PROVINCETOWN — Developers Christine Barker and M. Tatiana Eck, who were picked by the select board last July to build 40 market-rate apartments at the site of the old police […]
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ENVIRONMENT
Mid-Cape Was Warned Last Year About Aging Oil Tank
A second spill sends oily water from cleanup into street and storm drain
WELLFLEET — The tank at Mid-Cape Home Centers on Commercial Street that was discovered to have leaked about 250 gallons of heating oil on Jan. 25 was inspected a year […]
RED SCARE
Salt Pond Closed for a Second Time by Red Tide Toxicity
Warmer winters mean more toxic algal blooms and earlier shellfishing closures
EASTHAM — The town’s dept. of natural resources closed Salt Pond in the Nauset Estuary on March 13 because of “red tide,” an outbreak of single-cell algae that produces a […]
PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
B.Y.O. Compost
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]
TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Community Pasta
Meetings Ahead Meetings in Truro are often held remotely. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for an agenda and details on how to join. Thursday, March […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Maurice’s Planner Selected
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]
EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
What About Bob?
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link […]
TOWN MEETING
Provincetown May Ditch Fire Engineers Panel
$11.7M for Motta Field and a plan to limit hotel consolidation also on warrant
PROVINCETOWN — The annual town meeting warrant was finalized on March 1, but the select board is still not sure about two measures: Article 19, to abolish the board of […]
HOUSING
Truro and Eastham May Limit Short-Term Rentals
‘Fractional ownership’ arrangements could also be banned by voters
Truro and Eastham are each considering town meeting articles that would limit how many short-term rental properties one person or corporation could legally own and that would ban “fractional ownership” […]
UNSETTLED
After a Cease-and-Desist Order, a Legal Battle Ensues
Truro’s effort to stop Martin’s use of Seashore site is going to court
TRURO — The town’s building commissioner and zoning board of appeals have been consistent over the last year in their position that Robert Martin’s bulk sale of landscaping material from […]
HOCKEY HOPES
Nauset Boys Head to TD Garden for State Finals
Warriors top Somerset Berkley 6-0 in Final Four game
BOURNE — When the top-ranked Nauset Regional High School boys hockey team takes to the ice against no. 6 Marblehead High School in the MIAA Division 3 State Finals this […]
COMMUNITY
Chapel Fundraising Campaign Has All Hands on Deck
A concerted effort includes songs at the Commons and tours of the church building
TRURO — Since the mostly Jamaican congregation that meets at the Chapel on the Pond in North Truro received news of a substantial anonymous donation toward a possible purchase of […]
ACCOUNTING
NRC Cites Holtec for Improper Use of Funds
The company’s gifts in four different communities came out of taxpayer trusts
PLYMOUTH — Holtec Decommissioning International has misspent money from the decommissioning trust funds at all four nuclear plants it owns, using it to pay for activities like parades and softball […]
ANIMAL INSTINCTS
Observers Document Humpback Sex for the First Time
A same-sex moment provides limited insight into behavior of the species
PROVINCETOWN — The news that the first-known human observation of copulation in humpback whales documented sex between two males of the species has captured imaginations across the globe and perhaps […]
CIVICS
Kopits Declares for a Seat on Wellfleet Select Board
With a consulting background, he says he can analyze Wellfleet’s woes away
WELLFLEET — Steven Kopits turned in select board nomination papers on Monday, along with challenger Sheila Lyons and incumbents John Wolf and Tim Sayre. The four will vie for two […]
