Christine Legere

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Staff Reporter at The Provincetown Independent

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Articles

Demolished Cottage Will Be Replaced

1 week ago | provincetownindependent.org | Christine Legere

TRURO — Two cottages that were moved to a town-owned lot on South Highland Road in February 2024 were supposed to be renovated and ready to house town employees by this summer. But those plans went sideways in October, when Cape Cod Builders Inc., the Bourne company hired to prepare infrastructure for the cottages and renovate one of them, instead demolished that cottage. The company did so without first consulting local officials or the town’s engineers.
Health Officials Tighten Oversight at Sandbars Inn

2 weeks ago | provincetownindependent.org | Christine Legere

TRURO — The board of health is all too familiar with complaints about the Sandbars Inn at 570 Shore Road. Many of them stem from lack of oversight of the guests and difficulty reaching management when problems arise at the tightly packed Beach Point complex. The board hopes to see that change with its unanimous decision to keep a tighter rein on the property. Beachtree Property Holdings of Maryland has owned the Sandbars Inn since 2003.
Hearing on Holtec’s Appeal of DEP Denial Begins

2 weeks ago | provincetownindependent.org | Christine Legere

PLYMOUTH — The Dept. of Environmental Protection determined last July that the proposed discharge of over one million gallons of radioactive wastewater from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station into Cape Cod Bay would violate the state’s Ocean Sanctuaries Act. But in August, Holtec International, the company that bought the Plymouth plant after it shut down to carry out its decommissioning, appealed that decision.
Provincetown Oyster Farmers Want to Grow Sea Urchins, Too

3 weeks 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 weeks 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 month 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 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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.