Fifth-grade students at Truro Central School created a mural to cover a boarded-up broken window while the North Truro Post Office awaits a replacement. Left to right: Elle Stanley, Rylee […]
Learning
GUIDANCE
Mr. Simms, Creator of Adventure Ed, Plans to Retire
Nauset Middle School will seek a new ‘guide’ for a class where students find themselves
ORLEANS — The most popular class at Nauset Regional Middle School is called Adventure Ed. It’s one in which students seek out their spirit animals and themselves. Why 12- and […]
Rowing Rendezvous
Three-year-old Wesley Peros of Marstons Mills showed off his excellent form at the annual Rowing Rendezvous at Wellfleet’s Mayo Beach on Sept. 17. This week the Independent inaugurates a regular series […]
TAKING BACK CHILDHOOD
Straight Talk With Young Children About Racism
Intervening in racist behavior can produce positive change
Racism is deeply rooted in American institutions and life. Children begin early on to internalize messages about race from TV shows and other screen media, toys, books, what they see […]
SCHOOLS
Goyette Goes From Principal to Interim Superintendent
A low-key educator who makes students feel ‘everything is going to be OK’
PROVINCETOWN — Principal Gerry Goyette, who was named interim superintendent of the Provincetown Schools on June 29, spent much of this winter clad in a full-length mink coat. He had […]
ROUND TRIP
Who’s Driving This Bus?
A shortage of school bus drivers reflects the Cape’s changing demographics
TRURO — Perched on the driver’s seat of a 2009 Blue Bird front-engine school bus, Julie Packard checks the lights, dials, and gauges of her rig. Packard, who has been […]
EDITOR’S NOTE
Graduation Stories
Celebrating the Outer Cape's Class of 2022
For the third year in a row, the Independent honors our towns’ high school graduates in a special section. Not all responded to our efforts to reach them, but most […]
VALEDICTORY
A Farewell to the Everything
The class of 2022 and Room C104
I’ve been teaching ceramics at Nauset Regional High School for 20 years in Room C104. It has an 18-foot ceiling and 18 working potter’s wheels. My room is 70 feet […]
COVER ARTIST
Mimi Bois and the Artist Life
A portrait for the Class of 2022
“Ever since I was young, I would draw people,” says Emilia Lane Malicoat Bois (known as Mimi), the young artist who created the cover painting for this year’s graduation section. […]
THE LUNCH BEAT
The Lunchroom Diaries
School lunches vary by district.
At Truro Central School, the Menu Includes Local Choices TRURO — On a rainy April day at the Truro Central School, Stephanie Rein, the school’s resident farmer, is outside with […]
JOURNALISM
The Indie Wins 17 New England Press Awards
First place in arts and science reporting, obituaries, and cartooning
BOSTON — The Provincetown Independent won 17 awards in the Better Newspaper competition of the New England Newspaper and Press Association, announced at the group’s annual convention on Saturday. The […]
IDENTITIES
Nauset’s Queer Community Refuses to Be Invisible
Gender & Sexuality Alliance members lead changes after being heckled at pep rally
EASTHAM — Nauset Regional High School students packed the bleachers on Friday, Oct. 15, whooping, whistling, and hollering as clubs, one by one, paraded down the turf field. It was […]
IN STITCHES
Nauset Yarn Club Pulls Students Together
Seed-stitchers to sweater-makers find handwork eases the mind
EASTHAM — It’s an almost-balmy Monday in March, the kind of day that signals the end of sweater weather is nigh, but the students at the Yarn Club meeting at […]
SCHOOLS
Supt. Clenchy Picks Patrick Clark for Principal
Clark was the only finalist chosen by search committee
EASTHAM — Nauset Regional High School Assistant Principal Patrick Clark has been named principal and will start on July 1. School Supt. Brooke Clenchy announced her choice on March 14 […]
COVID
Schools Set Varied Dates on Going Mask-Optional
Elementary school children in Wellfleet to stay masked longest
An emotionally charged Feb. 23 meeting of all five school committees in the Nauset region ended with the members voting to relax the mask mandate that has been in effect […]
