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Inner Voices

    CIVICS

    Ten Nauset Students Try Out Practical Politics

    After Girls and Boys State, bringing collaboration into the real world

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    EASTHAM — Ten Nauset Regional High School juniors spent the last week of school building a whole new government from the ground up. We were among a few hundred students […]

    INCIDENTALLY

    Flava in Ya Ear

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    While enjoying my cup of chocolate chip on the porch outside Wellfleet’s Gelato Joy, I watched a woman approach the counter. She scanned the list of flavors, then turned to […]

    THE YEAR-ROUNDER

    Lawrence of the Dunes

    Remembering a man who lived life on his own terms

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    I imagine Lawrence Schuster as a child in 1950s Pennsylvania being asked “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and answering, with steely blue eyes and a […]

    THE YEAR-ROUNDER

    Ancestors and Descendants

    Shadows of the past and our unknowable future

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    My father was born near the end of the 19th century (1897); I arrived near the middle of the 20th (1945); my four grandchildren, early in the 21st (between 2005 […]

    PENNY-WISE AND POUND-FOOLISH

    An HVAC Fix That Might Have Been Avoided

    Choosing not to spend can be an expensive mistake

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    At Wellfleet’s recent town meeting, a voter asked why we had to spend $350,000 to upgrade the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system for a fire station that’s only […]

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