WELLFLEET — A 13-year-old girl was approached by a man driving a black van while walking down Chequessett Neck Road near Kendrick Avenue at noon on Saturday, Feb. 11. She […]
LEGAL EAGLES
Nauset Mock Trial Team’s Full-Courtroom Press
Eleven students are headed to Boston for the state quarterfinals
Eastham — It requires the precision of fencing, the flexibility of gymnastics, and the strategy of football. But it doesn’t take place on a field or in a gymnasium. It […]
ENVIRONMENT
A Major Wastewater Funding Source Is Drying Up
The Cape Cod and Islands Water Protection Fund has an unbalanced budget
WELLFLEET — The Cape Cod and Islands Water Protection Fund may be running dry. Financial models in last year’s annual report projected that the fund would be in arrears by […]
ELUSIVE FELINES
Wellfleet Discovers — and Freezes — Its First Bobcat
‘It was clear it wasn’t a house cat,’ says animal control officer
WELLFLEET — Provincetown has bears, Truro has its puma, and now Wellfleet has bobcats — or rather, a bobcat. Or at least it did have one. A lone bobcat was […]
ARTISTS
The Intimacies of Blake Daniels
Paintings that render friends and lovers in mystical landscapes
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 […]
