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Sagamore Bridge repairs scheduled for Thursday
Expect delays during daylight hours February 23
Officials from the US Army Corps of Engineers have announced a single day of repairs for the Sagamore Bridge on Thursday, February 23. Weather-permitting, light fixture repairs will be made during daylight hours.
The work will require that traffic be confined to one lane in each direction. Motorists should expect delays during peak morning and afternoon travel times.
All four lanes of traffic on the Bourne Bridge will be open, according to the USACE.
Congressman Keating announces mobile office hours
On and off Cape locations announced
MA 10th District Congressman William Keating announced a series of mobile office hours for the months of February, March and April. The mobile office ours will be staffed by 
members of the Congressman's office. The staff will be on hand to meet with residents who do not have the opportunity to visit the Congressman's office.
Staff members will be available to discuss such matters as Social Security, mortgage/foreclosure/modification, immigration, disability and veterans' benefits, among others.
- Tuesday, February 28, 1:30pm to 3pm, Kingston Town Hall, 26 Evergreen Street, Kingston
- Wednesday, March 7, 1pm to 3pm, Falmouth Senior Center, 300 Dillingham Avenue, Falmouth
- Friday, March 23, 1:30pm to 3pm, Pembroke Town Hall, 100 Center Street, Pembroke
- Thursday, April 12, 1:30pm to 3pm, Orleans Town Hall, 19 School Road, Orleans
- Friday, April 27, 1:30pm to 3pm, Rockland Town Hall, 242 Union Street, Rockland
Residents who would like to schedule an appointment in advance may call Karen Wasielewski at the Congressman's Cape Cod office at 508-771-0666. Walk-ins are also welcome.
To learn more about Congressman Keating, visit his website here.
Occupy Cape Cod protests Yarmouth foreclosure auction [Rifkin]
Large group from all over Cape annoys, but doesn't block foreclosure sale
"We were loud and boisterous and things couldn't have gone better."
By Paul Rifkin and staff
Check the short video of the action yesterday.
Auctioneer McLaughlin seemed to be thinking, WTF?About forty Occupy Cape Codders (from Falmouth to Provincetown) gathered in Yarmouth Tuesday morning to protest a foreclosure auction.
The auction was being administered by the Daniel P. McLaughlin & Company of Boston.
The home is at 5 Alijo Drive in West Yarmouth.
The action was organized by occupier John Hopkins of Truro who said, "we were loud and boisterous and things couldn't have gone better."
A little pushing & shoving
The action got quite confrontational (see video to follow) and beefy occupiers Don Cox of West Barnstable (Left below) and Peter Waasdorp (Center below) were ready to jump in after the old and weak photographer and videographer got jostled about by the auctioneer crew.
Arthur Dickinson of Harwich banged his "drum" to drown out the auctioneer's polemics.
The occupiers did "mic checks" and chanted "banks got bailed out, we got sold out" while the auctioneer mumbled his legalistic babble aimed towards removing a tenant-renter.
The property didn't fetch a high enough bid, and the bank took it back for $200,000.
Where the money is; Gorey birthday; Island boom
Where the ad dollars will be
Web over print 16 to 1
Think about this in terms of the ratio of ad dollars to time spent. Print is 1:6. The web is 16:22. Mobile is 1:23. 
That’s not sustainable. Via The Next Web, above is a telling chart from mobile analytics company Flurry comparing where advertisers spend their dollars to where consumers spend their time.
The business model behind printed news might be dying, but the business model behind information is transitioning.
Read the Washington Post report here.Edward Gorey birthday party today
World-renowned Yarmouth author and artist Edward Gorey (1925-2000) was born on February 22, 1925. In celebration of the anniversary of his birth there will be a special evening of Gorey-themed entertainment.
Cakes and refreshments will be provided, and visitors will enjoy mysterious interpretations from the Fantod Deck; joyous readings from Gorey’s unique books.
We probably won't attend since it's at the Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore in San Francisco, CA.
But we may drive by his home on Route 6A in Yarmouth Port and smile, or visit.
See the CBR News story here.
The real estate boom returns on Nantucket
I never read a newspaper, so I never see the ads
I don't read a newspaper any longer, at least the printed kind. I switched my New York Times subscription to my Kindle reader (for a third the price) over three years ago, so I never see the ads in the Times.
Until yesterday.
Yesterday I forgot to bring my Kindle with me on my morning bike ride, soI bought a copy at a news store.
Pages B2-3 in yesterday's New York Times.Ugh!
How awkward it was to have to hold those huge pages as the corners curled up (they're using cheaper and thinner newsprint these days), and then having to find a trash basket to dispose of it after.
But at least I saw THE AD.
On page 3 of the Business Section appeared a full-page ad for a 10,000 square foot home on Nantucket called Harbor Haven.
A full page in the NY Times costs up to $100,000 a pop, so I guess the recession really IS over, at least for the rich.
Any real estate broker wishing good results for a tad less should try here instead. - WB
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Cape Cod Arraignments and Dispositions - February 22, 2012
ORLEANS DISTRICT COURT
February 22, 2012
In court February 21, 2012
ARRAIGNMENTS
DAUPHINAIS, Kenneth S, 51, 1039 Rte 6A, Dennis; two counts, breaking & entering a vehicle/boat at daytime for felonious purposes; two counts, larceny over $250; possessing a burglarious instrument, February 18 in Dennis. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 20.
ELDRIDGE, Matthew A, 22, 34 Airline Rd, S. Dennis; OUI drugs; negligent operation of a motor vehicle; marked lanes violation, February 18 in Dennis. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 8. According to police reports, Dennis officers pulled over a white Honda Accord after seeing it weave "in a serpentine manner" within its lane, then cross over the white fog line with both passenger-side tires. Eldridge admitted to smoking marijuana earlier. He failed field sobriety tests and was arrested.
LAURIE, Steve H, 49, 1039 Rte 134, Dennis; two counts, breaking & entering a vehicle/boat at daytime for felonious purposes; two counts, larceny over $250; possessing burglarious instruments, a hammer and blue gardening gloves, February 18 in Dennis. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 20.
SZARY, Damion A, 34, 112 Prince St, Apt 4, Boston; OUI liquor; negligent operation of a motor vehicle; speeding, February 19 in Orleans. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 5.
THOMAS, Hayley P, 26, 585 Old Falmouth Rd, Marstons Mills; no sticker; speeding; OUI liquor; negligent operation of a motor vehicle; failure to stop for a polcie officer, February 18 in Dennis. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 6.
DISPOSITIONS
AMBERS, Shane C, 17, 161 Cannon Ave, Staten Island NY; assault & battery, August 9 2011 in Provincetown. Pretrial probation until August 21.
MCCLURE, Joseph D, 45, 17 Blue Rock Rd, S. Yarmouth; OUI liquor, August 14 2011 in Eastham. Admitted to sufficient facts. 24D program. Continued without a finding until February 20 2013.
MCDONNELL, Mark D, 48, 49 Division St, Dennis Port; assault & battery, February 21 in Dennis. Jury trial. Dismissed.
MCDONNELL, same. Assault & battery, July 2 2011 in Dennis. Dismissed.
FALMOUTH DISTRICT COURT
February 22, 2012
In court February 21, 2012
ARRAIGNMENTS
CLIFFORD, Jason R, 34, 148 Saint Marks Road, Falmouth; negligent operation of a motor vehicle, failure to stop for police, operation of a motor vehicle with a suspended license (subsequent offense), uninsured motor vehicle on February 21 in Bourne. Hearing scheduled for March 28.
DAWSON, Alexandra M, 18, Sagamore Beach; assault and battery, resisting arrest on February 21 in Bourne. Hearing scheduled for March 26.
IMBROSCIANO, Gregory T, 52, 17 Theroux Drive, Falmouth; operation of a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol, marked lanes violation, negligent operation of a motor vehicle on February 21 in Falmouth. Hearing scheduled for March 28.
JOHNSON, Shane A, 23, 9 Freight House Road, Buzzards Bay; assault and battery, intimidation of a witness, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (cell phone) on February 21 in Bourne. Hearing scheduled for March 21.
JONES, Floyd, 43, 3 Oakdale Avenue, Buzzards Bay; breaking into a depository, larceny under $250 on February 21 in Bourne. Hearing scheduled for March 21.
KELLY, Laurie J, 48, 41 St. Margaret’s Street, Buzzards Bay; assault and battery on February 21 in Bourne. Hearing scheduled for March 21.
LINO, Richard D, 55, 46 Andrews Street, Falmouth; intimidation of a witness, assault and battery on February 21 in Falmouth. Hearing scheduled for March 21.
NYE, Thomas A, 43, 577 Delano Road, Marion; operation of a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol, negligent operation of a motor vehicle on February 21 in Bourne. Hearing scheduled for March 15.
O’DONNELL, Justin, 22, 67 Laurelwood Drive, North Attleboro; larceny over $250 on February 9 in Bourne. Hearing scheduled for March 28.
PARTEE, Ryan P, 26, 34 Ellsworth Drive, Falmouth; operation of a motor vehicle with a suspended license, no inspection sticker on February 21 in Mashpee. Hearing scheduled for March 20.
