You’ve bought the farm

The long and winding (Clamshell) road has finally led to a closing. Just received this e-mail from Don Lowe, via Friends of Rauscher Farm leader Gloria Parkinson:
The closing has occurred and the deed has been recorded. I met [town attorney] Bob Gibbons in Worcester at noon and he gave me a copy of the [...]

Quorum questions

Less than two-thirds of the warrant articles facing Clinton were voted Monday night, because the town failed to meet its quorum requirement — 250 voters — before 10 p.m.
I did a Google search on massachusetts town meeting quorum and came up with the following quorum numbers for (open) Annual Town Meetings. The population figures are [...]

Tonight only: Your vote counts!

The most important show of the year hits Fallon Auditorium tonight: Clinton’s Annual Town Meeting, at 7 p.m.
Leading the list of topics to be discussed are tax and zoning incentives for redevelopment of mills, a proposal for a stronger town administrator and citizens’ petitions to curtail selectmen’s and the fire chief’s powers. There’s also the [...]

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Clinton’s Internauts are buzzing today over last night’s 4-1 vote to adjourn the selectmen’s meeting without public comment from the audience. For what it’s worth, this was a first for me. I can conservatively estimate that in five years in this business, as reporter and as editor, I’ve covered upwards of 350 board meetings in [...]

WRTA logo needs invisible ink

Drove past the Worcester Regional Transit Authority’s headquarters building on Grove Street in Worcester Wednesday and caught a glimpse of the bus company’s new logo — that’s right, sports fans, the second redesign of the company’s look in less than 10 years.
You can see the current and new designs on the company’s annual reports page. [...]