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Selectmen voted to OK negotiations between the town and a marijuana business on a host community agreement.

Madison Czopek Apr 20, 2021 Aaron and Janelle Goines (second row, far right) asked the Board of Selectmen to speed up the host community agreement negotiation process. Following impassioned pleas to expedite the approval process from Aaron and Janelle Goines, who aspire to launch a cannabis business referred to as The Emerald Turtle, the Board of Selectmen voted to authorize the negotiation of a marijuana host community agreement. With plans to operate out of a location at 10 Little Brook Rd., the Goines’ would cultivate marijuana, manufacture a variety of cannabis products — an...

Madison Czopek Apr 20, 2021 New Police Chief Walter Correia (left) and retired former Chief John Walcek (right). Photos courtesy: Wareham Police Department and Meghan Neely Out with the old guard and in with the new: Wareham officially has its next chief of police.  The Board of Selectmen unanimously approved hiring Walter Correia — who has served in the department for years, most recently as a lieutenant — to replace former Chief John Walcek, who retired April 17. During the April 20 Selectmen’s meeting, Town Administrator Derek Sullivan told the board that he’s known Cor...

Wicked Local WAREHAM – Chief John Walcek’s three-plus decades of service on the Wareham Police Dept. come to a close Saturday, April 17. He’s working right up until then. “The day-to-day stuff keeps rolling in so I’m dealing with that,” he said last week. He was on duty at Saturday’s massive outdoor town meeting at Spillane Field, and offered a thumb’s up to the cheering crowd when introduced by Town Moderator Claire Smith. He demurred on interjecting himself and addressing the crowd from the podium, though. Asked during an interview whether he was prepared for people to leap ...

Lt. Walter Correia in line to be Wareham’s next police chief Wicked Local WAREHAM – Police Lt. Walter Correia will be the town’s next police chief subject to negotiating a new contract, following a Selectmen’s vote Tuesday. Town Administrator Derek Sullivan said Correia was number two on the active Civil Service list from which current Chief John Walcek had been selected. Sullivan said Correia would make a wonderful chief, but first he needed the board’s OK to negotiate a contract with him. That request was unanimously approved. Sullivan added the town had been very fortunate to hav...