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STEAMERS
Age of the Scooter
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
The Seawall Revisited
Living on borrowed time
It has been two years since I discovered David Read’s painting on a seawall in the East End of town (“Painting on the Seawall,” June 29, 2023). That amounts to […]
INDEPENDENCE DAY
Fourth of July Contradictions
Fearing for the future but loving a big, beautiful parade
On the evening of July 3, I and 69 million other Americans who get Social Security benefits received an email “celebrating the passage of the One Big, Beautiful Bill, a […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Rewriting History
A March 27 pronouncement titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” ordered the secretary of the interior to take action to ensure that public properties “do not contain descriptions, […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 10, 2025
From Erin Splaine, Ronald A. Gabel, & Annette Andruss
Safety in Restrooms To the editor: Our trans siblings have experienced violence and a lack of safety in our public restrooms. They have asked to be seen, heard, included, and […]
PLANNING DEPT.
Provincetown Sets a Long List of Goals
Alongside housing and flooding are new efforts on road safety and health
PROVINCETOWN — Every year in May, after town meeting and the annual town election, the select board scores the town manager’s progress and writes a new set of “goals and […]
VIGNETTE
Wait for Me
STEAMERS
Stuck with the Bill
WATERCOLOR
F-Bomb
INDEPENDENCE DAY
Our Founding Documents
Ben Franklin and others admired the founding document that unified the Haudenosaunee peoples (who were called the “Iroquois” by the colonists), which some said had influenced the founding of this […]
WELLFLEET HOUSING AND TAXES
‘Creative Destruction’ Is Tearing the Fabric of Community
The short-term-rental tax should be dedicated to addressing the housing crisis
An article directing Wellfleet to dedicate 80 percent of its rooms tax revenue to affordable housing was narrowly defeated — the vote was 90 to 101 — at this year’s […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Sense of Decency
A few weeks ago in this column, I mentioned that I grew up in New Jersey as a red diaper baby, that is, the child of Communists. As my sister, […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 3, 2025
From Kathleen E. Bacon, Anthony Papantonis, Richard Carey, Zygmunt J.B. Plater, & Dave Bannard
Lawrence Hill Oversight To the editor: Re “Wastewater Could Delay Move-In at Lawrence Hill” [June 26, front page]: In his last meeting with the Wellfleet Select Board in February 2024, […]
