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No National Register for beach camps; Harwich gets reef

TODAY's quote: The camps “lack integrity of location, design, materials and workmanship, and lack significant historic and/or architectural associations, thus fail to meet the criteria for listing in the National Register as a National Register District.” - Massachusetts Historical Commission Betsy Friedberg.

The low, December sun is a photographer's delight

Looking east from Fanizzi's Restaurant in the East End of Provincetown on the day after Christmas around 1 p.m. Walter Brooks photo.

Chatham beach camps not eligible for National Register

The Cape Cod Chronicle reports that the Massachusetts Historic Commission has ruled that the North Beach Island camps slated for demolition by the Cape Cod National Seashore are not eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.

The request by camp owners and leaseholders was a final effort to stop the Seashore from razing the five camps it owns after the current leases expire Dec. 31. 

Read the Chronicle here.

State pushes artificial fishing reef off Harwich's Saquatucket Harbor

The state Division of Marine Fisheries will be working with the town over the next six months to put permitting in place to locate an artificial fishing reef in Nantucket Sound, a mile and a half south of Saquatucket Harbor.

The Cape Cod Chronicle reports that Mark Rousseau and Vincent Malkoski, marine biologists with the state agency, came before the commission to enlist town officials’ support for the project. The idea was initially brought forward by fishing party boat operator Clem Kacergis, owner of the Yankee out of Saquatucket Harbor.

Read the Chronicle here.