WELLFLEET — For the past month, since the Cape Cod Cannabis dispensary opened its doors at the old South Wellfleet General Store on April 20, Allan Kronfeld, the manager of […]
COVID-19
Walk-In Vaccine Clinics Now Available
Everyone is eligible with a valid I.D.
PROVINCETOWN — Good news for the technologically challenged and the bad-at-planning: three vaccination sites on the Outer Cape are now offering the Covid-19 vaccine to walk-in patients. All you need […]
EARLY LEARNING
Truro School Board Votes to Add Pre-K Places
Families with three- and four-year-olds win a child-care option
TRURO — The school committee on April 29 approved a plan to expand the town’s free preschool program so that it can accommodate all the three- and four-year-old children of […]
LEARNING
Covid Bumps for Juniors on College Hunt
Tours are out, tests in, teachers remote, but college still beckons
EASTHAM — Twins Anders and Ella Grimm are, like many other juniors at Nauset Regional High School, just beginning the college admissions process — and they’re doing it as the […]
INCLUSIONARY ZONING
Bradford St. Condos Get OK From Planning Board
The 12-unit complex will include two ‘affordable’ units
PROVINCETOWN — A condominium development that initially faced significant resistance from neighbors got the go-ahead at an April 22 planning board meeting. The board granted a special permit to Jay […]
ALBUM REVIEW
What Is Truly Fearless About Taylor Swift
A re-recording raises ethical and artistic questions
From the start of her career 15 years ago, when she was just a 17-year-old with a cascade of blond curls writing her own lyrics about the pitfalls of high […]
PERFORMANCE
Thirsty Burlington Prepares for a Post-Covid World
Scott Townsend rehearses a new act for Thirsty — and Cher
“It sounds like I’m singing in the bathroom and you’re singing way over in the kitchen,” says Scott Townsend — better known as the drag queen and Cher impersonator Thirsty […]
CANNABUSINESS
New Pot Shop Flouted Host Community Agreement
But select board did not enforce ownership change provision
WELLFLEET — A new cannabis dispensary called Terps is expected to open next month at the intersection of Route 6 and Cove Road in the Cove Corner building, right next […]
HAPPY CAMPERS
Two Summer Programs for LGBTQ Youth Make Plans to Resume
Closing the ‘disconnect’ across the spectrum of gender and racial identities
PROVINCETOWN — After last summer’s shutdowns and shifts, Camp Lightbulb and Summer of Sass are both coming back to town this summer. For both programs, the hope is to provide […]
THE SELECT BOARD RACE
Oriana Conklin Wants to Solve a ‘Crisis of Community’
‘Our voices aren’t being heard’
PROVINCETOWN — Oriana Conklin, 30, is running as a first-time candidate for select board. She believes she can bring some much-needed perspective: if elected, she said, she would be the […]
RECREATION
Good News, With Limits, for Summer Camps
Forgoing dorm-style housing, Audubon may face counselor shortage
WELLFLEET — Gov. Charlie Baker announced last month that day camps and overnight camps will be allowed to reopen this summer, but with significantly reduced capacity and in compliance with […]
DEATHCARE
Like Other Businesses, Outer Cape Funeral Homes Adapt
But some worry, too, as grief goes online or on hold
PROVINCETOWN — Funeral home directors are the last responders on the frontline of the pandemic. And the national news has brought troubling images of overburdened funeral homes in the hardest-hit […]
SKIN DEEP
Cosmetic Surgery: It Does Happen Here
Behind pandemic masks, and tempered by Puritanism, the quest for perfection persists
PROVINCETOWN — Cape Cod and, for that matter, New England are perhaps not the first places one thinks of when one hears the words “plastic surgery.” We value our old […]
BOOK REVIEW
In Colonial America, Thomas Morton Took the Pure out of Puritan
A new book examines a rebel antihero among the religious exiles
In the book of Joshua, the ancient Israelites settle upon the land that God had promised them, a land called Canaan, and they do so without slaughtering any of the […]
RELIGION
Gay Catholics Seek Solace and Spirituality at St. Peter’s
Social justice concerns and service lead to ‘a richer faith’
PROVINCETOWN — Mike Dubour was in the process of converting to Judaism. He was tired of the lousy version of Catholicism he kept receiving — what he described as “hatred […]
