’ […]

One year after my mother died, she was with me again, vividly. I was walking through a maze of graves lit by a sea of beeswax candles in a cemetery […]

Car prices are about the scariest thing I can think of in this Halloween week. It looks like we’re all going to have to settle in and get comfortable with […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Oct. 26 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

EASTHAM — After finishing third in the Division 2 South Sectional tournament with a team score of 305, the Nauset Warriors golf team placed 11th out of 13 teams in […]

EASTHAM — Library Director Debra Dejonker-Berry announced in the spring that she would be retiring after seven years here and more than 15 years in the same job in Provincetown. […]

PROVINCETOWN Spook-tac-u-tour The Provincetown Recreation Dept. is offering a “spooky but family-friendly interactive tour of Provincetown.” QR codes the department has placed around town guide the way. Once you scan […]

All meetings this week are in person at Town Hall. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch to see if a remote option is available. Thursday, Oct. 28 […]

All meetings in Truro are remote only. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, Oct. 28 Climate Action […]

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

Salvatore Del Deo first came to Provincetown in 1946 to study painting with Henry Hensche. “When I drove to the Cape the first time, it took six hours from Providence,” […]

In November 1980, a journalist named D. Keith Mano wrote an article for Playboy titled “It’s No Fun Being a Girl.” The article — which I read thanks to a […]

I had sailed only twice before coming to Provincetown. I had always liked boating — I rowed in Central Park as a boy, and in time became a strong canoeist […]

Brightly colored makeup palettes are spread across the bathroom counter as Mackenzie Miller puckers her lips while contouring her cheekbones. “When the makeup is done, you look in the mirror […]

Happy Halloween, witches and wanderers! In the ancient traditions of the Celts, the Hindus, and the indigenous peoples of Mexico and Central America, ahead is a night reserved for reverent […]

‘Bewitching’ Show at Bowersock Gallery “Bewitching Affairs” opens at Bowersock Gallery, 373 Commercial St. in Provincetown, on Saturday, Oct. 30 and runs through Nov. 2. There will be a reception […]

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I’m a gun owner. I don’t fit the stereotype of a gun-toting Second Amender decked out in camouflage protesting in front of a state capitol — although having grown up […]

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John Donahue, who was known as “Coach D” across the Cape and served as athletic director at Nauset Regional High School for 40 years, died peacefully of natural causes on […]

Caroline Jeanette Parlante, the founder and proprietor of the Bookstore & Restaurant on Wellfleet Harbor, died at Cape Cod Hospital on Oct. 17, 2021. Her death was confirmed by her […]

FOR RENT Space available for licensed independent mental health professionals. Large private corner office in Orleans. Office shared with two established practitioners. Shared overhead expenses, furnished waiting room. Storage space. […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Oct. 18 to Oct. 22, 2021. PROVINCETOWN Oct. 18. Provincetown Holdco LLC [Benjamin Berkowitz, manager] to Richard A. Bergman. 100 Alden […]

Just when I find myself in an especially bad mood — because I forgot to renew the car registration and ended up with the car towed, or my computer somehow […]

Speeding Through Eastham To the editor: I read with interest “Eastham Wants a Main Street, Not a Highway,” about the town’s struggles with Route 6 [Oct. 21, front page]. As […]

  Town of Provincetown Public Notice Visitor Services Board VSB Announces Tourism Marketing Grant Opportunities for FY 2023 The Visitor Services Board is seeking grant proposals for events and marketing […]

Cabinet Clearing (Thursday, Oct. 28) “Thursday Night at the Movies,” hosted by WOMR, wraps up on Thursday, Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m. with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the 1920 German […]

Students in every class and from across the Cape came together to celebrate at Nauset Regional High School’s first homecoming dance since 2019. The event was held outdoors in the […]

TRURO — A group of residents who have filed suit to block the Cloverleaf affordable housing development at 22 Highland Road in North Truro may be required to post a […]

EASTHAM — Every driver who enters Eastham via Route 6 is greeted by an orange sign warning that the next 6.2 miles of highway are a “High Traffic Enforcement Area.” […]

WELLFLEET — The select board has endorsed the idea of earmarking 80 percent of the revenue from the short-term rental tax to the town’s new affordable housing trust fund. “A […]

PROVINCETOWN — How much of the money collected from the new short-term rental tax should go to community housing efforts? That was the big question on the table at a […]

EASTHAM — Nauset Regional High School’s football team won its Homecoming game against Martha’s Vineyard on Oct. 15, giving players and fans something to celebrate in a season rocked by […]

WELLFLEET — Developer Ted Malone will be able to meet the Oct. 30 pre-application deadline to seek funding in 2022 for his plan to build eight units of affordable housing […]

PROVINCETOWN — Center for Coastal Studies CEO Rich Delaney may sit in the driver’s seat of a small nonprofit working to save the whales in Provincetown, but he has a […]

WELLFLEET — Curt Felix says that if the wind had just stayed steady, he and two other sailors would have enjoyed a beautiful Sunday sail on Oct. 17. Instead, gusts […]

WELLFLEET — The day after Hurricane Ida’s rainy remnants swept across the Cape on Sept. 2, Jessica Ciarcia of Massachusetts Audubon arrived on Lieutenant Island for a diamondback terrapin monitoring […]

Bob Keary and Peter Sullivan tied the knot on Oct. 16, 2021 after 14 years together. “We prefer not to rush into things,” Keary said. The wedding was celebrated on […]

WELLFLEET — Down a sand road along the back of a kettle pond sits an austere one-story plywood-skinned rectangle on low stilts. Barely discernible from its surroundings, it was designed […]

Thoreau got lots right. An end-of-August journal entry he made in Concord in 1853 still resonates: “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste […]

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

EASTHAM — It was a busy Homecoming Weekend for Nauset sports across the board. The boys golf team finished in the runner-up spot in the MIAA South Sectional Championship at […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently sent a notice to veterinary clinics and retailers and asked them to post it for the public. The sign said, basically, “People, please […]

Brace yourselves, star grazers. The Sun enters the intense sign of Scorpio on Oct. 22. You’ll be feeling all the feels and uncovering truths about yourself you’ll wish you could […]

Saturn was a god of ancient Rome. According to myth, he was usurped by his son, Jupiter, and wandered across land and sea before founding a new kingdom and giving […]

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EASTHAM — A mail carrier at the Eastham Post Office has recently quit, resulting in service lapses for many residents, according to numerous sources. In recent weeks, mail trucks have […]

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PROVINCETOWN — After almost 10 years in the town health dept., including seven as health director, Morgan Clark is leaving town government. She’s going back to work for one of […]

ORLEANS — If everything goes according to plan, the Nauset Regional Schools will name a new superintendent by Jan. 29, 2022. Thus far, the search committee has held four public […]

Some meetings are in-person only, some are remote only, and some are a hybrid where you can go both ways. Go to provincetown-ma.gov, click on the meeting you want to watch, and follow […]

All meetings in Truro are remote only. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, Oct. 21 […]

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

When we picture artists at work, we typically imagine them creating with their hands — drawing a figure, sculpting in clay. Printmaking brings the mechanical into the mix. That doesn’t […]

Being back at the Metropolitan Opera in New York last Wednesday had a surreal quality. Masked faces peered across balconies through opera glasses. The sound of the orchestra warming up […]

The name on the screen for our Zoom call says “James Ure.” But Ure is better known as Midge, a phonetic reversal of the name Jim. The nickname was originally […]

