Randolph Street, Maravista Avenue Extension Close For Sewer Work This Week
Falmouth's sewer construction project adds two new street closures this week, with Randolph Street shutting down starting Wednesday and Maravista Avenue Extension following Thursday, town officials announced Tuesday evening. A Brick Kiln Road and Sandwich Road intersection closure is also set for later this month.
TOWN HALL
Randolph Street will close from Maravista Avenue to the mall's south entrance starting Wednesday, Aug. 19, and Maravista Avenue Extension closes from Route 28 to Nickerson Street starting Thursday, Aug. 20, according to the town's latest sewer construction update. A detour map for those closures is posted at falmouthma.gov, and the town said the Brick Kiln Road and Sandwich Road intersection will close Aug. 24-25, with a new detour map to be posted Aug. 19.
COMMUNITY & ARTS
The Falmouth Public Library launches Movies Under the Stars at the Main Library on Wednesday evening and debuts "The Joys of Nature" program at the North Falmouth branch, with two showtimes that same morning. East Falmouth's branch hosts a Retro Game Extravaganza the same evening, part of a full slate of programming running across all three library branches this week.
ELSEWHERE IN THE NEWS
Falmouth High School made the cut in "These Are The Best Public High Schools In MA For 2026-27: U.S. News," per Falmouth Patch, a statewide ranking built on six performance measures comparing schools across Massachusetts (read it at https://patch.com/massachusetts/falmouth).
Falmouth Patch also flagged more than a dozen local happenings in "🌱 Patch AM: Bingo for Books at the East Falmouth Library and 14 more events," its daily roundup of events on the Falmouth calendar this week (read it at https://patch.com/massachusetts/falmouth).
COMING UP
The Police Station Advisory Committee meets Thursday, Aug. 20, at Town Hall, the same day the East Falmouth Library hosts Bingo for Books at 3 p.m. The North Falmouth Library runs a Scavenger Hunt Friday, Aug. 21, at 2 p.m., and East Falmouth follows with its own Scavenger Hunt Saturday, Aug. 22, at 9 a.m., plus Mah Jongg Beginner Open Play at 11 a.m. The Brick Kiln Road and Sandwich Road intersection closes for sewer work Monday, Aug. 24, through Tuesday, Aug. 25, the same week North Falmouth hosts Games on the Library Lawn on Aug. 24 and a Stay & Make drop-in craft session on Aug. 25.
Compiled from official town feeds, community organizations, and local press. Outside reporting is attributed inline.