Editor’s note: This article was updated on Saturday, Aug. 13. PROVINCETOWN — The downtown vacuum sewer system was returned to stable operation overnight on Friday and the emergency order issued […]
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MEDICINE
Monkeypox Spikes Nationwide as Provincetown Gets Vaccine
Thousands of doses may be reducing virus transmission here
PROVINCETOWN — New data emerged last week on the global outbreak of the monkeypox virus. A report from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that cases are falling off in […]
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Motorized Scooters Going One-Way
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 […]
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, […]
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When an Affordable Home Sells
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 […]
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1,400 Monkeypox Vaccines
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 […]
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Still Building for Employees
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 […]
HEALTH
With Case Counts Growing, Provincetown Gets MPV Vaccines
Large allocation of doses will help protect working people, says Cyr
PROVINCETOWN — Nationwide, the news about monkeypox continues to get worse. Case counts are still doubling every 10 days or so: 42 in Massachusetts, 156 in New York, and 9,647 […]
SCHOOLS
Goyette Goes From Principal to Interim Superintendent
A low-key educator who makes students feel ‘everything is going to be OK’
PROVINCETOWN — Principal Gerry Goyette, who was named interim superintendent of the Provincetown Schools on June 29, spent much of this winter clad in a full-length mink coat. He had […]
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Boardwalk to Close for Repairs
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 […]
REGULATION
Dockless E-Scooters Suddenly Take to the Streets
There is no law against dropping them on sidewalks and street corners
PROVINCETOWN — Dockless electric scooters that can be rented online wherever they are found and then dropped anywhere when customers are done using them have appeared on Commercial Street. The […]
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Developer Consumes Soft as a Grape
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 […]
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Dockless Scooters
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 […]
SPEAKING OUT
Music and Calls to Action Mingle at This Block Party
Performance, poetry, and food made this year’s Juneteenth a celebration
PROVINCETOWN — “If we can’t undo the mistakes of the past, then we have a responsibility to acknowledge those mistakes,” said Ngina Lythcott of Provincetown, speaking to a crowd of […]
