BY MATT SCHOOLEY The town will now be operating with a reduced budget, after selectmen decided what items to cut, as mandated by voters at the May Town Meeting. The most noticeable cut in service will come at the transfer station, which was closed as of Saturday, June 28, saving the town about $96,000. One cut that did not pass was a ...

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 a possible special vote, which would allow the board to contract with an engineering ...

BY MATT SCHOOLEY Bow selectmen will begin trimming about $400,000 from the budget, combing through each of the town’s departments looking for cuts for a second straight year. Board members will begin the process during a Thursday, June 12, meeting after residents voted at Town Meeting in May to trim the Budget Committee and Board ...

BY JENN McDOWELL A new plan for dealing with the town’s most central traffic problem at the Depot intersection may come through cooperation of businesses and abutters affected most by the regular traffic backup. By working with abutters, community development director Bill Scott told selectmen that progress may come as ...

BY STEPHEN BEALE The town has hired a firm to design a new fire station, recommend where it would be best to build it and help officials educate voters about the project, if they choose to follow through with it. That decision on the design was made by the Board of Selectmen at its weekly meeting Monday, May 12. The board also approved ...

BY JIM DEVINE Selectmen are considering a pay-as-you-throw program for the town’s transfer station following a recent presentation from the Department of Environmental Services. David Degler, a solid waste program coordinator for DES, presented the proposal on Tuesday, May 6, as a way to curb transfer station costs on the ...

BY JIM DEVINE NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. – Although some Salem residents criticized the time and place, the selectmen’s goal-setting retreat set restoring Salem as the “Gateway City of New Hampshire” as a symbolic centerpiece among ongoing issues of infrastructure and the economy. The meeting on Friday, May 9, prompted ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEWhat began as a meeting on a proposal to lower speed limits to 30 mph or less ended with a suggestion to increase them to 40 mph on some town roads. On Monday, May 5, the Board of Selectmen swiftly defeated a proposal for establishing a townwide speed limit of 30 mph, unless otherwise posted. At that meeting, selectmen also voted ...

BY TOBY HENRYCandia town officials said they plan to join a Raymond lawsuit against a gravel pit approved for an area of Route 27. Last month, Raymond Planning Board officials approved a two-year extension on a gravel pit project for the Londonderry based Thibeault Corporation, which owns a 315-acre quarry on Route 27. An abutter’s group ...

BY JENN McDOWELLEpsom selectmen have made it a goal this year to chip away at hundreds of files of sealed minutes, to vote on whether to make them public or keep them sealed, said Selectman Joanne Randall. “You’re going to see, this year, a lot of minutes getting unsealed,” Randall said. “There’s just too much ...