TRURO — When voters arrive at this Saturday’s annual town meeting, they’ll find a confusing new wrinkle in Truro’s years-long effort to replace its aging Dept. of Public Works facility: […]
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TOWN MEETING
Eastham Gets a Preview of 9 (Really 23) Warrant Articles
A petitioned article seeking a ‘tax strategy’ consultation dominates discussion
EASTHAM — The comments at an April 22 select board session on this year’s warrant articles had Town Moderator Scott Kerry looking forward to Monday’s town meeting. “It sounds like […]
VIGNETTE
Full Dance Card
STEAMERS
Tortured Numbers
OP-ART
Be Brave, Don’t Cave
ORGANIZING CHAOS
A Perilous Time for Public Libraries
Local community needs should not fall victim to politics
Libraries organize chaos. So wrote Nancy Kalikow Maxwell in her book, Sacred Stacks: The Higher Purpose of Libraries. And lately, or maybe always, there is plenty of chaos to organize. […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Fight Fiercely
Conservative columnist David French writes in the New York Times this week that he has “a complicated relationship with Harvard.” So do I. French grew up in a small town […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, May 1, 2025
From Joe Cavicchi, Andrew Hay, Holly Ballard-Gardner, & Shawn Grunwald
Vitality and Synergy To the editor: I encourage Truro town meeting voters to approve the Walsh district zoning overlay. This overlay would provide a foundation for thoughtful development of the […]
VIGNETTE
Small but Mighty
STEAMERS
Taking a Dive
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
No Place Like Home
Belonging is fundamental to everyone’s welfare
In the 1970s, I worked to protect nesting least terns on the back shore. In those days, we did not close beaches to vehicles, but we did post areas where […]
OPTING IN
A Game-Changer for the Housing Crisis
Towns should adopt the ‘seasonal communities’ designation now
Twenty-five years ago, families who made $60,000 a year could afford to buy a house here. Today, households making less than $300,000 a year struggle to find housing on the […]
OP-ART
Social Insecurity
MAURICE’S MASTER PLAN
Keeping Wellfleet Wellfleet
‘This place is precious,’ the town’s planning consultants were told
Last summer, I facilitated three focus groups about the future of Maurice’s Campground in Wellfleet. Our consultants organized them to allow the Maurice’s Campground Planning Committee to hear directly from […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Assault on Truth
At first it seemed that if this experiment in authoritarianism was going to break our hearts, we’d somehow stand firm. Now it’s pillaging our very minds. The National Science Foundation […]
