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, […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
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 […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
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 […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
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 […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
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 […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
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 […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Our Cultural Diplomat
In the past week, the wider world has noticed that the Park Service is evicting Sal Del Deo from the dune shack that has been his refuge for 77 years. […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Hero of the Papers
Daniel Ellsberg died last Friday at age 92 after having been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in February. His extraordinary life had a lasting influence on many people, including me. When […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Resortification
Truro has been preoccupied in the past week by a campaign to persuade the select board to get rid of Town Manager Darrin Tangeman (see story on front page). As […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Defending Drag
As the town gears up for summer, the lineup of entertainment on offer includes a lively array of drag shows — a time-honored Provincetown tradition. But the atmosphere surrounding drag […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
With the Forests
Dennis Minsky is mourning the impending loss of Provincetown’s beech trees in his column this week. In their case, a tiny nematode seems to be the cause. Scientists don’t yet […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Traffic Jam
No one will be surprised to hear that as a kid I was a newspaper junkie. I delivered papers in the New York suburbs: the Times and the Herald Tribune, […]
JOURNALISM
The Indie Wins 16 New England Press Awards
First-place honors in coverage of pandemic, social issues, and racial issues
WALTHAM — The Provincetown Independent won 16 awards in the Better Newspaper competition of the New England Newspaper and Press Association, announced at the group’s annual convention on Saturday. The […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Lawyer’s Master Class
Our newsroom had a visit last week from Jay Ward Brown, a part-time Provincetown resident whose other home is in Virginia. Brown reads the Indie as well as his local […]