Fall Bakker Auction  Bakker Antiques is holding its fall online auction on Saturday, Oct. 23 at 1 p.m. There are 148 lots with a selection of Provincetown art spanning over […]

The original three sisters lighthouses fell into the Atlantic in 1890. Their replacements ended up on Cable Road in Eastham. (Photo Nancy Bloom)  A Danaus plexippus and a Buddleja davidii […]

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Roughly 80 percent of American adults drink alcohol. It is by far the most destructive drug in our society but also the most enjoyed, and many would agree its moderate […]

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“Route 6 is horrible,” says Art Autorino, chair of the Eastham Select Board, in a report in this issue by Cam Blair. We’ve probably all had that same thought, while […]

Bartering With Klara To the editor: Regarding last week’s obituary for Klara Muller [page A16], I just wanted to say that I was able to experience a barter with her one […]

FOR RENT Space available for licensed independent mental health professionals. Large private corner office in Orleans. Office shared with two established practitioners. Shared overhead expenses, furnished waiting room. Storage space. $400 […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Oct. 12 to Oct. 15, 2021. PROVINCETOWN Oct. 15. Pantano Conroy Trust (Janice Maitino, trustee) to Robert D. Williams. 11 Bradford […]

Carl Melville Sawyer of Truro died peacefully in his sleep at home on Oct. 11, 2021. The cause of lung cancer, diagnosed six months ago. He was 92. Born in […]

Scott Czyoski, 50, of Brewster, formerly of Provincetown, died on Oct. 8, 2021 at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston. He was surrounded by family and friends, according to an […]

Richard J. Cappotto, who was known as Dick or “D.C.,” died peacefully in his sleep on Sept. 4, 2021. He had been in a memory care facility in Jacksonville, Fla. […]

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Double Date (Thursday, Oct. 21) The Centers for Culture and History in Orleans is holding a series of fall history presentations at the Meetinghouse, 3 River Road in Orleans. On […]

Town of Provincetown Community Preservation GRANTS Due no Later than Thursday, December 30, 2021 Community Preservation Committee The Provincetown Community Preservation Committee is seeking funding proposals for projects that meet […]

PROVINCETOWN — Jane Paradise and her husband, Frank DiGirolamo, have dinner out at restaurants three times a week — at a minimum. They go to bed at midnight, and DiGirolamo […]

PROVINCETOWN — The current owners of the Crown & Anchor complex, Bill Dougal and Rick Murray, are in the final stages of selling the property to their longtime employee Jonathan […]

WELLFLEET — With the town having built far fewer affordable housing units than it promised the state it would create by 2022, the Affordable Housing Trust now plans to issue […]

EASTHAM — The Nauset Regional School Building Committee approved key budget modifications for the high school renovation project on Oct. 6, one week after being forced to abruptly adjourn a […]

WELLFLEET — A few years back, when Geovana Pinheiro worked as a certified nursing assistant (CNA) for a client in Wellfleet, she commuted down Cape from Centerville, where she lives. […]

WELLFLEET — Less than one week after the board of health issued a “code red” mask order, the number of Covid-19 cases in town has doubled. There were 31 active […]

PROVINCETOWN — Seasonal police officers arrive on these shores every year along with the tourists and the traffic, but the Mass. police reform law of 2020 may end that program […]

TRURO — On a sunny Saturday in early October, Kevin Clayton begins driving the Funk Bus at noon and doesn’t quit until 4 a.m. [or 16 hours later]. During the […]

WEST HARWICH — Wentzle Ruml has many stories to tell. In the 1970s, he was a member of the legendary Zephyr skateboarding team, known as the Z-Boys, in Santa Monica, […]

WELLFLEET — A longer driveway with a gentler slope, some beefed-up buffers, and a promise to sink new wells should there be water contamination issues are among the concessions that […]

After 15 years of both classical and new-age yoga training, I still find my home practice beginning the same way. Somewhere in the first five minutes: tabletop, on hands and […]

The air in Agostino DiBari’s shop on Main Street in Orleans smells slightly sweet. But not in that Jolly Rancher way that can make scented candles so fearsome. It’s a […]

In south Louisiana, where I come from, if you can eat it or dance to it, there’s probably a festival for it. We have festivals celebrating crawfish, gumbo, catfish, soybeans, […]

October 20 presents a full Moon in the sign of Aries. Because full Moons occur when the Sun opposes the Moon, it is often helpful to consider the polarity of […]

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

During Provincetown’s fishing and whaling heyday, the Bowly brothers — Joshua Elsbury (1813-1883) and Gideon (1816-1893) — were among the town’s most prominent owners and outfitters of vessels. In 1849, […]

 A driftwood sculpture stands tall, face to the wind, at Newcomb Hollow Beach on Saturday, Oct. 9. (Photo Teresa Parker) This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign […]

EASTHAM — The Nauset Regional High School boys golf team improved to 13-3 on the season with an 80-157 win over the Dennis-Yarmouth Dolphins on Friday, Oct. 8. (Golf is […]

The Outer Cape is teeming with pop-ups this fall. Pop ups don’t typically post their hours because that would take the fun out of guessing when to go where. In […]

WELLFLEET — The committee charged with rating the would-be developers of 46 affordable apartments at 95 Lawrence Road hopes to clarify a few details with the three groups that submitted proposals […]

Some meetings are in-person only, some are remote only, and some are a hybrid where you can go both ways. Go to provincetown-ma.gov, click on the meeting you want to watch, […]

All meetings in Truro are remote only. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, Oct. 14 […]

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

Hawk Henries has been making hand-carved wooden flutes since as long as his daughter Sierra, 34, can remember. “He’s one of a very small handful of people doing the work […]

“An overarching thesis of mine is that stodgy old P’town takes itself a bit too seriously and that the people who live there have gotten rather boring,” writes Sue Edge, […]

Erin Woodbrey’s Orleans studio overlooks her garden, now full of late-season vegetables and flowers. The garden provides food, inspiration, and the natural dyes that Woodbrey uses for her prints. Woodbrey […]

Though he was an African American born into poverty in 1931 in rural Texas, picking cotton as a young child alongside his single mother, Alvin Ailey lived a life of […]

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“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home — so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the […]

Those Main St. Bike Lanes To the editor: It is unfortunate that your article “After 7 years, the Plan to Fix Route 6 at Main St. Is One-Fourth Done” [Oct. […]

One of the strange things about being an editor in a small community is that, as the years go by, the news seems to repeat itself. Back in 2016, Russell […]

Klara Elfriede Muller, a longtime Provincetown resident, died peacefully of natural causes on Oct. 8, 2021 at Seashore Point in Provincetown. Her death was confirmed by her old friend Raymond […]

Arthur Patrick Mooney of Truro, Boston, and Newport, R.I. died on Sept. 20, 2021 at Cape Cod Hospital following a brief illness. He was 89. Pat Mooney was born in […]

Tami Aronson Abelew of North Truro died on Oct. 2, 2021 at Cape Cod Hospital after years of struggle with ovarian and breast cancer. Her death was confirmed by her […]

SEEKING Home needed in Wellfleet by 40-year Cape resident. Looking to buy a house, cottage, condo, or land and a pre-fab. Need 2 BR and 1 BA. Hoping for lots […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Oct. 4 to Oct. 8, 2021. PROVINCETOWN Oct. 4. Raul Medina Gomez and Bradley J. Ursillo to Richard D. Gallagher. 26 […]

