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4Cs COVID-19 clinics
Two Barnstable County COVID-19 vaccine clinics dispensing the Johnson & Johnson shot today and Thursday filled up within 30 minutes of registration opening last Friday.
Registration opened at noon for the clinics, held at the gym at Cape Cod Community College in West Barnstable.
While the 1,200 slots 600 on each day went quickly, Barnstable County spokesperson Sonja Sheasley expressed frustration with the way they were posted on the state s registration site, maimmunizations.org.
The state waiting room that appointment seekers must pass through jumped all around, Sheasley said; when she tried out the site to see how it worked, the waiting times would jump from 12 minutes to 17 hours and back to 13 minutes for no apparent reason.
Scholarships, altruism, arts, St. Paddy s Day, Notes
The Barnstable Patriot
April 1 is the application deadline for the
Historical Society of Santuit & Cotuit’s annual scholarship. Applicants must be graduating high school seniors who either reside or attend school in the Town of Barnstable and are entering college in fall 2021. One scholarship of $2,000 will be awarded.
Students are considered on the basis of their above-average academic record; participation in school and community activities, including part-time work; and financial need. Plans to study history are a plus.
Application forms and additional information concerning the scholarship are available at www.cotuithistoricalsociety.org/scholarship-program. More information may be obtained by calling 508-428-0461.
FALMOUTH Debby Wells moved to Cape Cod in 2013 and in the years since she’s learned firsthand that being a renter on the Cape can be difficult.
She’s had three rentals sold from underneath her, but struck housing gold when she was able to secure a three-year lease for a condo in Falmouth.
That goldmine may be running dry now as the Cape’s pre-existing housing crisis has been exacerbated by COVID-19.
Wells’ landlord didn’t offer a new lease for the fourth year and she recently learned that he wants to sell the property in the hot real estate market that’s been spurred on by the pandemic.
The Barnstable Patriot
Does Barnstable want engaged citizens? Not on zoning.
In November 2020, the Town Council’s new Strategic Plan made “citizen communication and engagement” a priority. At the same time, the ad hoc Zoning Subcommittee was advancing yet another under-the-radar residential zoning change after getting a proposal from commercial interests. Make no mistake: the ad hoc Subcommittee is quietly overhauling our zoning.
Let’s start here: “ad hoc” means a temporary subcommittee, not a permanent “standing” one. It is to handle a specific issue by a specific time and then disband. Our ad hoc Zoning Subcommittee is in year five.