EASTHAM — The Nauset Regional High School baseball team hasn’t forgotten how last season ended. In fact, it’s been on some of the student-athletes’ minds ever since. “Yes, I still […]
Archives for March 2022
CROSSWORD #31
Route 6
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, March 29 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Big Money Articles
Some meetings in Provincetown are in person, some are online, and some are both. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a link to an […]
TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
New Town Meeting Date
Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, March 31 Climate […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Parking at Lecount Hollow
Most meeting in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are being held in person. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions […]
EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Community Impact Fee
Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting locations and […]
ARTISTS
Meditating on Clouds and Cave Paintings
Tom Pappas’s art is intuitive and elemental
Tom Pappas is what some call a “painter’s painter” — one immersed in paint’s possibilities, letting process determine the result. For Pappas, the results are modest-size abstractions with earthy colors […]
MUSICIANS
In the Pocket With Liam Hogg
Cape drummer is seemingly everywhere at once
Drummers get no love, hunkered down behind the kit while the guitar and vocal frontline gets the glory. That’s just fine with Liam Hogg, who’s been pounding the skins for […]
WRITERS
That Feeling of Silent Communion With a Place
Far from Nepal, Samyak Shertok finds his home in poetry
“They came unarmed. They came/ half-masked. They came/ before the crow. They came/ with the moon. They came/ moonless. They came/ out of rain. They came/ as their enemy. They […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for March 31 through April 6, 2022
Prints at Preservation Hall A show of original prints by members of the Printmakers of Cape Cod will be on view at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, 335 Main St., from Friday, […]
VIGNETTE
Early Birds
UP A CREEK
GoFundWellfleet
The select board dreams up incentives to help save the town
Wellfleet officials recently described the town’s financial records as “a ball of yarn continually unraveling” and told this newspaper that “more than 1,000 errors were corrected in the town’s books […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
The New Moon in Aries Is an Invitation
Spring cleaning isn’t just for houses
The new Moon in the first sign of the zodiac sets the tone for the year ahead. It’s an invitation to begin again by refreshing your routine and cultivating a […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Friend in Dnipro
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has created an instant transformation in many people’s geographical knowledge of a previously little-known part of the world. Suddenly, places that hardly anyone had ever […]
