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ativity over the past quarter-
eentury, the trust has grown
from approximately $10,000
to more than $3 million, the
revenues of whichbenefit mul-
tiple programsthroughout the
Barnstable Schools.
The observatory planned
for Barnstable High School's
Cobb Astro Park , itself a
beneficiary of generous Cobb
fund grants, will be named
the "David Cole Observatory."
That announcement came at
the Dec. 5 school committee
meeting at which Cole made
his annual report on Cobb
fund grants.
When Cole learned of the
honor, he was overwhelmed,
truly doubting he deserved it.
Thave until the next meeting
to talk Mike [Gyra] out of
this,"he said with emotion in
his voice. "I was totally taken
by surprise and off-guard."
Police step up patrols
on Main Street
Ifpeople want to seemore of
the Barnstable Police,Acting
Chief Paul MacDonald wants
to accommodate them.
"We're looking at every po-
sition in the department ,"he
said, "to put as many people
back on patrol as humanly
possible, on Main Streets in
all seven villages."
The engine of the height-
ened action on requests for
police presence is the new
community action response
team, which moved into the
Fresh Holes/Hiramar Road
neighborhood in Hyannis re-
cently after town councilors
Harold Tobey and GaryBrown
responded to residents ' con-
cerns.
"People think of the regular
duties of police officers as
crime-fighting, " MacDonald
said. "These people look at
quality of life issues. At Fresh
Holes, it wasn't just crime,
and shots fired. They literally
cleaned up the streets."
The team, which works out
of an old mobile command
post ("You can't miss it,"
said MacDonald), has moved
on to respond to problems
in the Sea Street area of
Hyannis.The acting chief said
anincreased presenceisbeing
maintained at Fresh Holes.
"Once they go into a neigh-
borhood ,they always goback
at least three to four times
a week," he said. "Calls for
service from Fresh Holes
and Hiramar Road are way
down."
Winter soldiers fight
homelessness
In the dying light of the
shortest day of the year, peo-
ple who had stretched out on
railroad tracks and gone to
sleep, people who had curled
under a blanket in the woods
and awakened covered with
snow and ice -these people
spoke of their gratefulness.
They stood on the steps of
Federated Church of Hyannis,
looking out at a collection of
tents raised as a symbolic
camp of the homeless, and re-
called then experiences. They
gave thanks to those who had
helped them achieve shelter
and sobriety, and called for
help for those stillinthe woods
and along the tracks.
The occasion was national
Homeless Persons ' Memo-
rial Day, observed here by
an overnight encampment of
civicleaders, avigil service on
the village green, and state-
mentsto the Barnstable Town
Council. Eleven people who
were homeless died on Cape
Cod this year.
"I'm a terrible drunk,"Billy
Bishop saidoutside Federated
Church before adding, "I'm
an old man with a new life."
A resident of Pilot House ,
which treats homeless men
and women who have serious
substance abuse problems,he
wasthe manwho wentto sleep
on the railroad tracks.
Raising awareness and par-
ticipation in ending home-
lessness was the reason for
the encampment , in which
notables such as county com-
missioners Bill Doherty and
Mary LeClair and town coun-
cilorJan Bartonwere to spend
the night.
Council e-mails
fall outside Open
Meeting Law
Town council e-mails ex-
changed over the Thanksgiv-
ing holidayrose to the level of
deliberations,accordingtothe
district attorney's office , and
the council has been advised
it should make the content of
those e-mails public.
"It is the determination of
this office that future com-
munications of this nature
should take place only in an
open meeting,"wroteThomas
Shack III, chief of operations
for the Cape&IslandsDistrict
Attorney's office.
The letter stopped short of
terming the exchange aviola-
tion of the law,expressingonly
that its contents did result in
deliberation and that it should
be remedied publicly.
"As a remedy the town
council should read thisletter
into the record at the next
public meeting and state in
public the nature of the e-mail
discussion so as to shed light
on the subject and clarify the
conversation that took place,"
Shack wrote.
Town attorney Bob Smith
read and explained the let-
ter from the DA's office at
the council's final meeting of
the year.
Smith, per the advised
remedy, then characterized
the nature of the e-mail ex-
change.
New 'simplified'
change for public
comment proposed,
rejected
Former council president
Hank Farnham offered what
he believes is a simplified ver-
sion of his desire to change
how public comment is taken
at the council meeting.
The new motion did away
with the suggested special
comment sessionbefore regu-
lar council meetings in favor
of restructuring the present
two-comment sections on the
council agenda.
The proposal failed and
public comment remains as
it has been, although Coun-
cil President Janet Joakim
plans tighter adherences to
the council's rules, both for
itself and for those addressing
the body.
Supreme
disappointment for
Alliance
Cape Wind opponent s got
less than half a loaf from the
Massachusetts Supreme Ju-
dicial Court. They didn't even
get a slice.
