WELLFLEET — After 23 years in the same location on Route 6, Mass Appeal must find a new home. The nonprofit that gives out free used clothes to residents of the Outer Cape received a letter on Nov. 1 signed by landlord J. Bruce MacGregor telling the group they must be out by Jan. 31, […]
Wellfleet
OBITUARIES
‘Magical Marty’ Buckosh, 62, Intelligence Officer, Hammock Seller
WELLFLEET — Martin “Marty” Alexander Buckosh died in his sleep on Nov. 5, 2019 while recovering at his Wellfleet home from a bicycle accident. He was 62. Marty, the youngest of four boys, was a 1975 graduate of Lorain Catholic High School in Ohio. From 1975 to 1978 he served in the U.S. Army with […]
washashores
From Washington to Wellfleet: Social Justice Activists on a Mission
Kathy Fletcher, David Simpson, and their “kids” plan a residency for young artists
WELLFLEET — Before Kathy Fletcher and David Simpson founded a nonprofit to help inner-city kids go to college, as many as seven teenagers were living with them in their three-bedroom Washington, D.C. rowhouse. They were buying phones, laptops, and “thousands of phone chargers,” said Simpson. Money was flying out the door $100 at a time, […]
ELECTIONS
Wellfleet Scraps Wooden Ballot Box
Questions about election security are dismissed by select board
WELLFLEET — The select board voted 3-2 on Oct. 22 to “retire the horse and buggy,” as board member Kathleen Bacon put it, and replace the town’s 95-year-old hand-crank ballot box made of wood with a $5,200 optical scanning machine to count votes. Interim Town Clerk Jennifer Congel requested the change in an Oct. 18 […]
CIVICS
After Lagging, Local Planning Efforts May Now Pick Up
Cape Cod Commission works to spark plans that are actually implemented
Every town on Cape Cod is encouraged to have a local comprehensive plan, developed in accordance with its residents’ expressed priorities, updated every 10 years, and certified by the Cape Cod Commission — the Cape’s regional planning agency. Only two of 15 towns do. “Ten years goes by pretty quickly,” said Jon Idman, the commission’s […]
CANNABIS
Town Officials Subpoenaed on Marijuana Agreements
Federal grand jury has questions for Gardner, Hoort, and Beebe
U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling has questions for towns that have issued host community agreements to marijuana businesses. Provincetown, Wellfleet, and Eastham town administrators all received subpoenas last month ordering them to produce documents, emails, and any other correspondence associated with the agreements. They must appear at the John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse to testify before […]
economy
So You Want to Lease Those Shellfish Flats?
How the rights to Wellfleet’s public aquaculture grants change hands
WELLFLEET — The town’s taxpayers now own over 162 acres of shellfish flats on Indian Neck, the most productive part of the harbor, after purchasing the acreage from the How Do You Like Them Apples (HDYLTA) Realty Trust. The purpose of the $2 million purchase, finalized at a closing last week, was to protect public […]
POLITICS
Sen. Cyr Says Cutler Bill ‘Ain’t Gonna Happen’
Shellfishermen are reassured by local legislators on fears of change
WELLFLEET — State Rep. Sarah Peake and Sen. Julian Cyr appeared before a friendly crowd of shellfishermen at Preservation Hall on Nov. 1 and told them what they wanted to hear: that the so-called Cutler bill, H. 746 before the state legislature, has virtually no chance of becoming law. The legislation was originally promoted by […]
WHISTLE-BLOWER
Driver Knocks Wellfleet FD for Behaving Badly
Provincetown woman says fire chief and select board ignored her complaint
WELLFLEET — Barbara Jacobs is demanding a refund of $256 after members of the Wellfleet Fire Dept. ordered Silver Cloud Towing to take away her disabled car rather than the AAA-authorized towing service she had arranged. Chief Richard Pauley has refused her written request, saying the tow had to be done quickly because her car, […]
oysterfest 2019
The Weekend, in Numbers, Pictures, and (Spelling) Words
The crowd: There were a total of 18,178 admission tickets sold, 11,486 of them on Saturday. This is about average compared to other years. Before we go on with more stats on the OysterFest, let’s set the scene with a few pictures. OysterFest by the Numbers Serving those 18,178 festival-goers were 190 […]
THEATER REVIEW
In the Company of ‘Wrinkles’
A musical about older women braves the WHAT stage
When a work of theater focuses exclusively on the lives of older women — the things that pain them, humiliate them, terrify them, strengthen them, elate them, or amuse them — it’s instantly marginalized. Unless they’re gargoyles or saints, older women are typically on the periphery, and their courage and self-actualization are matters that most […]
oysterfest 2019
OysterFest Goes ‘Plastic Free’
Beer and wine in cans and stainless steel mugs replace plastic cups
WELLFLEET — Organizers of the Wellfeet OysterFest announced last week that this year’s event will be “plastic free” in response to rising concerns about the environmental impact of single-use plastics. Lead organizer Michele Insley said of SPAT (Wellfleet Shellfish Promotion and Tasting), the group that puts on the festival, “We’re a nonprofit that supports the […]
EXECUTIVE SESSION
Purchase of HDYLTA Flats Delayed by Survey Dispute
Town’s surveyor measured 162 acres, not the advertised 254
WELLFLEET — The town’s purchase of 254 acres of shellfish flats for $2 million from the HDYLTA Trust, which was supposed to close by Sept. 20, has been at least temporarily derailed by the results of a survey of the property commissioned by town officials. The survey showed the trust’s holdings totaled less than two-thirds […]
WELLFLEET OYSTERFEST 2019
Wellfleet OysterFest Schedule of Attractions
Wellfleet OysterFest 2019 will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 19-20, rain or shine. General admission tickets are $10 per day. Shellfishermen and food vendors will line Main Street to peddle their wares and chat with customers about Wellfleet’s unique shellfishing community. Wellfleet SPAT (Shellfish Promotion and Tasting), the […]
environment
The DEP Says the Blasches May Build Their Wall
The town still hopes to prevail against the revetment in court
WELLFLEET — The owners of a mansion teetering on the edge of a dune near Great Island won approval from the state Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) to construct a 241-foot-long rock revetment to shore up the structure, despite opposition from the town and the Cape Cod National Seashore. The DEP approval does not, however, […]
