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Organizers say they want the City Council to pass an ordinance that will stop further encampment sweeps until longer-term solutions to the housing crisis are in place.

Protesters gathered on the steps of city hall Friday evening, saying the city's clearing of encampments is traumatizing to unhoused people

If a city can’t provide desirable housing, some advocates urge leaving people in tent encampments alone.

The plan includes adding more caseworkers, finding more housing units, and creating more shelter.

Outreach organizers passed out clothes, food, and other items to support unhoused individuals living in the encampment.

The council will vote on the proposal on Sept. 18.

Dozens of people have been living along the Fore River Parkway for weeks.

City workers began clearing the encampment of 67 tents around 8 a.m. Wednesday, marking the second clearing of a large homeless encampment in the city within the last week.

In The Man Who Changed Colors, storyteller Bill Fletcher Jr. offers readers a many-layered political suspense thriller that had me enthralled from cover to cover. The story, told through the eyes of David Gomes, an undaunted reporter for the Cape and Islands Gazette, is set in Cape Cod, Mass.

Also, Bow Street Beverage opens a location in Wells; a new bar launches on Broadway in SoPo; Brunswick's 40-Mile Food Festival; and Unity's Common Ground Country Fair.