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STEAMERS
Plan C Plane
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Sal Del Deo’s 75 Provincetown Years
The Red Inn will host a Sunday afternoon with a town treasure
According to Salvatore Del Deo, the first shellfish warden hired in Provincetown, back in the 1950s, was a retired Portuguese fisherman named Joe Ventura. Before that, Joe had worked intermittently […]
LETTER FROM THE SPORTS EDITOR
Music and Sports
As I prepare to leave the Independent for a new journalism job in the city, I think back over more than two years at this newspaper, amazed at the variety of subjects […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters May 12, 2022
From Bruce Mason, Edina Kopits, Kevin Grunwald, Jim McDermott, and Ronald A. Gabel
Greed and the Common Good To the editor: Re “Wellfleet Offers $6.5M for Maurice’s Campground” (April 21, front page): My wife and I tented some 45 years ago at Maurice’s […]
STEAMERS
86* Bradford
MOTHER’S DAY
Learning to Be the Parent My Child Needs
A mother’s call to stand up and stop the haters
It was four days before my son, who is transgender, was to have gender affirming surgery, and my insurance company, Aetna, informed me that it would not be covered. This […]
VIGNETTE
Town Meeting
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Bulletin Board Journalism
People send us lots of press releases, often with a kindly cover note saying something like “Please publish this in the next issue of your newspaper.” We’re happy to get […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters May 5, 2022
From Jim Bisceglia, Morgan Clark, Kristen Roberts, Bill Docker, and Nigel Fountain
‘Like the Hatfields and McCoys’ To the editor: Due to a terminal case of apathy or just plain not paying attention, Truro voters have managed to elect a select board […]
VIGNETTE
This One’s Affordable
TRURO TOWN MEETING
For an Appointed Planning Board
The current elected board continues to advance an anti-housing agenda
As a lifelong Cape Codder striving to make a life in this community, I believe Truro must take bold steps to stem the housing crisis. That starts with fostering a […]
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Where Does Courage Come From?
Shocked out of normalcy, our true selves are revealed
This morning I awoke after a good night’s sleep. After a hot shower, I had a hearty breakfast and a couple of cups of coffee, while I perused a magazine […]
SKETCHBOOK
Cape Cod Catboat on the Provincetown Quadrangle
The map and sailboat are my interpretations in walnut ink on Quadrangle for Provincetown, Mass., 1972: U.S. Geological Survey. My work is overlaid on Eugene Zhukau’s cyanotype print of “Town […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters April 28, 2022
From Joanna Buffington, Amy Wolff, John and Yvette Dubinsky, Joan Holt, Ben Wallace, Katharine Baker, and Gordon Fellman
For an Eastham Conservation Fund To the editor: Eastham voters should support Article 16, to establish a conservation fund (CF), on the May 2 town meeting warrant. The town summary […]
