Jennette Barnes

1 week ago | capeandislands.org | Jennette Barnes

This weekend marks 50 years since “Jaws” first opened in theaters in 1975. Tomorrow in Edgartown, an outdoor screening will put the music from the film in the spotlight, as the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra plays the entire score, live, as the audience watches “Jaws.”Norma Kelley, a cellist with the Cape Symphony for more than 40 years, sits in a conference room in West Barnstable, playing a few bars of one of the best-known movie themes of all time. Dun-dun. Dun-dun.

1 week ago | capeandislands.org | Jennette Barnes

A state appeal hearing on the proposed release of radioactive water from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station concluded Friday afternoon. The hearing lasted just two days; it had been scheduled to last up to four. Additional steps remain before the presiding officer can issue a decision, and the decision is probably months away. Pilgrim owner Holtec International is appealing a determination made last summer by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

2 weeks ago | capeandislands.org | Jennette Barnes

A long-awaited appeal hearing on the proposed discharge of radioactive water from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station starts Thursday in Boston. The owner of Pilgrim, Holtec International, is appealing a decision last summer by the Department of Environmental Protection to block the release of reactor-system water into Cape Cod Bay. The department denied Holtec a modified permit, saying the plan was illegal under the state's Ocean Sanctuaries Act.

3 weeks ago | capeandislands.org | Jennette Barnes

Late-night noise from South Coast Rail, especially at the layover facility in Fall River, is depriving people of sleep and damaging their quality of life, neighbors said at a meeting in the city last night. Residents who live near the idling diesel trains at the facility said they are experiencing loud noise, vibration, and fumes. Sometimes four trains are sitting in layover, and noise continues long into the night, said neighbor Ollie Jay Spears.

3 weeks ago | capeandislands.org | Jennette Barnes

A Nantucket group is launching a new effort to fight food insecurity. The Nantucket Resource Partnership, which once had a broader human-service mission, is rebranding itself as Nourish Nantucket and focusing on food. Brook Mohr, president of the nonprofit’s board, says hunger on the island is more widespread than many people realize. Contrary to stereotype, Nantucket is socioeconomically diverse — in part because of its isolation: To work here, you have to live here, she said.