The Old Stone Dock Association served 70 beach workers including lifeguards, parking attendants, clerks, supervisors, management and guests a breakfast at 7:30 am on Monday, 07/20/26 at the Surf Drive Beach Ellen T Mitchell Bathhouse before the beach workers headed off to their daily assignments at 8:30 am. Special thanks to Jamie Schuh at Cape Cod Bagel for their generous discount on bagels and cream cheese.  Other items included corn bread, banana bread, cinnamon buns, mandarins, apples, breakfast bars, rice Krispie treats and a variety of beverages. Beach Committee members in attendance were Chair Barb Schneider, Vice Chair Joe Strazzulla as well as members Trish Herlihy and Nancy Quigg.  Margie Mitchell, daughter of Ellen T Mitchell who the bathhouse was named for was also in attendance to thank the beach workers and remind all about the Ellen T Mitchell Scholarship program.  A photographer from the Falmouth Enterprise was present and as a result there were 3 large pictures with captions in the newspaper on Friday, 07/24/26.  The Falmouth Beaches posted a nice thank you to the OSDA on their Facebook Page, along with many pictures, which was also shared to 3 other Facebook Pages (Fabulous Falmouth, Anything Falmouth and Fabulous Falmouth Events) where committee members were mentioned. Committee members who worked on shopping beforehand and prep on Sunday included Terry Saunders, Steve Saunders, Nancy Gabrielli, Bill Lee, Pat Albanese and Mary Silva Doctor. The Monday morning crew consisted of Terry Saunders, Steve Saunders, Nancy Gabrielli, Bill Lee, Pat Albanese, Al Gabrielli and Laura Puopolo.   We always enjoy speaking with everyone who work for the Falmouth Beaches.  Thanks to all who made this event a special day.  Pictures below were taken by Falmouth Beaches, Laura Puopolo and Steve Saunders. Terry Saunders, Secretary OSDA & Beach Worker Appreciation Breakfast Committee Chair                                                            

On 06/02/26 President Rich Sherman mailed the OSDA annual letter to the membership.  With it he included a joint renewal form and a remittance form for our annual meeting to be held on Sunday, 08/09/26 at 4 pm. If you haven’t already remitted either payment, please click on one of the forms below for the membership application form or the annual meeting invite for 08/09/26 with full details.  If you are unable to print the forms, please provide the information requested with your check(s). We have an exciting cocktail reception planned which will include a presentation to our tuition assistance recipients.  Applications details and instructions are on the website and are due by 06/30/26.  We’ll be offering a Cheese & Fruit Display and Passed Hors d’oeuvres including Scallops wrapped in Bacon, Coconut Shrimp, Tenderloin of Beef Crostini, Mushrooms stuffed with Spinach & Boursin and a Cash Bar.  OSDA Membership Application - New, Renew, Change - updated 06-2026 .  Please remit now. OSD Invite for 08-09-26 . We'd appreciate early remittance for planning purposes.  Remit now at $50 pp.  Late payments $60 pp. Thanks for your support.  If you have any questions, please write to Terry Saunders at info@oldstonedock.com.

Board member Steve Saunders dropped off the 16 flower boxes at Soares Flower Garden Nursery early May and he picked up the completed boxes and put them in place at the Ellen T Mitchell Bathhouse before the Memorial Day Weekend.  The OSDA presented a check for $1,093.68 to the Beach Department payable to the Beach Donation Account to cover the cost of flowers.  Since 2021 Steve has watered the flowers in May and June before the Bathhouse is staffed and again in September once the bathhouse is no longer daily staffed. If you’d like to partially or fully sponsor the flowers this year and have a plaque installed on the building in honor or in memory of a family member, please write to Terry Saunders at info@oldstonedock.com for more details.

