EASTHAM — The Nauset High Warriors will field nine varsity sports teams in five winter sports: basketball, hockey, indoor track and field, swimming, and wrestling. After their heartbreaking loss in […]
Community
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IN PROGRESS
Jenny Humphreys Gets Away With It
Inside the painter’s winter of whimsy
In the center of a melancholy Norwegian landscape — with its brown mountain, cold sky, and rows of huddled evergreens — stands a massive chicken foot. It looks extraterrestrial, exploding […]
MIGRATION
Provincetown Beckons Those Fleeing Anti-Trans Legislation
From across the country, transgender people have sought safety and care on the Outer Cape
PROVINCETOWN — Lilith Tate and her mother, Lark, left Utah. Wren LaPlant left Texas. JC Rey left Florida. Each of them came to Provincetown seeking a haven amid the rise […]
WARRIORS WATCH
D-Y Edges Nauset, 35-32, in 27th Chowder Cup
A weekly round-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — Despite the adversity they faced this season, Nauset High’s football team competed until the end, and that was more than evident in the Warriors’ 35-32 loss to Dennis-Yarmouth […]
BUSINESS
The Wired Puppy Is Closing
The year-round gathering spot was not profitable enough, holding company says
PROVINCETOWN — The town’s only year-round sit-down coffee shop is closing. Green Hill Brands, the Delaware holding company behind Wired Puppy, announced on Nov. 16 that Sunday, Nov. 26 will […]
SPECIAL DELIVERY
Truro Community Kitchen Cooks All Year Round
Cooks and drivers are ‘there for whoever needs us’
TRURO — Volunteers at the Truro Community Kitchen are as perfectly seasoned as the dishes they prepare. So, on Tuesdays the kitchen at the Christian Union Church on Shore Road […]
LET’S LUNCH
Fighting the Off-Season Squeeze
Pantries, lunches, and meals on wheels feed more people than ever in Provincetown
PROVINCETOWN — In recent years, Provincetown has seen a substantial rise in demand for food assistance, and this year the trend continues with several organizations working to meet the need. […]
SOUP’S ON
246 Community Kitchen Dishes Out Dignity
Cooks and guests gather for good company, and ‘the best meatloaf in the world’
WELLFLEET — In the kitchen of the United Methodist Church’s banquet hall, under a hand-painted sign that reads “safe harbor,” a group of six chefs zigzag around each other, chopping […]
BROWN BAG
Eastham’s Cupboard Is Not Bare
Pantries, deliveries, and an exchange offer a winter welcome to all
EASTHAM — In the summer, seasonal workers usually have enough work that they don’t need the support of the Eastham Food Pantry. But come winter, with fewer jobs and steep […]
EARTH BENDERS
‘You Can Make Anything You Want With Clay’
Ceramic artist Isabel Souza comes full circle in the studio at Castle Hill
TRURO — Teaching a pottery class to young artists at Castle Hill took Isabel Souza “full circle,” she says. “I was eight or nine when I got the scholarship to […]
UBER TUBER
Turnip Festival
WARRIORS WATCH
Streitmatter Is Making an Impression on Court
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
DENNIS — It’s a crisp Friday around 9 a.m. and school is out to commemorate Veterans Day. Most students are probably still in bed or enjoying the start of a […]
THE COMMUNICATOR
Leggs Learns That Wild Turkeys Have Wings
A boxer’s run-in with a rafter of clucking freedom fighters
I’d forgotten how hard it can be to cross the dunes. “Cerdded â chŵn,” said Leggs, a boxer. Rhian Cull, one of his two human mothers, is Welsh. Leggs has […]
THE LOCAL JOURNALISM PROJECT
The Independent Welcomes Winter Fellow Aden Choate
Backpacking, fact-checking, and journalism inspired by Mary Heaton Vorse
PROVINCETOWN — Aden Choate began a five-month Mary Heaton Vorse journalism fellowship at the Independent on Nov. 1., inaugurating the third season of a winter program that brings young reporters […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Avellar, Kennard Ink National Letters of Intent
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — Nauset girls soccer standouts Olivia Avellar and Caroline Kennard signed national letters of intent to play on college teams in a special ceremony at the high school last […]
