Meetings Ahead Thursday, Jan. 16 Herring River Executive Council, 3 p.m., Council on Aging Monday, Jan. 20 Town Hall closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day Tuesday, Jan. 21 Community-wide […]
Wellfleet
HOUSING
Task Force Envisions Up to 46 New Rental Units
Apartments near school would be in two clusters
WELLFLEET — The 11-member task force that has been planning for affordable rental housing across from the Wellfleet Elementary School presented its work so far to a receptive audience of […]
CURRENTS
Meetings and Conversation Starters, Town by Town
Provincetown Meetings Ahead Thursday, Jan. 9 Bicycle Committee, 2 p.m., Maushop Community Room, 44 Harry Kemp Way Economic Development Committee, 11 a.m., Veterans Memorial Community Center, 2 Mayflower Lane Planning […]
UPDATE
Mass Appeal Still Looking for New Home
Landlord MacGregor remains elusive
WELLFLEET — Mass Appeal, a nonprofit that has given away donated clothing at Cove Corner for the last 23 years, still has no place to go following a Nov. 1 […]
ENVIRONMENT
Wellfleet Resident Challenges Shark Mitigation Study
Says visual detection technology was improperly evaluated
WELLFLEET — Kristian Sexton, who says he is developing an aerial imaging system using drones to detect sharks, claims that there are “a number of serious problems” with the Woods […]
WINTER HOURS
It’s Cold, You’re Hungry, You Have Options
Restaurateurs say they can be creative in winter
Every restaurant is a fiefdom, each with its own miniature culture and specifics so particular that it’s difficult to write about a lot of restaurants at once. Yet we Outer […]
UNLIT LIGHTHOUSE
Alterations Are Coming to Main Street
Longtime fixture will be replaced by clothing store
WELLFLEET — The Lighthouse Restaurant, a bright spot for 40 years on this town’s dimming Main Street, is gone. What was a restaurant is now being renovated to become a […]
BABYCAKES
Essie Arrives on Christmas
Essie Van Staden was born on Dec. 25, 2019 at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. She weighed six pounds and measured 17 inches. Her parents, Natalie and […]
ROAD POET
Metter
This is for my second hometown I said this poem is for my second hometown Metter, Ga. It’s OK if you have to google it The first time I went […]
William S. McFeely, 89, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian
Historian and longtime Wellfleet resident William S. McFeely died on Dec. 11, 2019, in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. He was 89 years old. Born in New York City, Bill, as he […]
THRIFT
Mass Appeal Told to Vacate by Landlord
‘We are hoping we can change their minds,’ says its director
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
