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Beach director post eyes year-round staffing

Falmouth Select Board weighs creating a year-round beach director position as seasonal staffing swells. From our own coverage: Planning Board revisits North Falmouth housing dispute; Conservation panel closes hearing on culvert fix. Also in today's brief (10 items): Historical Society p…

From Falmouth News

  • Planning Board revisits North Falmouth housing dispute. Falmouth's Planning Board is weighing a contested 10-unit North Falmouth development after an abutters' attorney cited a consultant's nitrogen findings and the applicant's traffic engineer flagged a nearby high-crash intersection slated for a 2026 state safety upgrade.Falmouth News
  • Conservation panel closes hearing on culvert fix. Falmouth's Conservation Commission closed its hearing on a joint plan with Mashpee to replace a failing Red Brook Road culvert blamed for a 2020 dam failure that drained a cranberry bog and shut shellfish beds in Hamlin Pond.Falmouth News
  • Select Board considers year-round beach director post. Falmouth's Select Board considered creating a year-round beach director position after years of thin off-season oversight of a seasonal workforce grown to 150 employees, while also weighing a Lawrence School renovation estimate and a disputed deed restriction at the police station site.Falmouth News

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