PROVINCETOWN — When Brian Carlstrom became superintendent of the Cape Cod National Seashore in April 2018, he told the Cape Cod Times that he wanted to continue “a lot of […]
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PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Housing Workshop
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 the […]
TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Comprehend the Plan
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, Sept. 7 Local […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Art Shacks at Mayo Beach
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
Don’t Feed the Coyotes
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 are […]
COLD FEET
Wellfleet Backs Out of Dredging Mitigation Agreement
Select board plans to ask spring town meeting for $4.5 million for permit
WELLFLEET — The select board has backpedaled on its support for a plan that would have dedicated 28 acres in Blackfish Creek to oyster habitat restoration. The restoration was a […]
NATIONAL SEASHORE
Supt. Carlstrom Is Promoted to a Job in Denver
He will become an NPS deputy regional director on Oct. 8
PROVINCETOWN — When Brian Carlstrom became superintendent of the Cape Cod National Seashore in April 2018, he told the Cape Cod Times that he wanted to continue “a lot of […]
ON THE WATERFRONT
Parsing the Possibilities at the Provincetown Inn
Zoning and floodplain maps will shape what can be built on the six-acre site
PROVINCETOWN — The six-acre property at 1 Commercial St. that encompasses the 102-room Provincetown Inn and its 125 parking spaces, six conference rooms, and swimming pool shaped like a Pilgrim’s […]
POLICING
Arrest Data Continue to Suggest Racial Discrepancy
Blacks are three times as likely to be arrested or stopped on Outer Cape
Black people on the Outer Cape are about 3.3 times as likely to be arrested as the rest of the region’s population, according to police department data from Provincetown, Truro, […]
ZONING
Building a New Sense of Place in Eastham and Provincetown
‘Form-based zoning’ shapes ambitious development projects in two towns
North Eastham’s commercial district, if all goes according to plan, will be transformed into a walkable village center within the next few years. Provincetown, too, hopes for similar changes to […]
PILGRIM PROGRESS
State Hears Mostly ‘No’ at Public Hearing on Radioactive Wastewater
In written comments and at a town hall event, people press DEP to deny permit
PLYMOUTH — Nearly all of the more than 700 written comments sent so far to the state’s Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) urge the agency to finalize its denial of […]
MILLION-YEAR PICNIC
Seeing the Showstoppers and the Faint Fuzzies
The summer nights of amateur astronomers on an Eastham beach and the Wellfleet pier
EASTHAM — We were at First Encounter Beach at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 23. People filled the beach and parking lot, watching the sun set across Cape Cod Bay, […]
THE SCUTTLEBUTT
Whiting, Whales, and Wind
Here, the wind kept a lot of boats in last week; off the Vineyard, a wind farm goes forward
Last week I wrote about the possibility of us having a good striped bass bite, uninterrupted, all season long. I might have spoken too soon, as the bass really turned […]
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Aug. 29 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
ENVIRONMENT
A Threat of Fines Prompts Oil Spill Cleanup to Resume
Years of testing follow a spill near a Wellfleet wetland
WELLFLEET — State officials want to see the cleanup of a nearly two-year-old oil spill at a downtown business and recently threatened the owner with fines “in excess of several […]
