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A new volunteer organization to help seniors age in place and endorsements for the Brewster and Nauset Regional school committees.

This is the third article in a series on towns that are doing a great deal of work to stop climate change. These towns are Mashpee on the Upper Cape, Yarmouth on the Mid-Cape, Chatham on the Lower Cape, and Wellfleet on the Outer Cape. Yarmouth has both an energy committee and a climate action network. The energy committee’s vision is to have a strong and prosperous town that is powered by clean, affordable, and secure energy. The Yarmouth Energy Committee’s mission is to inspire energy sustainability throughout the Town of Yarmouth—municipal buildings, schools, commercial busi...

This is the second article in a series on towns that are doing a great deal of work to stop climate change. These towns are Mashpee on the Upper Cape,

Several towns across the Cape exemplify the work that is needed to mitigate climate change. In this series, in conjunction with the Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative, we will review one town from each of the four quadrants that define the Cape. The towns being recognized for their work to mitigate climate change are Upper Cape—Mashpee; Mid Cape—Yarmouth; Lower Cape—Chatham; and Outer Cape—Wellfleet. From the Upper Cape, Mashpee demonstrates what it takes to reduce fossil fuel energy use, produce renewable energy and save taxpayer dollars in the process. The extent of t...

BREWSTER — A nonprofit group that includes former employees and alumni of the iconic Cape Cod Sea Camps is hoping to raise enough interest and money to buy the 125-acre property and continue to run it as a summer camp. “Pretty much every member’s life was touched by the camp,” said Jim Fay, president of the Brewster Flats Foundation, which formed in December in response to the announced sale in November. Fay and his wife, both teachers at a private school in Deerfield, have owned a home in Brewster for 10 years. They met at Cape Cod Sea Camps in 2004, when both were camp counselors...