The closest vantage point would be nearly five miles away in Mashpee, next to Barnstable.

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Last year there were 48 league-approved batmakers, with names like Barnstable Bats, Sandlot Stiks and Chesapeake Thunder.

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English settlers followed suit, incorporating the greater Town of Barnstable in 1639.

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T-Mobile's 4G network has expanded to seven additional markets: Barnstable, Mass.

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'At Barnstable House near here, there was a major fire.

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"I'm just not buying it, " says Barnstable Town Manager Thomas Lynch, who worries about public-safety costs to the town if there were a problem at the wind farm.

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For instance, home price growth in Barnstable dropped to 4.9% over the past year from an annual average of 14.4% over the prior four years, a difference of 9.5%.

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In the village of Barnstable, close to where the Pilgrim Fathers arrived from England in the Mayflower in 1620, the Beechwood Inn has a more inviting ghost story to tell.

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Federal funding is available to commonwealth and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by Hurricane Sandy in Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket, Plymouth, and Suffolk Counties.

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