EASTHAM — The select board has agreed to a purchase price of $2.8 million for the Town Center Plaza at 4550 Route 6, and will ask town meeting voters on […]
TRURO TOWN MEETING
Three Key Town Boards May Be Chosen in New Way
Citizens’ petitions would require changes in the charter
TRURO — Three articles on the June 26 annual town meeting warrant, all submitted by citizens’ petition, call for changing the ways certain town board members are chosen. Each one […]
CHIN UP
A Walk Down Commercial St. Reveals Current Conundrums
Mask preferences and policies mark this not really post-pandemic moment
PROVINCETOWN — Kohi Coffee Co., at 199 Commercial St., set back from the sidewalk in a beachfront space, currently has a sign on its front door informing customers as they […]
LEDGERDEMAIN
Auditors Blame New Software and Staff Turnover
They try to explain a ‘material weakness’ to select board
WELLFLEET — The adoption of new accounting software and the turnover of personnel were blamed by auditors this week as the causes of their finding a “material weakness” in the […]
HOUSING
‘Barracks’ Dormitory Proposal Could Get a Vote Thursday
Patrick’s project aims for 112 seasonal beds, 16 year-round rentals
PROVINCETOWN — The planning board will again consider Patrick Patrick’s seasonal worker dormitory proposal at its meeting on Thursday, June 10 and could offer a final clearance that would allow […]
ON THE WATERFRONT
Boat Owners Worry That Rock Harbor Parking Will Shrink
Another objection to the planned harbormaster office surfaces
EASTHAM — Rock Harbor boat slip holders are asking if plans for the new harbormaster office will leave them and their guests high and dry with nowhere to park during […]
PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Car Hits Angel Foods
Meetings Ahead
Due to the pandemic, meetings are held remotely. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. Thursday, June 10 Planning Board, 6 p.m. Zoning Board of Appeals, 6 […]
TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Town Meeting Preview
Meetings Ahead
Meetings are held remotely. Go to truro-ma.gov, click on the meeting you want to watch, and open its agenda for instructions on how to watch or take part online. Thursday, June 10 Climate […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
How to Be Hybrid
Meetings Ahead
Meetings are held remotely. From wellfleet-ma.gov, hover over a date on the calendar on the right of the screen and click on the meeting you’re interested in to open its […]
EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Select Board Reorganized
Meetings Ahead
Meetings are held remotely. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to read its agenda and find information on how to view and take part […]
ON MACMILLAN PIER
Pirates Move Out, Sharks Move In
Barry Clifford’s Whydah building is for sale for $9.75 million
PROVINCETOWN — Visitors to MacMillan Pier this summer are guaranteed a sighting of a great white shark — 12 feet long and with plenty of teeth. But the toothed creature […]
TOWN MEETING
Eastham May Buy Town Center Plaza
No price has been named for the property, home to 6 businesses
EASTHAM — The final version of the annual town meeting warrant posted on May 28 has a surprising twist: voters at the June 12 meeting will be asked to authorize […]
FRAUD ALERT
Online Rental Scam Targets the Desperate
Craigslist users are victimized, with no recourse
WELLFLEET — Gordon Kahn had spent an entire day searching online for an apartment for his daughter when he found a cute cottage on Craigslist. The 14 interior and exterior […]
THE HOUSING CHALLENGE, PART 2
Towns Pay Little to Develop Affordable Apartments
Large projects are a bargain, but finding land is the problem
PROVINCETOWN — For Outer Cape communities that have been relentlessly squeezed by the housing crisis, producing new housing has been a primary policy response. In particular, affordable housing developments — […]
HOUSING CRUNCH
A Neighbor-to-Neighbor Rental Market Falls Short
Six months in Facebook’s outermost housing rental group
PROVINCETOWN — Someone in the Facebook group “Provincetown: Housing for Rent” called finding housing here “an impossible dream.” The page is a trove of tales of housing plans that have […]