PATTERSON- HERNDON, Ronny S, 24, 85 Haddon Ave, Falmouth; affray on January 25 in Falmouth. Hearing scheduled for March 15.
PIRES, Manny, 33, 19 Cotter Street, New Bedford; operation of a motor vehicle with a suspended license, speeding on February 21 in Bourne. Hearing scheduled for March 21.
RENKAGATZ, Mark D, 35, 64 Moonakiss Road, Falmouth; marked lanes violation, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, operation of a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol (2nd offense) February 21 in Falmouth. Hearing scheduled for March 23.
ROGERS, Lauren A, 23, 100 Harmony Hill Road, Bourne; operation of a motor vehicle with a suspended license, speeding on February 21 in Bourne. Hearing scheduled for March 28.
SANBORN, Gerald E, 48, 91 CPT. Samadrus Road, Cotuit; operation of a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol (4th offense), marked lanes violation, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, state/ highway violation, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, on February 21 in Bourne. Hearing scheduled for March 21.
SIMMONS, Gabriel E, 24, 494 Mariners Circle, Falmouth; shoplifting (3rd offense) on February 21 in Falmouth. Hearing scheduled for March 28.
SYLVESTER- MARTIN, Trystan K, 27, 22 Rosa Lane, Falmouth; identity fraud on May 27 2011 in Falmouth. Dismissed.
SYLVESTER- MARTIN, Trystan, K, 27, 22 Rosa Lane, Falmouth; operation of a motor vehicle with a suspended registration, uninsured motor vehicle on March 8 2011 in Falmouth. Hearing scheduled for March 19 2012.
WATMOUGH, Elizabeth R, 33, 11 Timberknolle Road, Monument Beach; three counts possession of a Class E drug (Carisoprodol, Zolpidemtartrate, Metaxalone) on February 9 in Mashpee. Hearing scheduled for March 21.
WELDON, Andrew G, 22, 159 Fresh Pond Road, Falmouth; distribution of a Class B Drug (opium), intimidation of a witness, threat to commit a crime (murder) on February 2012 in Falmouth. Hearing scheduled for March 7.
WELDON, Andrew G, 22, 159 Fresh Pond Road, Falmouth; misdemeanor breaking and entering, trespassing, vandalizing property on February 17 in Falmouth. Hearing scheduled for March 7.
DISPOSITIONS
BARBOSA, Marcio R, 37, 226 Arrowhead Road, Hyannis; operation of a motor vehicle without a license , speeding on February 21 in Bourne. Dismissed.
DOWNES, Laurie K, 40, 35 Santuit Pond Road, Mashpee; operation of a motor vehicle with a suspended registration, uninsured motor vehicle, no inspection sticker on January 30 in Mashpee. Dismissed.
SLOAN, Brendan J, 28, 25 Canal Street, Buzzards Bay; assault and battery on July 19 2011 in Bourne. Dismissed.
TESSIER, Stephen M, 50, 836 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth; operation of a motor vehicle with a suspended license on October 25 2011 in Falmouth. Continued without a finding until August 20.
TRANT, Michael R, 22, 7 Diandy Road, Sagamore; leaving the scene of property damage, marked lanes violation, speeding on December 28 2011 in Bourne. Dismissed upon payment received by April 20.
What's Romney doing on Obama's car roof? [Joe Quigley]
Joe Quigley fantasizes about an Obama trip to Canada
For those unfamiliar with the Romney dog-strapped-to-car-roof story
Back in 1983, Mitt Romney traveled 12 hours to Canada with his Irish Setter, Seamus, strapped to the roof of the car in a kennel.
Then the doggy do-do
Then, as the Boston Globe described when they broke the story in 2007, Romney’s son noticed a brown liquid dripping down the back window.Romney hosed the dog off and stuffed the hound back into the crate.
The dog allegedly ran away when the Romney family finally reached its vacation destination.
NMA's video, "Mitt Romney ‘dog on roof’ story just won’t die" imagines what Seamus’s fateful trip might have looked like.
Joe Quigley of Dennis draws political cartoons for the American Federation of Teachers/Massachusetts, and for the Elizabeth Warren Campaign.
Right now he has a "Red, White & Blue" sales at his online store on Zazzle.
February 22, 1934: Orleans citizens are Methuselah-like; 2007: Jackie warns Joan; 2007: Joan Kennedy's trash or treasure? 2007: Coast Guard remembers Cape Cod helicopter crew lost a sea
1934: Praise for longevity of 'Biblical proportions' among 'Orleanals'
New motto: "Come to Cape Cod and live as long as you please"
On this day in 1934, as expressed in an editorial titled "Cape Cod" in The Morning Herald of Philadelphia-
Whether it is cranberries or the succulent Cotuit or the tonic quality of the tea shoppe industry that may account for it, the fact stands that longevity as achieved by the inhabitants of the town of Orleans on Cape Cod is of virtually Biblical proportions.
Cape Cod: the last place in America where individuality was not penalized and where authentic eccentricity flourished.
Had Methuselah been an inhabitant of the Cape he would doubtless have exceeded even his own tidy record of nine hundred years, since the average age of the Orleanals appears from the record to be seventy-four. Once you pass twenty-one on the Cape you have a more than even chance of seeing a comfortable eighty-five or a ripe ninety, unless "The Boston Evening Transcript's" correspondent errs.
In an admirable article some months ago in "The American Mercury" Jonathan Norton Leonard opined that Cape Cod was the last place in America where individuality was not penalized and where authentic eccentricity flourished, and if this is the case - and it probably is - it may be that the reason for longevity on the Cape is simply that life is worth living.
Cape Codders known for "loud-speaking indifference."
Not being hectored and badgered and regimented by the fatuous design of high-voltage civilization, the Orleanals, their gastric juices unimpaired by the spectacle of the social, political and economic times and their being nourished on oysters that rank among the finest known to this world, continue peacefully and happily toward ultimate but postponed disintegration.
Next to its cranberries and oysters, the Cape's most characteristic asset is what has been described as its "loud-speaking indifference." Directed against the discordant tempo of a brash and unmellow age, this indifference would seem to be a quality which should interest the statisticians of the life insurance companies.
"Come to Cape Cod and live as long as you please" may soon be a motto exploited by up and coming Cape chambers of commerce.
2007: Joan Kennedy's trash or treasure?
Relics found in storage set for the auction block
On this day in 2007 a pair of terrycloth hand towels embroidered with a pink-and-orange monogram is going for about $500. A canvas-covered life ring with a hemp rope bearing the fading name Victura is up for about $5,000. Two handwritten letters, one with incendiary allegations, are on sale for about $7,000. A Connecticut auction house that hopes to sell the items this weekend says they are relics from Joan B. Kennedy's multimillion-dollar home in Hyannis Port, which the former wife of US Senator Edward M. Kennedy sold in 2005...
Panagopoulos said his company (Alexander Autographs) already has received dozens of bids for the memorabilia, which include Jacqueline Kennedy's old hand towels, a life ring from John F. Kennedy's sailboat, Victura, and letters Jacqueline Kennedy wrote to Joan while she and the senator were experiencing marital turbulence, he said.
Photo on right is of Jackie Kennedy's camera which will be auctioned.
2007: Jackie O to Joan K: Rein In Your Man
A $7K letter between two Kennedy women
Kennedy buffs rejoiced this day when what's thought to be the biggest-ever cache of JFK and Jackie O memorabilia was heading to auction, including a racy letter from Jackie to Sen. Edward Kennedy's former wife, Joan, urging her to rein in her wandering hubby, a life preserver from JFK's sailboat Victura, and the former first lady's own 8-mm movie camera. We've noted auctions by Alexander Autographs before, but this one, online February 24-25 is really rich. Just consider the Jackie-to-Joan letter, worth an estimated $5,000 to $7,000.
In the unsigned letter, Jackie tells Joan to take charge of the family and balk when Teddy spends too much time with his siblings or worse. "This is the 20th century-not the 19th-" she pens, "where little woman stayed home on a pedestal with the kids & her rosary." The best part is how the goods became public. Seems a former helper recovered the items from Joan's Cape Cod home and put them in storage. But she forgot to pay the bill; the stuff was auctioned off, and the top bidder is cashing in.
2007: Coast Guard remembers Cape Cod helicopter crew lost a sea
Four died in 1979 crash during rescue attempt
On this day in 2007, Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod remembered four shipmates who died in 1979. A wreath was dropped into the sea from a Coast Guard HH-60 helicopter in remembrance of the crew of the HH-3F Pelican helicopter, the CG1432.
The Pelican crew was lost February 18th, 1979 during a rescue attempt 260 miles southeast of Cape Cod. While attempting to perform a medical evacuation from a Japanese fishing vessel, the weather started to deteriorate.
The helicopter lost power and was forced to land on the water. The heavy seas quickly overturned the downed aircraft and only one crew member was able to escape. Each year, the members of Air Station Cape Cod remember their fellow Coast Guardsmen lost nearly 30 years ago, by laying a wreath at a memorial on the air station or in the sea.
