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By KATIE GOERS

Members of the Bourne commu-

nity are again invited to tour James

F. Peebles Elementary School

tomorrow .

Tours of the building will b

e given

starting at 1 PM, with the last tour

at 3 PM.

The tours are being given to high-

light the poor conditio

ns of the

school and the cost to keep condi-

tions safe for the children who at-

tend school there.

Each tour will

take about 25

minutes.

While the tours are scheduled for

this day, Principal Jane Norton said

that she is willing to give tours of th

e

building to people who want to see it

but are unable to make it tomorrow.

A Special Town Meeting is sched-

uled for Monday, at which residents

will have the opportunity to vote on

both the new Peebles school project

and the new Bourne Police Station.

The school can be reached at

508-759-0680.

By MICHAEL J. RAUSCH

After months of town offi cials pre-

senting their case for construction

of a new police station and a new

school, residents will fi nally have

their say when Special Town Meet-

ing convenes Monday night . The

warrant for next week’s Town Meet-

ing contains 10 articles, with the two

big tickets items being funding for a

new James F. Peebles Elementary

School and a new headquarters for

the Bourne Police Department. The

combined cost of the two building

projects has been estimated at more

than $42 million.

Article 1 asks residents to ap-

prove funding to build a new James

F. Peebles Elementary School. The

cost of the new school has been es-

timated at $39.91 milli

on. With re-

imbursement of $15.15 million from

the Massachusetts School Building

Authority, the cost to

the town will

be $24.76 million.

The problems with the present

63-year-old building range from

cracks in the exterior to a hallway

that fl oods during a rainstorm; leak-

ing windows and ceilings; substan-

dard heating; and asbestos in fl oor

tiles, pipe insulation and window

caulking.

Article 5 seeks approval to fi nance

construction, furnishing and equip-

ping of a new Bourne police sta-

tion. The new headquarters for the

Bourne Police Department would

be located on town-owned land off

Route 28/Bypass Road in Buzzards

Bay, near Queen Sewell Park. Cost

to build the new facility has been es-

timated at $17.6 millio

n.

Like Peebles School, the cur-

rent police station, built in 1959,

is in rough shape. There is lots of

asbestos, as well as black mold.

Locker rooms fl ood, windows leak,

the garage is too small to accommo-

date any of the department’s vehi-

cles; and plumbing, mechanical and

electrical systems are outdated and

jerry-rigged.

The Bourne Finance Committee

has recommended that, if residents

approve the projects, the town bor-

row the money needed at a fi xed an-

nual interest rate of 3.75 percent

over 20 years. The cost to the aver-

age homeowner, with a home val-

ued at $398,944, would be an addi-

tional $283 on their annual real es-

tate tax bill.

Residents will also be asked to

vote on Article 10, a proposed new

bylaw outlawing the use of plastic

bags. The bylaw would prohibit sin-

gle-use, dual-handled plastic bags

New Police Station, School Bldg. Top Monday’s Warrant

Special Town Meeting con-

venes Monday night, October

17, inside the auditorium at

Bourne High School. The

gavel drops to start the pro-

ceedings at 7 PM.

By KAREN B. HUNTER

Many residents of the Upper

Cape take for granted the re-

gion’s cranberry bogs for much of

the year, nestled quietly as they

are among towns and villages,

but October—when most of th

e

harvesting occurs—is a different

story. Mature berries turn bright

red and become buoyant with the

onset of cooler weather, bogs are

fl ooded for wet-picking and har-

vest festivals draw hundreds of

visitors.

The history of the cranberry

begins with the cavities left te

ns

of thousands of years ago by re-

ceding glaciers. These newly

formed kettle ponds fi ll

ed with

sand, clay and debris, which was

the perfect environment for cran-

berry vines.

Native Americans recognized

the health benefits

of this nu-

trient-dense fruit. Wampanoags

have enjoyed an annual harvest

of wild

cranberries for many

thousands of years, and early

New England sailors are said

to have eaten the vitamin C-rich

berries to prevent scurvy.

Cranberries were first culti-

vated on Cape Cod in 1816 when

a Revolutionary War veteran who

lived in Dennis, Captain Henry

Hall, noticed that w

ild cranber-

ries grew better when sand blew

over them. He started transplant-

ing cranberry vines and spread-

ing sand on the vines. O

thers

copied this technique. The idea

of cultivating and sellin

g cran-

berries caught on, and local land-

owners converted their swamps,

wetlands, peat swamps and wet

meadows into cranberry bogs.

“The industry was created

mainly for the fishing boat

crews as a natural source of

vitamin C,” said Douglas R.

