PROVINCETOWN The 2021 boating season kicked off April 1 without any rate increases.
After weeks of urging from the Select Board and the community, the Provincetown Public Pier Corp. board of directors on March 25 deferred rate increases at MacMillan Pier for one year.
Rate increases for dockage fees, electricity and more intended to increase revenue to pay for pier maintenance had been approved by the Pier Corp. board during meetings in February and were to be implemented at the start of the season.
“When we send out invoices on the first of May, they will be last year’s rates,” pier manager Doug Boulanger said in a phone call.
Will Race Point in Provincetown be renamed Meeshaun Point?
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Bird sightings on Cape Cod
Updated March 10, 2021, 12:00 a.m.
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Recent sightings (through March 2) as reported to Mass Audubon.
A tufted duck continued in Great Pond in Eastham, where 61 ruddy ducks, 20 ring-necked ducks, 2 red-throated loons, and 2 common ravens were also noted.
A male painted bunting visited a feeder in Eastham, where it has been present off and on since November, and a female visited a nearby feeder in Orleans.
Sightings in Provincetown Harbor included two thick-billed murres, a black guillemot, and 2 purple sandpipers.
Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Pacific loon, 11 common murre, 2 thick-billed murres, 240 razorbills, 2 black guillemots, 15 Iceland gulls, a short-eared owl, a Northern shrike, and a Lapland longspur.
In Yarmouth History
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This page was created by the Historical Society of Old Yarmouth in cooperation with The Register Newspaper in 2002 to promote the study of history in the Mid-Cape region.
150 Years Ago: March 1871
March 4th Osterville - A daughter of Mr. James Codd, aged ten years, on Friday last, picked up a loaded pistol in the street, she took it to school with her, placing it in her cloak pocket. In some way, one of the charges was exploded, the ball entering the upper part of her bowels. A surgeon failed to reach the ball by probing, and though the child lived there was little hope of her recovery.She died on Thursday.