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TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
New Finance Director
Meetings Ahead
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WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Town Meeting Quorum Reduced
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EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Budget Bonanza
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ECONOMY
Crown & Anchor, a Gay Landmark, Is Under Contract
Entertainment complex to be sold to Hawkins and Martini
PROVINCETOWN — The current owners of the Crown & Anchor complex, Bill Dougal and Rick Murray, are in the final stages of selling the property to their longtime employee Jonathan […]
HOUSING CRISIS
Wellfleet Casts Net for More Land to Buy
Affordable Housing Trust will issue an RFP seeking property in town
WELLFLEET — With the town having built far fewer affordable housing units than it promised the state it would create by 2022, the Affordable Housing Trust now plans to issue […]
SCHOOLS
Nauset Project Clears Hurdle Despite Hacked Meeting
Officials work to counter a pandemic-driven rise in building costs
EASTHAM — The Nauset Regional School Building Committee approved key budget modifications for the high school renovation project on Oct. 6, one week after being forced to abruptly adjourn a […]
AGING IN PLACE
Home Health Care Shortage ‘Critical’ on Outer Cape
Low wages and lack of workers push the limits
WELLFLEET — A few years back, when Geovana Pinheiro worked as a certified nursing assistant (CNA) for a client in Wellfleet, she commuted down Cape from Centerville, where she lives. […]
COVID-19
Wellfleet Reinstates Mask Order Following Cluster of Cases
The case count, at 31, has doubled since last week
WELLFLEET — Less than one week after the board of health issued a “code red” mask order, the number of Covid-19 cases in town has doubled. There were 31 active […]
POLICING
Reform Act Could Mean the End of Summer Reserves
Cyr says the legislature will find a workaround for seasonal communities
PROVINCETOWN — Seasonal police officers arrive on these shores every year along with the tourists and the traffic, but the Mass. police reform law of 2020 may end that program […]
95 LAWRENCE ROAD
Final Choice of Developer May Be Delayed Until November
The POAH-CDP partnership wins an early vote of support
WELLFLEET — The committee charged with rating the would-be developers of 46 affordable apartments at 95 Lawrence Road hopes to clarify a few details with the three groups that submitted proposals […]
PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Labor Shortage by the Numbers
Meetings Ahead
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TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Severing Ties
Meetings Ahead
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WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Special Town Meeting Set for Dec. 4
Meetings Ahead
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EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Signs to Say Slow Down
Meetings Ahead
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