PROVINCETOWN — The lack of affordable and available year-round housing is a crisis on the Outer Cape, but at least it’s one for which communities have tools — from federal […]
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AQUACULTURE
License for Neglected Nauset Marsh Grant Is Revoked
The 2-acre shellfish bed ‘needs to be used’
EASTHAM — A two-acre aquaculture grant in Nauset Marsh that has gone largely untended for several years will be offered to new stewards. At its April 5 meeting, the select […]
TOWN MEETING PREVIEW
Voters to Be Asked for $3.5M to Fix Court Street Flooding
The town budget is up 8.2 percent; schools ask 18 percent more
PROVINCETOWN — Dept. of Public Works Director Rich Waldo said it is possible to fix the flooding that has for decades impeded pedestrians, harmed businesses, and damaged cars at the […]
CLEAR-CUT CASE
Before the ZBA, Great White Realty Is Now 0-3
Special permits for an excavating operation are denied
WELLFLEET — “The zoning board is a good board,” said attorney Ben Zehnder in an April 6 interview with the Independent. “Next meeting, I’m sure the board will do the […]
THE SELECT BOARD RACE
Oriana Conklin Wants to Solve a ‘Crisis of Community’
‘Our voices aren’t being heard’
PROVINCETOWN — Oriana Conklin, 30, is running as a first-time candidate for select board. She believes she can bring some much-needed perspective: if elected, she said, she would be the […]
THE SELECT BOARD RACE
Leslie Sandberg Wants to Start a New Chapter
‘I can get it done’
PROVINCETOWN — Leslie Sandberg has ideas to address the town’s housing crisis: dedicate to housing a portion of the short-term rental tax that currently goes into the general fund and […]
THE SELECT BOARD RACE
Lise King: ‘I Love Doing the Work’
The incumbent says she’s just hitting her stride
PROVINCETOWN — In the three-way race for a single seat on Provincetown’s select board, Lise King, 56, is the incumbent. Her argument for a second term is that she loves […]
JOURNALISM
The Indie Takes 14 New England Press Awards in Its First Year
Prizes for design, reporting, and the Arts & Minds section
The Provincetown Independent won 14 awards for journalism, design, and photography in the annual Better Newspaper competition of the New England Newspaper and Press Association, announced in Boston last week. […]
Nauset Schools
Interim Superintendent Chosen After a four-hour joint meeting of the Nauset school committees on April 12, Brooke Clenchy, 62, was named Nauset’s interim superintendent to replace Tom Conrad, who is […]
This Week In Provincetown
Meetings Ahead
Meetings are held remotely. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. Thursday, April 15 Public Pier Corp. Board, 2 p.m. Finance Committee, 2 p.m. Wednesday, […]
This Week In Truro
Meetings Ahead
Meetings are held remotely. Go to truro-ma.gov, click on the meeting you want to watch, and open its agenda for instructions on how to watch or take part online. Thursday, April 15 Climate […]
This Week In Wellfleet
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 […]
This Week In Eastham
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 […]
WHEELS
Cape Tech Students Revive Bikes for Kids
Taking on a worldwide shortage, one bike at a time
HARWICH — They arrived rusty, dirty, and tired, but thanks to the efforts of a group of students, a fleet of buffed-up bicycles will soon roll off the campus at […]
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
Outer Cape Towns to Test Drinking Water for PFAS
Legal limit for manmade ‘forever’ chemicals tightened by state DEP
Communities across the state — and on the Outer Cape — are beginning mandatory testing of their public water supplies for PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), a group of compounds […]
