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In a letter released Monday, officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said they will evaluate whether the $11.5 million project has the potential to create “significant hazards to public health.”
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The tours are filled on a first-come first-serve basis and the tour set for this coming Friday is full, but the Guard will hold them nearly every Friday — except Sept. 3, prior to Labor Day — until Sept. 24. Then officials will evaluate the frequency of the tours depending on demand.
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The meeting, tentatively set for Thursday, August 26, at 6 p.m., at Falmouth High School, will be an opportunity for residents to share their thoughts with state lawmakers and the Select Board, before it takes a formal position on the proposed range.
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“That project certainly has to go through a series of reviews and there’s going to be a very significant and aggressive outreach program,” he said during a news conference Thursday.
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This week: great white sharks along the Outer Cape are being studied closer than ever, from the air and in the water. After a week of conflicting messages, the Tri-town Wastewater agreement appears to be falling apart. And the controversial Machine Gun Range appears to be facing mounting opposition.
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Many of the activists, lawmakers, and parents who came to Forestdale School in Sandwich voiced concerns about the Guard’s proposal to clear-cut 170 acres of dense forest and place the range on a watershed protection area that provides drinking water to Upper Cape towns.
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More than a dozen environmental, social justice, and Democratic groups plan to gather at Forestdale Elementary School from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday. They’ll be joined at an event on Saturday by state lawmakers, who are calling for a suspension of any further action on the $11.5 million project.
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In the last week, Barnstable County commissioners announced they would be exploring legal action, and a group representing 22 municipalities and 105 elected officials on the Cape and Islands added to the chorus of criticism.
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This week: A week after a cyber attack, the Steamship Authority has lashed together some provisional fixes; and a sexual assault is reported on a ferry. Barnstable will be looking for a new School Superintendent. And the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce gets drawn into the machine gun range controversy.
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This week: A week after a cyber attack, the Steamship Authority has lashed together some provisional fixes; and a sexual assault is reported on a ferry. Barnstable will be looking for a new School Superintendent. And the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce gets drawn into the machine gun range controversy.