HARWICH — Bids for the first of two sewer contracts for phase two of the comprehensive wastewater management plan were opened last Thursday, and while a local contractor, Robert B. Our Company, was the low bidder, the bids were higher than expected. The town received four bids, with the Our Company coming in at $11,368,663 with the next lowest bidder, RJV Construction, Inc., at $11,764,616. Town Administrator ...

Alcohol Service To Require Harbor Plan Change HARWICH — It has not been an easy process for Joseph Griffiths, the only bidder for the 10-year lease of the snack shack at Saquatucket Harbor, but with opening of the Dockside Seafood Shack last weekend made it worthwhile. “He’s been working hard to get ready and he’s done a terrific job and he’s made a significant investment and looking forward to a big year,”...

HARWICH — “For your tomorrow, we gave our today” are powerful words of sacrifice to reflect upon on Memorial Day. Those words are from an epitaph of a fallen American warrior, Sgt. Jeremy Armstrong told a large crowd gathered around the bandstand at Brooks Park Monday. Monomoy Regional Middle School seventh grade students Megan Crowe, Kathryn Neal a...

HARWICH — “For your tomorrow, we gave our today” are powerful words of sacrifice to reflect upon on Memorial Day. Those words are from an epitaph of a fallen American warrior, Sgt. Jeremy Armstrong told a large crowd gathered around the bandstand at Brooks Park Monday. Monomoy Regional Middle School seventh grade students Megan Crowe, Kathryn Neal a...

HARWICH — The board of health has extended the ban on smoking in workplaces and public places to include town beaches, recreation areas and other town-operated properties. The board will decide at its June meeting whether to move forward with a ban on flavored tobacco products. The expanded prohibition on smoking in public places was brought to the board of health by the recreation and youth commission. The b...

HARWICH — The planning board last week approved a site plan review and special permit for the redevelopment of the Stone Horse Motel property and opted not to refer the redevelopment project to the Cape Cod Commission, despite requests from neighbors. The redevelopment plan for the former motel calls for constructing two dormitories with 42 rooms in each building, two beds per room, to be used primarily to prov...

Judging from the sheer number of gulls loitering at local herring runs this spring, it would seem that 2019 was a good year for the struggling fish species. And official herring counts seem to be confirming that suspicion. On Tuesday, the electronic fish counter at Johnson’s Flume in Harwich had registered just under one million river herring this year, Natural Resources Director Heinz Proft said. That’s up fr...

HARWICH — The planning board will meet May 30 to consider sending the Harwich Retail LLC plan to construct a 7,489-square-foot retail structure along Route 28 in West Harwich to the Cape Cod Commission for review. “This is our neighborhood,” said resident Danny Horn. “Send this to the Cape Cod Commission because it's not consistent with our neighborhood.” The property at 48 and 52 Route 28 is presently the site...

HARWICH — Incumbent Selectman Michael MacAskill was returned to office in Tuesday's annual town election. Newcomer Stephen Ford also won a seat on the board with an 80-vote margin over Thomas Sherry. Meredith Henderson won a one-year unexpired term on the Monomoy Regional School Committee over former Selectman Linda A. Cebula. Voters turned aside two debt exclusion ballot questions for road work. Voters in ...

HARWICH — A clear division among members of the board of selectmen on the performance of Town Administrator Christopher Clark was on display Monday night when the board reviewed its annual evaluation of the town administrator. The accumulative points given by selectmen in the evaluation determines if the town administrator has earned a cost of living increase. Clark's accumulative point total was 65.3, just abov...

HARWICH — Incumbent Selectman Michael MacAskill was returned to office in Tuesday's annual town election. Newcomer Stephen Ford also won a seat on the board with an 80-vote margin over Thomas Sherry. Meredith Henderson won a one-year unexpired term on the Monomoy Regional School Committee over former Selectman Linda A. Cebula. Voters turned aside two debt exclusion ballot questions for road work. Voters in ...

HARWICH — A plan to use the parking lot at the former fire station at 203 Bank St. for employee parking for businesses in Harwich Port is off the table. Instead, employees will be asked to use the small lot provided by TD Bank, adjacent to the Schoolhouse Road municipal parking lot. That was the proposal the Ad Hoc Harwich Port Parking Committee presented to selectmen Monday night. The group met last Tuesday t...