PROVINCETOWN — Development of the town-owned VFW site on Jerome Smith Road, long envisioned as a likely spot for affordable housing, appears to be moving forward with a plan for […]
LEARNING
Provincetown’s Middle Years Students Celebrate Their Place in the Global Community
Photos by Marian Roth
HALLOWEEN
A Sweet Holiday Tradition Survives on Nelson Avenue
The trick-or-treat magnet is one of the town’s last year-round neighborhoods
PROVINCETOWN — Say the words “Nelson Avenue” to local kids in October and watch their eyes light up. For years, this small neighborhood off Race Point Road has made up […]
FIRST RESPONSE
Police Station Gets First Renovation Since 1989
Roof, locker room, kitchen, and training room improvements under way
EASTHAM — The town’s police station was built 30 years ago and has stayed virtually unchanged ever since. But now some much needed exterior and interior renovations are under way. […]
IMMIGRANTS
Finding Increasingly Rare Refuge on a Truro Farm
A Nepalese couple succeeds even as asylum policy is strangled by Trump
TRURO — Fall hasn’t yet hit Down Home Farm: devoid of the expected autumnal colors, its fields glow green. The growing season isn’t over, and the farm’s cozy stand on […]
WHISTLE-BLOWER
Driver Knocks Wellfleet FD for Behaving Badly
Provincetown woman says fire chief and select board ignored her complaint
WELLFLEET — Barbara Jacobs is demanding a refund of $256 after members of the Wellfleet Fire Dept. ordered Silver Cloud Towing to take away her disabled car rather than the […]
HOUSING
Truro Motor Inn Heads to Housing Court
Tenants may have to leave or pay higher rents even if receiver takes over
TRURO — It was no surprise to any board of health member that the Delgizzi family had not complied with the latest orders to clean up their property and submit […]
CLIMATE
An Ancient Cycle of Erosion Carves the Beach
What coastal scientists see as a natural process may be accelerating
TRURO — The nor’easter that struck the Outer Cape on Oct. 10 and lingered for almost three days caused massive erosion at Ballston Beach. Sand dunes and bluffs were carved […]
CIVICS
Town Manager Will Leave Truro June 30
Palmer proud of her work despite extreme challenges
TRURO — Town Manager Rae Ann Palmer has announced she will retire on June 30, 2020 after five years as the town’s municipal chief. “It’s time,” she said on Tuesday. […]
ECONOMY
Huge Wave Attenuator Is Installed in Provincetown Harbor
Protection from storms, future berths for fishing vessels
PROVINCETOWN — A 600-foot floating concrete structure is being installed in Provincetown harbor over the next two weeks. Each 60-foot segment is six feet tall and 15 feet wide, and […]
oysterfest 2019
The Weekend, in Numbers, Pictures, and (Spelling) Words
The crowd: There were a total of 18,178 admission tickets sold, 11,486 of them on Saturday. This is about average compared to other years. Before we go on with more […]
THEATER REVIEW
In the Company of ‘Wrinkles’
A musical about older women braves the WHAT stage
When a work of theater focuses exclusively on the lives of older women — the things that pain them, humiliate them, terrify them, strengthen them, elate them, or amuse them […]
PROVINCETOWN 400
Select Board Looks for Help With Pilgrims’ Park, Wampanoag Memorial
Architect will make menu of options; indigenous memorial specialist sought
PROVINCETOWN — The select board is looking to break the logjam on two projects related to the Provincetown 400 commemorations. The board voted on Oct. 15 to hire a landscape […]
ECONOMY
Plans for Derelict Pier and Restaurant Include New Hotel
Old Reliable Fish House, in flood zone, may see major development
PROVINCETOWN — A 31-room hotel, restaurant and bar with outdoor dining, and four condominiums are in the plans to redevelop the Old Reliable Fish House property on the waterfront at […]
movies
Sympathy for the Devil
Ivy Meeropol directs a documentary portrait of Roy Cohn
In January 2004 “Heir to an Execution,” Ivy Meeropol’s documentary about her grandparents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 as Communist spies after what can only be […]
