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• Housing complex goes to planners

  BY JENN McDOWELL Bedford’s Planning Board will continue to hear plans to construct a mixed commercial and residential development for a 40-acre parcel of land by the intersection of Old Bedford Road and Route 101. The plans include a restaurant, Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 6:58 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, Road work, planning board

• Access road a go

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY The Bedford School District will now be able to move forward with its land purchase-and-sales agreement and begin plans to build an emergency access road to Bedford High School, as voters narrowly approved the article on Election Day. Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:57 PM by Bedford Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, Road work, Bedford High, School Board, land

• Voters fail to support road bonds

  BY STEPHEN BEALE The defeat of two bonds has imperiled the future of the town road program and opened the possibility that the intersection of Nashua Road and Route 101 will not be improved in time for a new class of high school drivers. A majority of Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:54 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, elections, Voting, Road work

• School Board defends $275K land buy

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY Taxpayers will be asked to approve School District Warrant Article 2, to purchase a 1.3-acre parcel of land for $275,000, and to fund a new emergency access to the middle/high school site. Although the 1.3-acre parcel has never been appraised, Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 7:24 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, Voting, Road work, School Board

• Bedford residents divided on two road bonds

  BY STEPHEN BEALE Supporters of two different road bonds agreed on only one thing at a hearing last Monday – nothing less than the safety of drivers is at stake in the outcome. One $12 million bond has been placed on the March ballot through a citizen Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 4:34 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, Citizen Petitions, Voting, Road work, bonds

• Nixing Route 101 from state’s transportation plan brings mixed reactions on costs, safety

  BY CHRIS QUARTARONE For years, the state had planned to expand Route 101 in Bedford, but they won’t be starting anytime soon. On Jan. 15, New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch submitted the state’s 10-year highway transportation plan to the Legislature, Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 3:38 PM by Bedford Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, Route 101, Road work, roads

• Route 101 taken off state’s 10-year plan

  BY CHRIS QUARTARONE New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch submitted the state’s 10- year highway transportation plan to the Legislature, bumping Route 101 in Bedford off the list. The plan, if passed, would cut nearly $2 billion in projects. “New Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 3:51 PM by Bedford Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, Route 101, Road work, roads

• Town Council adds $3 million for access road improvements

  BY CHRIS QUARTARONE The Bedford Town Council took on an estimated $3 million for road improvements, which coincide with the secondary access project to the high school, onto its proposed $12 million road bond. The $3 million is in addition to the $12 Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 3:39 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, Taxes, Road work, town council

• State: School Board should not propose road improvements

  BY CHRIS QUARTARONE The state Department of Revenue Administration will not support the School Board’s plan to create additional lanes and a traffic light on Route 101 at Nashua Road. The state Department of Revenue Administration reviewed the proposed Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 3:24 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, Taxes, Road work, School Board

• Bedford Town Year in review 2007

  BY CHRIS QUARTARONE Bedford’s new town manager, Russ Marcoux, officially took the helm Feb. 5. Police Chief David Bailey had been filing in as acting town manager since November 2006 when Keith Hickey left Bedford to be town manager of Merrimack. Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 26, 2007 3:46 PM by Bedford Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, Town manager, Taxes, Road work, town council, budget

• $3.2M secondary access road goes to voters in March

  BY CHRIS QUARTARONE After a $97,000 engineering study by Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc. of Bedford, a public forum, and much discussion, a final option for the secondary access road to Bedford High School and the middle school was chosen. At its Monday, Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 4:34 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, Voting, Road work

• Land buy may redirect Gault Road

  BY KEVIN SHALVEY The purchase of a house in Bedford could eventually reroute Gault Road away from the five-way intersection near McKelvie Middle School, soon to be McKelvie Intermediate School. At their Wednesday, April 11, meeting, Bedford town councilors Read More... Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:32 AM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, Road work, McKelvie

• Hardy, Jenkins road fix moves ahead

  BY KEVIN SHALVEY The federal government and the state Department of Transportation will spend $2.5 million for road improvements to Jenkins and Hardy roads at Route 101, with work expected to begin in 2008. With few comments from abutters, the New Hampshire Read More... Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:54 AM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, Road work