Text and Drawings by Abraham Storer Sarah Naciri runs Sustainable CAPE’s Community Children’s Garden at the Truro Public Library, where she leads children in planting, cultivating, and harvesting vegetables. Last […]
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WARRIORS WATCH
Soccer and Football Squads Keep Winning
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — Nauset High School’s football and girls soccer teams kept up their winning ways in a rain-plagued week of sports for the Warriors, which included several postponements. The boys […]
OUT AT THE BALLGAME
Belles Beat Peaches in First-Ever ‘League of Our Own’ Game
A writer joined a Women’s Week softball game and a community
PROVINCETOWN — When I moved to the Outer Cape barely a month ago to write for the Independent, I tossed my glove into the back of my car on a […]
HALLOWEEN
Nauset High Schoolers Haunt the Crosby Mansion
BREWSTER — The Nauset Players have created a first-ever haunted house at the Crosby Mansion at 163 Crosby Lane, Brewster. The carefully restored historic house, built in 1888 by Albert […]
THE HALF SHELL
Six Tips From Behind the Raw Bar
It takes leverage, not brute strength, to shuck a Wellfleet oyster
WELLFLEET — Lili Hay has been shucking oysters since she was seven years old, though she says her technique has evolved since then. “My dad taught me,” she says. “But […]
GUIDANCE
Mr. Simms, Creator of Adventure Ed, Plans to Retire
Nauset Middle School will seek a new ‘guide’ for a class where students find themselves
ORLEANS — The most popular class at Nauset Regional Middle School is called Adventure Ed. It’s one in which students seek out their spirit animals and themselves. Why 12- and […]
THE RED CARPET
Provincetown, Friday Night
Seen and heard at the 2022 Washashore Festival’s ‘Net Gala’ opening party at the Crown & Anchor
D.I.Y.
Building a Sukkah for Autumn’s Meals
Sukkot traditions endure, though each year’s shelter is ephemeral — by design
With the sun shining brightly after last week’s rainy spell, Anita Young and Alan Burack of Eastham began gathering pieces of the sukkah they build every autumn. The tent-like structure […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Soccer Girls Win 6th Straight; Footballers Rout Vineyarders
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — Strong performances from Nauset High’s girls soccer and football teams highlighted a busy week for the Warriors sports program. Freshman quarterback Brendan Peno threw four touchdown passes and […]
WOMEN’S WEEK 2022
Highlights of Weekend Number 2
The 10-day festival has music, comedy, and dykes on bikes
Women’s Week in Provincetown began in 1984 as a clam bake. It is now a 10-day affair with 270 individual events, including more than 14 musical acts, 10 comedians, 10 […]
IN VIEW THIS WEEK
Pumpkins and Pawprints
CURCUBITA MAXIMA LEAVE ONLY PAWPRINTS
STREET FASHION
A Furry Find
I spotted Camilla Granasen on Pearl Street as I ducked into a Provincetown café to hide from the suddenly cold, windy weather. She looked like a joyful fireball. “I will put […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Girls Are on a 4-Game Winning Streak
A weekly wrap-up of Nauset Regional High School sports
EASTHAM — The Nauset girls soccer team stayed hot last week, notching their fourth straight win on Thursday with a 3-1 triumph over Falmouth to improve to 7-1-1 on the […]
TWITTER FEED
Birding by Sound
Tom Marvel uses a parabolic microphone to amplify and record bird calls
WELLFLEET — Tom Marvel begins his birding excursions around 6 a.m. most days. He’s running late on this particular Wednesday, and the sun has risen by the time he sets […]
THE BEAT
Sam Holmstock Helps Veterans Drum Through Their Trauma
How one WOMR DJ teaches the healing art of drumming
HYANNIS — Sam Holmstock lives in Cotuit, but he doesn’t mind his once-a-month commute to Provincetown. On the second Sunday evening of each month, Holmstock hosts his WOMR radio show […]