In November 2025 Eversource was still at work at the Surf Drive Beach Parking Lot.  On 04/03/26 Lawrence-Lynch Corp was paving the parking lot.  On 04/27/26 I took a picture of the finished cross walk that was ‘reinstalled’ going from the corner of Walker Street to the right of the Ellen T Mitchell Bath House and the Surf Drive Beach Parking lot that had been paved and restriped.  Members of the OSDA Board and Committee members petitioned the DPW in 2025 with a written report followed up with an office visit to get this reinstalled and we are pleased that they reconsidered and put the cross walk back.                              

Old Stone Dock Members, Cathy Kligler, Beth Whelan and MaryEllen O’Leary distributed candy to 300 costumed children, adults and various creatures the Saturday before Halloween as part of the Falmouth Village Annual Halloween Stroll.  Fun was had by all.                  

11:30 Arrive, 12:00 Registration, 12:30 Get people to their seats, 12:40 Introduction 12:45 Lunch, 1:45 to 2:30 Program INTRODUCTIONS BY RICH SHERMAN Good afternoon.   Thank you for joining us today.  I’d like to recognize several members today and ask each to stand as their name is called. Present Officers and Board Members Our Treasurer - Bob Lehtinen assisted by Cindy Lehtinen Bob and Cindy check for mail at the P O Box, deposits all incoming checks during renewal times and when we have events. Bob pays the OSDA bills. Our Secretary -  Terry Saunders The secretary keeps meeting minutes, prepares and sends correspondence at the direction of the board of directors and the president and answers or forwards emails addressed to our info@oldstonedock.com email address. Terry also updates the OSDA web site with information about future and past events, messages from the president or board and includes pictures from events and from around the neighborhood. As membership chair she records and updates info on all members. Board Members who are here today are: Brian Callanan, Cindy Lehtinen, Anne Prior, Steve Saunders and Rich Sherman. Paul Smith is also on the board but not here today. In September Fran Ahern will be joining the board and Brian Callanan will be stepping down. Members Al and Nancy Gabrielli are not on the board but have attended most board meetings and have been active on several committees. Past Presidents and Board Members: Past Presidents Kevin Doyle and Jim Fox are here today as well as past board member Rebecca Bevilacqua. Let’s thank all of these members for their past and present service to the OSDA. (APPLAUSE) After lunch we’ll hear from Our guest speakers - Town Manager Mike Renshaw, Director of the DPW Peter McConarty, Beach Committee Chair Dr. Barbara Schneider and Planning Board Member Jim Fox. To expedite the presentations we’ve decided not to take questions.  Most speakers will be available after the event to answer your questions directly. We will be awarding $500 each to 4 students through our Tuition Assistance Program. We’ll recap our accomplishments thus far in 2025 and We’ll review what we have planned going forward Chowder and desert will be served at your table.  The buffet will consist of seafood scampi with swordfish, scallops and shrimp, grilled steak tips and chicken picatta.  Restaurant staff will call you up to the buffet by table.  So . . . enjoy your lunch and we’ll start up again when desert is served. *************************************************************************** INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKERS BY RICH SHERMAN (4 speakers at 5 min, ~25 min) Synopsis of their presentation by Terry Saunders Mike Renshaw, Town Manager Mike has been Town Manager in Falmouth for 2 ½ years. Working on capital budget. Has a $730 million dollar 10 year capital plan. Looking for ways to fund without raising taxes. Old articles from previous years may have remaining funds.  Police department building with construction in 2027.  Trotting Park Fields $24 million, $3.2 million in remediation.  May be able to use [...]

The beach cleanup day was held on Saturday, 05/31/25.  We were initially concerned about the weather and made a decision to stay with the Saturday schedule.  The rain stopped an hour before we started and the heavy winds and storm started later in the afternoon.  Since the sand was soaked, we were unable to use the blowers and had to do a lot of shoveling by hand. Twenty-one members and guests participated and included:  Pat & Tony Albanese, Laura & Stephen Day, Brian Doyle, Jim Fox, Jan Goodell, Sherri & Jonathan Horn, Ed Jackson, Bob & Cindy Lehtinen, Louise Mitchell, Anne Prior, Steve & Terry Saunders, Paul & Sandy Smith and Dean Sullivan.  Beach committee members Barb Schneider and Joe Strazzula also met with members, thanked the OSDA for their contributions to the neighborhood and helped with the cleanup.                

