From the Falmouth Enterprise · March 15, 1985
William J. Overholtz, a National Marine Fisheries Service research biologist in Woods Hole who came to Falmouth from Lima, Ohio, in 1976, had chaired Citizens for the Protection of Waquoit Bay for two years and planned to step down in May. The group, founded in 1981 to block development of Washburn Island and South Cape Beach, saw both taken by the state. Instead of disbanding, it kept watching development and speaking at planning boards and conservation commissions in Falmouth and Mashpee. It had about 400 active members, most of them in Waquoit.
After Mashpee Town Meeting approved a 50-foot buffer along the bay’s Area of Critical Environmental Concern the previous fall, CPWB put two articles on Falmouth’s April 1 warrant: a 50-foot buffer in place of the town’s 25 feet, and larger minimum lot sizes townwide. Overholtz said the group was not against development but wanted it planned. CPWB was also planning to raise money to help the Falmouth and Mashpee conservation commissions buy land. The profile ran two weeks before Town Meeting took up both articles.
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.
Drafted with AI assistance from the linked source.