Two-alarm fire on Main Street in Falmouth destroys laundromat and Thai restaurant
FALMOUTH - Falmouth firefighters responded to a two-alarm blaze at 807-809 Main Street Tuesday afternoon. The fire destroyed two businesses in one building, Town Laundry and the adjacent Bangkok Cuisine Thai Restaurant.
Mashpee and Bourne firefighters also responded to the scene, Bourne with their ladder truck to help extinguish the fire which broke out in the laundromat.
A section of Main Street was closed while the fire was knocked down. Firefighters contained the blaze in the building which is next to a Cumberland Farms mini mart and gas station.
The state fire marshal was on scene. The cause of the fire has not officially been announced.
Video by David G. Curran.
Grassroots support for Elizabeth Warren on Cape Cod: Strong and effective [Letter]
Editor's note: The following letter was received in response to a recent political post by Walter Brooks entitled "Brown vs. Warren: Deja vu all over again?".
To the Editor:
As a Cape Cod resident, Elizabeth Warren supporter, and active volunteer, I was baffled by the article written by Walter Brooks in Cape Cod Today. Over eight months before the election and only four months into her candidacy the Warren campaign has held over 30 grassroots events on the Cape and Islands, including canvasses, organizing meetings, house parties and phone banks. These events demonstrate the immense grassroots support that Elizabeth has on the Cape and Islands.
On Saturday, I was one of over a dozen volunteers, many of whom were senior citizens, who went out and knocked doors in Hyannis (in comfortable 40 degree weather). I hear there were a dozen more of us in Yarmouth Port at the same time. We spoke with voters who did not vote in the 2010 election to discuss the importance of supporting Democrats this time around and, in particular, the candidacy of Elizabeth Warren. Our group talked to nearly 50 voters, collecting 46 signatures to get Elizabeth Warren on the ballot. Personally, I found the experience of knocking on doors and talking to voters heartening, fun, and came out of it feeling as though I really made a difference.
If you’ve heard Elizabeth Warren’s story of how she successfully organized people to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, it is clear that she knows how to organize and is committed to running a campaign that engages volunteers in communities across the state. This is the kind of campaign Elizabeth is running, and I, for one, am eager to be a part of it.
As a proud Warren supporter and member of the Barnstable Democratic Town Committee, I am ready to work to make sure she is elected in whatever way I am able when I am asked by her campaign, and making sure that her message gets across to my fellow Cape Codders seems to me like an effective use of my time.
The successful coordinated campaign run in 2010 when the Governor was at the top of the ticket is a prime example of the success of direct voter contact on the Cape. If we are going to pull off a victory for Elizabeth Warren in November, we are going to need to continue to focus on the person-to-person contact that wins elections, one vote at a time. As an older population, if we can’t knock on doors – let’s make phone calls. Either way, I will work against the assumption that seniors don’t have the ability to make a difference in this election.
At the organizing meeting I attended last month in Barnstable, sponsored by the Barnstable Democratic Town Committee, (a meeting which, I’m told, was one of eight meetings held in the month of January throughout the Cape and Islands that attracted over 500 individuals in total), the local staff member present emphasized the importance of our local voices speaking on behalf of Elizabeth – in casual conversations, at local house parties, through phone calls and through knocking on doors. Many people at the Barnstable meeting eagerly volunteered to help with these tasks. If you’ve heard Elizabeth Warren’s story of how she successfully organized people to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, it is clear that she knows how to organize and is committed to running a campaign that engages volunteers in communities across the state. This is the kind of campaign Elizabeth is running, and I, for one, am eager to be a part of it.
C. Gerry McGowan
West Barnstable, MA
Eastham Democrats unanimously endorse Elizabeth Warren [Politics]
All delegates elected to Democratic Convention also pledge to support Warren
Earlier this month, the Eastham Democratic Town Committee unanimously endorsed Elizabeth Warren to be the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate race.
"No other candidate for U.S. Senate has the ideas, commitment, organization and support as does Elizabeth Warren," said Dave Schropfer, Democratic Town Committee Chair. "She is the best candidate -- a clear leader who has energized Democrats -- and I am pleased our committee took the opportunity to support her with our endorsement," added Steve Cole, her caucus coordinator for Eastham and the Committee’s vice chair.
Elizabeth Warren. Courtesy Facebook.The earlier caucus elected Gwen Pelletier, Adele Blong, Cole and Oliver Everett, as delegates to represent Eastham Democrats at the annual convention. In addition, Dave Schropfer, Committee chair, will serve as ex officio delegate. Alternates selected were Sandy Bayne, Joe Bayne and Tina Meservey. All are committed to supporting Warren at the convention.
Delegates to the 2012 Massachusetts Democratic Party endorsing convention will select candidates to compete for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate on Saturday, June 2, 2012 at the Mass Mutual Center in Springfield. Candidates at the convention who garner at least 15% of the votes of the delegates are entitled to run in the state primary, scheduled for September 6.
"I'm honored to have been elected as a Warren delegate," said Blong. "We are going to work hard to make sure all voters in Eastham understand how Elizabeth Warren will push for a fairer and stronger economy," she added.
In addition to delegates who are elected at caucus, those who meet the qualifications, may apply to be add-on delegates in the following categories: youth, minority, and disabled. Applications are available by contacting the Democratic Party at 617-939-0800. Completed applications must be returned to the Democratic State Committee by March 30, 2012.
The Eastham Town Committee meets on the fourth Wednesday of the month at the Sheraton Four Points. For more information on the Committee, please email easthamdemocrats@comcast.net and visit us on Facebook.
Courtesy of the Eastham Democratic Town Committee.
Yarmouth police officers prevent suicide Sunday
Woman saved thanks to call to police and officers' actions
YARMOUTH - Yarmouth Patrol Officers Richard Fichter and Richard White are being credited with saving a suicidal woman's life Sunday. The officers were dispatched to a Yarmouth home after police received a call about a woman who was despondent and possibly suicidal, according to Yarmouth Police Deputy Chief Steven Xiarhos.
The officers arrived at the home around 10 a.m. Sunday where they made an emergency entrance and found the woman unconscious in a back bedroom with an electrical cord wrapped around her neck. Officers Fichter and White removed the cord and revived the woman.
Yarmouth Fire and Rescue was requested at the home and the woman was transported to Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis where, according to Deputy Chief Xiarhos, she is recuperating.
Anyone experiencing suicidal thoughts is encouraged to contact The Samaritans on Cape Cod and the Islands at 800-893-9900. More information is available on their website at CapeSamaritans.org. Suicide claims the lives of nearly 30,000 Americans each year, according to The Samaritans. Suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15- to 24-year-olds and the suicide rate for those 65 and over is 50% greater than any other age group.
Officers Fitchter and White will receive official commendations for saving the woman's life.
High School Basketball Standings [Cape Cod Sports Desk Blog]
Checking In With The Kids
First off.... At the state gymnastic meet, Kim Stewart of Nauset came in third at 37.275, snagging the top score on the beam out of everybody. She's a well-balanced girl.
Congratz, Kim!
On to the basketball standings...
Boys Basketball
Atlantic Coast
Falmouth...16-1, #20 overall in Massachusetts
Marshfield... 13-5
Plymouth South... 11-8
Dennis Yarmouth... 8-10
Sandwich... 3-12
Plymouth North... 5-13
Nauset... 2-12
Cape and Islands
Pope John Paul II... 3-1
Nantucket... 2-6
Provincetown... 0-0
Cape Cod Academy... 0-2
Cape Cod Tech... 0-2
Sturgis... 0-2
Chatham... 0-6
Old Colony
Barnstable... 13-4
Taunton... 7-3
Dartmouth... 3-10
Bridgewater-Raynham... 5-13
Also... ("Also" = "schools from the area in leagues that I don't feel like typing out")
New Bedford, 10-4, #2 in the Big Three Conference
Durfee... 1-11, #3 in the Big Three Conference
Martha's Vineyard.. 3-2, #3 in the Eastern Athletic Conference
Upper Cape... 0-2, #7 in the Mayflower Athletic Conference
Wareham... 19-0, #1 South Coast Conference, #13 overall in Massachusetts
Bourne... 14-6, #3 South Coast Conference
Harwich... 5-10, # South Shore Conference
Mashpee... 4-11, #7 South Shore Conference
Girls Basketball
Atlantic Coast
Falmouth... 18-2, #14 overall in Massachusetts
Marshfield... 14-5
Sandwich... 5-7
Plymouth South... 5-8
Plymouth North... 3-8
Nauset... 2-12
Dennis-Yarmouth... 2-8
Cape and Islands
Provincetown... 0-0
Sturgis... 0-0
Nantucket... 0-2
Chatham... 0-2
Pope John Paul... 0-5
Cape Cod Tech... 0-5
Cape Cod Academy 0-6
Old Colony
Barnstable... 14-4
Taunton... 10-10
Dartmouth... 5-5
Bridgewater-Raynham... 1-15
Also...
