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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, March 13, 2025
From Michael DeVasto, Paul Murray, and Eliza Miller
Septic Rules in Wellfleet To the editor: I’m writing to clarify statements I made about Wellfleet’s new septic regulations and accessory dwelling units (ADUs), which were described as misleading in […]
VIGNETTE
Daylight Saving Time
STEAMERS
Walking the Plank
OP-ART
Women Rising Up: Truth
WATERCOLOR
See Not, Hear Not, Speak Not
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Women’s Words
This Saturday, March 8, is International Women’s Day, and while we listen to the 19 women DJs on WOMR (see page C9), I’ll be thinking about the women on the […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, March 6, 2025
From Racine Oxtoby, Kathleen E. Bacon, Tom McNamara, Debra Raymond, Andrea Pluhar, Constance Moquist, & Mike Rice
‘A Dangerous Precedent’ To the editor: I am writing as an alumna of Provincetown High School, Class of 2007, in response to the recent firing of employees of the Cape […]
SHELLFISHING
How to Bring In Four Bushels of Wild Winter Oysters
A day on a dragger, in pursuit of deep-water Wellfleets
WELLFLEET — When Dave Seitler got up at 5 a.m. on Sunday, the first thing he checked was the temperature. Through nearly all of February, low temperatures had stymied his attempts […]
VIGNETTE
Fishland
STEAMERS
Bivalve Love Triangle
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Just Saying
We don’t need Google to tell us what to celebrate. And the only King we answer to is the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
I Walk Alone
Living with loss and holding fast to grief
The trouble with Life is that it is a one-way affair: there is no turning back, no opportunity to rewind the tape, revisit a scene, refresh an event. There is […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Messing With the Mail
The U.S. Postal Service was in the news again this week, thanks to a head-spinning series of flipflops by the administration about its plans for the mail. The president, who […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, February 27, 2025
From Jay Gurewitsch, Judith S. Hadley, Lisa King, & Jamie Demetri
Living With HIV To the editor: I read with concern the potential national impact of Becerra v. Braidwood, the case now awaiting a decision by the Supreme Court and, like […]
