TRURO — Attorney Ben Zehnder did his best to make his client’s proposal to build a 5,100-square-foot house at 17 Coast Guard Road sound like a good thing for the […]
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ENVIRONMENT
Searching for Alternatives to ‘Beach Nourishment’
Oystermen say ‘sacrificial sand’ is burying their shellfish grants
WELLFLEET — To preserve eroding property and maintain beaches, thousands of cubic yards of so-called sacrificial sand is piled on coastal banks and bay shores here. It does not stay […]
EARTH DAY
Great Marsh Cleanup
The volunteers’ haul: 440 pounds of trash, 1,300 pounds of wood, metal, and 28 tires
EASTHAM — The Eastham Conservation Foundation celebrated Earth Day a week early on April 16 with its fourth annual Earth Day Great Marsh Cleanup. And clean up they did, with […]
IDENTITIES
Nauset’s Queer Community Refuses to Be Invisible
Gender & Sexuality Alliance members lead changes after being heckled at pep rally
EASTHAM — Nauset Regional High School students packed the bleachers on Friday, Oct. 15, whooping, whistling, and hollering as clubs, one by one, paraded down the turf field. It was […]
GOING UP
Provincetown’s Inclined Elevator Is Up and Running
After five years of planning and much drama, the High Pole Hill ‘funicular’ is fun
PROVINCETOWN — The sun broke through a dense fog. The town hall clock chimed, tourists rolled suitcases down Commercial Street, and there was something new: a glass elevator glided up […]
NESTING
Inside the Seasonal Homes of the Ospreys
Decorating with flip-flops, T-shirts, rosary beads, golf balls, fishing poles, and a Barbie
Come April, ospreys — the large raptors also known as sea hawks — make their thousands-of-miles-long journeys from South America back to Cape Cod to nest. A peek inside their […]
NOTHING LIKE THE SUN
At the Beech
The Beech Forest Trail off Race Point Road in the Province Lands of the Cape Cod National Seashore beckons spring birdwatchers and seekers of peace. (Photo by Agata Storer)
MEET THE MAKERS
Girl Scouts Learn a Jeweler’s Craft
Making rings to celebrate friendships and earn a badge
It was a quiet day in early March, but the Jewelry Studio of Wellfleet was buzzing with activity. Seven members of Girl Scout Troop 82548 were inside, soldering, hammering, and […]
ENVIRONMENT
New Culvert Will Boost Tidal Flow to East Harbor
A steady supply of salt water should help more species thrive
TRURO — The neat stacks of concrete pipes lined up along Route 6A in North Truro are not a public art project. They are being installed underground as part of […]
INVASION
‘We Need to Stand Together’
A small-town mayor in Ukraine faces the unthinkable
In a one-hour conversation on Tuesday, Bogdan Kelichavyi had to relocate four times. He began our video call in his town hall office in Kopychyntsi, Ukraine but was interrupted almost […]
RADIOACTIVITY
EPA: Holtec Sows ‘Public Confusion’
Agency chastises Pilgrim’s owner for statements on dumping water into Cape Cod Bay
PLYMOUTH — An Environmental Protection Agency official criticized Holtec International last week for misleading the public about its proposed dumping of radioactive water from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station into […]
METAPHYSICS
Winter Sunsets
In the evening light reflected by sky and water, a glimpse of the universe, and of ourselves
Every evening, just before dark, a miracle occurs. You can go see it, and each time you do, it will be infinitely different from the last time you watched it. […]
STREET VIEW
Thoughts on Love
‘It’s not what’s on TV or in books’
On a series of walks with my camera in the weeks before Valentine’s Day, I stopped the people I saw on our winter-quiet streets and beaches to ask them about […]
SNOW DAY
Storm Stories
Blizzard reports from the Outer Cape towns
In Provincetown, Drifting Snow Trapped Many Indoors PROVINCETOWN — On narrow, tightly packed side streets, the winds whipped into curls and eddies and piled snow to the tops of some […]
RACE POINT
The Old Harbor Life-Saving Station
The Old Harbor Life-Saving Station was built in Chatham in 1897, one of a string of life-saving stations that dotted our coast before the Coast Guard took over maritime rescue. […]
