“The coronavirus pandemic has provided an opportunity for communities to act on their most exclusionary impulses,” writes Andrew W. Kahrl in an essay titled “Who Will Get to Swim This […]
REAL ESTATE
After Dip, Market Is Hot
After a pandemic-induced crash in spring real estate sales, brokers now report that the market has come roaring back. May statistics for Cape Cod and the Islands, released on June […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
When Ads and News Collide
This week we were confronted with a tough choice at our less- than-nine-month-old newspaper. We were offered a full-page ad that we decided we had to turn down. Full-page ads, […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Promise of June
The first weekend in June is traditionally when our local public high schools — Nauset Regional High in Eastham and Cape Cod Regional Technical High in Harwich — hold graduation […]
HEALTH
The Doctor Is In, but Mostly Virtually
Questions and answers about how OCHS is coping
Outer Cape Health Services, the major provider of health care for the four Outer Cape towns, continues to operate its three clinics with reduced hours, staffing, and salaries, a result […]
RESILIENCE
High Schools Plan to Celebrate Their Seniors
With a little help from a friend
WELLFLEET — Schools are shut for the rest of this term, at least, but that doesn’t mean Outer Cape high school seniors and their families won’t have a chance to […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Real Killers
If you want to know what’s really killing America’s newspapers, read the May 7 report in the New York Times titled “Push for Profits Left Nursing Homes Struggling to Provide […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The News Is Not Good
The response of the federal government and of our local institutions to the greatest health and economic crisis of our lives has revealed many fascinating stories. One is the government’s […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Where Does the Outer Cape Begin?
A few months ago, I wrote in this space about why we put “Provincetown” in the title of our new publication rather than call it the “Outer Cape” Independent. That […]
CIVICS
Hoort Proposes Mail Ballot for Town Meeting
Can a New England tradition survive the pandemic?
WELLFLEET — Town Administrator Dan Hoort has asked the Outer Cape’s state legislators to try to get Beacon Hill to consider a radical remedy for the possibility that the traditional […]
Obituaries
Bruce Drucker, Zoning Board’s ‘Cornerstone,’ Dies at 75
Covid-19 kills a physically fit man with no underlying health issues
WELLFLEET — Bruce Drucker, who died at Cape Cod Hospital on April 7 at age 75, was at the pinnacle of his career as a lawyer 20 years ago. The […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Year of the Plague
I’m writing this on the eve of the one holiday that has inspired us to sustain a kind of religious ritual at our house: Passover. The seder, which was a […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
On Welcoming Visitors
On March 19, the Truro Select Board signed a formal proclamation declaring a state of emergency. The 10 “whereas” clauses of this proclamation noted, among other things, that the governor […]
RESILIENCE
A Powerful Distillation for Community Health
South Hollow offers gifts of homemade hand sanitizer
TRURO — Townspeople were lined up outside the gift shop at Truro Vineyards and South Hollow Spirits on Shore Road on Saturday, respecting the social distance and patiently waiting their […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Casualties of War
Amy Whorf McGuiggan’s marvelous story in last week’s Independent about the young man from Provincetown for whom V.F.W. Post No. 3152 was named — Lewis Armstrong Young — noted that […]
