Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link […]
TIDE CHART
Provincetown and Wellfleet Harbors
Thursday, August 22- Thursday, August 29, 2024
Know when to hit the flats.
Wellfleet Legal Notices
TOWN OF WELLFLEET Zoning Board of Appeals Executive Session pursuant to G.L. c. 30A, Section 21(a)(3), to discuss strategy with respect to litigation in the matter of Great White, et […]
Town of Truro Legal Notices
Town of Truro Request for Proposals – Grant Administration CDBG Program Grant The Town of Truro is requesting proposals for grant administration services for its CDBG FY24 CDBG Program that […]
Provincetown Legal Notices
Town of Provincetown Select Board Public Hearing FY2025 Property Tax Rate Classification August 26, 2024 The Provincetown Select Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, August 26, 2024, at […]
SECRET SESSION
Minutes Reveal Deep Confusion on Select Board
Curley’s email to Waldo led to a schism and reorganization
WELLFLEET — More than a year after a closed select board meeting led to a schism among board members and former Town Administrator Rich Waldo, the mostly unredacted minutes of […]
BUSINESS
High-Interest Loan Pushes Willy’s Into Bankruptcy
Owner of popular Eastham gym files for Chapter 11
EASTHAM — Barbara Niggel, the owner of Willy’s World Wellness and Conference Center, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, unable to pay off a $6.87-million short-term commercial loan on her […]
KINSHIP CAREGIVERS
Grandparents Care for More Than 10% of Cape Children
A hidden burden made heavier by the opioid crisis and lack of services
ORLEANS — Carla Koehl, the executive director of the Cape Cod Foster Closet, set out one year ago to answer a simple question: how many kids living on the Cape […]
HOUSING
Inventory of Subsidized Units Falls Across Outer Cape
Changes in overall unit count caused the share of affordable units to drop
PROVINCETOWN — All four Outer Cape towns have recently seen a decrease in the state’s subsidized housing inventory, or SHI, which measures how much of a community’s year-round residential housing […]
NAPIVILLE
Napi’s Bradford St. Apartments Sold to Undisclosed Owners
The 12-unit property, complete with cesspool, was headed for receivership
PROVINCETOWN — The 12-unit apartment complex on Bradford Street known as “Napiville” after its late owner, Anton “Napi” Van Dereck Haunstrup, that long provided housing for his restaurant employees and […]
MENTAL HEALTH
With Clinicians Overbooked, Agencies Try to ‘Triage’ the Delays
When access to therapists is months away, nonclinical care can help, leaders say
WELLFLEET — When Dikke Hansen decided to “semi-retire,” giving up her position as director of behavioral health at Outer Cape Health Services in 2021 and taking up part-time work as […]
HEAVY LIFTING
Eastham’s Zoning Task Force Looks Ahead to a New Downtown
Current focus is on writing bylaws to support the master plan
EASTHAM — For the last three-and-a-half years, Eastham’s task force on residential zoning and regulation has done intensive behind-the-scenes work to adapt the town’s zoning bylaws to its major strategic […]
COCKCROW
One Neighbor’s ‘Menagerie’ Is Another’s Leaf Blower
Spurred by crowing complaints, council agrees to draft rules for farmers and neighbors
ORLEANS — Complaints by neighbors about backyard farming operations in their midst may not be the most frequent grievances the health dept. gets, but they are among the most frustrating, […]
A SENSITIVE ISSUE
At a Forum on Temporary Signs, Opinions Are Few But Strong
Town leaders put temporary sign bylaw on hold while they assess public opinion
TRURO — After a controversy over election signs this spring resulted in multiple calls to the police dept., the town is still not enforcing its bylaw on temporary signs, according […]
THE SEASON
The Bachelorettes Are Here
How to receive the summer’s glittery, raucous, safety-seeking visitors? It’s complicated.
PROVINCETOWN — Among the glitzy and glamorous denizens of this place in summer, a certain wig-wearing, sequin-bedazzled subset, one often displaying ostentation and flair, tends to be on the receiving […]
