WELLFLEET The Conservation Commission is expected to consider potential shoreline protection measures to help save a controversial home on Great Island.
After a recent court order, the commission will consider plans to install coir envelopes along the toe of an eroding coastal bank for the house at 1440 Chequessett Neck Road, which is known locally as the Blasch house.
The commission will take up the issue at its Jan. 20 meeting, according to the town’s health and conservation agent Hillary Greenberg-Lemos.
The 5,600-square-foot Great Island home sits atop an eroding dune between Wellfleet Harbor and Cape Cod Bay. The home, a common sight for anyone who walks along the popular hiking trail on the island, has been getting closer to the edge as the dune erodes and efforts by the owner to save it have been subject to local scrutiny. The home has also been the subject of multiple lawsuits, including one ongoing in Barnstable Superior Court.
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Priest who spoke at Sen. Kennedy s funeral denies sex abuse
A Roman Catholic priest who delivered the homily at U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedyâs funeral in 2009 has pleaded not guilty to child sexual abuse
ByThe Associated Press
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BARNSTABLE, Mass. A Roman Catholic priest who delivered the homily at U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy s funeral in 2009 has pleaded not guilty to child sexual abuse.
The Rev. Mark Hession was released on $2,500 bail Monday after his arraignment in Barnstable Superior Court in Massachusetts on two counts of rape, indecent assault and battery on a child younger than 14 and witness intimidation, the Cape Cod Times reported.
BARNSTABLE The Catholic priest charged with multiple counts of rape pleaded not guilty to all charges Monday during his arraignment in Barnstable Superior Court.
Mark Hession was arraigned on charges including two counts of rape, one count of indecent assault and battery on a child less than 14 and one count of intimidation of a witness. He was released after posting $2,500 cash bail.
Judge Mark Gildea also ordered that Hession’s passport be taken away and that he stay away from the complainant. Hession is due to reappear in court for a pretrial conference on Feb. 24.
Hession, who delivered the homily at the funeral for U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in 2009, was accused of assaulting a child under 14 with the “intent to commit rape and did commit rape upon such person” on multiple occasions between 2005 and 2008 in Barnstable County, according to redacted indictments.
BARNSTABLE The town of Barnstable and the owners of the Cape Cod Mall are locked in litigation over how much the shopping complex on Iyannough Road is worth.
Mayflower Cape Cod and Simon Property Group, which own the mall, and the town are before the state Appellate Tax Board because their valuations of the property differ by $28 million in fiscal 2018 and $32 million in fiscal 2019, according to court filings.
The town also filed a lawsuit in Barnstable Superior Court against the mall owners in September, calling for the court to compel the owners to give testimony and produce documents relevant to the assessments. It’s also looking for banking records from the mall’s lenders, as well as lease information, construction contracts and other documents related to Target, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Planet Fitness, three of the mall’s newest tenants.
Every time a driver passes over the Bourne and Sagamore bridges, a set of cameras captures their vehicle’s license plate number, the day and time and sends it off to a database in Chelsea that s accessible to law enforcement.
The information from the automatic license plate readers at the bridges and across the state has been used to bust suspected criminals and track their movements a controversial practice that has drawn criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union. But now, according to a memorandum released Wednesday, state police have stopped using the system after a glitch was found going back more than five years.