Tag Archives: Wellfleet community

Warm spots in Wellfleet’s winter [January 2010 / CCT]

Most Wellfleetians have an affinity for the picturesque desolateness of our off-season. Which is not to say that in a chilly, snowy January we don’t appreciate the occasional warm spot. On Main Street, the logical place to look for signs of life, we have, let’s see… The Wellfleet Marketplace continues to provide a steady pulse […]

December 1, 2011 – 12:25 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Wellfleet town meeting: doing the after math [May 2009 / CCT]

OK, on the premise that Wellfleet, as a canary in the coal mine of contemporary regulatory America, is of interest elsewhere (a parochial premise, I know): our recent town meeting. Much of the first night consisted of rubber -stamping budget items which in most cases most citizens didn’t know enough about to either approve or […]

November 30, 2011 – 1:56 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Is pig heaven hell on groundwater? [November 2009 / CCT]

Recently Judy and Fred Tesson applied for a permit to keep 10 pigs on their half acre lot in Wellfleet. A neighbor, a part time resident, had complained in a letter to the board of health about the proposed pigs’ unpermitted predecessors , describing vividly “eight large pigs wallowing …in mud mixed with urine and […]

November 30, 2011 – 1:50 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

[op-ed] End of an era at WHAT?

What’s going on at WHAT ( Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater )? Perhaps the biggest news of this little town in recent months is the resignation in August of Jeff Zinn as artistic director (read head honcho) of Wellfleet’s celebrated beyond -local, local theater . This is more than a simple changing of the guard. At […]

October 7, 2011 – 7:19 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged | Comments (0)

[ op-ed ] Police and community need to share the responsibility

Over the years I have written a number of times about troubling police behavior even here on the more rural end of the Cape. The controversial roughing up of 4th of July celebrants, the proposed use of tasers, DNA swabbing of the inner cheeks of whole male population of one town, the use of surveillance […]

August 4, 2011 – 7:45 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Prez Hall: new wine [op-ed ]

Much of Wellfleet turned out on May 14th for the kickoff of Preservation Hall on Main Street. The whole opening week of free concerts and other pleasures it was the place to be, to witness, to celebrate and feel like part of this history being made. A Wellfleet love-in at its most intense. The Washashore […]

May 31, 2011 – 3:37 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged | Comments (0)