Editor s Note: This story has been updated to correct the location of Mark Scott s arrest. He was taken into custody at his home in Barnstable Village. He also owned a home in Hyannisport at the time.
WELLFLEET Two years ago, David Pike sat down with the Wellfleet Select Board to pitch his plan for a retail marijuana store at the old general store off Route 6.
The shop may finally open this year, but Pike won’t be there.
He left the company, and is expected to plead guilty in June to conspiracy to commit bank fraud for his alleged participation in a global cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that prosecutors say defrauded investors out of $4 billion.
Mary Lou Holland of East Falmouth, a grief therapist who spent many years helping people find hope and even joy after loss and sorrow, died at home on December 24. She was 90.
âWhen a real crisis happens, you learn that you can be desperate and bitter, or you can grow from it. We only grow through pain, unfortunately, and the hope is that we will grow in compassion and empathy,â Ms. Holland said during an interview with the Enterprise in 1997. âIt is essential for survivors to talk about their grief.â
More than 20 years before that conversation, Ms. Hollandâs then 16-year-old son, Gerald, was diagnosed with epitelial sarcoma, a form of cancer, and given six months to live. Shortly after their 1976 return from a Rudolf Steiner clinic in Switzerland, where Gerald began to recover, another son, 18-year-old Brendan, was killed in a car accident. Reeling with pain, Ms. Holland went to a lecture by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, lecturer and author of several book