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Opinion
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VIGNETTE
Meteor Shower
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
Covering Schools Can Make You Batty
On Aug. 6, when the Nauset Regional School Committee met with all four elementary school committees in the district, nearly 100 people were on the Zoom meeting. That’s the size […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 20, 2020
From Daniel Holt, Ronald A. Gabel, Jean Horner, and Dan Towler
Cloverleaf and Climate Change To the editor: In “We Must Act Locally on Climate” (Aug. 6, page A3), Dick Elkin clearly explains the reasons why significant building projects must, from […]
THE NEWS TODAY, OH BOY
‘Fake News’ Cry Is Fake
It’s fine to hate the press, but do it for the right reasons
“Fake news” has become President Trump’s favorite counterpunch when challenged by reporters doing their jobs. He uses that phrase when he is caught with nowhere to hide. Any piece of […]
QUEER ‘I’
PAPA’s Got a Brand New Gig
The Provincetown Theater strikes the right note during sustained crisis
In the summer season of Covid-19, there’s more drama playing out in the Capitol and White House than on the stages of the Outer Cape. That role reversal is not […]
KARMA AND DOGMA
Taking Stock of What We’ve Done to Young Children
The pandemic gives new evidence of how play helps children cope
A friend who used to do a lot of substituting in Outer Cape schools once described a scene in a classroom for four-year-olds that was well-designed for all kinds of […]
VIGNETTE
Summer Tan
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Young Reporters Wanted
In our weekly marathon of trying to keep up with what’s going on in town halls and virtual committee meetings about schools and budgets, health and housing, we stop now […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 13, 2020
From Bob Higgins-Steele, Laura Shabott, June Daley, Brendan Galvin, Eliza C. Miller, and Brian Clague
A Net-Zero School To the editor: Re “We Must Act Locally on Climate” [Aug. 6, page A3], the Nauset School Building Committee and the architectural firm for the proposed school […]
OP-ED
We Must Act Locally on Climate
Building committee has wrongly nixed a net-zero emissions high school
Climate change is a clear and present danger to our community and to humanity as a whole. We are digging a hole for ourselves by continuing to produce greenhouse gas […]
SKETCHBOOK
Piping Plovers Hatched
TEACAKE'S TAKE
Seasonal Divinity
LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
The Sooner the Better
People get annoyed when they don’t get their paper. I guess it’s good to be up there with coffee in our neighbors’ hierarchy of needs. While there are some things […]
