PROVINCETOWN — The future of the disintegrating Old Reliable Fish House property on the Commercial Street waterfront will once again be in the hands of the planning and zoning boards, […]
Provincetown
ANALYSIS
In Season Now: The Other Housing Crisis
With fewer rentals available, businesses ask how to house seasonal workers
PROVINCETOWN — The lack of affordable and available year-round housing is a crisis on the Outer Cape, but at least it’s one for which communities have tools — from federal […]
TOWN MEETING PREVIEW
Voters to Be Asked for $3.5M to Fix Court Street Flooding
The town budget is up 8.2 percent; schools ask 18 percent more
PROVINCETOWN — Dept. of Public Works Director Rich Waldo said it is possible to fix the flooding that has for decades impeded pedestrians, harmed businesses, and damaged cars at the […]
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, April 15 Public Pier Corp. Board, 2 p.m. Finance Committee, 2 p.m. Wednesday, […]
DEMAND & DEMAND
Businesses Foresee Huge Season Ahead
But lack of housing for staff is a looming crisis
PROVINCETOWN — Cape Cod’s business and political leaders say the stars are aligning for a record-breaking “biggest season ever” for summer tourism. A third of Americans have already received one […]
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, April 8 Bicycle Committee, 2 p.m. Public Pier Corp., 2 p.m. Finance Committee, […]
RISING WATERS
Before the Deluge: Plans for Commercial Street
‘Creative adaptation’ to flooding and insurance
PROVINCETOWN — Floodwaters are a primal force, invading the landscape, insisting that things must change. In the January 2018 flood, for example, seawater coursed down Gosnold Street and filled a […]
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, April 1 Select Board, 3:30 p.m. Zoning Board of Appeals, 6 p.m. Wednesday, April […]
WHALE WATCH
Three Mother-Calf Pairs Are Bright Spot in Dismal Reality
In Cape Cod Bay, scientists count one-fourth of the world’s remaining North Atlantic right whales
PROVINCETOWN — The Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) March 3 sighting of Millipede, a 16-year-old North Atlantic right whale, and her newborn calf — the season’s first — in Cape Cod […]
PROVINCETOWN ELECTION
3 Vie for 1 Spot on P’town Select Board
Sandberg and Conklin Will Challenge King
PROVINCETOWN — Select board member Lise King, 56, will have two challengers in the May 11 annual town election. Leslie Sandberg, 58, a partner in the communications firm Rose, Sandberg […]
ON THE WATERFRONT
Gribbin and Colton Get Pier Corp. Seats
Select board urges delay of dockage fee hikes
PROVINCETOWN — The select board has appointed the owner of a fishing business and a former town administrator now living in Provincetown to the board of the Public Pier Corp., […]
SPACES
As Stellwagen Visitor Center Takes Shape, Selects Take Notice
Board asks if enough public feedback has been heard
PROVINCETOWN — A sleeper project since 2016, the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Visitor Center burst into the limelight on March 8 when the select board recommended a 9,500-square-foot building […]
THE NEW MANAGER
Alex Morse Believes Connection Is What Makes Government Work
Fed up with campaigns, he’s hungry for the ‘meat and potatoes of governing’
PROVINCETOWN — Alex Morse will have been mayor of Holyoke for just over nine years when he resigns at the end of March to take up his new job as […]
SHOP-SHIFTING
Provincetown’s Retail Sector Gets Clean Bill of Health
Some locations have shuffled, but vacancies are few
PROVINCETOWN — An early and persistent fear about the pandemic was that small businesses in town would tumble, and Commercial Street would end up lined with shuttered storefronts. Another worry […]
RINGSIDE
Marvelous Marvin Hagler’s Provincetown Training Days
The late boxing champ found solace at the tip of Cape Cod
PROVINCETOWN — Marvelous Marvin Hagler, the legendary middleweight champion boxer, died unexpectedly on March 13 at age 66 at his home in New Hampshire. Hagler was originally from Newark, N.J., […]
