PROVINCETOWN — As summer ramps up, so too does a nightlife scene that draws throngs of gay men to the tip of the Cape. Nightclubs like Purgatory and the Paramount […]
Next Generation
POND SCUM
Bacteria Monitoring Expands in Outer Cape Towns
Runoff and climate change will likely make blooms more common
PROVINCETOWN — Sophia Feuerhake and Jacob Scola meet at the entrance to Clapps Pond off Route 6 and unload a box full of equipment — tubes, nets, bottles, and a […]
VOLUNTEERS WANTED
Nonprofits Struggle to Keep Their Services Running
As Cape population ages, volunteer groups face a different kind of labor shortage
EASTHAM — Nauset Neighbors, an all-volunteer nonprofit that assists more than 300 older adults living alone on Cape Cod, began turning away new members requesting the organization’s help in May. […]
CENTENARIANS
Wellfleet’s Grace Ebert Finds a Happy Moment in Every Day
After 55 years here, a New Yorker at heart says, ‘You can tell I’m from the Bronx’
WELLFLEET — Of the past 100 years, Grace Ebert remembers only the exceedingly good and exceedingly bad days. “If I have to think hard to remember a day, it could […]
PROMOTED
Provincetown Schools Celebrate 8th-Grade Graduation
With wisdom, determination, and smiles, 14 students are heading to high school in Eastham and Harwich
PROVINCETOWN — Fourteen eighth-graders graduated from the Provincetown International Baccalaureate Schools at its annual promotion ceremony on June 21. Three of the newly minted middle-school graduates will attend Cape Cod […]
CAPE COD BASEBALL LEAGUE
Temporary Players, Shuffling Rosters Mark Early Summer Ball
Temporary Players, Shuffling Rosters Mark Early Summer Ball
ORLEANS — Each year, while the best collegiate players are occupied in Omaha at the NCAA Division I College World Series in June, coaches across the Cape Cod Baseball League […]
SUMMER JOURNALISM FELLOW
Molly Reinmann Measures Life In Stories
The Provincetown Independent, in collaboration with its nonprofit partner, the Local Journalism Project, last week welcomed its fifth cohort of summer journalism fellows for 10 weeks of work and learning […]
SUMMER JOURNALISM FELLOW
Cam Kettles Sees How News Connects People
The Provincetown Independent, in collaboration with its nonprofit partner, the Local Journalism Project, last week welcomed its fifth cohort of summer journalism fellows for 10 weeks of work and learning […]
FAMILY LEGACY
Van Dereck Estate Remains a Tangle of Secrets
An absent widow and a former financial adviser in sole control raise questions
PROVINCETOWN — In the years since restaurateur, art collector, and landlord Anton “Napi” Van Dereck Haunstrup died and left his estate, estimated at $17 million, to his wife, Helen, a […]
IMPOUNDED
Probate Judge Keeps Napi’s Estate Documents Out of Public Eye
Tierney denies motion to unseal records and impounds them for 20 years
BARNSTABLE — A judge in Barnstable County Probate and Family Court denied a motion filed by Independent reporter Sam Pollak to unseal documents related to the guardianship and conservatorship of […]
THE PEOPLE’S PERENNIALS
A Not-So-Secret Garden Is Blooming Again
Local green thumbs complete a 3-year restoration of Suzanne’s Garden
Suzanne Sinaiko never wanted a vegetable garden in the plot near her East End home. “My mother said to me right at the beginning, ‘Look, I can get vegetables at […]
WHITE COLLAR CRIME
Delgizzis Told to Pay Up or Shut Restaurant
Eastham denies business license for Lobster Shanty over back taxes
EASTHAM — David and Carolyn Delgizzi will not be allowed to open the Lobster Shanty this summer because they haven’t paid their taxes. The select board voted unanimously on May […]
THE SPROUTS
Pea Shoots and Pansies Washed Down With Kale
At a school salad party, students sample a medley of herbs and greens
TRURO — Students at Truro Central School, be they kindergartners or fifth-graders, know that the florets that sprout at the top of kale plants are to be picked. And eaten. […]
LITTLE THINGS
An Artist in the Garden
Tessera C. Knowles plants an invitation to slow down and look closer
In Tessera C. Knowles’s painting Saltine at Egg’s Isle, Provincetown’s drag mistress of political satire sits in a chair on the sand behind the Julie Heller Gallery surrounded by an […]
DAWN DIPS
An Ode to the Morning Cold Plunge
Stripping and dipping and screaming, then a fluffy towel and a cup of coffee
PROVINCETOWN — We don’t quite remember how it started. There was surely a need for physical catharsis after a winter spent too much indoors, and perhaps we had notions of […]
