Wellfleet was the first of the Outer Cape towns to conduct its long-delayed annual town meeting this past Saturday, and as Provincetown, Truro, and Eastham have also chosen, it was […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Globe Gets It Wrong
The Boston Globe published a disturbing piece this week about the experiences of urbanites going on vacation in rural New England this summer. It was titled “Dirty looks, threats, and […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
One Year and Counting
I received a nice note this evening from Sadie Hutchings, the Provincetown veterinarian (and our new “Animal Clinic” columnist). “I think you guys must have just had a birthday for […]
RACISM REPORT
Black Lives Matter Signs Provoke Vandals
Wellfleet police warn of ‘zero tolerance’ for spray painting
When Barbara Rushmore’s “Black Lives Matter” sign was stolen from in front of her house on Commercial Street in Provincetown’s East End around July 4th, she assumed that someone from […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
She’s Not Backing Down
At least three Outer Cape residents who chose to make a statement about racial justice have found their front yard “Black Lives Matter” signs stolen or defaced (see story on […]
Young Voices
A special issue
In our weekly marathon of trying to keep up with what’s going on in town halls and virtual committee meetings about schools and budgets, health and housing, we stop now […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Young Reporters Wanted
In our weekly marathon of trying to keep up with what’s going on in town halls and virtual committee meetings about schools and budgets, health and housing, we stop now […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Nonopinions for Nincompoops
Several readers sent us an article published this week in CommonWealth magazine titled “As local news withers, we’re losing sense of identity.” The author, Bruce Mohl, reports the stories of […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
News That’s Fit to Print
Last week, Publisher Teresa Parker wrote about the financial challenge of launching and sustaining a high-quality newspaper without sufficient start-up capital, and then finding ourselves smack in the middle of […]
INVESTIGATION
New Questions About FAWC’s MacMillan Emerge
Board is silent as director denies involvement in Epstein donations at M.I.T.
PROVINCETOWN — When accusations of discrimination and failure to address racially charged incidents at the Fine Arts Work Center became public last month, the organization’s board responded with a letter […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Seashore Beat
What’s the most fun part of starting a newspaper? Thinking about what to put in it. We knew from the start that our home territory was the Outer Cape, four […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
An Unhealthy Restriction
“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 […]
