Opinion
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TRIBUTE
Josephine Del Deo, By Your Side
The woman behind so much of what Provincetown is fought hard against what it isn’t
Saturday, August 8, 1970 Just got into town yesterday, after quite a few years away. What a lot of exciting changes! Instead of taking boring Route 6, I took the […]
APPRECIATION
Paul Brodeur: A Complex and Creative Life
He was a passionate writer who changed our world for the better
Imagine what went through the head of a cub reporter at the Provincetown Advocate in 1978 when he was informed that Paul Brodeur, the prolific novelist, environmental journalist, and New […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Threat in Kansas
Many readers have sent us articles about what happened in Marion, Kansas, population 1,922, last Friday morning. The office of the Marion County Record, a weekly newspaper founded in 1869, […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 17, 2023
From John C. Marksbury, Laura Logue Rood, Diane Turco, and Edward Bromley
Fire Warning To the editor: Paul Benson’s article “As Deadlines Draw Near, Park Service Clams Up” [Aug. 10, front page] raises important points. It has ever been a love-hate relationship […]
VIGNETTE
Art Colony
STEAMERS
Sea Town
TEACAKE’S TAKE
The Uncool
WATERCOLOR
Rise or Fall
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
A Guest of This Age
Living in a time that we are not prepared for
In the heat of July, I found myself dazed and confused, and I remain so still. I have no idea what is going on with this whirling planet of ours […]
OP-ED
A Cucumber for Breakfast
What if there had been no vegetable garden this year?
The first thing I ate this morning was a $60 cucumber. I washed it and set it on a cutting board, contemplating how best to use something that seemed so […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
In a Barbecue, Honor
The Outer Cape has its weeks. Carnival is the big one up next. In the Independent, it is apparently barbecue week: Oliver Egger and Elias Schisgall report from the annual […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 10, 2023
From Nora Mann
‘We Can’t Get Complacent’ To the editor: From your editorial choice to use the term “anti-abortion center” in the headline through the well-researched and thorough coverage of the many issues […]
