A while back we published a poll asking whether or not people thought we should build the proposed bridge right next to the Sagamore bridge. The results were very close at 51% against and 49% for the bridge. (3,457 votes)

At that time we did not add our opinion due to an understanding that I am not nearly smart enough to inject my opinion either way when it comes to something this big. Well luckily we found someone much smarter than me who seems to have it all figured out.

Captain Thomas L. Bushy of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy has been pondering this question since 1997. He has written both the Cape Cod Commission and the Governor with his ideas. He has agreed to let us publish those letters here in lieu of us babbling incoherently and making silly jokes about the subject. To read the proposal from Capt. Bushy CLICK HERE

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MVTimes.com – Oak Bluffs police arrested Brian Weston, 60, of Hampden, Massachusetts, on New Year’s Eve, and charged him with firing a shotgun multiple times, in what Mr. Weston claimed was a celebration of the New Year.

Police later discovered 12 weapons, 27 spent shell casings, and more than 1,500 rounds of ammunition in a home at 29 Second Avenue, near the Oak Bluffs Library, where the shots were fired, according to a police report. Mr. Weston’s license to carry firearms was revoked.

“The New Year had just started and I heard what I believed to be fireworks,” Officer Seth Harlow wrote in his police report. “There was a succession of loud ‘bangs,’ but I never saw any flashes of light in the sky.”

Once they located the home where the shots were fired, police asked Mr. Weston for identification. According to the police report, he became belligerent and scuffled with officers as they tried to take him into custody. Police say they observed a very strong odor of alcohol on Mr. Weston’s breath.

According to the police report, Mr. Weston maintained that he was celebrating the New Year and that he never had any intention of hurting anyone. He also said he shot at a deer because it was damaging his garden.

Aw c’mon ol’ Brian Weston was just fixin’ to to tryna have a good ol’ time on Nawyers Eve! What kinda world are we livin’ in when ya ain’t allowed to randomly shoot yer gun in celebration, and then quickly blast Bambi for eatin’ yer basil while yer at it?

I’ll tell you what though, if I told you a guy got arrested for being shitfaced and shooting off his gun in celebration of the New Year with a revoked license, and you closed your eyes and pictured him in your mind, he would look EXACTLY like that photograph.

P.S. Seriously though if you take away the revoked license part did this guy do anything illegal? You can do all that other stuff in this country as long as you have a license right?

P.P.S. ‘Merica?

P.P.P.S. Fuck Yeah?

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WCAI – Good luck finding local cod in Cape Cod, Mass.

The fish once sustained New England’s fishing industry, but in recent years, regulators have imposed severe catch limits on cod and the fish remain scarce.

“I’ve never seen codfishing this bad,” says Greg Wilinsky, who’s been fishing on Cape Cod for more than 30 years. “It looks to me like it’s over. And I can’t catch any codfish.”.

At Finely JP’s, a seafood restaurant on the Cape, owner John Pontius says he has always served local cod, but the shortage caused prices to skyrocket. So for a while, he took it off the menu.

Now Pontius serves cod imported from Iceland. He is not alone.

Cape Cod restaurants serving Cod from Iceland? I’m pretty sure this is one of the signs of the apocalypse right? What’s next, are we gonna have to import Cape Cod Beer from Germany? Start getting our Cape Cod Chips from Idaho?

This is not a good look for The Cape at all. This is like if Buffalo ran out of wings or the Swiss ran out of cheese, you just can’t let that happen. So what are the alternatives? Well look at this madness…

Duffy and other fish wholesalers are trying to build a local market for dogfish. But it’s a hard sell. In America, he says, it’s just not popular.

“I know what they do with dogfish. They send it to England mostly, and the English use it as fish and chips — and I believe that’s why they put vinegar on their fish and chips,” says Romeo Solviletti. He’s the manager of Connolly’s Seafood, just down the block from the Cape Ann Seafood Exchange.

