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One taken to hospital after Wellfleet two-car crash Wednesday
Both cars reportedly totaled in crash
WELLFLEET - One person was transported to Cape Cod Hospital late Wednesday morning after a two-car crash on Route 6. According to a Wellfleet police release, Wellfleet officers and firefighters responded to the crash near Dale Ave. just before 11:30 a.m.
Two vehicles were involved in the crash, a 2007 Toyota Rav 4 and a 1995 Honda. The driver of the Toyota, Kathie Pavia, 65, of Wellfleet, was transported to Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. The driver of the Honda, Constantine Phipps, 47, of Orleans, was examined at the scene by Eastham EMTs, but was not taken to the hospital.
Both cars appeared to be totaled and were towed from the season, according to police.
Police did not indicate if either drivers faces any charges.
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History field guide/interpreter training course begins March 20 [Event]
Train for six Tuesdays and three Saturdays
The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History has announced the start date of the Field Guide/Interpreter training course. The popular course begins on March 20 and will run for six Tuesdays and three Saturdays:
- Tuesday, March 20 from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
- Tuesday, March 27, April 3, 10, 17 & 24 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- Saturdays, March 31, April 7 & 14 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Participants will learn about the natural history of Cape Cod and more specifically, the Wing Island area. Field guides will be trained to lead school children onto the Museum's trails in the spring and fall and lead family walks in the summer. Participants will also be trained to serve as Museum interpreters and guides for special programs.
Museum naturalists will teach participants about the geology, biology, ecology and human history of the Wing Island area. Guides will be able to convey this information to audiences of all ages and convey to visitors the rich diversity of life in the areas woodlands, salt marsh and beach ecosystems.
For more information, contact Training Coordinator Bud Ferris or Volunteer Coordinator Barbara Knoss at 508-896-3867. Information is also available on the Museum's website here. The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History is located at 869 Main Street (Route 6A) in Brewster.
Attorney General Martha Coakley negotiates merger deal with NSTAR
Agreement includes rate freeze
Immediate savings of $217,000,000 for ratepayers
By Matt Nadler, Editor, Plymouth Daily News.
NSTAR customers will receive approximately $217 million in savings through a settlement agreement negotiated by Attorney General Martha Coakley’s Office with NSTAR and Northeast Utilities.
The word on the street is that Martha Coakley is preparing to run for governor when Deval Patrick's term ends in 2014.The company serves Carver, Duxbury, Kingston, Plymouth, Plympton and Wareham. On Cape Cod the company serves Barnstable, Bourne, Brewster, Chatham, Dennis. Eastham, Falmouth, Harwich, Mashpee, Orleans, Provincetown, Sandwich, Truro, Wellfleet and Yarmouth.
The agreement was reached as a condition for approval of a merger between the two companies.
The agreement includes a four-year distribution rate freeze, an immediate $21 million merger savings credit to customers and protection for customers from inappropriate merger costs such as “golden parachutes” and executive retention payments
The Department of Energy Resources also signed on to the agreement. The has an agreement requiring NSTAR to execute a 15-year power contract with the Cape Wind Project as a condition of the merger.
The proposed agreement now goes before the Department of Public Utilities.
Two men arrested after Harwich breaking and entering
One being held pending outcome of dangerousness hearing
Left to right: Randall Newell and Sean Garcia. HPD booking photos.
HARWICH - Harwich police officers were called to a duplex on Guilford Drive in Harwich Center early Tuesday morning for a reported breaking and entering in progress. Upon arrival at the home around midnight, officers found the door to the upper level apartment of a duplex kicked in.
According to police and court reports, the officers heard a loud conversation between two males at a nearby apartment. There they located two men suspected in the breaking and entering of the first apartment, Sean Garcia, 31, of Harwich, and Randall Newell, 24, of Yarmouth.
Garcia was arrested and taken into custody on four outstanding warrants. Newell, who is no stranger to local law enforcement, was arrested and charged with two counts of possession of a large capacity firearm without a permit, defacing a serial number on a firearm, breaking and entering, possession of ammunition without a permit and malicious destruction of property.
The two were transported to the Harwich Police Station, booked and held until their arraignment on Tuesday, police said.
Randall Newell is currently being held pending a dangerousness hearing scheduled for March 2. Newell has been convicted in the past on both illegal firearms and drug trafficking charges, according to police.
A Barnstable County Sheriff's Office K9 Unit assisted with the arrest, police said.
Chatham considers "no trespass" order against US Government
The Breakthrough in April 2007 in the barrier beach. North Beach Island on right is now cut off.
Chatham may issue "no trespass" order against US Government
The contractor hired by the Cape Cod National Seashore to demolish the five federally-owned camps on North Beach Island is expected to start work Monday.
The Cape Cod Chronicle reports today that Chatham's Board of Selectmen came within one vote yesterday of issuing a trespass order against the United States Government in an attempt to block demolition equipment from reaching camps on North Beach Island.
Selectman Timothy Roper said it seems odd to consider putting up no trespassing signs against the federal government, "but on the other hand, I kind of like the idea."
The newspaper says that the tactic was considered as a way to delay the demolition and thus to provide additional time for political or legal challenges to take hold.
But the proposal failed to pass on a 2-2 vote Tuesday.
The weekly reports that a barge is expected to arrive to remove the camps about March 7.
Read the Cape Cod Chronicle here. Our original 2007 story on the breakthrough is below.
Storm this week cut off another hunk, cottages isolated
By Walter Brooks
In late April 2007 visitors to the Cape this school vacation week had an unexpected natural disaster to watch as about a mile of the barrier beach which protects Chatham Harbor and Pleasant Bay from the ocean waves was severed by up to a half mile wide breach.
The point where local beach police and others discovered the new breach is directly opposite a highland known as High Scatteree in North Chatham. The new opening is pumping water into an area called Bassing Harbor which is adjacent to the larger Pleasant Bay and South Orleans. The Chatham conservation land on Strong Island, once mentioned as the location for a President Kennedy Summer White House, may be eroded by the ocean currents entering the bay on its south shore.
At high tide early this week, huge ocean waves riding the seasonal higher tides could be seen crashing over the outer beach in four locations. Water was flooding Bassing and Chatham Harbor. The washovers in the area between the first and second so-called “villages,” or clusters of beach camps. By Wednesday there was no beach left on the ocean side wide enough for off-road vehicles and the beach from about the Orleans line south was closed to traffic.
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Cape Cod Arraignments and Dispositions - February 29, 2012
ORLEANS DISTRICT COURT
February 29, 2012
In court February 28, 2012
ARRAIGNMENTS
BROWN, Jeffrey M, 32, 31 Skippers Dr, Harwich; assault & battery, January 2 in Harwich. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 30.
GARCIA, Sean K, 31, 92 Clear Brook Rd, W. Yarmouth; breaking & entering at nighttime for felonious purposes, February 28 in Harwich. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 9. According to police reports, Harwich officers dispatched to 35/37 Guilford Drive, an upper/lower duplex, found the door to #37 kicked in so as to permit illegal entry. Police found no obvious signs of anything broken or missing. They overheard a loud conversation between two males at the adjoining residence, 21/23 Guilford Drive, and found Garcia trying to hide behind a shower curtain in a bathroom. Garcia had four outstanding warrants. He was immediately handcuffed, then arrested.
HAYDUK, Michelle N, 23, 35 Guilford Dr, Harwich; Class A drug possession, heroin, February 27 in Harwich. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 9.
Tribe to pick Taunton today, still faces July 31 deadline
Tribe decision will cost Foxboro and Raynham any hope for a casino or slots
Land must be approved, governor must agree on profit share, all by July 31, 2012
The Enterprise reports that it has learned that the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe has decided on the nearby off Cape city of Taunton for the site of its eagerly anticipated gambling casino and resort hotel. Taunton is the county seat of Bristol County, and the 2010 census reports the city has a population of 55,874.
The weekly newspaper says that Tribal Chairman Cedric Cromwell and Taunton Mayor Thomas C. Hoye, Jr. will make a joint announcement at Taunton City Hall today.
This is good news for the city which faces even more unemployment because of the planned closing of the Taunton State Mental Hospital, see here.
Other cities which were vying for this huge economic plum included New Bedford, Fall River, Bridgewater, Middleborough, and Raynham, but the tribe has selected a 53-acre parcel in an industrial park near the intersection of Routes 140 and Route 24.
The location in near the Silver City Galleria shopping mall.
The Boston Globe reports the one big loser in this decision is the Raynham Park track in the next town which hoped to bid for the slot machine parlor license authorized by the state casino law.
The tribe’s site in Taunton is also less than 30 miles from two other proposed casinos as well, the Plainridge Racecourse in Plainville, and Foxborough where Las Vegas mogul Steve Wynn is proposing a $1 billion gambling resort.
Tribe faced with four month deadline to have BIA approve land, deal with Patrick
Now the tribe has to apply to the US Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs to take the land into trust so it may qualify as Indian land under federal law.
Then, for the tribe to maintain its advantage it must negotiate with Governor Deval Patrick on the money the state would get from gambling proceeds and how the casino would be regulated.
By July 31, the tribe would also have to win legislative approval of the compact and schedule a local referendum.
If the Mashpee Wampanoag fail to make the deadline, the commission must open the southeast to commercial casino bidders.
