In May, Taj Mahal turned 80 — and everybody knows the blues only get better with age. One of the last of a generation from the later heyday of American […]
THEATER REVIEW
A Queer Quartet of Short Provincetown Plays
Quickies takes the stage with conflicted emotions
Omnibus collections of work — short stories, movies, or plays — can be a mixed bag. Quickies, however, presents four one-acts of contemporary queer drama with local talent at the […]
THEATER
Going All In on Tennessee Williams
The classics, with some twists, at this year’s festival
Tennessee Williams was drawn to the edges of America. Among his favorite places in the world were the port city of New Orleans, on the banks of the Mississippi; Key […]
Town of Truro Legal Notices
TOWN OF TRURO Truro CPC Informational Meeting September 22, 2022 Community Preservation Committee (CPC) will hold an informational meeting on September 22, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. at the Truro COA […]
TIDE CHART
Provincetown and Wellfleet Harbors
Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022 - Wednesday Sept 21, 2022
Know when to hit the flats.
Provincetown Legal Notices
Town of Provincetown Public Hearing Licensing Board September 27, 2022 The Provincetown Licensing Board will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, September 27, 2022 at 5:15 p.m. in the Judge […]
Wellfleet Legal Notices
Town of Wellfleet Select Board Hybrid Public Hearing September 27, 2022 In accordance with MGL Chapter 130 Sections 52, 57, 58, 60, and 68 and all applicable Town Shellfish Regulations, […]
STAYING SASSY
$3.7M Donation Will Buy Summer of Sass a Home
The program brings queer young people to the safety of Provincetown
PROVINCETOWN — The Summer of Sass program brings vulnerable LGBTQ young people who are living in hostile environments to Provincetown, sets them up with secure housing and a job, and […]
FISCAL CRISIS
Wellfleet Once Again Faces No Free Cash
Voters will gather at town meeting on Saturday morning
WELLFLEET — Several capital projects listed on the warrant will need to be delayed because the town still has no free cash going into Saturday’s special town meeting. It starts […]
ELECTION
Peake Defeats Stanton in Democratic State Rep Primary
Lauzon will be Republican candidate for Cyr's state Senate seat
This story was updated on Thursday, Sept. 8. PROVINCETOWN — By a margin of eight to one, eight-term incumbent state Rep. Sarah Peake defeated Jack Stanton, her first challenger for […]
HOUSING
Developers Seek 12 Zoning Waivers for 95 Lawrence Road
One would allow Lower Village building to be 44 feet high
WELLFLEET — The developers of 46 units of affordable housing at 95 Lawrence Road, known as Long Pond Village, have requested 12 waivers from the town’s zoning regulations, which the […]
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
Campground Cesspool Waiver Has to Come From the State DEP
A new wrinkle appears in the plan to buy Maurice’s in Wellfleet
WELLFLEET — The details of a proposal that the town buy Maurice’s Campground as a site for community housing continued to change in the days leading up to the Sept. […]
RUNOFF
Season for Harbor Testing Ends With a Fail
PROVINCETOWN — The town landing at Breakwater Beach was “posted” on Sept. 1 and 2 —closed to swimming due to the presence of bacteria. Such closures happen each summer, but […]
OUTER CAPE PORTRAIT
‘Feeling the Whole Being of the Bay’
LIBBY CLARK / OPEN WATER SWIMMER / PROVINCETOWN
Libby Clark lives by the bay in Provincetown’s West End. Most days, if the tide allows and it isn’t the dead of winter, she goes for a long swim to […]
MEET THE MAKER
Lightening Up the Serious World of Design
Playfulness and technical mastery come together in Bernhard Dessecker’s creations
When Bernhard Dessecker and his partner, Della Spring, were getting duct work done for air conditioning at their house in Wellfleet, the excavators dug up a trove of silver objects, […]
