BY JENN McDOWELLBedford’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, a bank, a coffee shop with a drive-through, 84 assisted-living units, 160 units designated for ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYThe 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. Article 2 on the school ballot asked voters to approve the purchase of the land for $275,000 to ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEThe 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 voters disapproved of the $12 million road bond, 2,286-1,187. The bond would have continued the ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEYTaxpayers 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, it was assessed at $87,000 in 2004. Under the purchase-and-sales agreement, the ...

BY STEPHEN BEALESupporters 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 petition. It would fund the town road rehabilitation program for the next three years and ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEThe School Board issued a renewed plea to voters to approve a town bond that would pay for the reconstruction of the Nashua Road intersection with Route 101, improving access to the new high school. The $8 million town bond includes $3 million for the upgrade, with the rest intended for the annual road rehabilitation program, ...

BY CHRIS QUARTARONEFor 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, and it does not include renovations to Route 101 in Bedford. The new 10-year plan focuses ...

BY CHRIS QUARTARONENew 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 Hampshire’s highway plan had grown from a 10-year plan to a 35-year plan,” Lynch said ...

BY CHRIS QUARTARONEThe 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 million bond to pay for the reconstruction of some town roads that will go to voters on March 11. ...

BY CHRIS QUARTARONEThe 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 warrant article for the Route 101/Nashua Road part of the high school secondary access ...