HARWICH – Jeffery Handler, Julie Kavanagh and Mark Kelleher – the three candidates running for a seat on the board of selectmen in the Sept. 21 special election – sought to win voter support in a candidates forum last Thursday evening. The session was sponsored by the town’s voter information committee and moderated by Joan Craig of the League of Women Voters of the Cape Cod Area. Questions for the candi...

HARWICH – As the town prepares bid specifications for a third contract to complete phase two sewering in East Harwich, there remains an outstanding decision on whether Continental Drive and Whidah Drive should have sewers installed. Residents of the Pleasant Bay Association spent thousands of dollars on connection plans before being told the town didn't have the money to sewer their streets. New projections fo...

Hometown Parade Kicks Off Celebration Sunday, But Beach Day Cancelled HARWICH – After a year's hiatus due to the pandemic, Fall for Harwich is back, with numerous events scheduled over the next several weeks beginning with Sunday's Hometown Parade. Saturday's planned Beach Day, however, has been cancelled. The Harwich Cranberry Festival Committee announced that it was not able to muster enough volunteers to...

SOUTH HARWICH — Four teenagers suffered potentially life-threatening injuries when their car struck a tree on Chatham Road Monday afternoon. The crash happened at around 2:15 p.m. just north of the intersection of County Road. The four-door Nissan hatchback came to rest in the southbound lane, and police closed the road for the rescue and a subsequent accident investigation. The driver was a 16-year-old mal...

HARWICH – Three residents of a home on Sisson Road claim they were sickened after a neighbor's yard was covered with mothballs. Along with dealing with nauseous fumes, the residents took issue with the town's handling of the situation. Alexa Paige, Ky Boyne and Caitlin Ryan of 109 Sisson Rd. have been battling the odor of mothballs for more than a week. An elderly neighbor at 111 Sisson Rd. was observed ...

HARWICH – The board of selectmen is declining to take any action on alleged violations of the state Open Meeting Law filed by The Port Restaurant and Bar. Through town counsel, the board informed the Director of Open Government in the state Attorney General’s Office that no steps would be taken to remediate the complaints. The response said the board did not violate the law and that several of the complaints w...

HARWICH – It’s been a little more than a decade since the town updated its local comprehensive plan. Officials said it's about time to do so again, especially since town meeting approved the funds for the plan update in 2019. “I’ve been pressing for the plan for a year-and-a-half to two years,” Selectman Larry Ballantine said at the board’s meeting Aug. 25.  The initial master plan was done in 1969, said Di...

HARWICH – It started with a frozen shoulder last summer. When Bill Olivier started seeing doctors about the shoulder, in addition to some recurring back pain, there were MRIs and X-rays taken that stumped the orthopedic specialists.  When he started to develop a foot drop, which he described as feeling "like I was walking in clown shoes," more tests were done and a neurologist recommended he be seen at the Mass G...

On Heels Of Monomoy Mask Recommendation A few weeks after Monomoy Superintendent of Schools Scott Carpenter announced his recommendation that students wear masks when the return to class this fall, state education officials are following suit. On Tuesday, the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted to authorize the education commissioner to require masks for all public K-12 students and teacher...

HARWICH - Selectmen have scheduled a special town meeting for Oct. 18 that will focus primarily on wastewater funding issues. Plans to address a Monomoy Regional School District  regional agreement amendment relating to a funding disparity between the district's elementary schools will not be acted upon in the special session (see story on page 3). The need to change the regional school agreement was one...

To Address Elementary School Funding Disparity Voters will likely have to wait until the spring to consider a change to the Monomoy Regional School agreement designed to boost financial equity between Chatham and Harwich. But school officials say the fiscal impact of delaying the vote from a fall special town meeting to the May annual town meeting comes as no big surprise. On Monday, the Harwich board of se...

HARWICH – As Cape Cod Regional Technical High School seeks once again to reach out to the community after a year-and-a-half of restricted contact because of the pandemic, the Cape Cod Tech Foundation, a relatively new organization, is looking to lend a helping hand with students, teachers, and school facilities. South Yarmouth resident Robert Eckel is the executive director of CCT Foundation, a non-profit orga...