EASTHAM — Ten Nauset Regional High School juniors spent the last week of school building a whole new government from the ground up. We were among a few hundred students […]
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Crime Compounded
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 […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 4, 2024
From Diane Turco and Joe Aberdale
Holtec and the Whistleblower To the editor: Christine Legere’s report on the Holtec whistleblower letter [“Holtec Confirms Pilgrim Worker Was Contaminated,” June 20, front page] highlights the fact that the […]
VIGNETTE
Vacationers
STEAMERS
Guilty Good
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Lawrence of the Dunes
Remembering a man who lived life on his own terms
I imagine Lawrence Schuster as a child in 1950s Pennsylvania being asked “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and answering, with steely blue eyes and a […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Obfuscation Events
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 […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, June 27, 2024
From Bob Wagner, Phineas Baxandall, Mike Rice, and Robert Sabbag
Tall Structures and Energy To the editor: William von Herff’s Reporter’s Notebook “Lighthouses and Windmills” [June 20, page A2] made me think about other tall structures, like power-plant smokestacks in […]
VIGNETTE
Beach Buddies
STEAMERS
Bike Valet
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
Lighthouses and Windmills
When my friend Elizabeth came to visit me in Wellfleet for a weekend, one of the things she wanted to see was a “real” Cape Cod lighthouse. We drove over […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, June 20, 2024
From Jane Paradise, Sarah Peake, John Marksbury, and Christopher English Walling
The Importance of Community To the editor: Re “Van Dereck Estate Remains a Tangle of Secrets” [June 13, front page]: Community is important. Familiarity is important. It is especially important […]
VIGNETTE
Jobs for Whales
STEAMERS
Not in Kansas Anymore
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Ancestors and Descendants
Shadows of the past and our unknowable future
My father was born near the end of the 19th century (1897); I arrived near the middle of the 20th (1945); my four grandchildren, early in the 21st (between 2005 […]
