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Main Street Hyannis is filled with plants friendly to the birds and the bees this summer.

Barnstable Town Council approves Schools, Airport, Police FY22 budgets Bronwen Howells Walsh The Barnstable Town Council on Thursday approved a $73,520,899 FY 22 public schools budget, a $1,047,000 increase over FY 21 that places increasing emphasis on mental health services and English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction. "Schools are playing a greater role in delivering mental health services," Mayo-Brown said. "Counseling services are key and go hand in hand with academic services." The district's largest spending increases 2017-20, according to Gareth Markwell, Barnstable's assistant F...

Rain cancels Saturday Figawi races but Sunday races will go ahead. The J. David Crawford High School Invitational will be held on Friday.

Bronwen Howells Walsh HYANNIS — Barnstable Licensing Authority on Monday reluctantly approved transferring a beer and wine license from Hyannis' now-closed Cost Plus World Market back to Cotuit. Steven Gould, who owned Cotuit Grocery Co. from 1987 to 2009, said he plans to offer to-go beer and wine sales in a stand-alone section of the Cotuit Fresh Market building with its own entrance and exit and a separate check-out register. It will be connected to The Coop, but alcohol may only be purchased on the beer and wine side, where it will be bagged. Since Gould sold the store's beer and wi...

Black Lives Matter poets: 'There's no community without unity' Performance provides needed context for George Floyd murder Bronwen Howells Walsh The plan is to do whatever I can. ~MaDarrius Maximus Seated on the grass at the Hyannis Village Green last Sunday were about 150 people, all shades and ages, pulled together by the legacy of George Floyd. "Your faces are so beautiful," host, co-organizer and podcaster Tamora Israel told the mostly masked audience. "Today, we're here to remember the life and murder of George Floyd. A man's life was taken, so we thank God for the life we have here....