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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Outrageous News
“Please cancel my subscription,” a reader wrote to us the other day. “We subscribed to your paper to get the local news from the Outer Cape, but lately it seems […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, May 22, 2025
From Kelly Clark, Ennie McDonald & Nancy L. Rosenblum
Weinstein: ‘A Fierce Protector’ To the editor: Congratulations to Susan Areson and John Dundas on their election to the Truro Select Board, and thanks to Bob Weinstein for his service […]
VIGNETTE
Off to Nova Scotia
STEAMERS
Taking Out the Trash
ADAPTATION
Resilience Is About More Than Technical Skill
Bridging policy and neighborly presence in Provincetown
In conversations about coastal resilience, we often hear about engineering, infrastructure, and timelines. We rarely hear about the relationships that everything else depends on — the ones between people, between […]
OP-ART
Scientists Invited
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Compliance Update
Words matter to us in this line of work. Maybe we don’t always choose just the right ones, but we spend a lot of time worrying over them. When writers […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, May 15, 2025
From Jacqueline W. Beebe & Ronald A. Gabel
Odor Control in Eastham To the editor: I am responding to Andrew Hay’s May 1 letter to the editor entitled “Unpleasant Odors.” I agree with Mr. Hay that my remarks […]
VIGNETTE
Construction Site
STEAMERS
Parkingtown
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Fight Like Josephine
We need to be reminded of the hard things Del Deo achieved
Our individual lives, so precious to us, are brief and then gone, like snow on the water, vanished utterly with barely a trace left behind. Those few throughout history who […]
ENCROACHMENT
Dishonoring a Provincetown Hero
Douglas Roach’s grave should have been protected
I am grateful to the Provincetown Independent for its coverage of the development of 27 Cemetery Road and the encroachment on the Roach-Watkins family gravesite. It is troublesome not just […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
We, the Legislators
All our towns have now navigated through another annual town meeting cycle, and it’s worth stopping to consider the significance of this peculiar New England tradition. Wellfleet Town Moderator Dan […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, May 8, 2025
From Amy Whorf McGuiggan, Donna Cooper, Sheila McGuinness, Jim Bisceglia, Nancy Medoff, Jack Farley & Becky Mendible
The Roach Family Graves To the editor: Two things jumped out at me in “House Construction Cuts Close to Burial Site” [May 1, front page]: Gregory Baldwin, the broker, states […]
