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Two schools miss AYP for second year Preliminary information from the state Department of Educa- tion showed Barnstable Middle School and HyannisEast Elemen- tary missing Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) thresholds for certain students for the second year in a row. The school department willnow wait on the full report to make a thorough analysis of what areas need to be addressed. AYP is part of the federal No Child Left Behind standards and is based on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System testing, better known as MCAS. Schools respond to mosquito, EEE threat Barnstable schools are taking precautions after detection in Marstons Mills of mosquitoes carryingeasternequineencephalitis (EEE), andthesuperintendenthas been authorized to ramp up that response if needed. The school committee agreed to allow Dr. Patricia Grenier the latitudetotakefurtherprecautions, including elimination of evening sporting events if necessary. All of the standing water bodies around the schools closest to the find were sampled and treated, including the man-made wetland in the quad of the Barnstable Horace Mann Charter School.The committee was meeting at the school when this was discussed. Village group urges end to Lombard lease stalemate West Barnstable residents are urging Lombard trustee John Klimm to sit down with Old Vil- lage Store owner Mike Rogers to negotiate a lease that will be fair to Rogers and the trust. That was made abundantly clear during a meeting of the West Barnstable Civic Association board whereassociationmembers, jammedintoacommunitybuilding room with poor acoustics, turned to verbal free-for-all to make their point as Assistant Town Manager Paul Niedzwieckitried to defend Klimm's modus operandi - "deference," he called it - with Rogers. The lease issue came to a head several weeksearlierwhen Rogers' property, on land leased from the Lombard Trust,developed amajor plumbing/septic problem and the store and a restaurant were ordered closed by the town board of health. Catboat Sarah named Barnstable's official boat Thehandcrafted catboat nearing completion at the Cape Cod MaritimeMuseumon SouthStreet in Hyannis had a name before the keel was laid, but now it may have a title. The town council named Sarah the Official Boat of the Town of Barnstable. BarnstablevillageCouncilorAnn Canedy offered the resolve.Sarah will have to put in a bid for space at the town-owned docks for the next lottery, expected in 2008. In the meantime, it is expected to be tied in front of the museum after it's launched and will operate as a floating classroom and as a focal point of interest for tourists and locals alike. Sheriff acknowledges problem Sheriff Jim Cummings called for an outside review of his ownhiring practices. Stung by reports of the off-duty arrests of five employees over the last several months, which were reported by the Cape Cod Times, Cummings took the unusual step of penning a"MyView"column for the daily. Cummingswrote that the arrest offive staffers "isunacceptable,and I willdo everything in my power to correct this situation." That includes a promise that he will "review my hiring policy and ask an outside expert to review it as well." Since his election in 1999 , Cummings noted , he has hired 385 people. Schools revisiting facility rental policy Complaintsabout anon-school event held at Barnstable High School over Labor Day weekend prompted the school committeeto revisit its facilities rental policy. The three-day event was sponsored by Covenant on the Rock Ministries International and billed as a summer youth festival. It was held under tents in the high school parkinglot. While the event had no affiliation withthe school or school district, that was not clear from the promotional material or signage associated with it. The committee asked that its policy be revisited, requiring the sponsorofeventstobe clearlynoted on all advertising and promotional material. AHOD appears no closer to passage With the public hearing closed on the second attempt to adopt an affordable housing overlay district (AHOD) for Barnstable,it'sunclear whether enough town councilors are on board for it to pass. CONTINUED ON PAGE 14 s E P E M B E R 2 O o 6 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 at 804 Main St., which shares the parkinglotwith anexisting gas operation that will also be operated by Christy's. EEE found in Marstons Mills mosquitoes A mosquito sample from Marstons Millstested positive for eastern equineencephalitis (EEE). The good news is that mosquitoes species collected in this sample , culeseta melanura, are known to bite birds,notmammals,according to Gabrielle Sakolsky of the Cape Cod Mosquito Control Project. She added that atrap specifically designed to trap mammal-biting mosquitoes has shown very few insects at an. "There'snothingflyingthat's biting mammals," she said. That wasadifferent scenario from off-Cape , where aerial spraying was conducted to reduce mosquitopopulations. She said that mammal-biting mosquitoes were detected in the areas sprayed. Attorney presents raft of possible changes to Cape Cod Commission ¦ Rob O'Leary helped write the Cape Cod Commission Act. Pat Butler is helping to rewrite it. State Senator O'Leary testified at a meeting of the 21st Century Task Force on the Commission, and attorney Butler presented a long list of recommended changes in a report he wrote with 12 other lawyers and consultants. Butler said the commission needs to better manage the timeittakestoreviewprojects, perhaps by setting a date for a final vote and working backward to schedulehearings and subcommittee meetings. A typical Development of Regional Impact project , Butler'sreport notes, requires "an attorney, civil engineer, geohydrological engineer, traffic consultant, architect, landscapearchitectand.insome cases, historic preservation