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WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
How to Be Hybrid
Meetings Ahead
Meetings are held remotely. From wellfleet-ma.gov, hover over a date on the calendar on the right of the screen and click on the meeting you’re interested in to open its […]
EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Select Board Reorganized
Meetings Ahead
Meetings are held remotely. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to read its agenda and find information on how to view and take part […]
ON MACMILLAN PIER
Pirates Move Out, Sharks Move In
Barry Clifford’s Whydah building is for sale for $9.75 million
PROVINCETOWN — Visitors to MacMillan Pier this summer are guaranteed a sighting of a great white shark — 12 feet long and with plenty of teeth. But the toothed creature […]
TOWN MEETING
Eastham May Buy Town Center Plaza
No price has been named for the property, home to 6 businesses
EASTHAM — The final version of the annual town meeting warrant posted on May 28 has a surprising twist: voters at the June 12 meeting will be asked to authorize […]
THE HOUSING CHALLENGE, PART 2
The Complex Funding Behind Affordable Units
All agree that no one is getting rich building them
One of the reasons so few developers are interested in building affordable housing on the Outer Cape is the extreme complexity of funding such projects. Another reason: the profits are […]
FRAUD ALERT
Online Rental Scam Targets the Desperate
Craigslist users are victimized, with no recourse
WELLFLEET — Gordon Kahn had spent an entire day searching online for an apartment for his daughter when he found a cute cottage on Craigslist. The 14 interior and exterior […]
THE HOUSING CHALLENGE, PART 2
Towns Pay Little to Develop Affordable Apartments
Large projects are a bargain, but finding land is the problem
PROVINCETOWN — For Outer Cape communities that have been relentlessly squeezed by the housing crisis, producing new housing has been a primary policy response. In particular, affordable housing developments — […]
HOUSING CRUNCH
A Neighbor-to-Neighbor Rental Market Falls Short
Six months in Facebook’s outermost housing rental group
PROVINCETOWN — Someone in the Facebook group “Provincetown: Housing for Rent” called finding housing here “an impossible dream.” The page is a trove of tales of housing plans that have […]
JOBS UNFILLED
Truro, Down by 11 Employees, Faces Worker Shortage
Without enough staff, summer camp spots will be limited this year
TRURO — The town’s popular and affordable summer day camp will be able only to take children of Truro residents this year, the result of a failure to attract enough […]
OLD EXIT 12
Sherman Defeats Hastings in Brewster Vote
School choice petition fails at Orleans town meeting
BREWSTER — Sarah Harlow Sherman won a one-year term on the Brewster School Committee in the May 25 town election by defeating Rheanna Hastings. The vote was 1,675 to 839. […]
THE SCUTTLEBUTT
Weekend Nor’easter Turns Waterfront Into Dead Zone
The storm demonstrated the value of new wave attenuators
The Provincetown waterfront season certainly has gotten off to a less than auspicious start. We had a classic winter-like nor’easter for the holiday weekend. This one was in no hurry […]
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 1 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Great White Realty and Zehnder Take Zoning Board to Court
They seek to reverse decisions blocking controversial property use
WELLFLEET — The Great White Realty Group has filed suit in Mass. Land Court to overturn recent decisions by the zoning board of appeals that stopped the development of 1.3 […]
COURT REPORT
A Skiff Is Lost — on Land — and Found
Brought to Wellfleet’s ‘sandpit’ for safekeeping, a boat goes missing
ORLEANS — Had he arrived at his own bench trial on time, May 20 might have marked the end of Kevin Berry’s two-year boat odyssey. But arrive on time Berry […]
