BY JENN McDOWELLAbout 45 Bedford residents showed up at a meeting aimed at gauging public sentiment on putting up money for road improvements to the intersection of Route 101 and Nashua Road. Voters already overturned a request to use $3 million in town money for improvements in March. On Tuesday, June 24, town officials hosted a public forum so ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEThe Town Council is hoping to close the door on 2007 – a year marked by division and discord – and move on to the challenges it faces this year. The town road program, rising taxes and the intersection of Route 101 and Nashua Road are among the top policy priorities the council has for 2008, according to Mike Izbicki, ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEThe Town Council has decided the town will work on rebuilding Hardy Road this year since more traffic is expected after the reconstruction of its intersection with Route 101 and Jenkins Road. For the past few years, the town has been rehabilitating its roads at a pace of $4 million a year, spending an additional $1 million on ...

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 QUARTARONEBedford’s new town manager, Russ Marcoux, officially took the helm Feb. 5. Police Chief David Bailey had been filing in as acting town manager since November 2006 when Keith Hickey left Bedford to be town manager of Merrimack. In 2007, Bedford residents saw a town council seat controversy, a new health ordinance, ...

BY IRENE LABOMBARDE If things go according to plan, by the end of 2007 Bedford residents will be able to pay water, sewer and real estate bills online, and a secondary access road for the Bedford High School campus will be under way. These are just two of the goals approved by the Town Council at its June 27 meeting.  The goals were ...