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At Your Library: Wireless and more inside and out

Harwich -

Ever drive by the library on a summer evening and wonder why there are cars in our lot after closing? If you’re driving too fast to tell, you may need to slow down a little. Then you’ll see that people are sitting outside, using their laptops and surfing the Internet using our wireless service.
Inlet revives Pleasant Bay water quality

EAST HARWICH -

The state of Pleasant Bay is better than it has been in a while, thanks to the April 2007 break at Nauset Beach, but the water’s good fortune isn’t expected to last.
Dogfish population being rebuilt

REGIONAL -

Are local fisheries going to the dogs?

Some people in the business think so. In point of fact, the spiny dogfish has been classified as overfished, and thus under federal protection since 1998, but they aren’t nearly overfished enough in some minds.
Fishing Lines: Bluefin is back but where are the stripers?

Harwich -

Recently I asserted that, over a lifetime of fishing, very few Cape Cod anglers will ever catch a striped bass weighing fifty pounds or more, and that most will never catch one even close to that size.
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