Once you learn to identify the black locust by its deeply furrowed, interlacing bark, you’ll start to see it everywhere on the Outer Cape — where there’s one, there are […]
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RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Jan. 16 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Chapter 91 Action Plan
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option for both committee members and residents. Click on the meeting you want to attend on […]
TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Permit to Burn It
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, Jan. 18 Climate […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Administration Turmoil Continues
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
A First Look at the Budget
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link […]
CIAO
Italian Instruction Is ‘Presente’ in Provincetown
Students, all starting from scratch, sit up and take notice in new language classes
PROVINCETOWN — When Provincetown International Baccalaureate Schools students enter the classroom of their new Italian instructor, Tiziana Murray, they’re faced with an immediate challenge: a sentence on the board in […]
PIONEERS
Mayo Will Retire After 48 Years at Coastal Studies
Daniel Palacios will succeed Mayo as director of Right Whale Ecology Program
PROVINCETOWN — The Center for Coastal Studies is set to announce that Charles “Stormy” Mayo III, a cofounder of the organization and director of its Right Whale Ecology Program, will […]
UNENTITLED
Court Rejects Sextons’ Latest Land Gambit
Wellfleet’s deed prevails in case that threatened affordable housing
WELLFLEET — Chellise Sexton and her son Kevin are known for repeatedly trying to wrest properties away from their current owners using 100-year-old deeds to back their claims. They have […]
STATE HOUSE
Outer Cape Is Whistle Stop on Senators’ Housing Policy Tour
‘This is our shot’ for real estate transfer fee, says housing committee chair
PROVINCETOWN — Sen. Lydia Edwards of Boston, who represents the third Suffolk district and cochairs the state legislature’s joint committee on housing, visited Provincetown on Dec. 22 to talk with […]
HEALTH CARE
State Expands Eligibility for Low-Cost Health Plans
But those currently uninsured face a Jan. 23 deadline to sign up
PROVINCETOWN — This year’s “open enrollment” period on the state’s Health Connector website — that is, the window of time in which people without health insurance can easily sign up […]
BUSINESS
Chamber of Commerce Proposes New Hotel Tax to Promote Tourism
The Tourism Destination Marketing District gets a mixed review from Eastham board
EASTHAM — The Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce is proposing to generate money for tourism marketing with a new 1.5-percent tax on stays at hotels and motels with 15 or more […]
CLEAN WATER
Wellfleet’s Wastewater Plan Is on Track to Meet State Deadline
A larger downtown sewer district and treatment at Maurice’s should improve nitrogen mitigation
WELLFLEET — Town officials are working to finalize a targeted watershed management plan aimed at reducing the nitrogen load in the harbor and bringing Wellfleet into compliance with state and […]
AT SCHOOL
In Truro, Teachers Wear Many Hats
That’s part of what it means to work in a one-school district with fewer than 100 students
TRURO — As a sixth-grader at Truro Central School in 1993, Abby Roderick drew a life-size portrait of herself in a billowing purple skirt, wielding a puppet in one hand […]
MORNING FLIGHT
Birding in Good Company
On joining Truro’s Christmas Bird Count
Birders will use just about any excuse to fit a little more bird-watching in. So, we add a few days of sunup-to-sundown birding in the freezing cold to an already […]
