Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Sept. 12 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
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PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Be Prepared
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are held in person, typically with an online-attendance option for both committee members and residents. Click on the meeting you want to attend on […]
TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Select Board Ups RTE
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, Sep. 14 Taxation […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Being ‘Natural’ on the Flats
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]
EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Solar Enlightenment
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Go to eastham-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for details. All meetings […]
STOPGAP
6 Homeless Families Land Briefly in Eastham Motel
They were separated from family in a state program ‘past the brink’
EASTHAM — For nine days at the end of August, after Gov. Maura Healey declared a state of emergency because of a shortage of shelters for unhoused families, six families […]
TAX POLICY
Provincetown Ups Residential Tax Exemption to 35%
Overall, the residential tax rate will go from $5.32 per $1,000 of assessed value to $5.58
PROVINCETOWN — At its annual tax classification hearing on Aug. 28, Provincetown’s select board voted unanimously to increase the town’s residential tax exemption to the legal maximum of 35 percent. […]
THE TRURO WARRANT
Walsh Committee Prepares a Plan for Town Meeting
Members push back on comments about the size of the project
TRURO — The 13-member Walsh Property Community Planning Committee has kicked into high gear as it prepares to present its plan for the use of the 70-acre property at an […]
COUNTERCLAIMS
Fox & Crow Café Goes on Pause — for Now
Downtown Wellfleet’s only year-round restaurant faces eviction
WELLFLEET — A post on social media on the last day of August announced that Trudy Vermehren, the owner of the popular year-round Fox & Crow Café, was closing her […]
SHORT-TERM RENTALS
A Stuttered Rollout for the Community Impact Fee
Early returns were low, but summer receipts will be arriving soon
At their spring town meetings in 2022, voters in Provincetown and Wellfleet adopted a “community impact fee” on investor-owned short-term rental properties: a 3-percent surcharge on bookings. According to the […]
TOWN MEETING PREVIEW
Wellfleet STM Will Take Up 10 Bylaw Changes
$2.7 million in overrides sought for wastewater and for a town planner
WELLFLEET — Many changes will be afoot at the Sept. 18 special town meeting, not all of them due to what is on the warrant. After complaints that last spring’s […]
BEACH POINT PERMITS
Shore Road Owners Face Tough Reviews of Proposed Changes
Truro ZBA looks to uphold intent of bylaw or ‘you’ll just have walls’
TRURO — The view along Shore Road stirs recollections of days gone by when families with modest incomes could spend a week or two in simple cottages on the water. […]
THE SCUTTLEBUTT
North Winds Cool the Fishing
Fishermen ask for more research on the underwater effects of wind farms
The good news is we dodged a couple of bullets, with not one but two tropical systems — both of them passed east of us. The bad news is we […]
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. 5 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
LEGAL FUNDS
Online Campaign Seeks $15K for Areson’s Legal Fees
TRURO — The select board’s review of Town Manager Darrin Tangeman’s performance in June became a heated dispute — which only intensified when the board’s vice chair, Sue Areson, was […]
