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'Green design' housing/
retail plan proposed for
Main Street
A futuristic and challenginghous-
ing/retail complex with vegetated
rooftops proposed for Main Street
Hyannis, one of the largest down-
town projectsyet with 123bedrooms
in 63 apartments on a narrow 1.47-
acre lot,was unveiled at aninformal
hearing of the Site Plan Review
Committee.
The proposal by Hyannis Main
Development , LLC, Jim Bailey,
principal,callsfor razingthe 83-room
America'sBest ValueInn and Suites
at 206 Main St., adjacent to the Town
HallAnnex, for the four-story build-
ing that would house Main Street
retail outlets and an open-air parking
garage on the first level and garden
apartments on the three upper levels
connected by canopied walkways
spiced with elevator towers.
Daniel L. Bailey, president of ABA
Architects of Baltimore , said the
preliminary plans include six units
each for affordable and workforce
housing. He prefaced a Powerpoint
presentation by noting the concep-
tual nature of the plans and asked
for the site plan reviewers' help in
developing the project that could,
barring major problems, be under
way in about 16 months.
Hyannis Access Study
taking broad look at
solutions
The Hyannis Access Study Task
Force heard that there are 12,000
people in the study area, and that
85 percent rely on a car to get to
work.
Understanding how those vehicles
move (and sit still) will be a prereq-
uisitefor going forward with another
exit from Route 6, or solving traffic
problems in other ways.
There were some at the table in the
basement of the Heritage House Ho-
tel-Councilor Harold Tobey for one
-who thought too much talk about
alternatives would take attention
away from a straight-up-or-down
decision on Exit 6 1/2.
But planningstudymanagerAdriel
Edwards said the state secretary
of transportation had directed the
group to look not only at 6 1/2 but
also at other options.
"Are there benefits if you don't
have it?" consultant team manager
George Gefrich said, stating a ques-
tion the study must answer.
Mugar provides second
$5 million challenge grant
for hospital.
Cotuit philanthropist DavidMugar,
who gave $5million to the campaign
to build the new inpatient building
named for his parents Stephen and
Marian, has offered again to match
contributions up to $5 million, this
time for completion of the building's
two top floors.
Richard and Doris Sellars of
Osterville already matched $1million
of Mugar's challenge.
Wastewater treatment
remains a moving target
In the Peanuts strip, Lucy always
snatches the football just before
Charlie Brown can kick it. When
it comes to wastewater planning,
it's the goalposts that keep being
moved.
That's not to say that regulators
have an evil glint in their eyes when-
ever Barnstable steps up to the tee
with a treatment plan. It'sju st that
the fund of knowledge , about both
aggressive management plans and
potential dangers to the environ-
ment, keeps growing.
The town presented the third and
last phase of its 20-year wastewater
facilities planning project during a
Cape Cod Commission hearing held
at town hall. Department of Public
Works Director Mark Ells was the
point man, speaking to a commis-
sion subcommittee that included
county commissioner Bill Doherty
and Cape Cod Commissionmembers
Elizabeth TaylorofBrewster and Roy
Richardson of Barnstable.
FAA selects Barnstable
airport for audit
The Federal Aviation Administra-
tion came to town with sharpened
pencils and open eyes to conduct
an audit of Barnstable Municipal
Airport.
Airport Manager Quincy "Doc"
Mosby said he couldn't speak for
the FAA and its selection process,
but he told the Patriot it wouldn't
surprise him if questions raised in
the Rectrix Aerodrome Centers suit
against the airport had something
to do with it.
"You can make a reasonable as-
sumption that it'stied insome wayto
the pending lawsuit," Mosby said.
One of the many prongs of the
Rectrix civil suit against the airport
is that the facility is engaged in a
racketeering enterprise with the
town to illegally siphon fuel sale
profits to fund non-airport-related
expenses.
Part of that claim alleges that the
town is filing false financial reports
with the FAA showing lower airport
revenues going to the town, which
Rectrix claims is a violation of FAA
grant provisions on the filing and
guarantees that the grant proceeds
would be used solely for airport
purposes.
