Paul Benson

PROVINCETOWN — A plan to develop a 40-unit building for middle-income households here hit a dead end on June 22 when the select board voted unanimously to cancel a contract that developers Christine Barker and M. Tatiana Eck had originally been awarded in July 2023. A rendering of the four-story, 40-unit Bellwether project that was planned at 26 Shank Painter Road. The most recent cost estimate for the building was roughly $22 million.

PROVINCETOWN — Charges for usage of Provincetown’s municipal water system, which serves 3,624 accounts in Provincetown and 537 in North Truro, were hiked by a unanimous vote of the water and sewer board on June 10. Contractors working on the rehabilitation of the 2.6-million-gallon Mount Gilboa water storage tank in June. The tank will not actually be drained until the fall so that it can hold reserve gallons for peak summertime usage, Water Supt. Cody Salisbury said.

TRURO — At a joint meeting of the select board, school committee, board of health, and Walsh Property Advisory Committee on June 4, consultants from three companies previewed the town’s progress toward designing freshwater and wastewater systems to serve a future housing project of up to 160 units at Truro’s 70-acre town-owned Walsh property.