Meetings Ahead
Most meetings in Wellfleet are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you are interested in on the calendar at wellfleet-ma.gov for details. All meetings are at Town Hall unless otherwise indicated.
Thursday, Jan. 9
- Nauset Regional School Committee, 6 p.m., Middle School Auditorium
- Zoning Board of Appeals, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 11
- Nauset Superintendent (Expanded) Search Committee, 10 a.m., Nauset Admin. Bldg. Conference Rm.
Tuesday, Jan. 14
- Cultural Council, 5:30 p.m.
- Select Board, 6 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 15
- Nauset Superintendent (Expanded) Search Committee, 5:30 p.m., Nauset Admin. Bldg. Conference Rm.
- Planning Board, 7 p.m., Old Wharf Rd. subdivision hearing, Adult Community Ctr. and online
Conversation Starter
Just a Little More Time
The state attorney general’s office on Dec. 17 asked a housing court judge to give Robert Bonds, the owner of the dilapidated house at 177 Peace Valley Road, a little more time to bring the condemned structure up to the state’s sanitary code.
The house has stood abandoned since 2018, when it was condemned by the town’s health dept. The town appealed to the attorney general’s Neighborhood Renewal Division, and, in April 2023, the house was put into the agency’s Abandoned Housing Initiative, a program aimed at bringing ramshackle houses back into compliance with state codes.
As a first step, the A.G.’s office tries to work with the homeowner. If that fails, the office asks the housing court to put the property in receivership.
Bonds did not follow through with promised repairs, and the agency began the court process to appoint a receiver in May. To avoid that outcome, Bonds signed an agreement in court in July, saying he would comply with a detailed timetable for the house’s restoration.
At the December hearing, Assistant Attorney General Lizabeth Lagarto Marshall told Housing Court Judge Joseph Michaud that Bonds’s attorney, Benjamin Dowling, had promised the repair work was “more or less on schedule.”
Adrian Moylette of AMC Contracting in Norwell submitted a permit application for partial demolition and extensive renovation on Nov. 27, but the application was incomplete.
Under the agreement Bonds signed in July, work was to be completed by the end of April 2025. Judge Michaud set the next status hearing for May 9 — after the deadline for the restoration will have passed. “I look forward to seeing some substantial progress,” Michaud said.
As of press time, no work is underway at the house, and several windows remain open to the elements. —Christine Legere
