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EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Zoning Task Force Adopts New Mandate
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 […]
TOWN MANAGEMENT
Truro Select Board Renews Tangeman’s Contract
The board will discuss his job performance in an open session on July 11
TRURO — The select board voted 4-1 on June 28 to extend the town’s contract with Town Manager Darrin Tangeman. The vote came during an executive session and was announced […]
CULTURAL EXCHANGE
5 Students Are Sent Home for Visa Violations
Many were unaware that J-1 visa holders cannot drive pedicabs
PROVINCETOWN — It was news to many in Provincetown — including the owners of at least two pedicab companies and evidently to the town government as well — that the […]
TRURO TOWN HALL
Select Board Will Investigate Areson
The board’s vice chair is accused of violating the town charter
TRURO — The select board voted on June 28 to investigate a complaint that vice chair Sue Areson had violated the town charter by talking to town employees about Town […]
HOUSING
Eastham Board OKs Closer Look at Tiny Houses
Changes in state rules may help towns take up small-scale solutions
EASTHAM — Tiny houses — often defined as dwellings smaller than 400 or 500 square feet — may be coming to Eastham if regulatory departments and the local zoning task […]
THE COURTS
Defendant in ‘Barricade’ Case Released for Treatment
Bridges has been in pretrial detention since the Feb. 28 incident
ORLEANS — After four months of incarceration, primarily at the Bridgewater State Hospital psychiatric facility, Provincetown resident Jonathan Bridges has been released from pretrial detention. Bridges was involved in an […]
‘ONGOING CONVERSATIONS’
Park Service Boards Up a Dune Shack, Then Changes Course
The Park is now ‘exploring all legal options’ to allow some use of Frenchie’s Shack by Sal Del Deo
PROVINCETOWN — While the country geared up for the long July 4th weekend, the National Park Service formally evicted Sal Del Deo, 94, from the dune shack he has cared […]
PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Eight New EMS Hires
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TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Oxtoby Named to School 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, July […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Monday Night Special Town Meeting
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EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Resisting the Dune Shack Resistance
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. Meetings are […]
PROVINCETOWN POLICING
A False Report of a Gun Sparks Calls for Change
Five teens of color were frisked by police at the East End basketball court
PROVINCETOWN — Chief Jim Golden and Sgt. Jennifer Nolette on Monday morning defended a controversial police encounter with local young men of color, just over a week after a false […]
HORSESHOE CRABS
A Fishery With Global Stakes Faces New Scrutiny
Proposed regulations fail, dead crabs wash ashore, and ‘people are asking a lot of questions’
The Atlantic horseshoe crab’s evolutionary lineage has barely changed in the last 450 million years. But it’s now under unprecedented pressure in Massachusetts from human activity. For years, the bifurcated […]
EVICTION
Del Deo Refuses Order to Quit His Dune Shack
Markey, Warren, and Keating ask Park Service to let him remain
PROVINCETOWN — Sal Del Deo, 94, who has spent 77 years caring for and seasonally inhabiting the dune shack he still calls “Frenchie’s” after his friend Jeanne “Frenchie” Chanel, refused […]
