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STEAMERS
More Stop Than Shop
VIGNETTE
North South
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Selling and Civics
Last week a reader asked why Truro has created the position of communications and marketing coordinator. “What are we marketing and to whom?” wrote Ellyn Weiss. Truro Town Manager Darrin […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, Sept. 29, 2022
From Tobin Storer, Bob Wallace, Karen Friedman, Dan Katz, Arvin Nundloll, and Jerry Guerra
For the Forfeit of A.R.C.’s License To the editor: I support the town’s decision to ask the Aquacultural Research Corp. (A.R.C.) to forfeit its grant in Wellfleet Harbor (as reported […]
STEAMERS
Didn’t Hold the Pickle
URGENT CARE
Provincetown’s Moors Are Dying
Action is needed as purple crabs make the West End marsh disappear
As a longtime visitor to Provincetown, I have been nourished in many ways by its natural and cultural beauty, but nothing here has touched me as deeply as the salt […]
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
Center of Attention
When Thoreau walked the shores of Cape Cod, he felt he could stand on the beach and “put all America behind him.” The edge-ness of this place is part of […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, Sept. 22, 2022
From Ellyn Weiss, Bonnie Nuendel, Joanna Stevens, and David Agger
Marketing Truro To the editor: The Sept. 8 issue of the Independent included the news that Truro has created a new position for a “communications and marketing coordinator” [“A New […]
VIGNETTE
Book Signing
SKETCHBOOK
September
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Living in Play Land
The importance of time spent with no purpose
A couple of weeks ago, I stood on an East End beach looking out at the harbor and the bay beyond. I saw, all at the same time, the Dolphin […]
COUNTY LINE
An Ominous Drought
We may need to rethink our expectations of annual rainfall
This was written in a dune shack in the Province Lands, where, on the day we arrived, the well was not pumping any water. We rationed our limited supply. Until […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
No Place Like Homeland
Congressman Jamie Raskin, the Maryland Democrat and Constitutional scholar, spoke at Wellfleet Preservation Hall this summer about the state of the world and the coming elections. “All over the world,” […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, Sept. 15, 2022
From Stephen Greenberg and Thomas Schwarz
‘A Serious Disconnect’ To the editor: At the last two Wellfleet town meetings, voters overwhelmingly approved measures to resolve the town’s financial problems and alleviate the crisis in affordable housing, […]