Beaton of Sandwich, whose

family has grown cranberries

for Ocean Spray for six genera-

tions. “Cranberries were brought

aboard the ships in 100-pound

wooden barrels, and ‘barrels per

acre’ has remained the standard

measure of production,” he said.

Mr. Beaton and his wife,

Dianne L. Beaton, have given 90

percent of their cranberry assets

to their children and grandchil-

dren, putting th

eir cranberry

business squarely in the hands of

the next two generations. Their

son Matthew W. Beaton runs the

company, which farms approxi-

mately 600 acres in southeastern

Massachusetts, including a small

6.5-acre bog in Sandwich.

Peter M. Thomas of Mashpee

is not a cranberry farmer, but

he has been a cranberry picker

since he was a 15-year-old res-

ident of Osterville

helping his

neighbor in the bogs, just as his

father had done. Mr. T

homas re-

cently retired as chief deputy of

emergency communications in

charge of the 911 system after 36

years with the Barnstable County

Sheriff’s Department. F

or all of

those 36 years, he would save

his vacation time and take it i

n

October to be able to help with

cranberry harvesting. “In th

e

early years, the money I e

arned

picking was our Christmas

money,” he said. “Picking is so

completely different fr

om my

high-stress, high-pressure pro-

fessional career,” he said. “In

my work, everything was always

an emergency. Out here [in the

bogs], nothing is an emergency.

It’s lik

e being in a postcard every

day. That’s how nice it is.”

Mr. Thomas works with a crew

from Quaker Run Cranberries

(named for th

e body of water

that runs through Willowbend

Country Club’s golf course, which

has 13 small bogs), m

ost of whom

have been friends for 30 years.

One crew member, a tree farmer

from Charlottesville, Virginia,

named Christian Dawson, comes

up for a month every year to work

Cape’s Cranberry Harvest In

Full Swing

see Cranberry on Page 8

KAREN B. HUNTER/ENTERPRISE

Christian Dawson wades through the bog with his wooden rake.

Cranberry rakes are wooden to better protect the berries from

bruising.

see Meeting on Page 8

Peebles School

Tours Offered

Tomorrow

KAREN B. HUNTER/ENTERPRISE

Ed Souza pilots a harvester across a fl ooded cranberry bog in Mashpee. The harvester’s paddles

churn up the water, shaking the ripe berries free of their vine. The buoyant lit

tle fruits pop to the

water’s surface, where they can be corralled and collected.

Cranberries 2016

KAREN B. HUNTER/ENTERPRISE

Clockwise (from bottom left),

Chris Hallett, Kruser Keller, a

nd

Christian Dawson gather fl oating cranberries together in tig

hter

and tighter groupings using plastic booms and wooden rakes and

paddles.

BRENDA M. SHARP/ENTERPRISE

Peter Thomas works the

boom.

By MICHAEL J. RAUSCH

As Massachusetts residents pre-

pare to go to the polls next month

to vote on a ballot question that

calls for legalizing the recre-

ational use

of marijuana,

state Senator

Viriato M.

(Vinny) de-

Macedo

(R-Plymouth)

has come out

in sharp op-

position to

the proposed

ballot initia

-

t i v e . T h i s

week, however, the senator said

that while he is fi rmly opposed to

the ballot question, he may not

necessarily be against the con-

cept of legalization of recreational

marijuana.

“There may be some way to do

it. This is not it

,” Sen. deMacedo

said.

The senator made his com-

ments at a meeting of the Bourne

Substance Free Coalition, held

Wednesday morning at Upper

Cape Cod Regional Technical

School. The meetin

g was spon-

sored by the coaliti

on and did

not include representatives from

any groups advocating for pas-

sage of Question Four, such as the

Campaign to Regulate Marijuana

Like Alcohol.

The senator was firm in

his

opposition to the legalization of

marijuana in

Massachusetts as

proposed in Question 4, which he

called “a very bad ballot ques-

tion.” He said that it was writte

n

by people within the mariju

ana

business, with no input from any-

one outside the in

dustry, “and

clearly for the benefit of the

industry.”

“This isn’t a le

gislative pro-

cess where people from all

backgrounds have come and par-

ticipated and put together a safe

piece of legislation,” he said.

S e n a t o r d e M a c e d o , a

Republican, said that opposi-

tion to Questio

n 4 among state

offi cials has crossed party lin

es.

Congressman William R. Keating

(D-Bourne) and fellow Democratic

Congressmen Stephen F. Lynch,

Joseph P. Kennedy III, and Niki

Tsongas have all voiced their

opposition to the initia

tive. The

senator said that of the state’s 121

Question

4 Wrong

Way To

Legalize

Marijuana,

Senator

Says

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By RYAN BRAY

The Massachusetts Department

of Marine Fisheries on Sunday

ordered all waterways in Bourne,

Falmouth and Mashpee closed to

shellfi shing.

