Meetings Ahead Thursday, Feb. 13 Bicycle Committee, 2 p.m., Maushope Community Room, 44 Harry Kemp Way Planning Board, 6:30 p.m., Town Hall Visitor Service Board, 9:30 a.m., Town Hall Water […]
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This Week in Truro
Meetings Ahead Thursday, Feb. 13 Select Board, 3 p.m., Truro Public Library Housing Authority, 4:15 p.m., Town Hall School Committee, 5:15 p.m., Truro Central School Friday, Feb. 14 Community Preservation […]
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This Week in Wellfleet
Meetings Ahead Thursday, Feb. 13 Local Comprehensive Planning Committee, 8:30 a.m., Council on Aging Nauset Regional School Committee, 6 p.m., Brewster Town Hall Zoning Board of Appeals, 7 p.m., Council […]
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This Week in Eastham
Meetings Ahead Thursday, Feb. 13 Nauset Regional School Committee, 6 p.m., Brewster Town Hall Tuesday, Feb. 18 Charter Review Committee, 5:30 p.m., Small Meeting Room, Town Hall Wednesday, Feb. 19 […]
CIRCUS
Cirque du Soleil Had Rejected Idea of P’town Show Before Complaints
Community's reaction 'did not influence' decision, says Cirque spokesman
Editor’s note: This story has been updated from the version published on February 6 because of late-breaking developments. PROVINCETOWN — A proposal by Truro promoter Eric Martin to mount a […]
ENVIRONMENT
Eastham Unlikely to Go It Alone on Broad Plastics Ban
But a narrower petitioned article and a bag ban make progress
EASTHAM — The select board sent two proposed bylaws banning plastic bottles and bags back to the conservation commission for revisions on Monday instead of placing them as articles on […]
ENVIRONMENT
East Harbor Is Thriving, But Is That Enough?
Small measures help sea creatures; bigger ones could buffer sea-level rise
TRURO — Recent research at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown has documented the current state of East Harbor’s benthic communities — species that live in the sediments on […]
HEALTH
Medical Weed May Not Reach Outer Cape
Lots of marijuana for recreation, but no assurances for patients
PROVINCETOWN — Recreational marijuana stores are coming to the Outer Cape in a big way, but it’s not clear that any of them will provide medical formulations of the drug […]
ART WORKS
FAWC Fellows’ Protest Pays Off
They get increased stipend after act of ‘art-ivism’
PROVINCETOWN — The current crop of Fine Arts Work Center fellows expressed their displeasure at their $750 monthly stipend in a letter now on display at the annual FAWC exhibit […]
ART OF DYING
It’s Easy to Be Green, Even in Death
Natural burial may soon be allowed in Provincetown
PROVINCETOWN — Thirty plots in the town cemetery may soon be available for “green burial,” in which a body is placed in the ground without a metal casket, cement vault, […]
LAND USE
T-Time Panel Revisits Old Plan for N. Eastham
Group will walk the site of a ‘potential town center’
EASTHAM — The documents that the T-Time Development Committee collected for its second meeting on Jan. 28 included the North Eastham Village Center plan created back in 2007. The 11 […]
TRURO SELECT BOARD
Potlucks and Pot Agreements
The talk of Candidates’ Night
TRURO — A standing-room only crowd listened to the two select board candidates — Stephanie Rein, a farmer, and Karen Tosh, an attorney — during candidates’ night on Feb. 4. […]
REC ROUNDUP
Outer Cape Recreation Outlook for Winter and Spring
Basketball, pickleball, and Brazilian jujitsu are offered
Outer Cape recreation departments offer a slew of programs throughout the winter and spring. Here is a sampling. Provincetown Youth basketball is offered for boys and girls in grades K-6 […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Furies Host Senior Night
A weekly wrap-up and preview of Nauset High sports
Note: Team records are listed as of the Independent’s deadline. Friday, Feb. 7 Girls basketball: The Warriors (11-4) host the Nantucket Whalers at 3:30 p.m. The Warriors fell to the […]
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This Week in Provincetown
Meetings Ahead Thursday, Feb. 6 Harbor Committee, 5 p.m., Town Hall Other Post-Employment Benefits, 10:30 a.m., Town Hall Recycling & Renewable Energy, 9 a.m., Town Hall Shellfish Committee, 5 p.m. […]