Seven years ago voters sat sweating in the Nauset Regional High School gym for a rare June special town meeting that lasted four hours and resulted once again in a […]
Editorials
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Massacre of the Drones
The news lately, both locally and at a distance, has been filled with drones. Kristian Sexton of Wellfleet says that he is developing the technology to spot great white sharks […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
To Eccentric Friends
We collected a lot of advice while researching the possibility of a new newspaper here. What we heard inspired us to go ahead and dive in, but every now and […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
New Baby in Town
This is the 13th edition of the Independent, which means we have now produced exactly one-quarter of a year’s worth of newspapers. It’s been fun, but we’ve had quite enough, […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Heart of Darkness
Here we are heading into the week of the winter solstice, the dark time, and I must confess that I see signs of that encroaching shroud almost everywhere I turn. […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Advice From a Master
I had the good fortune the other day to talk with Marshall Smith, the owner of the Wellfleet Marketplace. We were having a little trouble finding the right place in […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Writing Thursday
It’s “Giving Tuesday” as I write this, and I can see from looking at the online posts of local nonprofits that people really are giving. We know firsthand about this […]
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Respect for the Process
There are reasons to fear the Dec. 2 special town meeting in Provincetown. On its face, it pits public safety against housing; neighbors with quiet backyards against people who are […]
letter from the editor
Fishing on My Side
The New York Times reported on Monday that 47 percent of Americans say it’s hard for them to know whether the information they encounter is true. Many people have simply […]
letter from the editor
Where We Stand
“Why did you call it the Provincetown Independent?” That’s probably the question we are asked most frequently at our Open Newsroom sessions at the town libraries and in casual conversations […]
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Don’t Just Impeach, Expunge
Everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes they’re big. I received an email from a reader who signed himself “Tim C.” complaining about a variety of blunders in the last two issues. “Need […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
True Stories of Ourselves
Our reporter Sophie Ruehr followed up this week on her August 29 story about tenant farmers in Truro by writing about Bhala and Digree Rai, the Nepalese immigrant couple who […]
Letter from the editor
No One Is Talking
Editorial October 24, 2019
“There is no such thing as a pure fact, innocent of interpretation,” wrote Howard Zinn in the afterword to the 2003 edition of his wonderful book, A People’s History of […]
letter from the editor
Action, Cameras, Light
Wellfleet is the only town on Cape Cod whose planning board meetings are not recorded
Some people love performing and being on camera. Others cringe at the thought, especially in this age of surveillance capitalism, when we can’t even go to the supermarket without getting […]
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Moderators, Editors, and Free Speech
Pushing back against the forces that pull us apart
More than one reader of the brand-new Provincetown Independent has asked us about our “politics” as a newspaper. What is our position on property taxes, or the Mass. Shellfish Initiative, […]
