Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, March 26 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
Visual Stories
ASTRAL PROJECTIONS
A Time for Cautious Optimism
Take It Slow, Like Spring’s Arrival
This week brings some subtle energies, as few planets aspect each other. You may feel a cautious optimism brought on by Jupiter while it is in conjunction with Uranus and […]
THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Warriors Fall 1-0 in State Hockey Finals
The Nauset boys are upset by Marblehead at TD Garden
BOSTON — History will have to wait. The Nauset Regional High School boys hockey team lost to Marblehead at TD Garden on Sunday in the Division 3 finals, ending the […]
AQUACULTURE
Wellfleet Has Its Opening Day
Wild harvesting begins, and growers return to the flats with overwintered oysters
WELLFLEET — The season opened for commercial shellfishing permit holders on March 15, and the next day, a partly sunny, mild Saturday, a dozen or so wild pickers waded and […]
CUE TIPS
On a Pool Tour and Liking It
Minus cigars but doubly enthused, two reporters set out to assess the local billiards scene
This article was updated on March 22, 2024. We’ve read those annual midsummer Independent ice cream surveys with envy during our long winter months here, and, honestly, isn’t it sort […]
MILLION-YEAR PICNIC
Saving the Dark Sky
From national parks to neighborhoods, there’s hope for reducing light pollution
We finally had a string of clear nights after what seemed like weeks of clouds and cold rain. Sunshine is nice, but what I was waiting for was the joy […]
ROAD TRIP
A Cape Cod Après-Skate Fondue
Lunch for friends to gather around, inspired by a tearoom tradition
One of my favorite things about living on Cape Cod when the crowds are away is that it means a chance to play tourist myself. I love taking mini-trips to […]
CROSSWORD #50
Go Up Cape
BITTER ABOUT IT
Salad, Sort Of
While the wild plant community is still slowly waking up from winter dormancy, there’s one urbanite who’s wide awake, in full flower, and ready to be flung on your dinner […]
TOGETHERNESS
Outer Cape Community Shows Up for Truro Congregation
Without community or people, ‘Why do you have the land?’ Gaechter asks
PROVINCETOWN — Back-to-back fundraisers last Friday and Saturday boosted the effort to purchase a Pond Village chapel in North Truro so it can be leased back to its largely Jamaican […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Streitmatter Is All-Star Team’s MVP
A weekly round-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — Nauset senior Jordyn Streitmatter represented the Warriors in the Cape and Islands High School All-Star basketball game last Sunday at the Hyannis Youth and Community Center. Streitmatter posted […]
STUDENT ART SHOW
We Are Artists Too
Students’ Works On View at The Truro Public Library
The Truro Central School Art Show is up in the Anne H. Brock Room at the town’s library, with works by students in kindergarten through grade 5 — but just […]
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 19 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
ASTRAL PROJECTIONS
Start Something — It’s Aries Season
It’s also a time for love, but of the reliable sort
There are few planets aspecting each other right now, but they are all very heavily on one side of the chart. Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, and Taurus may all be feeling […]
FIRST 100 DAYS
New Waves at Wellfleet Elementary
Adam O’Shea is the 91-student school’s new principal
WELLFLEET — A few things have changed at Wellfleet Elementary School since Principal Mary Beth Rodman retired last year and Adam O’Shea took the helm. For one, the signs look […]
