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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, October 3, 2024
From Sarah Hill, Elizabeth Lema Perillo, Brian Schneider, Cathy Corman, Michael Gaucher, Sue Harrison, Bruce Mason, & Mimi Butts
Building in Paradise To the editor: Why is it that land used for affordable housing raises so much ire, while land lost to large single-family homes does not? It has […]
QUEER ‘I’
The Provincetown Beauty Myth
On beauty and my broken brain, from Circuit Week to townie summer
I’ve been finding it difficult to write about Provincetown. This is, in part, because there already exists so much writing about the place. The territory is already charted. This town […]
VIGNETTE
Ready for the Storm
STEAMERS
Fat Rats
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Matters of the Mind and Body
Can they remain in sync into old age?
Last night a young friend (almost 27) said to me, “I am an old soul.” Those words got me thinking. Not about the soul — God help me from ever […]
EPIDEMIC
We Need to Talk About Drugs
Let’s kick the taboo surrounding substance use disorders
I joined the Provincetown Fire Dept. as a part-time emergency medical technician this year. Our job is to provide support to residents and visitors on what is often one of […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Prize in Providence
With this issue of the Independent, we complete Volume 5, our fifth full year of weekly publication — 261 issues in all. All those deadlines have kept us tightly bound […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, September 26, 2024
From Jenny Faw and Carl Sussman
In Defense of OCHS To the editor: I have been going to Outer Cape Health Services in Wellfleet for the past eight years and am very happy with the care […]
VIGNETTE
Flight of the Drinking Birds
STEAMERS
Art Supply Desert
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Honor at the End
A couple of weeks ago a reader wrote to say that he was “uplifted” by an obituary we had published. He said he would like to read more about the […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, September 19, 2024
From Jim Vesper, Ronald A. Gabel, Salvatore Del Deo, Dan Katz, Frank Barringer, Mariah Bradford, Rhonda Skloff, and Sally Deane
The Cape Air Surprise To the editor: Cape Air’s discontinuation of air service between Provincetown and Boston [“Cape Air Drops 6 Months of P’town Flights,” Sept. 12, front page] was […]
