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AG closes Cape Timeshare; Ptown dances; Harwich gets windy; Mihos' morning line

TODAY's quote: Christy Mihos on the 2008 Obama-McCain race. "Unfortunately, there is a very real possibility the "Bradley factor" is at work.  Guys like Murtha, who is a hero, and Biden, have got to shut up.  Kennedy on the side lines has hurt the Obama campaign.  They are smart though in keeping Michelle Obama out of sight. On her worst day Hillary Clinton looks like Mother Theresa compared to Michelle Obama."

   Two nights of dazzling dance

Camille Brown from New York is taking part in this weekend's Ptown Dance Festival.

The Fourth Annual Provincetown Dance Festival gets underway at The Provincetown Theater, 238 Bradford St. in Provincetown, at 7:30 p.m. this Friday and Saturday, Oct. 24-25. Presented by the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, the Provincetown Dance Festival provides the Outer Cape's only annual dance event...
   This year's festival will be a multi-day weekend consisting of two full-scale evening performances and post-performance "meet the artists" events... Banner.

Bank Forecloses On Cape Cod Timeshare
Attorney General's Office Calls Case 'Ongoing Investigation'

Navigator Beach Club in Dennisport was supposed to be a year-round timeshare. Dozens of people paid thousands of dollars. But developer Robert Reposa took their money and never delivered.

Now Team 5 Investigates has learned the bank has foreclosed on the property and Reposa himself is under investigation

The project at 405 Old Wharf Road was supposed to be finished two years ago and include luxurious amenities like an indoor pool and sauna. But that never happened. Reposa never properly registered the development as a timeshare. Then he stopped paying his $2.2 million mortgage. Finally, work stopped... WCVB-TV.
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Harwich Bylaw Would Allow Large Commercial Wind Turbines

The winds of change are wafting through the town's regulatory process as the planning board begins to shape a new bylaw allowing larger commercial wind turbines to be located in the town.  But there are concerns by some members of the board that the height and number of these structures could change the character of the town. Barry Worth, chairman of the utilities and energy conservation commission, was before the board last week with an update on the status of efforts to use wind to offset the $800,000 the town spends annually on electricity.

He said in 2002 selectmen charged his committee with looking into wind energy for the town with a couple of provisos, including the town not build, own or maintain the structures. Much has happened in the past six years, including the formation of the Cape and Vineyard Cooperative, a nonprofit that would own and operate turbines scattered across the Cape and provide low cost electricity to the towns... Chronicle.
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Cupcake craze captures Cape and New England

The Cupcake Truck is run by a husband and wife duo. Check out the blog, to see where they're parking today.

It's hard to believe that with all the cupcake madness going on in other places - New York, Boston, even Cape Cod - New Haven still doesn't have its very own place to get the mouthwatering mini cakes, until now.

Enter The Cupcake Truck, offering a variety of sweet treats to feed our need for that 4 p.m. sugar rush.
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3 Lower Cape FinComs agree to work together
Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet combine info

In what may be a first, the finance committees from the three outermost Cape Cod towns - Provincetown, Truro and Wellfleet - met last week to discuss how to combine information and resources to help their respective towns save time and money.

The well-run meeting ended with the three committees agreeing to form a task force comprised of two members from each group that would meet regularly to discuss ways to share costs and information and how to streamline their budget processes. The whole group would meet quarterly to finalize any recommendations to take back to their respective boards of selectmen... Banner.