Yarmouth Select Board Approves Boathouse Liquor License, Splits on Convenience Store Application

Select Board · Meeting of May 5, 2026

Yarmouth Select Board splits 3-2 on Route 28 convenience store liquor license while unanimously approving Captain Parker's Boathouse. The board voted in favor of a wine-and-malt package store license for J-Mart Inc. at 1282 Route 28, a more than $4.5 million mixed-use development proposed by Jay Ahmad, with members Mark Forest and Joyce Flynn dissenting on grounds that the Route 28 corridor already holds 13 package store licenses and that no public need was demonstrated. Forest and Flynn were required to submit formal findings of fact to the state Alcohol Beverages Control Commission, with a pending ABCC appeal of a separate denial potentially forcing a board-wide policy review.

By contrast, the board unanimously backed a new all-alcohol license for Captain Parker's Boathouse at 658 Route 28 West Yarmouth, the latest venture by 45-year restaurateur Jerry Manning. The board also swore in two lateral-hire officers and two new sergeants, and voted unanimously to approve permits for a free June 20 Revolutionary War commemoration at Fred Thatcher Park tied to $504,000 in CPA-backed coastal resiliency funding for Packet Landing Marina.

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Source: the Select Board meeting of May 5, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.