The Health of Nauset Estuary To the editor: I join Kait Logan and Harrison Swift, who wrote letters [March 25] expressing their significant concerns about the proposed dredging of the […]
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HEY DAHLIN’
Olde Townie Crossword Blowback
Find the solution to Mary DeAngelis’s Olde Townie Crossword here.
SKETCHBOOK
April in the Neighborhood
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
The Hitchhiker, Then and Now
What has changed over these 50-odd years?
On an overcast spring afternoon in 1968, I stood on the shoulder of Route 6, outside Hyannis, with my thumb out. After about 20 minutes, the drizzle began, the sparse […]
EARTH DAY
I Sing the Auto Electric
The fossil-fuel era is ending not with a bang but a whimper
There is an electric car in your future, and you’re going to buy it sooner than you may realize. How do I know this? I just bought one, after saying […]
STEAMERS
Drones
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
History Lessons
One of the Independent’s contributors whose work is especially enlightening is Amy Whorf McGuiggan, who writes the Graveyard Shift column. She never fails to come up with a good story […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, April 22, 2021
From Jim King, Myra Slotnick, Brent Harold, and Mimi Butts
Lise King’s Experience To the editor: Local newspapers sometimes endorse candidates for elected positions based on their qualifications, experience, and demonstrated desire to work for the good of the community. […]
VIGNETTE
Toms on the Town
OP-ED
Vaccine Passports and Individual Rights
Limited invasions of privacy are part of daily life
Vaccine passports are engendering a wide range of emotions and opinions. Gov. Cuomo has embraced them in New York. Gov. DeSantis has banned them in Florida. Gov. Charlie Baker has […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Lawyer’s Feint
Ben Zehnder is mad at me. He’s well known as the go-to lawyer around here if you need a variance, or if you have gotten into a fight with a […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, April 15, 2021
From Sharon Rule-Agger, Alexandra Marshall, Jack Knies, Barbara Rushmore, and Jay VIVian
The Housing Crisis Affects All To the editor: Thank you for your many articles highlighting the very difficult housing situation on the Outer Cape. I read with great interest last […]
VIGNETTE
Detectives
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
April Tourists
Hopeful visitors appear even in the cruelest month
A tourist here in early April is like a Christmas tree in July: nice looking, but oddly out of place. I am writing this during a spring school vacation week, […]
COUNTY LINE
The Rising Tide of Hate
Have we reached a tipping point in addressing human rights?
Four years ago, the Barnstable County Human Rights Commission appeared to be down for the count. Its proposed operating budget was simply missing from the budget book that the Assembly […]