Thejustices affirmed unani-
mously the decision by the
state Energy FacilitiesSiting
Board to approve underwater
and underground transmis-
sion lines under state water
and land, conditional on ap-
proval, by other agencies,
of the 130-turbine project
itself.
Church CPA request
approved
After a lengthy discussion
the town council approved a
$20,000 Community Preser-
vation Fund request for the
Barnstable Unitarian/Univer-
salist Church.
The 7-5 vote will help fund
several restoration project s
at the church. In return, the
town will get a historic pres-
ervation restrictionplaced on
the property.That effectively
givesthe town areal property
interest in the church.
During the council'spublic
hearing on the request, the
Rev. Dr. Kristin Harper, the
church's minister, said that
if the building couldn't be
preserved , it was possible it
could be replaced.
The $20,000 request wasjust
asliver of the original request
made bythe church,according
to Community Preservation
Committee chairman Lind-
sey Counsell. The committee
reviewed and "cherrypicked"
those items it felt met the
CPA'srequirements and could
be supported.
One Kendrick's case
filed
The importance of solid
evidence was made evident
at this week's meeting of the
Licensing Board when board
members, expressing little
recourse , reluctantly filed
cases against Kendrick's Ca-
sual Dining and Lounge at 72
North St., Hyannis.
The police had charged
the establishment, Kimberly
Mooney, manager,with failure
on July 14 to call the police
as required in the Barnstable
town code and liquor license
rules when apatron was alleg-
edly stabbed during a melee
on the dance floor.
Board members were vis-
ibly upset that the evidence
presented was insufficient for
any other findings.
CommissionerPaulSullivan
said he was "convinced there
was a stabbing, but we can't
say it is on record or we can't
say the employees were aware
of it, so I'm hesitant to act on
the charges."
Island Merchant
moving to Main
Street
The Island Merchant is
about to sail awayfrom Ocean
Street - but only around the
bend to anew harbor on Main
Street.
Owners Joe and Bev Dunn
plan to close in January and
reopen in late February just
down the block from Feder-
ated Church in Hyannis. The
former skateboard shop has
twice the space of the Ocean
Street restaurant , but the
Dunns don't plan to ask for
increased seating.
The Dunns plan to "keep
our core clientele and make it
more spacious and hopefully
gain more repeat business
from our core clientele," Joe
said. Seatingwillremainat 50,
although he could see asking
for 65 in a couple of years.
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Familiar face at the
ice rink
Fans at the boys varsity
ice hockey game may have
thought they saw a famil-
iar face on the edge of the
ice. They weren 't wrong.
BarnstableHigh School alum-
nus and former hockey player
Scott Nickerson has returned
to the fray, this time as head
coach.
Nickerson returns to
Barnstable after several other
coachingstints, most recently
in Sandwich, ajob he enjoyed.
"When the opportunity came
[in Barnstable]thistime,Itried
to dive right in,"he said.
That Nickerson is thrilled
to return to his old stomping
grounds,make that ice rink,is
an understatement. "I didn't
want to leave before ," he
said, and explained that life
circumstances warranted his
departure.
Season of hoops and
pucks begins
The football stadium at
BHS has been cleaned up fol-
lowing the final game and the
soccer fields are vacant. Don't
get too comfortable , though,
because winter sports arejust
getting started.
Practices for many winter
sports started more than a
week ago, and several teams
have participated in scrim-
mages against other high
schools.
Boysvarsitybasketballcoach
SeanDonovan waslookingfor-
ward to a successful season.
"We have a number of guys
returning that have played
varsity," he said. "They have
experience, which should help
us."
NancyFreeman,girlsvarsity
basketball coach,ispleased to
see her players back in action.
"We've got seven returning
players," she said, noting that
aparticularly formidable force
is that of Jill Lyon, Morgan
Kendrew and Tashauna Ash-
meade. "They are quite the
threesome."
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A glimpse of our
coastal problem
The report Massachu-
setts Estuaries program
inBarnstable'sThree Bay
Area wasnot expected be
revelatory,asthe nutrient
problems in the Three
Bay area are well docu-
mented. It will serve as
confirmation and a solid
steppingstone for what to
do next.
The Three Bays report
quantifies just how over-
loaded the system is with
nutrients and how much
will need to be removed
in some fashion to reach
the desired health goals
for the system.
The good news out of
an earlier Estuaries Proj-
ect report, that one for
the nearby Popponessett
v
Bay, is that a suggested
remedy to increasingly
nutrient-rich waters was
wetland restoration, not
wastewater plant con-
struction, at least not en-
tirely.Themethodinvolves
intercepting the primary
surface sources of nitro-
gen with reconstructed
wetlands that can absorb
(the scientific term is at-
.tenuation) and efficiently
remove a good amount of
nitrogen.
That doesn 't mean
something shouldn't be
done with the homes with
failing septic systems,
but it does mean that it's
possible to get the overall
ecosystem into balance
without industrial-sized
solutions, both in appear-
ance and cost. (David
Still II)
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