WELLFLEET Cape Cod National Seashore operations will begin Memorial Day weekend with fewer COVID-19 restrictions, according to a press release. We are moving toward pre-pandemic experiences, Superintendent Brian Carlstrom wrote. While acknowledging pandemic protocols were changing, Carlstrom said the National Park Service will remain focused on keeping staff, volunteers and the public safe through wearing masks when appropriate, maintaining social distance, and observing capacity limits.”
Beginning May 29, fees will be collected on Saturdays and Sundays and on Memorial Day at Little Creek/Coast Guard Beach in Eastham, Marconi Beach in Wellfleet, and Race Point and Herring Cove beaches in Provincetown. Nauset Light and Head of the Meadow beaches will be fee-free until June 17.
Eastham voters, 894 of them, went out to vote Tuesday for an election with five uncontested races.
Jamie Demetri (847 votes) ran unopposed for one three-year term on the Select Board. She is currently the chairwoman of the Select Board.
Patricia Aurigemma (848 votes) ran unopposed for the one seat on the Nauset Regional School Committee. That position is a three-year term.
Edgar Miranda (851 votes) ran unopposed for the one seat on the Eastham Elementary School Committee, a three-year term.
There was no candidate running for the open slot on the Housing Authority. The position is for five years. (Eileen Morgan got 45 write-in votes; Jim McMakin got 10 write-in votes.)
David Currier was excited when he learned of Gov. Charlie Baker s announcement Monday that almost all COVID-19 restrictions will be lifted as of May 29. “It’s another step towards normalcy,” he said. “It can t not help business.”
Currier owns The Alley Bowling and BBQ in Orleans, where limited capacity, mask enforcement and social distancing requirements were challenges last summer at the 11,000-square-foot building on Route 6A.
“The less restrictions the better,” Currier said of Baker s new plan, though he and other business and restaurant owners, along with staffers at entertainment venues, know there are still challenges ahead. As Monday s announcement reverberated through the industries gearing up for a busy Cape Cod season, leaders were trying to figure out what changes to make, and how fast to make them, as the restrictions drop on Memorial Day weekend – the unofficial start of summer.