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DALTON, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday voted to support the Fair Share Amendment, which would impose an additional tax of 4 percent on an individual's earnings exceeding $1 million...

DALTON, Mass. — The Select Board is in support of raising town salaries to be more desirable for recruitment and for retaining existing employees.   On Monday, the board voted...

Not for permission, though. Believing that most Dalton residents question the need for a roundabout at Main and South streets, town leaders decided Monday to convene a listening session in September wholly apart from steps taken by the state Department of Transportation. The goal: Find any means possible to tell the DOT what Dalton thinks of the plan. “Folks in town just don’t want it,” said Joe Diver, chair of the Select Board. Diver used a public records request to obtain detai...

  Police Chief Deanna Strout outlined the issues underlying the departments insufficient radio reception, which leaves officers out of contact in numerous locations throughout town.   "Even when I was a sergeant on patrol, our radio service was atrocious, to say the least," Strout told the Select Board this week, describing several areas of town where reception is absent.   "If the officers are on a call and something goes terribly wrong, they have no radio communication," said Strout....

DALTON, Mass. — Select Board members continue to weigh whether or not to continue its Green Committee, a volunteer body that has recently provoked frustration from multiple town employees. At its Monday session, Chair Robert Bishop updated the board on an investigation he has been conducting this month into complaints brought to light in January. These complaints includes a petition requesting the committee be curtailed that was brought forward by Town Planner Rebecca Slick and signed by se...