I received my official 2024 vote by mail application today from the Mass. Elections Division, and it reminded me of the systems, checks, and balances that make sure our elections […]
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 18, 2024
From Michael Gaucher, Joanna Buffington, M.D., M.P.H., and Eliza Miller, M.D.
Alternates Voting To the editor: Thank you for your coverage of the recent Provincetown Planning Board elections [“Mulliken Quits After Failed Bid to Become Chair,” July 11, front page]. I […]
VIGNETTE
Bug Beat
STEAMERS
The Elephant Men
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Writers’ Block
We started this newspaper with plans focused on the future — one where small-town newspapers thrived again. But some of the things we hoped for were old-fashioned. We wanted people […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 11, 2024
From Mike Shannon, Michelle Haynes, and Dotti Freitas
‘Put Your Money Where Your Mud Is’ To the editor: In his July 4 letter, Joe Aberdale, chair of the Wellfleet Marina Advisory Committee, says that Wellfleet Harbor could accommodate […]
VIGNETTE
Air Fryer
STEAMERS
Gobbless
CIVICS
Ten Nauset Students Try Out Practical Politics
After Girls and Boys State, bringing collaboration into the real world
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 […]
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 […]
