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The Sandwich Police Department is taking applications for its in-person citizens police academy through Friday, January 28.
The Falmouth EDIC has reached a lease renewal agreement with chef John Marcellino, owner of The Station Grill on Depot Avenue.
Northstar Place, LLC was before the Falmouth Zoning Board of Appeals again on Thursday last week for review of a Chapter 40B plan that depicts the development as it was bui…
A jury trial for former Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Chairman Cedric Cromwell has been scheduled to begin on April 19 at the US District Court in Boston after several postponements.
The Bourne Community Preservation Committee has dismissed a suggestion to have the group’s funding projects be presented at Town Meeting as individual warrant articles. Com…
The Bourne Select Board has made its choice for the next town administrator. Board members have selected Jennifer M. Callahan, the current town manager in Oxford.
The committee working to extend the Shining Sea Bike Path from North Falmouth to the Cape Cod Canal will turn to the state for more funding. Members of the group have agree…
A stretch of Route 130 was closed down Friday, January 14, due to a single-car rollover crash in Mashpee.
Willowbend is being asked to appear before the Mashpee Board of Health to resolve hotel/motel permitting issues.
Mashpee Police Department held a virtual award ceremony on December 30 to reflect on the department’s accomplishments over the previous 12 months.
The Falmouth Select Board on Monday, January 10, discussed how to dispose of the police department’s used assault-style rifles so they do not end up in the wrong hands.
A syringe exchange program that has been operating in Sandwich for several months was criticized last week after a resident claimed the service could bring more crime and d…
The Mashpee Board of Health has recommended the return to remote meetings for town boards and committees for at least the next few weeks. Health Agent Glen E. Harrington br…
The proposed operating budget for the Town of Bourne in the coming fiscal year has come in at $80,186,415. It is the first time in the town’s history that the budget has br…
Although the forecast eight inches of snow last Friday, January 7, never came to fruition, the lack of plow truck drivers in Sandwich became evident when the schools and tr…
A shortage in labor is affecting the town’s workforce and ability to plan for the future, despite an active search for candidates to fill the vacancies.
Mashpee is experiencing a slight decrease in its year-round population and a slight increase in its summer population, Town Planner Evan R. Lehrer told the Mashpee Select B…
Bourne town officials are being urged to increase what is already described as an impressive effort at tackling climate change. Recommendations for furthering the town’s ef…
Cases of COVID-19 are rising at breakneck speed on Cape Cod, with more new cases reported during just the first two weeks of this year than in all of last January.
The Falmouth School Committee presented its budget for the coming year. It also approved a science field trip and a job description for a Food Justice Program coordinator a…
One person was evaluated at the scene after a reported natural gas leak in Mashpee. Firefighters responded to Olympia Sports on South Street around 1 PM on Sunday, January …
The Falmouth Public Works Department has hired a preservation consultant to begin work on restoring the Old Burying Ground off Mill Road.
Acting on a recommendation by the board of health, the Town of Falmouth has reinstated a mask mandate for all town buildings and is encouraging private business owners to d…
Falmouth select board appointed Peter James Jeffrey of Gansett Road to the Steamship Authority Board of Governors on Monday night, January 10.
The distribution of federal funds to the Cape’s 15 towns, including the Town of Bourne, is under scrutiny and debate. At issue is whether the individual towns should be all…
The nationwide social media trend of honoring Betty White through donations made to causes that help animals has made its way to Falmouth.
Children’s books will soon be available, free to the public, at the Monument Beach playground. Permission has been granted to a young girl to install a Little Free Library.
Mashpee Public Schools Superintendent Patricia M. DeBoer presented the recommended Fiscal Year 2023 budget to the Mashpee School Committee during its most recent meeting la…
Mashpee Public Schools Superintendent Patricia M. DeBoer presented an update on her team’s goals for this school year during the Mashpee School Committee meeting last Wedne…
Five engineering firms have offered quotes to perform a site feasibility analysis for an affordable housing development at 108 Commercial Street, the first step toward buil…
A Falmouth High School student went before the school committee to describe first-hand the difficulties students and teachers are facing in the classroom amidst high COVID …
When Barbara Pratt responded to a 2004 newspaper advertisement seeking a hearing magistrate at town hall, she did not really know what she was getting herself into.
The select board is meeting tomorrow morning, January 15, to focus its attention on issues that require planning.
With the help of the Neighborhood Support Team, the Javed family grew by one member with the arrival of Ms. Javed’s brother in Falmouth earlier this week.
The Smart Citizens Task Force is asking the state attorney general’s office to use its power to eliminate what the group is calling public nuisances caused by the Steamship…
A public hearing will be held next week to give residents the opportunity to ask questions about next year’s budget for the Sandwich schools.
Those who knew Eileen E. Burns will tell you she died the way she chose to live: dramatically.
When Sandwich voters go to the polls in May, they will have the responsibility of choosing who will fill 16 seats on town boards and committees this year, including the tow…
The Sandwich Zoning Board of Appeals on Tuesday night, January 11, approved the demolition and reconstruction of three beachfront homes among coastal dunes on North Shore B…
The town plans to implement a new software program that will allow workers to report problems around town, such as roads that frequently flood or dangerous potholes, and th…
The Mashpee Community Preservation Committee voted 8-1 during its meeting last Thursday, January 6, to recommend moving forward on the Mashpee Department of Public Works pr…
Nearly 30 residents gathered at the Sand Hill School Community Center on Monday night, January 10, to discuss plans for a new bike and pedestrian pathway between Service Ro…
The Bourne Community Preservation Committee has taken under advisement a proposal to split off a percentage of its Community Preservation Act funding to establish a new Was…
A case of unknown identity has led to the Bourne Select Board being issued identification tags.
The Knob in Quissett is closed to the public as of Monday, January 10, for further reconstructive work on the outer rock armor of the promontory. This work will mark the co…
Aidan MacDougall, 18, of Mashpee was cited by police for a marked lanes violation after crashing into a utility pole on Great Hill Road, which caused major disruption to th…
A powerful storm back in October knocked down more than 100 trees in Sandwich, some of which fell from town property onto private land, leaving homeowners confused and angr…
The Sandwich School Committee has made a fourth plea to state Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley for more transparency regarding the pandemic-related protocols imposed up…
Following increases in school security threats nationwide in 2021, Mashpee School Resource Officer Katie Hennessey discussed how she and her fellow police officers work to …
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