Our subscriber Elizabeth Perillo in Woodstock, Ga. was offended by two photographs in the Sept. 7 edition of the Independent. Her letter to the editor last week said the pictures […]
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Rural Radicals
Several of us at the Independent spent a couple of days last week in Keene, N.H. at the Radically Rural Summit, which I have mentioned in this column before. We […]
BABYCAKES
Welcome, Keagan
Keagan Lee Hegg was born on July 29, 2023 at Cape Cod Hospital to Kyle and Kaitlyn (Silva) Hegg of Dennis Port. She weighed 7 pounds, 3.3 ounces and was […]
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The Island of Truro
Five years ago, Walter Rowell, who was then 21, ran for Wellfleet Select Board. His campaign featured some unusual proposals, including his idea that Wellfleet and Provincetown should “annex” Truro, […]
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Local News, Local Economy
Last week a group of 22 prominent funders, led by the MacArthur Foundation, announced “a national initiative to strengthen communities and democracy by supporting local news” with grants totaling more […]
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Undoing the Damage
A press release from the Cape Cod National Seashore appeared in my inbox the other day promoting the value of the Park to the local economy. A new report from […]
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The Kansas Raids, Redux
Two weeks ago, I wrote about police raids at the weekly Marion County Record in Kansas and the home of its editor. Since then, those events have generated a remarkable […]
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The Silent Workers
We’ve made it to the downhill side of August, and the people who keep the tourism economy of Outer Cape Cod afloat are looking wearily at the calendar, dreaming of […]
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The Threat in Kansas
Many readers have sent us articles about what happened in Marion, Kansas, population 1,922, last Friday morning. The office of the Marion County Record, a weekly newspaper founded in 1869, […]
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In a Barbecue, Honor
The Outer Cape has its weeks. Carnival is the big one up next. In the Independent, it is apparently barbecue week: Oliver Egger and Elias Schisgall report from the annual […]
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Politics and Money
A thoughtful letter to the editor from Heidi Jon Schmidt this week questions the Independent’s coverage of First Lady Jill Biden’s coming to town to raise money for the president’s […]
JOURNALISM
Indie Fellow Wins National Award
Emma Madgic, a 2022 summer journalism fellow at the Provincetown Independent, has won the 2023 Excellence in Feature Writing (Non-Daily) Award of the national Association of LGBTQ Journalists, the organization […]
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We Get Letters
The letters to the editor are one of my favorite things about running a newspaper even though they sometimes give me a giant headache. We are lucky to hear so […]
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The Invisible Evicted
In last week’s Independent, staff reporter Sam Pollak wrote the latest sickening chapter in the story of slumlords David and Carolyn Delgizzi of Weston and their tenants at the Truro […]
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Sorry Apologies
Many questions remain about what happened on June 18 at the East End basketball court in Provincetown, when three police officers responded to a report of a kid with a […]