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It’s a Steele (Thursday, Oct. 14) New York City-based singer Anne Steele will be performing the best of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s in “The Remix” at the Crown & […]

Transgender Week in P’town Provincetown’s Fan Fair is a week-long transgender celebration running Sunday, Oct. 17 through Sunday, Oct. 24. The Fair is open to all members of the transgender, […]

Town of Provincetown PUBLIC HEARING  Human Services Committee Human Services Grant Program & John A. Henry Trust Needs Assessments The Provincetown Human Services Committee will conduct a Public Hearing on Wednesday, […]

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PROVINCETOWN — The first group of beach walkers departed Coast Guard Beach in Eastham bound for Lecount Hollow in Wellfleet on Friday, Sept. 24. Buckets in hand, they scanned the […]

PROVINCETOWN — There are many ingredients in the town’s housing crisis, but one of the simplest and most stubborn is geography. Commercial Street and Route 6 are only about a […]

WELLFLEET — The Wellfleet Elementary School (WES) has not had a functioning playground since March 2020, first because the old playground was placed off-limits by Covid-19 precautions, and then, in […]

WELLFLEET — Building contractor John Fitzgerald spent more than a year obtaining state Dept. of Environmental Protection and local conservation commission approvals to renovate a home surrounded by waving marsh […]

PROVINCETOWN — Three months after a steep rise in Covid-19 cases tied to Provincetown’s 4th of July weekend crowds, the number of cases on the Outer Cape is low compared […]

The two Outer Cape towns with the poorest records of creating affordable housing — Truro and Wellfleet — will both surely fail to meet upcoming deadlines in their existing housing […]

WELLFLEET — Adding a sidewalk and bike paths along East Main Street is, in theory, a dream come true for many townspeople. But not everyone is thrilled about the plans. […]

WELLFLEET — Six-time champion Chopper Young won Wellfleet’s Oyster Shuck Off last year, opening his 24 oysters in a penalty-adjusted time of 3 minutes and 15 seconds. Calen Bricault was […]

EASTHAM — Just 11 players at a time take the field for each team in a football game. But behind them are the special teams and substitutes who provide the […]

WELLFLEET — The committee charged with recommending the best developer for 46 affordable rental units to be built on Lawrence Road has started rating the three proposals submitted, and the […]

Wreaths aren’t just a Christmas thing. At different times in history, their circular form has suggested eternity, or feminine power, as in the floral wreaths atop a maypole, or victory, […]

That slight bite in the air — the one that makes you roll your shirtsleeves down, pull on a hat, and recognize the crunch of leaves as you walk — […]

When we bred our doe, Buttercup, for the first time, we were novice goat keepers. We rented a buck, Stinky Dan, whose musky aroma was nothing out of the ordinary […]

It’s 5 p.m. on a Friday, and I’m exhausted after a long work week. I spend all day motivating other people to move, but right now I feel like lounging […]

Andrea McCatherin Sawyer and Dr. Brian O’Malley, both of Provincetown, were married on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021 on the beach at the Beachcombers Club on Commercial Street. Guests from California, […]

On a recent trip to Philadelphia to visit friends, I had an opportunity to sit and think about space. My friends’ house is in a tightly packed neighborhood with narrow […]

PROVINCETOWN — The Provincetown Tennis Club finished the season last month with its annual members tournament. Last year, the club had to rearrange the tournament to comply with Covid protocols, […]

EASTHAM — The girls soccer team lost for the first time this season in a tough match against Bridgewater-Raynham last Thursday. The Warriors controlled possession for most of the game […]

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

Some meetings are in-person only, some are remote only, and some are a hybrid where you can participate both ways. Go to provincetown-ma.gov, click on the meeting you want to […]

All meetings in Truro are remote only. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Tuesday, Oct. 12 […]

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about locations […]

Walking through Spectral Evidence, Nancy Bowen’s installation at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, is humorously odd and gravely unsettling in equal measure. Twenty squat grave markers with wings and […]

“I’m not a portrait painter,” says Donna Pomponio. “What I am trying to do is get under the forehead and into the psychology of the person — to peel back, […]

Poppy Champlin has problems. Girlfriend problems. Luckily, she’s got a plan to remedy that. “I have an ex in Provincetown that I’m scared to see,” she says from her home […]

Melissa Ferrick is one of the few musicians who can claim to have written a “lesbian anthem.” The 2000 song “Drive,” from the album Freedom, doesn’t shy away from anything: […]

In Family Game Night, a new play by Peter Kennedy that will be given a staged reading at town hall on Saturday to benefit the Provincetown Theater, the Mortons are […]

WELLFLEET — The last OysterFest celebrated here drew an estimated 23,000 people to town, where they ate some 125,000 oysters, drank quantities of beer perhaps best left unestimated, and stayed […]

Cosmic cookies, star-grazers! Multiple planets that have been in retrograde are finally stationing direct this month, dropping even more celestial blessings from the busy October skies. First there’s Pluto, whose […]

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I was born in Harrisburg, Pa. and grew up there around the middle of the last century. In my young life, I observed the adults around me: the women were […]

I’d just left Chinatown after reclining in a chair for hours inside a state-of-the-art dental school. Each white cubicle featured an oversized nature photo, and all the while I’d been […]

With this issue of the Independent, we begin Volume 3, having published two full years of weekly editions. It seems only right to pause and give you a report on […]

Do You Know Where Your Intertidal Zone Is? To the editor: While much ink has recently been devoted to “the intertidal zone,” most people don’t know what that is. It’s […]

A Funeral Mass for Edward Scott Carreiro of Provincetown will be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 14 at St. Peter the Apostle Church, 11 Prince St., Provincetown. Scott […]

Geoffrey Larsson died at his home in Wellfleet on Sept. 25, 2021 after three and a half years fighting cancer. He was 66. Geoff was born on Dec. 11, 1954, […]

SEEKING Wanted: Artist’s easel and any assorted art supplies such as acrylic paints, canvases, etc. Please call 508-280-1829. [11-4] “What are we going to do with all these books?” Tim’s […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Sept. 27 to Oct. 1, 2021. PROVINCETOWN Sept. 27. SH Realty Holdings LLC [Dana Arvidson, authorized signatory] to Trevors Trail II […]

ArtProvincetown Festival ArtProvincetown is a three-day-long festival running Friday, Oct. 8 through Sunday, Oct. 10. The festival includes museum and gallery events along with live music. The first day will […]

Town of Provincetown PUBLIC HEARING Historic District Commission The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, October 20, 2021, in the Judge Welsh […]

Life Lessons (Thursday, Oct. 7) Lifetime Learning at Snow Library continues with “Fifty Years of Affirmative Action: Remedy for Oppression or Reverse Discrimination?” taught by Paul Kelleher. The Zoom course […]

WELLFLEET — When the dense sea lettuce in Chipman’s Cove cleared up a few weeks ago, Nancy Civetta and Johnny “Clam” Mankevetch of the Wellfleet Shellfish Dept. strolled through at […]

Shirley Smith, co-founder of the Outer Cape Committee Against Domestic Abuse (OCCADA), was in court helping a woman who had asked the judge to order additional child support from her […]

EASTHAM — A draft of the town’s 2021 housing production plan has identified an affordable housing shortage of 380 home ownership units and 195 rental units. The plan was presented […]

BREWSTER — An overwhelming majority of the record 1,471 residents who turned out for last Sunday’s special town meeting at the Stony Brook Elementary School voted to have the town […]

