Meetings are held remotely. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. Town Hall will close at noon on Thursday, Dec. 24, and be closed all day Friday, […]
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This Week In Provincetown
Meetings Ahead
Meetings are held remotely. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. Thursday, Dec. 17 Public Pier Corp., 4 p.m. Zoning Board of Appeals, 6 p.m. Conversation Starters […]
VIRTUAL ENTERTAINMENT
Good Morning, Provincetown!
‘It takes a village to make a show about our village’
The idea for Wake Up! In Provincetown, a talk show hosted by Harrison Fish and Bob Keary that streams on YouTube on Fridays at 9 a.m., started as an inside […]
THE GAP
Funds for Child Care Are in the Works, but Where to Spend Them?
Outer Cape struggles with the ‘single biggest barrier to reopening’
PROVINCETOWN — Jennifer Cortes is just the type of person policymakers have been trying to get to live in town for years: she’s a 2003 Provincetown High School graduate who […]
OBITUARY
Charlie Welsh, 75, the Heart of Orleans District Court
'He was a perfect gentleman to everyone,' a defense attorney wrote
PROVINCETOWN — Charlie Welsh, who worked in Orleans District Court as an assistant clerk magistrate during the half century that his father, brother, and nephew all presided as first justices, […]
This Week In Provincetown
Meetings Ahead
Meetings are held remotely. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. Thursday, Dec. 10 OPEB (Other Post-Employment Benefits) Meeting, 10:30 a.m. Public Pier Corp., 2 p.m. Planning […]
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Tuna: A Little History
This magnificent fish is more than just ‘seafood’
PROVINCETOWN — What a gorgeous monster! First, its size: over nine feet long and over 700 pounds. Then, its unreal color: dark steel blue with green reflections, merging into gun-metal […]
CLIMATE CRISIS
West End Salt Marsh Dieback Accelerates
After the purple crabs graze, millennia of peat washes away
PROVINCETOWN — On a Sunday morning in November, the low tide and lure of fresh foraged food drew many recreational shellfishermen to this season’s designated clamming area, the west side […]
PANDEMIC
Wastewater Testing Yields Messy Data
But it’s a still a valued tool for detecting Covid outbreaks
PROVINCETOWN — Testing wastewater for Covid was an unproved idea at the start of this pandemic. If it worked, it would be a way to cheaply test entire communities at […]
EDUCATION
Scholarships Keep P’town Kids in College
But an award funded by tax-form gifts is depleted
PROVINCETOWN — For Christina Reid, 18 — a freshman at Boston’s Suffolk University, a 2020 graduate of Nauset Regional High School, and a third-through-eighth-grade alumna of Provincetown Schools — receiving […]
TRUE CRIME
In Provincetown, a Good Deed Backfires
Animal rescue leads to felony charge for Truro man
PROVINCETOWN — Police Officer Thomas Radzik was parked at the CVS on Oct. 17 when a man — Brandon Czyoski, 39, of Truro — asked him for help. Czyoski said […]
MAYFLOWER HISTORY, PART III
The Duality of Being a Mayflower Descendant
‘Descendants feel joy and sadness about history’
PROVINCETOWN — Two things Provincetown’s Cheryl Andrews disliked as a child: history and Thanksgiving. History, she said, was “boring as dust” — with its rote memorization of dates, wars, and […]
This Week In Provincetown
Meetings Ahead
Meetings are held remotely. Go to provincetown-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. Thursday, Dec. 3 Public Pier Corp., 2 p.m. Zoning Board of Appeals, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. […]
SEASCAPES
With an Eye on the Surf, Colin McGuire Paints Provincetown
A local artist contemplates the Outer Cape’s past and present
“The ocean is both beautiful and terrifying to me,” says Colin McGuire. An emerging local artist, he finds “limitless inspiration” in the seascapes of the Outer Cape and their “variety […]
CIVICS
Economist Resigns From Provincetown FinCom
Dorie Seavey says Mark Hatch’s behavior doesn’t add up
PROVINCETOWN — A member of the finance committee has resigned because of the behavior of the chair, Mark Hatch, which she described as “condescending, dismissive, and even shaming.” Dorie Seavey […]
