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MASHPEE Town meeting voters unanimously approved funding for a new wastewater treatment plant Monday night, marking the culmination of decades of work to address the town s water quality problems.
436 voters unanimously approved the project at this year s spring session, which was held outside Mashpee Middle-High School.
“We all have a stake in this,” Selectman Andrew Gottlieb told voters Monday night. “The cost of doing nothing is significant. We are already paying that price. We’re paying it through loss of aesthetic value, we’re paying it through loss of recreational value. We’re paying it because we live in a less healthy, less robust, less forgiving environment. It’s up to us to change that.”
Update: This article has been updated with more recent information about a Monday Mashpee Board of Selectmen decision to vote to indefinitely postpone Article 7.
Town Meeting voters on Monday will determine the future of the town s wastewater system, including a treatment plant, sewer substation and flow rules.
Mashpee special and annual town meeting
When and where: 7 p.m. Monday at Mashpee Middle-High School, 500 Old Barnstable Road
Key issues:
1. Wastewater
The biggest hot-button issue revolves around the town’s wastewater, which has been affecting the town’s water quality for years through nitrogen pollution. The main article, Article 6, seeks to appropriate $54 million to fund the implementation and construction of a wastewater treatment plant that will be located adjacent to the town’s transfer station off Asher’s Path. A sewer main system will be installed and will stretch from Butler Lane and Drew Lane south to Yardarm Drive and along Route 28 to Quinaquisset
As a member of the military for the past 19 years, Matthew Davis has served his country. Mr. Davis said being in the military teaches the importance of civil service and doing what is best for the group, not the individual. A group-oriented philosophy should bode well for the newest candidate running for Mashpee School Committee.
Mr. Davis, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard at Joint Base Cape Cod, is one of two candidates seeking a spot on the school committee. He and Brian M. Weeden are running unopposed for the two open three-year seats on the committee.
âWith my current career, you have to be unbiased at times. Iâm not going to let whatâs best for me and my family let me interfere with whatâs best for the majority of families,â he said. âI try to be that person that doesnât go, âWhatâs good for me?â I go, âWhatâs good for who I am serving?â Thatâs a part of the civil service. Itâs not about
Celeste A. Reynolds has many roles at Mashpee Middle-High School. She teaches Advanced Placement human geography, womenâs studies, current events and senior seminar, and she is the coordinator for senior seminar projects. She was recently awarded distinguished teacher by the National Council For Geographic Education.
âI was shocked. I didnât know that my colleague had nominated me,â Ms. Reynolds said.
She said her passion for Open Street Map is primarily why her colleague, Gregory Hill, an AP human geography teacher from Plano, Texas, nominated her for the award.
âHeâs actually started to use OSM in his classroom, and heâs said that he wouldnât have started using it if I hadnât introduced it to him,â she said. âIâm very passionate about Open Street Mapping; itâs like a Wikipedia of maps. Itâs based off of volunteer mappers.â