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Reasons to Feel Better
As many of you know, I am fortunate enough to live on a pond in Mashpee. This place has become a central part of my life. The lake has given joy to me, my parents before me, to my now young adult children throughout their lives and is now a happy place for my nieces...
Silence is Deafening
It has been a week since the Massachusetts National Guard released a pile of previously withheld damning documents related to the abuse of the public process in the review of the proposed machine gun range on the Upper Cape Water Supply Reserve at Joint Base Cape Cod....
Pond Stories: Training in Joshua’s Pond
From book author Mick Carlon, Centerville An evening swim in Osterville’s Joshua’s Pond is a bit of perfection in an imperfect world. The spring-fed water is as clear as a Cape Cod September sky, and the trees surrounding the pond remind me of upstate New Hampshire....
Not Once, Not Twice, But Three Times
After filing not one, but two public records requests under the Massachusetts Public Records law and then having to appeal to the Secretary of the Commonwealth to compel full disclosure, APCC finally and belatedly received records from the Massachusetts National Guard...
Pond Stories: The Sisterhood of Fresh Water
From Skye Gibson: This one by William Butler Yeats is a treasure, and a poem my mother recited by heart frequently in her last years. It is not about a Cape pond, but part of the great sisterhood of freshwater across the globe. I later had the good fortune to go to...
That Was Fast
Monday is Labor Day. How did that happen? How did summer 2021 pass so quickly? Here at APCC it was a busy and productive summer and that helps account for why it passed so fast. Personally, there was so much happening, much of it good, that time flew by without enough...
Pond Stories: By An Inland Lake
Thanks to Lisa Nagel for sharing this pretty poem with us. BY AN INLAND LAKE by William Stanley Braithwaite Long drawn, the cool, green shadows Steal o'er the lake's warm breast, And the ancient silence follows The burning sun to rest. The calm of a thousand summers,...
Cape Cod Times: Improving water quality in ponds starting to gain momentum says panel at regional summit
The health of local ponds or lakes is something Cape Cod residents and visitors take more personally than they do marine water bodies, Andrew Gottlieb, executive director of the Association to Preserve Cape Cod, said. "People have a much more emotional, direct...
Pond Stories: A Pledge to Protect
Meghan Taylor of the Brewster Ponds Coalition recently sent this to us: "The boys and I have been working on a small project. With the help of our amazing neighbors, we’ve developed a simple pledge in order to help protect our beloved Sheep Pond and the waters of Cape...
We Deserve to Know
APCC has filed an appeal to the Massachusetts Secretary of State asking for an order to compel the Massachusetts National Guard Bureau to turn over requested documents sought under the state's Public Records Law. Starting in June APCC has sought, in two separate...