When the Covid-19 pandemic touched down in full force, it made quick work of the Provincetown Yacht Club’s summer calendar. Spring meeting? Canceled. Season kickoff? Canceled. Sailboat racing clinic? Zoom-ified. […]
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It’s a Sad Summer With (Almost) No Baseball
In the first round of this year’s Major League Baseball (MLB) draft, 35 percent of the players selected were alumni of the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL). June 13 would […]
BABYCAKES
Welcome, Gili
Giligilao “Gili” Peregrine Portnoy was born on May 5, 2020 to Galiguy “Akay” Inariki Yan of the Taromak Rukai tribe of Taiwan and Caleb Portnoy of Wellfleet. Gili’s grandparents are […]
SUMMER
The Heart of the Town Is Still Beating
You’ll ‘just have to dance in your square’ at Eastham’s Windmill Green
EASTHAM — If you live here, you’re tired of hearing it: “This town has no center.” Except, of course, it does. Its formal name is the Eastham Center Historic District, […]
STILL CELEBRATING
More Grads From the Class of 2020
Editor’s note: The profiles of some of this year’s Outer Cape high school graduates were missing from our June 4 special section. Here are a few of them. Anna Rogers […]
RECREATION
Rec Sails Away This Summer
Eastham, Wellfleet, and Truro cancel programs, but Provincetown has a plan
Summer recreation programs are fun for local kids, but also important because they provide jobs for teenagers and child care that helps working parents get through the summer months. But […]
LOCAL JOURNALISM PROJECT
An Introduction to a Summer of Reporting
This week the Independent welcomes five young journalists from across the country to its first summer fellowship program, made possible by donations and grants to its nonprofit Local Journalism Project. […]
FATHERS DAY
Lessons in Foraging for a Father’s Love
Michael Holt finds daisy leaves with his dad in Truro
TRURO — When Michael Holt was growing up in New York City, his summer weeks in Truro were “like a trip to the Garden of Eden.” It was here that […]
YOUTH PRIDE
Covid-19 Takes a Toll on LGBTQ Youth
Facing cancellation, Camp Lightbulb goes virtual
For many in the LGBTQ community, annual pride events commemorating the Stonewall uprising of June 28, 1969, have constituted their first euphoric moments of connection, of celebration, of feeling recognized […]
#BLM
Truro Marchers Plan New Protest
A quickly organized protest sparked by the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis drew about 15 people to the Children’s Garden in Truro last Sunday. The group […]
DRIVE-IN DIPLOMAS
NRHS Graduates Take to the Big Screen
Photos by Nancy Bloom Teacher Alexis Mathison takes a picture of a picture. That’s graduate Kara Moore on the outdoor screen at the Wellfleet Drive-In. Friends found each other for […]
RACKET REPORT
Tennis and Pickleball Return
Local courts open up for players
Pickleball is helping Sheila Garry get back to a sense of normalcy. She says that’s what almost everyone who’s coming back to the sport is talking about. On June 1, […]
GRADUATION
Nauset High’s Class of 2020 Celebrates With a Motorcade
Students, families, and teachers paraded around the school last Friday in what might become a tradition, even after Covid-19 recedes
2020 class advisers Jennifer Stevens, Kate Blascio, and Jessica Reeves hand out caps and gowns, supervised by Savannah Stevens, age five. (Photos Nancy Bloom) Libby Chase arrived by […]
CLASS OF 2020
The Outer Cape’s Class of 2020
Editor’s Note: For the beautiful cover illustration to this section of the paper, by NRHS art teacher Amy Kandall, and an introduction to this collection of pictures and words collected […]
VALEDICTORY
A Graduation in Quarantine
What I learned by making portraits of this year’s seniors
I am the ceramics and painting teacher at Nauset Regional High School. Normally, each day, 125 students come to my classroom studio, where I try to create a […]
