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For Sale? Not much, with Cape workforce ‘desperate for housing’ A push to overhaul zoning & keep year-round residents dominates summit Patrick Flanary YARMOUTH—Cape Cod is running out of places to live: only 394 houses are for sale. Twenty-eight of those are in Yarmouth, where just a year ago available homes outnumbered those in every other town except Barnstable. Listings are now scarcer than ever, and more are being snatched up as seasonal properties, often in cash and above the asking ...

The heart of the problem with climate change is that we are putting too many gases into the atmosphere, creating a layer that does not let heat escape. Imagine putting a dome-like greenhouse over your home where it trapped the hot air to the extent that your home overheated and there was absolutely no relief from it. Just as a car overheats when it is sitting out in a sun-exposed site, this greenhouse would overheat—even when it is cold outside. Infrared rays (heated-up rays) cannot escape...

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A flood of new residents on Cape Cod? How the COVID pandemic reconfigured the regional map, and how officials are responding Posted May 11, 5:30 AM The Sagamore Bridge over the Cape Cod Canal in September 2014.The Republican file Facebook Share The COVID pandemic has in many ways changed not only how people live and work, but where. And officials on Cape Cod are trying to get a handle on just how many people migrated to the popular summer destination over the past year — whether for the shor...

Cape Cod Times BARNSTABLE – In searching for its new executive director, the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors sought someone with a working knowledge of the regions communities and businesses. They found their man in Paul Niedzwiecki. Niedzwiecki, a longtime public policy professional and lawyer with two decades of public administration experience on the Cape, will succeed Wendy Northcross, who retires as the chambers executive director on June 30.  Niedzwiecki is no str...

Paul Niedzwiecki will take over as chief executive officer of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce from outgoing CEO Wendy K. Northcross on July 1. Ms. Northcross, who is the recent winner of the 2021 Mercy Otis Warren Cape Cod Woman of the Year, is leaving at the end of June after 24 years with the chamber. Mr. Niedzwiecki is a resident of West Barnstable and is a public policy professional and attorney. He is no stranger to being in public roles on the Cape. For more than 11 years, he served as t...

After asking several questions about noise, trees and property taxes, the Sandwich Planning Board on Wednesday, May 5, said “yes” to a solar farm proposed for a parcel at the end of Jan Sebastian Drive. The 46-acre property, owned by the Housing Assistance Corporation, was the home of a community garden for several years. The unanimous vote by the planning board on Wednesday night will allow the acreage to metamorphose into 2.1-megawatt ground-mounted solar farm. The vote came after a...

It is disturbing and simply unacceptable. I would like to set the record straight on several points of misinformation that are being circulated on social media, in print and on "get-out-the-vote" calls for the upcoming town election. The development of affordable housing is a priority for Mashpee Commons. Currently, 10 percent of existing units at Mashpee Commons are designated as affordable, and a minimum of 10 percent of planned units will be affordable. Mashpee Commons is not planning to bui...

Staring in January, the retail sale of water in single-use plastic bottles will be forbidden in Sandwich. That is what voters at Town Meeting decided Monday night, May 3, after what amounted to the only lengthy debate of the evening. “I am beyond thrilled,” said Mary Cote, Sandwich spokeswoman for the environmental group sponsoring the bottle ban. “I had a feeling it would pass when I saw all the people coming in with their reusable water bottles.” The ban applies only to si...

BOURNE — Wastewater infrastructure and how to fund it, as well as the process for hiring a new police chief, topped the list of articles before Bourne residents at the annual and special town meetings Monday night. Just over 200 people showed up to vote on the 20-articles slate at the spring sessions at the Bourne Middle School gym. Water protection fund In an 80-19 vote, town meeting voters gave permission to the Board of Selectmen to discuss updating the Cape Cod and Islands Water Protectio...