On Nov. 11, 1620, the Mayflower arrived in Provincetown Harbor. Four hundred years later, we — most of us, anyway, on the Outer Cape and all across the nation — […]
MAYFLOWER HISTORY, PART 1
For Indigenous People, a Different Kind of Mayflower Story
‘You can’t create a colony without creating people who are colonized’
PROVINCETOWN — On Nov. 11, 1620, 130-odd sea-weary Brits stepped off the Mayflower and onto Provincetown’s sandy shores — into a new world, barely inhabited and ripe with possibility. Then […]
TRUE CRIME
A Sunday Drive in Truro, Foiled
Car thief’s tale about ‘Aunt April’ doesn’t fool Officer Cheverie
TRURO — Driving north on Route 6 around midnight last Sunday, Shelby Zawaduk passed a car she could’ve sworn she recognized. Stopped by police just shy of Truro’s Stotts Crossing […]
FOOD SECURITY
Soup Kitchens Face a Season of Want and Worry
The numbers of the hungry ‘could go anywhere’ this winter
PROVINCETOWN — It is the season of Outer Cape soup kitchens, community kitchens, food banks, and food pantries. “There’s just always need here,” said Philip Franchini, board chair of the […]
THE DREDGE REPORT
In Wellfleet Harbor, Dredge-Watching Catches On
WELLFLEET — “Look,” said Carin Pierce, standing on the marina in Wellfleet, one hand on her poodle and the other pointing waterward. “It’s scooping!” Since the long-awaited Wellfleet Harbor dredging […]
TRUE CRIME
Sticky Situation on Truro Center Road
‘Trump 2020’ will have its day in Orleans District Court
As the presidential election enters its final week, it has colored even crime on the Outer Cape. On Monday, Oct. 26, Cory Mcculloch, 33, of Eastham, was arraigned in Orleans […]
TRUE CRIME
Suspect in George’s Pizza Attack Arraigned
Drugs dominate local cases at court this week
Angel Gomez Gonzalez, the Springfield man accused of assaulting George Kraniotakis, 81, of Provincetown, owner of George’s Pizza, was arraigned in Orleans District Court on Oct. 9 on charges of […]
TRUE CRIME
Finding Amato Dangerous, Judge Denies Bail
Defense minimizes violence with a well-worn argument
ORLEANS — At an Oct. 8 dangerousness hearing, Orleans District Court Judge Robert A. Welsh ordered Joseph Amato, 45, of Provincetown, held without bail at the Barnstable County Correctional Facility […]
THE DREDGE REPORT
They’re Out There, Digging
WELLFLEET — “Well,” said Dan Conroy, a field engineer-slash-hydrographic surveyor at Cashman Dredging and Marine Contracting, a Quincy-based company working under the supervision of the Army Corps of Engineers, “I […]
TRUE CRIME
A Decade-long Pattern of Abuse Continues
‘Marital privilege’ helps to perpetuate a cycle of domestic violence
PROVINCETOWN — The call came last Wednesday night, just over halfway into Police Officer Emmett Catanese’s 3 to 11 p.m. shift. On the line was Christian Peters, 50. He was […]
IT TAKES A VILLAGE
At Womencrafts, Michelle Axelson Listens
A landmark of Provincetown’s Women’s Week stays creative
PROVINCETOWN — Michelle Axelson came to town in November 2010, for a break. A Boston-based social worker by training, she had loved working at Mass. Correctional Institution — Framingham, a […]
No Update on Status of Arrested Eastham Teacher
EASTHAM — Nauset Regional School District Supt. Thomas Conrad would not comment this week on the termination process for James Saidnawey, a fourth-grade teacher at Eastham Elementary School who was […]
THE WATERFRONT
Dredging of Federal Channel Begins at Last
Army Corps arrives to launch three-year harbor project
WELLFLEET — It took a town-wide effort, a federal campaign, and 26 years, but the dredging of Wellfleet Harbor’s federal channel is set to begin on Oct. 1. “It’s just […]
TRUE CRIME
Vandalism, Alcohol Blemish Weekend Perfection
Bad art, boneheaded arguments, a car accident, and a lot of expletives
WELLFLEET — An employee at Bay Sails Marine on Route 6 was flushing out his boat Saturday evening at the end of a beautiful late September day when he noticed […]
POLICING, PART 3
In Seashore Policing, Racial Bias Is off the Radar
Armed rangers make mostly traffic stops, with no race data collected
As U.S. police forces face a reckoning, issues of transparency and racial equity are on the table at the State House in Boston. A conference committee works on a bill […]
