Isabelle Nobili is a 2021 Nauset Regional High School graduate who has ambitious college plans. She’s going to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. What she wants to study there is […]
Visual Stories
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Monday, Nov. 8 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
FROM THE LARDER
After Five Years, a Locally Blended Rye Is Ready
Toasty, caramel notes make a cocktail that’s perfect for a stormy night
The rain is coming down hard from a low, leaden sky, and the wind is whistling down Paradise Hollow so fiercely that we fear for the roof. On such a […]
MOVEMENT
Heading to Class on a Search for Motivation
Groups are good for hibernators, the hesitant, and those with hectic lives
Motivation has been a theme for me this fall — I find that’s true of a lot of people I work with. As the weather cools, most of us need […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Boys Soccer Survives First Tourney Round
A weekly roundup of Nauset High sports
EASTHAM — It was a tough season for the Nauset Warriors football team. Like other teams, Nauset struggled to field enough players this fall. But on Friday, Nov. 5 it […]
RISKY BUSINESS
A Would-Be Bull Fighter Has His First Rodeo
Two schools, 5 classes, 12 days in the hospital
EASTHAM — Donald Sack, 69, remembers staring a rodeo bull in the face while standing just a few feet from the animal in an arena in Rome, Ga. in August […]
GOLF
Jack Martin, 14, Envisions Great Shots
Nauset freshman qualifies for the New England Championship
EASTHAM — Before this fall’s high school golf season started, Nauset freshman Jack Martin had never heard of the New England Championship. On Monday, the 14-year-old was the only member […]
THE SCUTTLEBUTT
When East Winds Pummel Our Harbor
It’s time for those who have boats to rethink readiness
The Provincetown waterfront once again took a severe beating from a coastal storm which, other than Hurricane Bob, was probably as intense as any coastal storm we’ve experienced in recent […]
SEEKING
Eastham Thrift Shop Needs a New Home
Generous landlords who helped thrift thrive now need to sell
EASTHAM — The thrift shop run by the Friends of the Eastham Council on Aging first opened in what had once been a general store on Massasoit Road in 1984. […]
MEET THE MAKER
In Search of the Elusive Perfect Beach Stone
Stacked, looped, and paired, the right rocks are for recollecting the Outer Cape
EASTHAM — Kathleen Masterson-Lavalley doesn’t go to the beach for its waves or for its sunsets. Instead, her eyes sweep the sand for the perfect stones — flat, round ones […]
DEBRIS BRIGADE
Citizen Scientists and Artists Report In After 4-Day Trash Tally
Yellow tubing is mystery newcomer to the trash heap
TRURO — After a four-day Outer Cape cleanup held in late September, the Marine Debris Team of the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) took a deep dive into the […]
TO THE DOGS
Brewster Follows Provincetown’s Lead on Dog Park
After 8 years of planning, the town is set to unleash its park by spring
BREWSTER — It took almost a decade of back-and-forth discussions and proposals, but there will finally be a place in town where dogs and their people can socialize. The acre-and-a-half […]
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Nov. 2 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Soccer Teams Heading to Playoffs
A weekly roundup of Nauset High sports
EASTHAM — The regular season is over, with Nauset High School boys and girls soccer teams both looking to the upcoming playoffs. Halloween proved to be a scary day for […]
SURFING
There’s Togetherness in Surfers’ Small Transgressions
On the practicality and satisfaction of peeing in the ocean
Surfers pee in their wetsuits. I’ve never met one who doesn’t. All those people you see out there in the ocean, looking calm and free? They are. They’re peeing. This […]
