One of our editors, who grew up in the 1960s in a not especially affluent subdivision, lived two doors down and across the street from a nice old man named Joe Zalewski.
Letters Policy
The Enterprise welcomes letters to the editor. All letters are subject to editing. They must be signed and include full legal name, a street address and daytime telephone number for verification. Revisions to letters will not be accepted.
All letters must be no longer than 550 words.
Letters may be mailed to 50 Depot Avenue, Falmouth, MA 02540 or e-mailed directly to the editor.
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Recent Editorials, Letters, Guest Articles
Mashpee Commons, a big presence in Mashpee, wants to engage in a big expansion.
Tuesday’s visit by a tornado to Cape Cod got us thinking about the relative amount of disruption, discomfort and mayhem posed by different sorts of storms that come knockin…
Massachusetts author and activist Maureen Cavanagh sent the Enterprise a letter this week titled “An Open Letter To The Mother Of A Child Addicted To Heroin.” She timed the…
Like a hailstorm that won’t let up, the outrageous statements and blatant lies by President Donald J. Trump have been wearing down much of the nation over the past two and …
Watching all the television retrospectives of tomorrow’s 50th anniversary of the first walk on the moon has brought back, to those of us old enough to remember watching the…
The Mashpee Men’s Club 2019 annual fund drive to support the Boys and Girls Club of Cape Cod raised a total of $12,625.85, exceeding our goal of $10,000. We could not do th…
The town’s environmental oversight committee is proposing bylaws that would ban plastic straws and polystyrene for the October Town Meeting warrant.
I’m an independent voter, and have voted on both sides of the fence, but lately the Democrat politicians and many of their followers have acted so extremely liberal they’re…
As the Fourth of July dawned 166 years ago, there was a real question whether the United States would stay united.
Mashpee is very fortunate to have a number of citizens who volunteer to serve on town committees. I would like to single out Mr. Ken Bates for the outstanding work he has d…
Several years ago, an Enterprise employee will tell you, he and his wife set off for a day trip on Martha’s Vineyard via the Steamship Authority.
Mashpee has an historical gem that sits in the heart of the Mashpee Community Park across from Town Hall and is open to the public, free of charge, every Monday from 10 AM …
The title of the thinly camouflaged hit piece (“Eliminate Single-Family Housing”) on the alleged conspiracy by the white power structure to ensure discriminatory housing pr…
John Cahalane took Mashpee to heart.
Because of our menacing great white shark and the seal overpopulation dilemma, Cape Cod is in the middle of an ecological, public safety, and economic crisis.
I come from a small backwater town in central Maine, namely Dixfield, population 2,500 for the last 100 years. We did, however, win the Maine State High School Hockey Champ…
Different seasons arrive year in and year out at more or less preordained times.
Government has to spend money on something. So the Cape Cod Unified Work Planning Program, funded through the Federal Highway Administration and the Massachusetts Departmen…
President Trump has had a lot on his plate lately.
Mashpee voters need to reelect Carol Sherman to the board of selectmen.
I urge the voters of Mashpee to reelect Tom Fudala water district commissioner and David Weeden for the planning board.
I write this letter in response to the editorial of May 3 titled, “The Finance Committee Is On The Job.”
Town Meeting in Mashpee on Monday got halfway there on regulating and taxing short-term market rentals in town.
This letter is in response to your editorial in the May 3 edition of the Mashpee Enterprise about a meeting that occurred in March, two months prior.
The Mashpee Men’s Club annual fund drive to support the Boys and Girls Club of Cape Cod begins this Saturday, May 4. We appreciate the cooperation we receive each year from…
I was pleased to see the editorial staff of The Mashpee Enterprise address the need of a new seal for Mashpee, although there were two points in the article (editorial, Apr…
Who ultimately is in charge of Mashpee?
Times change—history does not change.
With the passage of Articles 30 and 32, voters at the May 6 Town Meeting will have the opportunity to take an important step in building town unity and Mashpee pride.
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