Pseudo-nitzschia, a species of

plankton, was found in Buzzards

B a y, Vi n e y a r d S o u n d a n d

Nantucket Sound. The state has

since closed estuaries connected

to those waterways for harvesting

shellfi sh.

J. Michael Hickey, chief biolo-

gist for the department of marine

fi sheries’ shellfi sh program, said

pseudo-nitzschia is one of four

types of phytoplankton that emit

domoic acid. Humans who ingest

shellfi sh that have consumed the

acid can suffer sickness in the

form of vomiting and abdominal

pains or, in some other cases,

death, he said.

Mr. Hickey said that on

Thursday state offi cials in Rhode

Island alerted the department of

marine fisheries that they had

found high levels of acidic tox-

ins in Narragansett Bay and Mt.

Hope Bay. Those fi ndings led of-

fi cials with the division to collect

water samples in Buzzards Bay

on Friday and Saturday . Cell

counts were between 150,000 and

800,000 pseudo-nitzschia cells per

liter, he said.

“We were seeing huge blooms,”

he said.

Additional samples taken in

Nantucket Sound and Vineyard

Sound found similar counts of

pseudo-nitzschia cells, prompt-

ing the division to order all wa-

terways in the area to be closed

on Sunday, Mr. Hickey said.

Assistant harbormaster Robert

W. Griffi n said the closures began

in Maine before extending south

to Cape Cod and Rhode Island.

Staff with the marine and envi-

ronmental services department

have posted signs at each of the

town’s 13 harbors, as well as

other waterways, alerting resi-

dents about the closures.

Mr. Griffin said the town is

waiting for further orders from

the state, adding that as of now

it is uncertain when the ban will

be lifted.

“Right now, there’s nothing

we can do beyond notifying resi-

dents,” he said. Similar efforts to

notify the public of the closings

are being undertaken in Mashpee

and Bourne.

Acting director of Mashpee’s

Department of Natural Resources

Richard H. York Jr. said the ap-

pearance of the toxic species

came as a surprise. In his 25

years in the town, he has not seen

it locally. R. Charles Martinsen

III, shellfish constable for the

Town of Falmouth, also said he

has not seen such an acidic event

in his career.

Toxic Plankton Prompt Widespread Shellfi sh Closures

see Toxic Plankton on Page 14

BRENDA M. SHARP/ENTERPRISE

Hobby Knoll Stables from Duxbury gives hayrides behind its Clydesdales at Pumpkin Day at Bournes

Farm.

By ANDREA F. CARTER

With news of Hurricane

Matthew forming in the southern

Atlantic Ocean late last month,

Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution’s own hurricane hunt-

ers were on call.

Three WHOI scientists, Glen

G. Gawarkiewicz, Steven R.

Jayne and Robert E. Todd, are

part of the program TEMPEST

(The Experiment to Measure

and Predict East Coast Storm

Strength), a collaboration be-

tween scientists along the Eastern

seaboard to better forecast storm

intensity by taking real-time mea-

surements before, during and

after a storm hits.

“The thought is that the ocean

mostly impacts the intensity of the

storm,” Dr. Jayne said. “Over time

improvements have been made

on tracking hurricanes, but the

forecasting of intensity has not

improved because they have not

included an ocean forecast.”

Dr. Jayne, a senior scientist at

WHOI, was in Seattle last week

for a meeting when his plans

abruptly changed with Matthew

predicted to reach the East Coast.

Last Tuesday he was on a plane

to Biloxi, Mississippi, preparing

to fl y into the storm with the 53rd

Reconnaissance Squadron of the

Air Force, based at Keesler Air

Force Base and known as the

Hurricane Hunters.

Dr. Jayne, a member of the

Coast Guard Reserve, had fl own

with the hunters before to drop

instrumentation from the plane,

A Busy Month For WHOI’s

Hurricane Scientists

a C-130.

With the TEMPEST project he

has been adapting and deploying

a float called the ALAMO (Air-

Launched Autonomous Micro

Observer), which measures tem-

perature and salinity from the

ocean surface down to 1,000 me-

ters. These fl oats can be dropped

as the storm approaches and con-

tinue to drift for months after the

storm subsides.

The ALAMO moves down into

the water column and then sur-

faces to send information via irid-

ium satellite to NOAA’s Global

Telecommunications System, from

which forecasters pull data for

storm models.