The results of the audit were not
released by year's end.
Commission task force
reports its yeas and nays
They reasoned together, argued
together and inthe end voted unani-
mously to send a document that
incorporates a minority report to
the county commissioners.
All 14 members attending the
final meeting of the 21s" Century
Task Force on the Cape Cod Com-
mission agreed on the compromise
that allowed even dissenters to join
a positive vote for change at the
land-use agency.
The minority report - signed by
Barnstable Town Council Presi-
dent Hank Farnham and five other
members - was appended to the
task force'sreport with onlyLindsey
Counsell, chairman of Barnstable's
communitypreservation committee,
dissenting. He said he thought the
minority piece had come "too late
in the game."
The minority report states that
it was prepared "not as criticism or
disagreement with allaspects of the
report as drafted," but rather as a
way of including more of the debate
that the task force both heard and
conducted.
Finnegan to retire;
MacDonald named acting
police chief
The manwhowassupposed to stay
three to five years as Barnstable's
top law enforcer is retiring after 8
1/2 years in the post.
Barnstable Police Chief John
Finnegan, who was appointed in
a surprise move in 1998 to replace
retiring chief Neil Nightingale, an-
nounced his retirement Nov. 20.
Lt. Paul MacDonald was named
acting chief by Town Manager John
Klimm, and started in that post
Thanksgiving morning. Finnegan's
retirement becomes effective Jan.
4, but he has accrued vacation and
sick time.
KlimmsaidMacDonald is"unique-
ly qualified" to lead the department
at this time, citing his combination
of field experience and "clarity ofun-
derstanding of community needs."
In selecting MacDonald , Klimm
moved past the department's two
deputy chiefs, Craig Tamash and
Michael Martin.
Councilors leaning
toward tighter limits on
public comment
Public comment periods at town
councilmeetings,whichsomebelieve
have been abused by speakers, was
suggested to be moved to a 45-min-
ute "special" meeting before the
"regular" 7 p.m. council sessions.
President Hank Farnham spoke
with a handful of other councilors
and TownAttorneyBob Smithabout
schedulingvotes onthechangesDec.
7. Public comment at that meeting
began just after 7 p.m. as usual.
While councilorsfeel aresponsibil-
ity to provide for public comment,
Farnham said, some are concerned
that the sessions have been "sort
of captured" by a small number of
repeat speakers. He said he's had
calls from people who would like to
speak but stay away because of the
situation.
"To me, some of it is seeking
three to six minutes of fame," said
Councilor Leah Curtis. "(It's) so
redundant , so dramatic."
Another Hyannis area
gets police attention
The town and the police swiftly
embraced a plan by Sea Street,
Hyannis, residents to form a Neigh-
borhood Watchin the wakeofrecent
lessonslearned from the crime-trou-
bled Captain'sQuartersarea ofFresh
Holes and Hiramar roads between
Bearses Way and Route 28.
Taking the crime "prevention"
bull by the horns, Jennifer Cullum,
owner-operator of the Sea Street
Market, pitched the idea to some
neighbors and to Town Manager
John Klimm after two people re-
cently attempted tohangadoginthe
Oak Grove Cemetery acrossfrom the
store. A mother-daughter pair from
Yarmouthwas taken into protective
custody and one was charged with
cruelty to animals, according to
police sources.
About a dozen neighbors met
to plan strategy with Klimm, in-
terim Police Chief Paul MacDonald ,
Deputy Chief Craig Tamash, Town
Councilor Harold Tobey, police Sgt.
Mark Mellyn and Alan Goddard ,
representing the Hyannis Civic As-
sociation.
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BHS Athletic Hall
of Fame names its
second class
The Barnstable High School
AthleticHallof Fameinducted
its second class of athletes.
At a dinner at The Road-
house Cafe, 12 former BHS
athletes were honored, aswas
long time Barnstable Patriot
columnist Ed Semprini, who
was being recognized for his
decades of support for local
athletics.
