Many years ago — 55, to be exact — I was on the island of Mykonos, in the Aegean Sea. I had met a young British woman there, and we […]
Opinion
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OP-ED
‘First, Do No Harm’
Cape Cod Healthcare waffles when asked about vaccinating its providers
Should health-care providers be required to be vaccinated against Covid-19? “First, do no harm” is taught to medical school students early in their education. That ethical principle is the bedrock […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
In It Together?
Twenty years ago this week, time stopped as we watched the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. For weeks, we could think of little else but the […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, September 9, 2021
From John A. Wolf, Jane Lucas, Louise Briggs, Ed Ebert, and Bill and Nancy James
Renters: Another View To the editor: I sympathize with last week’s correspondent with an absentee landlord as a next-door neighbor [“Short-Term Rental Costs,” page A2], and I recognize that the […]
FEAR AND TREMBLING
Haiti, I’m Sorry
The island suffers yet another disaster, and again we witness and rage
Haiti I’m sorry We misunderstood you One day we’ll turn our heads And look inside you. —“Haiti,” David Rudder One night in January 2010, I woke to a severe trembling […]
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Welcome to the Whale’s World
How we love them, and how we fail them
On a still day in late March out at Herring Cove Beach, dozens of people faced the water. Low voices traveled over the sand. The crowd was hushed, as it […]
VIGNETTE
Lobster Dinner
STEAMERS
Shoulder Season
CLIMATE
Canaries on the Coastline
‘Think globally, act locally’ just got a lot more urgent
The ongoing pandemic has triggered all the so-called stages of grief in us (denial, anger, depression, bargaining, acceptance). Then came the United Nations climate change report on Aug. 9. Secretary-General […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, September 2, 2021
From Clyde Rousseau, Pat Miller, and Ellen Anthony and Marty Hassell
Short-Term Rental Costs To the editor: In response to your article on the impact of short-term rentals on property prices [“Surprises in Short-Term Rental Data,” Aug. 26, front page], there […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Labor Day Reality
It’s almost Labor Day weekend, that giant exhalation that signals what is usually the most dramatic transformation of the year here. The last week of August is already quieter, calmer […]
VIGNETTE
It Was A Good Summer
OP-ED
Jewelweed and Old Ways
On going back to the garden and other places of respite
A friend’s day off earlier this month provided an excuse for the two of us to wander Provincetown, stopping to eat at Bubala’s like we used to do, and watching […]
CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST
If Gulls Could Talk
To enter the contest, send your proposed caption for this cartoon to [email protected] by Thursday, Sept. 2 at midnight. You may enter as many times as you like.
LITTLE THEATER
The Long Journey of Wellfleet’s Stages
How one small town has kept two theater companies alive
The passing of Carol Green earlier this month brought to mind the long journey we took together at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater and the subsequent birth of the Harbor […]