Hurricanes are fueled by warm

waters. Satellites can give infor-

mation on how a storm tracks and

on sea surface temperatures, but

waters can cool quickly as surface

layers mix with deeper and cooler

waters during a storm.

“Having more data from the

ocean on the vertical structure

of temperature will allow the

models to forecast the surface

ANDREA CARTER/ENTERPRISE

WHOI senior scientist Steven Jayne holds the ALAMO, a float

dropped from a plane during a hurricane to take ocean temperature

and salinity measurements.

see Hurricane Scientists on Page 14

By BRITTANY FELDOTT

Oyster Pond is well on its way

to recovery, according to an

update from the Oyster Pond

Environmental Trust last week.

Last month, the Department of

Public Works dredged 16 cubic

yards of sediment from Trunk

River to increase water fl ow into

the pond.

The dredge was an emergency

measure taken to increase the

salinity of the pond, in hopes of

abating a potentially hazardous

blue-green cyanobacterial algal

bloom. Trust leaders hoped that

an increased flow would flush

out the pond, as well as raise sa-

linity levels high enough to kill

the freshwater algae causing the

eutrophication.

Measurements taken by trust

member William B. Kerfoot

showed that outfl ow from the pond

increased from 736 to 2,600 cubic

meters per day after the sediment

had been removed.

Last Friday, the trust in-

formed members that the algal

bloom had nearly disappeared,

due to the dredging project, in-

creased rainfall and falling water

temperatures.

A water sample taken by Mr.

Kerfoot on August 24 showed 1,768

cells of algae per cubic centimeter

of water, but a sample taken last

Monday had only 6 cells.

“The good news is that the algal

bloom is now by and large gone,”

Mr. Kerfoot said this week. “The

level of algae is back to the normal

level that’s in Oyster Pond at this

time of year.”

Pond Recovers From

Hazardous Algal Bloom

see Algal Bloom on Page 14

By BRITTANY FELDOTT

Cape Cod Commission members

presented the results of an eco-

nomic and zoning analysis of Davis

Straits during a workshop with

the Falmouth Planning Board on

Tuesday night .

The workshop

was an exten-

sion of a March

meeting among

commission

staff, selectmen

and the plan-

ning board, in

which town offi -

cials described

their vision for

Davis Straits.

The area in-

cludes a stretch

of road along

Davis Straits be-

tween Scranton

Avenue and the

intersection of

Worcester Court and Jones Road.

The study area covers 79.6 acres

and includes 90 buildings on 85

properties.

Since the spring, the commis-

sion has compiled a list of stake-

holder concerns and carried out

an analysis of the Davis Straits

area. The area is dominated by

commercial use at 80.1 percent

of the total acreage, although it

includes some residential areas,

and the report assessed the value

of the Davis Straits area at about

$94.5 million.

Although mixed-use buildings

had the highest assessed value per

acre, at about $1.6 million com-

pared to an average of $1.2 million,

commercial buildings showed the

highest assessed value per square

foot of building, at $176 compared

to an average of $166.

Natural resource specialist with

the commission Heather McElroy

said that the difference in propor-

tionate value indicated an ineffi -

cient use of land. She noted that

zoning restrictions on the size of

commercial buildings along Davis

Straits likely limit their value.

The report also showed that

residential areas had an average

of about 16 units per acre, which

Ms. McElroy de-

scribed as un-

commonly high.

“Yet—it’s un-

usual—it doesn’t

feel that dense,”

she said.

Ms. McElroy

also presented

the changing

profi les of Davis

Straits s ince

1 9 3 8 , w h i c h

showed increas-

ing residential

and commercial

development

and the disap-

pearance of ag-

ricultural land.

The profiles also showed the

changing state of the northern

end of Falmouth Harbor, which

was previously natural marshland

stretching to Morse Pond.

Now, a culvert connects the

pond to the harbor, although

board member Patricia H. Kerfoot

noted that it is often clogged due

to its small size.

Ms. McElroy noted that much

of the previous marshland, which

is currently developed with resi-

dential neighborhoods and com-

mercial buildings, is within the

fl ood zone outlined by the Federal

Emergency Management Agency.

Also within the fl ood zone is the

intersection of Davis Straits and

Falmouth Heights Road, where a

three-way roundabout will soon

be built. The rotary, which was

unanimously approved by select-

men, is currently in the design

stages, with plans to begin work

in early 2018.

Planning Board,

Commission Discuss

Future Of Davis Straits

see Workshop on Page 14

“When I started in

planning, I naïvely

thought that people built

things for the eons, but

I’ve come to see that they

really don’t. They build

them for a mortgage term,

and then buildings come

down.”

