Meetings Ahead Some meetings in Provincetown are in person, some are online, and some are both. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a link to […]
TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Eagle Neck Creek Delay
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, Aug. 11 Economic […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
No Free Cash by Town Meeting
Meetings Ahead Many meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are being held in person. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow […]
EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
A Wet Windmill Weekend
Meetings Ahead Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn […]
PRINTMAKING
Replacing Narrative With Feeling
Robert Shreefter’s layered prints grow lighter
Robert Shreefter is learning to lose the storyline in his printmaking. Until recently, he says, he didn’t allow himself that. “If I don’t have something to motivate me, like a […]
OUTER CAPE PORTRAIT
So No One Has to Worry About Dying Alone
DAWN WALSH / EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THE LILY HOUSE / WELLFLEET
DAWN WALSH / EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THE LILY HOUSE / WELLFLEET Dawn Walsh moved here in 2015 to live and work among artists, writers, and the Outer Cape’s vibrant LGBTQ community. […]
THE BEAT
Provincetown Jazz Festival Pairs Professionals With Newcomers
Festival founder Bart Weisman finds freedom in the swing of things
When Bart Weisman arrived in Provincetown in 1980 to pick up the woman who would become his wife and take her home to Washington, D.C., where they both grew up, […]
Wellfleet Legal Notices
TOWN OF WELLFLEET Conservation Commission Public Hearing August 17, 2022 Under Chapter 107 of the Acts of 2022, this meeting will be conducted in person and as a courtesy via […]
Provincetown Legal Notices
Town of Provincetown Public Hearing Licensing Board August 23, 2022 The Provincetown Licensing Board will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 5:15 p.m. in the Judge […]
RECOVERY
Mobile Clinic for Methadone May Come to Wellfleet
A proposal that’s ‘critical to our Outer Cape communities,’ says OCHS
WELLFLEET — Medication-assisted treatment for addiction is going through a decades-long transformation from being almost as stigmatized as the illegal drugs themselves to being recast as a critical component of […]
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Habitat Faces a Tough Sell for Truro Project
A steep, sandy site on Rt. 6 presents obstacles for 3-house plan
TRURO — Habitat for Humanity of Cape Cod found itself embroiled in a superior court battle the last time it proposed a plan to build three affordable homes on a […]
WATER QUALITY
Towns Work on Strategies to Address Title 5 Changes
Eastham is testing three sites for a sewage treatment plant
EASTHAM — The four Outer Cape towns are developing strategies — from raking pond bottoms to running oxygen through their waters — to address proposed changes in the state’s Title […]
OBIT
Mourning the Last Provincetown Funeral Home
Bill Gately says people still need a space to grieve
PROVINCETOWN — When Carmen Thomas lost her best friend, 13-year-old Chelsea Earnest, in 1993, she and some 600 others crowded into McHoul’s Funeral Home to mourn. “I’m a Provincetown native, […]
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Long Pond Village Aims for Low Environmental Impact
Avoiding a ‘cookie-cutter’ look and including shared spaces are added goals
WELLFLEET — Continuing its review of the 46-unit affordable housing proposal for 95 Lawrence Road named Long Pond Village, the zoning board of appeals on July 21 heard from the […]
CIVICS
GFM Ramps Up Activities Despite Orders to Stop
Amid dust and noise, neighbors ask why town can’t shut down contractor’s yard
WELLFLEET — Neighbors of a contractor’s yard at the corner of Route 6 and Old Wharf Road, which they and local officials contend is operating illegally, want the operation shut […]