WELLFLEET — David and Chellise Sexton, who clearcut a large swath of woods on their property next to Lecount Hollow Beach in June, have filed suit in Land Court against […]

PROVINCETOWN — The design for the East End Waterfront Park on a lot the town purchased in 2019 for $1.4 million is close to being chosen. Planners say the public’s […]

PROVINCETOWN — Those who haven’t had the chance to see the notoriously scruffy conditions at the town’s police station, housed in a former funeral home since 1986, can now peek […]

EASTHAM — The Nauset Regional High School boys soccer program has been stellar for years. The team goes through undefeated streaks, accumulates league and state titles, and has pumped out […]

WELLFLEET — Attaching heart monitors to bay scallops, examining the fuzzy organisms on blades of seagrass, and counting sea stars. These are the kinds of things scientists from across the […]

WELLFLEET — Sewing spans the generations in Paul Townsend’s family. His grandmother, Theresa Townsend, remembers how, as a toddler, he would sit on her lap while she sewed quilts, fascinated […]

Dessert as a last after-dinner thing has never made a lot of sense to me. Pie for breakfast was something condoned by my grandmother — and she gardened and cooked […]

PROVINCETOWN — Unlike the stereotypical introverted scientist, Sarah Oktay, the new executive director of the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS), puts herself out there. “It has always been my M.O. […]

BOSTON — For better or worse, sports venues across the country have welcomed back fans in full attendance in the last year or so. NBA fans were able to attend […]

Despite the crossed wires and mysterious technological mishaps that are the hallmarks of a Mercury retrograde, there is more than mere mayhem to the planetary position affecting us right now. […]

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

On his first excursion to Cape Cod in October 1849, Henry David Thoreau stopped in Cohasset to view the gut-wrenching aftermath of the wreck of the brig St. John, carrying […]

WELLFLEET — The Beachcomber bar will hold the eighth annual Live for Lou gala on Oct. 2, a fundraiser for addiction counseling and athletic scholarships and for addiction treatment services. […]

Thursday, Sept. 30 Boys golf: The Warriors host the Martha’s Vineyarders for a match at the Captains Golf Course in Brewster at 3:15 p.m. Girls soccer: The undefeated Warriors are […]

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

All meetings in Truro are 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, Sept. 30 Climate Action […]

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to Wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

Around the start of the pandemic, Damion Silver was working on a sculpture in his studio when he noticed that the shadows cast on the floor made interesting patterns. That […]

Seeing Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris is a less-than-contemplative experience. The Renaissance painting is housed in the high-ceilinged Salle des États, which is filled with […]

The funny thing about the Boston Naturals is that many of their gigs are on the Cape, not Boston. A lot are in Wellfleet. And that is where you will […]

In Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them, Siân Evans provides a lively account of the experiences of female workers and travelers aboard […]

For this new edition of the Indie Playlist, contributors were asked to write about songs they can’t get out of their heads. The results: indie rock, Australian psychedelic rock, Halloween […]

“Did you see that guy’s sombrero?” incredulous drivers ask as they speed by Richard Pickering. “It’s huge!” He has sat under an umbrella outside his family’s 1875 Wellfleet home on […]

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EASTHAM — The redevelopment of Town Center Plaza offers an exciting opportunity to create a new destination and a more pedestrian-friendly community, but pedestrian access to Eastham’s commercial district needs […]

I’ve noticed that, as the Outer Cape’s quest for housing alternatives intensifies, the term “affordable housing” seems to be muted. Insofar as it indicates that we have people in need […]

What Would Mr. Rogers Say? To the editor: I appreciate Christine Legere’s “One Word Might Change Beach Rights Debate” [Sept. 23, front page] and applaud Sen. Cyr and Rep. Fernandes […]

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Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Sept. 20 to Sept. 24, 2021. PROVINCETOWN Sept. 20. Dallas Sowers to John P. Sullivan. 58 Bradford St., Unit 1. $469,000. […]

SEEKING Wanted: Artist’s easel and any assorted art supplies such as acrylic paints, canvases, etc. Please call 508-280-1829. [11-4] Personal trainer/physical therapist sought by fit 72-year-old Truro woman with gym experience […]

Elaine C. (Silva) Cabral of Eastham died unexpectedly on Sept. 13, 2021, at Cape Cod Hospital as a result of injuries she sustained in an automobile accident the previous evening. […]

Shirley Glasser of Wellfleet died peacefully on Sept. 12, 2021 in her apartment at Maplewood at Brewster. She was 90 years old. Born and raised in Madison, Wisc., Shirley was […]

Neal A. Germain died at his home in Ruidoso, N.M., surrounded by friends, on Sept. 12, 2021, after prolonged treatment for cancer. He was 67. The son of Howard Germain […]

Town of Provincetown PUBLIC HEARING Historic District Commission The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, October 20, 2021, in the Judge Welsh […]

Character Study (Thursday, Sept. 30) The Provincetown Public Library is hosting “Work and Place: A Creative Writing Workshop With Jeff W. Bens” on Thursday, Sept. 30, 6 to 7:30 p.m. […]

Kat Edmonson at Payomet The New York Times has called jazz vocalist Kat Edmonson’s tone “fresh as a spring bouquet.” Accompanied by piano, she will perform at the Payomet Performing […]

More than 70 percent of the Massachusetts coastline is privately owned and essentially off limits to the public because of a law written 380 years ago and still on the […]

EASTHAM — As people trickled out of the Eastham Public Library on Tuesday following a historical commission meeting, several could be overheard discussing the discovery last week by local police of […]

PROVINCETOWN — The Delta variant of Covid-19 arrived in Provincetown like a hurricane. There was fear, economic devastation, a news camera on every corner, even a catchy name: the Provincetown […]

WELLFLEET — Because of the ongoing mess in the town’s accounting department, property tax bills will be sent out late again this year. The fall bills will probably get mailed […]

None of the Outer Cape’s public schools had any Covid-19 cases in the state’s first report of positive tests, issued last Thursday. But as of Tuesday this week, cases were […]

PROVINCETOWN — The Colonial Ordinances of 1641-1647 are getting a lot of attention lately, both statewide and in the West End, where Sal’s Place has been serving diners on the […]

PROVINCETOWN — When Nantucket’s first diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) director, Kimal McCarthy, got a complaint about the town’s athletic fields, he braced himself to hear about people using racial […]

If you’re serious about raising chickens, the day will probably come when you want to add more birds to your flock. Most fledgling backyard farmers start out cautiously, with small […]

The artist Janet Ann Doub Erickson died at her home on Duck Creek in Wellfleet on Sept. 3, 2021. She was 97. Her death was confirmed by her son Andrew. She departed […]

J. Keith Vincent’s Wellfleet study is covered in felt, the ceiling, walls, and floor lined in a soft-to-the-touch oatmeal and gray. He didn’t choose it for himself. He lets his […]

I am seeing red! I don’t mean because of worldly triggers — anti-vaxers, Texas, or extreme climate events. The red I’m seeing right now is the cornucopia of tomatoes on […]

EASTHAM — Thunder and rain filled the morning of Thursday, Sept. 16, leaving participants in the annual Eastham Chamber of Commerce Golf Tournament wondering if it would go on as […]

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It’s that time of year once again. Charter boat captains are doing all those little projects on their boats that there was no time for in season. Boats are beginning […]

