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The board of directors for Pine Oaks Village celebrate the organization's 50th anniversary. COURTESY PHOTO

Pine Oaks Village Celebrates 50th Anniversary

October 28, 2025

HARWICH – The town’s largest provider of affordable housing celebrates half a century last week.“In 1975, Reverend Al Ronander, known as Parson...

Consultants, Commission Begin Revising Harwich Charter

October 22, 2025

HARWICH – The charter commission has begun working with the Collins Center for Public Management at UMASS Boston on revisions to the town’s home-rule charter. The...

Town Clerk Emily Mitchell explains the town email accounts. WILLIAM F. GALVIN PHOTO

Committee Members To Get Email Addresses To Improve Communications,...

October 22, 2025

HARWICH – Members of boards and committees will now have a town-based email address that will allow anyone to reach out and communicate with...

Monomoy Superintendent of Schools Dr. Scott Carpenter. TIM WOOD PHOTO

After Leading Monomoy Through Growing Pains, Carpenter To Retire

October 22, 2025

When Dr. Scott Carpenter became superintendent in 2013, the Monomoy Regional School District was barely a year old and Monomoy Regional High...

Appeals Board Chair Brian Sullivan (left) and member Alexander Donaghue during the board’s Oct. 15 session. WILLIAM F. GALVIN PHOTO

Open Meeting Law Complaint Filed Against Appeals Board

October 22, 2025

HARWICH – An Open Meeting Law complaint has been filed against the board of appeals over sound deficiencies during public hearings held on the Pine...

Community Preservation Act funds are being sought for restoring the exterior to West Harwich Baptist Church. FILE PHOTO

CPC Weighs Funding Requests Baptist Church, Housing Among Applications

October 22, 2025

HARWICH – The community preservation committee has received 11 applications for Community Preservation Act funding in the coming year. Among the...

November is Toast time in Harwich. FILE PHOTO

Toast Of Harwich Coming In November

October 16, 2025

HARWICH – Tickets are now on sale for the 25th annual Toast of Harwich to be held at the Wequassett Resort and Golf Club on the evening of Friday,...

Acclaimed conservationist Jane Goodall, who passed away recently at the age of 91, visited Cape Cod in 2004. She traveled to the flats of Brewster with students from the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School and spoke with HCT field naturalist and author Peter Trull. BARRY DONAHUE PHOTO

When Jane Goodall Visited Cape Cod: The Legacy Of A Conservation...

October 16, 2025

HARWICH – Legendary primatologist Jane Goodall passed away recently at the age of 91, leaving a legacy that spanned the globe and touched many Cape...

Preserving sensitive natural resources and wildlife habitat in Harwich. FILE PHOTO

Land Transfers To Protect Sensitive Natural Resources

October 15, 2025

HARWICH – The Harwich Conservation Trust and the town’s real estate and open space committee are developing a proposal to bring to the select board...

A graphic provided shows the old Snow Inn and what the proposed new structure would look like.

New Plan Filed For Snow Inn Redevelopment

October 15, 2025

HARWICH – A revised plan for the redevelopment of Snow Inn and Channel House at the Wychmere Beach Club was filed with the planning board last...

The house at 64 Smith St. will remain while six two-bedroom town houses are proposed for the rear of the property. WILLIAM F. GALVIN PHOTO

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More Multifamily Housing Proposed In W. Harwich

by William F. Galvin
HARWICH – West Harwich is becoming the hotspot for multifamily development in town.
The planning board will address a multifamily special permit and site plan review special permit application on Nov. 6 for six condominium townhouses on a lot along Smith Street and Cork Lane.
The application was submitted by Senie and Associates, a Brewster firm serving as counsel on behalf of Mento Corporation, which intends to purchase the 64 Smith St. property owned by Anne Brensley. The 133,681-square-foot parcel presently contains a single-family structure, two barns and four sheds.The property has 48,681 square feet of buildable upland.
According to the project narrative, the plan is to build a 12-bedroom multifamily development consisting of six two-bedroom townhouses in one building, one of which would be available for year-round workforce housing.
The project has been met with protest on social media.
“If this special permit is granted, it will set a precedent and could open the floodgates town-wide to detrimental projects of this kind in sensitive environmental areas. We are all in this together,’ Mary Kaye wrote on the Harwich Old Timers page on Facebook.
The multifamily development would be located on the north side of the property, which contains the buildable upland. According to the narrative, it would minimize impact on the neighborhood. The property is located in the Residential Rural Estate Zoning District and the FEMA Flood Zone AE.
The lot has 99.75 feet of frontage on Smith Street and 430 feet along Cork Lane, which would serve as the vehicle entrance to the parking area. The project calls for two parking spaces per unit, with one space inside of a garage and the second in front of the garage. There is a separate four-parking-space guest lot proposed as well.
The barns and sheds would be demolished, while the single-family house that faces Smith Street would be retained.
Other multifamily housing under development in West Harwich includes the former West Harwich Schoolhouse, a former office building being converted to house by the Davenport Companies, and 29 units on a little over two acres at the corner of Route 28 and Depot Street, including the former West Harwich Baptist Church, being developed by John Carey, who also developed the schoolhouse.

More Multifamily Housing ProposedI In West Harwich

October 15, 2025

HARWICH – West Harwich is becoming the hotspot for multifamily development in town. The planning board will address a multifamily special permit...

Noah Scott and his father, Steve Scott of Brewster, were having a hands-on moment with a Harwich Police Department all terrain vehicle.

Harwich Shows Its Appreciation For Law Enforcement

October 9, 2025

HARWICH – Police often do not get enough recognition for the services they provide, but Hinckley Homer Center and the Harwich Chamber of Commerce...

Former Select Board Member Michael MacAskill filed an Open Meeting Law complaint against the board. FILE PHOTO

MacAskill Files Open Meeting Law Complaint Against Select Board

October 8, 2025

HARWICH – Former select board member Michael MacAskill has filed an Open Meeting Law complaint with the Attorney General’s Office against the...

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Is there a West Harwich Meetinghouse coming down the road? FILE PHOTO

CPA Funds Sought For Baptist Church Preservation

October 8, 2025

HARWICH – The soon-to-be owners of the West Harwich Baptist Church, John Carey and Piper Connolly, have filed an application with the community...

The "Hope and Go" intersection of Route 39/ Chatham Road improvements are ready to go out to bid. WILLIAM F. GALVINN PHOTO

Town Readies RT.39/Chatham Rd. Intersection Upgrade

October 8, 2025

HARWICH – The town is getting ready to seek contractors for the intersection improvements at Route 39 and Chatham Road, according to Department of...

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