Read the Enterprise story here. Read the Globe story here.
Read previous reports on this development below.
- Motivation for closing nearest state mental hospital questioned
Posted in EXTRA... on February 23, 2012 - Tribe, Delahunt, talking to Taunton about their casino
Posted in EXTRA... on February 14, 2012
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February 29 - 1974: Anxiety over gasoline shortage
1974: High gas prices bring fear of bankrupt businesses and soaring unemployment
Local businesses call for buses to move visitors around
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n this day in 1974 as reported by The Christian Science Monitor:
HYANNIS - Cape Cod businessmen anticipate bankrupt businesses and soaring unemployment if the gasoline shortage continues into the summer without special provision for their tourist-based economy.
But it tourists can be moved to, from and around the cape - even without adequate gasoline - the cape's tourist industry could continue to prosper.
So Cape Cod businessmen and town officials seek renewed rail service and more bus and air service while they also push for additional gas supplies to all Massachusetts resort regions.
Their efforts so far have not met with great success.
(photo credit, www.aliciapatterson.org)
Baby rights; Cartoonist meets subject [Politics]
Brown for keeping women "barefoot and pregnant" - Joins the war against women
Cartoonist meets Elizabeth Warren, "She loves my t-shirt"
By Joe Quigley
The Phoenix reports that "Brown is an animal." and the story behind the headline says, Scott Brown, Crazy Person. The senator joins the Republican cult against birth control. Scott Brown is, in many ways, a model of modern-day craziness. He denies global warming and Darwin's theory of evolution, so it is not surprising that by some flight of twisted logic he has come to see fit to restrict birth-control access. Wonder what his two daughters think of that.
She loved my t-shirt. We reminisced since I taught at her Alma Mater, NW Classen in Oklahoma City.The Massachusetts junior senator Scott Brown last week signed on to support a Republican initiative to nullify President Barack Obama's birth-control compromise, Brown joined the vast and growing right-wing war on women.
Brown's new arch-conservative position on birth control stands in contrast to the stance he took 10 years ago when, as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Brown favored legislation requiring all health-care providers to offer contraception coverage.
That law provided a narrow exclusion for churches or "church-controlled organizations," but it was benign when compared to the pending Republican anti-birth-control legislation. In fact, since 2002, Massachusetts has been operating under what is essentially the Obama compromise.
The GOP scheme would allow any business, not just those allied with a religion, to opt out of providing insurance coverage for birth control if the business deemed contraception to conflict with its moral or religious beliefs.
Democratic senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey has rightly called the Republican proposal an attempt to keep women "barefoot and pregnant"...
Read the rest of the Phoenix story here.
Barnstable Democratic Town Committee St. Patrick's Day Brunch, Sunday, March 11 [Poli-Cal]
With special guest Congressman Bill Keating
The Barnstable Democratic Town Committee will host their annual St. Patrick's Day Brunch on Sunday, March 11 at 11 a.m. at Tommy Doyle's Irish Pub, 334 Main Street in Hyannis.
Special guest Congressman Bill Keating will be joined by Senator Dan Wolf, State Representatives Demetrius Atsalis (emcee for the event), Cleon Turner and Sarah Peake and County Commissioners Sheila Lyons and Mary Pat Flynn among others.
Tickets are $20 per person, $18 for students. Reservations may be made on the Barnstable Democratic Town Committee's website here. There will be a full breakfast buffet and cash bar.
To learn more about the Barnstable Democratic Town Committee, visit their website here.
Snap Fitness introduces $10K Lose Weight Challenge [Business News]
Local fitness club offers motivation, support and prizes for 8-week competition
Now that New Year’s has come and gone, the motivation to stick with those resolutions may be fading.
This year, the local Snap Fitness is helping members stay on track and lose those unwanted holiday pounds with an 8-week $10,000 Lose Weight, Feel Great Challenge.
To help members get started on their path to better results, the club is also offering this limited time joining offer: new members who join and participate in the challenge, will receive the month of April free.
"This can be the most frustrating time of year to reaching your fitness goals," said Elaine Vakalopoulos, Snap Fitness owner in Sandwich. "The initial excitement from New Year’s has worn off, and now the key is finding the motivation to stick with it."
"We make it easier by offering a nearby club that’s open 24/7 so members can work out on their schedule, and our month-to-month memberships remove a lot of hesitation. Further, our $10,000 Lose Weight Challenge is free for all Snap Fitness members to participate. Last year, the average member lost seven pounds and found the experience to be fun and rewarding."
The competition kicks-off March 1 and runs through April 30. It includes regular, private weigh-ins, tips and live online chats with Chad the Trainer to answer questions, free online meal planning, and local and national prizes for the biggest losers. Plus, no matter how much you lose, you could win $250 just for participating!
For more information or to arrange a tour of the club, call 508-833-7627 (SNAP) or visit snapfitness.com/sandwich.
Courtesy of Snap Fitness.
Masked man armed with syringe robs Wareham 7-Eleven
Store clerk not harmed during robbery
WAREHAM - Wareham police are searching for a suspect wanted after robbing the 7-Eleven on Cranberry Highway early Tuesday. At 3 a.m. a masked man brandishing a syringe entered the store and demanded money from the female clerk on duty, according to Wareham Lt. Kevin Walsh.
The woman handed over an undisclosed quantity of cash and the masked man fled the scene. The clerk was not harmed during the incident, police said.
Although the suspect's face was covered, the clerk described him to police as a thin, white man in his early 20s, about 5'7" tall.
Photos or security video is not available at this time, police said.
Anyone with information about the suspect or the incident is asked to contact the Wareham Detective Division at 508-295-1206. Or text the information to 274637 (CRIMES), beginning your text with "warehampd".
Double Standards [Op-Ed]
Whatever caused this tragedy is now in the public domain
All the various media have clearly participated in some sort of cover-up.
By Michael Bradley
Ken Nagy.
Jason Lantych.As someone who once served as a police officer and who later worked for many years as a newspaperman, the ongoing news coverage of Beverly police officer Jason Lantych’s shooting by Sgt. Ken Nagy of the Hamilton Police Department is galling.It seems obvious that if Jason Lantych was a general contractor and Ken Nagy was a framing contractor we would already know why Lantych was shot by Nagy. The media, print and electronic, would have been all over the story, probing the business and personal lives of the two men.
We would likely already know more than we cared to know about the two men, including how they did business, who they associated with and why, and perhaps most importantly, we would know if money and a bad business deal were involved or whether it was a love triangle that caused the shooting.
But in this actual case involving police, not contractors, several days after the unfortunate episode all we know is that the two officers from adjacent towns agreed to meet at a diner, but apparently without discussion Lantych was shot several times by Nagy.
We now know that some of the restaurant patrons were heroic in helping to save Lantych from bleeding out, since apparently one of the shots hit an artery in his leg, almost as though the shooter was aiming for the groin. And later that night, in the midst of a police manhunt for one of their own, Sgt. Nagy returned to the proverbial scene of the crime and, unfortunately, killed himself.
That this immediately appears, on the face of it, to be a classic human tragedy involving hopes, dreams and very possibly, love, has been completely ignored by a media that would have torn the covers off of the lives of any average person. The news approach in this case is a farce, which is underscored by the fact that in its most recent reports the TV media is using hints instead of facts, observing that Mrs. Nagy works in the Hamilton Police Department.
There cannot be two sets of media rules for the average citizen and the law enforcement community.The apparent double-standard regarding police suspects and the rest of us was remarkably illustrated by the office of Essex County DA Jonathan Blodgett, whose spokeswoman flatly stated that motive in this case “is not relevant.” After some ridicule, DA Blodgett backed away from that remark.
Whatever caused this tragedy is now in the public domain and all the various media have clearly participated in some sort of cover-up.
It is understandable and human for the police departments and the families involved to desire the story be contained, but there cannot be two sets of media rules for the average citizen and the law enforcement community. It is simply incredible to believe that with all the resources of the Massachusetts media all that is known is the bare facts of the shooting and the status of the wounded officer, Jason Lantych.
It is incredible because everyone realizes that if the tragedy involved them or their family members, the reporting would be diametrically different.
Is nuke era ending? Patrick Administration to save Otis, others
Is the Nuclear Era ending here?
Many plants are the same as Fukushima
AlterNet reports that nearly one year after the Fukushima disaster, 23 nuclear power plants of the same model are still operating in the United States, many of them pushing 40 --and despite the risks they pose, a recent federal court decision will make it harder for states to close them down.
"I gave up thinking 'shut it down,'" says Mary Lampert, a Massachusetts activist who has waged a seven-year campaign against renewing the Plymouth Pilgrim plant's license. "There's a lot more that could be done to make it safer. Safe, no."
For example, she says, the pressure-relief vents could be passive, opening automatically in response to high pressure instead of electrically or manually, and have filters.
Lampert calls the NRC's cost-benefit analyses, in which the agency weighs the cost of offsite damage from an accident against the cost of fixes needed to prevent accidents and mitigate damage, "baloney." They have failed to consider possibilities such as the effect contaminated water in Cape Cod Bay would have on Massachusetts' marine industries, she says, and they grossly underestimate both the chances and the severity of accidents.
Read the Alternet story here.
