From the Falmouth Enterprise · August 12, 1983
The Governor’s four-stop visit on August 12, 1983, included a briefing at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, a meeting with heads of local marine technology companies, and an aerial tour of Washburn Island and South Cape Beach. A celebration of the two new state properties was set for 4:30 p.m. at South Cape Beach in Mashpee, with Dukakis expected at 5:15. Environmental Affairs Secretary James S. Hoyte and Environmental Management Commissioner James Gutensohn were to join him. The event honored 15 years of work by citizen groups and town officials in Falmouth and Mashpee.
CPWB had been at the center of the Washburn Island fight since its first public stand in December 1981. The state had taken South Cape Beach in December 1982 and Washburn Island in June 1983, ending the 50-lot plan. In June the Enterprise had argued that state ownership of the two sites would ease development pressure on the Upper Cape. In 1988 Waquoit Bay became a national estuarine sanctuary, now the Waquoit Bay Reserve.
This is CPWB’s summary of a news article. The full article and its photos are published by the Falmouth Enterprise. The page is in the Falmouth Public Library’s digital archive of the Enterprise.
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