News & Events

Every year around this time they arrive. It is a spring ritual and a harbinger of the summer ahead. Perhaps you might think I am referring to the annual return of river herring or osprey. I could have hummingbirds in mind or even striped bass. Nope, not this time. I...

Stop me if you have heard this one before, but the Massachusetts National Guard has, again, failed to produce public records requested by APCC on a timely basis as required by Massachusetts law. Since failure to produce legally compliant responses to records requests...

Spring town meeting season is upon us. Over the next six weeks or so, all the big decisions will be made about what land is purchased and preserved, which clean water projects are funded, and how well environmental departments are funded. All these important decisions...

I am not widely considered Mr. Sunshine, but I am happy to report some good news. Readers of this space may recall a discussion about the projected shortfall in funds from the Cape Cod and Islands Water Protection Fund that reduces town borrowing costs by 25 percent....

Waiting in the cashier line at the local hardware store the other day, I overheard the conversation between a customer and a store clerk. The customer wanted a lawn fertilizer to get an application down right away. In addition to failing to mention to the customer...

I have been hearing a lot of new voices speaking passionately about the need to protect Cape’s groundwater and the integrity of the natural resources of Nantucket Sound. On the surface that’s great, as we need more people to speak up for the environment. That said, I...

With the modest and fairly typical nor’easter last week, many of us spent part of the day without utility power. Power outages were widely distributed across the region. Unless you were elderly, ill or reliant on home medical equipment, the outages were brief enough...