Thursday, October 18, 2012
Voters at Tuesday night's special town meeting authorized selectmen to do so.
A group of young emergency incident responders will continue leasing town land behind Westborough's Forbes Municipal Building for $1 per year. Voters at Tuesday night's special town meeting authorized selectmen to extend Post 85 Emergency Service Squad Inc.'s lease for three years with two one-year extensions. Explorer Post 85 has leased the land since 1981, according to a post brochure. The group started in 1968. The post teaches its members cooperation, accountability, self confidence and self reliance while introducing them to career options, Dana Haagensen told voters. Haagensen helps run the group. "Many of our town employees have gone through this program," he said. The group responds "with the fire department to major emergencies in…
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Forbes Municipal Building
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Voters at Tuesday night's special town meeting authorize selectmen to ask Legislature for the licenses, for the Bangkok Thai Restaurant and for Bay State Commons.
Westborough selectmen will petition the state Legislature for two additional all-alcoholic beverages licenses: for the new Bangkok Thai Restaurant and for Bay State Commons. Voters at Tuesday night's special town meeting approved two requests by petition, each one authorizing selectmen to request one of the licenses. The Bangkok Thai Restaurant held a grand opening at 57 East Main St. last Dec. 8. The Mandarin Restaurant formerly occupied that site. Voters passed over a second warrant article, also a petition, seeking to accomplish the same goal for the Bangkok Thai. The second article was not formatted properly for town meeting, Town Manager Jim Malloy noted in his statement in the warrant. Westborough Patch blogger Gary Kelley did a …
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Bangkok Thai Restaurant
57 E Main St, Westborough, MA
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Voters discussed it for more than an hour Tuesday night.
Westborough voters Tuesday night adopted a zoning bylaw regulating large-scale, ground-mounted, solar photovoltaic installations in the town’s industrial and municipal districts while prohibiting them from residential and commercial property. The two-thirds majority approval for the planning board’s proposal followed more than one hour of discussion, including West Main Street resident Brian Wilkinson’s slide presentation and related amendment. Wilkinson said the proposed bylaw “would prevent Westborough families from using solar power to heat their homes.” Tuesday night’s vote in the Westborough High School auditorium on the special town meeting’s second night. Town meeting dissolved around 9:25 p.m., after voters approved the last of the…
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Westborough High School
90 W Main St, Westborough, MA
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
The Legislature will fund this federal mandate.
About 37 homeless students from other communities are residing in Westborough hotels, school committee Chairman Ilyse Levine-Kanji said Monday night. The town has spent $120,000 busing 31 of those students back to their home districts at their families’ request, per a federal mandate, Levine-Kanji Kanji told voters at the special town meeting. The students came from “as far west as Springfield,” School Superintendent Marianne O’Connor said. The other six students attend Westborough schools, Levine-Kanji said. Federal officials did not fund its mandate to communities to bus students whom they placed in hotels in their towns, Leving-Kanji said. The Legislature has since funded it, Town Manager Jim Malloy said in his statement in the town …
Voters appropriated funding at Monday night's special town meeting.
Westborough is getting a new fire station, although some residents question the project's size. Voters at Monday night's special town meeting appropriated $11,208,000 to design and construct the facility next to the current Milk Street facility, which will be demolished. The measure passed, 233 to 96. A two-thirds majority was required for approval because the request involved borrowing, Town Moderator Joe Harrington said. The Westborough Municipal Building Committee proposed borrowing $10,008,000, and appropriating $1,200,000 from free cash. The funding mechanism changed since the spring, when voters rejected the $11,208,000 debt exclusion request at the May 15 special town election, 912-672. That outcome nullifed a March 17 special town …
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Town of Westborough Fire Department
42 Milk St, Westborough, MA
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Letters of sympathy to be sent to both families.
Residents Joseph Nason and Elizabeth Marriott were in the thoughts of those gathered at Monday night's Westborough special town meeting. Voters observed a moment of silence and then unanimously directed Town Clerk Nancy Yendriga to send letters of sympathy to the families. Town Moderator Joe Harrington had asked those present in the Westborough High School auditorium to "reflect with me on two losses which we have sustained as a community in recent days." Nason, who served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, died Oct. 12 at age 93, Harrington noted. Nason served Westborough in several capacities, including library trustee, Harrington said. "Three-quarters of a century separate the birthdays of Joe and Elizabeth Marriott," Harrington said…
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Westborough High School
90 W Main St, Westborough, MA
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Monday, October 15, 2012
The special town meeting is at 7 p.m. at Westborough High School.
The fate of a proposed $11.2 million Westborough fire station will be decided tonight. The special town meeting starts at 7 p.m. at Westborough High School. The warrant includes 29 articles. The fire station proposal seeks to appropriate $11,208,000 for a new fire station to be built next to the current headquarters, which would be demolished. The town would appropriate $10,008,000 and borrow $1,200,000, according to the advisory finance committee's report. The funding mechanism has changed since the spring, when voters rejected the $11,208,000 debt exclusion request at the May 15 special town election, 912-672. That outcome nullifed a March 17 special town meeting vote supporting the project. After the May vote, Selectman and Municipal …
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Town of Westborough Fire Department
42 Milk St, Westborough, MA
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Westborough Patch highlights some of today's happenings in town.
Each morning, Westborough Patch presents “5 Things You Need to Know,” a collection of announcements, events, reminders and odd little ditties to help you organize your day. What will you be doing today? 1. Westborough's special town meeting is at 7 p.m. at Westborough High School. Learn more about the warrant articles on Westborough Patch's topic page. 2. Support Westborough High School athletics: 3. The Westborough Public Library holds P.A.W.S. for Reading, at 5:15 p.m. and 6 p.m. 4. The Boroughs JCC's Spiritual Film Series presents "Happy" at 7 p.m. Admission is free. 5. And there's a Cub Scout meeting at 4 p.m. at St. Luke the Evangelist Parish.
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Town of Westborough Fire Department
42 Milk St, Westborough, MA
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Friday, October 12, 2012
Westborough had 39 deer killed by cars between Aug. 1, 2011 and July 26, police chief says.
Archers would thin out Westborough's deer population -- and potential for accidents -- if voters support a proposal at Monday night's special town meeting, Police Chief Alan Gordon says. Gordon says 39 deer were kiiled by vehicles in Westborough between Aug. 1, 2011 and July 26. By comparison, 23 deer were killed between August 2009 and August 2010. Gordon said Wednesday his proposed bylaw change would allow archery hunting for deer only; from 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes after sunset, per state regulations; on public property, within open fields, access roads, trails, safety zones and within 500 feet of a building; and only with temporary tree stand, so the archer will “have a good view of what they’re shooting at, and there …
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
The assertion is in the committee's report to next Monday night's special town meeting.
The Westborough Advisory Finance Committee is telling residents it will look more closely this spring at how Westborough's total spending will affect their tax bill. The committee asserted this in its report to next Monday night's special town meeting. "We understand that this means desirable and worthy spending requests will face increased scrutiny. Our intention is to make recommendations that present a prudent balance between affordability and the types and levels of services the Town provides," according to the report, posted Sunday on Westborough's website. The committee noted that at the fall 2011 special town meeting, it told voters that "the average single family tax bill in 2011 was 2.2 times what it was in 1997, an increase of …
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Westborough Town Hall
34 W Main St, Westborough, MA
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Michael Gelbwasser
9:56 am on Thursday, October 18, 2012
Hi Chris, I became aware of this this morning, and I've left a message for the restaurant owners' attorney. I'll have a story as soon as I hear something. more ›