PROVINCETOWN — For 10 years, Provincetown’s hotel and guest house industry has been characterized by two trends. The total number of hotel rooms has been gradually decreasing, as many properties, […]
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PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
A Park by Any Other Name
Meetings Ahead
Some meetings are in person, some online, and some are both. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch to see if a remote option is available. Tuesday, Nov. 16 […]
WHARFINGERS
The Lagasses’ Marina Deal Required a Harbor Walk by 2019
Pier Corp. board members question using public money to help get it built
PROVINCETOWN — When Chuck and Ann Lagasse bought Fisherman’s Wharf in 2016, the Chapter 91 license they secured from the state required them to construct a harbor walk on the […]
OCTOBER SURPRISE
High Winds Leave Outer Cape Powerless After Latest Nor’easter
Eversource back-up battery due in early 2021 won’t be ready until next spring
PROVINCETOWN — It sounds ironic, but the island of Nantucket is a good place to ride out a nor’easter like the one that struck on Oct. 27, bringing wind gusts […]
THE SCUTTLEBUTT
When East Winds Pummel Our Harbor
It’s time for those who have boats to rethink readiness
The Provincetown waterfront once again took a severe beating from a coastal storm which, other than Hurricane Bob, was probably as intense as any coastal storm we’ve experienced in recent […]
PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
VFW Demolition Set
Meetings Ahead
Some meetings are in person, some online, and some are both. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch to see if a remote option is available. Thursday, Nov. 4 […]
MEDICINE
In Provincetown, a Family Fights a Rare Ailment
Research on Machado-Joseph disease honors Veronica and Mark Silva
PROVINCETOWN — For her family and friends, Veronica Silva’s 80th birthday party on June 15, 2012 was more of a living funeral than a celebration, recalled her son David Silva, […]
HOUSING
Select Board Picks TCB for VFW Project
Vote on allocating rooms tax revenue is put off
PROVINCETOWN — The Community Builders, the Boston firm that built 50 apartments at Province Landing on Shank Painter Road 10 years ago, has won the bidding to construct affordable housing […]
LOO NEWS
Final East End Park Design Comes In at $2.3M
Final plan is simpler, but includes a restroom
PROVINCETOWN — The final design of the East End Waterfront Park includes fewer trees but has that bathroom that people requested. The cost to turn the existing crushed-shell parking lot […]
POPULARITY CONTEST
West End in a Pickle Over Popular Sport
Town reduces hours at the pickleball court after volley of complaints
PROVINCETOWN — How heated is the debate about the West End pickleball courts? If the swear words were left in everyone’s statements, this article would be two inches longer. “I’m […]
PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Stranded Boat Could Delay Shellfish Season
Meetings Ahead
All meetings this week are in person at Town Hall. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch to see if a remote option is available. Thursday, Oct. 28 […]
HOW TO SPEND IT
Morse Suggests Putting 26% of Rooms Taxes Into Housing Efforts
Three boards try to move the needle on town’s housing crisis
PROVINCETOWN — How much of the money collected from the new short-term rental tax should go to community housing efforts? That was the big question on the table at a […]
CLIMATE CRISIS
Coastal Studies’ Rich Delaney Is Going to Glasgow
A small-town CEO with global influence at U.N. conference
PROVINCETOWN — Center for Coastal Studies CEO Rich Delaney may sit in the driver’s seat of a small nonprofit working to save the whales in Provincetown, but he has a […]
LOVE, ACTUALLY
An After-Hours Wedding
Bob Keary and Peter Sullivan
Bob Keary and Peter Sullivan tied the knot on Oct. 16, 2021 after 14 years together. “We prefer not to rush into things,” Keary said. The wedding was celebrated on […]
EXIT INTERVIEW
Health Director Says the Pandemic Didn’t Wear Her Down
For Morgan Clark, the regulator role was the hardest part of the job
PROVINCETOWN — After almost 10 years in the town health dept., including seven as health director, Morgan Clark is leaving town government. She’s going back to work for one of […]
