If you didn’t attend either of the public hearings held by the Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates Charter Review Committee on June 25 or July 9, you had lots of company.

Only four people came to those two hearings to offer their opinions on how county government could be improved. But those four were a very distinguished quartet.

Former state senators Henri Rauschenbach and Rob O’Leary were the principal saviors of Barnstable County back when Governor Bill Weld wanted to abolish it, and were key players in providing the county with the revenue streams that sustain it.

Paul Niedzwiecki (former executive director of the Cape Cod Commission, and now of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce) and Andrew Gottleib (former county Wastewater Collaborative head and now executive director of the A

See Full Page