— Commission Planner

Heather McElroy

Cable Advisory Committee—

Monday, 5:15 PM, town hall

Board of Selectmen—Monday, 7

PM, town hall

Board of Health—Monday, 7:30

PM, town hall

Commission on Disabilities—

Tuesday, 5 PM, Gus Canty

Community Center

Planning Board—Tuesday, 6:30

PM, town hall

Library Trustees—Tuesday, 6:45

PM, main library

Finance Committtee—Tuesday,

7 PM, town hall

Beach Committee—Wednesday,

7 PM, harbor master’s offi ce

Conservation Commission—

Wednesday, 7 PM, town hall

Affordable Housing Committee—

Thursday, 3:30 PM, town hall

Water Quality Management

Committee—Thursday, 3:30 PM,

town hall

Meetings

This afternoon it will be sunny.

The high will be around 59; the

low will be around 41. Tomorrow

it will be sunny. The high will be

around 58 and the low will be

around 37. Extended forecast for

Sunday is sunny. The high will be

around 65, with the low around 53.

Air 59; Sea Water 63

The water level at Long Pond is

14.3 inches below sea level.

Forecast and water temperature

are from the National Oceanic

and Atmospheric Administration

(NOAA) websites.

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“Banking with The Coop is the cornerstone to our success.”Jacques and Martha Morin, Owners

Bayberry Building Company, Inc., Hyannis, MA

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Jacques and Martha Morin, Owners

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Dexter Grist Mill in Sandwich Village.

By TAO WOOLFEThe double-bubble brew of Halloween and politics

has spawned a ghastly apparition in the trees along

Route 6A—an effi gy of presidential candidate Hillary

Clinton astride a broom.The life-size caricature’s head bears a photo of Ms.

Clinton’s smiling face. Clad in black jeans and a prison-

er-like black-and-white-striped shirt. The wraith rides

an old-style broom while clutching a money bag. A rope

stretches from the dummy to the upper branches of a

black locust tree.Its creator, Nicolas P. Southerland, said the reac-

tions—from dozens of passersby of both political per-

suasions—has been an eye opener for him.

“I had one woman come right up in my face and call

me an abuser,” said Mr. Southerland, who, although

a supporter of Republican presidential candidate

Donald Trump, said he created the effi gy in a light-

hearted vein.“It’s not like it’s a swastika or anything,” Mr.

Southerland said. “It’s a Halloween decoration.”

But supporters of Ms. Clinton have reacted with

horror.“I think it’s deplorable,” said Robert King, an active

member of the Sandwich Democratic Town Committee

and a member of the Sandwich Planning Board.

“Trump’s supporters are falling in line with the rage

and divisiveness of their candidate. It has to stop.”

Resident Christine Ernst said the display goes way

beyond Halloween hoaxes.“This is appalling even in an appalling-is-the-new-

normal election cycle,” she wrote in an e-mail. “This

constitutes hate speech.”Sandwich Police Chief Peter Wack, who has been

Political Display Riles Drivers On Route 6A

GENE M. MARCHAND/ENTERPRISE

Nick Southerland stands next to the effigy of

Hillary Clinton riding a broom that he hung on

his Route 6A property in Sandwich.

By KATIE GOERSThe directors of the Knights

Theater Company at Sandwich

High School, Kevin and Melinda

Lasit, try to always select plays

that tell stories that tackle tough

topics which challenge the young

actors to channel their emotions—

and this season is no exception.

KTC is currently in rehears-

als for its production of “It’s A

Wonderful Life,” which opens on

November 12. This holiday tale

tells the story of George Bailey, as

he is shown the world as it would

exist had he never been born.

While the show, and the film

it is based on, appears regularly

during the holiday season, it does

deal with the heavy themes of de-

pression and suicide. The out-

come of Mr. Bailey’s journey is

positive, but it takes some heav-

enly help to get there.In the spring, the company will

be performing “Grease.” Despite

the catchy music, the teenage

characters in the show deal with

serious issues, including sex,

teen pregnancy, drugs and alco-

hol, and a struggle with feelings

of self-worth.In his time at the high school, Mr.

Lasit said that he has come across

many students who are dealing

with issues in their personal lives

involving mental wellness and

problems at home. Additionally,

he said that he has spoken with

at least three students who have

contemplated suicide.

