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THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Ugly Ornaments
An odd holiday ritual finds joy in the grotesque
OK, the holidays are over. We made it to the new year, Christmas is almost two weeks behind us, and we are all done with it: like a way-too-sweet piece […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Drama in the Back Pages
Are you the kind who reads the paper cover to cover? I’m thinking of the back of Section B of the Independent, where you will find the legal notices in […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, January 5, 2023
From Betsy Smith and Suzanne Barnhart
The High School Vote To the editor: Thanks to K.C. Myers for her very informative article “Nauset High Renovation Vote is Jan. 10” [Dec. 29, page A10]. As a 76-year-old […]
TEACAKE’S TAKE
The New Year
PREVENTING VIOLENCE
The Unfulfilled Promise of Community Mental Health Care
An argument for taking action to treat those who refuse help
This year has brought a reckoning with the ways our health and legal systems fail those with mental illnesses and their families. The tragic deaths of Truro’s Susan Howe and […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Venture Journalism
George Santos was elected to Congress last month from New York’s Third District, helping the Republican Party take control of the House with a slim majority. Six weeks after the […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, Dec. 29, 2022
From Shirley Spatz and Mike Rice
The ‘Impossible Cookie’ To the editor: Regarding the doubly baked biscotti from John D’Addario’s Yonkers grandma Filamena/Fay [Dec. 15, page B3]: What are called biscotti in Italian are known as […]
VIGNETTE
Solstice
THE LAPSED
Home for the Holidays
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Ebenezer Scrooge Revisited
There is a bit of this classic misanthrope in most of us
It is time to confess: you have never actually read Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. This work is so ingrained in our culture that it lives in the collective subconscious, […]
LETTER FROM ACROSS THE POND
The Blessing of the Shearwaters
Late on a fall day, an unpredictable wonder of the sea is revealed
In Edinburgh, the cherry trees have lost their leaves. Golden and carnelian-colored, they carpet the grass and fill the gutters like heaps of slender sunset fish. We will watch the […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Artificial Snow Job
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, Dec. 22, 2022
From Thom Schwarz, Joe Cavicchi, Priscilla Jenkins, Amy Whorf McGuiggan, and Joel Chaison
The Hospital Affair To the editor: Your clear and readable coverage of the rancor and legal battles at Cape Cod Hospital (“Doctor Sues Cape Cod Hospital,” Dec. 15, front page) […]
