WELLFLEET — Challenger Sheila Lyons and incumbent John Wolf were the top vote-getters in a four-way race for two seats on the Wellfleet Select Board at the town’s annual election […]
Wellfleet
BLOODSUCKERS
Winter Floods Set the Stage for More Mosquitoes
Flood waters abate and larvicide is sprayed, but a lot depends on the weather
WELLFLEET — Barton Morris stands in the Duck Harbor parking lot and surveys the floodplain to the north. It’s a cool April day, and it’s been about two weeks since […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Pesticides Warrant
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]
TIDE CHART
Provincetown and Wellfleet Harbors
Thursday, May 2 - Thursday, May 9, 2024
Know when to hit the flats.
Wellfleet Legal Notices
TOWN OF WELLFLEET Zoning Board of Appeals Public Hearing May 23, 2024 Pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 40-A, Section 11 and Wellfleet Section 235, the ZBA will hold public […]
LEADERSHIP
Wellfleet Offers Guerino Regular Town Administrator Job
A three-year contract is in the works with the select board
WELLFLEET — Two months into his tenure as Wellfleet’s interim town administrator, Tom Guerino has reached a tentative agreement to take the helm as the town’s permanent administrator. At an […]
BUSINESS
New Owners Plan to Make Wicked Oyster Year-Round
The ‘winter scene’ can support a restaurant off-season, says Alex Hay
WELLFLEET — On the night after Alex Hay, Garrett Smythe, and Sebastien Taffara closed on a deal to buy the Wicked Oyster, the trio brought their families to the restaurant […]
ON STAGE
Students Take the Stage at WHAT to Sing and Dance ‘The Jungle Book’
A collaboration among grown-ups who know ‘theater skills are life skills’
WELLFLEET — Music is in the air at Wellfleet Elementary School. On the heels of their annual spring concert, performed earlier this month, students have been preparing to perform The […]
DESIGN
The Objects of Modernism
Furnishings at the Breuer house reveal the architect’s ideas about everyday design
The house Marcel Breuer built in Wellfleet in 1949 represents the modernist ideal. It is above all simple. Pilings hold its small and seemingly lightweight box-shaped rooms just above the […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Backshore Watch
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]
TIDE CHART
Provincetown and Wellfleet Harbors
Thursday, April 25 - Thursday, May 2, 2024
Know when to hit the flats.
Wellfleet Legal Notices
TOWN OF WELLFLEET Selectboard Public Hearing May 7, 2024 Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. both virtually […]
SAILING AWAY
Pause for Plovers
With the piping plovers returning to their breeding grounds here to nest in the dunes, April 14 was the last day paragliders could launch from their favorite Outer Cape spot […]
FISHERIES RULES
State Commission Agrees to Ban Spring Horseshoe Crab Harvest
New restrictions during egg-laying season could help recovery of endangered shorebirds
WELLFLEET — Every spring, horseshoe crabs arrive on the sheltered beaches of Cape Cod, crawling up onto the shore to lay their eggs in the sand. For years, during this […]
THE HERRING COUNTERS
On a Voyage with Captain Richard Bailey
A Wellfleet sailor travels the world by tall ship and is back in time for the herring count
WELLFLEET — Capt. Richard Bailey was fascinated as a child by two oil paintings that hung side by side in his great-aunt’s cabin on Chequessett Neck Road. On occasion, he […]
