Since arriving in Provincetown in October to begin a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center, Blake Daniels has spent “an unnerving amount of time just standing by the sea.” […]
SCHOOLS
A Demand to Expand the Nauset District Lands With a Thud
No sign that Truro or Provincetown would join the regional school district
ORLEANS — A letter sent to the Nauset Regional School Committee by a group calling itself the “Concerned Citizens of Orleans, Brewster, Eastham, and Wellfleet” demanded that the committee amend […]
GREEN ENERGY
Solar Power Will Come to Nauset Middle School at Last
Contractor did a ‘screw job’ on the district, says Easley
ORLEANS — The long and frustrating road to the installation of a solar canopy at Nauset Regional Middle School is nearing an end. After two years of delays caused by […]
FIRST RESPONSE
Car Crashes Into OCHS Lobby in Wellfleet
No one was seriously injured, and the health clinic quickly reopened
WELLFLEET — A white Audi sedan operated by Greta Einig, 74, drove into the Outer Cape Health Services (OCHS) office on Route 6 shortly after 9:30 a.m. on Jan. 18, […]
THEATER
A Playwright Collective Brings People Together
In Truro, monthly readings foster a community of writers and audiences
TRURO — A group of tender-hearted queers, disparate in their predispositions, shelter in a dune shack to hide from a right-wing militia that prowls the grounds outside. Will they survive? […]
STAFFING
Wellfleet Town Hall Welcomes First HR Director
Christine Ezersky takes the job created by voters at September’s special town meeting.
WELLFLEET — Christine Ezersky walked into town hall on Jan. 9 as the town’s first-ever human resources director. Voters at a Sept. 10, 2022 special town meeting approved Article 4 […]
DEMOGRAPHICS
Birth and Death Statistics Show an Aging Population
There were three deaths for every birth here in 2022
With the books closed on 2022 and town clerks across the Cape working on their annual town reports, the Independent took a look at the birth and death records for […]
JUSTICE
MLK Day Art Show Is a Call to Action
This year’s theme is a response to instances of racism in Cape schools
WELLFLEET — Sara Blandford wanted this year’s theme for the Martin Luther King Day Youth Art Show to be more than just a feel-good truism. She saw it as a […]
ECONOMICS
Town Seeks Bidders for Maurice’s Campground Management
Wellfleet will lease the 21-acre site rather than try to operate it
WELLFLEET — The town is now accepting bids for the operation of Maurice’s Campground on Route 6 during the six-year transitional period before construction begins on an affordable housing development […]
POP UPS
Pizza Spinello Gets Hot in Wellfleet
A spot for bagel hounds by day serves Wednesday night pies al taglio
WELLFLEET — John D’Aponte grew up traveling back and forth between two pizza meccas: Naples, Italy, and Brooklyn, N.Y. A New Yorker, D’Aponte often visited the southern Italian city where […]
HEALTH CARE
Recovery Access Rolls In to the Outer Cape
A mobile clinic means daily medication-assisted treatment without the 2-hour drive
WELLFLEET — The first-ever mobile methadone clinic on Cape Cod opened its doors here on Nov. 16 after a four-month-long process of getting licensing and approvals from federal and state […]
BUSINESS
Wellfleet Denies Seasonal Liquor Store’s Extension Request
It matters to a year-round store that’s sometimes ‘the only light on Main Street’
WELLFLEET — The select board voted unanimously on Dec. 6 to deny a seasonal liquor license extension request from Wellfleet Wine and Spirits, the store on Route 6 in the […]
CULTURAL ARCHEOLOGY
In the Wellfleet Woods, Relics of the Bauhaus Avant-Garde
A group of scholars studies a long-lost trove of Christmas cards, poems, and notes on nudism
WELLFLEET — There was treasure hidden deep within the pitch pine woods of Wellfleet — and, according to Elizabeth Otto, one of four scholars who participated in a residency overseen […]
AQUACULTURE
‘Use It or Lose It’: Making Way for New Shellfish Grants
Lottery set for two Egg Island plots, with two more on Indian Neck soon to follow
WELLFLEET — When Nancy Civetta was hired in 2017 as the town’s shellfish constable, she was given a clear directive: “enforcement, propagation, and communication,” she said. Civetta took it to […]
OPERA
Michael Cunningham’s ‘The Hours’ Unfolds on the Stage
The author discusses adaptation — and resurrection — in the Metropolitan Opera’s rendition of his novel
Michael Cunningham isn’t particularly interested in faithful adaptations of his work. His Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours, which was turned into an acclaimed film by Stephen Daldry, has now become […]