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Jason Varitek To Retire, Kenseth Wins Daytona [Sports]
14 Years, 4 No Hitters, 2 World Series Titles
The Boston Red Sox will be shopping for a new catcher/captain after the expected retirement of Jason Varitek this Thursday.
Boston had offered him a minor league deal, but Jason wasn't likely to beat out the other catchers on the team.
Varitek had career averages of .256 BA, 193 HRs, and 757 RBIs. he caught no-hitters by Hideo Nomo, Clay Buchholz, Derek Lowe and John Lester.
JV can almost be assured of some post-playing role in the organization if he desires it. Our catchers this season will be Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Kelly Shoppach.
Varitek will always be loved here for snuffing Alex Rodriguez during a rivalry defining how-do-you-do.
Rest easy, Jason!
Monday Night Daytona 500!
Matt Kenseth won an unusual Daytona 500 last night. They usually run the Daytona on Sunday, but the weather didn't cooperate.
It was a great race for people like me, who don't really watch a lot of car racing. There were several spectacular crashes. Juan Montoya's car exploded like the Mossad thought he wsas an Iranian nuclear scientist.
The Daytona is sort of like the 4th of July to NASCAR people. Kenseth's Daytona victory won him $1,589,397.
Cape Cod Arraignments and Dispositions - February 28, 2012
BARNSTABLE DISTRICT COURT
February 28, 2012
In court February 27, 2012
ARRAIGNMENTS
ALBURY, Andre L, 20, 800 Bearse's Way, Apt 6SC, Hyannis; aggravated assault & battery; February 25 in Barnstable. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 28.
BARBANO, Kyla, 18, 25 Capt. Lambert Ln, Centerville; larceny over $250; carrying a dangerous weapon, a switchblade, February 26 in Barnstable. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 29.
BROWN, Willie L, 41, 92 Windshore Dr, Hyannis; assault & battery; trespassing, February 24 in Barnstable. Pretrial conference scheduled for April 23.
CANANZEY, Robert J, 26, 45 Davis St, Taughton; aggravated assault & battery, February 26 in Barnstable. Co-defendant with MCSWEEN. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 29.
CHIUCHIOLO, Michele K, 39, 2445 Main St, S. Chatham; vandalizing property; larceny under $250, February 24 in Yarmouth. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 28. According to police reports, the counts stem from an incident between Chiuchiolo and another woman in the parking lot of the Ryan Family Amusement Center. The two fought over payment for bowling. Chiuchiolo was arrested.
CARLINO, Joshua A, 37, 100 Capt. Crowley Ln, Centerville; assault & battery; vandalizing property, February 26 in Barnstable. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 28.
DOUCET, Andrew J, 26, 14 Greenville Dr, Sandwich; OUI liquor; leaving the scene of property damage; open container violation, December 4 2011 in Sandwich. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 22.
DUNHAM, Scott R, 27, 77 Winter St, Hyannis; larceny over $250; shoplifting by container switching; assault with a dangerous weapon, a syringe, February 26 in Barnstable. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 14. According to police reports, Dunham cut the security cable between a Michael Kors pocketbook and its display stand. The purse is valued at $348. As Dunham fled Macy's toward Dunkin' Donuts, the Macy's theft prevention officer and a nearby Best Buy employee tried to stop him. Dunham drew a hypodermic syringe from his person and jabbed at both men, as though to injure them. He dropped the pocketbook and a Carhartt jacket, got into a black Lincoln and drove off. The car was identified by its license plate and stopped by police a short distance away. Dunham was arrested.
DUNHAM, same. Two counts, receiving stolen property over $250, October 24 2011 in Yarmouth. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 14.
ECCLESTON, Alex A, 29, 973 Oakley St, New Bedford; assault & battery; assault with a dangerous weapon, a cigarette lighter, February 25 in Barnstable. Pretrial conference scheduled for April 2.
ENCARNATION, Joshua J, 27, 9 Bambi Ln, Dennis; Class B drug possession, Percocets (sic); conspiracy to violate drug laws; resisting arrest; disorderly conduct, February 24 in Barnstable. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 29.
FERGUSON, Glenford L, 333 Old Harbor Rd, Chatham; aggravated assault & battery; assault & battery with a dangerous weapon, a 2002 green Ford Explorer; leaving the scene of personal injury, February 20 in Yarmouth. Pretrial conference scheduled for April 2.
FOSTER, Brittney G, 24, 182 Main St, Apt 3, Hyannis; Class A drug possession, methadone; Class E drug possession, Klonapin; destruction of property under $250; shoplifting by concealing merchandise; disorderly conduct, February 26 in Barnstable. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 28.
HANDRINOS, John P, 48, 168 Barnstable Rd, Apt 7K, Hyannis; assault with a dangerous weapon, a red metal baseball bat; assault & battery; intimidating a witness, February 25 in Barnstable. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 27.
HATCH, Cecily L, 20, 85 Dry Hollow Ln, Mashpee; Class A drug possession, heroin, February 25 in Yarmouth. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 28.
HOLMES, Derek K, 20, 16 Garrett's Ln, W. Barnstable; assault & battery; assault & battery with a dangerous weapon, a sneaker; intimidating a witness, February 24 in Barnstable. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 29.
JOAQUIM JR, Martin, 31, 30 Cleveland Way, Apt B, Yarmouth; assault & battery, February 26 in Yarmouth. Pretrial conference scheduled for April 2.
MCEVOY, Michael, 60, 56 Pleasant St, Hyannis; OUI liquor, February 26 in Yarmouth. Pretrial conference scheduled for April 3.
MCINTOSH, Trevor A, 28, 715 Rte 28, Dennis; OUI liquor; negligent operation of a motor vehicle; marked lanes violation, February 27 in Yarmouth. Pretrial conference scheduled for April 3.
MCSWEEN, Ashley L, 26, 882 Bank St, Taughton; aggravated assault & battery, February 26 in Barnstable. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 29.
PITTA, Theresa, 42, 100 Village Ln, Wellfleet; assault & battery; larceny under $250; vandalizing property, February 24 in Yarmouth. Pretrial conference scheduled for April 26.
ROSE, Wesley N, 31, 46 Rose Beach Rd, W. Yarmouth; Class D drug possession, marijuana; Class B drug possession, suboxen (sic); conspiracy to violate drug law, February 17 in Barnstable. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 29.
ROWLAND, Daniel, 33, 21 Thatcher Rd, Yarmouth; assault & battery, February 24 in Yarmouth. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 9.
TAYLOR, Pamela L, 51, 11 Deep Hole Way, Sandwich; OUI liquor; failure to stop for a police officer; marked lanes violation, February 25 in Sandwich. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 22.
TRAFICANTE, Samantha, 23, 7 Taffy Ln, Yarmouth; assault & battery with a dangerous weapon, a cell phone; assault & battery, February 27 in Yarmouth. Pretrial conference scheduled for March 28.
DISPOSITIONS
KENNEY, Lynn M, 36, 638 Rte 28, Apt 18, Yarmouth; assault & battery, January 30 in Yarmouth. Dismissed.
LAWARE, Jason T, 29, 190 Upper Cty Rd, Apt 4, Dennisport; OUI liquor; open container violation; marked lanes violation, January 25 in Yarmouth. OUI, admitted to sufficient facts. Continued without a finding, continued for payment until February 23 2013. Other counts, not responsible.
SCHEMPP, Jonathan J, 29, 67 Huckleberry Ln, Apt A, Marstons Mills; OUI liquor, third offense; leaving the scene of property damage; unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle; two counts, assault & battery, July 14 2011 in Barnstable. All counts dismissed.
WOODSUM, Jay P, 45, 121 Seaview Ave, S. Yarmouth; assault & battery, February 9 in Yarmouth. Dismissed.
The real Obama outrage [Op-Ed]
The Obama Administration's war on religion
By Cynthia Stead
The Obama Administration is waging war on religion by forcing religious institutions to cover contraception on the health plans of their employees. This is a new and startling outrage. It has also been the law since 2000.
Back in December of 2000, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled that failure to provide such coverage violates the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act, which is an amendment to Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which outlaws, among other things, discrimination based on gender. A suit filed by Catholic Charities in California and New York were both decided against them and the 2000 regulation was upheld.
The only thing that the Obama administration is doing is insisting that the employer – religious or not – cannot charge a co-pay from the employee, but in the Progressive Spirit must provide something for nothing. That is where the issue begins. Until now, employees of Catholic institutions simply paid a co-payment of 100%, allowing them to have access to the desired contraception while also not forcing the religious institution to subsidize something that violates their principles.
Why wasn’t there a hue and cry back in 2000? Because Massachusetts employers didn’t have to cover contraception as a medication until 2002. Women already had to pay that 100% co-pay anyway, so the change in regulation as it pertains to religious institutions slipped under the radar. Massachusetts comes close to being the contraception-free state that Rick Santorum envisions. Birth control was illegal here due to the legislative Catholic Democrat majority, and Bill Baird went to jail for giving away birth control in Boston. Historically, the champions of contraception in Massachusetts were the Republicans. Even when contraception was partially legalized, it was still illegal for ‘unmarried women’ until 1974 – once abortion was legalized, the Democrats decided that maybe contraception wasn’t the end of the world, but they still didn’t want to make access easy and allowed employers to refuse coverage - although Viagara was mandatory as soon as it was invented. When then-Speaker Tom Finneran was presented with a letter in 2002 signed by 81 legislators demanding that a vote be allowed to require contraception to be covered on health insurance plans, he capitulated and allowed the vote. He did know how to count.