Hold up a second, are we counting Dogfish as sharks? Are they part of the 73 million killed a year? This means I might be able to keep swimming in the ocean. Anyone who has ever fished on Cape Cod knows that those things are like the rats of the sea. Sometimes you catch them on every cast and it’s annoying as hell. They may account for 72.9 million on their own.

How about those nasty ass English people though huh? I mean I’ve probably caught hundreds of Dogfish and never entertained the idea of making Fish and Chips out of their back meat. Could English food be any worse? First they just throw meat in boiling water and now they’re frying up a fish we throw back by the hundreds. No wonder their teeth are so bad, they probably fall out in an effort to get their owner to stop eating all together.

 

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NJL – A great white shark has been tracked from Cape Cod to Daytona Beach, a researcher with the nonprofit group Ocearch said Monday night.

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Capecodtoday.com – On this day in 1987, a nor’easter for the ages opened a breach in a barrier spit off Chatham, altering the coastal contours of the Outer Cape for years to come.

As the breach widened over the next two years, dredging became necessary to maintain an open channel for commercial fishermen and Coast Guard vessels.

The storm dumped up to a foot and a half of snow in some areas, packed winds of more than 50 mph and forced residents to evacuate many coastal areas.

I don’t know what it says about me but I root for storms. I don’t want anyone getting hurt or people’s property destroyed but I love shit like this. I love when mother nature reminds us of how tiny we are by altering something in one day that would take us weeks with all of our best machinery. We are arrogant enough to think that we can save the Piping Plovers from her wrath by roping off sections of beach, but she can remove entire sections of earth at the drop of a hat. Slow your roll humans, we aren’t in charge.

By far the best part of getting big snowstorms though is that it is perfectly acceptable to act like a complete alcoholic. Not only do you not feel bad drinking whiskey at 10 in the morning, you can even post about it on Facebook and nobody judges. I think it’s mother natures way of reminding us that working and going to school sucks and every once in a while we should just get drunk all day and play outside. I’d highly advise you listen to your mother and start drinking as soon as possible.

P.S. After you’ve been drinking a while come back to this post and say the second part of the title 10 times fast.

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Capecodtoday.com – Sandwich police officers broke up an underage drinking party on New Year’s Eve scattering teens just an hour before midnight. According to a release from Sandwich police, the parent of a Sandwich teen learned about the party at 9 Windsong Road in Forestdale and reported it to police.

Several young people reportedly ran from the property when officers arrived at the home. The officers entered the home and spoke with the 52-year-old homeowner, who allegedly hosted the party for his two teens and their friends.

In all, officers requested 34 criminal applications for minor in possession of alcohol. The homeowner will be charged with procuring alcohol for minors and keeper of a disorderly house.

This should do it right? This will definitely put an end to the underage drinking. God forbid anyone actually realize that you can’t stop underage drinking from happening and try to give kids a safe place to do it on New Year’s Eve right? I mean everyone knows that kids are supposed to party in the woods with giant fires and no supervision.

You can’t blame the cops here though, they have to do their job when 34 people are committing a crime, that’s a little beyond the sweep under the rug category. You know who you can blame though? The parent of the teen who learned about the party and called the police in the first place. Talk about the double whammy. Now you are known as a snitch among all the parents and your kid will never be told of any other parties for their entire High School career. You ruined a New Year’s Eve Party for fucks sake.

Listen I’m not saying let kids do whatever they want, but if you are a parent and you overhear about a party at another house? Pick up the phone and call the kids parents if you are concerned, take a ride over there and see what’s up, don’t call the police. Even the cops were probably saying how much of a prick you are for calling them. I’m sure they would rather the kids be at a house with a parent than out driving around.

This is why nobody is cool in this country anymore. There is a war on cool. Every time anyone tries to have a little fun some fucking Boy Scout is there to make a stink. What happened to the good old days when parents dealt with shit on their own and didn’t need to get the cops involved in disciplining their kids, let alone disciplining other people’s kids.

 

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