Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, April 25 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
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PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Select Board Candidates Forum
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are in-person, typically with an online-attendance option for both committee members and residents. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar […]
TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Record Keeping
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. Monday, May 1 Conservation […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
NOAA Grant for Herring River
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 Letter on Year-Round Rentals
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 […]
TOWN MEETING PREVIEW
A Long Warrant Offers Much to Debate in Truro
Budget overrides, citizen petitions, and ‘adopted’ and withdrawn articles
TRURO — Town meeting is less than a week away, and there are 42 articles on this year’s warrant. With four budget overrides, 10 Community Preservation Act articles, six citizen […]
YOUNG LIVES
Local Teens Speak for Themselves About Suicide
A forum on suicide and prevention reveals strategies and struggles
Two teenagers discussed their paths out of life-threatening depression at a March 28 online forum on youth suicide prevention organized by the League of Women Voters. Sophia Ryan, a senior […]
RADIOACTIVITY
Ocean Sanctuaries Act Could Stop Pilgrim Release
Lawyers for APCC argue the law prohibits any new industrial waste in bay
PLYMOUTH — Holtec International can’t release one drop of its million gallons of wastewater from the former Pilgrim nuclear plant into Cape Cod Bay because doing so would violate the […]
CYCLING
Small Improvements Presage Bigger Trail Projects
Pieces of an Outer Cape bicycle network fall into place, but progress is slow
PROVINCETOWN — Turning disparate stretches of bike trail into a connected network can be like carpentry: the junctions and joinery require just as much attention as the long boards. One […]
WELLFLEET ELECTION
Select Board Incumbent Curley: ‘There’s More Work to Be Done’
The 39-year-old chair says housing and finances are top priorities
WELLFLEET — Select board chair Ryan Curley wants to finish what he started. At the annual town election on May 1, Curley will face former Wellfleet Principal Clerk Jeanne Maclauchlan, […]
WELLFLEET ELECTION
Select Board Candidate Maclauchlan Wants Less Spending
The town’s former principal clerk has no comment on the upcoming town meeting warrant
WELLFLEET — Jeanne Maclauchlan did not want her picture in the newspaper, but perhaps many people know her already. She retired from her job as the town’s principal clerk last […]
CIVICS
A Tense Town Meeting Left Lingering Questions
In the end, the town moderator’s discretion is the controlling factor
PROVINCETOWN — In the aftermath of the April 3 town meeting’s 90-minute dustup over Articles 18, 19, and 20 on short-term rental regulation, some of the 582 registered Provincetown voters […]
TOWN MEETING TACTICS
Advocacy on Warrant Is Not Subject to Campaign Law
A website and texts opposing short-term rental articles were anonymous but legal
PROVINCETOWN — Leading up to the April 3 annual town meeting, texting campaigns both for and against three controversial petitioned articles proposing short-term rental regulations landed in the phones of […]
ON THE BEACH
In Praise of the Single Barbless Hook
When fewer fish are keepers, using the right lure matters more
The last time I used anything more than a single hook while fishing was a memorable mid-September day in 1978, when an enormous school of 15-pound bluefish cornered an even […]
ON THE COURT
Mock Trial Team Plays the Plaintiff in Boston
They lost by one point, but competing in a federal courthouse was a win
EASTHAM — The Nauset Regional High School mock trial team is officially among the eight best high school teams in the state this year. On March 8, the team traveled […]
