Christine Legere

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Staff Reporter at The Provincetown Independent

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Articles

Provincetown Oyster Farmers Want to Grow Sea Urchins, Too

3 days ago | provincetownindependent.org | Christine Legere

PROVINCETOWN — Michael and Kalliope Chute, who have operated the Mermaid Menu oyster farm on the flats in Provincetown Harbor for several years, hope to expand their business this summer to include green sea urchins. The echinoderm — the sea urchin belongs to a phylum that also includes starfish and sand dollars — is native to the area, but its numbers have been dramatically diminished because of overfishing in the 1990s.
London Owner Wants to Demolish 1805 House and Build a Larger One

3 days ago | provincetownindependent.org | Christine Legere

TRURO — A 220-year-old house peeks out from behind a wall of foliage on land wedged between Castle and Truro Center roads. The house at 3 Castle Road is a piece of the town’s history: a one-and-a-half-story Federal-style Cape built in 1805. The side ell on it served as the post office for Truro Center in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Prep Work for Redeveloping the Truro Motor Inn Has Begun

1 week ago | provincetownindependent.org | Christine Legere

TRURO — Progress on the dilapidated Truro Motor Inn is happening slowly, with the work in view now focused on preparing the site for redevelopment. The property was taken from its delinquent owners, the Delgizzi family of Weston, by eminent domain last October. Public works Director Jarrod Cabral said the town has hired HRP Associates, a national environmental consulting firm with offices in Plymouth, to do a visual inspection of the building and grounds for contaminants.
Condemned Wellfleet House Gets a Reprieve

1 week ago | provincetownindependent.org | Christine Legere

WELLFLEET — Helen Miranda Wilson says she has been staring at the house at 177 Peace Valley Road her whole life. And what she’s seen there has not always been pretty. The house, which abuts her own, was condemned by the town’s health dept. in 2018 for health and safety violations. And despite the town’s pursuit of help from the state attorney general’s office to get absentee owner Robert Bonds to take steps to save it, the place continued on a path to ruin. Until last week.
Beachcomber Gets Go-Ahead to Add Parking

2 weeks ago | provincetownindependent.org | Christine Legere

WELLFLEET — At the Beachcomber here, as at many other Outer Cape summer spots, the menus are set, the merch is unpacked, the live music is booked, and the countdown to opening day has begun. This restaurant publicizes that day heavily on social media, where it recently asked its 49,000 Facebook followers what they are looking forward to most as the season kicks off. Many cited the steamers, the tropical Goombay Smash, and the vibe of this bar perched on a bluff overlooking the Atlantic.
A Dispute Delays Helen Haunstrup’s Burial

2 weeks ago | provincetownindependent.org | Christine Legere

PROVINCETOWN — Helen Haunstrup and her husband, Anton “Napi” Van Dereck Haunstrup, were well known in Provincetown almost from the time they met at a sailing race here in 1955. Napi, the opinionated restaurateur, art collector, beachcomber, and landlord, died of respiratory problems at Cape Cod Hospital on Christmas Day 2019. He is buried in the Saffron and Haunstrup family plot in the Provincetown Cemetery.
As Seasonal Workers Arrive, Seashore Park Inn Becomes Habitable

3 weeks ago | provincetownindependent.org | Christine Legere

ORLEANS — Seasonal workers have begun arriving on Cape Cod to provide much-needed support for the region’s businesses over the summer. “We expect to have close to 5,000 this summer, which tracks with last year and the recovery we saw in 2023,” said Paul Niedzwiecki, executive director of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, referring to the number of workers who come temporarily to the U.S. to fill labor gaps across the Cape.
Sexton Subdivisions in Wellfleet Put Access at Risk

3 weeks ago | provincetownindependent.org | Christine Legere

WELLFLEET — Two subdivisions proposed by Kevin Sexton for undeveloped land on Old King’s Highway got considerable pushback during site plan reviews conducted by the planning board over the past six weeks. At an April 2 hearing on 10 lots proposed at 538 and 548 Old King’s Highway, the fire chief said his department has a problem with Sexton’s plan.
Judge to Decide If Derelict’s Owner Has Kept His Promise

1 month ago | provincetownindependent.org | Christine Legere

WELLFLEET — The formerly grand 19th-century house on Peace Valley Road sat empty and open to the elements all winter despite the town’s efforts, a state program aimed at saving derelict properties, and a commitment made in court by its owner to bring it back to habitable shape by this spring. On May 16, a Southeast Housing Court judge will decide whether the owner, Boston resident Robert Bonds, has lived up to his side of an agreement made with the state attorney general’s office last July.
House Construction Cuts Close to Burial Site

1 month ago | provincetownindependent.org | Christine Legere

PROVINCETOWN — Thom Cusack lives near the town’s Gifford and Hamilton cemeteries and walks daily through the rows of stones marking the final resting places of countless Provincetown residents. Those morning walks used to be peaceful, he said, but for the last several months he’s watched with consternation as a home being built at 27 Cemetery Road, just outside the town-owned Hamilton Cemetery, has increasingly encroached on a 90-year-old private family burial plot on the property.