INTERSTATE 94 — Who knew there existed two Topekas? Certainly not I, fresh, in June, from my yearlong stint as the Independent’s crime-Dougie-dredging correspondent and 1,000 miles into a summer road […]

EASTHAM — The Nauset Regional High School soccer teams haven’t missed a beat so far this season. The varsity boys outscored their opponents 14-2 in their first four games, with […]

This is my favorite time of the year for astronomy. The air is clearer than in summer, and the nights aren’t nearly as cold as in winter, which, frustratingly, is […]

Clement “Clem” Silva, formerly of Provincetown, died at his Yarmouth home of kidney failure on Aug. 27, 2021. His death was confirmed by his sister and business partner Debra, with […]

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

Some Provincetown meetings are in-person only, some are remote only, and some are hybrid where you can choose to participate in person or through a remote link. Go to provincetown-ma.gov, click on […]

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

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the agenda. […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

“My artwork is about telling stories,” says the artist Karen Cappotto. “I always thought that I would become a writer, but I discovered that telling my story visually works better […]

In a memorable scene from Thomas Middleton’s The Witch, three characters sing in a forest glade before flying off into the night. When audiences come to see the show as […]

“Wary and Strange” isn’t just the title of Amythyst Kiah’s new Rounder Records album — it’s a description of how she felt growing up in Tennessee facing issues of race, […]

One spring morning, my wife, Valerie, found a column in the San Francisco paper about Weed, Calif., which was getting ready to capitalize on its merchantable name. I e-mailed my […]

Now that fall has arrived, the light looks like liquid gold. There is a scientific explanation for this, of course, involving the tilt of the Earth’s axis and the increasing […]

A wedding party celebrated on a large East End deck on a sunny Sunday afternoon and on into a moonlit evening, with a live local band — Steve Morgan and […]

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Dear ________ (friend / family member’s name), So sorry to have missed you in ________ (July, August)! Option A: I understand you were very disappointed that we couldn’t get together. […]

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As I write this week’s column, two of the Independent’s staff members are on their way to Keene, N.H. to take part in the fourth annual Radically Rural Summit. Paul […]

What Eastham Has Lost To the editor: I hope Eastham’s T-Time Development Committee acknowledges what anyone who reads the local news knows: Cape Cod has an overwhelming housing shortage. It’s never […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Sept. 13 to Sept. 17, 2021. PROVINCETOWN Sept. 13. Richard C. Mollineaux Revocable Trust (Richard C. Mollineaux, trustee) to the Trust […]

SEEKING Wanted: Artist’s easel and any assorted art supplies such as acrylic paints, canvases, etc. Please call 508-280-1829. [10-7] Personal trainer/physical therapist sought by fit 72-year-old Truro woman with gym experience […]

Shirley Glasser, formerly of Wellfleet, died peacefully on Sept. 12, 2021 at Maplewood in Brewster, where she had been living. She was 90. Her death was confirmed by her son […]

James Leland Moffitt, 91, of Spearfish, S.D., formerly of North Truro, died on July 10, 2021. The son of Leland Edward Moffitt and Elizabeth Celestine (McCaffrey) Moffitt, Jim was born […]

Joseph Herbert Beaudry of Eastham, a.k.a. “Joedry” and “Papa Joe,” died peacefully at home, surrounded by family, on Sept. 18, 2021 after a two-year illness. He was 78. The son […]

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Town of Provincetown PUBLIC HEARING Historic District Commission The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Work Session at 3:30 P.M. followed by a Public Hearing at 4:00 P.M. on […]

Take Two (Thursday, Sept. 23) In a rescheduled event, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill welcomes the Red Hawk Singers and Dancers to its outdoor stage at Edgewood […]

Farm Pop-Up With Hinton and Lapointe Farm Projects presents “Menagerie,” a pop-up show by artists and friends Megan Hinton and Lyne Lapointe, at The Barn, 96 Castle Road in Truro, […]

TRURO CENTRAL SCHOOL REQUEST FOR QUOTES Air Condition Classrooms – FY22 The Truro School Committee is requesting quotes for the installation of Split Air Conditioning units in three classrooms at […]

EASTHAM — Resting beneath the National Seashore’s Salt Pond Visitor Center is what used to be the ninth hole of the Cedar Bank Links golf course. The Eastham Town Hall […]

EASTHAM — The Eastham Superette will change hands in the coming months, but not much else may be different at the store on the corner of Route 6 and Samoset […]

PROVINCETOWN — Town Manager Alex Morse announced a new health policy for town employees on Monday: either Covid-19 vaccination or weekly virus testing will be required. The policy will take […]

TRURO — “It never occurred to me to call 911,” said Millie, recalling her medical emergency in April. “Having a ‘stroke’ — it wasn’t in my vocabulary of things that could […]

PROVINCETOWN — “It’s been a tough four days,” said Cape Air founder and CEO Dan Wolf on Monday afternoon. “This is incredibly hard.” He had just conducted a Zoom meeting […]

EASTHAM — Around 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 7, Eastham Police Det. Andi Murphy sent a series of texts, attempting to rendezvous with a man she believed might be in […]

EASTHAM — After two years of study, surveys, and discussion, the committee charged with considering how three town-owned properties on or near Route 6 can best be used has made […]

BREWSTER — A special town meeting in Brewster on Sept. 25 may determine the fate of the former Cape Cod Sea Camps (CCSC) properties. At a virtual public forum on […]

Fall is looming, as the days get shorter and the air and water temperatures drop a little more each week. September can be a tremendous month for fishing here. It’s […]

NORTH TRURO — The owner of Horton’s Campground has reached a tentative agreement with the Mass. Dept. of Fisheries and Wildlife (DFW) to donate nearly 10 acres of land to […]

PROVINCETOWN — When 243 swimmers dove into the Swim for Life and Paddler Flotilla on Saturday, “It was a joyful return to the water,” said Jay Critchley, creator of the […]

“I call myself the accidental hatmaker,” says Lisa Ventre. Ventre is renowned in Provincetown — and beyond — for her original hat designs. But she never meant that to happen. […]

People on the Outer Cape can be secretive about their go-to stands of beach plum. But not this year — one of abundance for the wild shrubs named Prunus maritima […]

EASTHAM — It was a beautiful night for football at Nauset Regional High School on Friday, Sept. 10 — the first fall football game for the Warriors since 2019. The […]

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

EASTHAM — Sunday, Sept. 12 marked Week 1 of the 2021 National Football League season, so, naturally, many New Englanders were sitting in front of their televisions watching football. They […]

SADIE HUTCHINGS / VETERINARIAN / WELLFLEET Sadie Hutchings is a native Wellfleetian, living with her husband and their toddler and baby in the house where she grew up. There’s a […]

At summer’s close, a full Moon shines from the final degrees of Pisces, the last sign of the zodiac. Full Moons generally signify endings, and the finality of this one […]

WELLFLEET — With all the presentations done and many questions asked and answered, the task force charged with recommending the best developer to build 46 units of affordable rental housing […]

Some Provincetown meetings are in-person only, some are remote only, and some are hybrid where you can choose to participate in person or through a remote link. Go to provincetown-ma.gov, […]

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

Crown & Anchor Uptown Girls, “Illusions,” Sat. at 6 p.m., $39 Dina Martina, “Chariots of Failure,” Sat. at 7:30 p.m., $44 Pilgrim House Paige Turner, “Joy Ride,” Fri.-Sat. at 7:30 […]

