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90 Bridge St. Project To Cost $11M; Select Board Says Waterfront Job Will Be Worthwhile
CHATHAM – In the works since 2016, the plan to build a new shellfish upweller and mixed-use pier at 90 Bridge St. is now at the 90 percent design phase, town staff told the select board last week. Together with the plan to reuse the historic Coast Guard boathouse, the $11.1 million project is expected to have significant economic and cultural benefits.
Our View: A Loss For Harwich
Over the more than nine years Harwich Water//Wastewater Superintendent Dan Pelletier served the town — initially as water superintendent and then as overseer of both water and wastewater — he has been an exemplary public servant. There was no one who better understood the steps necessary to provide the very expensive sewering infrastructure required to protect the town’s drinking water, ponds and embayments. His departure is a major loss to Harwich.
Sale closed in Chatham: $2.9 million for a three-bedroom home
A 2,983-square-foot house built in 2021 has changed hands. The spacious new property located at 75 Hunter Rise in Chatham was sold on April 5, 2024. The $2,900,000 purchase price works out to $972 per square foot. This two-story home has three bedrooms and four bathrooms. The home's outer design showcases a a gable roof frame, with roofing materials crafted from asphalt. The property is equipped with forced air heating and a cooling system. The lot size of the property measures an impressive 0.5-acre.
Cape Cod Cocaine Supplier Suspected of Drug Trafficking Arrested in Large-Scale DEA, Police Raid
The streets of Cape Cod are a little cleaner today as a large-scale drug bust results in a hefty haul for the Barnstable Police and the DEA. On April 23, Charles Curtis, a 36-year-old from Cotuit, was cuffed and stuffed on drug trafficking and possession charges. During a search warrant...
9 Massachusetts counties under a freeze warning until early Friday morning
On Thursday at 11:08 a.m. the National Weather Service issued a freeze warning valid from 11 p.m. until Friday 5 a.m. for Essex, Middlesex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Bristol, Plymouth, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket counties. The weather service comments, "Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 28 degrees expected." "Frost and freeze conditions could...
Feds award $5 million to restore wetlands at 2 defunct Cape Cod cranberry bogs
Massachusetts will rip up two defunct cranberry bogs and restore wetlands on Cape Cod thanks to a $5 million federal grant. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant will fund projects to restore coastal habitats, tidal flow and fish passage by removing dams and other restrictive structures in Bourne and Yarmouth.
'The Steve Jobs of his day': Chatham museum celebrates Marconi's Cape Cod legacy
Years ago, you could stand on a bluff in Wellfleet and yell at England and no one would get the message. It seemed impossible to quickly communicate with anyone across the mighty Atlantic Ocean through the air. Better go home and write a letter. Then Guglielmo Marconi came along. The ingenious Italian inventor, born in 1874, "began dreaming of a way to send messages from transmitter to receiver without the aid of wires," according to the National...
Check your plants and pipes: Freeze watch for Cape Cod tonight
It's going to be a cold night on Cape Cod. The National Weather Service has issued a freeze watch for Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket counties, in effect from late Thursday night through Friday morning. Temperatures as low as 28 degrees are possible. According to the National Weather Service, "Frost and...
Exhibitions, free museum days and more: Art Week and Museum Mondays return in May
As exhibitions go up, gallery talk notes are finalized and hosts prepare for Cape Cod ArtWeek, here’s everything you need to know before the main event kicks off on May 3. Through May 12, museums, galleries, libraries and other creative institutions across the Cape are hosting exhibitions, demonstrations, fairs and other events in celebration of the Cape’s local arts community. The event marks the third Cape Cod ArtWeek sponsored by the Cape Cod Museum Trail. ...
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