Making sourdough bread requires a commitment of time. If you can get hold of a friend’s mature starter and get your loaf underway now, you’ll be taking it out of […]
PUMPING IT UP
A Shout-Out for the Provincetown Cheer Team
Students defeat faculty at basketball to chants from a first-rate fifth-grade squad
PROVINCETOWN — It’s T-minus-one day until the first-ever halftime show for seven cheerleaders at practice on Feb. 15. Fifth-grade energy abounds, and arms punch high. Then the cardboard parcel of […]
PRESERVATION
Jamaican Congregation Hopes to Stay in Its Truro Chapel
But property owners Bob and Kathy Valleau have rebuffed early offers
TRURO — Alarm over the impending eviction of the mostly Jamaican congregation that meets at Truro’s Chapel on the Pond coalesced into a community meeting last weekend, as neighbors, preservationists, […]
BACK-TO-BACK
Truro Select Board Plans Two Separate Town Meetings
Special town meeting is set for May 4, with annual meeting likely on the next day
TRURO — The warrant for last fall’s special town meeting, which was repeatedly postponed amid a series of voter registration challenges and then moved from November to May when a […]
WHISPERS
‘Our Queer Elders’ in History and Song
Katie Castagno makes music by speculating about the past
Katie Castagno is a geologist at Provincetown’s Center for Coastal Studies by day who goes home and writes songs at night. She remembers the moment she learned that the marine […]
THE TALK IN TRURO
In Winter’s Civics Vortex, Reviewing a Meeting That Might Have Been
Voters talk about their reactions to a special town meeting that was postponed
TRURO — The buzz about the special town meeting was not put off until May 4 — even if the meeting itself was. Debate over its two most controversial subjects, […]
TRURO ELECTION
3 New Hopefuls Enter Race for Select Board
Reed and Dundas are undecided about seeking reelection
TRURO — At least three challengers plan to run for the two select board seats on Truro’s May 14 ballot this year — Susan Girard-Irwin, Kevin Grunwald, and Nancy Medoff. […]
PASS THE PASTA
Montano’s New Owner Has Been Eating There for 16 Years
Ed Medeiros says he doesn’t plan big changes for the North Truro restaurant
TRURO — After close to 36 years at the helm of Montano’s, a beacon for pasta lovers and Truro’s only deep-winter dinner spot, Bob Montano is selling the restaurant that […]
BEACON HILL
After 9 Terms, Peake Will Give Up House Seat
Housing bill, with real estate transfer fee, is a priority for her
PROVINCETOWN — State Rep. Sarah Peake’s ninth term on Beacon Hill will be her last, she announced last week. Peake, 66, a Democrat who lives in Provincetown and whose Fourth […]
CHURCH
Jamaican Congregation Told to Leave Truro Chapel
Owners say churchgoers’ offerings did not fund their yacht-based ministry
TRURO — The Chapel on the Pond, which has hosted a growing, mostly Jamaican congregation since Pastor David Brown began to lead services there in 2017, must close its doors […]
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Truro’s Cloverleaf Faces up to $7M Funding Shortfall
Developer asks to increase the number of units from 39 to 43
TRURO — Construction at the Cloverleaf project at 22 Highland Road has yet to begin, seven years after the state transferred the 3.9-acre property to the town specifically for affordable […]
FLAMES
The Year of Saffron, Violet, and Coconut
Two Provincetown candlemakers calibrate the sweet scents of 2024
My friend Livi Bois made a beeline for the stand at the back of the Canteen craft market like a scent hound on the trail of its prey, leaving her […]
AT SCHOOL
In Truro, Teachers Wear Many Hats
That’s part of what it means to work in a one-school district with fewer than 100 students
TRURO — As a sixth-grader at Truro Central School in 1993, Abby Roderick drew a life-size portrait of herself in a billowing purple skirt, wielding a puppet in one hand […]
1726
The Deed for Hector
Tucked away beside Highland Links, Truro’s golf course on the bluffs, sits the former turn-of-the-century hotel that’s now the Highland House Museum. There, a repository of local history documenting developments […]
VOTING IN TRURO
Select Board Objects to Couples as Registrar Candidates
Republican town committee must submit a new list of candidates for two seats
TRURO — The select board unanimously reappointed two temporary members of the board of registrars on Dec. 12 after expressing dissatisfaction with the list of eight candidates for the two […]
