Cape Wide News for Saturday February 16th, 2013

Passenger in Bourne crash passes away

BOURNE - A passenger in the Toyota Corolla that collided head-on with a Toyota pickup on Sandwich Road Friday evening has died. 81-year-old Hope Brooks of Foresdale was adminstered CPR at the scene and rushed to Tobey Hospital where she was pronounced dead. The Corolla driver, Barbara Nix, 82, of Middleboro, was flown to a Boston hospital in critical condition. The pickup driver, Zachary Jamous, 20, of Harwich, was also taken to Tobey Hospital in Wareham. The crash remains under investigation by Bourne Police.

Flaming generator self-extinguishes
DENNISPORT – A large generator powering a sump pump at the Swan River Bridge project on Upper County Road near Clancy's Restaurant in Dennisport caught fire around 2:45 p.m. Saturday. Flames were showing when Dennis firefighters arrived.

According to Dennis Assistant Fire Chief John Donlan, the cause of the fire was possibly overheating caused by a blown radiator hose. He reports that when firefighters approached the unit, a second radiator hose blew and the resulting release of water extinguished the blaze.
Story and photo by Kevin Morley/CWN

Inmates re-roof Falmouth beach committee building
FALMOUTH - Inmates on a cold dark roof

Four inmate roofers from the Barnstable County Correctional Facility in Bourne are busy here re-shingling at one end of Falmouth Beach Committee’s headquarter building on Surf Road. This was several days before the blizzard of 2013.

Meanwhile, two others take care of their end of the bargain on the opposite end of the roof. The building also got new siding, new or refurbished trim, and some light carpentry repairs. For a closer look at what inmates Niko Kersey (left) and Charle Murray (right) are up to, keep scrolling down.

Here are Kersey (right) and Murphy (left, orange hat) working the same section of roof. The seagull may not be impressed, but the Beach Committee surely was. It received about $21,500 worth of manpower if you factor in the cost of the deputized supervisor also on site. Falmouth’s DPW, which handles facility maintenance for all the town’s non-school buildings, paid for the construction materials and bought modest lunches each day for the inmates. “This work was badly needed,” observed Sheriff James Cummings, who oversees the inmate community service program. “With no money in its budget for this particular project, it was the only way it was going to get done.”

Media release and photos furnished by Barnstable Sheriff's Office

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