New Bedford...16-3, #1 in Big Three, #10 overall in Massachusetts
Durfee...6-6, #2 in Big Three
Martha's Vineyard...5-5, #4 in Eastern Athletic
Upper Cape... 3-3, #5 in Mayflower II
Duxbury... 12-7, #1 in Patriot (Keenan)
Fairhaven...15-2, #1 in South Coast
Wareham... 7-9, #5 in South Coast
Bourne... 9-11, #6 in South Coast
Harwich...7-4, #3 in South Shore
Mashpee... 0-3, 12th in Independents
Avant le deluge; Mashpee Tribes' budget; Sandwich considers closing Henry T. Wing School
Tribe to spend $30 million this year
Almost 40% of budget to promote casino
The first budget presented to Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe members offers a glimpse into their government's priorities.
The Falmouth Enterprise reports that a budget released by the Wampanoag Tribal Council calls for more than $30 million in spending for 2012, the most detailed look yet at the tribe’s finances.
The overall budget includes:
- $16 million of revenue from investors
- $9.7 million loan from the US Department of Agriculture
- $4.6 million in revenue from federal grants
The weekly says the tribe projects spending more than $6 million on “gaming per-development,” or 39 percent of the total 2012 loan spending from Arkana Limited, an affiliate of Genting Group and the Malaysian firm funding the tribe’s pursuit of a casino and other operations.
That represents half of what the entire gaming industry spent in the state in the last five year which was $11.4 million, according to a review of state lobbying records by The Associated Press.
Meanwhile, back in the courts...
A challenge to the Massachusetts gaming bill that authorized three casinos, while designating that one be offered to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, has been rejected by a federal judge. Lawyers for KG Urban Enterprises were told by Judge Nathaniel Gorton the law is legal.
Read the Enterprise story here.
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Quigley cartoons quake Cape Cod [Op-Ed]
Joe Quigley of Dennis draws political cartoons for the American Federation of Teachers/Massachusetts, and for the Elizabeth Warren Campaign.
Right now he has a "Red, White & Blue" sales at his online store on Zazzle.
Wellfleet OysterFest featured on "United Tastes of America" tonight
Cooking Channel series takes a trip to the Outer Cape 10 p.m. tonight
William "Chopper" Young Jr. doing what he does best at the Wellfleet OysterFest. Photo by Jane Booth.
Foodies tuning into the Cooking Channel tomorrow night will be treated a taste of Wellfleet on the series "United Tastes of America". Host Jeffery Saad visited the Wellfleet OysterFest last October and an episode on one of the Cape's favorite fall festivals will air at 10 p.m. tonight (Tuesday, February 21).
According to Michele Insley, SPAT (Shellfish Promotion and Tasting) Manager, the episode will feature World Oyster Champ William "Chopper" Young Jr. teaching Saad how to shuck Wellfleet-style.
Several other well-known locals will be featured in the show including Mac Hay, owner of Mac's Seafood and SPAT President, Chef Barton Seaver, author of "For Cod and Country", Shellfisherman Bob Wallace, Katy Kmiec of Hatch's Fish Market and Chef Philippe Rispoli of the very popular PB Boulangerie.
The very popular Wellfleet OysterFest, sponsored by SPAT is held each October and features a variety of events, incredible food and the not-to-be-missed shucking contest, or shuck off.
To read more about the Wellfleet OysterFest episode of "United Tastes of America", click here. The Cooking Channel is available on Comcast. Check listings here.
February 21 - 1960: Swedish tanker runs aground off Provincetown
1960: 285-foot tanker Monica Smith on a beach in Ptown
Crew waved to sightseers and played Hillbilly music
The Monica Smith's 37 crew members "waved cheerfully back to the crowds, then adjourned to the forecastle to listen to hillbilly music on the radio."
On this day in 1960, Provincetown residents awakened to discover that the 285-foot tanker Monica Smith had run aground overnight off Race Point.
Two tugboats tried in vain to free the 1,744-ton ship at high tide while thousands of sightseers, many from off-Cape, watched from the shoreline. The ship had dropped off a cargo of cement in Fall River before running aground on a sandbar.
The Monica Smith's 37 crew members "waved cheerfully back to the crowds, then adjourned to the forecastle to listen to hillbilly music on the radio," according to a United Press International story.
The tanker remained stranded for three more days until it was extricated through a combination of the crew's own efforts and steady pulling of the tugboat Orion.
The crew used an old mariner's trick of kedging, which involves fastening anchors in deep water and winching toward them from the vessel itself. After the ship was once again afloat, its skipper said he intended to resume his interrupted journey to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
(photo credit, Associated Press)
Live WWII shell found in West Dennis shed
Shell safely detonated at West Dennis Beach
WEST DENNIS - Dennis police and firefighters responded to a home on Clarlaw Way in West Dennis Monday afternoon around 3 p.m. after an explosive device was reportedly found. According to Dennis Police Lieutenant Peter DiMatteo, what appeared to be a World War II era 40mm shell was discovered while a shed at the rear of the property was being cleared.
Police cordoned off the area surrounding the shed and evacuated a nearby home until State Police bomb technicians arrived at the scene.
The technicians determined the shell to be live and it was transported to the resident area of West Dennis Beach, police said. A deep hole was dug in the sand and the shell was detonated by the bomb technicians.
There were no reported injuries or damage.
Wareham Democratic Town Committee to hold caucus February 21, Elizabeth Warren to attend [Poli-Cal]
All registered Wareham Democrats are eligible to participate
Elizabeth Warren at a recent meet and greet with voters. Facebook.
Elizabeth Warren to attend caucus
The Wareham Democratic Town Committee will hold a caucus on Tuesday, February 21 at 7 p.m. at the Wareham Multi-Service Center, 48 Marion Road.
During the caucus, Democratic Convention delegates will be selected. All registered Wareham Democrats are eligible to participate.
The Wareham DTC will nominate eleven delegates and three alternates to attend the Democratic Convention in Springfield on June 2. Delegates will be divided equally between men and women. Anyone not elected as a delegate or alternate, may apply to the add-on delegates in the categories of youth, minority or disabled, if qualified.
According to a spokesperson for Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic challenger for Scott Brown's Senatorial seat will attend the caucus.
For more information, call Wareham DTC Chairman John Donahue at 508-295-1544. To learn more about the Wareham Democratic Town Committee, visit their website here.
Rifkin on LaRouche: Pot calling the kettle black [Letter]
Editor's note: The following letter was received in response to a recent photo essay submitted by Paul Rifkin depicting LaRouche supports outside the Falmouth Post Office on Saturday.
To the Editor:
Isn’t this a case of “the pot calling the kettle black”? One person’s idea of what constitutes a crackpot group might just be “Occupy Falmouth”, Paul. That being said, I have no idea what the LaRouche movement is all about but I know they are not alone in wanting to get Obama out of office.
Isn’t it wonderful that we live in a country like USA where everyone can have their say?
Elizabeth Meredith
Mashpee, MA
Sharks may attack Dolphins; Joe III tells a tale; That Olde Cape Cod campgrounds feel in Harwichport
The Sharks come to Monomoy
Can school choice use the name too?
The Cape Cod Chronicle reports that the Monomoy Regional School District has chosen a mascot: the Shark.
The weekly says you can almost hear the Monomoy Regional High School marching band playing the theme from Jaws at halftime.
On Friday, school officials announced that the district will now be represented by the Monomoy Sharks.
Students and members of the public cast votes last week, and the Sharks beat out the other finalist, the Breakers, by a 61 to 39 percent margin.
And the Sharks will eat...?
Given the falling numbers of available K-12 students on Cape Cod these days, does the mascot's name suggest that the new region's Superintendent Carolyn Cragin plans to feast on D-Y's Dolphins or perhaps take a few chunks out of the Nauset Warriors?
Campground revival in Harwichport?
The way we were.The Chronicle also suggest that the Harwich Historic District and Historical Commission is reviving the concept of creating a historic district in the "Campground" section of Harwichport and is seeking to form a "Friends of Ocean Grove Campgrounds" group to assist with this initiative. Harwichport and Harwich Center have always been able to maintain the image and "feel" of Olde Cape Cod, and this effort could add to that impression.
The committee has approved a letter to be sent to residents of the original camp and horse grove areas between Pine Street and Ocean Avenue informing them of the effort, and is scheduling a meeting for next month. Get the full story in this Thursday's edition of The Chronicle. See the Harwich Historical Society here.
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Cape Cod Arraignments and Dispositions - February 20, 2012
BARNSTABLE DISTRICT COURT
February 20, 2012
In court February 17, 2012
ARRAIGNMENTS
BORUM, Christopher J, 44, 125 6th St, Cambridge; assault & battery, May 26 2011 in Barnstable. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 1.
COLLAZO, Ariel, 36, 220 Washington St, Somerville; assault & battery, May 25 2011 in Barnstable. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 1.
DYDEK JR, Patrick A, 23, 228 Bearse's Way, Hyannis; violating an abuse prevention order, October 20 2011 in Barnstable. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 15.
MILLS, Derri, 39, 132 South St, Apt 6, Hyannis; assault & battery, February 17 in Barnstable. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 20.
MURPHY, Edward T, 50, 94 Cranberry Ln, S. Yarmouth; OUI-related offense with a license suspended for OUI, January 23 in Yarmouth. Pretrial conference scheduled for April 2.
