Select Board Open Hearing: Outdoor Entertainment Regulations, July 15, 2024 At the Select Board (SB) meeting on Monday June 3, 2024, there was a Business agenda item to “discuss and vote to approve an entertainment regulation and amendments to the special events use policy”. Because the Entertainment Regulation is a “regulation”, it requires a Public …
FHMNA has recently heard from Sergeant Jim Cummings, our contact at the Falmouth Police Department (FPD), regarding this year’s plans for the Heights and Bristol beaches. The FPD will have a Civilian Service Representative (CSR) assigned to the Heights area for the summer, beginning shifts on July 1st. This coverage will be for at least …
As previously reported, in January 2024 FHMNA participated in the “Close to the Wind” summit in Hyannis which was sponsored by our coalition partner the “Save Dowses Beach” group. This was a very well organized event summarizing various aspects of the offshore wind generation projects affecting the south shore of Cape Cod, as well as elsewhere. The Summit was …
Over twenty-five members of the Falmouth Heights Maravista Neighborhood Association met at 9 AM on Saturday, April 27, 2024 for coffee and donuts before heading out to pay homage to Mother Earth by cleaning up the streets, parks, cliffs, bluffs and sidewalks of the Falmouth Heights and Maravista neighborhoods. Several members who participated commented after …
REQUESTS FOR DETERMINATION OF APPLICABILITY Amy Lowell, Town of Falmouth, Nantucket Sound and 0 Grand Avenue (Map/parcel: 46B-03-003- 000), Falmouth, MA – For permission to conduct seven geotechnical test borings. Read the 15 page application here: Grand Ave & Nantucket Sound (TOF Wastewater) RDA Submittal 04 10 2024 The FCC is scheduled to hear a “Request …
As part of FHMNA’s coalition participation with Barnstable in objecting to wind developers’ cables being routed through our respective residential communities, we have been invited to attend a rally at Craigville Beach on April 20, 2024 from 11am to 1pm. The host, “Barnstable Speaks”, has lined up 5 speakers to discuss such matters as: – home …
By GILDA GEIST, 3/22/2022 (both online and in print on page 9 of The Falmouth Enterprise). The town is working with an engineering consultant to figure out what to do about an ongoing erosion problems along Great Bay Street, which is located on the banks of Great Pond on the Maravista peninsula. Wind and stormwater …
Shell Sells Its Half Of SouthCoast Wind To Joint Venture Partner By GILDA GEIST, published both online 3/22/24 and in The Falmouth Enterprise printed edition, page 2. Up until Wednesday, March 20, the SouthCoast Wind project was a 50/50 joint venture between Shell New Energies and Ocean Winds. Now, Ocean Winds has acquired full ownership …
See article below from Reuters via Yahoo!/finance published online on Wed, Mar 20, 2024, 5:19 PM: (Reuters) – Energy firm Shell said on Wednesday it had sold its 50% stake in SouthCoast Wind Energy, established to develop wind projects off the coast of Massachusetts, to its joint venture partner Ocean Winds North America for an …
The article “Falmouth Board Opposes Losing Local Control Over Renewable Energy Projects” by Noelle Annonen was published in The Falmouth Enterprise on Friday, 3/15/24 on pages 1 & 18 and is available online. To read the Select Board’s letter to the MA Commission on Energy Infrastructure Siting and Permitting RE: Town of Falmouth Comments in …