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Mashnee home-owners buy the island; Brewster's Joe Klein on Cape Wind; Why Jeff missed Scott's party; School Admin fails teacher survey; Truro house takes shape as anger lingers; Where are the Stripers?

TODAY's quote: "We're hoping that they will continue to support the kids in Bourne."
- Bourne Community Boating President Kenneth D. Legg.
"I'm terribly sorry that the wind farm will spoil their (the Kennedys)sunrises and turn their sailing into slalom, but this is alternative energy we're talking about here. It's a no brainer and I hope Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will put an end to the slow-walk forthwith." - Joe Klein.

Residents Group Buys Mashnee Island Property

Mashnee is connected to the mainland at Grey Gable in Bourne and juts out into Buzzards bay near the entrance to the Cape Cod Canal.

A group of Mashnee Island residents has purchased the building-and the land surrounding it-that has been the home of the Quahog Republic.

A deed and associated documents were recorded Monday afternoon in the Barnstable County registry. They show a purchase price of $2.75 million and two mortgages.

One, for $650,000 was granted to Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank; the second, for $931,500, to Wianno Road, Mashnee Island, resident James S. Gonet. The remainder of the funding was fronted by the unidentified Mashnee Island property owners who joined together to purchase the property, once the home of a private club... Bourne Enterprise.
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Brewster's Joe Klein on Cape Wind
Derides faux enviro RFK Jr.

As a once and future resident of Massachusetts, can I just say that the opposition to the Cape Cod Wind Farm, in Nantucket Sound, is one of the most blatant cases of NIMBYism I've ever seen--and all the more so, because it has been led by a host of progressives, particularly members of the Kennedy family, including the faux enviro Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
   This is the sort of hypocrisy that conservatives feast upon.
   I'm terribly sorry that the wind farm will spoil their sunrises and turn their sailing into slalom, but this is alternative energy we're talking about here. It's a no brainer and I hope Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will put an end to the slow-walk forthwith. (And I'd be happy to welcome a second wind farm over on my side of the Cape, in Cape Cod Bay.) TIME.

No Brown boater apathy here
Why Jeff missed Scott's party

State Rep. Jeff Perry, who last week jumped into the race against incumbent U.S. Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-Quincy), worked feverishly for Sen. Scott Brown - but on Election Night, he was half a world away.
   While Brown's supporters reveled in victory in Boston, the Sandwich Republican was on a cruise off the coast of Costa Rica... The pol - a key Cape Cod fund-raiser for Brown - and his wife went on the cruise with three other couples and had to settle for texting their congratulations... Herald.

Truro house takes shape as anger lingers
Future of home uncertain as neighbors seek answers

The biggest house in the history of this small town is largely built now, a flat-roofed, modern structure on a sandy, wind-tossed bluff above the beach. But the future of the sprawling, 6,800-square-foot building looks uncertain, more than two years after plans for its construction triggered fiery controversy on Cape Cod.

Donald Kline, the 76-year-old businessman who sought to build the house with his wife, Andrea, died last September. Local subcontractors hired to work on the project have not been paid in months, according to paperwork filed at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds by the Florida-based builder hired by the couple. And neighbors of the oceanfront construction site say they have seen no recent signs of work... Globe.
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SandwichAdministrators get poor marks on Teachers' Survey

The results of an online survey taken by members of the Sandwich teachers' union in December reflects a lack of confidence in the district's top administrators.

Sandwich Educators Association President Laura R. Carlyle said the survey was prompted by concerns raised by teachers to their school representatives throughout the district.

The survey, which was composed with assistance from the Massachusetts Teachers Association, was administered to teachers though a secure online portal.. Sandwich Enterprise.
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Casting blame in striper dispute

The striped bass is once again facing a decline in its numbers, and efforts to stem the losses have stoked tensions between commercial and recreational fishermen

The wily striped bass - admired by New England fishermen for centuries - nearly disappeared from East Coast waters in the early 1980s. A series of fishing moratoriums restored the stocks, and today a Cape Cod scene is not complete without surfcasters trying their hand against the powerful fish.

But the number of young stripers in Chesapeake Bay, where many of New England's fish come from, is mysteriously beginning to slip again, a warning sign that the population could be in trouble.

As scientists try to figure out why, a group of recreational fishermen is lobbying the Massachusetts Legislature to ban commercial fishing of stripers, exposing long-simmering animosities between some bass fishermen who cast for fun and those who do it for a living. Each group blames the other for the declining numbers - though research does not seem to implicate overfishing... Globe.