I hereby make a shameful confession: I don’t know which end of a hammer to pick up in order to use one. This leaves me in a predicament any time […]
Inner Voices
VIGNETTE
It Was a Nice Spring
Steamers
Unassisted
Spring Reawakening
VIGNETTE
Noise Complaint
THE PLAGUE YEAR
A Covid Anniversary Gift
After a year of distancing, what did I have to offer friends?
We’re coming up on a year, now — a year of confusion, isolation, sadness, and readjustment. Anniversaries are a time of reflection. What does this one mean? There has been […]
Let’s Face It
COUNTY LINE
Common Hopes Lead to Consensus on Climate Action
A local example of how government ought to work
With strident voices and violent clashes in the news at the highest levels of government, recent weeks brought a welcome dose of collaborative and functional governance on Cape Cod. The […]
VIGNETTE
Winter Wrap
SKETCHBOOK
Waiting
STEAMERS
Un-Real Estate
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Across the Digital Divide
A fuddy-duddy’s view of sexting
The saddest story to appear in these pages in many weeks was Jan. 28th’s “A ‘Sextortion’ Case Reveals Silent Crisis for Teens.” If you missed it, here is a brief […]
SKETCHBOOK
Winter Beach, Fresh Snowfall
BLACK AND BROWN HISTORY
Are We Like Other Towns?
Facing structural racism in a cultural oasis
A riot of culture spills forth from that hook at the end of the Cape. Provincetown is like no other place, and it seems incapable of containing itself. It expands, like […]
OP-ED
Why You Should Vote Yes on March 30
What the proposed Nauset High renovation will give us
The opposition to the proposed Nauset Regional High School renovation is relying on a confusing series of calculations based on questionable assumptions. Their main argument is that we can save […]
