BRADFORD—The 2024-2025 $20,936,038 budget passed by a 110 to 58 vote at the Oxbow Unified Union School District Annual Meeting on Monday night.
TOPSHAM—Approximately 90 Corinth and Topsham residents gathered in the Waits River School gymnasium on May 6 for their 54th annual meeting. The hot topic? An $8 million school budget for 2024-2025 with approximately $7.5 million to be raised by taxes. The budget eventually passed in a 64-30 paper ballot vote.
GROTON—There will likely be a special vote in the coming weeks on whether Groton wants to permit retail marijuana sales in town.
WOODSVILLE—The Haverhill Selectboard voted on Monday night to appoint Ron Hurlburt to fill a seat vacated by Phil Blanchard last month. Hurlburt will serve until at least town meeting in 2025 when an election will be held to fill the final year of the term.
BRADFORD—The owner of a popular Main Street restaurant defended its employment practices after the U.S. Department of Labor announced more than $300,000 in fines and damages against the business last week.
BRADFORD—The Bradford Selectboard voted on April 25 to cancel the May 18 special town meeting on the Creamery Road sidewalk study. Board members cancelled the town meeting on the recommendation of legal counsel. The May 18 special town meeting was warned at an attempted emergency selectboard meeting on April 17.
FAIRLEE—Upper Valley Ambulance has a new executive director. Zachary Bryan was appointed by the board of directors in February to succeed Alan Beebe at the helm of the nonprofit rescue company serving a nine-town membership.
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FAIRLEE—Here we go again. On Wednesday, April 24, both southbound lanes of I-91 between exits 16 in Bradford and 15 in Fairlee will be closed. Unlike the 14-day closure that followed the Feb. 24 rockfall onto I-91 in Fairlee, this closure will last months, sending southbound interstate traffic onto Route 5 through Bradford and Fairlee. Unlike the last closure, there should be no rolling roadblocks on Route 5.
ORFORD—Voters in the Rivendell Interstate School District will revisit the district’s proposed 2024-2025 budget in a vote planned for Saturday, June 1 at 10 a.m.
BRADFORD—Bradford has set a special town meeting for Saturday, May 18 to discuss and vote on whether to move forward with a scoping study of a possible walking path on Creamery Road.