WELLFLEET — Barbara Austin got her first horse, Duchess, when she was 10. The two went everywhere together, and their trust in each other was absolute. At Wellfleet’s kettle ponds, […]
Community
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EARLY SHIFT
One Last Wait for a Provincetown Kayak Permit
A springtime tradition will end, with slots to be issued online next year
PROVINCETOWN — I’ll admit it: the first thing I did when I arrived at the harbormaster’s office on MacMillan Pier at 4:44 a.m. on April 16 was lie down on […]
STARTING EARLY
The ‘Barn Rat’ Beginnings of Two Outer Cape Horsewomen
Trading chores for riding time leads to an equestrian life
When I was a teenager at Provincetown High School in the 1970s, I knew many girls who hung around the horse stables so they could ride horses. Back then, we […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Warrior Boys Shine at MSTCA Relays
A weekly round-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — The Nauset High boys track team finished fourth overall at the MSTCA Division 4 Relays hosted by Dracut High School on Saturday. Wakefield Memorial was first, followed by […]
PERSONAL HISTORY
Time Travel With Kurt Vonnegut and My Dad
Two prisoners of war and their linked stories
My father, PFC Arthur Kuttner, was in the Normandy invasion of June 1944. His unit, the 28th Infantry Division, was not in the first wave, so he survived that ordeal. […]
LEADERSHIP
Wellfleet Offers Guerino Regular Town Administrator Job
A three-year contract is in the works with the select board
WELLFLEET — Two months into his tenure as Wellfleet’s interim town administrator, Tom Guerino has reached a tentative agreement to take the helm as the town’s permanent administrator. At an […]
BUSINESS
New Owners Plan to Make Wicked Oyster Year-Round
The ‘winter scene’ can support a restaurant off-season, says Alex Hay
WELLFLEET — On the night after Alex Hay, Garrett Smythe, and Sebastien Taffara closed on a deal to buy the Wicked Oyster, the trio brought their families to the restaurant […]
LITERARY LIFE
Seniors and Fifth-Graders Team Up in Spelling Bee
Friendly competition brings old and young together in Eastham
EASTHAM — In this town where the elderly population is growing and enrollment at the elementary school is steadily falling, young and old join forces every spring in a spelling […]
DESIGN
The Objects of Modernism
Furnishings at the Breuer house reveal the architect’s ideas about everyday design
The house Marcel Breuer built in Wellfleet in 1949 represents the modernist ideal. It is above all simple. Pilings hold its small and seemingly lightweight box-shaped rooms just above the […]
GIRLS LACROSSE
Coral Punch Eyes Life After High School Lacrosse
After building character and building up a team, a Nauset senior is ready to focus on college
EASTHAM — Senior Coral Punch is one of the standouts of the Nauset Regional High School girls lacrosse team. She recently eclipsed 100 career points for a team that has […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Baseball Team Extends Winning Streak to 6
A weekly round-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — Nauset High baseball (7-1) extended its winning streak to 6 games with victories over Bristol Plymouth RVT and Bishop Stang on Friday and Monday. The Warriors swept the […]
VISIBILITY
Creating an Archive of Women’s Stories
Michelle Axelson records a trove of lesbian tales that won’t disappear
Michelle Axelson grew up in Framingham, where her mom’s closest friends were Joyce and Judy. Former nuns, they’d left that life to run a child-care business. They lived together and […]
RUNNING
Girls Are Off to the Races in Truro
A new after-school program unites Provincetown and Truro students
TRURO — The gymnasium at Truro Central School may not be vast, but until spring is in full swing, its perimeter is ample enough for 15 local elementary school girls […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Boys Lacrosse, Baseball Extend Winning Streaks
A weekly round-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — After dropping its opening game, the boys lacrosse team (5-1) reeled off 5 straight wins with 3 victories last week. The Warriors beat Martha’s Vineyard, Groton-Dunstable, and Central […]
THE HERRING COUNTERS
On a Voyage with Captain Richard Bailey
A Wellfleet sailor travels the world by tall ship and is back in time for the herring count
WELLFLEET — Capt. Richard Bailey was fascinated as a child by two oil paintings that hung side by side in his great-aunt’s cabin on Chequessett Neck Road. On occasion, he […]
