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CC Films Gwen Wynne interviewed; Bay Scallop Haul Best In Decades; Fifth grade sent back to Middle School; Truths we know; 'Golden Elders' upset with tribe leadership; Bourne 'Drug surveillance' probe; Tree trimmer dies after fall

TODAY's quotes: "Each American, for his or her part, producing 4 pounds of garbage per day and emitting 20 metric tons of carbon dioxide each year." - Brian Till.
"Everybody was very happy." - Chatham Shellfish Constable Stuart Moore.

Gov. Patrick chases stimulus cash for broadband for State and Cape

Hoping to win a new chunk of federal stimulus money, Governor Deval Patrick pitched the Obama administration yesterday on three proposals that would expand broadband access in areas of Massachusetts that lack adequate high-speed connections. Beginning a two-day visit to Washington, Patrick met with Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to lobby for projects totaling $154 million that would expand high-speed Internet availability in Western Massachusetts and Boston and on Cape Cod. Globe.
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'Drug surveillance' site
led to Bourne probe
Bourne Police Chief Earl Baldwin stated at last night's selectmen's meeting that Bourne fire Lt. Kelli Weeks "appeared at a drug surveillance operation." Baldwin said Weeks was not arrested or pulled over and searched and that no "hand-to-hand transaction" was observed by Bourne police. No further details about the incident were revealed last night, reports the Cape Cod Times.
Baldwin was not available to answer questions after the meeting, and Town Administrator Thomas Guerino as well as acting fire Chief Daniel Doucette declined to comment... Herald.

Tree trimmer dies after fall
A Harwich man died yesterday after falling 20 to 30 feet while cutting a tree, a fire department official said.
Kerry Connors, 58, of Setucket Road in Dennis, either fell from the ladder or a tree he was pruning around 12:30 p.m. at 279 Bank St., Harwich fire Capt. Kent Farrenkopf said... The mortally injured man was conscious and prone on the ground when rescue crews arrived, Farrenkopf said... Herald.

Tribe leaders upset Golden Elders
Mashpee: There was an Election Day demand for the resignation of several Wampanoag tribal leaders in Mashpee, Massachusetts.
   A small group of tribal elders, who are calling themselves the Golden Elders, are upset with the current leadership of the tribe, because they say they are not getting the financial information that they are asking for -- and that the leaders have not done anything for the tribe to promote economic development... NECN.

REELING FILM FEST 2009
'American Primitive' woman Gwen Wynne

In the movie American Primitive, set in 1973, British widower father Harry Goodhart moves his two daughters to Cape Cod, where his business partner, Mr. Gibbs lives out back.

However, things are not quite what they seem-which come to a head when elder daugher Madeline sees her father and Gibbs at the Atlantic House gay dance club in Provincetown...

Was Cape Cod that enlightened about race but not homosexuality in 1973?

Cape Cod was probably one of the more diverse regions in the country in the 19th century because the Underground Railroad went through it. Black people and American Indians lived on the cape. I wanted to deal with class and race on the cape; Joy is an educated woman who went to Smith and is a journalist. Even in [ the movie ] Jaws, the newspaper reporter there is Black-and that was shot in '73... Windy City Times.
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Chatham Bay Scallop Haul Best In Decades

After meager harvests most of the past two decades, local fishermen finally have a substantial scallop crop to boost their fall incomes...

On Monday, between 85 and 90 boats were plying the waters of Stage Harbor and the Southway fishing for bay scallops. Most vessels had two people on board and were pulling in their limit of six bushels per person, Moore said. Fewer boats were out on Tuesday, but all were still "limiting out," he said. Most recreational shellfishermen who went out for scallops on Sunday also got their limit of one bushel each, Moore said... Chronicle.
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Harwich School Committee Votes Fifth Grade Return To Middle School

The Harwich Elementary School is experiencing overcrowding conditions. At the end of the school year last year, half of the school district population was housed in the recently refurbished school on South Street.

Following a Grade Configuration Study conducted last spring and public hearings, the school committee voted a couple of weeks ago to return the fifth grade to the Harwich Middle School next September.

It has been four years since the fifth grade left the middle school and located in the elementary school. Superintendent of Schools Dr. Carolyn Cragin said the decision to relocate the grade was made quickly in 2005, in the face of a failed override... Chronicle.
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Truths We Know

Among the first things we learn as children is that actions have influence on our surroundings: A touch to our skin creates feeling; objects can be picked up and moved; a cry garners a reaction. Nothing is cemented in our world. Everything can be manipulated and changed.

Convincing ourselves, then, that more than 6 billion of us -- each American, for his or her part, producing 4 pounds of garbage per day and emitting 20 metric tons of carbon dioxide each year -- haven't impacted the globe betrays the perhaps the first and most poignant thing we learn: Everything we do has an impact. Every sneeze, every step a reaction...

Even among those that are willing to recognize the severity of the problem we face, there's an intransigence. In the book "Cape Wind," Robert Whitcomb of the Providence Journal and Wendy Williams chronicle the battle of installing wind turbines in the Nantucket Sound. The story pits the well-moneyed interests of property owners on Cape Cod and Nantucket -- a portion of whom, at least, support the idea of wind power, so long as it's not on their coastline -- against the greater share of the Massachusetts public, which supports the $900 million project... Post Chronicle.