In 1975, after driving east from Los Angeles, the Dutch conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader set sail across the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat. The performance piece was never […]
Next Generation
WALSH PROPERTY
Panel Agrees on 40,000 ‘Non-Residential’ Square Feet
Space for trade is at least twice what consultants brought to the table
TRURO — The Walsh Property Community Planning Committee was enthusiastic about allocating space for trade and other “non-residential” uses at its March 29 meeting, the group’s first in four weeks. […]
TOWN MEETING
Housing Funds and Emergency Services Get OK
Controversial articles on short-term rental regulation are postponed
PROVINCETOWN — In the first 90 minutes of Monday night’s packed town meeting, voters passed Articles 1 through 16 on the 37-item warrant — including an unprecedented operating override to […]
REVIVAL
Retracing the Road to Eastham’s Millennium Grove
No tents or tabernacles remain, but the spot off Campground Road once hosted thousands of revivalists
EASTHAM — A silverprint photograph in the collection of the Eastham Historical Society depicts a dirt road and a grove of trees. A tree in the foreground is blurred, capturing […]
CORNER STORE
East End Market Reopens 10 Weeks After Flood
With help from the neighborhood, a local gathering spot is stronger than ever
PROVINCETOWN — Outer Cape native Oriana Conklin opened the doors to her newly purchased East End Market at 212 Bradford St. on March 11, 2022.
BOOZE BAN
Cahoon Hollow Beach Will Go Cold Turkey
A new regulation will ban alcohol consumption and open containers
WELLFLEET — It’s looking like a dry summer down at Cahoon Hollow Beach. The Cape Cod National Seashore is moving forward with plans to ban drinking and open containers of […]
ARTISTS
An Elegantly Colorful World of ‘Slightly Bad Taste’
Mark Joshua Epstein finds ‘arguments and romance’ in his unconventional paintings
Mark Joshua Epstein is not afraid of excess. In his paintings, saturated hues and whimsical patterns bump up against asymmetrical frames. Some pieces jut out from the wall in precisely […]
GEAR
Cape Lobstermen Would Rather Wait Than Switch
Trials of ‘on-demand’ and ‘ropeless’ fishing are underway, but not in Cape Cod Bay
PROVINCETOWN — A 21-year-old North Atlantic right whale known as Porcia was observed in Cape Cod Bay on March 18. The whale was seen swimming with her 2023 calf by […]
WELLFLEET ACCOUNTS
2021 Town Audit Finds a Pack of Misstatements
‘Things are going to improve,’ says Administrator Rich Waldo
WELLFLEET — Nineteen months after Wellfleet was supposed to close its books on fiscal year 2021, the town finally received that year’s audit from Powers & Sullivan — and it […]
DOCUMENTARIES
Remembering Boston’s Countercultural Radio Hub
A film about the heyday of WBCN tells the story of a station and a movement
Journalist and documentarian Bill Lichtenstein has uncovered major investigative scoops, won a Peabody Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and received a Special Recognition honor from the Mass. Association for Mental […]
HOUSING
Short-Term Rental Regulation Goes to Town Meeting
But the select board won’t go along
PROVINCETOWN — At the annual town meeting on April 3, voters will consider three citizen-petitioned articles proposing amendments to Provincetown’s general bylaw that would institute new regulations on short-term rentals […]
DPW PROJECTS
Mill Pond Road Plans Have Truro Riled Up
A road debate and a $30M building
TRURO — Residents are rallying against Dept. of Public Works Director Jarrod Cabral’s plan to replace a damaged culvert that is restricting tidal flow into Mill Pond. Cabral told the […]
TOWN MEETING
Wellfleet’s 2024 Budget Rides on Overrides
Voters will face a total of 20 Proposition 2½ overrides and debt exclusions
WELLFLEET — The town’s budgeting process this year has been anything but easy, says Town Administrator Rich Waldo. “With not having support from a permanent town accountant and assistant town […]
SCHOOLS
No Longer Interim: Goyette Named Superintendent in Provincetown
Search committee finds former principal ‘head and shoulders’ above other candidates
PROVINCETOWN — When Gerry Goyette was made interim superintendent in June 2022, the Provincetown School Committee had one major concern: Goyette, who was serving as the school’s principal, was just […]
TOWN FINANCE
Wellfleet Officials Take In State’s Fiscal Report
But they are at a loss about how to begin on DOR recommendations
WELLFLEET — When the state Dept. of Revenue presented its bleak financial management review to the select board and finance committee on Feb. 28, Deb Wagner, a director at the […]
