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Donald J. Pickard, former Bourne selectman and outgoing town moderator, counts himself as a man of many opinions. He recently shared a few of those opinions, some of which have contrasted sharply with those of current selectmen, with members of the Bourne Charter Review Committee. Mr. Pickard expressed his feelings on a variety of issues during the committee’s remote meeting last Wednesday, March 31. Some of the issues he addressed included whether Bourne's town clerk should be appointed or elected, whether the town administrator needs to reside in Bourne, whether one person may serve as...

Bourne Town Administrator Anthony E. Schiavi has shown a clear preference for what he sees as the future of the Bourne Police Department. Mr. Schiavi is of the mind that the department should follow a trend he sees of departments across the state exiting civil service. The subject was brought up during the Bourne Board of Selectmen’s remote meeting on March 30. Mr. Schiavi commented on Article 13 of the proposed warrant for next month’s Annual Town Meeting. The article calls for the Bourne Chief of Police to be removed from civil service. Mr. Schiavi opined that civil service, in ge...

The Bourne Cable Advisory Committee has a new member and will appoint another in the near future. A minor procedural issue prevented both from being named to the committee at

The Town of Bourne and the Massachusetts Maritime Academy have reached agreement on a draft document to share resources. The memorandum of understanding, or MOU, between the two entities includes residential use of academy parking lot space and town use of office space in one of the academy’s Main Street buildings. The agreement also includes assurance from the academy that it will not resort to eminent domain to obtain additional property for its campus. The MOU was discussed during the Bourne Board of Selectmen’s remote meeting on Tuesday, February 2. Rear Admiral Francis X. McDon...

More than 80 people logged into a remote meeting to discuss and debate a proposed wastewater discharge project designed to clean up Buzzards Bay, Buttermilk Bay and other waterways on the Upper Cape. Many of the people who logged on for the meeting expressed reservations about the efficacy of the project, which calls for discharge of wastewater from Wareham’s treatment plant directly into the Cape Cod Canal. The project was debated at length for more than two hours during the Bourne Board of Sewer Commissioners remote meeting on Tuesday last week, January 26. The project is being champio...