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COUNTY LINE
Remembering Susan Quinones
An advocate for human rights who inspired by listening
Cape Cod lost a powerful leader last week, and I lost a dear friend and colleague. Susan L. Quinones, Esq., who was coordinator for the Barnstable County Human Rights Advisory […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, April 14, 2022
From Betsy Smith, Dan Katz, and Sheila McGuinness
Not the Wild West To the editor: When most of us hear the word “sheriff,” we are transported back to the films of the 1950s, where the sheriff kept order […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Cruelty and Truth
This issue of the Independent includes reflections on death and rebirth, street photos and interviews with people about faith and hope, and a holiday table reverie of spring vegetables — […]
TEACAKE’S TAKE
Rites of Spring
WATERCOLOR
Hero: Volodymyr Zelenskyy
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Finding the Exquisitely Small, Pick by Pick
Under the microscope ‘is where the magic happens’
Standing on the beach the other night, I gazed up at the ink-black sky pierced with stars and found myself thinking about infinity — endless space going on and up […]
RIGHTS
Beyond Curb Cuts and Ramps
Fostering disability-affirming communities on the Outer Cape
The March 17 edition of the Independent had an important story about the Americans with Disabilities Act, “On the Outer Cape, the ADA Doesn’t Change Much,” by Michaela Chesin. Many […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, April 7, 2022
From Susan Baumgarten, Deb Magee, and Ronald A. Gabel
Restoration or Sinkhole? To the editor: Who could possibly resist a project promising to enhance the environment and restore a vital resource? Back in 2008, that promise won the Herring […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Town Meeting Time
It’s town meeting season, time for that strange civic ritual we like to think of as an exercise in pure democracy. This spring’s turnout looks good so far: 448 voters […]
VIGNETTE
Early Birds
UP A CREEK
GoFundWellfleet
The select board dreams up incentives to help save the town
Wellfleet officials recently described the town’s financial records as “a ball of yarn continually unraveling” and told this newspaper that “more than 1,000 errors were corrected in the town’s books […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Friend in Dnipro
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has created an instant transformation in many people’s geographical knowledge of a previously little-known part of the world. Suddenly, places that hardly anyone had ever […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, March 31, 2022
From Miriam Spencer, Ngina Lythcott, and Jack W. Dean
‘My Hair Was on Fire’ To the editor: I take umbrage at K.C. Myers’s assertion that “no one said a word” about Wellfleet’s financial issues before the Dept. of Revenue intervened […]
