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This is the third article in a series on towns that are doing a great deal of work to stop climate change. These towns are Mashpee on the Upper Cape, Yarmouth on the Mid-Cape, Chatham on the Lower Cape, and Wellfleet on the Outer Cape. Yarmouth has both an energy committee and a climate action network. The energy committee’s vision is to have a strong and prosperous town that is powered by clean, affordable, and secure energy. The Yarmouth Energy Committee’s mission is to inspire ener...

Most high schools on the Cape will beat that state deadline. Five schools — Barnstable High School, Falmouth High School, Sturgis Charter Public School in Hyannis, Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School in South Yarmouth and Monomoy Regional High School in Harwich — plan to  resume in-person classes five days a week starting Monday. Two high schools — Mashpee Middle High School and Bourne High School — brought students back to the buildings full-time this past Monday. And Nauset Regional High...

One year later, social media show us that fear and phobia are still with us. A woman who has been renting a house in East Falmouth with her family told her flight-from-New York City COVID story. This woman, who asked to remain anonymous, did not initially heed the urging of her parents, who are off-Cape Massachusetts residents, to leave Manhattan and come to the Bay state. When schools shut down and people were asked to work remotely, however, the family left the city on March 19 (she remembers...

Residents of Bourne and the Upper Cape are being cautioned about the upcoming distribution of oral rabies vaccine baits north and west of the Cape Cod Canal. The Cape Cod and Southeast Massachusetts Rabies Task Force announced it will resume distribution of vaccine baits beginning Monday, May 3, through Friday, June 4. Distribution of approximately 12,000 vaccine baits south and east of the canal will begin May 10. The baits will be distributed from the Cape Cod Canal through Route 151 in Falmo...

Watch for the gulls. They gather to feast. Their prey — river herring — are on an epic, ancient journey to their birthplace to spawn and replenish their species. But first, they must navigate their way upstream, bolt through a series of fish ladders — and evade swarms of ravenous gulls and an array of other hungry creatures. The herring are running. Heres how acclaimed Brewster nature writer John Hay described a predatory conclave in "Natures Year" (1961): "The big white and gray bird...

Madison Czopek Apr 25, 2021 Sandy Slavin answers Indiana Troupe’s question. From left to right: James Giberti, Indiana Troupe and Sandy Slavin. Three of the four individuals running for two seats on the School Committee participated in WCTV’s Candidate Night. From left to right and top to bottom: Indiana Troupe, Apryl Rossi (incumbent), Brennan McKiernan and Geoff Swett. All three candidates for the open Board of Selectmen seat participated in the Candidate Night. From left to rig...

High winds and dry conditions kept the Falmouth Fire Department—and other Upper Cape mutual-aid fire departments—busy battling brush and structure fires Friday and Saturday, April 23 and 24. On Friday afternoon, just before 3 PM, firefighters from Falmouth and Joint Base Cape Cod responded to a two-story structure fire at 20 Crosby Lane in Waquoit. When the firefighters arrived on the scene, they saw flames shooting out of the second floor of the home and quickly ascertained that all ...

This is the second article in a series on towns that are doing a great deal of work to stop climate change. These towns are Mashpee on the Upper Cape,

Several towns across the Cape exemplify the work that is needed to mitigate climate change. In this series, in conjunction with the Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative, we will review one town from each of the four quadrants that define the Cape. The towns being recognized for their work to mitigate climate change are Upper Cape—Mashpee; Mid Cape—Yarmouth; Lower Cape—Chatham; and Outer Cape—Wellfleet. From the Upper Cape, Mashpee demonstrates what it takes to reduce fossil...

/ The red outline on this map of Camp Edwards shows where the Army National Guard is proposing an eight-lane machine gun range. The surface danger zone, where projectiles could land, is highlighted in pink. Members of Massachusetts’ congressional delegation are calling for a closer look at the environmental impacts of a proposed machine gun range that the Massachusetts Army National Guard wants to build on Joint Base Cape Cod. In a letter, Rep. Bill Keating and Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed ...