Wellfleet was the first of the Outer Cape towns to conduct its long-delayed annual town meeting this past Saturday, and as Provincetown, Truro, and Eastham have also chosen, it was […]
Editorials
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Globe Gets It Wrong
The Boston Globe published a disturbing piece this week about the experiences of urbanites going on vacation in rural New England this summer. It was titled “Dirty looks, threats, and […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
One Year and Counting
I received a nice note this evening from Sadie Hutchings, the Provincetown veterinarian (and our new “Animal Clinic” columnist). “I think you guys must have just had a birthday for […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
She’s Not Backing Down
At least three Outer Cape residents who chose to make a statement about racial justice have found their front yard “Black Lives Matter” signs stolen or defaced (see story on […]
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
Covering Schools Can Make You Batty
On Aug. 6, when the Nauset Regional School Committee met with all four elementary school committees in the district, nearly 100 people were on the Zoom meeting. That’s the size […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Young Reporters Wanted
In our weekly marathon of trying to keep up with what’s going on in town halls and virtual committee meetings about schools and budgets, health and housing, we stop now […]
LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
The Sooner the Better
People get annoyed when they don’t get their paper. I guess it’s good to be up there with coffee in our neighbors’ hierarchy of needs. While there are some things […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Nonopinions for Nincompoops
Several readers sent us an article published this week in CommonWealth magazine titled “As local news withers, we’re losing sense of identity.” The author, Bruce Mohl, reports the stories of […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
News That’s Fit to Print
Last week, Publisher Teresa Parker wrote about the financial challenge of launching and sustaining a high-quality newspaper without sufficient start-up capital, and then finding ourselves smack in the middle of […]
LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
It’s Not a Moonshot
Shipwreck or springboard?
We went to press with our first weekly issue on Oct. 7, 2019, a little over nine months ago. Our business plan said we needed $375,000 in the bank.We had […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Seashore Beat
What’s the most fun part of starting a newspaper? Thinking about what to put in it. We knew from the start that our home territory was the Outer Cape, four […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
An Unhealthy Restriction
“The coronavirus pandemic has provided an opportunity for communities to act on their most exclusionary impulses,” writes Andrew W. Kahrl in an essay titled “Who Will Get to Swim This […]
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
A Tale of Two Fire Departments
I am perplexed that the Lower Cape Ambulance Association (LCAA), a regional nonprofit that has existed since 1937, is losing support and no one seems to be fighting to preserve […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
When Ads and News Collide
This week we were confronted with a tough choice at our less- than-nine-month-old newspaper. We were offered a full-page ad that we decided we had to turn down. Full-page ads, […]
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
White People Need ‘the Talk’
In 2014, after the shooting death of Michael Brown, 18, by a Ferguson, Mo., police officer who was not indicted for the killing, Elenita Muñiz, a blue-eyed Puerto Rican and […]
