TRURO — On a bright spring Sunday, the sound of gospel music fills a small chapel in North Truro. The verses flow over pastel-colored hats worn by women in the […]
YOUNG LIVES
Local Teens Speak for Themselves About Suicide
A forum on suicide and prevention reveals strategies and struggles
Two teenagers discussed their paths out of life-threatening depression at a March 28 online forum on youth suicide prevention organized by the League of Women Voters. Sophia Ryan, a senior […]
NAUSET HIGH SCHOOL
Creator of ‘Respecting Differences’ Class to Retire
Lisa Brown’s students give credit to a teacher who believes in them
EASTHAM — Anyone who has ever been a student will tell you that some courses seem inseparable from their teachers. But Lisa Brown, who teaches Nauset Regional High School’s Exploring […]
CRISIS AVERTED
Lower Cape Ambulance Gets Reprieve
Provincetown and Truro will build full-time EMS depts. — but more slowly
PROVINCETOWN — The twisting saga of the Lower Cape Ambulance Association (LCAA) and the fire departments of Provincetown and Truro took yet another turn this spring. Both towns are still […]
AFTERMATH
Family That Lost Child in Fire Finds a Home
Orleans budget has no money to hire added inspectors
ORLEANS — The family of six-year-old Kyi Odeen Bourne, who died in a house fire on Feb. 4, has found a year-round rental but is still in temporary housing while […]
THE COMMUTE
Town Meeting Article Seeks Late Bus for Seasonal Workers
Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority has a roundabout response
PROVINCETOWN — Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority (CCRTA) leaders assured the select board on Feb. 13 that they could run a pilot late-night and early-morning bus service this summer for […]
MENTAL HEALTH CARE
With Help Elusive, Two Men Live Crisis to Crisis
Their mothers pursue intervention before something catastrophic happens
In the constant pursuit of help for their sons, Bonnie Nuendel of Eastham and Meegan Erving of Wellfleet have honed their stories into elevator pitches to perform for therapists, the […]
DEVELOPMENT
Eastham Will Vote on Limit for House Sizes
Proposed bylaw would link size limit to the area of the lot
EASTHAM — The race to build mansions by the sea has come to Eastham. But more than three-fourths of the houses here are still under 2,000 square feet, and the […]
OBITUARY
Duane Steele, Owner of His Hometown Paper for 24 Years, Dies at 83
Duane A. Steele died at home in Provincetown on March 8, 2023 of an interstitial lung disease. He would have liked the directness of that sentence, though definitely not its […]
DEADLY FIRE
Building Where Boy Died Is Owned by Ben Zehnder
Lawyer denies knowledge of illegal renovations on his property
ORLEANS — A lawyer who routinely argues before Outer Cape regulatory boards on behalf of rich and powerful property owners is the owner of the building where a six-year-old boy […]
EDUCATION
School Committee Did Not Know About Bullying Scandal
Administration’s ‘lack of transparency’ is called ‘mind-boggling’
ORLEANS — Nauset Regional School Committee members said on March 2 they had no idea the U.S. Dept. of Education’s Office for Civil Rights had investigated the high school and […]
BUILDING EASTHAM
This Old Eastham House: The Lobster Shanty
Research on a property’s past turns up a classic Cape Cod tale
EASTHAM — With its white wooden shingles, lobster traps, and sunny yellow awnings, the Lobster Shanty on Route 6 evokes the Cape Cod that Patti Page sang about in her […]
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
Held Hostage by Slumlords
The Truro Health Dept. threatened in 2019 to close down the Truro Motor Inn where 50 people, including several children, were living in overcrowded motel rooms. Electric service designed for […]
OBITUARY
Theologian, Scholar, and Gardener Milton ‘Mac’ Gatch Dies at 90
Milton McCormick Gatch, a professor, librarian, and longtime priest-in-charge at the Chapel of St. James the Fisherman in Wellfleet, died on Feb. 21, 2023 at his apartment in New York […]
VIOLATIONS
Fire That Killed 6-Year-Old Was in Illegally Constructed Apartment
Orleans Select Board considers requiring inspection of rentals, but building dept. is overwhelmed
ORLEANS — The fire that killed six-year-old Kyi Odeen Bourne on Feb. 4 broke out inside an apartment constructed illegally on the second floor of 177 Route 6A in downtown […]
