EASTHAM — For nine days at the end of August, after Gov. Maura Healey declared a state of emergency because of a shortage of shelters for unhoused families, six families […]
Next Generation
THE TRURO WARRANT
Walsh Committee Prepares a Plan for Town Meeting
Members push back on comments about the size of the project
TRURO — The 13-member Walsh Property Community Planning Committee has kicked into high gear as it prepares to present its plan for the use of the 70-acre property at an […]
HISTORY
In the Lodge at Provincetown’s Oldest Boys’ Club
The Masons have been meeting here since 1795
PROVINCETOWN — It is not meant to be a secret that the world’s most ubiquitous secret society — or rather “society of secrets,” as described to the Independent by one […]
COLD FEET
Wellfleet Backs Out of Dredging Mitigation Agreement
Select board plans to ask spring town meeting for $4.5 million for permit
WELLFLEET — The select board has backpedaled on its support for a plan that would have dedicated 28 acres in Blackfish Creek to oyster habitat restoration. The restoration was a […]
POLICING
Arrest Data Continue to Suggest Racial Discrepancy
Blacks are three times as likely to be arrested or stopped on Outer Cape
Black people on the Outer Cape are about 3.3 times as likely to be arrested as the rest of the region’s population, according to police department data from Provincetown, Truro, […]
ARTISTS
A Language of Dualities
Joe Diggs paints the many meanings of history
The painter Joe Diggs has had ancestors living on Cape Cod since the 1800s. His step-great-grandfather, Gideon Gomes, was a Cape Verdean free man of color who bought the large […]
PERSONNEL FILE
Lobur Is Now Assistant Harbormaster in Wellfleet
Town officials say seasonal position is ‘not law enforcement’
WELLFLEET — Former Provincetown Police Detective Meredith Lobur began her new job as assistant harbormaster in Wellfleet on July 13, four days before being placed on a list of untrustworthy […]
ZONING
Truro Planning Board Again Rejects Change in House-Size Limit
A proposal to eliminate special permit ‘loophole’ won’t be on warrant
TRURO — Since 2017, Truro’s zoning bylaw has included a limit on the size of large houses. But a provision in the bylaw allows homes to exceed the limit with […]
HISTORY
Archives Reveal Clues to Provincetown’s Ku Klux Klan Chapter
Thousands of Cape Codders attended KKK events during the 1920s
PROVINCETOWN — Zana Small, the first woman to register a motor vehicle in Truro. Alice Stiff, a former president of the Nautilus Club. The wives of a county commissioner, multiple […]
WORKSHOP
‘Attention Is the Beginning of Devotion’
Experiencing ‘re-wilding’ in a Castle Hill workshop
TRURO — On a reed-covered stretch of sand jutting out into Pamet Harbor, five students and their instructor dip their natural brushes — a broken-in-half reed, a corner of a […]
CLIMATE CRISIS
Lobstermen Face Hypoxia in Outer Cape Waters
Low oxygen levels linked to warmer water spell trouble for local lobsters
PROVINCETOWN — Alex Iacono, a lobsterman who says he favors lobsters and ocean solitude over people, is worried about the future of his business. Iacono, who lives in Truro and […]
MISCONDUCT
Lobur Resigns; Police Chief and D.A. Won’t Talk
Provincetown detective appears on D.A.’s list of unreliable officers
PROVINCETOWN — Longtime Detective Meredith Lobur resigned from the town’s police force on July 2, two weeks before she appeared on a list of law enforcement officers known to be […]
STATUS QUO
4 Years On, Uncertainty Lingers at Bike Path’s End
Options for Wellfleet leg of Cape Cod Rail Trail get no hearing
WELLFLEET — When the Mass. Dept. of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) proposed in 2018 to extend the Cape Cod Rail Trail bike path, it was one part of an expansive […]
TURTLE WATCH
Warmer Waters Put Sea Turtles on Collision Course With Humans
More turtles on Cape Cod’s shores means a higher risk of boat strikes
WELLFLEET — Rising North Atlantic Ocean temperatures are causing increased numbers of threatened and endangered sea turtles to migrate through Massachusetts waters — heading north in search of food, then […]
TURTLE WATCH
Warmer Waters Put Sea Turtles on Collision Course With Humans
More turtles on Cape Cod’s shores means a higher risk of boat strikes
WELLFLEET — Rising North Atlantic Ocean temperatures are causing increased numbers of threatened and endangered sea turtles to migrate through Massachusetts waters — heading north in search of food, then […]
