Cape Cod Times
Editor s Note: Dennis Town Meeting and election results are still being tabulated as of the Register s print deadline.
Town meeting voters in Yarmouth will have a chance to approve a slew of capital purchases, some delayed because of the pandemic.
The list of proposed purchases ranges from police body cameras to new doors for town hall.
Town meeting will be held at 9 a.m. May 22 outside Mattacheese Middle School at 400 Higgins Crowell Road.
The warrant features a total of 27 articles. See the entire town meeting warrant: yarmouth.ma.us/DocumentCenter/View/14708/2021-ATM-Warrant?bidId=
Here are some of the highlights:
Sherry Greene-Starr lives about 100 feet from the railroad tracks in West Barnstable. She’s always taken walks along the tracks, but during the pandemic she’s strolled the route more frequently.
The tracks have been strewn with trash for years, she said, but recently she’s noticed more litter than usual.
“There’s just garbage everywhere,” said Greene-Starr, who is married to Barnstable Town Councilor Gordon Starr of Precinct 1.
Precinct 11 Councilor Kristine Clark also noticed litter piling up along the route taken by a Mass Coastal Railroad train that carries the Cape’s trash from the waste transfer station in Yarmouth to SEMASS, a waste-to-energy facility in Rochester.
ORLEANS A bright red crane stood out against a nearly cloudless blue spring sky, hoisting blocks of scaffolding from the site’s access road into a massive concrete foundation.
The scaffolding was part of a temporary support system for the pouring of the slab of the first floor of Orleans’ new $38.1 million wastewater treatment plant, which is scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2022. For the past two years, Orleans streets also bustled with crews installing the pipes for the $21.4 million downtown sewer collection system.
This is a moment capping over two decades of contentious debate in Orleans, and one that Alan McClennen, a former longtime Orleans select board member, could scarcely have believed possible just a few years ago when the cost of the town’s wastewater cleanup plan seemed insurmountable.