Every Saturday afternoon, my mother used to make the dessert for Sunday — a ritual I enjoyed helping with. I grew up in the south west of France, in Bordeaux. […]
Visual Stories
BEHIND THE WHEEL
A Reason to Look Under the Hood
For some critters, the engine compartment offers cozy winter quarters
When was the last time you checked under the hood? More and more of my customers don’t even know how to open theirs. That’s not just because they’re not mechanically […]
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, March 30 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
MOVEMENT
Buff Up Your Rotator Cuffs
Four moves to strengthen those small but essential shoulder-supporting muscles
Rotator cuff troubles. We hear about them all the time — everyone from famous pitchers, to house painters, to Aunt Myrtle seems to have them. What is the rotator cuff, […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
With the Sun in Aries, It’s a Time for Sacrifices
Give up the goods to get what’s good
The history of Aries, which begins the zodiacal year, as a symbol of creation and sacrifice extends thousands of years into the past. The constellation of Aries (not to be […]
photography
In View This Week
Three male common dolphins that stranded at Chipman’s Cove in Wellfleet on March 30 were transported and released at Herring Cove in Provincetown by the IFAW Stranding Team. IFAW volunteer […]
FOOTBALL
Warriors Lose Season Opener at Falmouth
Will play Dennis-Yarmouth at home Saturday
EASTHAM — The Nauset Regional High School football team took the field last Saturday, March 27, to play its first game in more than a year against the Falmouth Clippers […]
SPACES
As Stellwagen Visitor Center Takes Shape, Selects Take Notice
Board asks if enough public feedback has been heard
PROVINCETOWN — A sleeper project since 2016, the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Visitor Center burst into the limelight on March 8 when the select board recommended a 9,500-square-foot building […]
ENVIRONMENT
The Eastham Herring Count Returns
Volunteers are eager to count fish, ‘even in the pouring rain’
EASTHAM — A scout was spotted by a natural resources dept. officer at the Bridge Pond run on March 12. A herring scout, that is — one of the individual […]
THE NEW MANAGER
Alex Morse Believes Connection Is What Makes Government Work
Fed up with campaigns, he’s hungry for the ‘meat and potatoes of governing’
PROVINCETOWN — Alex Morse will have been mayor of Holyoke for just over nine years when he resigns at the end of March to take up his new job as […]
SHOP-SHIFTING
Provincetown’s Retail Sector Gets Clean Bill of Health
Some locations have shuffled, but vacancies are few
PROVINCETOWN — An early and persistent fear about the pandemic was that small businesses in town would tumble, and Commercial Street would end up lined with shuttered storefronts. Another worry […]
FROM THE LARDER
Bethany Gregory’s Roasted Oyster Banh Mi
An Outer Cape version of a French-Vietnamese sandwich that’s generous in every way
She had me with oyster banh mi. If that’s what chef Bethany Gregory was making for lunch at the Soup Kitchen in Provincetown (SKIP), I wanted to meet her. From […]
RINGSIDE
Marvelous Marvin Hagler’s Provincetown Training Days
The late boxing champ found solace at the tip of Cape Cod
PROVINCETOWN — Marvelous Marvin Hagler, the legendary middleweight champion boxer, died unexpectedly on March 13 at age 66 at his home in New Hampshire. Hagler was originally from Newark, N.J., […]
MEET THE MAKER
The Art of Darning
An artist and teacher finds meaning in mending frayed fabrics
We all have at least one piece of clothing that we can’t bear to let go of, even though its state of repair limits its public appearances. Mine is a […]
CROSSWORD #19
Cape Cod Cinema
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