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 AreaâŚÂ 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 âHeights …
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 âSubstation Ruins Neighborhoodâ, page 7. 2.Four photos of Vineyard Windâs construction project at Covellâs Beach in Barnstable, page 9. Also see aerial photos from 2022 in our website post âVineyard Wind Cable Installation at Covellâs Beachâ along …
In a Letter to the Editor on March 31, 2023, Cindy Branga of Grace Court East Falmouth discussed âWhales Need Protectionâ. 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 FHMNAâs response (written by President Dave Buzanoski with Board input) to The Falmouth Enterpriseâs editorial published on 3/31/23 entitled âThinking About a Mission Statementâ 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.  âA …
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 âArticles …
Below is the full text of a letter entitled âReally Green?â which was published in the Falmouth Enterprise on 3-31-23. Links to a second letter to the editor regarding whales and a third letter regarding substations will come to you separately later this week with more information about both. âReally Green?â Falmouthâs upcoming Town Meeting …