expert,archeologist,economic expert,noiseengineer,wetland specialist,wastewasterexperts, hazardouswasteengineer,and/ or land surveyor." Mitigation fees have been a sorepoint with developers and theirrepresentatives.withsome failing to see the connection between their projects and a requirement that they pay for off-siteimprovements.Butler's presentationproposedadvance calculation of impact fees for traffic , which would be paid into a fund for transportation system improvements. That would eliminate some of the costly traffic counts required by the commission, he said. The report states that applicants are "frustrated at thelack of communicationand coordinationbetweenthe Cape Cod Commissionandthe local level,"and suggests ajoint site review and local meeting with towns. I Opinion Task force should return Elliott Carr and his cohorts should be institutionalized. Thishasnothingtodowith their willingnessto showup atthe countycomplex week afterweekat 7:45am.inthe middleof summer,although some would consider such behavior certifiable. The subject here is the 21st Century Task Force on the Cape Cod Commission, and theneed for a2011Task Force, a 2016 Task Force, and so on. The Commission is required,everyfive years,to update its Regional Policy Plan, incorporating recent data aswellasthelatest and most appropriate methods toplanandregulategrowth. Parallel to this has grown up a desire by leaders in business,politicalandother circlesto review and reform the Commissionitself. The v a l u e of "outsiders" assessing the Commission and making recommendations to improve its performance was proved in 1994 and has been borne out this year. The process has brought criticsandsupporterstothe table, where under Carr's leadership theyhavebuilta commonfund ofknowledge about the realities of the land-use agency's powers, strengths and weaknesses. It's on that basis that they have debated changes. It'saltogetheramorelively operation thantherequired RPP update. Wouldn't it be wise to merge the efforts? (Edward F.Maroney) Raiders put Dolphins back on endangered list Fans of Barnstable High School Varsity Football game saw some- thingthey hadn't seeninalmosta decade: the opposing team. For the first time in almost 10 years, the Red Raiders of Barnstable faced the Dolphins of Dennis-Yarmouth. Barnstable hadn't lost to DY at home since 1975,but the decade of preparation served the Dolphins well, as the opposing team won, 19-7. Mark Titus moves from gridiron guru to golf coach Barnstable High School'snew- ly-appointed golf coach describes hiseight-member squad as a"Eu- ropean Ryder cup team." Mark Titus' explanation of the comparisonreferstotheEuropeans' emphasisoncohesivenessandteam effort ,shunningtheindividualistic posturing for which U.S. Ryder stars are so often chastised by the press. Titus is well acquainted with his young men, having observed them while they played for his predecessor , the retired Bob Kingman, and is aware of their desire to accomplish as a team. The former coach's son, Shawn K'ngman , joined Titus as an assistant coach. Girls volleyball nets Turcohis 400,h Many folks have aluckynumber. Perhaps it's a birthday, an anni- versary, orjust anumber they like. For BHS Volleyball Head Coach Tom Turco, that number would have to be 400. When the varsity girlsvolleyball teamdefeated North Quincy,Turco cameawaywithmorethanasimple victory. The win marked his 400th career win in a 19-year history as coach. Turco was aware of the statistic as the State Volleyball Coaches Association keeps careful track of wins and losses. "We have to let [them] know what our win/loss record is after each year," said Turco. =SPORTS Fire outside Kendrick's closes venue Kendrick'son North Street in Hyannis already had a tough week ahead. The own- ers were scheduled to appear before the Barnstable Licens- ingAuthorityfor ashow-cause hearingon theirlicense,thisin the wake of a violent incident there earlier this year. The Saturday before that appointment , the business filled with smoke as a blaze engagedthewoodenstructure. Fire department officials believe it may have been started by people seeking shelter outside. AnalarmalertedtheHyannis Fire Department , just two blocks away, and the fire was knocked down quickly once it waslocated withinthetimbers. Power had to be cut from the street , making apartment units behind Kendrick' s uninhabitable for days. The business remained closed for the rest of the year, but its owners would be back before the licensing authority before New Year's. Time to sound the death knell for tourism? "I will tell you very frankly that tourism is dying." Did Bill Zammer, owner of Falmouth'sCoonamessett Inn and executive board member of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, really say that? Yes he did, on Sept. 8 at a meeting of the Cape Cod Technology Council during whichhe talked about the still- forming Regional Technology Development Center of Cape Cod, dedicated to what he called "knowledge-based commercial development" here. "The fact of the matter," Zammer said in an interview later, "is that there are less hotel rooms than there were five years ago, 600 less in Falmouth.They'retime-shares, employeehousing,condos,and apartments." Zammer said Baby Boomers are continuing to buy Cape homes and rent them out as they prepare to retire."People comingdownfor aweek on the Cape are in houses where they used to be in hotels,' he said. "We're seeing less of the day- trippers." the bUSiksSsection A Mashpee Leisure <^fn k /fc>w Services ik fell *>raff|jW WINTER CLASS SCHEDULE r ' C^ W P ' ''.. * »^Jllllk^ Kids, Teens, Trips & Driver 's Ed. j§ i\LUfi ML c* V^ ^flML ^* • Indoor Soccer League • Catch & Throw - Driver 's Kd HH iA w ^df f H * Disne) On Ice Trip DISCOVER Adult Programs Tt ie BenehttA" - Intro to Computer - MS Access. Word & Excel Qf P . l K i »NO . . C . f . T I O N MS |»owcrp0j m . ,. 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