BOSTON — A decade after he appeared in Orleans District Court for sexual conduct towards a teenaged boy, Kerry Adams, 61, of Provincetown pleaded guilty in federal court on April […]
About Josephine de La Bruyere
TRUE CRIME
Road Rage, With a Side of Potato Salad
TRURO — Could a potato salad, lap-bound on the passenger’s side of a Lincoln Navigator speeding south on Route 6 at 65 miles per hour, really have “accidentally” flown out the […]
TRANSPARENCY
Broadbent Cut Budgets at Will, Department Heads Charge
‘We didn’t cut anything,’ says town administrator
WELLFLEET — With seven weeks until this year’s annual town meeting, the fiscal 2022 operating budget proposed by Town Administrator Maria Broadbent and Town Accountant Heather Michaud shows a $331,000 […]
CLEAR-CUT CASE
Before the ZBA, Great White Realty Is Now 0-3
Special permits for an excavating operation are denied
WELLFLEET — “The zoning board is a good board,” said attorney Ben Zehnder in an April 6 interview with the Independent. “Next meeting, I’m sure the board will do the […]
CLEAR-CUT CASE
ZBA Denies Two Appeals by DiGiovannis
Little sympathy from neighbors for proposed Route 6 ‘contractor’s yard’
WELLFLEET — Not since the Dunkin’ Donuts brouhaha of 2012, said zoning board of appeals chair Sharon Inger, had she seen a ZBA audience so large or so passionate as […]
GOBBLEDYGOOK
For Wild Turkeys, It’s Strutting Time
Rafters of birds, where for a time there were none
They came from New York — 37 of them, trapped with a cannon-net set by Massachusetts wildlife biologists — to the Berkshires, at first. Then new generations spread statewide. Some […]
AQUACULTURE
Selects Give Chair a Boost
DeVasto’s shellfish grant extension subject to constable’s inspection
WELLFLEET — The select board voted 4-0 on March 23 to approve Chair Michael DeVasto’s request that his two-acre aquaculture grant be enlarged by 1.3 acres, on two conditions: that […]
WHALE WATCH
Three Mother-Calf Pairs Are Bright Spot in Dismal Reality
In Cape Cod Bay, scientists count one-fourth of the world’s remaining North Atlantic right whales
PROVINCETOWN — The Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) March 3 sighting of Millipede, a 16-year-old North Atlantic right whale, and her newborn calf — the season’s first — in Cape Cod […]
TRURO ELECTION
All Seats Are Uncontested
Dundas will replace Worthington on select board
TRURO — There are no contested races for the 11 town board seats up for election this spring, and no candidates on the ballot at all for two of those […]
LEARNING
‘The Second Grade Is the Place to Be’
An ordinary in-person, remote, and hybrid day at Truro Central School
TRURO — Truro Central School (TCS) head second-grade teacher Amelia Rose feels, she announces, as she hurries from teaching remote addition class in the library to delivering an in-person version […]
INVESTIGATION
Three Arrested in Wellfleet Narcotics Bust
Two will face fentanyl and cocaine trafficking charges
WELLFLEET — A three-month investigation into a Wellfleet narcotics operation came to a head late last week with the coordinated arrests of three Outer Cape residents. Wellfleet Police Sgt. Paul […]
THE TIP-UP
Sunday on the Pond, With Pickerel
The primal pleasures of coming out from winter hiding
Ice fishing? That was everyone’s first question. And then, in varied order: Won’t you fall through? But what if you do? Won’t you be cold? Will you catch anything? Or, […]
TRUE CRIME
Pit Bull v. Provincetown Will Go to Court
Dog owner demands a jury trial over poop on the pier
PROVINCETOWN — In his 20 weeks of state-standardized training at the Plymouth Police Academy, Sgt. Kevan Spoor, now a 14-year veteran of the Provincetown P.D., broke down doors. He shot […]
ZONING
Wellfleet Planners Drop ADU Initiative
With Parent opposed, an independent group takes up the cause
WELLFLEET — Citing what board member Beth Singer called “insurmountable” obstacles, the planning board officially ended its three-month effort to draft a joint bylaw regulating accessory dwelling units (ADUs) and […]
CABIN FEVER CURE #3
A New Cook Ventures Beyond the Kitchen Basics
Over the course of just two hours last Friday night, I used more pots and pans than I knew my kitchen had — more pots and pans than I think […]
