Will Mebane News Today

For the first time in many years, I missed the annual Holidays by the Sea weekend and Falmouth Christmas Parade, as I was overseas in Cape Verde. As I mentioned

Falmouth residents pushing the town to destroy old AR-15s used by the local police department say they aren’t satisfied with a response from elected officials.

A petition with over 300 signatures was presented to the Falmouth Select Board Monday, June 6, asking that the police department’s old AR-15 rifles be destroyed.

Despite a distance of over 500 miles, Falmouth residents are feeling the shock waves of last weekend’s tragedy in Buffalo as if it happened in their own backyard.

More than 30 people gathered on the Falmouth Village Green Wednesday evening for a showing of solidarity with Ukraine in the wake of Russian attacks.

And yet as more vaccines are available than ever, uptake is slowing down. Sean O’Brien, head of Barnstable County’s Department of Health and Environment, said the county is used to dispensing hundreds of vaccines but a recent county vaccination clinic drew only 25 pre-registered individuals and 25 walk-ins. During a Thursday morning briefing by the Cape Cod COVID-19 Response Task Force, Cyr said he wants to see increased outreach to people of color, who have lower vaccination rates than wh...

The Rev. Will Mebane, rector of Saint Barnabas Memorial Episcopal Church in Falmouth, said the conviction Tuesday of former police officer Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd was no cause for celebration. “I don’t feel like celebrating," he said. "I don’t feel like cheering. I’m very sad. I, of course, continue to be sad not only for the lynching of George Floyd, but of Daunte Wright, Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and the whole list of others who were killed and jus...

FALMOUTH — A special worship service next week will commemorate the one-year anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The special service, called Year of the Pandemic, will be held by St. Barnabas Memorial Episcopal Church at 10 a.m. Sunday and will be streamed live on YouTube, the church said in a statement Monday. “The pandemic has brought some great sorrows — deaths, severe sickness, lost jobs, lost businesses and lost celebrations of graduations, weddings and other rites of...