Barnstable County Report

The sub-Standard Times

Local daily can't even read town reports accurately
Damages eateries by misquoting Barnstable's Health Department report

They have done it again at the Cape Cod Times; gotten it so wrong it is funny. Perhaps they will be able to survive as a humor journal. This is just a sample of how wrong they have it in today's (Sunday) issue of our rag of questionable record. They published their ratings of local bars and restaurants.

Do the editors of the Cape Cod Times have any concern at all about how much damage they can do to a business by printing stupid and false information?

For openers they published what they claimed to be the Town of Barnstable's Health Department grade for a Hyannis establishment that has been closed for more than three years, the Hyport Brewing Company on Main Street.

The Times claims that the grade is accurate as of the last eighteen months, but Hyport has been gone, closed for over three years.

They turn an A into a C

Then there is the case of  Earthly Delights in Osterville. The Times reports that the establishment received a grade of 'C'. The scale of grades is A, B, C, P (probation) and Failed.

Earthly Delights received a grade of B last year and the owner was very upset about this because she believed that there were not grounds for less than an A. So, she worked  very hard over the past year and received the A she thought she had deserved all along.

How then does the Cape Cod Times print that she received anything but an A? Do the editors of the Cape Cod Times have any concern at all about how much damage they can do to a business by printing stupid and false information? Do they care? Perhaps they should visit Earthly Delights again and ask the owner to show them the actual Barnstable Health Department report she has for this year's inspection clearly stating that her establishment recieved the highest grade, A.

Let's see, on a scale of A, B, C, D (dreadful) and L (let's go to capecodtoday.com).