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Environmental-study scholarships available

Environmental-study scholarships available  The Friends of Chatham Waterways is offering scholar­ships of $2,500 to undergradu­ate and graduate students majoring in environmental fields.  Applicants must be resi­dents of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard or Nantucket, or graduates of a high school or college on the Cape or Islands.  Undergraduate applicants must be in or entering their junior [...]

48th Annual Falmouth Christmas Parade

Download: 48th Annual Falmouth Christmas Parade Presented by the Falmouth Chamber of Commerce Theme: “Christmas Memories, Celebrating 325 Years”.

FREE RESIDENTIAL ENERGY AUDITS ON NANTUCKET

As part of the Mass Save Initiative (www.masssave.com), several Energy Specialists will be on Nantucket from Monday 1/16/2012 thru Friday 1/20/2012 to perform 30-40 FREE residential energy audits. This is a service offered to Nantucket by National Grid and the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) to promote energy efficiency programs and to help residents [...]

LAND BANK “BLAIR HOUSE” LEGISLATION SIGNED INTO LAW

BOSTON- An Act Approving the Conveyance by the Nantucket Islands Land Bank of Certain Land Situated in the Town of Nantucket sponsored by State Representative Tim Madden was signed into law this week and is now Chapter 182 of Acts of 2011. This home rule petition allows for the Nantucket Islands Land Bank to convey the [...]

Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Receive Mass in Motion/Community Transformation Grants

BOSTON- State Representative Tim Madden is pleased to announce that Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket will receive a federal grant of $75,000 to expand efforts of active healthy living and quality clinical preventive services as part of the Mass in Motion program. The funds will also be used to promote tobacco-free living by providing resources to [...]

Contract award for Cape Cod Canal bridge repair; Work to start mid-November

Release from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Contract award for Cape Cod Canal bridge repair work Corps of Engineers awards $8.5 million contract for work on the Cape Cod Canal highway bridges Work scheduled to start in mid-November CONCORD, Mass. (Oct. 17, 2011) – Work on the Cape Cod Canal highway bridges in Buzzards [...]