Skyler Cole, a performer with Payomet’s Cirque by the Sea troupe, wheels down Wellfleet’s Main Street during Monday’s 4th of July parade. Read more for more Wellfleet Independence Day photographs. […]
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INDEPENDENCE DAY
July 4th Events on the Outer Cape
Parades and fireworks
Provincetown Provincetown’s Fourth of July parade begins at 11 a.m. at the Harbor Hotel in the East End and proceeds down Commercial Street to Franklin Street. Floats will be judged […]
CIVICS
Bacon Wins Election in Wellfleet
Voters approve $1.59M in overrides and $2.2M for school sprinklers
WELLFLEET — Voters at the June 21 special town election passed all five ballot questions and elected write-in candidate Kathleen Bacon to the select board. Bacon, a house painter and […]
LAND COURT
Sextons Claim Ownership of Fred Bell Property in Wellfleet
Litigious family tries to take possession of 12 affordable units
WELLFLEET — Chellise Sexton of Eastham and her son, Kevin Sexton of Wellfleet, claim that they own the property off Old King’s Highway, now called Fred Bell Way, where the […]
TOWN MEETING
Wellfleet Adopts $24.9M Budget, OKs All Overrides
Town service cuts are avoided, but spending must still pass at election
WELLFLEET — Town meeting voters approved nearly all of the 54 articles on the warrant on Saturday, including a $24.9-million operating budget, a $1.1-million capital budget, a $2.2-million sprinkler system […]
ELECTION
Three Questions for Three Wellfleet Candidates
Their views on the overrides, residential tax breaks, and Maurice’s Campground
WELLFLEET — Voters in Wellfleet will have three candidates to choose from at the special election on Tuesday, June 21 to fill the select board seat of Helen Miranda Wilson, […]
DEJA VU
GFM Still Defies ZBA Orders at Old Wharf Yard
Attorney Zehnder adds another round to his Land Court case
WELLFLEET — Neighbors of a controversial contractor’s yard operating at the corner of Route 6 and Old Wharf Road are frustrated with the apparent inability of the town to enforce […]
ARCHITECTURE
Marcel Breuer’s Wellfleet World
The Hungarian emigré and his friends were driven to make something beautiful
WELLFLEET — Marcel Lajos Breuer — Lajkó to most people — was born in Pécs, Hungary into a cultured, middle-class family during the glory days of the Austro Hungarian Empire […]
TOWN FINANCE
Wellfleet’s Bond Rating at Risk in Accounting Quagmire
Free cash certification now depends on town’s same-old auditors
WELLFLEET — As April town meeting approaches, time is running out for the town to sort through its financial disarray. The Mass. Dept. of Revenue (DOR) has informed the town […]
WELLFLEET WOES
Tracking the Tangled Web of Town Finances
Looking back on Wellfleet’s fiscal annus horribilis
WELLFLEET — The town’s interim administrator and accountants like to refer to the journals and records they are working to make sense of as a “ball of yarn” that is […]
Free Senior Workshops From Castle Hill
The spring session of Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill’s “60+” program begins this week. The free virtual workshops are open to residents of Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet, Eastham, […]
Covid Relief Fund Recipients Announced
The Mass. Cultural Council has announced the recipients of the Covid-19 Relief Fund. It awarded grants of $1,500 to 781 artists, humanists, and scientists, $1,171,500 in total. Twenty were from […]
Elena Ruehr Honors ‘A Great Diva’
Elena Ruehr, a composer who lives part of the year in Wellfleet, has created a new piece titled Notorious RBG, which will be performed virtually by members of the Boston-based […]
ENVIRONMENT
Wellfleet Harbor’s ‘Black Custard’
It’s all-natural, but you wouldn’t want to eat it
WELLFLEET — Agnes Mittermayr, a marine ecologist at the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) in Provincetown, has coined a new term to describe the dark, sludgy material that fills Wellfleet […]
Winter Wednesdays — Whenever, Wherever
Registration for Winter Wednesdays, called “Winter Whenevers” this year, opens Monday, January 4th, at winterwednesdays.org. These free classes will allow “residents of Provincetown, Truro and Wellfleet to interact online with […]
