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Former CCC executive director joins Boston agency The Barnstable Patriot BOSTON – Recent Cape Cod Healthcare executive and professional planner Paul Niedzwiecki has joined the government relations firm of Smith & Rauschenbach of Boston. Niedzwiecki, the longtime Executive Director of the Cape Cod Commission, brings more than 20 years of experience in regional planning, environmental management, and healthcare policy to the government relations firm. In addition to his management of the region...

The Falmouth Department of Public Works and Cape Cod Commission are developing a Complete Streets Prioritization Plan. Complete Streets is an investment program that identifies projects with the goal of making roads safe and accessible for all users—not just automobiles—including pedestrians, cyclists and public transit. The Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee will invite public comment at its regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, January 6, at 7 PM. The committee will review the priorit...

Cape Cod Times TRURO — The Select Board is thinking about hiring an engineer to look at the possibility of extending a municipal water line to the Pond Road area of North Truro. Earlier this month the board talked about having Acting Town Manager Jamie Calise hire an engineering firm to do a study of the area, though it stopped short of directing him to do so.  Water quality in North Truro has been a hot-button issue of late with the ongoing hearings around Cloverleaf, a proposed affordable ...

Bronwen Howells Walsh As head of Barnstable High Schools new $1.2 million Environmental Science and Technology Lab, Michael Smith cannot wait to get to work. Now entering his 18th year of teaching at BHS, Smith teaching environmental science and biology in the schools student-driven Environmental Science and Technology Pathway. He also is collaborating with some of the regions most accomplished scientists – among them, Laurel Schaider of The Silent Spring Institute; Amy Costa of the Ce...

Wicked Local Samuel Adams EASTHAM —  A document found in the archive room at Eastham Historical Society’s Schoolhouse Museum appears to contain the signature of Samuel Adams. The piece of paper was an official recognition of the appointment of Elijah Knowles as Justice of the Peace in Barnstable County. It is dated June 7, 1785. An article about the discovery was published earlier this week in the Cape Cod Times and noted that Adams was a pivotal figure in both Massachusetts and national h...

ORLEANS — At least four committees and boards are set to review Cape Cod Healthcare’s proposal to tear down the iconic Lobster Claw restaurant at 42 Route 6A and replace it with a medical building. CCH already has been before the Site Plan Review Committee and will have a formal review with the Architectural Review Committee after the new year.  The Conservation Commission will be involved because there is a wetland just off the parcel, the Board of Health will address the sewer connection...

WHO REPRESENTS SANDWICH? Washington D.C. 20510 Medford MA 02155 Washington D.C. 20510 Hyannis MA 02601 steven.xiarhos@mahouse.gov IN SANDWICH The municipal form of government for Sandwich consists of a Town Meeting open to all voters and held annually on the first Monday of May; a Board of Selectmen, elected by and accountable to the people; and a Town Administrator, appointed by and accountable to the Board of Selectmen for proper administration of the affairs of the Town. Sandwich town govern...