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

“It’s the sensibility that people relate to — the design. It’s very clever,” says Jim Bakker, unfolding some of Vernon Smith’s famed batiks — fabrics dyed with a wax-resist method […]

Simon Putnam, the young protagonist of Francine Prose’s newest novel, The Vixen, is still figuring out who he is. Fresh out of Harvard, having studied folklore and mythology, he has […]

Putting on a festival of live theater — both indoors and outdoors — while the pandemic continues to rage is a risky and frustrating process. Yet that’s exactly what the […]

Brent Refsland and Eric Portnoy, who own Room 68 in Provincetown, and now in Wellfleet, too, are, in some ways, spur-of-the-moment people. Their Provincetown gallery started as a pop up. […]

Well-Strung, a string quartet known for its pop covers and hunky members, was founded in 2012 by second violinist Chris Marchant and producer Mark Cortale. Since the pandemic, with group […]

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Plymouth County Sheriff Joseph McDonald announced last Friday that he was ending his 287(g) agreement with ICE — the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. This marked the second 287(g) […]

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I’m having dinner with a group of friends in a dark, woodsy back yard in Wellfleet. After a few glasses of wine, I feel the urge to pee. Should I […]

After a long illness, Bruce Douglas Cagwin of North Truro died peacefully at home surrounded by his family on Sept. 4, 2021. He was 73. Born and raised in Fayetteville, […]

Lorraine Maren Hope died of natural causes at her home in Orleans with her family at her side on Aug. 26, 2021. She was 84. The daughter of Ingolf and […]

Edward Scott Carreiro of Provincetown died on Sept. 3, 2021 at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis after an illness related to his long struggle with diabetes. He was 55. Scott […]

Stephen Paul Ryan died on Sept. 9, 2021 at his home in North Truro. He was 63. His death, of natural causes, was confirmed by his sister Nancy. The son […]

MILESTONES September 19, 2021. Congratulations to the Poet Laureate of Foster Road on reaching this milestone birthday! I would have never guessed you were that old! Have a healthy, productive, word-filled year. Carpe […]

Ambrose Bierce’s 1911 Devil’s Dictionary defines a lottery as “a tax on people who are bad at math.” That still sounds right. The chances of winning the Mega Millions jackpot, […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Sept. 6 to Sept. 10, 2021. PROVINCETOWN Sept. 8. William James Kemp Jr. and Whitney Benjamin Kelly to Scott Gortikov and […]

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Cross-Country Art Berta Walker Gallery presents “Learning/Medium/Opportunity,” an online exhibit of works by Laura Shabott’s and Alana Barrett’s students from across the country. It opens Saturday, Sept. 18 and runs […]

Queen of Rock (Thursday, Sept. 16 & Saturday, Sept. 18-Sunday, Sept. 19) Debby Holiday performs “A Tina Turner Tribute” at the Post Office Café and Cabaret, 303 Commercial St. in […]

TRURO CENTRAL SCHOOL REQUEST FOR QUOTES Air Condition Classrooms – FY22 The Truro School Committee is requesting quotes for the installation of Split Air Conditioning units in three classrooms at […]

Town of Provincetown PUBLIC HEARING Planning Board The Provincetown Planning Board will hold a Public Hearing on Thursday, September 23, 2021, at 6:00 P.M. in the Judge Welsh Hearing Room, […]

Town of Provincetown PUBLIC HEARING Licensing Board Special Alcohol License The Provincetown Licensing Board will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 5:15 p.m. in the Judge […]

Town of Provincetown PUBLIC HEARING Provincetown Historic Commission Public Hearing October 6, 2021 The Provincetown Historic District Commission will hold a Work Session at 3:30 P.M. followed by a Public […]

GLOUCESTER — The crew of the Istar waited restlessly on Thursday through the aftermath of Tropical Storm Ida. That was the day they had planned to sail from Provincetown to […]

WELLFLEET — For the Cape Cod Mosquito Control Project, late summer was all about whacking through shrubbery and spraying waterways with larvicide. But these measures have only nibbled at the edges […]

WELLFLEET — A funny thing happened when two dozen neighbors gathered on a patio here two weeks ago to talk about the affordable housing plans underway for land at the […]

PROVINCETOWN — A pending land sale will likely require two of the three companies wanting to build affordable housing here to adjust their plans downward. The town’s request for proposals […]

Three of the four towns on the Outer Cape are adopting new or updated codes of conduct in reaction to concern about the ways members of boards and committees interact. […]

WELLFLEET — It has taken years, but the plan to add turn lanes, bike paths, and sidewalks to the intersection of Route 6 and Main Street cleared the select board’s […]

PROVINCETOWN — Eileen Spence was racing to find a new home on the last day of August. She and four other former Napi’s Restaurant employees had until the end of […]

It was in some ways not an unusual invitation, from one yoga teacher to another: “I have a really special client that I’d like you to meet,” my colleague wrote. […]

I think goat kids are among the cutest creatures on Earth. But most backyard farmers are more interested in goat mamas — does. That’s what happens when you’re keeping goats […]

WELLFLEET — The three developers who have submitted affordable housing proposals for six acres at 95 Lawrence Road should be ready to be grilled on Friday by members of a […]

I tend to look at things and see not only what they are but what they might become. It drives Christopher a little crazy, since it means that the check […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Sept. 7 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

TRURO — If there’s a red flag with a “B” waving in front of Maria Redo’s house off Old County Road on Sunday, it means there will be a bocce […]

Ken Merrill’s first encounter with a surfboard did not go well. He was at Eastham’s Coast Guard Beach, on a borrowed board. “I got sandbagged a few times,” he says. […]

People always ask me, “What’s the best exercise?” That’s a tough one because “best” can mean many different things. Is it the one that burns the most calories? Works the […]

EASTHAM — The annual Eastham Golf Tournament, which raises funds for scholarships and other community programs, returns next week after a one-year hiatus, the chamber of commerce has announced. The […]

After watching two people and their big dog being rescued by boat in New Jersey on CNN the other day, it seemed like a good time to write about disaster […]

In a summer of relentless storms, the latest to hit the waterfront was what remained of Hurricane Ida. This one came racing up the East Coast and packed a much […]

EASTHAM — Last year was difficult for high school athletes, especially those who play fall sports. Rule changes in soccer altered the game, forcing players to avoid contact. The football […]

Some Provincetown meetings are in-person only, some are remote only, and some are both. Go to provincetown-ma.gov, click on the meeting you want to watch, and follow the instructions on the agenda. […]

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

Wellfleet are held remotely and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions on the agenda. Thursday, Sept. 9 Nauset Regional School […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

Zach Oren is not cagey about who he is. Even though there’s little biographical information available about him online, he’s forthright in explaining how he got to be the person […]

What happens when you put maps in an art museum? First, one starts looking at them as art. A 1647 map depicting New England and New Netherland, for example, has […]

By now, American field biologist Meg Lowman deserves to be a household name. In the 1980s, Lowman — sometimes known as “Canopy Meg” — pioneered the use of spelunking equipment […]

  First Prize: “It’s their mating season.” —Alexis Jetter, Thetford Center, Vt. Second Prize: “Look for the ones with the open sunroofs.” —Valerie Daniels, Wellfleet. Third Prize: “I told you […]

It didn’t take Barbara Clarke long to decide she wanted to buy the Provincetown Bookshop. The store has been a beloved fixture in the lives of Clarke and her two […]

The Sun is in Virgo, and the harvest season is nigh. Virgo herself, in depictions of the constellation, wields a bundle of ripe wheat — a salient contradiction, since Virgo […]

