WELLFLEET — The first clinic in the region to offer intensive in-person counseling to patients battling substance use disorders is currently in the works and would operate in the building […]
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PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Sharing the Road
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are in-person, typically with an online-attendance option for both committee members and residents. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar […]
TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Forget About Fossil Fuels
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, Jan. 19 Climate […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
The Buy-Down Bridge
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 […]
EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
The Present Is Female
Meetings Ahead Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting locations […]
RESCUE
Housing Could Get $11.4M From County ARPA Pot
Addressing homelessness, affordable housing, and the ‘missing middle’
BARNSTABLE — An advisory committee established to recommend best uses of the $41.4 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funding sent to the county says the $11.4 million remaining […]
HOUSING SOLUTIONS
Teaming Up to Bring Vail’s Strategy Home
P’town, Vineyard, and Nantucket, ask state to OK new deed restrictions
PROVINCETOWN — A housing strategy involving deed restrictions that was devised in Vail, Colo. and has been duplicated in Lake Tahoe, Calif. could soon be coming to the Cape and […]
ARPA UPDATE
$10M for Towns and $5M in Small Grants Slowly Progress
Countywide programs await Assembly approval
BARNSTABLE — The federal American Rescue Plan Act sent $41.3 million to Barnstable County. That money has now been divided into four separate pots: $12.8 million will be spent by […]
SCHOOL ELECTION
Nauset High Renovation Wins Big Again
$38.1 million in additional funding passes with 71 percent of the vote
An unusual mid-January election did not appear to chill voters’ enthusiasm for the Nauset Regional High School renovation project. The $38.1 million in added funding that the project turned out […]
HUMAN SERVICES
Truro COA Needs a Director, Outreach Coordinator, Driver, and Cook
Tangeman says a new deputy director will be named ‘any day now’
TRURO — Truro Council on Aging Outreach Coordinator Elton Cutler’s going-away party on Jan. 6 brought out over 80 people. Not only were they sad to see him go, they […]
AFTERMATH
Assessing the Damage From Provincetown’s Floods
Some residents are looking at months out of their homes
PROVINCETOWN — It has been almost three weeks since an extreme high tide, whipped into violent waves by a strong southeast wind, flooded parts of Provincetown’s East End with seawater. […]
PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Spring Cleaning for Tourism Dept.
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are in-person, typically with an online-attendance option for both committee members and residents. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar […]
TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Fee Hikes
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, Jan. 12 Housing […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
MLK Day Breakfast
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 […]
EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Short-Term Rental Revenue Is Flowing
Meetings Ahead Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting locations […]