PROVINCETOWN — Pilgrim House events manager David Burbank would usually be booking talent for the summer season by now. But he can’t do that, because he still has no idea […]
GRAVEYARD SHIFT
Eastham Looks Back at Its First Preacher
Samuel Treat Day will ask ‘emotional questions posed by our history’
EASTHAM — The grave marker in the Cove Burying Ground is plain: “Rev. Samuel Treat died Mar. 18, 1716, aged 69 years,” it reads. But the story of Eastham’s first […]
OLD AND NEW
The Portuguese Bakery Changes Hands
New owners say they won’t stray from tradition
PROVINCETOWN — The Provincetown Portuguese Bakery has changed hands, but the same name and traditional Old World fare will remain as baked into Commercial Street as it has been for […]
SKIN DEEP
Cosmetic Surgery: It Does Happen Here
Behind pandemic masks, and tempered by Puritanism, the quest for perfection persists
PROVINCETOWN — Cape Cod and, for that matter, New England are perhaps not the first places one thinks of when one hears the words “plastic surgery.” We value our old […]
BROADBAND
Bienvenue’s Wireless Fix for OpenCape’s Inadequacy
His idea for a ‘mesh network’ would make residential hookups affordable
EASTHAM — The OpenCape Corporation’s high-speed internet service has been tantalizingly close and yet out of reach for most Outer Cape residents since 2013, when the nonprofit technology company used […]
WINDOW TO A WINDFALL
DOR Releases Numbers on Short-Term Rental Tax Revenue
Bounty can now be channeled toward specific local initiatives
PROVINCETOWN — After more than a year of telling town officials that it could not be done, the Mass. Dept. of Revenue has released data on the new tax on […]
This Week In Provincetown
Meetings Ahead
Meetings are held remotely. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. Thursday, March 11 Finance Committee, 10 a.m. Public Pier Corp., 3 p.m. Open Space […]
This Week In Truro
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, March 11 […]
This Week In Wellfleet
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 […]
This Week In Eastham
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 it’s agenda and find information on how to view and take part […]
LEADING EDGE
Holyoke Mayor Gets Nod for Town Manager
Selection committee looked for ‘emotional commitment’ to the town
PROVINCETOWN — If negotiations are successful, Alex B. Morse, 32, a native son of Holyoke, the working-class city where he has been the mayor for 10 years, will become the […]
STIMULI
Covid Relief Targets Outer Cape’s Smallest Businesses
Programs fill earlier gaps in CARES Act awards
PROVINCETOWN — When much of the American economy was forced to shut down last March due to Covid, Congress passed trillions of dollars of relief spending in just weeks. There […]
DELAYS
Residents File Suit to Appeal Cloverleaf OK
Legal move is expected to delay affordable housing for a year
TRURO — Two residents are appealing the town’s approval of the Cloverleaf, a 39-unit affordable housing development at 22 Highland Road. The legal challenge was filed in Barnstable Superior Court […]
RESIDENCY
FAWC Fellow Who Wouldn’t Leave Faces Eviction
Akiko Jackson says she has no other options
PROVINCETOWN — Last year’s Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) resident fellows accused the nonprofit that hosted them of racism. Then the pandemic hit, and several of those fellows had nowhere […]
ENERGY
Eastham Contemplates Solar Self-Sufficiency
Proposals include canopies at the transfer station and a 3-acre solar farm
EASTHAM — Eastham could have a surplus of energy should four new solar projects move forward. “The town of Eastham, with the completion of these projects — if they were […]
