Census packages won’t arrive in mailboxes across the country until mid-March, but officials and community groups on Cape Cod are strategizing now about how to make sure everyone here is […]
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MOVEMENT
How to Fit In Fitness
Fifteen minutes will elevate your mood
This is either the most wonderful time of the year or the hardest and most stressful. Either way, for most of us, it’s a time when exercise routines lag. It’s […]
DOING GOOD
Turtle Rescues Underway
Wellfleet Bay Audubon teams have begun their season of rescuing cold-stunned sea turtles. That’s staff member Jacey Corrente, above, collecting a live Kemp’s ridley at Campground Beach in Eastham. November’s […]
DOVETAIL JOINT
Taking the Landscape Into Account
Advice on sitework from Thomas and Chad Edwards
The question: We renovated our modest cottage in Wellfleet to make it our year-round home. But now that the job is done, we are wishing we had thought more about […]
DEAR INDIE
Surviving the Season of Joy and Anxiety
Whatever you’re feeling, stop and give it a little respect
We made it! Thanksgiving has been conquered. Now retailers large and small are bombarding us with snowy cheer, picture-perfect Douglas firs dressed up in color-coordinated balls and tinsel, and the […]
health
Does OCHS Have a Problem With M.D. Turnover?
Patients worry, but leaders at Outer Cape Health won’t talk about it
PROVINCETOWN — Jonathan Sperber of Truro moved to Cape Cod last spring. On Oct. 7, he filed his new patient paperwork with the Outer Cape Health Services (OCHS) clinic in […]
development
Old Reliable Proposal Would Exceed Building Height Limit
Boutique hotel project on beach would replace condemned fish house
PROVINCETOWN — A hotel that’s taller than Whaler’s Wharf and would include a nearly 264-foot pier was heralded as “bold” and derided as “ugly” on Nov. 21 at a zoning […]
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
New Station or Housing? The VFW Parcel’s Long, Winding Road
Six years of town meeting votes led to the current moment
PROVINCETOWN — The 1.3-acre parcel of town-owned land that was the former VFW post is once again the subject of debate. A petitioned article from Fire Chief Mike Trovato and […]
THE SEARCH
Town Manager Candidate Took $400K Buyout; Another Was Fired
PROVINCETOWN — There are times when consensus is impossible, according to Robin Leal Craver, who is one of three finalists for the town manager’s position. In her case, one of […]
graveyard shift
Three ‘Strangers’ Rest in the Cove Burying Ground
Eastham cemetery is the only known Cape Cod gravesite of Mayflower passengers
EASTHAM — We can probably thank Hollywood (and maybe Dickens) for the creepy reputation of burial grounds. What would a horror film be without a desolate graveyard overgrown with weeds, […]
HOLIDAY TABLE
Ecoprinting: Natural Dyes From Leaves and Flowers
Dyeing is a multi-step process. The first step is a visit with nature.
Even in these chilly gray days of November we find color everywhere on the Outer Cape. Marsh and beach grasses are golden fire. Junipers are deep green, their bright berries […]
cocktail hour
Holiday Fizz
For heading home, a French 75
From Thanksgiving through New Year’s Eve (or Day for that matter), drinking Champagne really adds an extra dash of joy. The problem is many people are intimidated by it, seeing […]
AT THE LIBRARY
Thanksgivings Every Day
Braiding Sweetgrass By Robin Wall Kimmerer Milkweed Editions: 2015 In Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, author Robin Wall Kimmerer asks readers to “imagine raising […]
SURFING
At Home in a Portuguese Surf Town
The tide and the wind are the same in any language
The sun is warm on my shoulders. The salt is starting to pinch the skin at the corners of my eyes as it dries. A small white cup of coffee […]
DEAR INDIE
A Bitter Halloween Candy Tax
Family conflict over a shrinking stash
Dear Indie, I put a lot of effort into my Halloween trick-or-treating and came home with a major haul of candy. Way more than my older sisters, who are now […]