SOMERS, Danielle C, 29, 539 River Rd, Marstons Mills; assault & battery, February 16 in Barnstable. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 15.
DISPOSITIONS
ALVAREZ, Brandon A, 18, 16 Bonita Dr, Chatham; OUI drugs; negligent operation of a motor vehicle; license not in possession, September 4 2011 in Barnstable. OUI drugs, dismissed. Negligent operation, admitted to sufficient facts. Continued without a finding until February 15 2013. Defendant to complete forty hours of community service and attend Safe Driver course. License not in possession, not responsible.
DEBARROS JR, Antonio F, 25, 9 Northport Ln, Hyannis; assault, May 9 2011 in Yarmouth. Dismissed.
EDMONDSON, Fred P, 26, 54 Oak Neck Rd, Hyannis; Class A drug possession, November 30 2011 in Barnstable. Guilty plea. Guilty finding. Continued for payment, probation until August 16 2013. Defendant may perform community service.
EDMONDSON, same. Three counts assault & battery, February 9 in Barnstable. Guilty plea, all counts. Guilty finding, both counts. Six months, house of correction on each count, concurrent @11CR1290 above, nine days credit; committed.
GEGGATT, Tiarah, 17, 1010 Alewife Cir, S. Yarmouth; breaking & entering at nighttime for felonious purposes; assault & battery with a dangerous weapon; intimidating a witness, July 30 2011 in Yarmouth. All counts dismissed.
GOFF, Stephanie D, 26, 40 Spring St, Hyannis; assault & battery on a police officer; resisting arrest; disorderly conduct, February 4 in Barnstable. Assault & battery on a police officer, guilty plea. Guilty finding. Ninety days house of correction, thirteen days credit, concurrent @GOFF, below; committed. Resisting arrest, disorderly conduct dismissed.
GOFF, same. Two counts, assault & battery on a police officer; resisting arrest, January 12 in Barnstable. Both counts, A&B on a police officer, guilty plea. Both counts, guilty finding. Ninety days house of correction, thirteen days credit; committed. Resisting arrest, dismissed.
MCDOWELL, Marcus, 19, 144 Connemara Cir, Hyannis; Class B drug possession with intent to distribute, crack cocaine, October 7 2010 in Barnstable. Jury trial. Not guilty.
Brian Mannal to oppose Demetrious Atsalis in Barnstable 4th
Brian Mannal of Centerville to formally announce next month
Brian and Sara Mannal with their childrenBrian Mannal of Centerville will to run for State Representative as a Democrat in the 2nd Barnstable District and challenge Demetrius Atsalis in the primary election.
The 36-year old attorney is a member of several local boards related to education, workforce development, and economic development, including the Centerville Elementary School Council, the Cape and Islands Workforce Investment Board, and the Cape Cod Economic Development Council.
He grew up in Centerville, but moved away with his family to Albuquerque when he was in eighth grade. He returned to the Cape briefly after college, and permanently three years ago.
He says, "Although I am a registered Democrat, I consider myself a fiscal conservative and have worked for candidates and elected officials on both sides of the political aisle."
His campaign website is here. See his law practice website here. See his LinkedIn pages here.
February 20, 1828: Famed actor & Bourne resident Joe Jefferson born. 1960: We were tougher guys back then
1828: Today is Joe Jefferson's birthday
Friend of President Cleveland when both summered here
On this day in 1828, Joe Jefferson, one of the great comic actors of the 19th century and a familiar figure to Cape Codders, was born in Philadelphia.
A close friend and fishing buddy of President Grover Cleveland, Jefferson is remembered for his definitive portrayal of Rip Van Winkle, a role he first played in 1865.
For several years Jefferson had acted in the Laura Keene theatrical company and more than 150 performances of "Our American Cousin" (though he was not on stage at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., in when John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln).
By the 1880s, Jefferson was spending summers at a manor house he called the Crow's Nest along the shores of Buttermilk Bay in Bourne, roughly a mile across Cohasset Narrows and Monument River from Cleveland's house at Gray Gables, the nation's first summer White House.
Jefferson and Cleveland spent many carefree hours hunting and fishing on the Upper Cape and were especially fond of Wakeby Pond in Mashpee.
The Crow's Nest burned down in 1893, the year of Cleveland starting the second of his two non-consecutive terms in the White House (only president to do so).
Jefferson rebuilt his house on a bluff near Electric Avenue facing south toward Buzzards Bay. The structure later became the Joseph Jefferson Inn and, in its final incarnation, The Inn at Buttermilk Bay.
The names of streets near where the Crow's Nest houses stood still resonate with Jefferson's memory - Crow's Nest Drive, Rip Van Winkle Way, Jefferson Shores - as does a neighborhood across Buttermilk Bay, Jefferson Shores.
"They wouldn't let me live here in Sandwich, but they can't prevent my burial here."Before his death in 1905, Jefferson appeared in several silent films and is considered a pioneer of early cinema.
According to local legend, Jefferson initially wanted to buy a house in Sandwich but the owner wouldn't sell to him. Jefferson proceeded to buy a burial plot in Sandwich, according to Donald G. Trayser's Cape Cod Historical Almanac, and said that "They wouldn't let me live here in Sandwich, but they can't prevent my burial here."
On the boulder over Jefferson's grave at Bay View Cemetery in Sandwich, a bronze tablet quotes from the closing lines of his autobiography -
And yet we are but tenants. Let us assure ourselves of this, and then it will not be so hard to make room for the next administration; for shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.
Two nabbed after breaking into cars in East Dennis
Police catch suspects half hour after the crimes were reported
Perps a bit older than the usual suspects
Left to right: Steven Laurie, 49, and Kenneth Dauphinais, 51, both of East Dennis, will be arraigned in Orleans District Court Tuesday. DPD booking photos.
EAST DENNIS - Two East Dennis men suspected of breaking into two cars, were arrested shortly after the crimes were reported Saturday afternoon. According to Dennis Police Sergeant John Brady, Patrolman Thomas Downes responded to the scene of two separate vehicle break-ins Saturday afternoon around 3 p.m. One car was at Cold Storage Beach and the other was at the Sea/South Street Conservation area in East Dennis.
Both cars had smashed windows and items stolen from inside, according to police. Officer Downes developed a description of both the suspects and their vehicle and officers from both the day and evening shifts saturated the area.
Patrolmen Sean Martin and Seth Richter spotted the suspects and their vehicle only a half hour after the crimes were reported.
Steven Laurie, 49, of East Dennis, and Kenneth Dauphinais, 51, also of East Dennis, were arrested and transported to the Dennis Police Department where they were charged with two counts of breaking and entering to a motor vehicle and two counts of larceny over $250. Both men made bail and are scheduled to be arraigned in Orleans District Court on Tuesday.
Anyone with information about these break-ins is asked to contact Detective Sergeant Mark Conant. Any criminal activity in Dennis may also be reported to police anonymously on the Dennis Police Department Crime Tip Hotline at 774-352-1500.
Only in America [Paul Rifkin]
Crackpots come to celebrate Cape Cod's Presidents's Day
The LaRouche movement says that it is based around an original economic philosophy and is praised by some commentators in Russia and China.
LaRoucheland Uber Allies in Falmouth
Special to Cape Cod TODAY by Paul Rifkin, Occupy Cape Cod
The LaRouche group was asked to move by Falmouth Police Officer Kent "K.C." Clarkson. 
Some Falmouth folks even seemed interested or possibly amused in their conspiracies.
Joining the usual Saturday morning Occupy Falmouth and Falmouth Anti-War vigils were two "gentlemen" from the LaRouche movement.
They passed out "literature", sang songs in German (I kid you not) and sought contributions.
America's tolerance is tested regularly by fanatical fringe groups like these. In many countries they would be jailed or worse. Here we judge of level of democracy by how we treat our smallest minority, even crackpots and haters.
LaRouche ex-members have created a website to expose they groups agenda, and the movement is now generally seen as a right-wing, fascist or an unclassifiable group.
Admired in China and Russia
It is known for its unusual theories and its confrontational behavior.The LaRouche movement says that it is based around an original economic philosophy and is praised by some commentators in Russia and China.
Today they seem racist or silly or both.
In 1988, LaRouche and 25 associates were convicted on fraud charges related to fund-raising, prosecutions which the movement claimed were politically motivated and which were followed by a decline in the group's influence.
Falmouth Police Officer Kent "K.C." Clarkson arrived and told the LaRouche people to remove the table from the front of the Main Street Post Office.
They did, but when the officer drove away they set it back up until the post master came out and made them disassemble it again.
Some passersby actually seemed interested in their "message." The only seemingly sane part of their pitch is that this silly season they insult both major political parties in the signs above.
That says quite a bit about our upcoming election cycle.
Only in America.
Presidents' Day in Harwichport [Politics]
Harwich Democratic Town Committee's 14th annual event
State Treasurer Steve Grossman gave a spell-binding, fire and brimstone speech aimed at the young activists in his audience at the Land Ho! on Saturday. That's congressman Bill Keating and his wife Tevis directly in front of Grossman and Harwich Democratic Town Committee chair and party host Ray Gottwald in the red sweater. Walter Brooks photos.
