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EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Porta-Potties Need to Move
Meetings Ahead
Meetings are being held in person. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting locations and any remote options that may be […]
Glory Days
The front page photo this week, taken by Nancy Bloom, offers a different point of view on a beloved high summer scene. You can find that in a few places […]
STAFFING CRISIS
Lack of Child Care Afflicts Outer Cape’s Workers
Jamaican families often send their children away for the summer
A critical shortage of child care, worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic, remains a serious problem for many Outer Cape parents. Families found themselves stuck when schools and child-care centers closed. […]
NEW NORMAL
Covid Returns, ‘Less Severe, More Manageable’
Many vaccinated people are infected, but none are hospitalized
PROVINCETOWN — There is a new outbreak of detected Covid-19 cases in Provincetown. “Since the end of last week, they’ve been finding several cases a day” at Outer Cape Health […]
BIG DIG
Dredging Project’s Effects on Nauset Dunes Feared
East Orleans group ‘will expend whatever is necessary’ to stop it
EASTHAM — A group called Saving Nauset Dunes, represented by Mackie Shea Durning PC, a Boston-based boutique law firm focused on environmental and land use law, has fired a shot […]
COLD CASE
Sheriff Cummings’s Contract With ICE Is Renewed Again
Data show the program affects Jamaican men disproportionately
Last summer, at the end of the fiscal year, Barnstable County Sheriff James Cummings’s detention agreement with the Dept. of Homeland Security lapsed. He renewed it. But this year, the […]
POST MORTEM
A Learning Curve on Green Burials in Outer Cape Towns
Sandy soil needs shoring up for nature-based practices
Efforts to accommodate those looking for a more back-to-nature form of burial, known as green burial, continue to move ahead on the Outer Cape, but there’s been a bit of […]
CEASED
Questions Remain After Lecount Hollow Tree-Cutting Is Halted
With no building inspector, follow-up action on bylaw violation is lacking
WELLFLEET — One month ago, on June 15, then-Wellfleet Building Inspector Paul Fowler delivered a cease-and-desist order to David and Chellise Sexton of Eastham for clear-cutting trees on their property […]
FLEXING
Pandemic’s Easing Opens Possibilities for Public Transit
Fare-free Fridays are meant to help workers and tourists
The Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority has made its buses free on Fridays. Tom Cahir, the CCRTA administrator, said fare-free Fridays would help workers and tourists as the Outer Cape […]
TERN, TERN, TERN
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, July 13 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
THE SCUTTLEBUTT
Elsa Makes a Mess in the Harbor
Southeast gusts of 61 mph at high tide create havoc
Unrelenting storms continue to ravage the Cape this summer, with the latest being Tropical Storm Elsa, which blasted us last Friday afternoon, July 9. It was a really bad combination: the […]
EMERGENCIES
Drunk Driver Hits Pedicab, Runs Down Passenger
GHB is implicated in spate of overdoses over holiday weekend
PROVINCETOWN — Police made seven arrests here between Thursday and Monday of July 4th weekend, and the rescue squad was kept busy as well. The incidents included a drunk driving […]
REGULATION REPORT
Willy’s Gets Its All-Alcohol License
ABCC asked the town to ‘resolve any differences’
EASTHAM — The select board granted an all-alcohol liquor license for Willy’s World Wellness & Conference Center, doing business as Grateful Café, on July 12, just days before a scheduled […]
REVOLVING DOOR
Ousted Town Administrator Got Four Months of Severance
But now Broadbent cannot sue Wellfleet
WELLFLEET — Maria Broadbent, the Wellfleet town administrator who lasted nine months from August 2020 to April of this year, received four months’ severance pay after her resignation. According to […]
