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    PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

    Sewer Connection Grants

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    Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

    Provincetown Legal Notices

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    Town of Provincetown New Sewer Design-Build-Operate (DBO) Contract The Town of Provincetown (Awarding Authority), acting through the Department of Public Works (DPW), is seeking technical and price proposals for the […]

    ELECTION RECAP

    County Question 6 and District Question 7 Both Fail

    No clear sentiment on wind power in state Senate race, says Cyr

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    PROVINCETOWN — Alongside choices for president, Congress, the state legislature, and five statewide ballot questions, voters on the Outer and Lower Cape had two more choices to make on Election […]

    CHARACTER STUDIES

    Mary Beck Has Seen It All

    A lifelong Provincetowner who raised a town at Veterans Memorial Elementary

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    Mary Beck is sitting on the couch in the living room of her corner house in the West End. She’s a little hidden behind her oversize rectangular sunglasses. Beck is […]

    PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

    Shank Painter Planning

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    Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

    Provincetown Legal Notices

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    Town of Provincetown New Sewer Design-Build-Operate (DBO) Contract The Town of Provincetown (Awarding Authority), acting through the Department of Public Works (DPW), is seeking technical and price proposals for the […]

    PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

    $50,000 to Lease to Locals

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    Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option for both committee members and residents. Click on the meeting you want to attend on […]

    Provincetown Legal Notices

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    Town of Provincetown Select Board Traffic Proposals and Regulation Changes Public Hearing November 12, 2024 The Provincetown Select Board will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, November 12 at 6:00 […]

    HAUNTED HISTORY

    Beware the Black Flash!

    Remembering the leaping, fire-breathing phantom of Cape Cod

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    It bounds down the alleyways off Commercial Street, its black cloak trailing in the wind, dark laughter bubbling from behind its horrible metal mask. Children dash home in terror the […]

    POLISHING UP

    Letting Gravestones Speak

    Robert Sweetman teaches the careful cleaning of historic markers

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    “Her toils are past, her apricots down, her scurvy and her love,” Robert Sweetman reads. “No, that can’t be right.” He kneels before the lichen-covered grave in Provincetown’s Old Alden […]

    PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS

    Paid Parking for Spooky Bear

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    Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a […]

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