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EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Family Support Package
Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. 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 […]
TOWN MEETING
Effort to Change Planning Board Selection Fails in Close Vote
Child-care vouchers and an override for firefighters are approved
TRURO — Truro’s housing crisis took center stage at Saturday’s town meeting, which featured chilly temperatures, gusty winds, and heated debate over Article 50. That petitioned article would have changed […]
TOWN MEETING
Eastham Approves Purchase of Two Properties
Massasoit Road thrift shop and Beach Plum Lodge articles win by large margins
EASTHAM — In a show of support for the select board and town administration, more than 300 voters at Monday night’s annual town meeting passed all 13 nonpetitioned warrant articles. […]
CIVICS
Playing Ball at Truro Town Meeting
A sunny-then-moody field day with blue slips and blankets
TRURO — As the crowd dwindled after the first day of town meeting on Saturday, two-year-old Harper Richter and five-year-old Mica Richter ran from inside Truro Central School to greet […]
CIVICS
A Mellow Eastham Town Meeting
At the high school gym, democracy proceeds by clicks
EASTHAM — “Aren’t we having fun?” Moderator Scott Kerry asked, as 312 voters settled into folding chairs in the Nauset Regional High School gym for the annual town meeting. Then […]
WELLFLEET VOTE
DeVasto and Carboni Elected to Select Board
Voter turnout dropped by 5 percent from a year ago
WELLFLEET — Incumbent Michael DeVasto and newcomer Barbara Carboni were elected to three-year terms on the select board in Monday’s annual town election. Just over 25 percent, 763, of the […]
MAIN STREET
New Owners Say They’ll Give an Old Inn Some Respect
Landscaping, artwork, and plans to pull a ‘hodge-podge’ together at Duck Creek
WELLFLEET — Townspeople described Joseph Price, whose family owned 70 Main St. from 1931 through the early 1970s, as the “wood butcher” because of his untrained and unrestrained construction style. […]
JOURNALISM
The Indie Wins 17 New England Press Awards
First place in arts and science reporting, obituaries, and cartooning
BOSTON — The Provincetown Independent won 17 awards in the Better Newspaper competition of the New England Newspaper and Press Association, announced at the group’s annual convention on Saturday. The […]
SHELLFISHING
Summertime: Could the Clamming Be Easy?
Provincetown’s clam flats could be a year-round resource
PROVINCETOWN — Last Nov. 14, a Sunday, a record was set here: 200 people went clamming on one day. “Never have 200 people gotten together and dug clams in Provincetown […]
THE SCUTTLEBUTT
Visit to a Small ‘Drowned’ Island
On Anegada, conch fishing recalls a simpler time
The cold spring weather continues to put the fishing season on hold. Flounder are beginning to bite off the Pamet, and a few tautog are being taken around rock piles, […]
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, May 3 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
PILGRIM REACTOR
Congressional Hearing to Look at Decommissioning
The public is not invited to speak, but advocates plan rallies in Plymouth
PLYMOUTH — A handful of state and federal officials, an attorney from a national advocacy group, and the president of Holtec International, the company that owns the shuttered Pilgrim nuclear […]
HOUSING
Arguments Readied on Appeal of ‘Barracks’ Permit
Attorneys lay out points of contention and witness lists for June 22 trial
PROVINCETOWN — For nearly a year, an ambitious workforce housing project known as the “Barracks” has been stalled in Barnstable Superior Court by a suit filed by neighbors who argue […]
HOUSING
ZBA Hears Special Permit Bid for 5,100-SF House
The intent of Truro’s size limit for structures is one of the issues
TRURO — Attorney Ben Zehnder did his best to make his client’s proposal to build a 5,100-square-foot house at 17 Coast Guard Road sound like a good thing for the […]
