the rumors of barnstable’s (aaa) demise are greatly exaggerated!!
August 29, 2008 at 6:15 pm | In barnstable, barnstable town council, cape cod, centerville, council president janet joakim, hyannis, janet joakim, janet swain joakim | 21 CommentsTags: barnstable, town of barnstable, janet swain joakim, AAA bond, AAA, AAA bond rating, standard and poor's, bond
UPDATE: Massachusetts Muncipal Association has updated the article on their website to include Barnstable:
http://www.mma.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3035&Itemid=92
A story posted on the MMA website seems to have generated a little flurry of concern among those who pay attention to these things …
The MMA story was Continue reading the rumors of barnstable’s (aaa) demise are greatly exaggerated!!…
bring gifts for the needy when you go to the beach!
August 23, 2008 at 7:54 pm | In barnstable, barnstable town council, cape cod, centerville, council president janet joakim, craigville, craigville beach, donate, help homeless, homeless, hyannis, janet joakim, janet swain joakim, municpal politics | 6 CommentsTags: centerville, craigville, champ house, help homeless, homeless shelter, donate, craigville beach
The Tabernacle Worship Committee is leading a
Craigville-wide collection for
Continue reading bring gifts for the needy when you go to the beach!…
opportunity to give input regarding design of three rt. 28 intersections - lumbert mill, south county, and rt. 149
August 18, 2008 at 10:46 pm | In barnstable, barnstable town council, centerville, council president janet joakim, janet joakim, janet swain joakim, marstons mills | 8 CommentsTags: barnstable, centerville, route 28, rt. 28, mass highway, lumbert mill, traffic lights, lumberts mill, intersection, dangerous intersection
The meeting last week with Mass Highway was productive and informative. We were presented with the plans for the three intersections with Rt. 28 and invited to give input.
Lumbert Mill and Rt 28 (!!!)
South County and Rt 28
Rt. 149 and Rt. 28
There were lot of questions about sightlines - about whether people will be able to see the stoplights before the Continue reading opportunity to give input regarding design of three rt. 28 intersections - lumbert mill, south county, and rt. 149…
another recall attempt in precinct 6 - which precinct will it be tomorrow?
August 16, 2008 at 12:17 pm | In barnstable, barnstable town council, cape cod, capeCOG, centerville, council president janet joakim, hyannis, janet joakim, janet swain joakim, municpal politics | 20 CommentsTags: barnstable, town of barnstable, janet joakim, cog, capeCOG, capecog.com, gary lopez, taryn thoman, barnstable town council, centerville, janet swain joakim, recall, janet, joakim, recall petition
August 15, 2008
It is discouraging and disheartening after seven years of dedicated service to our town to be living through yet another recall attempt initiated by someone who doesn’t live in my precinct, who has a personal grudge and vendetta against me, my children, my husband and family — and is someone whom I have never met.
In addition to the woman who initiated the recall, the effort is being organized, conducted and managed via a website/blog that operates solely on the assumption that every aspect of our town government is corrupt and most who are associated with any of its successes or failures are also corrupt.
I was recently contacted by someone who pointed out several instances of racial, ethnic, anti-Semitic and sexist slurs that are used constantly by the author of this website/blog, who is also the leader of the group known as COG, to incite its base.
This group seems to operate on the fuel of hate, distrust and a darkness that is in some ways sad and in other ways frightening. And, for two years they have had their sights on me, and, for over a year they have had their sights on my daughters, my husband, my brother and others in my family.
The latest recall petition that is being carried on clipboards from door to door in my neighborhood gives two Continue reading another recall attempt in precinct 6 - which precinct will it be tomorrow?…
tonight! - mass highway hearing re: rt 28 and lumberts mill road, south county and rt 149
August 13, 2008 at 10:14 am | In barnstable town council, centerville, janet joakim, janet swain joakim | 2 CommentsTags: janet, janet joakim, janet swain joakim, joakim
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS MASSACHUSETTS HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING
A Design Public Hearing will be held by MassHighway to discuss the proposed Signal & Intersection Improvements on Route 28 at 3 Locations Project in Barnstable, MA.
WHERE: Barnstable Town Hall
Town Council Meeting Room, 2nd Floor
367 Main Street
Hyannis, MA 02601
WHEN: Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 @ 7:00 pm
PURPOSE: The purpose of this hearing is to provide the public with the opportunity to become fully acquainted with the proposed Signal & Intersection Improvements On Route 28 at 3 Locations Project. All views and comments made at the hearing will be reviewed and considered to the maximum extent possible.
PROPOSAL: The proposed project consists of signal and intersection improvements on Route 28 at three locations: Lumbert Mill Road, South County Road and Route 149.
A secure right-of-way is necessary for this project. Acquisitions in fee and permanent or temporary easements may be required. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is responsible for acquiring all needed rights in private or public lands. MassHighway’s policy concerning land acquisitions will be discussed at this hearing.
Written views received by MassHighway subsequent to the date of this notice and up to five (5) days prior to the date of the hearing shall be displayed for public inspection and copying at the time and date listed above. Plans will be on display one-half hour before the hearing begins, with an engineer in attendance to answer questions regarding this project. A project handout is available on the MassHighway website listed below.
