A Provincetown scene in the not-too-distant future: Excitement mounts as crowds line up at the gate. The faint strains of “Mystere Rondo,” a Cirque du Soleil theme song, can be […]
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TEACAKE’S TAKE
Relativity
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK
At the Scene
It’s 9:40 a.m. Tuesday (deadline day) when an email comes from my editor. “This just came in. Can you get the story?” he asks. Attached is an email from a […]
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Letters, December 16, 2021
From Mike Rice
Accounting Down To the editor: Regarding Wellfleet’s seemingly abysmal fiscal situation: if a new town administrator is hired before the town’s accounting mayhem is straightened out and before a competent […]
SKETCHBOOK
Pumpkin Spice
VIGNETTE
Lights
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
The Strong, Thin Line of Remembrance
On keeping watch in the dark
I am standing outside our beautiful town hall on a chilly, dark evening — late afternoon, actually, in this damnably short-day time of year. There are flickering candles all around […]
THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Native or Washashore — Who Cares?
Regarding Art Nickerson’s recorded statement at the end of Cam Blair’s “When Turnips Were King in Eastham” (Nov. 18, page B7), I seriously doubt that there’s anyone alive who knew […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Dastardly Deed
In our issue dated Aug. 19 of this year, Stephen Kinzer wrote a stirring essay about President Theodore Roosevelt’s visit to Provincetown in the summer of 1907 to lay the […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, December 9, 2021
From Nancy Kete, Stephen J. Greenberg, Lyle Timpson, and Renee Leck
Trash Cans Were Missed To the editor: Kudos to the town of Truro, which, on second thought, has put back the trash cans at Coast Guard and presumably other town […]
JACK CHEESE
Mosquito Autumn
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Laughing Matters
A well-told joke is a lot like poetry
The old woman brought her toddler grandson to the beach and watched placidly as he played in the sand at the water’s edge. Suddenly, a huge wave washed the child […]
VIGNETTE
The One Percent
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, December 2, 2021
From Gerard J. Kinahan, Michael Fee, Bill “Birdie” Edwards, Alex Brewer, Madeleine Entel and Bruce Hurter
‘Let the Cloverleaf Proceed’ To the editor: In response to last week’s letter from Dan Katz [“Aggrieved by the Cloverleaf,” page A2]: Ted Malone does not build “monstrosities.” He builds […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Schoolyard Fantasy
The Wellfleet Elementary School has not had a playground since March 2020, as staff reporter Jasmine Lu wrote in the Oct. 7 issue of the Independent. First, it was off-limits […]
