Meetings Ahead Thursday, March 12 Bicycle Committee, 2 p.m., Maushope Community Room Planning Board, 6:30 p.m., Town Hall Tuesday, March 17 Conservation Commission, 6 p.m., Town Hall Wednesday, March 18 […]
Provincetown
TECHNOLOGY
Town Website Glitch Cancels Four Meetings
Open meeting law required rescheduling in Eastham, Wellfleet
The Eastham, Wellfleet, and Truro town websites were unreachable for much of last Monday and Tuesday, forcing the last-minute cancellation and rescheduling of at least four local board meetings. The […]
PUBLIC ART
Compact to Turn P’town VFW Into Art Installation
Jay Critchley invites veterans and members of the community to participate
PROVINCETOWN — It’s a project Jay Critchley had been contemplating for a while: he knew that the town had bought the Veterans of Foreign Wars building at 3 Jerome Smith […]
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This Week in Provincetown
Meetings Ahead Thursday, March 5 Recycling & Renewable Energy Committee, 9 a.m., Caucus Hall, Town Hall Economic Development Committee, 11 a.m., Room 93, Veterans Memorial Harbor Committee & Provincetown Public […]
IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK
Our House Was a Very Fine House
In a place of long memories, a house forgotten
Ken Fulk speaks of his loving restoration of the Vorse House in Provincetown — a house, he says, that “we couldn’t afford to lose.” I write of one that was […]
FICTION
Writing Is a Familial Endeavor for Nora Corrigan
Her time at FAWC is one of transition
The year 2020 promises to be an exciting one for Nora Corrigan. She completed her first novel, about a female oil worker on a rig in a North Dakota boomtown, […]
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
Truth in the Crosshairs
The “story” broke on capecodtoday.com: a man rolled into Provincetown in a military truck adorned with Trump campaign signs, thin blue line flags, and the driver’s own campaign banners. The […]
CIVICS
Finance Committee and Moderator Block Nonresident Alternates
A Florida resident’s application sparks town meeting article
PROVINCETOWN — When it comes to making appointments to the finance committee, the town moderator is clear that she won’t appoint a nonresident taxpayer. “I don’t have anything against nonresidents, […]
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This Week in Provincetown
Meetings Ahead Friday, Feb. 28 Public Landscape Committee, 12 p.m., Lopes Square Tuesday, March 3 Conservation Commission, 6 p.m., Town Hall Wednesday, March 4 Historic District Commission, 4 p.m., Town […]
PAINTING
Hannah Morris Discovers Herself in Her Art
What the FAWC fellow finds, she hopes will touch others
Large, brightly colored canvases, some spanning an entire wall, layered with images of figures, birds in flight, a fox, or flowers, greet the viewer entering Hannah E. Morris’s studio at […]
RESTORATION
Time and the House: A New Chapter in Vorse Chronicle
Designer Ken Fulk is bringing Mary Heaton Vorse’s Provincetown home back to life
PROVINCETOWN — The Mary Heaton Vorse House, at 466 Commercial St., is the informal epicenter of town history. Vorse, a journalist and civil rights activist, spent most of her adult […]
GRAVEYARD SHIFT
Take a Walk on the Other Side of Town
Provincetown’s cemeteries are an en plein air art gallery
Until summer returns, the art galleries in Provincetown are mostly quiet, though surely planning for next season’s traditional Friday evening strolls. That’s when everyone takes to the streets, zigging and […]
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This Week in Provincetown
Meetings Ahead Thursday, Feb. 20 Animal Welfare Committee, 12 p.m., Veterans Memorial Community Center Harbor Committee, 5 p.m., Town Hall Board of Health, 4 p.m., Town Hall Historic District Commission, […]
CIRCUS
Cirque du Soleil Opts Out of Provincetown
Some board members blame a news story; promoter’s tale is contradicted by Cirque spokesman
PROVINCETOWN — Select Board Member Lise King and the Provincetown Independent were blamed by some members at the board’s Monday, Feb. 10 meeting for the collapse of a promoter’s seven-month […]
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This Week in Provincetown
Meetings Ahead Thursday, Feb. 13 Bicycle Committee, 2 p.m., Maushope Community Room, 44 Harry Kemp Way Planning Board, 6:30 p.m., Town Hall Visitor Service Board, 9:30 a.m., Town Hall Water […]