Knights Theater Continues Tackling Weighty Issues

GENE MARCHAND/ENTERPRISE

The canal power plant in

Sandwich

see Theater on Page 8

see Hillary on Page 5

By KATIE GOERSA group of students from Sand-

wich High School and the STEM

Academy will be gathering on Sun-

day to raise awareness about domes-

tic violence.The group will be standing along

Quaker Meetinghouse Road be-

tween 11 AM and 1 PM holding signs

that say that they will not tolerate

domestic violence. Any member of

the public who wants to participate

is welcome to attend.This will be the fi rst “Sandwich

Stand Against Domestic Violence”

event for the Mentors In Violence

Prevention Club.The club was founded by English

teacher and SHS graduate Maria

Cahill.Matthew Costello, one of the

teacher advisors for the club, said

that the idea for the event came

from “Connect to End Violence,” a

domestic violence awareness event

that is held annually on Martha’s

Vineyard. Mr. Costello grew up on

the Vineyard and said that this event

has been held for the past four sum-

mers on the island.

The main difference between the

island’s event and the upcoming one

is that the one on the island focuses

on violence against women.“The events are similar, but this

one is more inclusive,” Mr. Costello

said. “It’s not just men against

women; it’s people taking a stand

against violence in general.”According to the National Coa-

lition Against Domestic Violence,

one in three women and one in four

men will have, at some point during

their lives, been the victim of domes-

tic violence. Each minute, 20 people

in the United States are abused by

their partner.Among those scheduled to

take part in Sunday’s event in

Sandwich are members of the

school’s football team, which Mr.

Costello coaches. He said that

even though football is considered

to be a violent sport, he teaches

his players to preach kindness and

embrace togetherness when they

are off the fi eld.He said that he does not want

Students To Stand Against Domestic Violence

see Students on Page 8

By TAO WOOLFE and JOHN R. PARADISE

Town leaders yesterday an-

nounced a $57 million agreement

with NRG power company—a deal

so vast and overarching it will af-

fect the way the town does busi-

ness for the next two decades.

The deal comes after months

of negotiations between the town

and its biggest taxpayer. In es-

sence, the town agreed to support

NRG’s plans to upgrade and ex-

pand its canal-side power plant in

return for millions of dollars—to

be paid over a 21-year period.

“The town is committed to as-

sisting NRG with its efforts to per-

mit and develop the project while

at the same time protecting the en-

vironmental and fi nancial inter-

ests of the residents of Sandwich,”

according to a statement written

by Town Manager George H. (Bud)

Dunham.The announcement was read

aloud by Susan James, chairman

of the Board of Selectmen, at a

special afternoon meeting yester-

day. The NRG agreement must be

ratifi ed by residents at a Special

Town Meeting next month. The

date has not yet been set but is

expected to be either November

14 or November 21.Mr. Dunham said in an interview

that the deal is the single largest

economic development agreement

he has negotiated during his 28-

year tenure.“I’m really happy. It’s a huge

plus for the town,” he said.Mr. Dunham explained that spe-

cifi cally, the power plant owners

have agreed to pay $50 million to

the town in lieu of taxes over the

next two decades. Additionally,

over those years, NRG will also

pay a total of $1.5 million into the

town’s Community Preservation

Act account and another $2.6

million to the Sandwich Water

District.The company has also agreed to

pay $100,000 a year toward pub-

lic safety and emergency manage-

ment training and another $50,000

a year into what is being called

“an innovative curriculum fund”

for the schools.All of this is for the new, nat-

ural gas-fired turbine unit that

the NRG has proposed adding to

its existing 52-acre plant on the

Cape Cod Canal. The expansion,

known as the “Canal 3” project,

will transform the plant into a

highly effi cient, fast-starting, peak

electric generating facility, NRG

has said.The proposed Canal 3 fa-

cility will provide additional

power capacity to the Southeast

Massachusetts/Rhode Island

area to help meet energy demand

during peak times.The power company has esti-

mated that the new natural gas

turbine, which would be built to

the east of the existing boilers,

could be completed by 2019. NRG

is currently seeking permits for

the work from state and federal

regulatory agencies.A hearing before the Cape Cod

Commission is scheduled for

November 2, Ms. James said. She

Town Inks Huge Deal With Power Plant Owner

see NRG on Page 8

Over 21 years, NRG will pay:• $50.1 million in lieu of

taxes• $1.5 million into the CPA

account• $2.6 million to water

district• $2.1 million for public

safety training• $1.1 million for school

curriculum

Total: $57.4 million

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Mashpee Town Clerk Deborah Dami takes a hand count during Town Meeting.

By SAM HOUGHTON

Voters at the October Annual

Town Meeting adopted a heavily

amended ban on single-use plas-

tic bags, and approved funding

for affordable housing and rec-

reation projects, but held off on a

proposed new noise bylaw.

