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 […]
HIV SCIENCE
How to Cultivate Long-Arm Antibodies
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 […]
UNWARRANTED
Bylaw Changes Seem to Target Walsh Land
Weinstein says planning board’s stormwater proposal is ‘regulatory overreach’
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 […]
ECONOMY
E.U. Markets Reopen to Outer Cape’s Shellfish
The benefit to local growers will come slowly
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 […]
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Beach Rights Restored to Indigenous People
Truro joins Eastham in waiving fees for tribal card holders
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 […]
HOUSING
Truro’s ‘Little Jamaica’ to Become Worker Housing
Some of the Prince of Whales’s 26 units may be used for vacation rentals
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 […]
PUBLIC WORKS
Truro Looks Again at a New DPW Building
Cranberry Hill abutters are opposed; Walsh property is surveyed
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 […]
RESCUED
No Longer Dangling
Ballston Beach ‘Boathouse’ owner has 30 days to clinch zoning relief
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 […]
TEETERING
Ballston Beach ‘Boathouse’ Still Stands After Blizzard
Owners hope to move it to lot next door
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 […]
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK
The Anatomy of a Peer-Reviewed Study
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, […]
SUPPORT SYSTEMS
Employment and a Tax Break for Those With Disabilities
A plan builds on the blueprint of the senior municipal service program
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, […]
MILEAGE
Learning Moderation From Marathons
Lessons from addiction guide an athlete in running and in life
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 […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Hockey, Track Teams Take Advantage of Dennis-Yarmouth
A weekly preview of Nauset High sports
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 […]
ECOLOGY
Comments Are Sought on Stellwagen Bank Plan
Soundscape and shipwrecks are upcoming action initiatives
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 […]
BOOKS
Humanizing the People Behind an Epic Case
Joshua Prager’s The Family Roe is praised by both sides of abortion debate
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 […]