What IS an outrage is the Obama ‘solution’ to free contraception. He proposes to make the insurance companies pay for the contraception instead. By what right does the government require that a private concern (insurance companies) provide product for free to consumers? Will GM be instructed to provide free cars, now that the government owns them? If an insurance company decides it would rather not insure a Catholic employer because it doesn’t want to have to bear the cost of providing free medication, will they be penalized for Civil Rights discrimination? If this precedent is allowed to stand, what other products and services can private industry be required to provide by government fiat?
Social conservatives are snapping at this ‘issue’ like a trout at a fly, not recognizing the real outrage here. Whether they ‘win’ the religious exemption argument or not, we all should be on guard against this attack on property and freedom by the Obama Administration.
Group formed to fight creation of Wastewater Authority
Group wants top mitigate Cape Cod Regional Wastewater Authority creation
Members gathered from nine towns, some fear they may have to leave Cape
By Walter Brooks
A group of Cape Cod residents, some of whom fear they will be forced to move off-Cape because of the prohibitively expensive sewer rates and excessive tax burden that will result from the establishment of an autonomous and unaccountable Cape-wide wastewater authority, are forming an organization to mitigate or even stop the new bureaucracy being promoted by local out-of-work politicians and the Cape Cod Commission.
The Group so far
The Coalition members and interested parties number a dozen and a half and are from Wellfleet, Orleans, Dennis, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Sandwich, Falmouth, Bourne and Mashpee.
It includes at least 2 environmental engineers, former Selectmen, current selectmen, retirees, housewives, business-persons, community/political activists, real estate professionals, and educators. At this point, our primary focus is to facilitate communication among the various interested parties as well as to expand and establish the formation of the group/coalition.The Cape-wide group is tentatively calling itself the Coalition Against an Undemocratic Regional Wastewater Authority. The independent regional wastewater authority was recently recommended by the Barnstable County Special Commission on County Governance, and subsequently given a provisional go-ahead by the Barnstable County Board of Regional Commissioners.
One member of the new group said, "I am desperately afraid for my home and family here on the Cape. I fear we will be forced to move off-Cape because of the prohibitively expensive sewer rates and excessive tax burden that will result from the establishment of an autonomous and unaccountable Cape-wide wastewater authority."
What is the new authority?
The group's statement explains that a regional wastewater authority is a distinct type of local government that is separate and independent from any other government entities within a county. The geographical and political boundaries and/or limits are not a “city limit” line or property line, but the water and sewer infrastructure that they own and operate. The primary purpose of a wastewater authority is to provide wastewater and sewer services throughout a general area.
The members of the group claim that the regional wastewater authority has rate setting and taxation powers. Such a government entity has a legally separate governing board. The board members are not elected, but are appointed by other government officials, such as the Governor, County Commissioners, or unelected state bureaucrats. Since the leadership is not elected by the voters, the people have little if any meaningful input or recourse regarding decisions and actions taken by the regional wastewater authority.
A statement we received from the new group states:
Such an autonomous authority would unilaterally seize specific decision-making, fee imposition, and taxation powers from the fifteen municipalities of Cape Cod regarding wastewater infrastructure issues and/or services. Wastewater/sewer rates and relevant taxes would most likely continuously go up year after year.The position of the Coalition is that any such county-wide government entity should only possess and provide advisory, logistics, coordination and source funding assistance to the respective town governments of Cape Cod. It should not be allowed to become the undemocratic government institution previously described.
The still-forming coalition is planning to hold an organizational meeting in early April. Any concerned Cape Cod residents and municipal officials interested in participating in this effort or desiring further information may call: 508 364-3282 or email: caurwa@gmail.com and leave their contact information including: name, phone number and email address.
Read previous reports on this subject:
- Freaky February - Silliness in the Cape's local news
Posted in Dandy Looney on February 27, 2012 - Group formed to reduce bureaucracy suggests more instead
Posted in EXTRA... on February 18, 2012 - Glass of Wastewater
Posted in State & Main on January 27, 2012 - Cape's nitrogen lawsuits may yet be settled
Posted in EXTRA... on December 13, 2011 - Concern for Lower Cape's private wells
Posted in Cape & Islands News on November 4, 2011 - Yarmouth's Big Dig
Posted in Politics Etc. on September 10, 2011
February 28 - 1974: OPEC gas boycott frightens Cape's tourists; 1996: Steve Bernard buys back Cape Cod Potato Chips; 2007: Gatemen to revisit New Bedford; Premature hope for real estate recovery
1974: Cape bound tourist concerned about gasoline shortage
OPEC boycott forced country to think about its dependence on Arab oil
On this day in 1974 as reported by The Christian Science Monitor -
HYANNIS - Cape Cod businessmen anticipate bankrupt businesses and soaring unemployment if the gasoline shortage continues into the summer without special provision for their tourist-based economy.
But it tourists can be moved to, from and around the Cape - even without adequate gasoline - the cape's tourist industry could continue to prosper.
So Cape Cod businessmen and town officials seek renewed rail service and more bus and air service while they also push for additional gas supplies to all Massachusetts resort regions.
Their efforts so far have not met with great success.
Read about the 1973 gas boycott here.
2007: Housing market on mend?
Number of single-family homes sold rose 13% in January compared to a year earlier
On this day in 2007 a sharp rise in January home sales and modest price declines indicated that the Massachusetts real estate market may be recovering from its worst slump in more than a decade. The number of single-family homes sold rose almost 13 percent in January compared to a year earlier, the first increase in the last 10 months, according to the monthly housing report released yesterday by the Massachusetts Association of Realtors. Sales were strongest on the South Shore of the Boston metropolitan area and on Cape Cod. The median price of a single-family home fell to $340,000, 2.4 percent lower than a year ago but virtually unchanged for the past four months.
A year later the worse Recession since 1929 hit America and the world.
2007: Gatemen to revisit New Bedford
Mayor Lang hopes for more baseball in Whaling City
On this day in 2007 the Cape Cod Baseball League played off-Cape for its all-star game for the first time since 1999, and its coming back to New Bedford for at least one regular-season game this year. Wareham Gatemen general manager John Wylde and New Bedford Mayor Scott Lang hope both are signs the league will continue to spread west.
"This is just a great opportunity for the town of Wareham and Southeastern Massachusetts," Wylde said. "In our way, we kind of represent Southeastern Massachusetts." The Gatemen will host the Cape League All-Star Game at Spillane Field on July 28. Wareham is the Western-most team in the league — the only organization located before the Bourne Bridge.
1996: Steve Bernard buys back Cape Cod Potato Chips from Anheuser-Busch
On February 29 (yes, on the 'Leap Year') Anheuser-Busch agreed to sell its Cape Cod Potato Chips business, as well as the plant in Hyannis MA, where the chips are made, back to the founder, Steve Bernard. Terms were not disclosed. (Dow Jones)
Yarmouth police seek assault charges against Christy Mihos
Police complete investigation into alleged domestic disturbance last July
Local police continue to work with the Martin County Sheriff's Department
Christy Mihos in the 2010 campaign for Governor interviewed by Greg O'Brien.YARMOUTH - Last week it was reported that two police departments, one here on Cape Cod and the other in Florida, were investigating allegations of domestic abuse against Christy P. Mihos, 62, of West Yarmouth. The incidents were reported to have happened in West Yarmouth on July 7, 2011 and in Stuart, Florida on Monday, February 20. Both complaints were reported to the Yarmouth police on Tuesday night at 10 p.m. by Mihos' wife, Andrea.
According to Yarmouth Police Deputy Chief Steven Xiarhos, his department has completed their investigation into the July 2011 matter and are seeking a complaint for misdemeanor assault and battery against Mihos. The case was submitted to the Barnstable District Court for further action, said Deputy Chief Xiarhos.
Monday, Yarmouth police confirmed that the Barnstable District Court reviewed the case against Mihos and scheduled a March hearing on the July 2011 West Yarmouth incident.
Last week, Yarmouth police suspended Christy Mihos' license to carry firearms and seized a handgun that he owned.
Yarmouth police continue to work with the Martin County Sheriff's Department in Florida. The investigation into the alleged attack on Monday in Stuart, FL is active and ongoing, according to Deputy Chief Xiarhos.
Mihos sought the Massachusetts Republican gubernatorial nomination in 2010, losing to Republican Charlie Baker who went on to be defeated by incumbent Democrat Deval Patrick.
- See previous story below:
Christy Mihos under investigation for domestic abuse
What's in the Kool-Ade at Alliance parties anyway?
Alliance co-founder Bill Koch had Christy Mihos' problem in 2000
On December 4, 2000, a charge of domestic assault and battery was filed against billionaire yachtsman Bill Koch, future co-chairman of the anti-wind farm Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, was dismissed, according to a story the following day in the Cape Cod Times.
"Koch's estranged wife, Angela, had notified the district attorney's office that she would assert her marital privilege and not testify against Koch," according to the Times. "A note in the Koch file, signed by First Assistant District Attorney Michael O'Keefe, noted that without Mrs. Koch's testimony, the state had no evidence against her husband."
