With July comes summer and sunshine. For residents of Sandwich, it comes with something else: bear hounding training season. Closed for only a short period from March to late June, hounders unleash packs of powerful, radio-collared hounds on a lone bear, coyote, raccoon, and other wildlife. Dog owners are often miles away looking at a GPS screen with no indication of what their dogs are actually doing.

If you live, work or travel through Sandwich, make your opinion on bear hound training known!