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Good morning, and welcome to access america. I am stephanie sy. I am thomas drayton. Good to have you with us. We are two weeks into the government shutdown. The senate is scrambling to forge a compromise before the debt ceiling deadline expires just two days from now on thursday. Senate leaders say they are hopeful the deal will, in fact, come together. Mr. President , constructive, goodfaith negotiations continue between the republican leader and me. I am very optimistic we will reach an agree...

Since 1937, the Barnstable Police Department has been under civil service. After more than 80 years, the town may be ready to exit.

“It may be worse before it gets better,” said Richard Delaney, CEO of the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown. “But the correction, the solution, is underway.”

The $4 billion project, known as Vineyard Wind, is expected to start generating electricity by year’s end.

Questions at a PFAS event Saturday in Hyannis were about faucet filters, treatment of sludge from wastewater plants, effects on shellfish and more.

PFAS exposure is nearly ubiquitous; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that over 98% of Americans have PFAS in their blood.

Protecting Cape Cod waters and ecosystems from wastewater contamination.

The Department of Environmental Protection says its proposal aims to reduce the amount of nitrogen leaching into waterways, primarily from homes.

Proposed amendments to the state's Title 5 regulations that govern septic systems could require tens of thousands of residents living in areas nitrogen pollution in the water replace or upgrade their septic systems.

Silent Spring Institute is holding an informational event at Barnstable Town Hall on Wednesday, November 16 to recruit Hyannis residents for the study. Before 2016, levels of PFAS in the Hyannis water system were higher than in any other public water supply in Massachusetts. The researchers are seeking to enroll people who lived in Hyannis for any amount of time between May 2006 and July 2016.