The flower boxes at the Ellen T Mitchell Bathhouse were installed on 05/22/25.  Board Member Steve Saunders coordinated and picked up the completed flower boxes from Soares Gardens.  Steve watered the flowers until the bathhouse opened full time on 06/26/25.  Funds were provided from the OSDA to the Beach Donation Account to cover the cost of materials and labor from Soares.

On May 1st our annual letter went out to paid up members for 06/01/24 to 05/31/25 and to a small group of lapsed members who had not renewed in the last few years.  Printing, stuffing, mailing, collecting funds, checking and recording the information is quite cumbersome so a decision was made that paid up members would be considered renewed for the 06/01/25 to 05/31/26 membership year.  Seven families that had lapsed recently renewed as well as three new memberships.  The following is the letter that was emailed to all.  We appreciate you and your support throughout the years. May 2025 Hello Neighbor and Greetings from the Old Stone Dock Association We hope that this letter finds you well. It is being sent via email (no mailing this year) to the 220 paid-up members from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2025.  We will not be collecting dues from present members this year.  You will automatically be renewed for June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2026.  We are doing this for two reasons (1) to reduce the workload of the membership committee in printing and mailing to several hundred members and then processing and checking their information against present lists which takes place over several months and (2) to spend down funds in our present treasury. The last two years we have attempted to bring new and possibly younger people to the board by reaching out to those we thought that might be interested and requesting help via a survey last year.  This led to a few additions but not enough.  We didn’t have a President in 2024 and haven’t had a Vice President (to move up) in many years.  We can’t seem to find current members who want to be on the board, an officer or to lead or be on a committee to run our activities and events.  During the coming months we will be assessing what programs we will be able to continue and which will be eliminated.  The present board, may have to make the difficult decision to spend down funds and dissolve the association at some point. The Association strives to promote a sense of community for residents in the neighborhood of Main Street to Surf Drive between Shore Street and Mill Road and all the streets and residents within those boundaries.  We perform a variety of services and social activities focused primarily on our neighborhood.  We want to thank all the members of the Old Stone Dock Association whose dues have been used to support these programs. The following is a list of the accomplishments and activities for 2024.  05/22/24 Flower Boxes - The flower boxes at the Ellen T. Mitchell bathhouse were purchased from Soares Nursery and were installed in time for the Memorial Day weekend. Funds towards the flowers were also provided by OSDA members in memory of family members. 06/08/24 Beach Cleanup - Twenty members and friends participated in the Annual Surf Drive Beach cleanup. Barb Schneider and Nancy Quigg of [...]

Eversource began work to supply back up electricity to the Vineyard in the Surf Drive area last fall and work was substantially completed this spring.  They used both the Mill Road and Surf Drive parking lots to stage their equipment.  A new water main was installed on Surf Drive since the current one was over 100 years old.  In December pictures show the dewatering system that was used.  Since they struck water only two feet down, the water was pumped into what looked like trailers in the Surf Drive parking lot and then went through a filtering system before being discharged into the ocean.  By mid-March the pipes that would later hold the electrical work were being driven into the ocean floor.  Resurfacing of Surf Drive as well as the new sidewalk between Shore and Walker was completed in a few days mid-May.  Once we realized that the crosswalk from Walker to the Beach was removed, it was at that time that calls, letter writing and attending local meetings by OSDA members and Board went into full gear.  We wrote on behalf of our 200+ member families and as individuals.  After our in person meeting with 3 DPW managers on 06/10/24 we didn’t have much hope.  On 06/12/25 we were pleased to be advised by the DPW that a new crosswalk would be put back at Walker Street in the fall that would comply with ADA (American with Disability Act) regulations.