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2022 Barnstable County's HHW Collections Keeping Our Drinking Water Safe

2022 HHW Collections: A Successful Season at Keeping You Safe

The Barnstable County Hazardous Materials Program intercepted 600,970 pounds of hazardous waste from residents in 2022 BEFORE these toxic substances made their way into our aquifer, which provides the Cape’s […]

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2022 Holiday Lights Recycling Collection

2022 Holiday Lights Recycling Collection

Recycle Old Holiday Lights This Season! Collection Drive running from December to end of January. Broken lights? Burnt bulbs? Spread holiday cheer by helping the environment this year. Barnstable County’s […]

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Leave the Leaves..Save the Bees!

Fall Yard Clean-up, Necessary? A lot of people expend a lot of time and energy in raking up leaves from lawns into piles and then hauling them off. Lawns can […]

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2023 UMass Garden Calendars Have Arrived

The 2023 UMASS Garden Calendar is now available for purchase through the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension. The featured article this year is Gardens, Landscapes, Carbon & Climate Change. To help […]

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The University of Massachusetts Garden Calendars for 2023 Now Available for Purchase 

Information from Cape Cod Cooperative Extension  November 4, 2022 (Barnstable, MA)– The 2023 UMASS Garden Calendar is now available for purchase through the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension. The 2023 UMass […]

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From Excess to Access: Join Cape Cod’s Food Rescue Efforts

Grown by the community, for the community, the Everyone Eats Cultural Community Garden at Faith Assembly of God Church in Hyannis grows excess produce of cardoon, savory, eggplant, jalapenos, cucumbers, […]

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Stink Bugs: Uninvited Housemates 

I was approaching my front door recently and noticed a group of western conifer seed bugs, a relative of stinkbugs by my front door.  It reminded me that fall is […]

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Housing to Protect Cape Cod | Official Launch and Summit

Be there at the Cape Codder Resort in Hyannis when local leaders, business owners and concerned citizens analyze the Cape’s housing crisis – and the new Housing to Protect Cape Cod coalition presents its […]

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Human Rights Advisory Commission Seeks Nominations for Human Rights Awards

The theme for the 2022 Human Rights Awards Celebration is Healthcare is a Human Right October 19, 2022 (Barnstable, MA) – The Barnstable County Human Rights Advisory Commission will be […]

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