Over the past year, I’ve seen a rise in misinformation on Truro’s Facebook community pages, especially regarding affordable housing at the Walsh property. Some of it comes from the TruroNews.org […]
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Liking Sentences
Is writing a dying art? Sometimes I wonder. Years ago, I taught expository writing to freshmen at a college where many of the students were intensely ambitious. The ones who […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, April 25, 2024
From Jane Lea, Jim Vogel, Sean Ganas, Gretchen Von Grossmann, and Khristine Hopkins
Paying for Housing To the editor: I am writing in response to the excellent letters in recent issues of the Independent about housing in Truro. It is refreshing to hear […]
VIGNETTE
Summer Mansions
STEAMERS
Spring Season
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
New Bird in Town
The ravens are back, and they are building a nest
We are more than halfway through April, and the air is already full of birdsong. It seems every other bush in town hosts a song sparrow, lustily bellowing his qualifications […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Short-Term Sins
Last week the Boston Globe reported “a rare bit of good news on the housing front — at least for vacationers” on Cape Cod: “renting at a reasonable rate might […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, April 18, 2024
From Alec Marshall, Kolby Blehm, Jean Horner, and Mike Rice
‘A House Divided’ To the editor: My wife, Anne, and I, a schoolteacher, bought land in Truro 52 years ago and with the help of family, friends, and local subcontractors […]
VIGNETTE
Town Meeting
STEAMERS
Life in the Slow Lane
MEANWHILE IN THE EAST END
On another gray day in Provincetown
OP-ED
What Species of Creature Must We Be?
Kandiaronk, a 17th-century Native American statesman, speaks to us
Sitting in my cozy kitchen with the sun streaming in, I find myself torn up by the terrible state of our world and the unconscionable brutality of the wars raging […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Tickled by the Fake
Two weeks ago, page 3 of the Independent was our annual April Fool’s fake front page. We’ve done this for five years, and you might think that readers would have […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, April 11, 2024
From Lisbeth Wiley Chapman, Beth O'Rourke, and Ardis Markarian
‘An Elderly Town’ To the editor: You recently reported on the isolation felt by the parent of a newborn [“New Moms Find Company and Comfort in Eastham,” March 28, front […]
