Plans to expand the Bourne landfill have come under attack. Nearly a dozen environmental groups have raised concerns over expansion of the landfill, ranging from improper solid waste management, to
BREWSTER A nonprofit group that includes former employees and alumni of the iconic Cape Cod Sea Camps is hoping to raise enough interest and money to buy the 125-acre property and continue to run it as a summer camp.
“Pretty much every member’s life was touched by the camp,” said Jim Fay, president of the Brewster Flats Foundation, which formed in December in response to the announced sale in November.
Fay and his wife, both teachers at a private school in Deerfield, have owned a home in Brewster for 10 years. They met at Cape Cod Sea Camps in 2004, when both were camp counselors, and worked there every summer since.
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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