What would Lincoln think of today's America and the Republican party he lead?
By Walter Brooks
State Senator Dan Wolf with Sandwich's Patrick Ellis who will challenge Republican Randy Hunt. 
The new Barnstable 5th includes a Plymouth precinct.
Bristol County D.A. Sam Sutter showed up. That's Dan Wolf with his back to him above.
Bill Keating was extremely effective rallying the troops as his wife Tevis looked on.Ray Gottwald, chair of the Harwich Democratic Town Committee (HDTC), knows how to throw a party as the jam-packed dining room at the Land Ho! in Harwichport above yesterday demonstrates.
For the second year in a row Massachusetts State Treasurer Steve Grossman was the speaker at the HDTC's famous President's Day event yesterday.
To say Grossman roused the activists present would be a gross(man) understatement - he had them ready to storm the barricades to defend what he said were the "people protections" forged for the common man (and woman) since the New Deal.
Just one item speaks volumes. As an editorial last month in the Bay State Banner put it, "One would not think that the domain of high finance would provide much opportunity to benefit citizens unless they were enrolled on the lists of the wealthy. However, as chairman of the nine-member Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management (PRIM) Board that manages the $48 billion fund to finance state pensions, Steven Grossman has found a way to have an impact for change."
The newspaper added, "To help solve the problem, he removed $154 million in state funds from major banks and put up to $5,000,000 in deposits in each of 36 small banks throughout the state (three on Cape Cod). The banks can keep these low interest deposits, provided that they lend to small businesses."
A Congressman, a State Treasurer, a State Senator and three State Reps.
The Harwich event has become the traditional start of each year's political activity here on the Cape, and that is especially true in a national election year like 2012.
With Barack Obama at the head of the ticket and the economy turning around, Cape Democrats smell blood, and it's not only red, it's Brown.
Some of the scutterbutt was complaints about the lackluster, local efforts of the Elizabeth Warren campaign. One comment I heard was "They still have to teach her charisma or they're just putting lipstick on a pig."
One of the guest was Patrick Ellis whose family dates back to the very beginning of the oldest town on Cape Cod, and who is on a really serious "hunt" this year.
The "hunt" is incumbent Randy Hunt (R) the Barnstable 5th State Rep. One reason for Ellis' hopefulness is the new district lines which added Precinct 9 in Plymouth to the district. That precinct includes Buttermilk Bay and much of the Ponds of Plymouth, which are now part of the 5th Barnstable House district, currently represented by Hunt who replace his mentor Jeff Perry in the last election.
In the 2010 run, Lance Lambros lost to Hunt by less than fifty votes per precinct, and this year Obama's coattail may help him and sane Elizabeth Warren too.
A fox among the Harwich chickens?
As the party heated up, I noticed a familiar but out-of-place face on the edge of the crowd. It was Bristol County D.A. E. Samuel Sutter who is challenging his own party's incumbent U.S. congressman Bill Keating.
Most figured with Bill Keating's last primary rival Rob O'Leary out of the race, Sutter would decide to drop out too since the only change of hurting Keating in the September Primary was in the 9th Congressional District being split three ways with O'Leary grabbing the Cape, Keating holding on to the South Shore and Sutter capturing the new towns added to the district which are in Bristol County from Wareham to Fall River.
Sutter told me however that he feels with O'Leary out, he will pick up votes on Cape Cod and the Islands.
Why Democrats celebrate President's Day
The Monday nearest Abraham Lincoln and George Washington's birthdays, February 11 and 22, is a national holiday to honor all presidents, but especially those two. Why Democrats focus on Lincoln can be understood by Stephen Samuel Wise's comment, "The important thing today is not what we say of Lincoln but what Lincoln would say of us if he were here in this hour and could note the drift and tendency in American life and American politics."
Below is a map of all the new districts lines for 2012.
Orleans bandshell goes; COA director misused funds
Charlie Moore's Orleans ballpark bandshell plays swansong
Back in the 1960s a local son named Charles F. Moore retired from the Ford Motor Co. and moved back to his family home in the Tonset area of East Orleans. What was unusual about that was the Charlie was so affable, he quickly became a selectman, and before retiring gave his hometown the music shell above at the Eldredge Park baseball field where the Orleans Firebirds play in the Cape Cod Baseball League. The shell is over forty-years-old now and in bad shape, so Charlie's successors on the board just voted to replace it with a clubhouse for the Firebirds and name the new building after Charlie. See the report in The Cape Codder here. Photo courtesy of the Orleans Firebirds.
Charlie Moore's Viking coin
I was working at The Cape Codder when Charlie Moore cam back to town. As a Ford VP and personal publicist for the Henry Ford II, he drove a new Lincoln Continental with a Dartmouth Indian hood ornament and was a great practical joker. 
Charlie became buddy-buddy with The Cape Codder crew, and some of us played poker in his Tonset "Hill House" above his home.
The day he left for a week-long voyage on the QE II to England, he stopped in our office and handed publisher Mal Hobbs a dirty, old Viking coin he said he'd dug up in his yard.
Since he was at sea and unavailable oit was not until after we ran the story we found out it was a fake, another Charlie practical joke, but hell, he was a superb human being whose grandson is Barack Obama's Sectretary of the Treasurer Timothy Geithner. - Walter Brooks.
Audit details show misuse of funds
by Orleans COA director
The Cape Codder reports that the problems that were revealed in a November audit were prompted by a whistleblower and the audit was conducted by Town Finance Director David Withrow, shortly after Orleans COA Director Elizabeth Smith was placed on administrative leave on Nov. 15 for medical reasons. After nearly twenty years at the agency Smith had just been named Director of the Year by Massachusetts Councils of Aging.
According to the weekly, Smith allegedly hid expenses and circumvented the town’s approval process and used taxpayer funds to loan herself money, buy gifts for town staff and circumvent employee compensation laws for several years.
In an earlier report, The Cape Codder said Smith had been lauded for launching new programs and garnering grant funding.
She was named the Council of Aging Director of the Year by the Massachusetts Councils on Aging in October.
Her retirement was effective Dec. 27.
Read the Cape Codder story here.
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February 19 - 1914: "Cape Cod Ditch" 75% complete; 2008: Dennis Golf Club sued for gender discrimination
1914: Cape Cod Canal construction almost finished, may open in 6 month
The dredge Governor Herrick working in the land cut of the canal in 1914. Credit USACE.
On this day in 1914 as reported by The McKean (Pa.) Democrat under the headline "New Canal Nearly Cut - Small Craft Will Be Allowed to Pass Through Cape Cod Ditch Shortly" -
Sandwich, Mass. - The Cape Cod Canal is likely to be open for small craft within six months. This six-mile ditch connecting Cape Cod Bay with Buzzards Bay is 75 percent completed, according to the engineers, and it is believed that the waters of the two bays will meet the coming summer.
When first opened the canal will not be sufficiently deep to admit coastwise vessels, but power boats and other small craft will be allowed to go through. Already several New England yacht clubs are planning cruises with the canal passage in view.
Two big dredges that entered the canal, one at each end, are now within 8,000 feet of each other in Bournedale. Between them, for nearly a mile, is a fifteen-foot trench which will be flooded when the dredges cut the barriers.
The canal officially opened five months later on July 29, 1914.
2008: Woman sues golf club as a deterrent to other towns & clubs
Thirty-five years after Billie Jean King -- Elaine Joyce
Elaine Joyce at the Dennis Pines Golf Course. Image courtesy of Polaris Public Relations.
On this day in 2008 local golfer Elaine Joyce sued in federal court to have her way on the golf courses of Dennis and beyond.
"This isn't just about Dennis Pines or Dennis Highlands, and this isn't about money. I filed this suit to fix things for women." - Elaine Joyce"This isn't just about Dennis Pines or Dennis Highlands," said Joyce, 43, "and this isn't about money," she added. "I filed this lawsuit to fix things for women who have been discriminated against for a long time. By making an example out of Dennis, I hope the action serves as a deterent to other towns and other clubs that if you behave badly there is a price to pay, and it's a hefty price."
"About 20 people who work for the town of Dennis from the town administrator to the golf commission to the golf director and the pro, they all got it wrong," Joyce said, despite her having met personally with several of them in an attempt to iron things at the course, not the court.
The straw that broke this camel's back
The straw that broke the camel's back came the previous summer when she was not allowed to join her father as his partner in a men's tournament. That morning she was directed by a town employee to consider that the town has changed its policy for this upcoming season, and now calls the tournament simply a member-member, gender neutral, and cites the USGA for its interpretation of what that means.
In any event, this new policy toward women, if that's what it is, does nothing to mollify Joyce, who is pursuing damages based on past conduct, not future behavior, and has named the town administrator and all the top golf officials past and present who had a hand in the decision last season to disallow her from playing in a men's tournament, and to segregate men and women in other realms of the tee-time and tournament system.
Her goal is to be able to freely associate with better talent as a basic tenet of all competitive athletes has the game for any league, as a 3-handicap, and says her goal is to be able to freely associate with better talent as a basic tenet of all competitive athletes.
