WELLFLEET — Alfred Kraft lives on a long, narrow driveway at the end of Old Chequessett Neck Road in Wellfleet. On either side of his property, expanses of National Seashore […]
Local Journalism Project
LEADERSHIP
Park Service Names New Seashore Superintendent
Jennifer Flynn’s career has focused on law enforcement and fire management
WELLFLEET — The National Park Service announced on Sept. 22 that Jennifer Flynn, who has been with the NPS for 32 years and who had her first Parks job on […]
MENTAL HEALTH
In a Crisis, Clinicians Arrive — or Call — From Hyannis
Shared services are spreading, but co-response is still mostly remote
PROVINCETOWN — Last February, a 30-member SWAT team responded in full protective gear when a Provincetown man expressed suicidal intentions and barricaded himself and his roommate inside their home with […]
HEALTH CARE
40 Days of Anti-Abortion Protests Planned at Health Clinic
Cape chapter of a Texas group says it will hold prayer vigils
HYANNIS — For 15 years, people seeking abortions had to leave Cape Cod for care; the nearest clinic was over 100 miles away. But in July, Health Imperatives opened in […]
NIPPED
Wellfleet Loves Its Nips and Notable Trees
Syntactical and typographical errors, not so much
WELLFLEET — It was raining steadily on Monday night as a few hundred denizens of Wellfleet filed into the elementary school gym for the special town meeting. Looking out at […]
HURRICANE WHO?
Kite Surfers Embrace Lee’s Gentler Side
EASTHAM — The Outer Cape prepared for the worst as Hurricane Lee made its way up the Atlantic late last week. But on Saturday, we saw little of the storm’s […]
MOSQUITOES
West Nile Virus Makes Its Annual Appearance Here
Experts recommend removing standing water to control the disease
EASTHAM — West Nile virus, a mosquito-borne illness that appears on Cape Cod annually, has been detected in a sample of the insects in the Fort Hill area of Eastham. […]
BEGGING TO DIFFER
In Truro, a Class on How to Disagree Agreeably
Former state Rep. Winslow says civility and politeness aren’t the same thing
TRURO — A self-proclaimed “professional troublemaker” may not be the person you’d expect to be leading a workshop on civility in politics. But that’s what former Republican state Rep. Daniel […]
MONEY MARKET
Successful Bond Auction Sparks Hope for Wellfleet’s Finances
Town secures 3.5-percent interest rate on $11-million bond sale
WELLFLEET — A successful auction of municipal bonds on Aug. 29 shows that Wellfleet’s finances are making a strong recovery, said Town Administrator Rich Waldo. The auction, which attracted 15 […]
STOPGAP
6 Homeless Families Land Briefly in Eastham Motel
They were separated from family in a state program ‘past the brink’
EASTHAM — For nine days at the end of August, after Gov. Maura Healey declared a state of emergency because of a shortage of shelters for unhoused families, six families […]
THE TRURO WARRANT
Walsh Committee Prepares a Plan for Town Meeting
Members push back on comments about the size of the project
TRURO — The 13-member Walsh Property Community Planning Committee has kicked into high gear as it prepares to present its plan for the use of the 70-acre property at an […]
HISTORY
In the Lodge at Provincetown’s Oldest Boys’ Club
The Masons have been meeting here since 1795
PROVINCETOWN — It is not meant to be a secret that the world’s most ubiquitous secret society — or rather “society of secrets,” as described to the Independent by one […]
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 […]
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, […]
ARTISTS
A Language of Dualities
Joe Diggs paints the many meanings of history
The painter Joe Diggs has had ancestors living on Cape Cod since the 1800s. His step-great-grandfather, Gideon Gomes, was a Cape Verdean free man of color who bought the large […]
