Robbing Peter to Pay Paul To the editor: I commend the Independent for the excellent coverage of the accounting mess in Wellfleet. As a lawyer who spent many years in […]
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VIGNETTE
Extra Cheese
SPECIAL DELIVERY
Suggestions From a Mail Enthusiast
She wants you to raise those little flags on your mailbox
I love my job. I get to deliver mail to people in the town where I live in all its splendor, all year round. The summer traffic is intense, and […]
STEAMERS
Son of a Beach
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Are You Being Served?
We have periodically reported on the glacially slow progress of efforts to improve internet service on the Outer Cape. In her story last week, K.C. Myers again noted that the […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, January 27, 2022
From Amy Whorf McGuiggan, Mike Rice, Harriet Korim, Deborah Ullman, Douglas I. Sheer, and Heather Blume
‘Get in the Water,’ said Harry To the editor: Having read the recent reminiscences of the Poet of the Dunes, Harry Kemp, and now having read about the gentleman who […]
ACTIVISM
Bayard Rustin
“I ask that if you teach your children one new name from the heroes of black history, please let it be Bayard Rustin,” wrote Henry Louis Gates Jr. in The […]
VIGNETTE
Angry Birds
STEAMERS
No Shot Novak
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
In an Outer Cape Bubble
How can it be that we are so far out of the mainstream?
I have never written a political column and do not intend to do so now. We will see if I succeed in that. Provincetown is one of the bluest dots […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, January 20, 2022
From Louise Venden and David Wright
Paying for Power To the editor: Gas leaks from faulty lines not only cause explosions like the one in the Merrimack Valley a few years ago but also contribute to […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
‘Why America May Go to Hell’
I’m writing this on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a national holiday since 1986, and thinking about what all the people born since then might know about the man. Elders […]
STEAMERS
Getting Away
VIGNETTE
In Fashion
COUNTY LINE
Stuck in Virtual Reality
Learning, reluctantly, to work together remotely
I’m a meeting guy. I have always been motivated to get together in a room with others and work to find collaborative solutions to the issues of the day. Serving […]
