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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, February 1, 2024
From Bob Jones, Lisbeth Wiley Chapman, Myra Slotnick, Mitchell Baker, Mary Moniz, and Eric Winslow
Peace Valley Memories To the editor: The report by Christine Legere on the old house at 177 Peace Valley Road in Wellfleet [“A Once Grand Property, Now Condemned, May Finally […]
VIGNETTE
Underdressed
STEAMERS
Contracting Time
IOWA DISPATCH
Face to Face With a Nonvoter
A reporter considers what makes a caucus bystander tick
I’m not sure exactly what I expected from my first time covering the Iowa caucuses. As a nerdy middle-schooler growing up in the D.C. suburbs, I had read some American […]
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
In Pursuit of the Hearty Garlic
The market and the community, with and without pickles
The shelves and coolers at Stop & Shop have a plethora of pickles. There are dill pickles aplenty: hot dill, kosher dill, hamburger dill, and baby dill. There are half […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Dearth of Letters
Except for one deliciously pithy communication from Richard Spada, we had a dearth of letters to the editor this week. I don’t understand this, because last week’s issue of the […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, January 25, 2024
From Richard Spada
A Smell in Truro To the editor: As a founding member of a community church in Berkeley, Calif. in the year 2000 and a leader on the board of directors […]
VIGNETTE
The Days Grow Longer
STEAMERS
Town Anchors
WATERCOLOR
MLK Day 2024
POLITICAL MEMO
Dysfunctional Democracy
What happens when not enough people pay attention and get involved
Early in the new year, President Biden gave a powerful speech near Valley Forge warning of all the ways that democracy could be destroyed if Donald Trump returns to the […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Listening to Vorse
This is the third winter that the Independent has hosted young journalists in a fellowship named for Mary Heaton Vorse, who lived from 1907 until her death in 1966 in […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, January 18, 2024
From Mark Brennan, David Ricketts, and Barbara Leedom
Denotation vs. Connotation To the editor: As we celebrated Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday this week, I was reminded that we are approaching Black History Month. I imagine that the […]
