TRURO — Voters at Tuesday’s annual town meeting approved three Proposition 2½ overrides totaling $1.4 million but rejected a fourth seeking $107,000 for a full-time “school resource officer,” which had […]
TOWN MEETING PREVIEW
A Long Warrant Offers Much to Debate in Truro
Budget overrides, citizen petitions, and ‘adopted’ and withdrawn articles
TRURO — Town meeting is less than a week away, and there are 42 articles on this year’s warrant. With four budget overrides, 10 Community Preservation Act articles, six citizen […]
DOCUMENTARY FILM
Spinnaker Brings a Fatal Entanglement to the Screen
The documentary short will be shown in an environmental film series at Waters Edge Cinema
Nadine Licostie has been in Provincetown long enough to know that scientific observation of its environment is just as much a part of life here as Carnival celebrations and the […]
TIDAL FLOW
Truro Select Board Picks a Culvert for Mill Pond Road
Staff recommendation for a wide breach does not carry the day
TRURO — The select board voted on March 28 to replace the damaged culvert currently restricting tidal flow into Mill Pond with an 8-by-8-foot box culvert. Dept. of Public Works […]
MEET THE MAKER
A Past in Puppetry Shapes an Artist’s New Works
For Ed Christie, dryer lint lends itself to characters a person can relate to
Ed Christie’s career lending life to fabric started when he was five years old. And he had a following: kids from his Elmont, N.Y. neighborhood would flock to the puppet […]
WRITERS
John Murillo Makes Music of Translation
Fifteen years and two books later, a poet returns to the Fine Arts Work Center
When poet John Murillo arrived in Provincetown last October for his second fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center, he wasn’t quite sure where his work would take him. Since […]
WALSH PROPERTY
Panel Agrees on 40,000 ‘Non-Residential’ Square Feet
Space for trade is at least twice what consultants brought to the table
TRURO — The Walsh Property Community Planning Committee was enthusiastic about allocating space for trade and other “non-residential” uses at its March 29 meeting, the group’s first in four weeks. […]
GEAR
Cape Lobstermen Would Rather Wait Than Switch
Trials of ‘on-demand’ and ‘ropeless’ fishing are underway, but not in Cape Cod Bay
PROVINCETOWN — A 21-year-old North Atlantic right whale known as Porcia was observed in Cape Cod Bay on March 18. The whale was seen swimming with her 2023 calf by […]
SNACK TIME
Granola Bars With the Works
Pistachios, cherries, and chocolate chunks come together in not-too-crumbly, not-too-sweet squares
This all started with Edouard Fontenot’s Indie-adapted Eleven Madison Park granola. I had to stop making it this winter because when I had it on hand it took over as […]
SETTERS
The Truro Community Center Hosts a Semi-Serious Volleyball Season
The games are about having fun, but there’s a glint of competitiveness in players’ eyes
TRURO — With the spring equinox just past, a familiar antsiness is on the rise. To fight it, Outer Cape residents have flocked full throttle to the biweekly volleyball games […]
ARTISTS
Art as Social Organism
Siennie Lee’s work is guided by a fascination with the pulse of society
An imposing triptych — greenish on the left, then bluish, then purple — hangs on one wall of Siennie Lee’s studio at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Its […]
DPW PROJECTS
Mill Pond Road Plans Have Truro Riled Up
A road debate and a $30M building
TRURO — Residents are rallying against Dept. of Public Works Director Jarrod Cabral’s plan to replace a damaged culvert that is restricting tidal flow into Mill Pond. Cabral told the […]
ARCHITECTURE
At the Library, an Old Town Settles Into a New Design
Seven years after a renovation in Eastham, a look at where intentions meet reality
EASTHAM — Its architects proposed a purpose to practically every nook and cranny of the Eastham Public Library — a sunlit pondside edifice unveiled in 2016. Seven years later, it’s […]
TOWN MEETING
Six Citizen Petitions on Truro Warrant Run the Gamut
From ‘mansion-ization’ to dogs on leashes, Truro voters bring their ideas forward
TRURO — Town meeting is not until Tuesday, April 25, but Truro’s select board is already discussing six citizen petitions that will appear on the warrant. Petitioned articles are authorized […]
MEET THE MAKERS
Tight Knit at the Cape Tip
Two weekly fiber arts groups where creativity and company abound
Yarn is not the only material handled with dedication and nimble care at two weekly winter gatherings on the Outer Cape, though it certainly does lend purpose, texture, and polychromatic […]
