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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Compliance Update
Words matter to us in this line of work. Maybe we don’t always choose just the right ones, but we spend a lot of time worrying over them. When writers […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, May 15, 2025
From Jacqueline W. Beebe & Ronald A. Gabel
Odor Control in Eastham To the editor: I am responding to Andrew Hay’s May 1 letter to the editor entitled “Unpleasant Odors.” I agree with Mr. Hay that my remarks […]
VIGNETTE
Construction Site
STEAMERS
Parkingtown
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Fight Like Josephine
We need to be reminded of the hard things Del Deo achieved
Our individual lives, so precious to us, are brief and then gone, like snow on the water, vanished utterly with barely a trace left behind. Those few throughout history who […]
ENCROACHMENT
Dishonoring a Provincetown Hero
Douglas Roach’s grave should have been protected
I am grateful to the Provincetown Independent for its coverage of the development of 27 Cemetery Road and the encroachment on the Roach-Watkins family gravesite. It is troublesome not just […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
We, the Legislators
All our towns have now navigated through another annual town meeting cycle, and it’s worth stopping to consider the significance of this peculiar New England tradition. Wellfleet Town Moderator Dan […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, May 8, 2025
From Amy Whorf McGuiggan, Donna Cooper, Sheila McGuinness, Jim Bisceglia, Nancy Medoff, Jack Farley & Becky Mendible
The Roach Family Graves To the editor: Two things jumped out at me in “House Construction Cuts Close to Burial Site” [May 1, front page]: Gregory Baldwin, the broker, states […]
TOWN MEETING PREVIEW
Article 40 Debate Airs Conflicts on DPW Building Committee
A petition to cap Truro’s new facility at $20 million faces skepticism
TRURO — When voters arrive at this Saturday’s annual town meeting, they’ll find a confusing new wrinkle in Truro’s years-long effort to replace its aging Dept. of Public Works facility: […]
TOWN MEETING
Eastham Gets a Preview of 9 (Really 23) Warrant Articles
A petitioned article seeking a ‘tax strategy’ consultation dominates discussion
EASTHAM — The comments at an April 22 select board session on this year’s warrant articles had Town Moderator Scott Kerry looking forward to Monday’s town meeting. “It sounds like […]
VIGNETTE
Full Dance Card
STEAMERS
Tortured Numbers
OP-ART
Be Brave, Don’t Cave
ORGANIZING CHAOS
A Perilous Time for Public Libraries
Local community needs should not fall victim to politics
Libraries organize chaos. So wrote Nancy Kalikow Maxwell in her book, Sacred Stacks: The Higher Purpose of Libraries. And lately, or maybe always, there is plenty of chaos to organize. […]