Town clerk Deborah F. Dami re-

ported that 169 residents signed

in for Monday’s meeting, which

lasted close to two hours.

The annual meeting was held in

the Mashpee Middle/High School

auditorium instead of the gymna-

sium, which had been the location

for the last two years. Ms. Dami

said the location is more condu-

cive to town meeting; there are

padded seats in the auditorium,

compared to hard plastic seats in

the gym.Out of the 31 articles, two were

indefi nitely postponed, two were

rejected in close hand counts, and

one was heavily amended. The re-

mainder passed.

Plastic Bag Ban Passes

Voters passed a ban on sin-

gle-use plastic bags, but not with-

out a heavy amendment that

defl ated the optimism of the arti-

cle’s authors.The original proposal would

have banned single-use bags with

a thickness under 4.0 mil, but an

amendment to the article reduced

the requirement to a thinner, 1.5

mil size.Eric M. Shea of Thornberry

Circle proposed the 1.5 mil amend-

ment because he said that any-

thing thicker would have costly

ramifications and would be an

“unnecessary burden” for retail-

ers. He said that stores like Stop

& Shop and CVS/pharmacy typi-

cally give out bags under the 1.5

mil thickness so they would still

be forced to change.

The chairman of Mashpee

Oversight Committee, Michael

Talbot, said that the committee

had chosen the 4.0 mil after re-

viewing other bylaws in the region

and because the ultimate goal was

to train residents to use reusable

bags.Mr. Talbot said that 439 million

gallons of oil are used a year to

make billions of plastic bags; that

313 marine species from whales to

seabirds become entangled in the

bags; and that they also clog storm

drains and recycling machines,

and litter the environment.

Others present did not think the

bylaw’s language went far enough.

Don D. Myers of Half Hitch Lane

said that the ban should be ex-

tended to paper bags as well. He

said that paper might be better

for the environment than plastic,

but wondered how many residents

actually recycled paper bags. He

made an amendment to extend the

ban to paper and received a round

of applause.Town moderator Jeremy M.

Carter, after a short and inaudible

conversation with town counsel

Patrick J. Costello, said that amend-

ment was outside the purview of the

article and was shot down.

P h y l l i s A . S p r o u t o f

Quinnaquisset Avenue said that

she was in favor of the amendment

to decrease the thickness ban

from 4.0 to 1.5 mil. She said that

she encouraged shoppers at her

farm stand to use reusable bags,

but she said a ban could hurt her

business. “Persuade me but don’t

legislate me,” she said.

The amendment passed 86 to 53

during a hand count. The bylaw to

ban plastic bags 1.5 mil or thinner

then passed overwhelmingly in a

voice vote.Following Town Meeting, Mr.

Talbot said that he was upset with

the amendment because stores

could now just offer a thicker bag.

“I’m happy it passed,” he said,

“but we might not get the benefi t

we had hoped for.”

He said that if stores continue

to offer thicker bags for free, shop-

pers would be less resistant to

switch to reusable bags, and that

plastic could continue to litter the

town and harm marine animals.

Asked if the oversight commit-

tee members would look to a sub-

sequent Town Meeting to redress

concern over bag thickness, Mr.

Talbot said that they might.

Noise Bylaw Defeated

Facing a likely defeat after

discussion, voters agreed to

Town Meeting Amends Bag Ban, Defeats Noise Proposal

Voters Reject Zoning Articles, Back

Community Preservation Initiatives

Carriage Road

Blue Castle Drive

Degrass Road

Open Space

Gr

eat N

eck

Rd S

Red Brook Road

Ockway Bay

Ockway Highlands Subdivision

= Buildable Lots

By SAM HOUGHTON

Town officials say that only

months after Matthew Haney

tried to sidestep multiple town

departments by disposing haz-

ardous materials illegally at his

Mashpee trailer park, he has now

attempted to skirt the Mashpee

Planning Department.

“Everyone is very angry here,”

said Town Planner F. Thomas

Fudala on Wednesday afternoon.

“He has totally disrespected what

the board wanted.”

On Wednesday morning, Blue

Castle Drive resident Timothy M.

Dorsey said that he was on his

way to work in the morning when

he came across trucks and land-

scaping equipment blocking his

route. A tree was allegedly stuck

in a wood chipper, and Mr. Dorsey

had to wait for the chipping to be

done before he could drive around

the equipment.Mr. Dorsey called the planning

department to report that Mr.

Haney’s workers had blocked the

road days after he promised the

planning board he would not do

so.Mr. Fudala also reported that

Mr. Haney, in addition to this

week’s road blockage, has ig-

nored repeated requests from the

planning board. He has not fol-

lowed through with plans to in-

stall stone on a portion of road,

nor has he pulled a permit for

road work, as he said he would.

