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‘Putting Place First’ based on three points aiming for a thriving, sustainable Kilkenny

As Maria Ellis waited Monday afternoon to meet her students and help kick off a brand-new arts and activism focus at the recently saved school, Chuck Berry tunes played quietly through a speaker.

The resident lawsuit argues that selectmen should have acquired all the land, in line with a directive from a Town Meeting vote the previous fall.

The Milford Daily News “I think it’s fair,” Select Board Chairman Brian Keyes said. “I do think that ... we’ve given as much latitude in this climate and pandemic and being friendly to the business as we can.” The Hopedale Select Board on Wednesday doubled down on a January vote requiring Beyond Full, which operates from Hopedale Town Hall, to return to its regular $750 per month payment schedule to the town as of Feb. 1. The board had allowed the café to pay partial rent for sev...

Brian Keyes spent 31 years in the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Army.

Hopedale voters to consider temporary tax raise May 22 The Milford Daily News HOPEDALE – With about a week and a half until voters weigh in at Town Meeting, local officials have dramatically lowered a tax override proposal meant to keep departments running. When budgets for Fiscal Year 2022 were first compiled last month, finance officials were looking at a roughly $1.2 million gap between what department heads asked for and what the town could raise. Departments were then asked for major cut...

NC Highway Maintenance Is Behind and Won’t Catch up Any Time Soon $3.4 billion. That’s how much bad roads and congestion in North Carolina costs its drivers in higher vehicle ownership costs, according to a report commissioned by the North Carolina Department of Transportation. Fixing those roads — as well as repairing and replacing bridges, building new highways and any other large projects the NCDOT has on its schedule — takes money, and lots of it. Steve Abbott, a spokesperson for ...

“The Board will be supported tremendously if it chooses to follow the will of the Town,” Lurie’s statement said.

Kilkenny a leader in how businesses, communities and local authorities can work together - Chamber president President of Kilkenny Chamber of Commerce Colin Ahern speaking at Chamber’s 2021 AGM Reporter: sam.matthews@kilkennypeople.ie President of Kilkenny Chamber of Commerce Colin Ahern welcomed businesses to the Chamber’s recent 2021 AGM );  ); President of Kilkenny Chamber of Commerce Colin Ahern welcomed businesses to the Chamber’s recent 2021 AGM, the second such AGM to be held onl...

Hopedale fire chief pitches plan to double firefighters at no cost to taxpayers The Milford Daily News HOPEDALE — After years of minimal staffing and low budgets, Hopedale’s fire chief said this week that he has found a way to double the town’s number of firefighters at no cost to taxpayers. “The runs are coming in, the staffing isn’t,” Fire Chief Thomas Daige told selectmen this week, referring to emergency calls that need firefighters and EMTs. “You know this, I know this, we’...