EASTHAM — The select board voted 3-1 on Nov. 25 to approve the renewal of the liquor license for Stewart’s Restaurant on Route 6 despite questions about the character of the owner, William Stewart. Stewart was accused of sexual harassment by former female employees more than a year ago and is scheduled to be tried […]
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FESTIVALS
To Everything, Turn, Turn, Turnip
EASTHAM — The 16th annual Eastham Turnip Festival was a groovy one. Crowds enjoyed music, crafts, food, and all things turnip. Twelve restaurants vied for the top turnip recipe as determined by judges state Rep. Sarah Peake, Van Rensselaer’s Restaurant owner Peter Hall, and Cape Cod Times Food Editor Gwenn Friss. Sam’s Deli won first […]
graveyard shift
Three ‘Strangers’ Rest in the Cove Burying Ground
Eastham cemetery is the only known Cape Cod gravesite of Mayflower passengers
EASTHAM — We can probably thank Hollywood (and maybe Dickens) for the creepy reputation of burial grounds. What would a horror film be without a desolate graveyard overgrown with weeds, strewn with crumbling headstones, their skull and hourglass engravings slowly being erased by time? For the many who dread graveyards — holding their breath and […]
ROOTS
All Eastham Turns Out for Turnips
The 16th annual turnip festival is at Nauset High on Saturday
EASTHAM — By the time this story goes live, the library’s countdown clock for the Eastham Turnip Festival will reach two days, eight hours, and counting. You can watch the Festival tick closer by the second on the library website. It’s almost as if the turnip festival, now in its 16th year, were Eastham’s New […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Football Team Falls in Semi-Finals
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset High sports
Note: Team records are listed as of the Independent’s deadline. Thursday, Nov. 14 Boys soccer: The Warriors (18-0-2) will play the Oliver Ames Tigers (15-3-0) in a Division 2 South Sectional semi-final game at 7 p.m. at Sandwich High School. The winner will earn a spot in the championship. Nauset defeated Duxbury 3-1 in the […]
CIVICS
After Lagging, Local Planning Efforts May Now Pick Up
Cape Cod Commission works to spark plans that are actually implemented
Every town on Cape Cod is encouraged to have a local comprehensive plan, developed in accordance with its residents’ expressed priorities, updated every 10 years, and certified by the Cape Cod Commission — the Cape’s regional planning agency. Only two of 15 towns do. “Ten years goes by pretty quickly,” said Jon Idman, the commission’s […]
CANNABIS
Town Officials Subpoenaed on Marijuana Agreements
Federal grand jury has questions for Gardner, Hoort, and Beebe
U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling has questions for towns that have issued host community agreements to marijuana businesses. Provincetown, Wellfleet, and Eastham town administrators all received subpoenas last month ordering them to produce documents, emails, and any other correspondence associated with the agreements. They must appear at the John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse to testify before […]
CROSS-COUNTRY
High School Girls Look to Defend Their State Title
Nauset remains undefeated entering the Eastern Mass. Div. 4 Championships
EASTHAM — After ending the regular season with a 9-0 record and a first-place finish in the league championship meet on Oct. 26, the Nauset High girls’ cross-country team aims to defend its state sectional title on Nov. 9 at the Eastern Mass. Division 4 championships. Nauset won the Atlantic Coast League (ACL) championship last […]
economy
Rock Harbor Project to Begin in March
The parking lot and boat ramp will be upgraded before summer
EASTHAM — Rock Harbor is in line to receive additional upgrades starting in March. Shana Brogan, the town’s conservation agent, told the harbor planning committee on Oct. 17 that the state will begin with improvements to the parking area and boat ramp. Voters approved a $1.3 million Rock Harbor improvement plan at a 2018 town […]
EASTHAM CURRENTS
Nauset High Renovation Progresses
Also: Tee-Time Committee; Openings in Town
The public will hear the final proposed cost of the Nauset Regional High School building project in February, according to Greg Levasseur, chairman of the building committee. Levasseur told the Eastham Select Board on Oct. 23 that the Mass. School Building Authority (MSBA) will vote to fund the project in February at a final proposed […]
FIRST RESPONSE
Police Station Gets First Renovation Since 1989
Roof, locker room, kitchen, and training room improvements under way
EASTHAM — The town’s police station was built 30 years ago and has stayed virtually unchanged ever since. But now some much needed exterior and interior renovations are under way. The building received a new roof this fall and renovations to the locker rooms, kitchen, and training room are expected to begin in January and […]
environment
Opening the Way for the Herring Run in Eastham
An easier swim for fish on a mission to Deborah's Pond
EASTHAM — The culvert connecting Great Pond and Deborah’s Pond will be replaced to allow significantly increased water flow, the conservation commission decided last week. This is good news for herring, which return each spring to Eastham’s brooks and ponds to spawn. The commission voted 5-0 on Oct. 9 to increase the size of the […]
sports
Bringing an Arctic Tradition to Nauset Marsh
A wooden kayak, inspired by an Aleutian design, is like a living thing
EASTHAM — From the seat of my kayak I have come to see Nauset Marsh, part of the Cape Cod National Seashore in Eastham, as the Everglades of New England: more wilderness than civilization, a place for endless exploration. My family started kayaking when the kids were small, and we had a typical pair of […]
ENVIRONMENT
Permaculture Expert Teaches How to Grow Food in Our Forests
Kids and adults learn how agriculture can restore ecosystems at Nauset H.S. garden
EASTHAM — Restoration Agriculture author Mark Shepard of Wisconsin visited the Nauset Food and Research Garden at Nauset Regional High School last week to speak with about two dozen community members on agroforestry. Shepard is well known in permaculture circles for his pioneering vision of perennial agriculture and advocates using trees to grow staple crops […]
LEARNING
Draft Regional School Plan Calls for ‘Learning Culture’
EASTHAM — A proposed revision of the strategic plan for the Nauset Regional School District emphasizes social and emotional learning, global citizenship, and partnerships between the schools and the community at large. The plan was presented to the regional school committee on Sept. 17 by Maxine Minkoff, former principal of the Nauset Regional Middle School, […]