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Crown & Anchor Dina Martina, “Chariots of Failure,” Thurs.-Sat. at 7:30 p.m., $44 Varla Jean Merman, “Little Prick,” Thurs.-Sat. at 9 p.m., $49 Uptown Girls, “Illusions,” Sat. at 6 p.m., […]

Many years ago — 55, to be exact — I was on the island of Mykonos, in the Aegean Sea. I had met a young British woman there, and we […]

Should health-care providers be required to be vaccinated against Covid-19? “First, do no harm” is taught to medical school students early in their education. That ethical principle is the bedrock […]

Twenty years ago this week, time stopped as we watched the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. For weeks, we could think of little else but the […]

Renters: Another View To the editor: I sympathize with last week’s correspondent with an absentee landlord as a next-door neighbor [“Short-Term Rental Costs,” page A2], and I recognize that the […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Aug. 30 to Sept. 3, 2021. PROVINCETOWN Aug. 30. Carolynn Fischel to Michael Morris and Patrick Roth. 501 Commercial St., Unit […]

JOBS The Provincetown Film Society (PFS) is looking for a full-time, year-round manager for Water’s Edge Cinema. Responsibilities include programing, hiring and managing staff, overseeing the venue, accounting and reports, […]

A celebration of the life of Catherine R. Myers, a retired professor of English literature and active Wellfleet volunteer, will be held at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 12, at […]

Nichole Costa (Anderson) Razinha died suddenly on Aug. 18, 2021 at her home in Yarmouth. She was 54. The cause of death is undetermined at this time, said Brian Falvey […]

In her early 20s, Tracy Tarvers loved to travel. Once she flew to Costa Rica and hitchhiked from the Gulf Coast to the Pacific. With a friend, she traveled throughout […]

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Sister Act “Two Sisters,” a show of works by Elizabeth Brooke and Tennille Dix, opens at the Commons, 46 Bradford St. in Provincetown, on Friday, Sept. 10 and runs through […]

Mind Wide Open (Thursday, Sept. 9) Conservative political commentator and provocateur Andrew Sullivan will read from his book, Out on a Limb: Selected Writing, 1989-2021, at East End Books Ptown, […]

Kim Powers is a one-woman drug-addiction harm reduction brigade. She is waging a solitary campaign to stem the rising tide of drug overdoses and deaths on Cape Cod and the […]

EASTHAM — Two derelict properties along Route 6 in the northern part of town, both considered eyesores for years, may soon be the subjects of development proposals, said their owner, […]

PROVINCETOWN — With three recreational marijuana shops now open, at least two more on the way, and an edibles production facility in the works on Court Street, Provincetown’s adult-use marijuana […]

WELLFLEET — The task force charged with reviewing the three proposals for the largest affordable housing development in the town’s history must limit its decision-making to what each would-be developer […]

WELLFLEET — The clearcutting of trees in the Cape Cod National Seashore next to Lecount Hollow Beach did not violate town bylaws because the trees were not “timber,” argued a […]

TRURO — According to Patrick Riley, Truro Central School’s new principal, directing an elementary school band is an undertaking that requires patience — and, when a headache strikes, “a fair amount […]

Haiti I’m sorry We misunderstood you One day we’ll turn our heads And look inside you. —“Haiti,” David Rudder One night in January 2010, I woke to a severe trembling […]

PROVINCETOWN — Kristine Weagle has been coming to Race Point with her family every summer for more than 60 years. They air down the tires on their camper and drive […]

WELLFLEET — Buoyancy. That’s the key to being a good swimmer, according to Joan Nagle, the Outer Cape’s unofficial swimming guru. “A lot of people think they need their arms […]

Her 600-square-foot house is not technically a “tiny house,” says Hannah Oakland. “But it’s a mini. I like to say it’s a house where expectation management comes into play.” The […]

I’ve been trying to move our household in the direction of a plant-based diet, turning out dals and stir-frys and vegetable-stuffed tacos with gusto. I even made a seitan-based chili […]

Happy days are here again. Bluefish are still solidly in our area, and catches have been fantastic. Can we officially declare the five-year bluefish drought over? I don’t think anyone […]

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Aug. 31 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

If you felt like August was a bust, I’ve got good news for you. This week’s new Moon in Virgo is the perfect opportunity for cutting ties with the past. […]

Some Provincetown meetings are in-person only, some are remote only, and some are a hybrid where you can choose to participate in person or through a remote link. Go to […]

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

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. Follow the instructions on the agenda. Tuesday, Sept. […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]

In her Truro home, the sculptor Breon Dunigan bends to calm her lively puppy while four of her majestic horned “trophy heads” observe the scene silently from above. “Much of […]

Covid kept music at bay at most of the Cape’s farmers markets last year. But this summer, guitars, fiddles, drums, and ukuleles — along with their beloved performers — were […]

Judy Pfaff is home after returning from Sweden two nights before. “I’m calling from Tivoli, N.Y., trying to get used to what time it is now,” she says brightly. If […]

David W. Dunlap’s Building Provincetown is an ongoing project with a worthy aim: to create a comprehensive history of the town — that is, its residents, year-round and part-time, and […]

On a still day in late March out at Herring Cove Beach, dozens of people faced the water. Low voices traveled over the sand. The crowd was hushed, as it […]

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The ongoing pandemic has triggered all the so-called stages of grief in us (denial, anger, depression, bargaining, acceptance). Then came the United Nations climate change report on Aug. 9. Secretary-General […]

Short-Term Rental Costs To the editor: In response to your article on the impact of short-term rentals on property prices [“Surprises in Short-Term Rental Data,” Aug. 26, front page], there […]

It’s almost Labor Day weekend, that giant exhalation that signals what is usually the most dramatic transformation of the year here. The last week of August is already quieter, calmer […]

Stephen William Rome of Provincetown and Truro, who loved China and whose mastery of the language made him a celebrity there, died unexpectedly on Aug. 22, 2021. He was 37. […]

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JOBS The Soup Kitchen in Provincetown (SKIP) is looking for an experienced chef for its winter lunch program next season, Nov. 1 – April 29. Responsibilities include menu planning, ordering, […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from Aug. 23 to Aug. 27, 2021. PROVINCETOWN Aug. 23. First Landing LLC [Clifford J. Schorer, John DeMatteis, and Kevin Bazarian, managers] […]

Denison and Paradise at Alden Gallery Alden Gallery, 423 Commercial St. in Provincetown, presents a two-person show of works by Alice Denison and Jane Paradise opening Friday, Sept. 3 and […]

Watch Like a Hawk (Thursday, Sept. 2) Truro Connections — a collaboration between Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, the Truro Historical Society, the Truro Meeting House, and […]

From August 7, 2020 through August 31, 2021, we used a different format for our Arts Briefs listings. To find the link to those archives, open this post.

From July 30, 2020 through August 31, 2021, we used a different format for our Indie's Choice listings. To find the link to those archives, open this post.

