It is official: the Bourne Historical Society (BHS) informed the Bourne Community Preservation Committee (CPC) this week that it will be returning $250,000 in Community Preservation Act funds appropriated for the cost of moving the historic Keene House.

The BHS’s decision was announced in a letter, dated Wednesday, November 12, from chairwoman Mavis Robinson to CPC chairman Barry H. Johnson. In her letter, Robinson said that the BHS “has worked diligently to assess all possible avenues for the relocation and preservation of the Keene House,” but the cost of moving the historic structure from Sandwich Road to the Aptucxet Trading Post Museum “far exceeds the $250,000 allocation approved at Town Meeting.”

“It has become clear that the initial cost estimates provided to us at the outset of

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