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This Week In Truro
Meetings Ahead Thursday, Oct. 8 Zoning Board of Appeals, 5:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9 Community Preservation Committee, 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13 Council on Aging Board, 10 a.m. Select Board, […]
This Week In Wellfleet
Meetings Ahead From wellfleet-ma.gov, hover over a date on the calendar on the right of the screen and click on the meeting you’re interested in to open its agenda. That document […]
This Week In Eastham
Meetings Ahead Meetings are held remotely. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on a particular meeting to read its agenda. That document will provide information about how to view and take […]
THE WATERFRONT
Dredging of Federal Channel Begins at Last
Army Corps arrives to launch three-year harbor project
WELLFLEET — It took a town-wide effort, a federal campaign, and 26 years, but the dredging of Wellfleet Harbor’s federal channel is set to begin on Oct. 1. “It’s just […]
TOWN MEETING
Cloverleaf Foes Question Funds for Housing
Transfers to affordable housing trust are ultimately approved
TRURO — It was a short but not sweet town meeting on Saturday, Sept. 26. All 17 warrant articles passed, the weather was balmy, and 243 people (or 12 percent […]
TOWN MEETING
Eastham Moves Forward on Family Support
Voters also approve the banning of plastics
EASTHAM — The voters were in an agreeable mood at last Saturday’s town meeting, approving every warrant article presented and agreeing to postpone two. Three of the adopted articles will […]
LEARNING IN A PANDEMIC
State Questions Provincetown Schools on Staying Shut
Infant and toddler program is on recess after staff resignations
PROVINCETOWN — Provincetown Schools Supt. Suzanne Scallion has received a letter from state Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Jeffrey Riley questioning her decision not to reopen the school for […]
SAFETY NET
Outer Cape Workers Could Be Denied Unemployment This Winter
Lots of unknowns in future of expanded system
PROVINCETOWN — Unemployment insurance dates back to 1935 and the same New Deal law that created Social Security. This year, however, unemployment benefits were radically expanded and repurposed as coronavirus […]
TRUE CRIME
Vandalism, Alcohol Blemish Weekend Perfection
Bad art, boneheaded arguments, a car accident, and a lot of expletives
WELLFLEET — An employee at Bay Sails Marine on Route 6 was flushing out his boat Saturday evening at the end of a beautiful late September day when he noticed […]
CONNECTIVITY
Five Towns Force Comcast to Expand Broadband Access
New deal with the cable company is called ‘revolutionary’
TRURO — More residents in areas currently without broadband service will soon be able to get connected, following a breakthrough in negotiations with Comcast — though exactly how many will […]
ENVIRONMENT
Strandings Are Now Year Round, but Survival Rate Improves
IFAW and local volunteers learn and respond together
WELLFLEET — Cape Cod is known as a global stranding hot spot for whales and dolphins. Probably no one knows that better than the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) […]
POLITICS
Mary Trump Skewers Uncle Donald in LPAC Event
The psychologist and author rallies the troops for women candidates
PROVINCETOWN — Mary L. Trump’s book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man sold more copies in one week than her uncle Donald’s […]
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Sept. 29, included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
AIR CONDITIONED
Warriors Look Toward February Football
With football deemed unsafe for now, the team hits the turf for conditioning
EASTHAM — “Unfortunately, the kids are getting used to disappointment right now,” said Head Coach Bruce Strunk of the Nauset Warriors football team. Friday nights in September would normally bring […]
