See FHMNA article: “Town Meeting, April 10, 2023: Voting RESULTS Article 15” Article from The Falmouth Enterprise (link + excerpt): “Falmouth Town Meeting Backs Select Board Denial Of Wind Developer” On Monday night, April 10, Falmouth Town Meeting voted down Article 15, a citizens’ petition that would have reversed a Select Board vote to deny …
Article 25 (partial): To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money to fund … Phase 1 of the Teaticket-Acapesket Service Area… Voted by Town Meeting Members: YES: 106 NO 79 Motion FAILED having not fulfilled the 2/3rds vote requirement. OUTFALL PIPE (for details, see prior post “Heights …
ARTICLE 15 (partial): To see if Town Meeting will vote in favor of allowing offshore wind developers the right of entry to conduct soil investigations and studies to assess the feasibility of horizontal directional drilling in Town-owned parcels. Select Board Recommendation: Indefinite Postponement Votes of Town Meeting Members: YES Votes = 72 NO Votes = …
Letters to the Editor, pages 4-7, regarding the FHMNA Mission Statement as referred to in the Enterprise Editorial published on 3/31/23; Article 15; SouthCoast Wind; & whales/windmills. There were 13 Letters to the Editor in The Falmouth Enterprise on 4/7/23. Many were informative as well as interesting, so we have included some excerpts to give …
On Monday, 4/10/23, Town Meeting Members will vote on Article 25 that focuses on upgrades to the Town’s waste-water plant and would appropriate an initial $4.5 million to fund the design of an expansion of the Teaticket/Acapesket sewer area ultimately requiring an expansion of the Town’s leaching beds to the north of the treatment plant on Blacksmith …
Below are two items from The Falmouth Enterprise, 3/31/2023: 1.The full text of a Letter to the Editor “Substation Ruins Neighborhood”, page 7. 2.Four photos of Vineyard Wind’s construction project at Covell’s Beach in Barnstable, page 9. Also see aerial photos from 2022 in our website post “Vineyard Wind Cable Installation at Covell’s Beach” along …
In a Letter to the Editor on March 31, 2023, Cindy Branga of Grace Court East Falmouth discussed “Whales Need Protection”. Here is an excerpt: “There have been reports in the national news media about larger than normal numbers of dead whales and dolphins on the shores of New York and New Jersey. Several environmental …
Below is the full text of FHMNA’s response (written by President Dave Buzanoski with Board input) to The Falmouth Enterprise’s editorial published on 3/31/23 entitled “Thinking About a Mission Statement” which we emailed to you on 4/1/23. This Letter to the Editor has been submitted for publication in the Enterprise this coming Friday, 4/7/23. “A …
On 2/17/2023, SouthCoast Wind (a.k.a. Mayflower Wind) published in the Federal Register their DEIS (Draft Environmental Impact Statement). The Notice of this publishing commences a 45-day public comment period with the federal BOEM (Bureau of Ocean Energy Management) which ends at 11:59 p.m. ET on April 3, 2023. THIS COMMENT DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL …
FALMOUTH ANNUAL TOWN MEETING MONDAY, APRIL 10, 2023 at 7:00 P.M. Doors open at 5:30 P.M. MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM, LAWRENCE SCHOOL 113 LAKEVIEW AVENUE, FALMOUTH, MA 02540 See below to read the letter sent by the FHMNA Board of Directors to ALL Town Meeting Members on or about 3/29/23. See Town website for links to the “Articles …