WELLFLEET — Carl Breivogel, a 73-year-old surfer, has been participating in the Cape Cod Oldtimers Longboard Classic since the 1990s. Standing on the dune at White Crest Beach on Sunday, […]

WELLFLEET — Untangling the mess of accounts that do not match and the unreconciled records dating back two years in the town’s books will take several more months. It may […]

There is not yet a Covid-19 vaccine for children under 12. But public awareness of the importance of vaccination has cast the Outer Cape’s low childhood immunization rates in a […]

PROVINCETOWN — With seven days remaining before the Aug. 31 deadline on their eviction notices, five former employees of Napi’s Restaurant still had nowhere to go as of Tuesday this […]

TRURO — Beth Dietz and Christine Markowski, parents of eight-year-old twins at Truro Central School (TCS), have filed two complaints with the state over the school committee’s hiring earlier this year […]

ORLEANS — The jury trial of William Stewart, the former Eastham restaurant owner accused of harassing and threatening his female employees, is scheduled for Sept. 28 in Orleans District Court, […]

EASTHAM — Barbara Niggel’s quest to expand her Stow Away self-storage business at 4730 Route 6 ended at the planning board’s Aug. 18 hearing, with board member Joe Manas casting […]

It’s a familiar story: “Hedge fund buys paper, guts newsroom.” Countering that narrative is another, much less familiar, but increasingly common one: “Local paper gains ground, wins subscribers.” The financial […]

ANDREA PLUHAR / FIDDLER / WELLFLEET Andrea Pluhar grew up in a family of writers and artists. She followed in the family tradition and went to art school to become […]

PROVINCETOWN — The conversion of year-round rental property to short-term rentals has played a starring role in the housing crisis here. But it’s not the only player. An Independent analysis […]

Provincetown hosted a quiet but still colorful Carnival this year. Costumed cowardly lions and other characters from Oz roamed the streets throughout last week. (Photo Edward Boches) This page is […]

Eric Bomyea and Iryna Teixeira, who had met years earlier when they were working at the same marketing agency, were podded together in Quincy during the early months of the […]

The late August wind has announced autumn, circling through the pine scrub. With fall beginning to overlap summer, every leisure moment counts. This is the time to ride the Atlantic’s […]

You can always spot an amateur astronomer. When we step outside after sunset, we’re the ones who pause, look up, and turn slowly. We’re finding the Moon, noting its phase […]

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With much ado about nothing — and plenty of lamenting by Leo now that “their birthday month” is over — the unstoppable Sun slides into Virgo, maiden of the zodiac. […]

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

The summer of big storms continues, with our first named storm rolling into the Provincetown waterfront over the weekend. Henri was initially predicted to hammer Cape Cod, but its sharp […]

In Eastham’s Evergreen Cemetery where, last spring, the courageous service of the keepers of Nauset Beach Light Station was honored with a solemn ceremony, the nephew of keeper Henry Young […]

Some Provincetown meetings are in-person only, some are remote only, and some are a hybrid where you can choose to participate in person or through a remote link. Go to provincetown-ma.gov, […]

All meetings in Truro are remote only. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, August 26 Truro School […]

All meetings in Wellfleet are remote only and can be watched online. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. Follow the instructions on the agenda. Thursday, August […]

Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting locations and […]

In the fall of 2019, before the Covid lockdown, Robert Henry had a memorable solo show called “Ship of State” at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis. The […]

For nearly an entire week earlier this month, the global climate crisis managed to grab hold of headlines. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had released its […]

I’ve never been a fan of audience participation. I like to sit in the back, avoid eye contact with the actors, and enjoy the silent anonymity of a dark theater. […]

Music producer, DJ, and Brewster native Ben Woods’s song “Can’t Seem to Hide” has close to three million streams on Spotify. With warm vocals by Megan Doherty and choppy guitar […]

In the text accompanying James Balla’s Into the blue again, the catalogue for his 2013 show at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, he wrote, “Good art is always elegant. […]

The pandemic has surely dealt a blow to jazz, which, like a mythical beast, is prone to periods of obsolescence during which nearly everyone in the kingdom declares it dead. […]

The Art House Ginger Minj, Thurs.-Sat. & Wed. at 9 p.m., $40 Crown & Anchor Varla Jean Merman, “Little Prick,” Thurs.-Sat. & Tues.-Wed. at 9 p.m., $49 Dina Martina, “Chariots […]

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A friend’s day off earlier this month provided an excuse for the two of us to wander Provincetown, stopping to eat at Bubala’s like we used to do, and watching […]

To enter the contest, send your proposed caption for this cartoon to [email protected] by Thursday, Sept. 2 at midnight. You may enter as many times as you like. This page […]

The passing of Carol Green earlier this month brought to mind the long journey we took together at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater and the subsequent birth of the Harbor […]

One of the goals we set for ourselves when we launched the Independent was to keep track of and regularly report on the state of local newspapers. We had talked […]

A Shocking Story To the editor: As a long-time vacationer on the Cape and, in recent years, as a summer home owner in Wellfleet, I have considered Napi’s one of […]

JOBS The Soup Kitchen in Provincetown (SKIP) is looking for an experienced chef for its winter lunch program next season, Nov. 1 – April 29. Responsibilities include menu planning, ordering, […]

Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from August 16 to August 20, 2021. PROVINCETOWN Aug. 18. Lovinger Nominee Trust (Jeffrey I. Lovinger, trustee) to TNCO LLC [Tonn Q. […]

A celebration of the life of Bruce A. Murphy, a former member of the Wellfleet Fire and Police depts., will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 18 at […]

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PROVINCETOWN — Coyotes have been in the news here recently, and wildlife experts say the trouble they sometimes cause is the result of uninformed human behavior. A three-year-old girl was […]

PROVINCETOWN — The first tranche of data from the 2020 U.S. census was released last week, and it shows something new for the Outer Cape: substantial population growth. The 2010 […]

PROVINCETOWN — Anton “Napi” Van Dereck Haunstrup, the late art collector and owner of Napi’s Restaurant, had no children. But Ellis Wilson, he often told friends, was “the son he […]

As vaccination rates ramped up last spring and the daily count of Covid-19 cases came down, many hoped this fall’s start of school could feel more like normal. That no […]

EASTHAM — The estimated completion of the Nauset Regional High School building project has been moved out a year from August 2024, the date advertised by the building committee in […]

WELLFLEET — The select board imposed a temporary moratorium on aquaculture grants on town-owned flats off Indian Neck on Aug. 16, pending a review by the town’s shellfish advisory board. […]

WELLFLEET — Along Duck Harbor Road, a long-sleeved 100-percent cotton shirt didn’t cut it — much less, a pair of leggings. Mosquitos latched onto my clothes and plunged their proboscises […]

When bids to build affordable housing were opened in the last two weeks, describing plans for the former VFW site in Provincetown and for 95 Lawrence Road in Wellfleet, a […]

On a splendid August morning 114 years ago, a yacht carrying President Theodore Roosevelt glided into Provincetown Harbor. He was welcomed by what must have been the loudest boom the […]

WELLFLEET — In the three years since a shark attack at Newcomb Hollow Beach — the first fatal attack on the Atlantic coast since 1936 — the debate about how […]

PROVINCETOWN — Jeff Peters is a bit of a name dropper. Eileen Myles, Michael Cunningham, Christina Clancy. “Do you know Christina?” he asks. “Well, she’s the author of The Second […]

Life’s essence is revealed more on some days than on others. Days when the roses reach so far out into your path that you can’t walk by without smelling them. […]

Before he sends a plate to the dining room, Michael Ceraldi makes sure it looks beautiful. If you have been to his Wellfleet restaurant, Ceraldi, you know his idea of […]

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

As the water heats up, the bluefishing just keeps getting better and better. I recorded some extraordinary surface water temperatures last week: 77 degrees in the harbor, and 75 degrees […]