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Cadrin is advocating for Mashpee residents to help conserve and protect land by passing Article 8 during the Mashpee special town meeting at 7 p.m., Monday, May 6. Mashpee voters will be asked to ...
Nitrogen management plans move forward, but the future of quality fresh water in Mashpee is still at stake. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways ...
In 2020, the Municipal Plastic Bottle Ban was also submitted as a Citizen's Petition for vote at Town Meeting in the towns of Mashpee and Bourne and through a Board of Selectmen article in the town of Truro. The article was passed in Mashpee [50] and delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Bourne and Truro. As of July 2021, the Municipal ...
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Sandwich is governed by the open town meeting form of government. Day-to-day operation is led by a board of selectmen, which appoints a town manager. [18] The town manager is George H. "Bud" Dunham, who has served in that role for more than 30 years. [19] The town operates a police department, and a fire department consisting of three fire ...
In most New England towns, the adult voting population gathered annually in a town meeting to act as the local legislature, approving budgets and laws. Day-to-day operations were originally left to individual oversight, but when towns became too large for individuals to handle such work loads, they would elect an executive board of selected men (hence the name) to run things for them.
The Mashpee Wampanoag tribe is now talking about changing the "scope" of the casino project. It's unclear yet exactly what that means, but at the time of the groundbreaking in 2016, the tribe said ...
The "Old Indian Meeting House", built in 1684 at Mashpee, is the oldest Native American church in the United States. Following their defeat in King Philip's War (1675–1676), the Wampanoag of the mainland were resettled with the Sakonnet in present-day Rhode Island .