WELLFLEET — Burchelle Edwards, who works at the Wellfleet Shellfish Company, became a citizen in November after being a permanent resident or “green card” holder for eight years and a […]
Archives for 2022
MILLION-YEAR PICNIC
The Solstice Is for Stargazing
Finding the subtle colors of the winter sky
Winter begins on Dec. 21, the winter solstice and longest night of the year. It’s the season to chase away the darkness with candles, holiday lights, and gatherings around the […]
FAMILY RECIPE
Biscotti With Love From a Grandma’s Kitchen in Yonkers
A cookie for the holidays and for always
It’s a terrible thing to say about one’s grandmother — especially one’s Italian-American grandmother — but mine was not a great cook. Her specialty was a swamp-like egg drop soup […]
MEET THE MAKER
Dried Flowers Capture Summer Colors in Winter Wreaths
Grower Meryl Gartside brings her design skills full circle
It took a while for Meryl Gartside, the owner of Blue Lobster Flower Farm, to find a way to extend her flower-focused business into the winter months. “I don’t have […]
READING ROOM
Perfectly Pointy or Not, a Tree’s Best When It’s Surrounded by Friends
At the Wellfleet Public Library, a picture book about the search for perfection
Wellfleet resident Corinne Demas wrote The Perfect Tree for her two-year-old granddaughter Morgan. The book, with illustrations by Penelope Dullaghan, came out this year. Morgan is 14 now, but at […]
ON THE LANDSCAPE
Leaning Into the Wind and Rain
The air is raw and the mind protests, but the soul wants to go for a walk
I don’t want to leave the house. My mind says no. It insists on comfort, makes claims about self-preservation, and rejects the idea of going for a walk in the […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Hockey Teams Win Their Openers
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — The Nauset Regional High School winter sports season got underway last week with all nine varsity teams in action. Boys and girls basketball and boys and girls hockey […]
EDUCATION
Provincetown Schools International Trips Resume
The 8th graders are headed to London
PROVINCETOWN — Nineteen eighth-graders will be heading to London this spring when the local school tradition of sending upper-grade students on an international journey returns for the first time since […]
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Dec. 13 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
Jupiter in Aries Is a Starship Enterprise
It’s a good time to boldly go where you haven’t gone before
Better brush up on your Klingon, ensign. On Dec. 20, Jupiter is moving at impulse speed into Aries, and we are bound for strange new worlds. Jupiter rules Sagittarius, which […]
PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
New Community Development Director
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are in-person, typically with an online-attendance option for both committee members and residents. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar […]
TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Educational Mini-grants
Meetings Ahead 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, Dec. 15 Open […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Housing Plan Findings
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]
EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
T-Time Lights Up
Meetings Ahead Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting locations […]
CULTURAL ARCHEOLOGY
In the Wellfleet Woods, Relics of the Bauhaus Avant-Garde
A group of scholars studies a long-lost trove of Christmas cards, poems, and notes on nudism
WELLFLEET — There was treasure hidden deep within the pitch pine woods of Wellfleet — and, according to Elizabeth Otto, one of four scholars who participated in a residency overseen […]