"In July," the Times reported, "Angela Koch called the Barnstable police to the couple's Oyster Harbor home, claiming her husband had punched her in the stomach and threatened to hurt his 14-year-old son from a previous marriage."
The Boston Globe reports that Yarmouth Police said they are working with the Martin County Sheriff’s Department in Florida to investigate two alleged incidents that occurred in the last year.
The first, police said, allegedly occurred July 7 in West Yarmouth, where the 62-year-old Mihos lives in a gated home on Great Island with his wife, Andrea. The second incident allegedly occurred Monday in Stuart, Florida.
Andrea Mihos reported both incidents at the Yarmouth police station on Tuesday evening, said Deputy Chief Steven Xiarhos.
Mihos whose home is at 51 Smith’s Point Road on Great Island in Yarmouth, has not been arrested in either state, Xiarhos said, but the Yarmouth police have suspended Mihos’ license to carry firearms and seized the handgun that he owns.
Mihos associate at Alliance has a similar record
This is the second shocking story this week about the founders of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound.
On Wednesday Bill Koch of Osterville, another founder and major funder of this anti-wind farm group, was fined over a half million dollars by the United States Department of Justice for rigging non-compete contracts to avoids payments to the government.
Christy Mihos and Bill Koch are co-founders of the Alliance, and now also share the similar police record with Florida and Cape Cod police.
Some local observers are asking what's in the Kool-Ade at the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound parties.
RFK's son arrested after he kicked nurse in the crotch
Douglas Kennedy as a baby being held by his father Robert F. Kennedy and mothel Ethel Kennedy.The Daily Mail reports that the son of Robert F. Kennedy has been arrested for allegedly attacking two nurses who tried to stop him from removing his newborn baby from the hospital.
Douglas Kennedy, a journalist, is charged with harassment and endangering the welfare of a child following the altercation, which happened last month.
He is alleged to have twisted the arm of one nurse and kicked another in the crotch as they tried to make sure his two-day-old son Boru was not being treated roughly.
The nurse in charge of the unit, Anna Margaret Lane, said in a deposition that Kennedy wanted to take the child "to get fresh air" that evening. As he tried to leave, he was accompanied by a doctor from the hospital's emergency room, identified in court papers as "Dr. Haydock," later determined to be Dr. Timothy Haydock, a longtime family friend.
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Construction underway at Bank of Cape Cod Falmouth location [Business]
Falmouth to be third location on Cape
Timothy T. Telman, second from left, president and CEO of Bank of Cape Cod, reviews plans as work gets underway at the bank’s next location in Falmouth. Pictured with him are bank team members (left to right) Paul K. Forni, vice president/director of operations; Mark G. Sexton, executive vice president and chief lending officer; and Tracy Buckley-Scott, vice president of retail banking.
The sounds of banging hammers, walls being knocked down and busy crews working at 445 Main St. in Falmouth earlier this month signaled a transformation of the vacant building into the next Bank of Cape Cod branch.
Bank of Cape Cod, with locations in Hyannis and Osterville, is expected to open the Falmouth facility sometime in May. Over the next several months the building, next to Betsy’s Diner, will undergo a major makeover as part of the Bank’s plan to provide local commercial lending and retail banking in the Upper Cape.
"This is a great sight to see," Timothy T. Telman, president and CEO of the bank, said as he witnessed the first day of construction at the site. "This work underway brings us closer to our goal of expanding our commitment to serving residents and business owners on Cape Cod."
The Falmouth branch will be a full-service operation with a drive-up window, 24-hour ATM, and a convenient night drop for business clients. The bank expects to create five new jobs as a result of its expansion.
Bank of Cape Cod opened at 232 Main St., Hyannis, in the fall of 2006, after a group of business leaders wanted to address what they saw as a void in the local banking market. Less than two years later, Bank of Cape Cod expanded to its second location at 57 West Bay Road in Osterville.
"We are busy investing in the local economy -- helping businesses grow and ensuring consumers receive the best value and service possible," Telman said. "We are thrilled to see Bank of Cape Cod expand to meet the local banking needs of our community."
Courtesy Bank of Cape Cod.
Orleans to celebrate "Battle of Rock Harbor" early; Chatham to use sheriff's dispatch
War of 1812 to be celebrated early in Orleans
"Orleans, 1812-2012, Defiant and Self-Reliant" includes concert, events in August
The HMS Newcastle frigate.Although the locally famous Battle of Rock Harbor actually happened in December 1814, about a week before the war ended, its roots are in September when townspeople refused to pay a $1,000 ransom levied by British Captain Rich Raggot of the HMS Newcastle. See the ransom note below.
Orleans historian and photographer Bill Quinn wrote about the battle for the Orleans Historical Society, "Cape Cod was particularly vulnerable during the War of 1812 and took part in a great number of naval conflicts. Rock Harbor, located on the west side of Orleans, is a relatively narrow and shallow inlet that serves as the town’s gateway into Cape Cod Bay. This tranquil cove was the site of a skirmish between locals and the British navy on December 19, 1814.
The British Marines came ashore and were repulsed by Orleans militiamen at Defiance Lane on Rock Harbor Road, so named for the skirmish.
According to Bill Quinn the British were not content with the outcome of the failed landing, and the Newcastle began to fire its cannons into the town, but the ship was too far offshore and the cannonballs fell short. Five days later, on Christmas Eve, 1814, the Treaty of Ghent was signed and the War of 1812 was over. The large and powerful Newcastle lived out a much more mundane career and was eventually disassembled and sold for
scrap in 1850.
Read the story in The Cape Codder here.
Chatham to turn regional dispatch over to sheriff's department
Chatham Board of Selectmen last week voted to pursue switching fire department dispatching to the Barnstable County Sheriff's Department, which already provides the service to more than a half dozen Cape towns.
The Cape Cod Chronicle reports that using the regional dispatch service will save the town money, and is a step toward full regional dispatching of all emergency services – police and fire – which a Barnstable County task force is currently studying.
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Sutter to officially announce Congressional bid today on Cape [Politics]
Bristol County D.A. will speak at 9 a.m. at the Provincetown Town Hall
Has a series of five separate announcements on Monday
By Walter Brooks
Bristol County District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter will kick off his series of announcements Monday at the Provincetown Town Hall at 9 am followed with a Falmouth meet and greet with residents and deliver a second announcement speech at 11:30 a.m. After that meeting it's on to Plymouth, then New Bedford and Westport and finally home to Fall River as part of a tour to officially announce his candidacy for the 9th Congressional District in the September Democratic Primary against incumbent Bill Keating of Bourne..
D.A. Sam Sutter at Harwichport last week.The Fall River Democrat will be at Plymouth Town Hall at 2 p.m. Sutter will start his day in Provincetown and finish in with a rally at White’s in Wesport where, according to a press release, there will be speeches by several prominent local Democratic officials.
He spoke at the Wareham Democratic Caucus last weekend. Sam Sutter, pronounced like "Butter," said he is seeking the 9th Congressional Districts seat in Congress which is presently held by fellow Democrat Bill Keating. He is notable in that he's about six-foot-six-inches tall. Sutter pointed out the difficulties of handling Fall River, and was able to show some progress that occurred under his watch.
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.
A winter walk at Coast Guard Beach in Eastham [John Fitts Slideshow]
Walking in Beston's footsteps
All photos © John Fitts
Recently, low tide allowed for a bit more exploring at Coast Guard Beach at the National Seashore in Eastham. The sun reflecting off the Coast Guard Station gave the photographs a painting-like quality. You could almost feel the presence of Henry Beston at Nauset Spit, where he penned the Outermost House in his cottage on the beach more than eighty years ago:
"The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. I have heard them all, and of the three elemental voices, that of ocean is the most awesome, beautiful and varied."
February 27 - 2007: Israel imitates CCBL; 1952: Two die, power out, 100 miles of Cape roads impassable
1952: Cape gets clobbered with worst snowstorm in 50 years
80% of homes without power, roads impassable, at least two are dead
On this day in 1952, at least 10 people were killed, several thousand Cape Cod homes left without heat and more than 100 miles of Cape highways rendered impassable "after one of the worst northeast snowstorms to hit southern New England in 50 years," the Associated Press reported.
Electrical power was lost to an estimated 80 percent of Cape residences, businesses and public buildings, according to the AP, while "drifts as high as 12 feet halted all modes of transportation."
The storm stranded nearly 1,000 automobiles on main highways and knocked down scores of telephone and utility poles.
The 20-inch snowfall "was piled into virtually impenetrable drifts" by northeast winds gusting to 60 mph, the AP reported.
The storm also caused the loss of all telephone and electrical service on Nantucket and knocked over a 120-foot Loran Tower used by the Coast Guard as a navigational aid to vessels in the Atlantic.
2007: Israeli league won't be joke
Got idea from CCBL the previous summer
On this day in 2007 it was announced that June 24 will be Opening Day for the Israel Baseball League, six all-new professional teams and a schedule of 45 seven-inning games. So the seventh-inning stretch and God Bless (country of your choice) come in the fifth inning and a quality start is 4-1/3 innings, OK, maybe 4-2/3, it's not worth arguing about.
