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Land Protection & Water Quality
Today's release of the seventh annual State of the Waters report is an opportunity to focus on one of the highest priority issues for most Cape Codders. What is happening with our water reflects the land use and waste disposal choices made over the decades. As has...
APCC Report highlights need to protect Cape Cod surface waters
This map, one of many in the 2025 report, depicts watershed scores as well as embayment statuses. CAI | By Amy Kolb Noyes The Association to Preserve Cape Cod has released its annual State of the Waters: Cape Cod report. The report gives a pass/fail grade to coastal...
Good Enough
"I have hope, because I believe in the truth of what the great American writer James Baldwin said. He said, ‘In this world, there isn’t as much humanity as one would like, but there’s enough.’" - Bruce Springsteen In this week of Thanksgiving, despite the challenges...
Walk the Talk
Every so often events conspire to give people a chance to put their actions behind their words. The recently announced findings of the hearing officer recommending that the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection’s denial of the application by Holtec to...
Appeals officer rules against Pilgrim Nuclear in radioactive water discharge case
Photo Credit: Sarah Mizes-Tan / CAI The reactor room at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station. Image from 2019. CAI | By Jennette Barnes A state appeals officer has issued a recommendation against the owner of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station — a critical decision awaited...
Harwich Conservation Trust Opens New Hinckleys Pond Preserve
Photo Credit: Harwich Conservation Trust CapeCod.com | By Jim McCabe The Harwich Conservation Trust is announcing the completed restoration of the Hinckleys Pond and Herring River Headwaters Preserve. The nearly two-million-dollar project included the rewilding of...
Lakes People Rejoice
Mashpee voters overwhelmingly approved a town meeting article (80 percent yes) and the associated debt exclusion (75 percent yes) that gave the green light to a community treatment system to reduce nutrient loading to Mashpee Wakeby Pond. While great for Mashpee...
Local River Herring Numbers Decline
Photo Credit: Association to Preserve Cape Cod The Enterprise The Association to Preserve Cape Cod (APCC) has released its 2025 river herring run results, which show that most monitored runs across the region experienced below-average returns this past...
Faith Restored
Almost 500 people gathered at Mashpee Town Meeting Monday night to resoundingly vote yes on a wastewater treatment system for Mashpee Wakeby Pond. Both the outcome of the vote and the turnout restored a little of my faith in our ability to come together and...
Go To Town Meeting
If your town has a fall town meeting, and many do in the next few weeks, you need to go. Why? The thought here is that the importance of decisions made locally has never been more important that it is now. The federal government is shut down, and the states are...