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The Barnstable County Board of Regional Commissioners presented a Fiscal Year 2022 budget of $20,058,391 during its regularly scheduled remote meeting on Wednesday, February 17.
Every year a fleet of county dredges slowly rebuilds Cape Cod.
From October to mid-June, the fleet works against the currents that carry sand into the waterways that Cape Codders depend on for everything from commerce to leisure to public safety.
Egg-beater-like cutterheads affixed to the dredges dip beneath the cold waves to stir and suck up wayward sand slurry, which is pumped through thousands of feet of pipe to pad parts of the peninsula that Cape Codders want to preserve, including beaches that would gradually erode if it weren’t for the dredges’ loads.
The county purchased its first cutterhead suction dredge, christened the Cod Fish I, in 1996. In the 24 years following that purchase, the dredging program completed roughly 300 projects.
Baker dashes Cape hopes for mass vaccination site; local officials not giving up
By Cynthia McCormick
Cape Cod Times
As Gov. Charlie Baker Wednesday announced a new mass COVID-19 vaccination site in Dartmouth, Cape officials voiced their disappointment at the lack of a similar site in Barnstable County. Cape Cod is clearly being left behind here in the COVID vaccine rollout, State Sen. Julian Cyr (D-Truro) said during a Thursday morning COVID-19 Task Force briefing. I’m frustrated, I’m disappointed, and I m frankly pretty enraged. We need a mass vaccine distribution site on Cape Cod…or adequate supply.
Bruce Murphy, Yarmouth Health director, echoed the senator s increasingly vocal pleas to the state to prioritize Cape seniors.
FALMOUTH Jim Sexton of Truro had a big smile behind his blue facial mask after receiving the first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine during a regional vaccination clinic Wednesday at the Cape Cod Fairgrounds.
But the 75-year-old said he would’ve felt even happier if more of his friends knew when they would be vaccinated.
“We’re thrilled to be able to get through all the red tape of logging in and making an appointment. That was an ordeal,” Sexton said.
“It was the luck of the draw. I feel for our friends” who haven’t found an appointment, he said.