The Truro Health Dept. threatened in 2019 to close down the Truro Motor Inn where 50 people, including several children, were living in overcrowded motel rooms. Electric service designed for […]
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, March 2, 2023
From Peggy G.K. Sovek and Frank Barringer
Those Big Cats To the editor: The story “Wellfleet Discovers — and Freezes — Its First Bobcat” by Sam Pollak (Feb. 23, page A4) prompts me to retell my “Pamet […]
VIGNETTE
Walking With Dogs
CHOOSE YOUR OWN EPITAPH
Low Point on a Winter Mood Swing
TEACHABLE MOMENTS
What’s Wrong With Saying ‘All Lives Matter’
It’s a truth more often observed in the breach
One of the greatest joys for a teacher is when students encounter the magic of the tangent: the moment when an event, a question, or an opinion takes a carefully […]
AUTHORITY
Our National Intimidation Problem
A bromide is brandished to divert us from the real issue
Anne Needel’s great piece on this page last week [“The Kids Are Watching Us”] was a sight for sore eyes. Yes, adults need to model moral courage, for children and […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
February Scars
A lot of us live on Outer Cape Cod because someone drew us here. My sister, Harriet Miller, was the one who got us to Wellfleet. She served on the […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, February 23, 2023
From Orianna Porter, Francie Williamson, Mary Hunter Utt, Daniel Holt, Andrea Pluhar, and Jim Rohrer
Defending ‘All Lives Matter’ To the editor: Your Feb. 16 article “ ‘All Lives Matter’ Sign Raises Questions at Nauset High” [page A7] was a misrepresentation of Nauset’s Black Student […]
VIGNETTE
Sunbath
STEAMERS
Wish You Were Here?
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Life Flows Through Us All
How the living behave and create meaning
On a cold gray day trying to be blue, large blowsy snowflakes swirl out of a pewter sky. There is no wind. The harbor and the bay beyond are calm […]
ANTI-RACISM
The Kids Are Watching Us
Teaching our students how to stand up to bigotry
Last week’s Independent reported the story of a student who withdrew from Nauset Regional High School because of anti-Semitic harassment. An unnamed girl who participated in that harassment was said […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Black Lives Matter
The indispensable historian Heather Cox Richardson wrote this week in her “Letters From an American” about the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, February 16, 2023
From Tatyana Knight, Lee Roscoe, and Edward S. Ebert
The Target for Housing To the editor: In response to Kathleen E. Bacon’s statement that “Truro is woefully behind” in reaching the state’s mandated 10-percent subsidized housing target [Letter, Feb. […]
