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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Staying in the Fight
In last week’s Independent, Paul Benson reported on the new Provincetown drop-in center of the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod and the long-term battle against sexually transmitted infections and […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, Dec. 8, 2022
From Steve Wood, Annette Anderson, Gary Kersteen, and Marilyn Pechonis
Parking by the Marsh To the editor: As a resident of Lieutenant Island, I applaud Conservation Agent Hillary Greenberg-Lemos and the members of the Wellfleet Conservation Commission for finally addressing […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Shop With Empathy
For many years, Provincetown has been our favorite place for Christmas shopping. The stores are stylishly stocked, it’s never crowded, the summer prices have come down, and talking with the […]
STEAMERS
Town Seal
VIGNETTE
Wildlife
SKETCHBOOK
Letter From Patagonia
LETTER FROM ACROSS THE POND
An Ode to Not Knowing
Try to remember what it was like to not have every answer close at hand
It is a familiar enough occurrence in my line of work: a client admits to being lost, without direction, not knowing where to go or what to do. It is […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, Dec. 1, 2022
From G. Thomas Ryan and Kathleen Bacon
A New Encounter To the editor: The Independent’s coverage of Native American and colonizer issues — from town seals to book reviews — has been consistently sensitive to the local […]
VIGNETTE
Selfie With Turkey
STEAMERS
Freedom from Want
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Giving Thanks Is the First Step
Sometimes you have to separate the hype from the essentials
Let’s face it: most of us are not walking around feeling thankful; it’s just not in our nature. We more often concentrate on what we don’t have than what we […]
ENCOUNTERS
Making Space at the Table
A Thanksgiving with Afghan refugees embodied the spirit of the holiday
Last year I celebrated Thanksgiving in the Hyannis home of my friends David and Paloma McLardy, immigrants from Scotland and Spain, respectively. They put a few tables together in their […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Unsung Musicians
The front page of last Friday’s New York Times had a fascinating story headlined “When Climate Talks Stall, She’ll Find the Words.” It was about Sue Biniaz, a veteran attorney […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, Nov. 24, 2022
From George F. Davis, M.D. and John A. Wolf
Wellfleet’s Town Seal To the editor: There must be some mistakes in your article “Wellfleet Select Board Says ‘No’ to a New Town Seal” [Nov. 10, page A6]. It is […]
