Media
Soil Board Renews Permit for Assonet Quarry
By Kim Ledoux
SOUTH COAST TODAY
November 02, 2009 12:00 AM
FREETOWN — Over the protests of a group of Freetown and Berkley residents, the Freetown Soil Board has voted to renew for one year a permit held by Cape Cod Aggregates to operate a quarry on Bryant Street. more...
Hundreds of Berkley Voters Shoot Down Proposed Noise Ordinance
By Kendra Leigh Sardinha, Staff Writer
TAUNTON GAZETTE
Posted Nov 09, 2009 @ 11:47 PM
Berkley — A proposed noise bylaw was completely blasted out of the water at Monday’s special town meeting held in the gym of the town’s middle school. With a turnout of 500 people, the issue — essentially aimed at the quarry — was on many of the townspeople’s minds. more...
VIDEO: New Bournedale School Delights Parents, Kids
By Paul Gately
BOURNE COURIER
Posted Jun 18, 2009 @ 09:35 AM
Bourne’s new elementary school was a long time coming. See the video of the grand opening online at wickedlocalbourne.com.
The ceremonial ribbon cutting event Sunday afternoon was likely the easiest part of the nine-year quest to plan, fund, design, re-design, construct and open the new Bournedale Elementary School and Early Childhood Learning Center off Scenic Highway. more...
Air, Water Quality Tested Near Quarry
By Jeffrey D. Wagner
HERALD NEWS
Posted Mar 27, 2009 @ 12:28 AM
FREETOWN — Cape Cod Aggregates will place seven monitoring wells in Berkley and Freetown to measure groundwater quantity and quality, and will also measure air quality near the Bryant Street quarry operation, the company and Freetown officials said this week. more...
In Support of CCA: Your View—NIMBY Action Demonizes Quarry
By Michael King
SOUTH COAST TODAY
Posted on March 14, 2009 @ 12:00AM
So the anti-quarry, anti-business NIMBY action continues to escalate in Freetown with regard to Cape Cod Aggregates, more to the point the continued distortions of fact surrounding the operation and the regulations they must meet in order to operate. more...
Blasts Pass Test in Freetown
By Bill Abramson
SOUTH COAST TODAY
March 12, 2009 12:00 AM
FREETOWN — Selectmen Jean C. Fox of Freetown and Julie Taylor of Berkley reported to the Freetown selectmen this week about test blasts at the Cape Cod Aggregates quarry site on the Freetown-Berkley line. more...
Town Officials Witness Quarry Test Blast
By Jeffrey D. Wagner
THE HERALD NEWS
Posted Mar 08, 2009 @ 10:03 PM
A long-awaited pre-blast survey conducted by Cape Cod Aggregates at a Bryant Street quarry operation went well, according to a CCA spokesperson and a town selectwoman. Delayed from December, CCA conducted a pre-blast survey at approximately 1 p.m. Friday. more...
Good Sports: PAL Center Will Get New Gym, Thanks to Lorusso Foundation
By Craig Salters
FALMOUTH BULLETIN
Tue Mar 11, 2008
Falmouth - It may be located on Brick Kiln Road in Falmouth but all Cape Cod children ages 7 to 17 are welcome to join the Police Athletic League of Cape Cod. The fee is $10.
Not per week. Not per month. Not per year. Forever. more...
2008 POPS Goes the Summer
FALMOUTH ENTERPRISE
Perhaps the biggest highlight of Labor Day weekend came on Saturday,
August 30th as the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jung Ho
Pak and featuring guest vocalist Jodi Benson, performed a spectacular free
concert for the community at the Barnstable County Fairgrounds. The show,
of course, was the Falmouth Chamber’s 7th Annual POPS Goes the Summer,
generously presented by Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank for the third
consecutive year. more...
