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 […]
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WARRIORS WATCH
Hockey Teams Ranked 1st and 3rd in MIAA
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — Nauset/Monomoy girls hockey won two games this week, defeating Bishop Feehan 1-0 with the goal scored by sophomore Julia Kipperman at Charles More Arena on Saturday before easing […]
PIONEERS
Mayo Will Retire After 48 Years at Coastal Studies
Daniel Palacios will succeed Mayo as director of Right Whale Ecology Program
PROVINCETOWN — The Center for Coastal Studies is set to announce that Charles “Stormy” Mayo III, a cofounder of the organization and director of its Right Whale Ecology Program, will […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Swanson Shuts Out Bishop Stang as Boys Hockey Rolls
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — The Nauset High boys hockey team continued to flex its muscles in the last week, dismantling Bishop Stang 6-0 on Saturday night at Charles Moore Arena in Orleans. […]
CELEBRATIONS
An Encyclopedic Mind for People
Jill Stauffer, the first executive director of the Provincetown Commons, will retire in February
After four years as the first executive director of the Provincetown Commons, Jill Stauffer is retiring, set to leave the organization in late February. “She is so hard-working,” says Rebecca […]
QUICK DIP
Polar Bears Plunge for Sharks
Hundreds jump in to support CCS research
PROVINCETOWN — Renewal of spirit was on the minds of many of the 230 people who braved the icy waters of Provincetown Harbor for the 7th annual Polar Bear Plunge […]
LES MUST
What Locals Can’t Live Without: Winter Edition
Maybe we love it here because our must-have lists include library books, candlelight, and eye contact
We’ve all read those lists of things celebrities say they simply can’t live without — organic, small-batch chocolate; eye serum made from nearly extinct flowers; Ugg boots. But what about […]
ICONS
Remembering the Willow on West Main Street
A tree that ‘was bigger than all of us’ was lost in the December storm
WELLFLEET — The weeping willow on the corner of West Main Street, which rose above adjacent white clapboard houses, dangled its green catkins over the road’s sharp turn, and endured […]
THRIFTING
Putting Secondhand First
In Orleans, five stops on a search for sustainable style
The town you probably think of as specializing in staid shops for the Greatest Generation is becoming a thrifting mecca for Gen Z. In a little mustard-colored house on Orleans’s […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Hockey and Basketball Teams Pick Up Wins
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports.
EASTHAM — The Nauset High boys hockey team defeated Malden Catholic 2-0 on Dec. 23 behind goals from junior Logan Poulin and sophomore Zach Weiner and a shutout performance in […]
2000
From ‘A Walk on Cape Cod’
Around the time of the millennium I lived on Cape Cod in Provincetown, in my girlfriend’s house, and I was glad to be back in my native state after twenty […]
WELLFLEET POLICING
LaRocco Sworn In as Police Chief as Hurley Retires
A new leader hopes to live up to his predecessor’s legacy
WELLFLEET — Kevin LaRocco was sworn in as Wellfleet’s new police chief during the Dec. 19 select board meeting. He is taking the place of Michael Hurley, who has retired […]
MAKER
A Gatherer Finds Her Canvas
Isabelle Quinn’s seaside landscapes go with the grain
On a colder-than-usual December Thursday, Isabelle Quinn roams the dunes of Wellfleet’s Newcomb Hollow Beach in search of driftwood. The wind nips at her, turning her knuckles purple, but Quinn […]
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Hockey Teams, Girls Hoops Get Bounce-Back Wins
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — The Nauset boys and girls hockey teams and girls basketball team all bounced back from recent losses while junior wrestler Peter Silvernail placed first at his weight at […]
RIGHTS
Ngina Lythcott Is This Year’s Tim McCarthy Human Rights Champion
‘Right now is a time when we have to make some big decisions … we are not going backwards,’ she says
PROVINCETOWN — Ngina Ruth Lythcott has been named the 2023 Tim McCarthy Human Rights Champion. She’ll receive the award at a breakfast hosted by the Barnstable County Human Rights Advisory […]
