Barnstable Town News

Staff workers for U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., are set to hold office hours at Barnstable Town Hall on Monday.

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Representatives from Barnstable Municipal Airport got what they were looking for from the Barnstable Town Council, Nov.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any crisis.

MAKING HIS CASE Now-former town councilor Harold Tobey stands in front of the case at the Zion Union Heritage Museum in Hyannis that holds the gavel he held as council president in 1995-96. It also exhibits his other achievements in Barnstable, as well as those of contemporaries Dorothy Donalson, John Reed, John Rosario and Eugenia Fortes, whose ...

A Newton breast cancer research organization is studying whether pharmaceuticals, hormones, plasticizers, herbicides and other chemicals are finding their way into the Cape's public drinking supplies.

The Barnstable Town Government will not face-lift after all. A recount of this month's charter commission vote, which proposed to change the shape of the Barnstable Town Council, has reversed voters' initial approval, rejecting the question by a 10-vote margin.

The Barnstable Town Council approved Thursday, Dec. 17 for the petitioned recall election in Hyannis's Precinct 13.

ONE SMALL CANDLE Led in song by Rabbi Yekusiel Alperowitz, co-director of the Chabad Jewish Center on West Main Street in Hyannis, about 200 gathered outside the center after the Nov.

The Barnstable Town Government's impending face lift, approved by one vote, will get a second look next week.

December 8, 2009 is a state special primary election day, and apparently after discussing the matter with a Secretary of State representative over the telephone on Friday, I was told the day was both a state and town election day, provided a separate ballot is issued for local election issues.

The sign outside the Barnstable Town Clerk's office reads "closed," but inside, staff workers are taking care of business.

A recent My View commentary quite correctly identified the most difficult issue faced by the framers of the Cape Care Community Health Trust, which is, not surprisingly, the taxes necessary to fund it.

A Centerville man took out papers this morning to petition a recount of Tuesday's narrow victory for a change in the makeup of Barnstable town government.

Despite a one-vote margin, no one came forward yesterday to contest a successful charter ballot question to change the makeup of Barnstable's town government.

And the airheads at the Massachusetts DEP, Cape Cod Commission, and the Barnstable Town Council want sewers.

Twenty years ago, each of the community's nine precincts sent two members to the Barnstable Town Council.

Lower. That's where Barnstable officials should set their sites on available revenues for 2010.

The first of two evenings of televised debates will be held tonight at Barnstable Town Hall, featuring town council candidates for Precincts 2, 4 and 12.

Given the final word Tuesday on a controversial town sewering project, a strong majority of Barnstable voters stayed silent.