A top woman's competitor
A software designer who is single and lives in Yarmouth Port, Joyce is a resident member of the Dennis municipal golf at Pines and Highland by dint of her trusteeship in a Dennis property. A graduate of Dennis-Yarmouth High, same as LPGA great Sally Quinlan, Golfweek editor Jeff Babineau and Brad Eaton (see above), Joyce has a few Top 5 finishes in WGAM events and roughly 20 club championships between Dennis and the courses of Yarmouth, Bayberry Hills and Bass River especially.
Not her first turf war
Ten years ago, Joyce said she fought a similar battle in Yarmouth over her ability to play with the block-tee-time blessed Forty Thieves. Not only could she not, they determined in a 39-1 vote, they changed their name to the Forty Thieves Men's League.
Then, however, she took her battle to Town Hall and convinced the town counsel and town administrator in Yarmouth that women deserved access to more or less whatever they wanted if the alternative is to discriminate against them just because they are women.
"But the people in Dennis ignored the example set by Yarmouth and that's why the issue must be forced, not just for these towns and clubs on the Cape, but everywhere," said Karen Schwartzman, a public relations specialist working for the lawyers who filed suit in Boston.
Thirty-five years after Billie Jean King - Elaine Joyce
Thirty-five years after Billie Jean King showed the world what a chauvinist pig that Bobby Riggs was, Elaine Joyce has taken the baton. Stay tuned. This could get interesting.
The filed complaint in its entirety is available in PDF form here.
Hyannis Friday night drug bust nets half pound of high-grade pot
Barnstable Street Crime Unit takes two more alleged dealers off the streets
Left to right: Robert Daluze and Johnadam P. Bonicoro busted on pot possession Friday night in Hyannis. BPD booking photos.
HYANNIS - Two more alleged drug dealers were taken into custody Friday and will face distribution charges at their arraignment Tuesday, according to a Barnstable police release. During a routine closing time patrol of downtown Hyannis area streets and parking lots, members of the multi-agency, undercover Barnstable Street Crime Unit (SCU) arrested two men on drug charges and confiscated a half pound of reportedly high-grade marijuana.
Around 11 p.m., Friday night, SCU members, Yarmouth Detective Scott Lundegren and Barnstable County Deputy Sheriff Kim Saladino observed what they determined to be activity consistent with the sale of illegal narcotics--a group of people milling around a black Ford pickup truck with two men in the cab in the North Street parking lot.
The officers approached the truck and observed the men inside the truck using marijuana, police said. Upon further investigation, Lundegren and Saladino found and seized a half pound of marijuana and a digital scale. According to police, the street value of the marijuana is estimated at $2,500.
Both the driver, 27-year-old Robert Daluze of Harwich and the passenger, Johnadam P. Bonicoro, 28, of East Strousdberg, PA, were placed under arrest and charged with possession of a Class D drug (marijuana) with intent to distribute and conspiracy to violate narcotics laws.
Daluze and Bonicoro were both transported to the Barnstable Police Station where they were booked and released on bail. Both men are scheduled for arraignment in Barnstable District Court on Tuesday.
West Yarmouth man dies in single-car crash Friday
Driver transported to Cape Cod Hospital where he was pronounced dead
WEST YARMOUTH - A West Yarmouth man was pronounced dead at Cape Cod Hospital Friday night after having been involved in a single-car crash at the intersection of Camp Street and Buck Island Road in West Yarmouth. Members of the Yarmouth Police and Fire Departments responded to the scene of the crash Friday night around 7:30 p.m., according to a Yarmouth police release.
Police have identified the driver as 68-year-old Kenneth W. Rautenberg of Camp Street in West Yarmouth as the driver of the car. When officers and firefighters arrived at the scene, they found Mr. Rautenberg's 2011 Toyota Camry crashed into a landscaped embankment near the entrance to Mill Pond Estates.
First aid and CPR were administered at the scene before Mr. Rautenberg was transported to Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis where he was pronounced dead, according to Yarmouth Police Deputy Chief Steven Xiarhos.
A preliminary investigation indicates that Mr. Rautenberg suffered from what police are calling a serious medical event. According to police, Mr. Rautenberg was driving west on Buck Island Road, crossed over into the eastbound lane through the stop sign at the intersection and into the embankment at a high rate of speed.
Aw, come on Walter & Monpo, get it right [Op-Ed]
Have a little patience Monponsett and Walter
Friday was not a good day for Elizabeth Warren on Cape Cod Today,
By Richard Bartlett
Friday, February 17th was not a good day for Elizabeth Warren on Cape Cod Today, the favorite website of so many of us.
First the usually affable and always perceptive Walter Brooks wrote a lengthy piece telling her to fire her campaign manager. He seemed unduly concerned about a 9 point lead Brown had 9 months before the election.
After watching the GOP presidential circus with its clowns enjoying about a month of glory before plummeting to the scrap heap it seems entirely possible that gearing up later is the smart strategy.
I'm not suggesting in any way that Elizabeth Warren resembles those strange ones, only that people tire of campaign overkill. We don't need too much too soon.
The second article on the same day had an impressionable Monponset bedazzled by the photogenic Scott Brown and arguing he was the likely blue collar favorite.
Really? Scott Brown has been called "Wall Street's Best Friend in the Senate." His $12 million campaign chest is stuffed with big --- really big --- corporate gifts, and he has known how to show his appreciation to those donors whose generosity is prompted by favors from Scott. It's called "pay for play."
Brown co-sponsored a bill that would not only deny women contraception, but would allow any business or insurance company to deny any employee any part of or all of their health care insurance.Just as Mitt Romney wears carefully wrinkled blue jeans to prove he's one of us, Scott made a barn coat his disguise and a pickup truck his camouflage. He wanted us to think of him as an independent, but he voted the Tea Party dominated Republican party line most of the time.
He gave his support to the Ryan Plan to kill Medicare and Social Security as we know them. He consistently voted to filibuster needed judicial and agency appointments --- party over country.
With Sen. Blunt he co-sponsored a bill that would not only deny women contraception, but would allow any business or insurance company to deny any employee any part of or all of their health care insurance. This guy is from the dark ages.
Brown is from the dark ages with his hands in your pocket
Perhaps the reason he is co-sponsor of the Blunt bill is because he received $108,900 from FMR (financial lobbyists), $80,900 from Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, $54,448 from Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. That's just the tip of the iceberg of the "gifts" from legal firms, big banks, and insurance companies. (I wonder if the policy holders realize part of their premiums are supporting the Republican Party?)
Instead of cozying up to Wall Street, his opponent, Elizabeth Warren created a watchdog agency to protect small investors and home buyers against the unregulated policies that harmed so many and caused the recent financial mayhem. It is she who would be the champion of the blue collar and middle class in the senate.
So have a little patience, Walter and Monponset, the truth will out. It would be more characteristic of CCToday if your voices clearly gave support to the candidate who would help Obama keep the recovery rolling.
Brown - the "Filibuster senator" from Massachusetts
Remember Scott Brown's old pitch --- he would be "the 41st vote." He would be that one extra vote that would allow Mitch McConnell to filibuster everything with no threat of cloture, making it necessary to get 60 votes on everything instead of the traditional simple majority. So Scott Brown's gift to the nation is two years of governmental constipation. No wonder congresses approval is only 10%.
Richard C. Bartlett
Cotuit
Light snow possible overnight [Nor'easter Blues]
Snow Lovers Will Take What They Can Get
A weak area of precipitation will pass over Massachusetts tonight, and we may even get some snow out of it.
The ground is too warm (temperatures were near 50 today) for much accumulation, but we could get a coating to an inch. The squall will hit us long after dark, when the temperature will dip to freezing. It could start as rain, however.
From what I see at around 5:45 PM, the snow won't make it our way until bedtime hours.... bedtime for normal people, say maybe 9-11 PM. It all depends on how well the squalls coming NW to SE out of NY hold together. Here's the link to a current radar shot, if you are reading this later on.
If you sleep late, you may miss the snow. Temps are supposed to get into the 40s tomorrow. We may even hit the 50s a few times this upcoming week.
That storm you've been hearing about is forecast by everybody to stay well South of us, although Virginia might get 6 inches of snow out of it. She's in Alabama at the moment, and would be a terrific storm if she made it up here. She won't, though.
If you plan to ravage the Shenandoah Valley tomorrow, you may be in a jam... but New England misses yet another snowstorm. We get these wimpy flurries. We'll keep you informed.
Cape Wind will boost state’s economy [Globe Editorial]
NStar deal, rise of Cape Wind will boost state’s economy
Now it’s time to get started
The Patrick administration negotiated diligently and emerged with a fair bargain from the power company NStar, requiring it to purchase electricity from Cape Wind as a condition of state approval of its merger with Northeast Utilities. The deal preserves current electric rates for four years, while moving the nation’s first offshore wind farm a huge step closer to reality.
The Patrick administration need not lose any sleep for squeezing the companies. With their state-granted local monopolies on electricity, public utilities are not like normal private-sector businesses that have to compete.The $17.5 billion merger still needs to win approval from regulators in Connecticut, where Northeast Utilities is based. But from the standpoint of Massachusetts, the deal now meets the test of serving the public interest.
