The next chapter in the saga of Wellfleet’s financial misadventures will be written this Saturday at the annual town meeting. I live in Wellfleet, so I will be there, and […]

When I was little, my father would tease me for asking outlandish questions. “In baseball,” I once asked, “if a batter hits a home run so powerful it flies all […]

 It was exactly one year ago that we first reported the alarming condition of Wellfleet’s finances, after interim Town Administrator Charles Sumner revealed that the town did not have a […]

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 […]

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 […]

April is coming to an end, and that means the fellows of Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center will soon be leaving us. But Provincetown, we have come to learn, will […]

Weeks ago, I wrote about the lack of progress in bringing better internet service to the Outer Cape. One question that has been raised but never answered in these discussions […]

This issue of the Independent includes reflections on death and rebirth, street photos and interviews with people about faith and hope, and a holiday table reverie of spring vegetables — […]

It’s town meeting season, time for that strange civic ritual we like to think of as an exercise in pure democracy. This spring’s turnout looks good so far: 448 voters […]

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has created an instant transformation in many people’s geographical knowledge of a previously little-known part of the world. Suddenly, places that hardly anyone had ever […]

Talking to public officials is a frustrating job. They have a tendency to talk in circles, or in legalese. They sometimes excuse dishonesty by saying that they’re trying to build […]

A lot of readers of the Independent have been asking, “What can be done about Wellfleet?” I’m not sure what the answer is, but I have a few ideas. The […]

Last week, a young mayor in the Ukrainian town of Kopychyntsi sought out journalists in America. He knew that telling his town’s story, his country’s story, was as vital as […]

A divided Eastham Select Board in January decided once again to put off for a year a decision on whether to adopt the residential tax exemption (RTE), which would shift […]