The BHS Athletic Hall of
Fame Class of 2006 includes:
William P. "Billy " Bangs
(Coach , basketball, tennis,
football , baseball, and first
BHS Athletic Director, 1926-
1936), Katherine "Kay"Nehu-
bian (Coach, girls basketball,
field hockey and softball ,
1929-1971), Francis Ray Fer-
mino (Class of 1954, football ,
baseball, track & field) and
Warren R. Bowen (Class of
1895, football, baseball) .
Also Elliott B. MacSwan
(Coach, 1939-1965, football,
ice hockey, Athletic Director,
1964-1974), Matt Dacey (Class
of 1980, football, basketball,
baseball), Scott Nickerson
(Class of 1982, ice hockey,
baseball, soccer) and John
Ellis (Class of 1977, football,
winter track, spring track &
field).
Also TanyaMclntyre (Class
of 1995, soccer, basketball,
softball), Tracy Roderick
(Class of 1986, gymnastics),
Michelle Cunningham (Class
of 1995, volleyball, basketball,
softball) and Gerry McDowell
(Class of 1972, soccer,basket-
ball, spring track & field).
Builder fetes 25th
anniversary with Champ
House project
Brian Dacey was looking for a way
to celebrate the 25,h anniversary of
his Bayside Building Co. business.
What he found, one might say, was
heaven sent.
"A friend of mine, Ed Marshall at
Our Lady of Victory Church, had
mentioned that Champ House was
trying to build a transition home
for four to six women and could use
some help," he said.
"Rather than celebrate our anni-
versary with a weekend in Boston , I
thought it would be more fitting to
do something worthwhile with the
housing business. This fit the bill
pretty good."
As a result, Bayside Homes broke
ground at the rear of 83 School St.
where a garage at the rear of an ex-
isting Champ House was demolished
to make room for a 4-bedroom , 2.5
bath transition home to be operated
by Bridge of Hope, an agency that
deals with women transitioningfrom
jail to community.
Liquor store hops the
Great Wall
Whether the median divider that
prohibits left turns out of and into
Airport Liquors caused saggingsales
at the Barnstable Road store may be
determined early next year.
The evidence will come in the
performance of Luke 's Super Li-
quors , which will open in the former
Aubuchon Hardware building on
the other side of the street. The
licensing authority approved the
transfer of the all-alcohol package
store license and location to A.J.
Luke's of Hyannis, Inc.
Arthur J. Luke,who owns stores in
Dennis and Harwich (his father has
stores in Brev/ster and Yarmouth),
said he hopes to have the new store
open by March 1.
Willy's buys Women's
Body Shop in Hyannis
It's Willy's latest gym, but guys
named Willy or whatever remain
persona non grata.
Owner Barbara Niggel of Eastham,
who at 19 won her first martial arts
world title, clarified vagueness this
week about the recent purchase of
the Women's Fitness Center on At-
tucks Lane in Hyannis by the Willy's
Gym organization.
Despite coed centers in Orleans
and Eastham, the tradition will not
extend to the Women'sFitness Cen-
ter niche that, although now owned
by Willy's in a $2.1 million deal, will
continue to be testosterone free
- no men.
"It willremain awomen-only facil-
ity," Niggel said this week. "At some
point in the future , we would like to
add onto the existing building for a
coed facility and have both."
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Election lessons
learned
The recent election provided
amplematerial for an enormous
number of columnists all over
the world. As the second week
kicks in, even local monthly
guys like me can still get some
mileage.To me the recent elec-
tion provided several valuable
political lessons. Some of these
lessons should be sampled and
savored by all elected officials.
This is true for the locals.
One of mylessons learned was
that the partisan bickering and
the compulsive one-upmanship
that permeates our national
and state political arena are
not playing well in Peoria. This
election proved it isn't playing
very well anywhere else across
the countryfor that matter.The
no-hate approach will get more
results.
The tone and viciousness that
spewed from many candidates
and political action committees
wastenacious.There were ample
examples from one end of the
country to our own state. There
seemed to be anew all-timehigh
in the level of scare campaigns.
Theyseldomwork well. (Michael
Daley)
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