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Continued from previous page As he has on past issues, Selectman Matt Steele spoke make the surcharge proposal.
} out strongest in favor of the golf commission's position. "The need is there, I feel the willingness of the golf
ority politically, but we felt the tractor was their number . Saying there is "a drastic need to renovate this facility., -commission to come forward and pay for it is commend=
one priority practically," said Fruean. Steele praised the commission for having the courage to able, said Steele.
All POi-*nts maverick makes Yarmouthher -main point
By Bob Snell ILE
IM 'yxnt
Yarmouth this holiday season `than tusiness person in "'
There isperhaps
no.more grateful business
b company
owner Noel Bassett of Hyannis: -
Bassett realizes second chances aren't autdmatic in
life, butj she got one from Yarmouth Selectmen Decem-
ber 19, and she is promising everyone to make the most x
of it.
That evening, selectmen unanimously granted Bas- z
setts company, All Points Taxi Inc., a permit to operatez
a taxi business in the town. All Points is the first taxi
company to locate in :Yarmouth in many years, and the _
first to get a license under the town's new taxi rules and
regulations, which were drafted a little over one year ago.
Selectmen granted the permit, realizing all along that
Bassett's move to Yarmouth was not all of her choosing.
In fact, she had almost no choice but to relocate to Yar-
mouth after her permit to operate a cab business in Barn-
stable was revoked by selectmen in that town last sum-
mer.
Both Bassett and Barnstable officials characterize the
permit revocation as the last move in an ongoing dispute
that pitted a self-proclaimed "free business spirit" against
regulators who felt Bassett bent the town's taxi rules
once too often. ' . j -
So having fled "repression" and "discrimination" Bas-
sett feels . she encountered in. Barnstable, she has taken
refuge over the Hyannis border. From her All Points
headquarters at the corner of West Yarmouth Road and
Route 28, Bassett 'is eager for a new beginning in a
friendly and forgiving town.
"I want things in Yarmouth to be the way I always
wanted them to be in Barnstable. I'll do right by Yar-
mouth, you can count on that," said Bassett. .
Serving the elderly
Noel Bassett admits' she is something of a cbntradic-
tion =- a feeling that is echoed by many.who know this
hard driving mother of two.
On the one hand, she is an aggressive, competitive
businesswoman who is dedicated to building one of the