Jacob Greenberg, Banner Correspondent
PROVINCETOWN It takes two to three years for an oyster seed to mature into a full-grown, edible oyster about the same amount of time it can take a new business to show a profit.
Aquaculturist Michael Chute hasn’t yet figured out a way to get his product from tide to table any faster, but he did get a leg up on the business side of things when his company SilvaChuters, based in Provincetown, won $1,000 in a local “pitch contest.” Think Shark Tank .but on a fishbowl scale.
“One of the opportunities that we see is aqua tourism,” Chute told the five judges in his two-minute pitch. “We’re right now a small one- and two-acre grant out on the tidal flats west of the breakwater.
Susan Blood, Banner Correspondent
WELLFLEET Winners of the second annual Wellfleet Youth Film Festival have been chosen, but you’ll have to wait a few more days to find out who they are.
“We wanted to give the feeling that this is a festival you have to attend,” Wellfleet Preservation Hall Managing Director Vanessa Downing said.
From the beginning Downing envisioned the youth film event with all the trappings of a traditional film festival: awards, interviews, a red carpet and more. But so far the COVID-19 virus threat has put a crimp in those plans.
Like last year the festival will screen online only, through the hall s home page. The link will go live on Friday, May 7, and remain available through the end of the day on Sunday, May 9. An in-person screening is planned in the hall s backyard sometime this summer.
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Alex Darus, Banner Correspondent
WELLFLEET When Town Administrator Maria Broadbent visited the Cape back in August 2019, it reminded her of spending time working for the Cape Cod National Seashore in her 20s.
She was having dinner with friends and for the first time out loud said she wanted to get a town manager job on the Outer Cape.
“It was something that had always been in the back of my head,” Broadbent said in a recent interview with the Banner.
It wasn’t too long after that that Provincetown, Truro and Wellfleet all announced they were looking to hire new town managers.
Susan Blood, Banner Correspondent
PROVINCETOWN In his proposal for “The Great Wonder,” a temporary sculpture in Ireland, artist Jay Critchley connected food security to liberty.
“To me one of the most shocking images of the (COVID-19) pandemic was to see miles of cars lined up in Arkansas, or Kansas, looking for food,” Critchley said in a recent interview. “They’re sitting in their brand new SUVs but don’t have any food. It got me thinking more deeply about food and its role in our culture.”
Last spring, Critchley responded to a call for proposals from Sculpture Dublin, a Dublin City Council initiative that commissioned six site-specific sculptures through an open competition. Both grandparents on Critchley’s mother’s side are from Ireland.