By my reckoning, this is my 73rd column for this paper. My first, in the inaugural issue, was printed under the heading “The Year-Rounder,” as has every column since then. […]
Opinion
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, May 26, 2022
From Jeff Tash, John A. Wolf, Buddy Perkel, Frank Dunau, and Mike Greer
‘There Was No Fraud’ To the editor: Ed Miller in his May 19 Letter From the Editor says Wellfleet’s books don’t add up. He thinks the town ought to pay […]
VIGNETTE
Know Your Enemy
GRAMMAR WATCH
Shrink, Shrank, Shrunk
The value of learning and agreeing to the rules
Browsing a New York Times newsletter, I have to stop and re-read several times before confirming, via Google, my sense that the writer has gotten it wrong. The line in […]
OP-ART
Please let the girls go to school
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Books That Don’t Add Up
It was exactly one year ago that we first reported the alarming condition of Wellfleet’s finances, after interim Town Administrator Charles Sumner revealed that the town did not have a […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, May 19, 2022
From Terry Gallagher, Madeleine Entel, Marcia Bromley, Sandra Eisenstein, and L. Michael Hager
Covid Is Not Gone To the editor: The Covid-19 pandemic is still very much with us [“Cape Cod Has Entered Its 6th Covid Wave,” May 12, front page]. Now is […]
VIGNETTE
Cold Shoulder Season
STEAMERS
Plan C Plane
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Sal Del Deo’s 75 Provincetown Years
The Red Inn will host a Sunday afternoon with a town treasure
According to Salvatore Del Deo, the first shellfish warden hired in Provincetown, back in the 1950s, was a retired Portuguese fisherman named Joe Ventura. Before that, Joe had worked intermittently […]
LETTER FROM THE SPORTS EDITOR
Music and Sports
As I prepare to leave the Independent for a new journalism job in the city, I think back over more than two years at this newspaper, amazed at the variety of subjects […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, May 12, 2022
From Bruce Mason, Edina Kopits, Kevin Grunwald, Jim McDermott, and Ronald A. Gabel
Greed and the Common Good To the editor: Re “Wellfleet Offers $6.5M for Maurice’s Campground” (April 21, front page): My wife and I tented some 45 years ago at Maurice’s […]
STEAMERS
86* Bradford
MOTHER’S DAY
Learning to Be the Parent My Child Needs
A mother’s call to stand up and stop the haters
It was four days before my son, who is transgender, was to have gender affirming surgery, and my insurance company, Aetna, informed me that it would not be covered. This […]