The Mets have three Jewish players - Scott Schoeneweis, Shawn Green and David Newhan - and at least one Jewish owner. Yesterday, two old New Yorkers, Art Shamsky (on right), who played for the Miracle Mets of 1969, and Ken Holtzman, who pitched two no-hitters and won more games than any Jewish pitcher in history.
Shamsky, 65, resembles Tommy Lee Jones, and Holtzman, 61, who teaches math, looks like a hard marker. Larry Baras is the man who came up with the idea of a professional league for Israel. He was watching a game in the Cape Cod League last summer, moms and dads sitting with their kids, when the lightbulb went on over his head.
Five Bangkok Cuisine restaurants closed due to MA Workers' Compensation Law violations
Local Thai entrepreneur opened five businesses in the past decade
All five locations closed for state Workers' Compensation violation
The Orleans Bangkok Cuisine restaurant with the orange violation sign on the door. cctoday photo.
By Walter Brooks
The sign at the Orleans Bangkok Cuisine today.Hungry lovers of Thai food were disappointed today when they showed up at the Bangkok Cuisine locations in Falmouth, Dennis, Orleans, Martha's Vineyard and Plymouth only to find the door shuttered and the sign on the right which stated:
WARNING: This business has been ordered closed for non-compliance with MGL: Chapter 152 Sec. 25C of the Mass. Workers' Compensation Law...
Any person who attempts to tamper with this order will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Signed, Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents (DIA).
Sam Sangworm and his wife Hanna are the owners of the Bangkok Cuisine restaurants, and they have been held up as great examples of new U. S. citizens achieving "The American Dream."
The fire at the Falmouth Bangkok Cuisine last Tuesday.In little more than a decade the couple has opened five very successful restaurants both on Cape and off Cape and on one of the islands.
More important than their success for lovers of Asian food, the food they served was excellent, even to those of us who have visited Thailand several times.
It is not known at this time whether the recent fire which destroyed the Falmouth location last week had any connection with the state's actions this weekend, but police and reporters both hate coincidences. 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.
The only good news came from an employee of the Royal Thai Restaurant at Brackett Road in Eastham who said that they have been mobbed since their competitor was closed.
The DIA is primarily a court system tasked with resolving disputed workers' compensation claims. The usual reason for a corporation being closed for non-compliance is because the insurance policy or policies required have not been arranged, or have been cancelled. Usually a company can re-open within a day after securing the proper workers' comp. insurance.
Third arrest made in Hyannis parking lot pot bust
Follow-up investigation leads to third illegal drug arrest
Two arrested during a North Street pot bust earlier in the month
HYANNIS - A third man has been arrested and faces charges stemming from a pot bust made earlier this month. On Friday, February 17, Yarmouth Detective Scott Lundegren and Barnstable County Deputy Sheriff Kim Saladino, both members of the Barnstable Street Crime Unit (SCU), busted two men in a North Street parking lot around 11 p.m. The men, 27-year-old Robert Daluze of Harwich and Johnadam P. Bonicoro, 28, of East Strousdberg, PA, according to a Barnstable police release, were found to be in possession of a half pound of marijuana, a digital scale and a suboxone pill.
SCU caught up with Wesley Rose and arrested him a week after a Hyannis pot bust. BPD photo.The owner of the pickup truck the two men were in, Wesley Rose, 31, of West Yarmouth, was in a Hyannis downtown club at the time of the arrest. SCU located Rose in the club and he admitted giving Daluze and Bonicoro a ride, but denied any involvement with the drugs, police said.
The marijuana was found under the front seat of Rose's pickup truck in a white plastic shopping bag. Inside the bag, police found a register receipt from a Falmouth store dated 2/17/2012, 5:14 p.m., six and a half hours before Daluze and Bonicoro were arrested in Hyannis.
During a follow-up investigation, Detective Lundegren and Deputy Sheriff Saladino obtained surveillance video from the Falmouth store in which Rose is shown making a purchase and carrying the white plastic bag found in the truck out of the store.
Based on the new evidence uncovered during the investigation, police obtained a warrant for Rose's arrest and he was taken into custody by Yarmouth police officers Saturday at his West Yarmouth home. Rose was transported to the Barnstable Police Department where he was booked and charged with possession of a Class D drug (marijuana) with intent to distribute, possession of a Class B drug (suboxone) and conspiracy to violate narcotics laws. He is being held on $5,000 cash bail, according to police, and will be arraigned Monday.
No stranger to local and federal law enforcement, Wesley Rose was released from federal prison in December 2011, where he was doing time for robbing a St. Johnsbury, VT jewelry store in January 2007. During the robbery, Rose and an accomplice bound a female employee's hands and feet with flex ties and locked her in a backroom while they made off with diamonds and other precious stones, police said. The two were apprehended in Attleboro later that day by the Massachusetts State Police.
Barnstable police have notified federal probation about the new charges against Wesley Rose.
Brides: don't miss the Cape Cod Wedding Show Sunday, February 26th at Ocean Edge in Brewster
Brides-to-be will not want to miss the area’s premier bridal show of the season, to be held Sunday, February 26, at the beautiful Ocean Edge Resort and Golf Club in Brewster, Massachusetts.
One of the lucky brides will win an all-inclusive honeymoon to Sandals on the beautiful island of Turks & Caicos.
Here’s your opportunity to meet with some of the most prominent, most affordable and reputable professionals in the wedding industry to plan the wedding of your dreams, including bridal fashions and formal wear, catering, photographers, florists, limousines, music, stationers and so much more. The doors open at 11:00 am for preregistration with the show beginning at 11:30 am and running thru 3:30 pm. Admission is $10.00 per person and payable at the door. Brides can also visit the website to download a free pass to the event by going to www.weddingdayonline.com. For group discount tickets, call 800-272-EXPO.
Attendees will receive a complimentary copy of Southern New England Weddings magazine.This event will not disappoint. Brides will find many resources for unique products and services. Beginning at 1:30 pm, guests will be treated to a spectacular fashion show featuring the newest styles in bridal and formal wear, mother’s dresses and much, much more from Boston's #1 bridal salon, La Reine, as they grace the runway with the newest designs for the New England wedding industry. La Reine of Waltham will also feature their offerings from Portugal, Spain and Paris.
Sample the wonderful, one-of-a kind cakes from one of Cape Cod’s finest bakeries, Casual Gourmet, Centerville, MA. Enjoy live music provided by Entertainment Specialists, Boston’s number 1 DJ.
And be sure to register for prizes from all of vendors to help save hundreds of dollars for your big day! Let the visions of your day all come to life at our show. Winners are announced after the fashion show; Grand Prize Drawings are announced at the close of the show. Prizes may Include Tuxedo rentals, Dinnerware, Bridal Accessories, Engagement Photo Sittings, Gift certificates, and much, much more!
There'll be over 30 wedding professionals specializing in Cape Cod and South Shore weddings, so give yourself plenty of time to visit each booth to see what they have to offer. You'll be able to view past wedding videos and albums, see an array of invitations, and so much more!
Ocean Edge Resort and Golf Club, the host-location for the event, is providing complimentary hors d’oeuvres. Each attendee will also receive a complimentary copy of Southern New England Weddings magazine.
Show producer, Andrea Pouliot-Rourke of www.Weddingdayonline.com , has been successfully creating New England’s largest and longest running bridal show series for 15 years, and notes, “My bridal expos provide the best opportunity for brides to source vendors for all their needs from formal wear to bridal registry. Our 15 years in the business running successful events allows us to attract the best vendors of products and services for today’s bride. We are excited to return to Ocean Edge Resort and Golf Club, a premier location for a discerning bride and groom, and look forward to greeting all our guests on Sunday, February 26th”.
Courtesy of Weddingdayonline.com.
Trickle down urine specimens [Joe Quigley]
Trickle down economics definitions (take your pick):
By Joe Quigley
- Wikipedia: "Trickle-down economics" and "the trickle-down theory" are terms used in United States politics to refer to the idea that tax breaks or other economic benefits provided by government to businesses and the wealthy will benefit poorer members of society by improving the economy as a whole.
"Money was all appropriated for the top in hopes that it would trickle down to the needy." - Urban Dictionary:A Failed economic policy that asserts that if you give tax cuts to the rich the profits will trickle down to the lower classes.Time has shown that this Regan policy is nothing more then a scam to give the rich a Free Ride in society
"Trickle down economics don't trickle down on me! Where's my money and my job? They been outsourced by some elitist rich snob."
- Obama on "Trickle down economics: "Now, just as there was in Teddy Roosevelt’s time, there’s been a certain crowd in Washington for the last few decades who respond to this economic challenge with the same old tune. 'The market will take care of everything,' they tell us. If only we cut more regulations and cut more taxes – especially for the wealthy – our economy will grow stronger.
- Sure, there will be winners and losers. But if the winners do really well, jobs and prosperity will eventually trickle down to everyone else. And even if prosperity doesn’t trickle down, they argue, that’s the price of liberty.
"It’s a simple theory – one that speaks to our rugged individualism and healthy skepticism of too much government. And that theory fits well on a bumper sticker. Here’s the problem: It doesn’t work. It has never worked. It didn’t work when it was tried in the decade before the Great Depression. It’s not what led to the incredible post-war boom of the 50s and 60s. And it didn’t work when we tried it during the last decade."
