A special exhibit at the Nye Museum in East Sandwich tells the stories of nine women, born between 1623 and 1920, who lived and worked on the Nye homestead through
Staring in January, the retail sale of water in single-use plastic bottles will be forbidden in Sandwich.
That is what voters at Town Meeting decided Monday night, May 3, after what amounted to the only lengthy debate of the evening.
âI am beyond thrilled,â said Mary Cote, Sandwich spokeswoman for the environmental group sponsoring the bottle ban. âI had a feeling it would pass when I saw all the people coming in with their reusable water bottles.â
The ban applies only to single-use, personal-sized plastic bottles of water. More specifically, it will curtail the sales and distribution of all plastic bottles that contain less than a gallon of non-carbonated, unflavored drinking water, according to the petition re-filed this year by the Brewster-based group Sustainable Practices.