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Recent Editorials, Letters, Guest Articles
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.
Town Meeting this spring has an opportunity to right a longtime wrong: to change the town seal, which does violence to the spirit of the people for whom Mashpee was founded…
I couldn’t disagree more with your recent editorial, “Hooray for Elizabeth Warren.” She, and those with similar viewpoints, spread the false belief that capitalism is the c…
Elizabeth Warren, the senior US senator for Massachusetts, may not succeed in her quest for the presidency in 2020.
Thank you for your common-sense editorial, “Needed: A New Attitude About Housing.”
Some parents would like their children to attend elite universities.
(Editor’s note: US Rep. William R. Keating, who lives in Bourne and represents the 9th Massachusetts District, is chairman of the House Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, Ene…
In the recent article, “Frustration Mounts Over Lack of Progress on Will’s Work Road” (Mashpee Enterprise, March 22, 2019), the town declared the intent to exploit a last v…
Locustfield Road in Falmouth runs through a relatively rural area. Homeowners in a neighborhood there enjoy their open space and quiet. One owns a horse, which he keeps in …
A member of our newsroom clearly remembers a conversation he had years ago with a co-worker after moving to Cape Cod.
SCENE: The long-rumored, but previously undocumented, 18½th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in April 1939. Joseph Stalin, general secretary of the party…
Last week, Barnstable County Commissioner Ronald Beaty asked a provocative question on social media. The political nature of his tweet started many comments and some calls …
Over the past two weeks, three individuals on Cape Cod have drawn attention on the Cape and beyond.
Regarding recent articles and letters about some of my social media posts, in this country, we have something called the United States Constitution, which includes our Firs…
On February 11, the town selectmen unanimously voted to approve an expanded seven-acre commercial oyster farm on Hamblin Pond. Local residents in attendance were in strong …
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