EASTHAM — Two town residents tested positive for Covid-19 after a house party in Chatham that resulted in at least 13 positive cases, according to Health Agent Jane Crowley. Crowley, […]
Civics
TECHNOLOGY
As Life Moves Online, Lack of Access Vexes
Comcast’s ‘monopoly’ keeps others from serving the Cape
While debates about in-person schooling rage and doctor visits go virtual, Outer Cape towns are negotiating the next decade of internet coverage in the area. Contracts between the individual towns […]
CANDIDATES
Meet the Three Finalists for Truro Town Manager
Search firm Community Paradigm Associates is back on the job
The public will have its first chance to meet the three Truro town manager candidates, who are profiled below, at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 4, in a virtual meeting. […]
CIVICS
The Postal Service Is a Lifeline for Local Businesses
In remote places like the Outer Cape, as online sales grow, so does reliance on USPS
As the future of the U.S. Postal Service, which President Trump has called “a joke,” continues to be ominously clouded, a key group of the service’s users on the Outer […]
CIVICS
Wellfleet Town Meeting Moved Up to Sept. 12
Task force comes up with a plan to accommodate 350 people outdoors
WELLFLEET — Plans for the 2020 annual town meeting are at last set. Almost five months after the meeting was originally to have taken place, it will be convened at […]
RESIGNATION
After 6 Months, New Town Manager Quits
Craver’s ‘probationary period’ would have ended this week
PROVINCETOWN — Robin Craver was hired as Provincetown’s town manager by the select board on Jan. 13, 2020. Her contract included a six-month probationary period, after which, if she were […]
BLACK AND WHITE
Race-based Incidents Do Happen Here
Victim of Corn Hill Beach case says police were no help
TRURO — Last July, N.K., a University of Chicago professor here on vacation, took a right at the entrance to Corn Hill Beach in Truro, put her towel down, and […]
COUNTY SEAT
Assembly Vote on Covid Rules Shows East-West Divide
The Outer Cape’s delegates, and Sen. Cyr, beg to differ
PROVINCETOWN — The Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates adopted a resolution on June 17 questioning the legality of Gov. Charlie Baker’s Covid-19 response. The Outer Cape’s delegates opposed the resolution, […]
INVESTIGATION
New Questions About FAWC’s MacMillan Emerge
Board is silent as director denies involvement in Epstein donations at M.I.T.
PROVINCETOWN — When accusations of discrimination and failure to address racially charged incidents at the Fine Arts Work Center became public last month, the organization’s board responded with a letter […]
Key to Select Board Race Is Hard to Find
PROVINCETOWN — Thirty percent of registered Provincetown voters cast ballots in the June 30 annual town election, in which incumbent select board members Robert P. Anthony and Louise Venden squared […]
CIVICS
Curley Joins Select Board in Wellfleet
Dealing with wastewater ‘should be high on the list,’ he says
WELLFLEET — There is a new select board member in town, and he comes from a long line of Wellfleet civic leaders. Ryan Curley, 36, says he is a 15th-generation […]
INVESTIGATION
Willy’s Gym Owner Is Accused of Identity Fraud
Barbara Niggel is said to have agreed to pay for dropping of charge
EASTHAM — Virginia Reynolds was working in the summer of 2018 at Bayside Consignment, a now-defunct shop on Route 6, when, she says, Barbara Niggel, the owner of the building, […]
POLICING, PART 1
Racial Profiling and Outer Cape Police Practice
Chiefs say summer population influx makes arrest data unreliable
As conversations about racism and police brutality have spread to every corner of the country, including the Outer Cape, police data have been at the root of efforts to expose […]
ELECTION
Truro Turns Down New Firefighters
New ambulance passes, but DPW truck purchase fails
TRURO — Voters said no to hiring four new firefighter-paramedics and purchasing a heavy-duty tractor trailer for the DPW at the June 30 town election. Only 469 or 24 percent […]
CIVICS
Keeping the Postal Service Alive
What’s at stake goes beyond threats to voting by mail
In the current round of local town elections, it appears that about 90 percent of the votes were sent in by mail. And if the Covid-19 pandemic continues into the […]