Fossil fuel prices are notoriously volatile; the deal will lock in predictable wind power rates for years.
In exchange for the Commonwealth’s approval of the merger, the combined utility has agreed to buy 27.5 percent of the output from Cape Wind, the 132-turbine wind farm slated for the waters off Nantucket. Another large Bay State power company, National Grid, had already committed to buying half. With more than three-quarters of the wind farm’s electricity now accounted for, the deal should make it possible for Cape Wind to get financing and begin construction.
Opponents complain the deal will force the utility to buy overpriced wind power, whose cost will eventually be passed on to consumers. They also feel it was inappropriate for the Patrick administration to strong-arm the firm, which has long been reluctant to touch Cape Wind.
But the administration need not lose any sleep for squeezing the companies. With their state-granted local monopolies on electricity, public utilities are not like normal private-sector businesses that have to compete for their market share. It’s perfectly appropriate for state regulators to assert the Commonwealth’s priorities, which include fostering clean energy both for environmental and economic reasons...
But the true long-term benefit for residents comes in the boost the deal gives to Cape Wind. Offshore power could be an immense economic resource for Massachusetts, and Cape Wind is already shaping up to be the nucleus of what could be a home-grown industry; earlier this month, federal officials began studying the possibility of another large new wind development south of Martha’s Vineyard.
Getting Cape Wind up and running has been a torturous, decade-long undertaking, much of it played out in boardrooms, state houses, and government regulatory agencies. Now it’s time to get started.
Read today's Globe Editorial here.
Group formed to reduce bureaucracy suggests more instead
Barnstable County government asks its 'inventors' to judge them
How Barnstable County Government would re-invent the pencil sharpener:
Open window (A) and fly kite (B). String (C) lifts small door (D) allowing moths (E) to escape and eat Bill Doherty's red flannel long-johns (F). As weight of shirt becomes less, Sheila Lyon's shoe (G) steps on switch (H) which heats electric iron (I) and burns hole in Elliot Carr's pants (J). Smoke (K) enters hole in tree (L), smoking out opossum (M) which jumps into basket (N), pulling rope (O) and lifting cage (P), allowing woodpecker (Q) to chew wood from pencil (R), exposing lead. Emergency knife (S) is always handy to sharpen the pencil in case opossum or the woodpecker gets sick and can't work.
Small towns to be asked to pay for big towns' mistakes
Group suggests new bureaucracy to be added to present county government
By Walter Brooks
The Falmouth Enterprise reports that a special commission formed by the Cape Cod Commission to consider the future of county government on Cape Cod recommended yesterday the creation of a large additional county bureaucracy.
“It is a regional issue whether we like it or not.”- Dan Wolf.The 27-member group formed to make recommendations to Barnstable County’s three commissioners about a possible restructuring of county government recommended the creation of an extra commission instead - a new regional wastewater agency.
Two former State Senators Robert A. O’Leary (D) and Henri S. Rauschenbach (R), are the co-chairmen of the commission. O'Leary's most recent political effort was to unseat his fellow Democrat Bill Keating as the Congressman from this district, and Rauschenbach is best remembered for barely surviving an ethics investigation before leaving office, an office O'Leary inherited.
The players:
Henri Rauschenbach (R)
State senator 1988-2001, resident of Brewster. Ranking Republican on the Senate Ways and Means Committee.
State Rep from 1984 to 1988.
Acquitted in 1995 of ethics charges related to taking $2,500-per-month payments from an Osterville investment broker.
His initiatives while in office:
Cape Cod Commission Act in 1987.
Economic Development Council in 1992. Cape Cod and islands license plate.
Lower Cape Cod CDC.
Career Opportunities Center in Hyannis.
He was succeeded by:
Rob O'Leary (D)
MMA professor 1975-present.
County Commissioner 1987-2001.
State Senator 2001 to 2011, resident of Barnstable.
Initiatives: Helped establish CC Commission.
Cape Cod Land Bank.
Ocean management legislation.
Chair of Higher Education Committee.This reporter fails to see how this kind of tarnished leadership can expect support from "the powers that be", although our current State Senator, Dan Wolf, seems to agree that "more is better" when it comes to county government.
Mr. Wolf has lived in the same house in the most rural section of North Harwich, an area with zero pollution problems, which would be asked to pay for the pollution caused by waterfront homes built without adequate septic systems to prevent pollution of our aquafer.
Wolf is a highly successful businessman who surely knows that a bureaucracy's only function is to enrich itself, and nothing in either of the co-chairs' past would indicate a respect for the taxpayer or the air they breath. Both are opponents to the renewable energy wind farm which will be built now despite, their efforts to stop it.
In the 1980s every county in the state had a similar commission, or county government, which had become obsolete as the state and the nation moved beyond the rural societies of the past.
All counties in Massachusetts saw the legislature eliminate their county governments, but it was thought that Barnstable, and to a lesser degree, Plymouth, still needed one.
The Cape Cod Commission was formed by a ballot question in November 1988 when 76 percent of Cape voters endorsed its creation, and then-Governor Michael S. Dukakis signed the Cape Cod Commission Act in January 1990.
Many Cape Codder, and almost all local businesses, now believe the County Commission has outlived its purpose, and the state has laws and agencies which perform the same functions at no additional cost to the county.
The argument against a "regional approach"
A year ago the 27-member panel was formed to look into the commission's status in 21st century Massachusetts, and apparently that panel has decided Cape Cod needs more bureaucracy, not less.
"They did not want a big, powerful regional agency telling every town how to go about the project."
- Thomas Fudala.The recommended new agency to regulate wastewater for the county would also create jobs for unemployed politicians and their friends.
The Enterprise reports that F. Thomas Fudala, chairman of the Mashpee Sewer Commission, said in an interview with the Enterprise last week, "A similar discussion about the benefits of a regional approach took place prior to the creation of the Cape Cod Water Protection Collaborative.
"The towns made clear they wanted help with advocating for money and assistance in coordinating with other municipalities, but they did not want a big, powerful regional agency telling every town how to go about the project."
The problem to be addressed by the proposed new bureaucracy is the nitrogen and other pollution caused by some towns which allowed large homes to be built on waterways like the Mashpee River, while smaller and less densely populated towns on the Lower Cape have no such problem, but would be forced to pay to remedy problems caused by their neighbors.
Jefferson said that a nation deserves the leaders it chooses. It seems our commissioner have chosen a couple losers to mislead them.
See the Enterprise story here.
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February 18 - 1952: Coast Guard rescues 32 sailors from stricken tanker; 1875: Two schooners with 24 crews disappear on Grand Banks
1952: CG36500 saves 32 lives off Monomoy as Pendleton goes down
The mural showing the rescue of the Pendleton crew, painted by Tony Falcone, is displayed at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn.
On this day in 1952, one of the most daring rescues in the history of the Coast Guard took place six miles off Chatham.
The tanker Pendleton, en route to Boston from Baton Rouge with a cargo of oil, split in two during the winter's worst storm. Eight crew members were trapped on the ship's bow; another 33 sailors were stranded on the Pendleton's stern.
Shortly after 6 p.m., Coast Guard rescue boat CG36500 with a four-man crew - Bernie Webber, Andrew Fitzgerald, Richard Livesey and Irving Maske - rushed from Chatham Fish Pier to the stricken Pendleton. Conditions could hardly be worse - hurricane-force winds whipping snow and sleet across towering waves in pitch blackness.
Just after the rescue boat arrived off the Pendleton's stern, crew members on the tanker lowered a Jacob's ladder over the side and scrambled down, some jumping onto the rescue boat, others being fished from the water by the Coast Guardsmen. One of the Pendleton's sailors fell into the ocean and was crushed to death between the rescue boat and hull of the tanker.
Four Coast Guardsmen and 32 temporarily safe tanker crewmen on a valiant 36 foot motor lifeboat, and no compass to lead back to Chatham Harbor.
The eight sailors trapped on the Pendleton's bow perished and their bodies were never recovered, but 32 of the 33 men on the tanker's stern were rescued and brought to Chatham.
"I believe the Pendleton rescue is clearly the preeminent rescue by a small boat crew, the CG36500, in the entire history of the Coast Guard," Capt. Russell Webster, former commander of Coast Guard Group Woods Hole, told the Cape Cod Times for a story marking the 50th anniversary in 2002.
In a freak coincidence, another oil tanker of the same design, the Fort Mercer, broke in two 50 miles off Cape Cod in the same fierce nor'easter that doomed the Pendleton. Coast Guard cutters rescued 38 men from the stern of the Fort Mercer, but as with the Pendleton, five sailors trapped on the bow died and their bodies were not recovered.
In 2005 the rescue boat CG36500 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
1875: Twenty-four Cape Cod fisherman lost as two schooners fail to return
On this day in 1875 The New York Times ran a one paragraph item stating: "All hope of the safety of the fishing schooners Joseph Chandler and David Burnham II who have been absent upon trips to the Grand banks since Dec. 1, has been given up, and they are regarded as lost with their crews, numbering in all twenty-four men."
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