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AARP top Fair Plan, Commish meets on Stop & Shop

Barnstable news, August 29, 2006

Craigville store plays host to ‘The Boys of Summer’
This gang calls itself “The Boys of Summer” but an equally appropriate handle might be “The Codgers of Craigville.” They dawdle at the Craigville General Store on the beach road twice daily in the summertime. There’s usually about six or seven, sometimes 15 of them at most. They are not the kind of gang members that would force the police chief, as he has done in Hyannis, to close business during certain hours to prevent the duly assembled coterie from becoming unruly - as much as they might like to relive the hi-jinks of youth.

CC Commission meets on new Shop & Shop tonight
After a site visit this afternoon to survey the 12-acre site between Route 132 and Attucks Lane, the Cape Cod Commission subcommittee reviewing plans for a new 70,000-square-foot Stop & Shop meets at 6:30 p.m. to take testimony.

Flagging down a new sport
About eight months ago, Cape newcomer Jeff Burkey was at home, badly missing the excitement of a great game of football. Sure, he had plenty of games to watch on television, but Burkey is a player and was longing to get his hands on a ball the way he’d done in New York when he played in a local flag football league. Then his wife, Jackie, said, “Why don’t you start a league on the Cape?” With that, the Cape Flag Football League was born.

Water project will slow Route 6A travel through fall
A project to increase the flow of water in Barnstable village will do the opposite for Route 6A traffic this fall.

Youth center gets added $3M
Before last Thursday’s town council meeting, a Youth and Community Facility in Hyannis was already guaranteed. After a unanimous vote in support of an additional $3 million for the project, it’s now expected to be more comprehensive and profitable.

Council delays action on Yarmouth airport rep
The arguments for and against reducing the status of Yarmouth’s non-voting member of the Barnstable Airport Commission to a liaison role will have to wait, because the town council did not get to that item before calling it quits last Thursday.

Town says no to PWC launches, but will the state?
The town council voted to ban the launch of personal watercraft at the town-owned ramp at Lake Wequaquet last week, but the regulation cannot go into effect until the state’s boating access board signs off.

Thoughts at Twilight: Which Way?
A critic noticed that Superman’s motto – “Truth, justice and the American way” – was edited down to the first two words in the recent movie about the Man of Steel. Have we, literally, lost our way?

FROM THIS CORNER: AARP-Hartford trumps FAIR on house insurance premiums
Insurance companies that mercilessly redlined Cape Cod by dropping home coverage a few years ago in a pre-emptive strike against the possibility of a calamitous hurricane, are slowly easing back into the Cape market, but at more than double the premiums.

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