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Gimme shelter, gimme Flex, gimme a town band

05/31/06 · 8:59 am :: posted by CCToday     
OracleHarwich news of the week
May 31, 2006
Facts On Flex
flexFollowing years of anticipation and months of planning, residents of the Lower/Outer Cape will be rewarded with frequent, year-round public transportation Thursday, June 1 when the innovative Flex bus begins running under the direction of the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority.
    The bus will run every half hour, seven days a week from 6 in the morning to about 10 p.m. through Labor Day. After then, hourly service is planned. Twelve new buses with clean-burning engines, purchased for $3.4 million by the Cape Cod National Seashore, will be used.
    Flex will run along a defined route between Harwich Port and Provincetown (serving Truro, Wellfleet, Eastham, Orleans and Brewster) but will also go up to three-quarters of a mile off its route to pick up and discharge passengers who have made a reservation at least two hours ahead of time. See the route map here... [more]

Gimme shelter
By Douglas Karlson/ dkarlson@cnc.com
With a top-category hurricane barreling toward Cape Cod, would residents respond to evacuation orders if they couldn’t bring along, or make some arrangement, for the care of dogs or cats? Most pet owners, like Harwich Port resident Nan Poor, say they wouldn’t... [more]

Dioramas illustrate town’s maritime history
By Douglas Karlson/ dkarlson@cnc.com
Long before the cranberry became king, Harwich lived off the sea. In the 19th century, without the harbors it has today, the town depended on merchants’ wharves in Nantucket Sound and the Herring River. Local historian John Roche has created five dioramas depicting the wharves. Three of them are on display in the front window of the House of Morgan on Main Street in Harwich Port... [more]

Groundcovers don’t have to be green
By Stephanie Foster/ sfoster@cnc.com
The word ground cover conjures up a sea of shining green pachysandra for me. Actually in my own yard, it’s more of a puddle of yellow leaves... [more]

Harwich: The Old Comers
By Fran Geberths
Twenty years after the settlement of Plymouth plantation in 1620, the royal patent establishing the Plymouth Colony was transferred by the Purchasers - or as they were sometimes known - the Old Comers, to the freemen of the colony. Soon, second-generation Pilgrims began migrating to Duxbury, Marshfield and south to Sandwich and Yarmouth on Cape Cod. In 1643 the Plymouth church had purchased land from the Monomoy Indians in the area now Orleans, but a later survey showed the purchase to be too small for the growing colony’s needs. The land was then open to any wishing to settle there provided they reimbursed the colony for the cost of the purchase... [more]

Carolyn Cragin takes top job at school district
By Douglas Karlson/ dkarlson@cnc.com
Saying she is impressed with Harwich’s enthusiasm for its students, Carolyn Cragin last week accepted the school superintendent’s post... [more]

Good things come to those who wait
By Ginny Hewitt
"How come I don’t see the bestsellers at your library?" The absence of the really popular books on our "New" shelves leads some library users... [more]

Cape Cod Weekly Wildlife Sightings
 The following sightings were reported to Mass Audubon between May 18 and May 24, 2006. If you have questions about these sightings, or want to report a sighting, call the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary at 508-349-2615 or send e-mail to sightings@massaudubon.org... [more]

Krenrich-Russo
Lonni and Frederick Krenrich of Harwich announce the engagement of their daughter, Abby Michele Krenrich of New York to Marc Anthony Vincent Russo of New York, son of the late Anthony and Margaret Russo... [more]

Harwich's own 'military mom'
By Kathy Schade
Today I am wearing two hats, my "mother" hat and my "chamber" hat. Last Saturday, my 21-year-old "baby" came home. After six months in Iraq, and another month or so in Gulfport, Miss., he finally was home. For two weeks leave. Here. Harwich. Home... [more]

HMS band wins gold
The Harwich Middle School band grabbed a coveted Gold Award at the Great East Music Festival in Wilbraham on May 12. According to band director Gordon Napier, the band, composed of 41 students from grades 6 through 9, performed a medley of Mozart compositions, Glenn Miller's "In the Mood," and a graduation tune called "Achievement" before two judges at Minnechaud High School... [more]

Applying for affordable housing not an easy task
By Steve Desroches/ sdesroch@cnc.com
A man in Wellfleet thinks that Barnstable County keeps a master list. A woman in Provincetown assumed that you register at town hall and put your in some sort of database and then you receive an e-mail when it's your turn. One couple who's been waiting for five years missed the last one because they didn't even know it was coming... [more]

Alleged burglary is foiled
Harwich police responded late Sunday night to a report of a breaking and entering in progress at a business located on Lower County Road... [more]

The ospreys have landed!
By Text and photos Stephanie Foster/ sfoster@cnc.com
When the Harwich Conservation Trust and AmeriCorps volunteers installed an osprey platform in the marshlands of the Herring River in West Harwich, they kept their fingers crossed that it would get used. Well, they can uncross them. The osprey have landed. A pair has taken up residence and begun building a nest... [more]

How selectmen voted...
Agreement with Cape Cod Tech regarding emergency shelter for animals No/ Yes/Yes/Yes/Yes. Increase disposal area sticker fee from $85 to $100 Yes/No/Yes/No/Yes... [more]

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