
“I don’t encourage people to do it,” she says. The boys tennis team improved to 5-0, FOR THE BIRDS Adopting a Parrot? ‘Get Out of the Way’ĮASTHAM - Kerry Reid is conflicted about the fact that she keeps a parrot at her house. The northern fringe of the striped bass migration reached Rhode Island this past week, and if we continue to get this unseasonably warm weather the bass could be in our WARRIORS WATCH Nauset Boys Remain Unbeaten on the CourtĮASTHAM - Nauset boys tennis stayed hot last week while boys and girls lacrosse picked up wins as the spring season kept rolling. So, too, have castaways, washed ashore after a shipwreck, or put ashore, as RARA AVIS This Week’s Bird SightingsĬonfirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, April 18 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet THE SCUTTLEBUTT Circle Hooks Supported by Study on Why Catch-and-Release Fish Die Swashbuckling pirates and mooncussing scoundrels, real or fictional, have long been characters in the Cape Cod story. “We’re having a party,” she said in a startlingly deep voice, one you might expect from a bear rather than GRAVEYARD SHIFT The Original Washashores of Provincetown and Eastham Lula the Pig said she would buy the flowers herself. On March 8, the team traveled THE COMMUNICATOR Lula at the Banquet of Life

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ON THE COURT Mock Trial Team Plays the Plaintiff in BostonĮASTHAM - The Nauset Regional High School mock trial team is officially among the eight best high school teams in the state this year. WELLFLEET - Moving down the path that runs along the southern edge of Dyer Pond, I felt the cold northeast air move over the pond and chill my windward side.
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We fill the car with our suitcases plus all our Mardi Gras accoutrements, including wigs, hats, a sequined dress, and ON THE LANDSCAPE On Pine Needle Paths It’s the end of our stay in my other hometown. The last time I used anything more than a single hook while fishing was a memorable mid-September day in 1978, when an enormous school of 15-pound bluefish cornered an even FROM THE LARDER Subtle and Ethereal Homemade Ricotta PROVINCETOWN - Leading up to the April 3 annual town meeting, texting campaigns both for and against three controversial petitioned articles proposing short-term rental regulations landed in the phones of ON THE BEACH In Praise of the Single Barbless Hook PROVINCETOWN - In the aftermath of the April 3 town meeting’s 90-minute dustup over Articles 18, 19, and 20 on short-term rental regulation, some of the 582 registered Provincetown voters TOWN MEETING TACTICS Advocacy on Warrant Is Not Subject to Campaign Law She retired from her job as the town’s principal clerk last CIVICS A Tense Town Meeting Left Lingering Questions WELLFLEET - Jeanne Maclauchlan did not want her picture in the newspaper, but perhaps many people know her already. At the annual town election on May 1, Curley will face former Wellfleet Principal Clerk Jeanne Maclauchlan, WELLFLEET ELECTION Select Board Candidate Maclauchlan Wants Less Spending WELLFLEET - Select board chair Ryan Curley wants to finish what he started. One WELLFLEET ELECTION Select Board Incumbent Curley: ‘There’s More Work to Be Done’ PROVINCETOWN - Turning disparate stretches of bike trail into a connected network can be like carpentry: the junctions and joinery require just as much attention as the long boards. PLYMOUTH - Holtec International can’t release one drop of its million gallons of wastewater from the former Pilgrim nuclear plant into Cape Cod Bay because doing so would violate the CYCLING Small Improvements Presage Bigger Trail Projects Sophia Ryan, a senior RADIOACTIVITY Ocean Sanctuaries Act Could Stop Pilgrim Release Two teenagers discussed their paths out of life-threatening depression at a March 28 online forum on youth suicide prevention organized by the League of Women Voters. With four budget overrides, 10 Community Preservation Act articles, six citizen YOUNG LIVES Local Teens Speak for Themselves About Suicide TRURO - Town meeting is less than a week away, and there are 42 articles on this year’s warrant.

The verses flow over pastel-colored hats worn by women in the TOWN MEETING PREVIEW A Long Warrant Offers Much to Debate in Truro TRURO - On a bright spring Sunday, the sound of gospel music fills a small chapel in North Truro.

FAITH Sundays Are Celebratory at Chapel on the Pond
