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BY MATT SCHOOLEY At Bow’s Town Meeting last year, residents voted to cut the operating budget significantly. This year, town officials will ask voters to increase the 2008-09 budget about $602,000 over last year. This year, both the Budget Committee Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY After hearing from library trustees at a recent public hearing about the operating budget, Bow Budget Committee members decided to return $15,000 to the budget for the Baker Free Library. By a 4-3 vote after the public hearing, Budget Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY In the aftermath of last year’s budget cuts when selectmen turned off 222 street lights in Bow, voters are now faced with a proposed budget that’s up about $602,000 from last year. This year’s warrant articles go to Read More...
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The third time was a charm as Bow residents rejected two school district operating budgets before approving the Budget Committee’s recommendation, which requires the School Board to make cuts. During the Friday, March 14, annual School District Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY The Bow School District lowered the increase on its latest budget, which was given to the Budget Committee in early January. The working budget as of Dec. 20 included a 5.13 percent increase over the previous year, but board members worked Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Although the Bow School Board’s proposed 2008 budget is slightly higher than last year’s, board members are still working to lower the figures to ease taxpayer burden. As of now, the number sits at $24.6 million – an Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY After concerned residents packed the Bow Board of Selectmen meeting last Thursday, board members are going to reassess their decision to shut off 60 percent of the street lights in town. Board members, who made the move to save about Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY After 222 street lights were shut off due to budget cuts in Bow, many of the town’s residents have spoken out against the decision. “I think it’s kind of stupid,” said resident Jim Kelso. “It really isn’t Read More...
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BY MATT SCHOOLEY Many Bow residents are now in the dark, as 60 percent of the town’s streetlights have been permanently turned off. Lights are shut off everywhere in town except at major intersections, saving approximately $25,000 a year for the Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR One month after voters reduced Bow’s operating budget by $472,158, selectmen trimmed spending – with road paving and police services taking the biggest hit. At the May 9 Town Meeting, residents charged selectmen with Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR For the second consecutive Bow selectmen’s meeting, newly elected board member Thomas Keane deferred reponsiblity of making roughly $500,000 in budget cuts to Town Manager Jim Pitts. When the board met Tuesday, May 29, a week Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR A week after Bow selectmen and the Budget Committee had the recommended municipal operating budget amended at Town Meeting, officials must now figure out where to make cuts to accommodate the decreased amount. “There is no Read More...
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BY RYAN O’CONNOR Bow selectmen originally set up an operating budget and warrant that, if all articles were approved at Town Meeting, may have increased taxes 33 percent. They deliberated during and following a Feb. 20 public hearing, and trimmed Read More...
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