WELLFLEET — After the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater announced on May 5 that it was postponing its entire 2020 season of productions until 2021 due to the Covid-19 epidemic, the […]
Wellfleet
STICKER SHOCK
Wellfleet Board Sets Beach Restrictions
WELLFLEET — In an effort to reduce crowding on town beaches, Wellfleet is moving the start date for requiring beach parking stickers forward 30 days, to May 20. And only […]
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Town Meeting Delay Stalls Housing Progress
Water main upgrade, a first step, needs voter approval
WELLFLEET — Officials are pumping the brakes on the 95 Lawrence Road affordable housing project due to the delay of town meeting. The use of town-owned land at that location, […]
CIVICS
Hoort Proposes Mail Ballot for Town Meeting
Can a New England tradition survive the pandemic?
WELLFLEET — Town Administrator Dan Hoort has asked the Outer Cape’s state legislators to try to get Beacon Hill to consider a radical remedy for the possibility that the traditional […]
PRESERVATION
Historic Home Gets Reprieve
Plan for year-round fitness studio in jeopardy
WELLFLEET — The house at 20 Briar Lane is architecturally significant, with both Greek Revival and Gothic Revival elements. It is also the hoped-for location for two year-round businesses and […]
MEMORIES
Joanna Fabris and West Main Books
The free-spirited host of a renowned Wellfleet salon
One of the great, unforgettable doyennes of Wellfleet social life in the 1970s to 1990s was Joanna Fabris, the owner of West Main Books. Her house near the Wellfleet library […]
health
Outer Cape Immunization Rates Among Lowest in State
Just 77% of Wellfleet kindergartners have been fully vaccinated
WELLFLEET — A large number of children who visit the Outer Cape Health Services clinic here are “under-vaccinated” — having not received a full series of standard immunizations against infectious […]
ECONOMY
Fishing Is Still the Most Dangerous Job
Fishing Partnership’s insurance plan, the model for ‘Romneycare,’ has helped
Close brushes with death are common for Outer Cape fishermen. Rick Marvin of Eastham, who fishes for lobster, bluefish, and crab, knows from experience that a routine move can quickly […]
ECONOMY
Surf Shops Suffer Effects of Shark Tales
Local business owners bemoan the media frenzy over great white danger
Some people, like Shawn Vecchione, are tired of talking about sharks. The constant chatter about great whites caused Vecchione, who owns Vec Surfboards in Orleans, to close the retail side […]
ELECTIONS
Wellfleet Scraps Wooden Ballot Box
Questions about election security are dismissed by select board
WELLFLEET — The select board voted 3-2 on Oct. 22 to “retire the horse and buggy,” as board member Kathleen Bacon put it, and replace the town’s 95-year-old hand-crank ballot […]
THEATER
Despite Real-Estate Challenges, Harbor Stage Sticks to Its Mission
But the founders of Wellfleet’s artist-run theater are still searching for a place to live
For their first seven years, the four actor-founders of the Harbor Stage Company — Robert Kropf and Stacy Fischer, Brenda Withers and Jonathan Fielding — who run the small Wellfleet […]
ENVIRONMENT
A Mountain of ‘Sacrificial Sand’ Is Dumped at Blasch House
Coastal bank is replenished as property owners challenge town in court
WELLFLEET — The Blasch property is receiving another massive amount of “sacrificial sand” in an effort to stall the mansion’s collapse over the edge of a coastal bank. The 5,817-square-foot […]
CANNABIS
Town Officials Subpoenaed on Marijuana Agreements
Federal grand jury has questions for Gardner, Hoort, and Beebe
U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling has questions for towns that have issued host community agreements to marijuana businesses. Provincetown, Wellfleet, and Eastham town administrators all received subpoenas last month ordering them […]
Halloween 2019
An Outermost Halloween, 2019
Outer Cape kids celebrate the holiday despite the weather
POLITICS
Sen. Cyr Says Cutler Bill ‘Ain’t Gonna Happen’
Shellfishermen are reassured by local legislators on fears of change
WELLFLEET — State Rep. Sarah Peake and Sen. Julian Cyr appeared before a friendly crowd of shellfishermen at Preservation Hall on Nov. 1 and told them what they wanted to […]
