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VIGNETTE
Angry Birds
STEAMERS
No Shot Novak
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
In an Outer Cape Bubble
How can it be that we are so far out of the mainstream?
I have never written a political column and do not intend to do so now. We will see if I succeed in that. Provincetown is one of the bluest dots […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, January 20, 2021
From Louise Venden and David Wright
Paying for Power To the editor: Gas leaks from faulty lines not only cause explosions like the one in the Merrimack Valley a few years ago but also contribute to […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
‘Why America May Go to Hell’
I’m writing this on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a national holiday since 1986, and thinking about what all the people born since then might know about the man. Elders […]
STEAMERS
Getting Away
VIGNETTE
In Fashion
COUNTY LINE
Stuck in Virtual Reality
Learning, reluctantly, to work together remotely
I’m a meeting guy. I have always been motivated to get together in a room with others and work to find collaborative solutions to the issues of the day. Serving […]
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK
On Writing Obituaries
I started writing obituaries for the Independent last May, and in the months since I have written roughly 50. While I can’t say that the work gives me pleasure, I […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, January 13, 2021
From Elaine J. Baskin, Laurie Veninger, Patrick Nolan, Jay Gurewitsch, Rachel Brown and Larry Quain
Use ARPA Funds for Test Kits To the editor: Neither President Biden’s 500 million home test kits nor Gov. Baker’s gift of test kits to four Cape Cod towns (Barnstable, […]
VIGNETTE
First Steps, 2022
SKETCHBOOK
On Being in the Presence of a Whale
Curiosity, awe, and guilt inspire a ritual for an animal lost at sea
It’s been more than a month since a juvenile humpback whale washed ashore, dead, on the inner beach near Long Point Light in Provincetown. News like this circulates and the […]
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
A Heritage of Nicknames
Reflections of a time when Dutras and Silvas were ‘as thick as the air’
A small notice in the Nov. 18 edition of this paper caught my eye and started me thinking. It announced a memorial for Joe Corea, a good man. The notice […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Vigil for Democracy
If you are driving by the Orleans rotary on Thursday, Jan. 6 between 1 and 2:30 p.m. you will see the local edition of a nationwide “day of remembrance and […]