Elizabeth on the Cape--US Senate candidate meets with supporters and volunteers across Cape Cod
Elizabeth Warren does Cape-wide meets & greets, shows the face of an energetic and engaged campaigner
Photos and text by Teresa Martin
Our cartoonist Joe Quigley created a pin and a similar t-shirt for her visit.US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren traveled the length of the Cape on Saturday, starting with a morning brunch in Falmouth, followed by a stop at the Democratic caucus in Dennis, a tour of Cape Air, a meet & greet at the Barnstable Senior Center, a visit to Truro and an end-of-day regrouping at the Hot Chocolate Sparrow in Orleans.
Warren, a law professor who hails from a middle class family in Oklahoma, co-directs the Bankruptcy Database Project at Harvard University and has been researching bankruptcy issues since the late 1980s.
She led the charge to create the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the new government watchdog for mortgages, credit cards, and other forms of lending. Her run for Senate has become a national story.
But it turns out she also has long Cape connections. Her husband Bruce's family goes back generations in Barnstable; the family's burial plot lies there. On the other side of the family, Warren's closest cousin and her husband lived in Orleans for several decades.
Barnstable Senior Center, Hyannis
Everywhere Warren went, hundreds of voters queued up to meet the candidate, who is vying for the Democratic slot on the ticket for next November's election. At her mid-day stop at the Barnstable Senior Center (above), she spoke to a packed room about her personal history and the way it shaped her belief that America needs to return to its history of investing in the future through infrastructure, education, and research.
Warren, who began her career as an elementary school teacher, stopped many times during the day to chat with young students, signing autographs and answering questions. Here she meets with three young girls outside the Barnstable Senior Center.
Dennis Democratic caucus, Dennis
Previous criticisms to the contrary, Warren seemed to enjoy an endless round of handshaking and greeting; those who met her seemed impressed with both her ability to connect and her accessibility. At the Dennis Democratic caucus, she worked her way across the room and seemed to enjoy every minute of it.
Warren chats with regional elected officials State Rep Cleon Turner (L) and State Sen. Dan Wolf (R) at the Dennis Democratic caucus.
Cape Air, Hyannis
Cape Air grew from a startup idea into one of the region's largest employers. Cape Air CEO (and State Senator) Dan Wolf shared some of what made his business grow with the candidate during a visit to the company's headquarters and maintenance facilities. Warren strongly advocates for small and mid-sized business and the strength and values they bring to the country.
In the company's reservation center, where clocks on the wall show the time of day at the many locations around the world where Cape Air flies, Warren talked with employees about their jobs.
On the maintenance floor, CEO Wolf (2nd from left) and Jim Goddard (left), Cape Air's Executive VP of Maintenance, showed a "wet wing," an airplane wing that carries fuel, and explained its maintenance needs to the candidate, while State Rep. Sarah Peake (3rd from left) looked on.
Later, Warren engaged with Cape Air staff in a discussion about aircraft manufacture and the planning needs of the aviation industry, as well as ways in which government research can support the growth and health of that industry. At one time her father worked as a flight instructor and two of her brothers fly; she said she has a life long fascination with planes and aviation.
Hot Chocolate Sparrow, Orleans
At the Hot Chocolate Sparrow in Orleans, Warren showed the packed house that she could go into rip-roaring campaign mode too. Instead of the impassioned lecturer from Barnstable, she showed her stripes as a rally-the-troops leader to a cheering crowd.
At the end of a long day, candidate Warren leaves the Sparrow, clearly energized, and spends another 20 minutes outside in the cold February air shaking hands, listening, and once again, sharing with elementary students.
High wind damage mostly off Cape; Big tourism & wedding season coming
The winds yesterday were vicious at times while walker sstruggled against the gusts, but most damage and outages were off Cape according to the NStar crews here which were moved inland during the storm.
The Boston Globe reports that strong winds downed tree branches across the state today, resulting in power outages for thousands of customers.
The weather also forced the cancellation of ferry service to Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard as a strong low-pressure system generated gusts topping 60 miles an hour, reaching 63 mph in Harwich.
NStar spokesman Walter Salvi said, ‘‘Most of our outages were inland, which was a little different from the forecast. ‘The storm certainly got our attention.’’
Big come-back for Cape Cod tourism coming
Wedding show today at Ocean Edge Resort
Optimism is breaking out for a strong tourism season for inns and hotels in the town of Barnstable, reports the Barnstable Enterprise.
Jessica Sylver of the Hyannis Area Chamber of Commerce, said accommodations members are reporting that reservations are running ahead of last year and the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce's Wendy Northcross said website traffic at the chamber was up 60 percent in the last quarter.
Attendance at today's Cape Cod Wedding Expo at Brewster's Ocean Edge is expected to break records.On the Southeastern Massachusett's largest vacation site, Cape Cod Travel, clients are reporting similar activity.
The Cape Cod Wedding Show today from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Ocean Edge Resort on Route 6A in Brewster is reporting a bigger than expected turn-out.
With the increase in tourism comes a similar boost in the area's wedding-related businesses, see Weddings On Cape Cod here.
Same sex marriages add even more business
With Massachusetts leading the nation in recognizing same sex marriages, the Cape's wedding industry has received the lion's share of the activity due to the huge popularity of Provincetown for gay and lesbian couples who had already made the Cape tip town their vacation destination every summer.
See Gay Weddings on Cape Cod here.
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February 26 - 1975: The end of the Lightships
1975: Nantucket Shoals becomes one of last three lightship stations in nation
On this day in 1975, the Portland, Maine lightship was replaced by an automated buoy, leaving Nantucket Shoals as one of three remaining lightship stations in the nation.
For many years after it was withdrawn from service at sea, the Nantucket Lightship was docked in the Wareham River near the center of that town.
A month later, the Boston lightship was also retired and the stations were narrowed to two -- one off Nantucket, the other at the mouth of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.
"In a way, I'm sad to see them pass," Coast Guard captain and lightship commander Alfred Fearing told the Associated Press in 1975. "It's a tradition that's going to be gone."
The Nantucket posting had long been considered the most dangerous lightship assignment in the Coast Guard because it was so far from shore, 200 miles east of New York City. It is "the first point of contact in the United States for ships crossing the Atlantic bound for New York," the AP reported. "Its flashing light, radio beam and foghorn guide vessels through the stormy, treacherous waters."
In January 1959, hurricane-force winds and 50-foot seas blew the Nantucket lightship 80 miles off station and knocked out communications for several days.
Read about the
Coast Guard's Lightships here.
Lightships served as beacons to mariners off the US for 163 years, from 1820 to 1983. In that time, 116 stations were established along the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts. The first station was in Chesapeake Bay; the last to be automated and its crew removed was Nantucket.
Lightship 112, known as Nantucket I, was also decommissioned in 1975. The vessel had served 39 years at the Nantucket station, the longest of any vessel. In 1989 Lightship 112 was designated a National Historic Landmark. Efforts are underway to renovate the lightship for use as a permanent museum berthed at Staten Island.
Lightship 612, also known as Nantucket II, was the last lightship to serve off Nantucket, until 1983, and the last US lightship in commission. After decommissioning, the vessel passed through a number of owners. As of the summer of 2007, it was a bed-and-breakfast in Nantucket harbor.
Dennis dog rescue still operates as a non-profit despite lack of official approval
AG's office can't confirm receipt of IRS determination letter
By Gerald Rogovin
Seven weeks ago -- 53 days to be precise, -- CapeCodToday.com reported that the state was investigating a business that advertises boarding, grooming and selling dogs from a private home up the hill from Scargo Lake in Dennis in a home on Maureens Lane that was sold for more than $785,000 and was in a neighborhood in which home sales in 2011 ranged from $330,000 to $1.115 million, according to MLS Listings.
"On the surface, this doesn't look right. Income from grooming, training, day care and sales of animals are all taxable. As a corporation, it must file by March 15."
The business, Scargo Wags and Wiggles Rescue, Inc., continued to operate on February 22 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable operation, promising tax deductions to donors, notwithstanding that the Internal Revenue Service did not include it among the 25 tax-exempt charities it lists in Dennis on its Exempt Organizations Select Check, a monthly town-by-town listing, as of the 21st.
A Barnstable Certified Public Accountant, who decline firm's adoption form is shown below full size.d to be identified, told CCT, "On the surface, this doesn't look right. Income from grooming, training, day care and sales of animals are all taxable. As a corporation, it must file by March 15."
Our earlier article drew a response from David Nunheimer, a Hyannis attorney, who wrote, "I am the attorney who has represented them (Scargo Wags and Wiggles) in their registration process. I can assure you and your readers that Mrs. Logan (corporation president) is aware of her responsibilities as a public charity...All requisite filings are being made."
Yet, the Massachusetts Attorney General's Public Charities Division could not confirm receipt of an IRS determination letter, which must precede application to the state Department of Revenue for a state income tax exemption. This will, when received, be posted on the AG's website.
The Hyannis Petsmart today had this book displayed next to their cat adoption room. The Scargo firm's adoption form is shown below full size.CCT began looking into the operations of the Dennis company when a a reader complained, "As someone who runs a compliant non-profit, it really offends me that this group is holding itself out as a 501(c)(3) improperly. As an animal lover, I am concerned that if they are not being compliant with the non-profit regulations, can we trust that they're being compliant with animal care regulations?"
