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Truro Community Center axed (again), Ptown's Bergman bows out, Art for Africa

04/29/06 · 7:27 am :: posted by CCToday     

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April 27, 2006

Cape artists give to help Cape children, in South Africa
john_clayton_artPROVINCETOWN - When Karin Anderson White visited KwaMpisi, a tiny poverty-stricken village in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, last September, she saw things that most Americans could never imagine... John Clayton’s oil on board “Sunny Lane" (on right), will be up for grabs at a benefit auction that will help fund a preschool in KwaMpisi...

Community center voted down again
TRURO — One year after voting down a proposed community center that came in higher than the original cost estimate, voters again rejected the plan at Tuesday’s Town Meeting.  The vote capped off one night of emotional speeches and one year of planning, wrangling and budgeting ...

Bergman takes a bow
PROVINCETOWN — The chances of the Proposition 2 1/2 override passing at Tuesday’s election may have improved this week. Town Manager Keith Bergman, whose popularity with residents has waned noticeably in the last several months, announced on Monday that he does not intend to request an extension of his employment contract next May...

Ice show features Cape tip talent
TRURO — Sixteen-year-old Jennifer Milewski is among eight Cape figure skaters who will be performing solo  at Charles Moore Arena in Orleans this weekend as a prelude to the main event — a performance by Olympic Bronze Medalist Jozef Sabovcik ... 

Advocate Archives
April 28, 1932
NEW STANDPIPE TO BE CAMOUFLAGED
Work has been started on the painting of the new standpipe situated behind Town Hall...

April 28, 1962
OPPOSITION RAISED TO POSSIBILITY OF CAROUSEL ON COMMERCIAL STREET
More than 50 opponents, reinforced with a petition signed by more than 65 voters, registered their opposition Monday night to work under way on the premises at 234 Commercial Street, adjacent to the Universalist Church, which the petitioners said “appears to be a carousel”...

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