The National Guard wants to clear 170 acres of woods on Cape Cod for a new machine gun range
By David Abel Globe Staff,Updated April 13, 2021, 9:37 a.m.
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National Guard Specialist Kyle Canzano (right) prepared to take the Army s rifle record fire qualification range, a test that is an annual requirement for Guard members, on the existing firing range for machine guns at Camp Edwards.Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
JOINT BASE CAPE COD â In a clearing in the woods of these sprawling training grounds, First Lieutenant Patrick Foley peered down the barrel of his M4 assault rifle and awaited the command âweapons free.â
By Doug Fraser
Cape Cod Times
BARNSTABLE Back in 2018, local environmental activists were dismayed at proposed Cape Cod Commission updates to the Regional Policy Plan addressing climate change, saying they lacked the specificity and sense of urgency needed to address the most pressing issue of our time.
Responding to a citizens’ petition, the commission last summer created a subcommittee with an ambitious agenda: Meet for six months and return with a better suite of amendments to the regional plan.
Amendments unanimously approved
Last week, those changes were unveiled to the Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates. The amendments included objectives addressing coastal resiliency; addressing low-carbon emission strategies in the transportation and housing sectors; strengthening the role of climate change planning; and supporting infrastructure that reduces reliance on fossil fuels.
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CENTERVILLE When Wendy Northcross arrived at the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce offices in April of 1997 to begin what had been promised as a one-year term as interim executive director, she found what she called “a very tired chamber.”
Northcross was fresh off a one-year stint setting up Coastal Community Capital, a community development lender, when the county asked her to take the helm of the chamber as it merged with the Barnstable County Economic Development Council.
“They said ‘Wendy, it’s just a year. Just keep the lights on,” said Northcross, 66, who announced her retirement Monday after 24 years as the chamber s CEO.