Yarmouth

Chase Brook Park is part of a larger plan, decades in the making, to transform several former commercial properties into restored ecosystem and public trails. Yarmouth town meeting will vote on $1.6 million of funding for the proposal in April.

The town of Yarmouth and the Barnstable County Commissioners are urging the state to back off a proposed limit on the amount of state assistance towns can get for their projects to install sewers.

First, the town of Yarmouth will be asked to appropriate money for a feasibility study and schematic design.

The Hyannis PFAS Community Working Group has received a grant to analyze how PFAS — from the Hyannis Gateway Airport, the former Barnstable County Fire Training Academy, and elsewhere — are interacting with one another in groundwater.

The Cape Cod Pirate Festival offers two weekends of family fun, beginning June 1.

The group of migrants that was housed at a Yarmouth motel for seven months has been relocated to shelters off-Cape, where there is staff to help them.

A Healey administration official tells CAI the state moved all 57 families from the base to off-Cape locations in December.

The town of Yarmouth is in the process of creating a new town seal that would, if adopted by voters, replace a historically and culturally inaccurate one that has been in use for many years.

The 45,000 people who live in Cape Cod's Old Kings Highway Historic District are required to get approval from local committees for visible solar installations. Those who have had their solar plans challenged or denied have described the committees’ decisions as inconsistent, arbitrary, and subjective.

The state plans to reimburse school districts at a rate of more than $18,000 per student.