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Prohibitions on smoking in restaurants are already in effect in the nearby towns of Arlington, Belmont, Lexington and Medford, as well as on all of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket and in several towns on Cape Cod...
...squinting into the sun, haloed by a swath of sail, or sand dunes tumbling toward the water, girdled by a snow fence or bearded men in sou’westers clutching lobsters that are the over-enthusiastic red of Chinese takeout spareribs. Here on the biceps of Cape Cod, where much of the year-round population of 48,000 devotes itself to fleecing summer visitors, there is money to be made in the picturesque...
...value every man and woman. I want to help people out,” the Cape Cod Times quoted councilor Brown as saying. “But at some point, there are priorities. Our children are our priority. We have a business community and a tourist industry, and both are being hurt by these camps...
Razing the camps did nothing, of course, to solve the underlying problem of homelessness on Cape Cod. Some of those living in the camps were alcoholics; since no Cape Cod homeless shelter allows alcohol— a so-called “wet” shelter in Hyannis has met with stiff opposition—these people have few housing options. Some of those who had been living in the camps were released from mental institutions in the de-institutionalization movement of the 1970s, and struggle with their mental health. Although local charities such as the Salvation Army provided emergency...
...recent editorial, the Cape Cod Times—the Cape’s only daily paper—argues for the removal of the Hyannis homeless shelter from its current location. “If plans proceed to move the Cape’s only overnight shelter and related medical services from their downtown locations to a site further out of town—or even to another town—the prospect of some of the homeless panhandling on Main Street, sleeping on the village green and urinating on the sidewalks, may become less convenient...