After writing about artists here for two years, I was relieved to find myself hustling through the mist that hung over Commercial Street to PAAM a couple of weeks ago […]

Last week was Family Week in Provincetown, and Commercial Street was packed with people pushing strollers and hundreds of kids of every age and disposition. It’s an unusual and welcome […]

Last week’s article by Jack Styler on the substandard care at the nursing home at Seashore Point in Provincetown, now formally called AdviniaCare at Provincetown, was one of the more […]

When Twitter launched in social media’s early days (it was 2006 when Jack Dorsey sent out the first tweet) most journalists scoffed at the idea of living by 140-character soundbites. […]

I received my official 2024 vote by mail application today from the Mass. Elections Division, and it reminded me of the systems, checks, and balances that make sure our elections […]

We started this newspaper with plans focused on the future — one where small-town newspapers thrived again. But some of the things we hoped for were old-fashioned. We wanted people […]

It’s hard for me to understand those people who believe there is a “deep state” of corrupt government officials determined to take away our rights. The fabrications and fantasies of […]

There are certain words that pop up frequently in news stories and set off alarms in an editor’s brain. Several of them appeared in our report last week about an […]

Sometimes it feels as if being a journalist consists mostly of waiting for return phone calls from people who are never going to call you back. The other day I […]

When I heard that Provincetown was hosting an “active shooter attack prevention and preparedness” training session, my initial reaction was skepticism. The town’s press release said, “This crucial training event […]

I taught writing to college freshmen back in the 1980s, when the internet was young. As a tool for doing research, the new technology seemed almost magically powerful and seductive. […]

There is so much to fear. Hard-won progress in civil rights, reproductive rights, and gender equality has rapidly eroded; we are beyond the overture of a climate catastrophe; war and […]

We started this newspaper in 2019 because we saw journalism dying here. The Provincetown Banner and the Cape Codder, once robust, were struggling. Word was readers and advertisers didn’t care […]

Jack Styler is a young writer who will be joining our newsroom as a staff reporter next month. He’s a Midwesterner; he graduated from the University of Wisconsin two years […]