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• Nonunion raises on Salem budget this year

  BY DERRICK PERKINS For one member of the Budget Committee, an attempt to add a 3 percent raise for a dozen top town officials in the proposed operating budget for 2009 is all about “sour grapes.” Town Manager Jonathan Sistare has taken criticism Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 03, 2008 3:50 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, town meeting, budget committee

• Salem bridges too far gone

  BY DERRICK PERKINS Selectmen held off on making a decision to petition for a special town meeting in the fall that would allow them to move toward rebuilding two bridges on the state’s red list. During the Monday, June 23, meeting, selectmen discussed Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 3:03 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Selectmen, town meeting, bridges, voting

• Salem town deliberative session

  CHRISTINE HEISER SALEM – A $7.1 million plan for a new police station in Salem will be on the ballot after voters debated the plan’s merits at Salem’s first deliberative session. More than an hour of the two-and-a-half-hour meeting on Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:29 PM by Salem Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Salem, town meeting

• Plowing takes bite out of town budgets

  By Darrell Halen Snowfall isn’t the only thing heavy in this wintry season. So, too, has been the expense of clearing, salting and sanding roads in Salem-area communities. Big snowstorms in December took a big bite out of municipal snow removal Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 2:12 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Merrimack Valley, taxes, town meeting, snowplowing

• Lawsuit seeks to overturn flood ordinance vote

  BY MATT HERSH A Salem doctor and landowner has filed a lawsuit against the town in an attempt to overturn two zoning ordinances approved at Town Meeting in March. The ordinances, which were designed to protect Salem’s 100-year flood plain, have Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007 1:05 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, town meeting, lawsuit, zoning

• Tech head – New applications manager hired for school district

  BY MATT HERSH The school district’s push toward revitalizing their technology department recently got a boost with a new hire. Colleen Moran was hired to fill the new position of applications manager for the district. The $65,000 position was restored Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2007 2:23 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, schools, town meeting, technology

• Campbell says no to private meetings

  BY MATT HERSH After a complaint from a Budget Committee member, the Salem Board of Selectmen have been asked by the Deputy Attorney General to familiarize themselves with the Right To Know law. Stephen Campbell, a recently elected member of the town’s Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 1:10 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, town meeting

• $6 million in warrants pass

  BY MATT HERSH A foot of snow didn’t keep more than 100 Salem residents from attending the second deliberative session of Town Meeting on Saturday, March 17 and passing nearly every agenda item. Though the four-hour meeting was often marked by somewhat Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 3:23 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, town meeting

• Bridge repairs, water to North Main fail

  BY MATT HERSH After a somewhat controversial Town Meeting season, Salem voters have voted down all three of the town’s large bond articles which needed a two-thirds majority vote to pass. A $3,856,000 article, which would have funded repairs on Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 2:55 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, town meeting, bridges, repairs

• More voting ahead – Road fixes, adding firefighters to be decided at second session

  BY MATT HERSH Salem’s Election Day may be over but there are still several issues for residents to consider at the town’s second deliberative session. Planned for 9 a.m. on Saturday, March 17, at Salem High School, the session will give voters Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 2:29 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Political, fire department, town meeting