Page 32 - Outer Cape News Today

Alex Darus Among the issues that made the Banner headlines this year were the legal sale of marijuana to adults in Provincetown, the issues of racial justice, goodbyes to town administrators and more. Outer Cape joins national protest for racial justice The issue of racial justice came into the forefront in 2020 after the killing of George Floyd on May 25 by a Minneapolis police officer led to nationwide protests, which made their way to the tip of Cape Cod.  Black Lives Matter protests and ma...

“I don’t think you could find an adult my age who didn’t grow up dreaming of finding buried treasure,” said Fowler, 27, who is now taking over the family business, ARCOR Epoxy Technologies in Harwich, “I’d swim out there (to an island) if I thought there was treasure.”  As it worked out, the guys who found the treasure did almost that. After talking with Bicker and another lifelong Brewster friend, Eli Powers, Doyle headed to Wing Island. Unsuccessful on the first outing, he noti...

ORLEANS — At least four committees and boards are set to review Cape Cod Healthcare’s proposal to tear down the iconic Lobster Claw restaurant at 42 Route 6A and replace it with a medical building. CCH already has been before the Site Plan Review Committee and will have a formal review with the Architectural Review Committee after the new year.  The Conservation Commission will be involved because there is a wetland just off the parcel, the Board of Health will address the sewer connection...

Alex Darus, Banner Correspondent The state Cannabis Control Commission has amended adult use laws to allow for home delivery of recreational marijuana.  While the move is intended to improve equity and help minorities and those impacted by the war on drugs, it’s unclear what form delivery of adult use marijuana will take on the Outer Cape.  “Cape Cod is very white, so we face different issues here,” Provincetown resident Anna May Meade, a cannabis industry advocate who co-wrote the book...

More COVID-19 testing sites are expected to come online next week as Outer Cape Health Services plans to double the testing hours at its Wellfleet and Provincetown locations and have another site up and running at its Harwich Port clinic. Outer Cape Health Services expects to be able to offer free rapid tests for asymptomatic people by mid-week, CEO Patricia Nadle said Thursday during a press briefing by the Reopening Cape Cod Task Force. Expanded testing on the Outer Cape, as well as Hyannis ...

Susan Blood PROVINCETOWN — Since closing in March due to the threat of COVID-19, Waters Edge Cinema has still found ways to entice people to go to the movies. Initially offering films to watch online at home, through a platform called Cinesend, the cinema has since offered private on-site screenings for “pods” of up to 25 people, and is now looking at opening to the public.  But it all depends on science, data, and the community. To gauge the local community’s interest in and comfort ...

PROVINCETOWN — Researchers with the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium have selected new names for 18 whales in an effort to better study the endangered species.  While naming North Atlantic right whales has been a common practice by researchers for several years, the concept of formally naming whales got its start in Provincetown.  In the 1970s, Charles “Stormy” Mayo, director of the right whale ecology program at the Center for Coastal Studies, was a young researcher who would lea...

Cape Cod officials announce plan to increase testing in region Share Updated: 1:34 PM EST Dec 17, 2020 By Chris Lisinski, State House News Service AP/Stephanie Zollshan File photo: County Ambulance paramedic Jennifer Sommers performs a swab test for COVID-19 on a staff member at a BFAIR shared living home in Pittsfield, Mass., Tuesday, April 21, 2020. The EMTs and paramedics visited the home to test staff and residents for COVID-19. (Stephanie Zollshan/The...

Nauset Regional High School teacher Lisa Brown, middle, has been the faculty advisor for the schools Human Rights Academy since the program launched in 2007. Courtesy Photo NORTH EASTHAM - For nearly two decades, Nauset Regional High School teacher Lisa Brown has made annual visits to Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince, with members of the school’s Human Rights Academy. Once there, the group boards a ferry and travels roughly 10 miles to the island of La Gonave, where they are greeted by ...

“It’s by midnight that I expect the whiteout conditions to start to develop. That is going to intensify through the overnight into early tomorrow morning,” StormTeam 5 Meteorologist Kelly Ann Cicalese said.“It is a long duration storm for much of the day (Thursday), and 10 to 18 inches of snow is expected for most of the area,” Cicalese said. The heaviest snowfall will be early Thursday morning, before sunrise. All of Rhode Island and most of Massachusetts has a Winter Storm Warning ...