A Certificate of Solicitation issued by the Public Charities Division would be a prerequisite for soliciting donations. Yet, SWRR's website has stated since the fall of 2011, "we are a private all breed rescue operation that is a 501(c)(3) non profit. Your donation is tax-deductible." But that certificate had not been issued by the third week of February by the state.
All the windows were shuttered and the blinds drawn when CCT looked into 12 Maureens Way last December. Except for a sign that identified the business, the home looked similar to the expensive residences dotting the hill up from Scargo Lake.
The business caught the attention of authorities earlier in 2011, when a neighbor called the town's Animal Control Officer about a barking dog. In late January of this year, neighbors up the hill from 12 Maureens Way noticed "what seemed to be a bunch of vehicles that look the same as those from animal control. Something appeared to be going on."
For several months, SWWR advertised its services first in the statewide Craigslist, then the one covering the Cape and Islands. Those ads have continued, but the business has not identified itself by its corporation name. In our effort to get more information on SWWR, CCT e-mailed two requests to view a cat named Amber advertised for adoption on Craigslist. The ads offered "doggy day care in our home boarding, grooming, training and no-kill rescue..."
Neither e-mail received a reply.
The state's Division of Animal Health began an investigation of the business after an inquiry by the Dennis Animal Control Officer. But that appears to have ended.
In its statement of purpose on land use and growth management, Dennis acknowledged in last year's town report, "We are late, very late in attacking the problem of growth control." The reference referred to commercial development where "a majority of (our) citizens want to live in a seaside village atmosphere."
The appearance of a commercial business in the midst of a residential enclave of expensive waterfront homes does not appear to have upset the people alluded to in the report. Town Planner Daniel J. Fortier said he was not aware of a business operation on Scargo Lake.
SWWR's articles of organization filed with the state indicate that it has been operating since last June. Sylvia Logan, president, noted in her LinkedIn biography that she has owned it since September, 2010.
A search of the IRS Exempt Organizations database last updated on February 22, 2012 does not find Scargo Wags and Wiggles Rescue, Inc. listed in Massachusetts.
Whales are rushing the season this year--seen off Vineyard, Provincetown
Right whales seen off the Vineyard, others return early off Provincetown
Is it the warmer weather, or a primal urge to return to Cape Cod? Whatever the reason the whales are back and they are early this season which bodes well for the area's whale watch fleet.
The Vineyard Gazette report that early this week David Damroth was strolling Zack’s Cliffs in Aquinnah and gazed across the gulf to Noman’s Land when he saw an eruption from the water a mile and a half out. It was a double spout, a trademark of the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. For the next 45 minutes he watched as at least three animals romped about the surface.
The Boston Globe reminds us that there are only about 475 North Atlantic right whales left in the world, and many gather each spring in the rich feeding grounds of Cape Cod Bay, drawing crowds of onlookers with their acrobatic breaches.
But this winter, researchers first spotted the enormous creatures in mid-December, and have since identified almost three dozen more. With each new sighting, some within 300 yards of shore, scientists have grown more amazed.
A North American right whale was freed of entanglement a week ago Wednesday in Cape Cod Bay, thanks to the quick response of the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies' (PCCS) Marine Animal Entanglement Response (MAER) team. The young male was sighted by the team during a dedicated search, according to PCCS spokesperson Catherine Macort.
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Mihos alleged domestic abuse--here and in Florida; Kennedy kicked nurse in the crotch
Christy Mihos under investigation for domestic abuse
What's in the Kool-Ade at Alliance parties anyway?
Alliance co-founder Bill Koch had Christy Mihos' problem in 2000
On December 4, 2000, a charge of domestic assault and battery was filed against billionaire yachtsman Bill Koch, future co-chairman of the anti-wind farm Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, was dismissed, according to a story the following day in the Cape Cod Times.
"Koch's estranged wife, Angela, had notified the district attorney's office that she would assert her marital privilege and not testify against Koch," according to the Times. "A note in the Koch file, signed by First Assistant District Attorney Michael O'Keefe, noted that without Mrs. Koch's testimony, the state had no evidence against her husband."
"In July," the Times reported, "Angela Koch called the Barnstable police to the couple's Oyster Harbor home, claiming her husband had punched her in the stomach and threatened to hurt his 14-year-old son from a previous marriage."
The Boston Globe reports that Yarmouth Police said they are working with the Martin County Sheriff’s Department in Florida to investigate two alleged incidents that occurred in the last year.
The first, police said, allegedly occurred July 7 in West Yarmouth, where the 62-year-old Mihos lives in a gated home on Great Island with his wife, Andrea. The second incident allegedly occurred Monday in Stuart, Florida.
Andrea Mihos reported both incidents at the Yarmouth police station on Tuesday evening, said Deputy Chief Steven Xiarhos.
Mihos whose home is at 51 Smith’s Point Road on Great Island in Yarmouth, has not been arrested in either state, Xiarhos said, but the Yarmouth police have suspended Mihos’ license to carry firearms and seized the handgun that he owns.
Mihos associate at Alliance has a similar record
This is the second shocking story this week about the founders of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound.
On Wednesday Bill Koch of Osterville, another founder and major funder of this anti-wind farm group, was fined over a half million dollars by the United States Department of Justice for rigging non-compete contracts to avoids payments to the government.
Christy Mihos and Bill Koch are co-founders of the Alliance, and now also share the similar police record with Florida and Cape Cod police.
Some local observers are asking what's in the Kool-Ade at the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound parties.
RFK's son arrested after he kicked nurse in the crotch
Douglas Kennedy as a baby being held by his father Robert F. Kennedy and mothel Ethel Kennedy.The Daily Mail reports that the son of Robert F. Kennedy has been arrested for allegedly attacking two nurses who tried to stop him from removing his newborn baby from the hospital.
Douglas Kennedy, a journalist, is charged with harassment and endangering the welfare of a child following the altercation, which happened last month.
He is alleged to have twisted the arm of one nurse and kicked another in the crotch as they tried to make sure his two-day-old son Boru was not being treated roughly.
The nurse in charge of the unit, Anna Margaret Lane, said in a deposition that Kennedy wanted to take the child "to get fresh air" that evening. As he tried to leave, he was accompanied by a doctor from the hospital's emergency room, identified in court papers as "Dr. Haydock," later determined to be Dr. Timothy Haydock, a longtime family friend.
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February 25 - 2007: Former Mashpee student killed in BU fire; 2005: Local environmental group endorses Cape Wind
2007: Former Mashpee students among two BU students killed in fire
Rhiannon McCuish graduated in 2004, regional all-star in soccer and track
On this day in 2007 a gifted former Mashpee High School athlete was found to be one of the Boston University students killed in a searing apartment fire near her college campus. Rhiannon McCuish, 21, was found dead after 5 a.m. in a burned out, top-floor apartment at 21 Aberdeen St., the Cape Cod Times reported Sunday, quoting a Boston Fire Department official and a family member.
Fire officials have not released the identity or age of the second victim, and were still investigating the cause. Another man was injured in the blaze and taken to a local hospital. Rescuers found him unconscious and removed him from the flames, Boston Fire Department spokesman Steve MacDonald said. When the fire broke out early Saturday, the building had been without power for several hours as crews performed utility work nearby, MacDonald said. Investigators will try to determine if the work played a role in the fire.
2005: Coalition for Buzzards Bay expresses support for Cape Wind
On this day in 2005, the environmental non-profit Coalition for Buzzards Bay announced "its satisfaction with the current review" for the Cape Wind to build a wind farm in Nantucket Sound, according to a statement released by the coalition.
The coalition said its qualified support for the Nantucket Sound wind farm was based on a "thorough review of the Army Corp of Engineers' Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS)." This led coalition members to conclude that the project would bring about "significant environmental benefits" for Buzzards Bay and the region while "any environmental impacts are likely to be minor, temporary, and/or outweighed by the significant environmental benefits of developing such a renewable energy facility."
"This project presents us with an opportunity to significantly reduce our reliance on dirty fossil fuel burning plants," said Ben Bryant, marine policy specialist for the coalition. "In reviewing the DEIS, we have not found reason to oppose the project and in fact believe the project will have significant environmental benefits for our Bay and our region."
Continued support for the project, the coalition stated, would be based on "a satisfactory review of the Final Environmental Impact Statement, due out this summer, and a successful implementation of mitigation and monitoring plans to minimize any potential environmental impacts."
The coalition also updated its wind power policy statement "to recognize the potential for a future project sited in Buzzards Bay." Sure enough, a year later, Quincy developer Jay Cashman proposed a wind project for Buzzards Bay consisting of three separate turbine arrays.
Skeptical about the other, Buzzards Bay proposal
In a June 2006 op-ed in the Cape Cod Times, coalition executive director Mark Rasmussen and John Bullard, coalition president, outlined their reasons for skepticism about the Cashman proposal.
"This issue is not as simple as being 'for' or 'against' - the appropriate siting of wind farms will make all of the difference," Rasmussen and Bullard wrote. "Based on the limited information available, the Cashman proposal creates significant conflicts with busy navigation routes (sitting at the intersection of the main channel and the New Bedford channel), the safe transport of oil and other hazardous cargo through the bay, near-shore fishing and recreational uses, and endangered species nesting areas."
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