Last night a young friend (almost 27) said to me, “I am an old soul.” Those words got me thinking. Not about the soul — God help me from ever […]
Opinion
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EPIDEMIC
We Need to Talk About Drugs
Let’s kick the taboo surrounding substance use disorders
I joined the Provincetown Fire Dept. as a part-time emergency medical technician this year. Our job is to provide support to residents and visitors on what is often one of […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Prize in Providence
With this issue of the Independent, we complete Volume 5, our fifth full year of weekly publication — 261 issues in all. All those deadlines have kept us tightly bound […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, September 26, 2024
From Jenny Faw and Carl Sussman
In Defense of OCHS To the editor: I have been going to Outer Cape Health Services in Wellfleet for the past eight years and am very happy with the care […]
VIGNETTE
Flight of the Drinking Birds
STEAMERS
Art Supply Desert
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Honor at the End
A couple of weeks ago a reader wrote to say that he was “uplifted” by an obituary we had published. He said he would like to read more about the […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, September 19, 2024
From Jim Vesper, Ronald A. Gabel, Salvatore Del Deo, Dan Katz, Frank Barringer, Mariah Bradford, Rhonda Skloff, and Sally Deane
The Cape Air Surprise To the editor: Cape Air’s discontinuation of air service between Provincetown and Boston [“Cape Air Drops 6 Months of P’town Flights,” Sept. 12, front page] was […]
VIGNETTE
Dangerous Curve
STEAMERS
Taking Flight
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Saving Land
The task is huge, and we are small
Somewhere in my disheveled archives sits a tattered yellow news clipping from the New York Times, circa 1980, that was pinned to the bulletin board over my desk for decades. […]
COMING OUT
The Congressman Who Rescued Stellwagen Bank
It’s time for NOAA to acknowledge the role of Gerry Studds
Provincetown is the gateway to the Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, but you’re forgiven if you didn’t know that. In 1995, Don Young (R-Alaska), chair of the […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Diagraming for Democracy
The statements coming from the Republican candidate for president are setting many people’s nerves on edge. Our correspondent Mike Rice gives one example this week of an absurd accusation, repeated […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, September 12, 2024
From Louise Watson & Mike Rice
Visitor Center ‘Nightmare’ To the editor: Re “Select Board Balks at Plan for Stellwagen Center” [Sept. 5, front page]: I am horrified by the proposed building of a huge visitor […]
