Meetings Ahead
Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online-attendance option. Go to eastham-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for details. All meetings are at Town Hall unless otherwise indicated.
Monday, Aug. 21
- Capital Projects Committee, Water, 9.a.m., Small Meeting Room
- Housing Authority, 2 p.m., Small Meeting Room
- Nauset Regional School District Budget & Finance Subcommittee, 3:30 p.m.
- Select Board, 5:30 p.m., Earle Mountain Meeting Room
Tuesday, Aug. 22
- Conservation Commission Onsite, 8:15 a.m., Town Hall
- Recycling Committee, 5 p.m.
- Conservation Commission, 6 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 23
- Open Space Committee, 3 p.m., Small Meeting Room
Conversation Starters
Police Academy X
For the 10th time, the Eastham Police Dept. is running a citizens police academy workshop. Designed for residents who want to learn about daily police work and the operations of the force, the 10-week course on Tuesday evenings is not police training. Students do not become officers at the end of it.
Applications are due to Sgt. Josh Adams at [email protected] by Aug. 21.
The academy “has historically been a highlight of the year for our officers,” Chief Adam Bohannan wrote in an email. He added that they are especially looking forward to it because the dept. has not run a class since before Covid.
This winter, the Wellfleet Police Dept. ran a course that nine town residents and one Independent reporter participated in. Truro held a five-week police academy last winter for residents. The Provincetown Police Dept. last held a citizens police academy in 2018, according to an online search.
More Beach Closures
Following an Aug. 8 downpour, several bayside beaches failed their weekly bacterial testing on Aug. 9 and were closed: Boat Meadow, Campground, Dyer Prince, Long Pond (a.k.a. Depot Pond), Cooks Brook, and South Sunken Meadow. All passed retesting the following day and were open for swimming.
Earlier this summer, Cooks Brook Beach was closed for two weeks because the geomean water quality standard was exceeded; town and county officials theorized that the situation was caused by newly exposed peat creating a fertile bacterial environment on the beach floor. South Sunken Meadow was also closed for multiple days in late July.
Eastham experienced high bacteria levels at more beach testing sites than any other town on the Cape after this recent storm, according to the county beach monitoring dashboard. Town Health Director Hillary Greenberg-Lemos said she was not concerned. “Just the rain and the land contributing bacteria into the sea,” she wrote in an email. —Amelia Roth-Dishy
