The Mashpee Board of Selectmen at its meeting on Monday, August 9, in the Waquoit Meeting Room at Town Hall discussed a series of petition articles that propose a solar
The US Air Force is refusing to reimburse Mashpee Water District taxpayers for treatment of two wells with levels of contamination from Joint Base Cape Cod that exceed Massachusetts drinking
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As a project to construct a machine gun range at Joint Base Cape Cod approaches what could be the last regulatory hurdle, the Mashpee Board of Selectmen at its Monday,
Under two tents on the Mashpee Middle-High School field, 436 voters at Mashpee Town Meeting on Monday, May 3 unanimously approved a $56 million wastewater treatment project to begin to correct decades of pollution.
In impassioned speeches before the vote, town officials and residents recalled a bygone era before nitrogen-laden effluent from septic systems caused rampant algae blooms in the townâs bays that overwhelm native plant life and create dead zones as decaying algae absorbs oxygen from the water column.
âIf youâre my age or older and youâve been in this town since the early 1980s, you know that under the blue-sky reflection in the Mashpee River, the upper reaches of Popponesset Bay, Santuit River, Waquoit Bayâunderneathâif you were to look underneath the water, you could see the bottom, you could see your feet on the bottom, you could see eelgrass and the habitat it provided,â said Selectman Andrew R. Gottlieb. âYou also know, if you l