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COLD FEET
Wellfleet Backs Out of Dredging Mitigation Agreement
Select board plans to ask spring town meeting for $4.5 million for permit
WELLFLEET — The select board has backpedaled on its support for a plan that would have dedicated 28 acres in Blackfish Creek to oyster habitat restoration. The restoration was a […]
NATIONAL SEASHORE
Supt. Carlstrom Is Promoted to a Job in Denver
He will become an NPS deputy regional director on Oct. 8
PROVINCETOWN — When Brian Carlstrom became superintendent of the Cape Cod National Seashore in April 2018, he told the Cape Cod Times that he wanted to continue “a lot of […]
ON THE WATERFRONT
Parsing the Possibilities at the Provincetown Inn
Zoning and floodplain maps will shape what can be built on the six-acre site
PROVINCETOWN — The six-acre property at 1 Commercial St. that encompasses the 102-room Provincetown Inn and its 125 parking spaces, six conference rooms, and swimming pool shaped like a Pilgrim’s […]
POLICING
Arrest Data Continue to Suggest Racial Discrepancy
Blacks are three times as likely to be arrested or stopped on Outer Cape
Black people on the Outer Cape are about 3.3 times as likely to be arrested as the rest of the region’s population, according to police department data from Provincetown, Truro, […]
ZONING
Building a New Sense of Place in Eastham and Provincetown
‘Form-based zoning’ shapes ambitious development projects in two towns
North Eastham’s commercial district, if all goes according to plan, will be transformed into a walkable village center within the next few years. Provincetown, too, hopes for similar changes to […]
PILGRIM PROGRESS
State Hears Mostly ‘No’ at Public Hearing on Radioactive Wastewater
In written comments and at a town hall event, people press DEP to deny permit
PLYMOUTH — Nearly all of the more than 700 written comments sent so far to the state’s Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) urge the agency to finalize its denial of […]
ENVIRONMENT
A Threat of Fines Prompts Oil Spill Cleanup to Resume
Years of testing follow a spill near a Wellfleet wetland
WELLFLEET — State officials want to see the cleanup of a nearly two-year-old oil spill at a downtown business and recently threatened the owner with fines “in excess of several […]
HISTORY
Archives Reveal Clues to Provincetown’s Ku Klux Klan Chapter
Thousands of Cape Codders attended KKK events during the 1920s
PROVINCETOWN — Zana Small, the first woman to register a motor vehicle in Truro. Alice Stiff, a former president of the Nautilus Club. The wives of a county commissioner, multiple […]
PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Housing Advisory Group
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in-person, typically with an online-attendance option for both committee members and residents. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the […]
TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
A DPW Building Committee
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, Aug. 31 Board […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Indian Neck Shellfish Lotteries
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
Changing the Channel
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online-attendance option. Go to eastham-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for details. All meetings are […]
EDUCATION
Housing Crisis Hits Schools — and Will Get Worse
Enticing new staff to towns where teachers can’t live is ‘a really hard sell’
Faced with significant turnover of teachers, administrators, bus drivers, and support staff, every one of the Outer Cape’s schools is feeling the effects of Cape Cod’s year-round housing shortage. When […]
RADIOACTIVITY
Holtec Releases Some Pilgrim Wastewater as Gas
Officials say amount is small, but watchdogs worry more is planned
PLYMOUTH — Officials and citizens groups that have spent two years fighting to block Holtec Decommissioning International from dumping 1.1 million gallons of radioactive wastewater from the Pilgrim nuclear plant […]
