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, June 22 Climate […]
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WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
One-Day Pond Closures
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
Wiley Park Regulations Tabled
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 […]
CAPS OFF
Celebrating the Outer Cape’s Class of 2023
Graduates look to the future
The Independent invited the members of the Class of 2023 at Nauset Regional High School and Cape Cod Regional Technical High School from the four Outer Cape towns to tell […]
EVICTION IN THE PARK
Sal Del Deo, 94, Is Ordered to Leave Dune Shack
The Park Service has ‘missed the forest for the trees,’ he says
PROVINCETOWN — The leasing contest that the National Park Service announced on May 1 for eight of the 18 dune shacks in the Peaked Hill Bars Historic District, on the […]
PERSONNEL CRISIS
Wellfleet Staffing Is at a ‘Critical Point,’ Says Waldo
Compensation, retention, and town hall culture all pose problems
WELLFLEET — Town Treasurer Cameron Scott submitted his resignation on June 2, becoming the fourth town employee to resign within the last two months. Assistant Town Administrator Rebecca Roughley resigned […]
TRURO TALKS
A Campaign Is Waged to Oust Town Manager
42 percent of the signers of an online petition are nonvoters
TRURO — A vocal contingent of Truro voters and nonvoters has waged a campaign in the last week asking the select board not to renew Town Manager Darrin Tangeman’s contract. […]
TOWN HALL
Emergency Management Has Been a Moving Target in Provincetown
Sharing of preparedness duties across agencies is normal, but Provincetown is unique
PROVINCETOWN — Perched at the tip of Cape Cod, surrounded by water on all sides, Provincetown is at heightened risk of weather-based emergencies: storms, saltwater flooding, and extreme cold among […]
CANNABIS
Pot Shop Owner Pursues a Special Permit, Reluctantly
Though no bylaw requires it, the ZBA asks shop owners to comply
WELLFLEET — Jason Robicheau has been struggling to get his recreational marijuana shop, the Grateful Mind, up and running at 15 Bank St. in Wellfleet’s central district for more than […]
RUMBLINGS
Contractor Yard’s Neighbors Seek to Participate in Negotiations
They argue the town’s deal with Great White Realty is inadequate
WELLFLEET — Four neighbors of the contractor’s yard operated by GFM Enterprises at the corner of Route 6 and Old Wharf Road have asked a state Land Court judge not […]
HOUSING
Students Walk Because ‘We See What’s Happening to Our Friends’
Provincetown middle-schoolers raise awareness and money at the Walk for Home
PROVINCETOWN — One of the major donors to the Homeless Prevention Council’s recent Walk for Home campaign was a team from the Provincetown middle school’s National Junior Honor Society. “We […]
THE LOCAL JOURNALISM PROJECT
Introducing the Independent’s Summer Fellows for 2023
Oliver Egger Durham, North Carolina Wesleyan University, Class of 2023 English Two days after graduating from Wesleyan University, my partner and I piled our books, our clothes, their plethora of […]
MILLION-YEAR PICNIC
When Mars Lost Its Magnetosphere
And watching the Moon, Venus, and Mars on the shortest night of the year
If you head outside just after sunset, you’ll see a very bright star sparkling in the west. That’s our sister planet, Venus. Just above and to the left of Venus […]
THE SCUTTLEBUTT
A Hit-or-Miss Week for Predators
Humans chasing bass, dogfish chasing flounder, sharks chasing seals
Bass fishing was hit or miss last week. It seems the stripers are moving about a lot more than usual. The bass typically arrive in densely packed schools, and when they […]
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, June 13 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
