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The Mashpee River will be the focus of a major restoration project.

The Association to Preserve Cape Cod will use more than $2.5 million in grant funds from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to improve fish passage and reclaim a disused cranberry bog. The grant funds will be combined with funding from the town of Mashpee, the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Cape Cod Water Restoration Project and private foundations.

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The Association to Preserve Cape Cod announced this week that it received a multi-million dollar grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to restore fish habitats and passages along the Mashpee River and empower the Mashpee Wampanoag community.

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New housing on Joint Base Cape Cod — for military and civilians alike — could become part of an upcoming master plan for the base.

The quasi-public state agency MassDevelopment is commissioning the plan for the southern part of the base, an area of about 7,000 acres.

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Construction is underway at two boat launches on Scargo Lake in Dennis as part of a larger project to keep pollution from stormwater out of local waters.

Last week, at the lakefront on Doctor Lord’s Road South, which is also a popular spot for swimming, a construction crew from J.W. Dubis & Sons in Chatham was spreading stone in a new trench between the parking lot and the water.

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Parts of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station have the air of a ghost town. Since operations ceased about five years ago, many of the buildings have been torn down. Concrete circles mark the spots where water tanks once stood, and weeds push up through cracks in the asphalt. Much of the plant’s radioactive materials have been stored or removed.

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For more than a dozen years, the Massachusetts Army National Guard has been fighting to build a machine gun range on Joint Base Cape Cod. But in the past month, the project seems to have collapsed. So how did that happen, is it really over – and what happens next?

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The Association to Preserve Cape Cod and the Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance, along with state Rep. Dylan Fernandes, held a press conference at Plymouth Rock Wednesday to announce their opposition to the release of 1.1 million gallons of treated radioactive wastewater from the Pilgrim nuclear power plant.

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Parties seeking to intervene in a state appeals case over the fate of radioactive water inside the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station held a press conference Wednesday near Plymouth Rock

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Gov. Maura Healey halted the proposed multi-purpose machine gun range on Camp Edwards at Joint Base Cape Cod on Monday by announcing that she would not approve the construction contract for the project.

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In a much anticipated move, Governor Maura Healey has blocked the Massachusetts Army National Guard from signing a building contract for the proposed machine gun range at Joint Base Cape Cod because the project is still undergoing state review.

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