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STEAMERS
Starved The Beast
WINGS OF CHANGE
Why I Ran the New York City Marathon
At mile 20, a small act of kindness changed everything
People say that when you decide to run your first marathon you better do it for the right reason. My first marathon was 11 days ago in New York City. […]
COUNTY LINE
Provincetown’s Sewer Epiphany
Voters accept the dual reality of climate change and the need for more housing
A remarkable consensus developed last week at Provincetown’s special town meeting. A packed town hall auditorium agreed, nearly unanimously, to commit $75 million to an ambitious effort to make this […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Election Aftermath
A week ago we were nervously watching election returns, worried that people had given up on democracy. How different things seem this week. In his election analysis this week, Paul […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letter, Nov. 17, 2022
From Harold A. Maio
Unawareness Is Widespread To the editor: In “Nowhere to Turn When the Mentally Ill Refuse Treatment” [Nov. 10, page A7], you reported on the case of Adam Howe, who killed […]
STEAMERS
Mammogram Industrial Complex
VIGNETTE
Frost Warning
TEACAKE’S TAKE
Dogs Eating Dogs
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Beeches, Whales, and Salt Marshes
The natural world now depends on us
The funk of decomposing autumn leaves and the whiff of wood smoke are in the air. Fall colors are seeping through the woods — the scarlet leaves of the tupelo, […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
‘Truth & Tradition’
It’s election night, and we are filing the last story on local election results with one ear anxiously tuned to the returns from across the country. As this day approached, […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, Nov. 10, 2022
From Ben Williams, Frank Barringer, and Dick Elkin
More Buried Lines To the editor: I read “Homeowners Learn They Must Maintain Buried Power Lines” [Nov. 3, page A9] with sadness, as I lived this myself. I’m a first-time […]
STEAMERS
Totes Destruction
CUP OF SUGAR
Why I Love Provincetown
POETRY
Provincetown Pantoum
Inspired by Maria Nazos
This poem was inspired by Elizabeth Bradfield’s article on Maria Nazos’s “Cape Cod Pantoum” [“Afloat at Land’s End,” Oct. 6, page C8]. There is so much right about using this […]
