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A third offshore wind project is taking steps to land electrical cables in Barnstable. Commonwealth Wind has filed an environmental notification form with the state seeking to land cables at Dowse's Beach in Osterville. The cables would be routed underground to a new substation somewhere in Barnstable. Barnstable Town Manager Mark Ells said negotiating a host-community agreement early in the permitting process would be better for the town.

Letters to the Editor: Question 4, preserving Stewart's Creek and Joshua's Brook and Eastham Community Preservation grants.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection could bring out regulations early next year that would forcefully encourage towns to apply for new "watershed permits." Residents of towns without those permits could be required to upgrade their home septic systems.

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Friends of the Centerville Cranberry Bog Preservation say 1246 Bumps River Road is among village's last open spaces, and should be conservation land.