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• Wetlands subcommittee gives up

  BY STEPHEN BEALE A subcommittee charged with coming up with a plan to protect town wetlands told the town there is little it can do to achieve its mission, two years after it was formed. Town councilors reluctantly granted the subcommittee’s request Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 4:37 PM by Bedford Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Bedford, wetlands, town council

• Conservation chairman cleared of wrongdoing after asking for gift

  BY STEPHEN BEALE The town attorney has cleared Conservation Commission Chairman Mervyn Taub of any wrongdoing when he suggested that the Hannaford Brothers Co. give money to the town to make up for encroaching on wetlands. At a June 24 meeting on a variance Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008 4:12 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hannaford, Conservation, wetlands

• Common awaits approval

  BY CHRIS QUARTARONE If approval of the wetlands application comes from the Department of Environmental Services, construction on the Bedford Village Common could begin as early as next year. “The application was submitted around Nov. 1 and it takes Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 8:35 AM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, wetlands, Town Common, Bedfordord

• Wetland abutters to be protected

  BY KEVIN SHALVEY Residents who own property that abuts town wetlands will be exempt from future buffers and wetland regulations. Voters passed citizen-petitioned zoning Amendment 7 with a 1,836-1,220 vote. “I’m very pleased that it passed. Read More... Posted Thursday, March 15, 2007 11:25 AM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, wetlands, Citizen Petitions, Voting

• Wetlands get further study

  BY KEVIN SHALVEY When Mark Dell’Orfano bought his house on Fairlane Drive in fall 2005, he didn’t know it abutted a wetland the town was studying with the intent to increase regulations. “While there was a piece of wet property behind Read More... Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:39 AM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, Conservation, wetlands

• Committee to study wetlands

  BY KEVIN SHALVEY The town council is revisiting the need for wetlands ordinances, but this time it is forming a Bedford Conservation Commission subcommittee to further study the issue. At its Dec. 21 meeting, the council approved the subcommittee, which Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 5:40 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, wetlands