And he has done work outside the

requests of the board’s engineer.

For over two years, the devel-

oper has failed to bring desired

results to the board and his devel-

opment’s neighbors.

Mr. Haney could not be reached

for comment for this article.

On Wednesday night, at a regu-

lar planning board meeting, the

board discussed the ongoing is-

sues but ultimately took no action.

Mr. Fudala said prior to the meet-

ing that the board has the author-

ity to rescind Mr. Haney’s special

permit, but the board did not dis-

cuss the option Wednesday. Mr.

Haney did not attend the meeting.

The project has been a strong

source of contention between the

planning board, the developer

and the neighbors to the proposed

subdivision, with curses voiced

at open meetings and frustration

expressed by board members and

residents.More than two years ago, Mr.

Haney received approval from

the planning board to develop

a 15-home cluster subdivision

called Ockway Highlands, to be

built near the end of Blue Castle

Drive, that extends off Great Neck

Road South near a New Seabury

entrance.The parcel has remained mostly

untouched since the Mashpee

Planning Board approved a spe-

cial permit in May 2014.

In May this year, facing the plan-

ning board’s two-year special per-

mit deadline, the developer took

down several trees in the area

and provided surveying work, but

the road remained unpaved with

several potholes. The special per-

mit could have lapsed at the two-

year deadline, had Mr. Haney not

proved that work had been done.

The minimal work provided

enough evidence for the board

that construction had begun.

Since then, however, work on

the road has not progressed, never

mind the construction of 15 homes.

Current residents in the neighbor-

hood allege that Mr. Haney has no

plans for finishing the develop-

ment, but aims to sell, in the mean-

time neglecting the needs of his

neighbors.At a meeting two weeks ago, the

ire of Mr. Dorsey and several of

his neighbors came to a head at

a planning board meeting. Ernest

S. Virgilio, a former Mashpee

Department of Public Works di-

rector and a resident of the neigh-

borhood, voiced his displeasure

with the developer as well as the

board’s failure to hold Mr. Haney

accountable. Mr. Haney was at the

meeting.

By SAM HOUGHTON and

STEVEN WITHROW

T h e M a s h p e e F i n a n c e

Committee agreed to trans-

fer $17,500 out of its reserve ac-

count to fund the next step in the

Quashnet Elementary School win-

dow and door project.

The $17,500 would be put to-

ward a more exact estimate of the

cost of the project and schematic

design.Since the town learned it could

receive approximately 40 per-

cent of the project’s funding from

the state earlier this year, they

have received a wide range of

estimates. Originally, Mashpee

Department of Public Works

Director Catherine E. Laurent

estimated the cost of the project,

based on similar projects in the

region, at $1.7 million. The town

received an estimate from the

state shortly thereafter that the

project could run as high as $3.3

million.At a special meeting prior to

Town Meeting on Monday , Ms.

Laurent requested an emergency

transfer from the fi nance commit-

tee’s reserve account of $17,500.

The total cost for the schematic

design is $92,500, according to a

memo sent from Ms. Laurent to the

fi nance committee. On a recom-

mendation from the Massachusetts

School Building Authority, the

school committee previously put

aside $50,000 for the schematic

design, so the town had a short-

fall of $42,500. Ms. Laurent said

that $25,000 has been earmarked

in the Fiscal Year 2017 building

and grounds expense budget for

unexpected building costs. Those

funds would be put towards the

Quashnet schematic design, leav-

ing another shortfall of $17,500.

The committee unanimously

agreed to the request.

The funds would be used for

completion of a number of tests

including hazardous material test-

ing, an infrared scan and destruc-

tive testing.The destructive testing will

help determine the extent of re-

pairs needed to the exterior in-

sulation and finishing system

above the windows and how the

new window assemblies will in-

tegrate with HVAC systems, Ms.

Laurent’s memo reads. The in-

frared scan would determine the

source of water loss. A hazardous

material testing would determine

if such materials as asbestos or

polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)

are present in the seals, which

would require special demolition

practices.At the Mashpee School

Committee meeting Wednesday

evening , Town Manager Rodney

C. Collins addressed the commit-

tee and confi rmed that the town is

“targeting the May Town Meeting

for the purposes of getting fund-

ing” for the Quashnet project.

Construction will take place in

mid-2018, Mr. Collins said.

Developer Sparks Consternation Among Planners, Residents

see Ockway Highlands on Page 3

see Town Meeting on Page 9

FinCom Provides Funds Toward Quashnet Project

see Quashnet on Page 9