Cape Cod Times
Sherry Greene-Starr lives about 100 feet from the railroad tracks in West Barnstable. She’s always taken walks along the tracks, but during the pandemic she’s strolled the route more frequently.
The tracks have been strewn with trash for years, she said, but recently she’s noticed more litter than usual.
“There’s just garbage everywhere,” said Greene-Starr, who is married to Barnstable Town Councilor Gordon Starr of Precinct 1.
Precinct 11 Councilor Kristine Clark also noticed litter piling up along the route taken by a Mass Coastal Railroad train that carries the Cape’s trash from the waste transfer station in Yarmouth to SEMASS, a waste-to-energy facility in Rochester.
Sherry Greene-Starr lives about 100 feet from the railroad tracks in West Barnstable. She’s always taken walks along the tracks, but during the pandemic she’s strolled the route more frequently.
The tracks have been strewn with trash for years, she said, but recently she’s noticed more litter than usual.
“There’s just garbage everywhere,” said Greene-Starr, who is married to Barnstable Town Councilor Gordon Starr of Precinct 1.
Precinct 11 Councilor Kristine Clark also noticed litter piling up along the route taken by a Mass Coastal Railroad train that carries the Cape’s trash from the waste transfer station in Yarmouth to SEMASS, a waste-to-energy facility in Rochester.
A chance meeting leads to a dog adoption
By Emily Sweeney Globe Staff,Updated April 23, 2021, 12:45 p.m.
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Everett Animal Control Officer Stacia Gorgone and her newly adopted dog, Baxter.Everett Animal Control
Every day, police officers respond to reports of all sorts of events and nonevents, most of which never make the news. Here is a sampling of lesser-known â but no less noteworthy â incidents from police log books (a.k.a. blotters) in our suburbs.
FOR THE LOVE OF A PIT BULL
Stacia Gorgone is the animal control officer for the city of
Everett, and in February she took in an injured pit bull. âI canât even explain it . it was a crazy series of events that led me to the dog,â she said. âIt was like a miracle.â While she was taking a road trip to Big Dog Ranch Rescue in Florida, she had a chance encounter with a couple who were originally from Massachusetts (Dorchester and South Boston to be exact) at a gas station in Georg
FALL RIVER Tony Elkhoury teared up when he was told that the new bridge on Brightman Street might not open for another three months.
“It’s crazy,” the owner of Tony’s Gas & Repair said. “I don’t know what to say. I’m very upset.”
The original 120-year-old, two-lane bridge that traverses Mass Coastal Railroad tracks has been closed to vehicular traffic since Sept. 28, 2020.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation initially said the old timber bridge would be replaced by the end of last year.
But this week a MassDOT spokesperson said the soonest one can expect the new structure to open will be “within the next few months.”
FALL RIVER No trash is good trash, according to Mike O’Sullivan. And that includes the stuff that’s not overly conspicuous.
“It’s our community, and it doesn t matter whether you can see it or not,” Sullivan said.
The co-chief executive of One SouthCoast Chamber was referring to a gully of refuse that has accumulated behind and below his Fall River chamber of commerce building on Pocasset Street.
The subterranean collection of coffee cups, cardboard and face masks is wedged against a chain link fence separating Interstate 195 from the chamber’s parking lot.
O’Sullivan says although it’s not visible to passersby on Pocasset Street, drivers entering I-195 East from a nearby ramp can catch a glimpse of the mess.