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2 weeks ago | 
provincetownindependent.org | Parker Mumford |Paul Benson
EASTHAM — Property taxes have been in the spotlight in Eastham this year. In the annual town election, two candidates for select board told the Independent that rising taxes were the biggest issue facing the town, while at town meeting, the citizen-petitioned Article 9A asked the select board to hire an outside auditor to assess the town’s tax strategy.
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1 month ago | 
provincetownindependent.org | Parker Mumford |Paul Benson
EASTHAM — Ever since the select board voted in January to begin planning for a residential tax exemption (RTE) in the upcoming fiscal year, opposition to the policy from part-time residents who would not be able to take the exemption has been repeatedly expressed in public comments at select board meetings.
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2 months ago | 
provincetownindependent.org | Parker Mumford |Paul Benson
About 600 demonstrators gathered along Route 6 in Eastham on Saturday, April 5 as part of a nationwide protest against the Trump administration’s cuts to government services and abuse of executive power, while at least 400 more gathered in front of Provincetown Town Hall. Other Outer Cape residents drove or took buses to Boston to join a rally that the police there estimated drew more than 25,000 people.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
provincetownindependent.org | Parker Mumford
EASTHAM — The Nauset Regional High School girls basketball team is working on rebounding, with Coach Jean Leyton advising from just under the backstop. While the players know it’s important to score, they also understand that defensive strategy is key. This year, the sport itself has experienced a rebound at the school. In 2022, there were only six girls on the varsity team, and Leyton says she had to bring some players in from the junior varsity to fill out the roster.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
provincetownindependent.org | Parker Mumford
EASTHAM — Few onlookers were surprised when Joey Smith and Lucas Wilson-Bevington sat down across from each other at a table in Nauset Regional High School’s new cafeteria for the final round of the Miles Tibbetts Chess Tournament on Nov. 26. The two seniors have taken turns winning the annual competition since they were sophomores. This time, knowing his rival well gave Wilson-Bevington the win.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
provincetownindependent.org | Parker Mumford
MASHPEE — Nitana Greendeer of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe knows that children are the key to preserving the Wôpanâak language. “When you haven’t got 20, 30, 40 years of English grammar embedded in your brain,” she said last week, “it’s a lot easier to make room for other ideas of how language can work.”But Greendeer, the head of the Weetumuw School, where Wampanoag children ages three to nine learn the language, is worried because she is struggling to raise sufficient funds for the year ahead.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
provincetownindependent.org | Parker Mumford
EASTHAM — The food pantry in Eastham has been around for 44 years — longer than any other on the Outer Cape, said Joan Lockhart, who manages it. Nestled behind the Eastham Methodist Church, the unassuming space holds a wealth of fresh produce, frozen meats, and packaged foods, and even some other essentials like jackets and toothbrushes.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
provincetownindependent.org | Parker Mumford
ORLEANS — At first, Karen Simpson wondered if the text alert had been a mistake. At 7:17 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 29, the alarm in her hair salon said it had detected heat and smoke, but when she looked at the feed from her security camera, she saw no signs of a fire. A few minutes later, she received a second notification. This time, when she checked her camera, she could barely see the shop’s floor through a thick cloud of smoke.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
provincetownindependent.org | Parker Mumford
EASTHAM — Caroline DeBrota and Shawyoun Shaidani’s road to the Turnip Festival began in 2023, when the Medford pair decided to dress up as fish and chips for Halloween. They took Shaidani’s half of the costume — he was a bag of Cape Cod Potato Chips — as an excuse to visit Nauset Light for a photo shoot. When they arrived in Eastham, they saw signs advertising that year’s Turnip Festival and immediately knew they had to attend.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
provincetownindependent.org | Parker Mumford
EASTHAM — When Library Director Melanie McKenzie came to work on Sept. 23, she found the area around the circulation desk flooded. There had been a torrential downpour the day before, during which Eastham got 6.65 inches of rain, according to the Community Cooperative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network, a volunteer group of weather observers.