Written statements and other exhibits in place of, or in addition to, oral statements made at the Public Hearing regarding the proposed undertaking are to be submitted to Frank A. Tramontozzi, P.E., Chief Engineer, Massachusetts Highway Department, 10 Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116. Such submissions will also be accepted at the hearing. Mailed statements and exhibits intended for inclusion in the public hearing transcript must be postmarked within ten (10) business days of this Public Hearing.
The community has declared that this facility is accessible to all in compliance with the ADA / Title II. However, persons in need of ADA / Title II accommodations should contact Angela Rudikoff by phone at (617) 973-7005 or email angela.rudikoff@eot.state.ma.us. Requests must be made at least 10 days prior to the date of the public hearing.
In case of inclement weather, hearing cancellation announcements will be posted on the MassHighway website http://www.mass.gov/mhd.
LUISA PAIEWONSKY FRANK A. TRAMONTOZZI, P.E.
COMMISSIONER CHIEF ENGINEER
Boston, Massachusetts
west nile virus confirmed in a dead bird from barnstable
August 12, 2008 at 6:53 pm | In barnstable, barnstable town council, centerville, janet joakim, janet swain joakim, west nile virus | 2 CommentsTags: barnstable, janet joakim, mosquitoes, standing water, west nile, west nile virus
DATE: August 12, 2008 CONTACT: David Stanton
TOWN: Barnstable TELEPHONE: (508 ) 862-4644
The Public Health Division announced this afternoon the first West Nile virus (WNV) positive bird of 2008 in the Town of Barnstable, Cummaquid area. In 2007, 3059 dead birds were reported to MDPH and forty-three tested positive for WNV. No birds submitted from the Town of Barnstable were positive for WNV in 2007.
Cape Cod Mosquito Control was contacted. They will treat catch basins with larvicides in the area tomorrow morning.
While WNV can infect people of all ages, people over the age of 50 are at higher risk for Continue reading west nile virus confirmed in a dead bird from barnstable…
update! governor’s town meeting moved to high school
August 11, 2008 at 4:17 pm | In barnstable town council | No CommentsThe governor’s town meeting will be held indoors at the Knight auditorium 6:00
reminder - important meetings! governor is coming - mass highway is coming - please be there!
August 11, 2008 at 9:52 am | In barnstable town council | No Commentsgovernor patrick is coming to hyannis for a town hall meeting
Governor Deval Patrick’s Summer Town Hall Meeting Tour
Monday, August 11, 2008 — 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Village Green Bandstand, Hyannis
HYANNIS, MA - Town Manager John Klimm and Town Council President Janet Joakim are pleased to welcome Governor Deval Patrick to Continue reading governor patrick is coming to hyannis for a town hall meeting…
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important reminder - mass highway hearing regarding rt 28 and lumberts mill road
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS MASSACHUSETTS HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING
A Design Public Hearing will be held by MassHighway to discuss the proposed Signal & Intersection Improvements on Route 28 at Continue reading
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please make your voices heard regarding the massachusetts clean water act!
Below is a message from Senator O’Leary regarding a piece of legislation that effects all of us as we consider the options facing us regarding Cape Cod’s waste-water management.
Please consider the news story in Continue reading please make your voices heard regarding the massachusetts clean water act!…
irony? contradiction? lopez and his recall reasons…. whatever works .. today
August 7, 2008 at 11:34 pm | In barnstable, barnstable town council, blanchards, centerville, hyannis, janet joakim, recall, zba | 6 CommentsTags: accident, blanchards, gary lopez, janet joakim, recall, rt. 28, traffic, traffic accident, zba
(updated! Just got a message from another friend who read this post and right away sent another interesting post from Lopez’s blog … added to the end of this post)
I am going to do something here that I have not done for a while. This post will give Lopez and his followers some new material to work with I am sure, but I just found something that I need to share with people who read his posts with any inkling of trust.
As my family and I deal with recall attempt number 4 or 5, I have lost track, I was doing some cleaning out of old email files and found an email from a friend with a copy of one of Lopez’s posts. Admid the name calling and conspiracy theories she found a post that she knew would confuse me – it almost had me agreeing with him. Continue reading irony? contradiction? lopez and his recall reasons…. whatever works .. today…
governor patrick is coming to hyannis for a town hall meeting
August 7, 2008 at 1:11 pm | In barnstable town council | 6 CommentsGovernor Deval Patrick’s Summer Town Hall Meeting Tour
Monday, August 11, 2008 — 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Village Green Bandstand, Hyannis
HYANNIS, MA - Town Manager John Klimm and Town Council President Janet Joakim are pleased to welcome Governor Deval Patrick to Continue reading governor patrick is coming to hyannis for a town hall meeting…
please make your voices heard regarding the massachusetts clean water act!
August 1, 2008 at 1:35 pm | In Nantucket Sound, barnstable, barnstable town council, cape cod, cape cod bay, centerville, clean water act, janet, janet joakim, joakim, massachusetts, muncipal government, municpal politics, swain | 4 CommentsTags: janet joakim, cape cod, janet swain joakim, wastewater management, clean water act, senator o'leary, rob o'leary, waste-water, wastewater, janet
Below is a message from Senator O’Leary regarding a piece of legislation that effects all of us as we consider the options facing us regarding Cape Cod’s waste-water management.
Please consider the news story in Continue reading please make your voices heard regarding the massachusetts clean water act!…
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