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Yarmouth restaurant entertainment license delayedThe Yarmouth Board of Selectmen postponed approval of entertainment and pool table licenses for O.C.’s Café on Route 28 in West Yarmouth because of concerns about the structural capacity of the second floor of the old building for dancing. — Wicked Local Yarmouth New book, old tales of mid-CapeIf you’re a new resident of the Mid-Cape or even if you have lived here a long time, you might be interested to learn about the baroness and countess who stayed in the salt box cottages of South Yarmouth around World War II or how Great Island came to be an exclusive gated community or how Cape Codders dominated the Clipper ship era. You can read about these stories and more in the Historical Society of Old Yarmouth’s latest book, “Capturing Cape Cod History, Earlier Years,” an anthology of articles from The Register printed during the 1970s and 1980s. — Wicked Local Dennis Greenland, N.H., police chief honored in YarmouthMembers of Michael Maloney's family looked on Sunday as 510 runners lined up against a thin blue line stretched across South Shore Drive to kick off the fifth annual Yarmouth Police Department Blue 5K — Run for a Reason. — Cape Cod Times Shostak honored in Yarmouth for educational foundation workThe Yarmouth Board of Selectmen Tuesday recognized resident Joan Shostak for her 20 years of service to the Educational Foundation for Dennis and Yarmouth. — Wicked Local Yarmouth Yarmouth Historical Society holds Thanksgiving serviceThe Historical Society of Old Yarmouth will hold its annual ecumenical Thanksgiving Service on Sunday, Nov. 20, at 3 p.m. at the historic Kelley Chapel. The Rev. Mark Bruce of the First Congregational Church of Yarmouth will conduct the service with Joan Kirchner as organist and soloist. — Wicked Local Yarmouth West Yarmouth gristmill back in the pictureThe 300-year-old Baxter Gristmill that has been closed up, fenced in and vandalized is suddenly getting some attention again from Yarmouth historians and preservationists. The gristmill, the only one of its kind on Cape Cod, sits on Mill Pond in West Yarmouth and nudges up against busy Route 28. — Wicked Local Yarmouth Yarmouth entertainment district eyed for Route 28A proposal that would allow a water park rising as much as 80 feet high, and increased commercial and residential development along a section of Route 28 in South Yarmouth promises to be the next contentious issue in Yarmouth. Several businesspeople expressed strong objections at a Yarmouth Planning Board hearing last week to provisions of a proposed “family entertainment” district. — Wicked Local Yarmouth Yarmouth town committees need volunteers; one may disbandThree town committees that presented annual reports to the Yarmouth selectmen Tuesday expressed a need for new members or a new direction. The Government Oversight Committee suggested it be disbanded because it no longer has a clear sense of its mission. It is also missing six of 11 members. — Wicked Local Yarmouth Demand runs high at Yarmouth Food PantryOne hundred households will be fortunate to get a turkey and food for a full Thanksgiving dinner next week at the Yarmouth Food Pantry, but that will not take care of the 290 households with 650 people who have registered at the pantry this year. — Wicked Local Yarmouth Cultural Center of Cape Cod awarded $250,000 for educational wingThe Massachusetts Cultural Council has awarded the Cultural Center of Cape Cod on Old Main Street in South Yarmouth $250,000 from its Cultural Facilities Fund to help build its new educational wing. — Wicked Local Cape Cod Yarmouth motel conversion includes wastewater facilityThe plans for converting the West Yarmouth Lodgings to affordable workforce housing also calls for a satellite wastewater treatment facility to address both the housing needs and the area’s ongoing wastewater issues, according to Brian Braginton-Smith, who is also spearheading redevelopment efforts in the Route 28 corridor. — Wicked Local Cape Cod Architect reveals exterior designs for new schoolMost of the Monomoy High School Building Committee members moved to the edge of their seats at a meeting in the Harwich Middle School Cafeteria last Thursday night. And although the two dozen attendees were squeezed into connected tables better suited to hold eleven year-olds than adults, they couldn’t have cared as Dennis Daly, principal architect from the Mount Vernon Group, began a slide show of over a dozen computer generated renderings of the proposed new high school. — Wicked Local Chatham More News
