Note: Team records are listed as of the Independent’s deadline. The regular season has ended; only a few teams are left competing in postseason action. Results Boys golf: The Warriors […]
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MOVEMENT
Overcoming the Smartphone Slump
Good posture can improve digestion, breathing, and even mood
It’s too bad so many of us are taught about good posture as merely a matter of virtue or aesthetics. Good posture is actually a matter of good health, starting […]
OUTDOORS
Three Days in the Woods With Two Dedicated Hunter-Harvesters
A hunting trip to Central Mass. becomes a lesson in patience and observation
HOLDEN — I’m sitting in a tree stand 15 feet off the ground. I’ve been here since 6 a.m. and it’s now 8:45. I believe I saw a deer at […]
warriors watch
Joy Stands Out in Nauset’s Senior Day Loss to Old Rochester
The Warriors are still in hunt for football playoffs
Note: Team records are listed as of the Independent’s deadline. The fall sports season is winding down and many teams will compete in their final regular season games this week, […]
PEOPLE
Kai Olney-Miller Malicoat Faces a Long Haul
After fishing accident, he is grateful for small miracles
There are moments in life that seem to unfold in slow motion. Zeno Schwebel, 20, of Truro, remembers one. It was June 27, 2019, the start of what was supposed […]
sports
Nauset Figure Skating Club Wins Its First-Ever Competition
An audible gasp, and a lot of fun
NRHS — “Shocked” is how the members of the Nauset Figure Skating Club described their first-place finish at the Harvestfest competition in Dover, N.H. on Oct. 6. The club is […]
PEOPLE
Jose DeBarros Retires After 19 Years at Seashore Point
His story of immigration is old-school Provincetown
PROVINCETOWN — In the Portugal Jose DeBarros grew up in, it wasn’t uncommon for young people to leave high school and set out in search of work. The country was […]
sports
Bringing an Arctic Tradition to Nauset Marsh
A wooden kayak, inspired by an Aleutian design, is like a living thing
EASTHAM — From the seat of my kayak I have come to see Nauset Marsh, part of the Cape Cod National Seashore in Eastham, as the Everglades of New England: […]
THE PITCH
Diversity Is Provincetown Soccer Team’s Strength
The Fishermen’s coaches emphasize commitment and good sportsmanship
PROVINCETOWN — At the top of the hill on Winslow Street sits Motta Field, home of the Provincetown Fishermen soccer team. It’s an energetic mix of sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-graders, […]
PEOPLE
An Audubon Leader Fascinated by Humans
Melissa Lowe Cestaro on watching shifts in nature, culture, values
WELLFLEET — In September Melissa Lowe Cestaro became the director of Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. She succeeds Bob Prescott, who is retiring after nearly 40 years in the […]
ART AND POETRY
A Love of Two Peninsulas Creates an Unusual Exhibit
Bracaval and Brunet-Weinmann collaboration connects Cape Cod and Brittany
WELLFLEET — Art critic and poet Monique Brunet-Weinmann and artist Bertrand Bracaval are both from Brittany, the westernmost region of France, but they did not meet each other there. That […]
PEOPLE
Elspeth Halvorsen Creates Worlds in Her Boxes
Provincetown artist’s signature is the moods of the seas, moon, and tides
PROVINCETOWN — The 250 Bradford St. home of artists Elspeth Halvorsen and Tony Vevers, formerly owned by Mark Rothko, is hidden behind an overgrown patch of trees. On this sunny, […]
people
Debra Dickinson Brings Crumbling Art Back to Life
A restorer grasps overlapping layers of substance and history
WELLFLEET — The picture, painted in about 1898 by S.F.M. Badger for Capt. Lewis R. Paine, was a classic Americana image of Paine’s ship plowing a translucent sea in full-blown […]
people
Provincetown’s Master Storyteller
Beata Cook steals the show with tales of gay life in the ’40s
PROVINCETOWN — Bartender, bullet maker, bookkeeper — Beata Cook has been all these things. Not necessarily in that order. But who cares about chronology when you’re listening to a master […]
