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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 […]
PENNY-WISE AND POUND-FOOLISH
An HVAC Fix That Might Have Been Avoided
Choosing not to spend can be an expensive mistake
At Wellfleet’s recent town meeting, a voter asked why we had to spend $350,000 to upgrade the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system for a fire station that’s only […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Something From Nothing
Sometimes it feels as if being a journalist consists mostly of waiting for return phone calls from people who are never going to call you back. The other day I […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, June 13, 2024
From Jeremy Callahan and Kathleen Bacon
The Formula Business Bylaw To the editor: Re “Luke’s Lobster Is Exempted From Formula Business Bylaw” [June 6, page A6]: I take exception to the word “exempted” in your headline […]
VIGNETTE
Happy Spring
STEAMERS
Mild Max: Scooter Road
HEALTH CARE
Leadership Transitions Take Time
Putting concerns about Outer Cape Health Services in context
A letter to the editor in the May 23 edition of the Independent expressed concern about “the high turnover at Outer Cape Health Services” and vacancies in key positions there. […]
