Barnstable Town News

In a year when the residents of two Cape communities committed to town-wide wastewater infrastructure plans, the Barnstable Town Council rejected by narrow margins two sewer additions.

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." a ' Samuel Adams If ita TMs not broke dona TMt fix it..A primer and score card to sort out fiction from fact for tonight's town council hearing... I am not a waste water expert, but I can smell a line of bullshit from a ...

Assume, for a moment, that you live around Lake Wequaquet in Centerville. The town tells you that you must pay about $31,000 over 20 years to hook up to a new sewer system.

Barnstable Town Hall has been around for more than a century, and the Community Preservation Committee thinks it's worth spending a significant chunk of the funds it oversees to maintain it.

The promise of federal stimulus money wasn't enough to entice the Barnstable Town Council last night to support a pair of sewer extension projects that would have cost homeowners in the affected neighborhoods tens of thousands of dollars apiece.

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." a ' Samuel Adams Thursday's Barnstable Town Council completely irrelevant hearing at the Communication Workers of America building at 744 West Main Street, will be televised live on Channel 18a .

Despite some initial hesitations, Felicia Penn, a member of the Barnstable Planning Board, will be up for re-appointment next month before the Barnstable Town Council.

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." - " Samuel Adams "Friends, voters, countrymen, who came last night to bury John Klimm, not to praise him," LEND ME YOUR EYES AND EARS... The truth is the plan to sewer Lake Wequaquet and Stewart Creek is not about nitrate ...

The Town of Barnstable will be in Plymouth Probate Court June 25 to support its motion to strike the notice of appearance that's delayed appointment of a new trustee for the Enoch T. Cobb Trust.

Some Barnstable town planners see $56 million for sewer system expansion projects as a deal they can't pass up.

As a resident of the Holly Point neighborhood of Centerville for 28 years, I am asking the Barnstable Town Council to delay its vote Thursday regarding the sewer project in the Lake Wequaquet district.

Weblog dedicated to tough love for Barnstable...An OVERRIDE is coming, and we are dedicated to the town living within its means.... The solution to nitrate pollution is dilution and distribution reduction, and not a political resolution ... Next week therea TMs a strong probability the Barnstable Town Council will borrow $44 million to sewer homes ...

With $57.4 million in sewer projects on the fast track for funding by the end of June, the Barnstable Town Council is looking to spread the word about the need and costs to those connecting to the expanded system.

The Barnstable Town Council spent three and a half hours informally reviewing municipal budget proposals May 21 in preparation for its formal review next week.

The Cape Cod Commission held its first hearing last night on ways to reduce traffic congestion along Yarmouth Road in Barnstable and Yarmouth.

The Cape Cod Commission will kick off a series of public meetings to discuss possible transportation improvements to Yarmouth Road on Wednesday, May 27 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Barnstable Town Hall.

Lieutenant Governor Timothy Murray found more questions than answers yesterday at Barnstable Town Hall, where he met with Cape Cod residents and communities leaders to gauge their thoughts on the state's budget crisis.

LINKED BY NAME AND AFFECTION Former Member of Parliament Tony Speller hails from Barnstaple, England and has frequented these shores for the past four decades.

They are separated by an ocean, but Barnstable, Mass., and Barnstaple, England, share more than just a name.

In what's become the traditional start of the town election calendar, the town clerk's office will hold an information night for those considering a run for office in November.