Bronwen Walsh

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Freelance Reporter at Cape Cod Chronicle

News Editor at The Enterprise News

Editor at The Barnstable Patriot

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Pitching Public Service, Mashpee Seeks Committee, Board, Commission Volunteers

Jul 25, 2024 | capenews.net | Bronwen Walsh

The Town of Mashpee is recruiting. Volunteers, that is. “The best way to learn about how your town operates is to be involved and make a difference,” said Select Board chairwoman Carol A. Sherman. “Mashpee needs good people.”“People like Terrie Cook, Wayne Taylor and Mike Richardson have done it all, serving on almost every board there is,” said John W. Miller, town moderator.
Sewer Commission Floats New Warrant Articles

Jul 25, 2024 | capenews.net | Bronwen Walsh

The Mashpee Select Board and fall Town Meeting voters will be asked to approve warrant articles designed to begin operating the town’s Wastewater Treatment Recovery Facility in 2025. Wastewater Superintendent Jared A. Meader on July 15 received unanimous approval from the sewer commission to hire four new full-time employees. “We’re going to start building a department,” Mr. Meader said Tuesday, July 23. Once ramped up, Phase One is designed to handle about 360,000 gallons of daily wastewater flow.
MPS Seeks New Hires

Jul 25, 2024 | capenews.net | Bronwen Walsh

The Mashpee Public School District has the new school year calendar set and announced its new hires but is still looking to fill about eight full- and part-time positions, Interim Superintendent David L. Thomson told the Mashpee School Committee Wednesday, July 24.
Mashpee Select Board Approves 'Proactive' Hazard Mitigation Plan

Jul 18, 2024 | capenews.net | Bronwen Walsh

While it is difficult to predict when natural hazards will impact Mashpee, it is accurate to say they will. Such is the impetus for the town’s 285-page Hazard Mitigation Plan, drafted in November and approved by a unanimous select board vote on Monday, July 15. “If we don’t have the HMP, there are a number of large pots of money we can’t access without it,” said Evan R. Lehrer, the town’s planning consultant.
Sewer Commission Progress Report: 'We're On Track'

Jul 18, 2024 | capenews.net | Bronwen Walsh

Wastewater treatment plant construction crews have focused on site cleanup and job detailing in the past two months of work on Phase One of the town’s sewering project, so that electrical equipment could be delivered and installed, GHD associate Sandy Tripp told the Sewer Commission Tuesday, July 16. “The exteriors of the buildings are looking very, very good,” Ms. Tripp said.
Clean Water Strategies Top Town Manager Goals

Jul 17, 2024 | capenews.net | Bronwen Walsh

Evaulating and funding a community septic system north of Wakeby Pond, deciding if the town should run the Willowbend and Southport treatment plants, and exploring whether to contract sewer management or hire full-time staff top Town Manager Rodney C. Collins's list of 2024-2025 goals. Also ranking high on Mr. Collins' list are hammering out a lease agreement between the town and the Wampanoag Tribe for portions of 12 Acres and renovating the Tribe's Parsonage building.
Mashpee Wampanoag Powwow: Ways Of Fire, Peace With Rain

Jul 11, 2024 | capenews.net | Lauren Surbey |Bronwen Walsh

Cars lined Great Neck Road South for a half-mile east and west of the Wampanoag Government Center Friday for the 103rd annual Mashpee Wampanoag Powwow. The theme was: Ways of the fire; the weather: Drizzle. Neon orange plastic fencing steered visitors toward admissions, past RVs from New England and beyond. Security Department Chief Kevin M. Frye Sr., patrolled on foot, Capt. Curtis W. Frye III, by golf cart.
NLC Lands Bog Parcel

Jul 11, 2024 | capenews.net | Bronwen Walsh

The Native Land Conservancy has announced a recent nine-acre land donation by Jackie Rivero of Yarmouth Port, a longtime IT contractor for the Town of Yarmouth. “This land was my refuge, retreat, escape and just a place where a kid could let her imagination run wild,” Ms. Rivero told the NLC.
June 24 Crash Update: 'Everyone's Home'

Jul 10, 2024 | capenews.net | Bronwen Walsh

Two cars parked on the berm at the Carleton Drive crash site, opposite an oak tree near Swain Circle, its damaged trunk strewn with flower bouquets. Mashpee Middle-High School classmates of the late Nolan R. Barr, juniors entering their senior year, stopped by on Tuesday afternoon, July 9.
ConComm Approves Satuit Pond, Timberlane Drive Upgrades

Jul 4, 2024 | capenews.net | Bronwen Walsh

Mashpee Conservation Commission last Thursday unanimously approved a long-awaited facelift for the Santuit Pond Town Landing. Currently onsite is a partially paved gravel driveway that leads to compacted gravel parking/launch ramp with a small boat ramp, Department of Public Works Director Catherine E. Laurent told the commission on June 27. The only existing drainage infrastructure is what is on Timberlane Drive; “there’s nothing on the site at the moment,” Ms. Laurent said.