Rachael Carson, author of Silent Spring, and the founder of the environmental movement in the United States, would turn over in her grave if was aware of the level of pollutants in Upper Gates Pond at the Barnstable Municipal Airport.

THANKS BHS Science Teacher Kim Amaral accepts a check from Barnstable Education Foundation Founder Karen McDonald for $644.94, with Jessica Fone, BEF vice president, and Norm Weill, BEF treasurer looking on.

STILL A TEAM The former manager of Claire Murray's Osterville store, Bobbi Cox , is working at the Dennis shop on Route 6A while Murray looks for a new location in the village.

BOWEN, William Jr., 46, 454 Winslow Gray Road, Yarmouth; assault and battery, Sept.

At 10:30 am today there was a report of a car with heavy smoke coming out of it, at West Main Street Hyannis and Strawberry Hill road.

Reunited, and it feels so good: Cape Cod Commission executive director and former Barnstable assistant town manager Paul Niedzwiecki will make a joint appearance with Town Manager John Klimm today at noon at the Cape Cod Mall to kick off the Hyannis Salvation Army Corps Bell Ringer season.

DAUNTED Left to right: Princess Winnifred has second thoughts about marrying Prince Dauntless as the Jester , Mini Jester , and King Sextimus the Silent look concerned in Barnstable Comedy Club's Once Upon a Mattress .

Betty Gladstein showed up at the Chabad Jewish Center yesterday, looking to clean up some chalk her young daughter had left on the carpet Tuesday.

The ceremony is Nov. 12 at 6 p.m. at the Coonamessett Inn in Falmouth, but the winners of fall grant awards from the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod are already celebrating.

Veterans are invited to wear their uniforms when they attend a special service of recognition and prayer Wednesday, Nov.

CURTIS, Charles C., 22, 162 Main St., Mashpee; possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, Jan.

A simple read through of the connections Mr. Hester has with the Cape and Islands District Attorney's office at the bottom should explain to anyone why the trooper has avoided the fate any other citizen would have met and was not prosecuted.

Resale of used merchandise gives it a new lease on life which is what the Barnstable Licensing Authority granted Marat Hunanyan this week.

Falmouth Academy will host award-winning broadcaster and author Lynn Sherr and friends on Thursday.

County commissioners have extended until Friday the comment period on a reorganization plan for the Cape Cod Water Protection Collaborative.