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The vote on June 8 in Rockport, Camden, and Thomaston can move Midcoast Internet forward as a nonprofit regional municipal utility and create its legal entity, the Midcoast Internet Development Corporation. Support remains far-reaching, with many...

Camden and Rockport Voters Can Bring Cheaper, Faster, and Better Internet to All Residents Bob Falciani and Debra Hall Fri, 05/21/2021 - 10:30am The voters in Camden and Rockport can take the first step in creating a community-owned municipal utility for affordable, high-speed internet connectivity.  Midcoast Internet will bring to our communities cheaper, faster, and better broadband services. The fiber optic network will be community owned. And the project will not raise taxes. Art...

Camden and Rockport voters can bring cheaper, faster and better internet to all residents By Debra Hall and Robert Falciani | May 20, 2021 The voters in Camden and Rockport can take the first step in creating a community-owned municipal utility for affordable, high-speed internet connectivity. Midcoast Internet will bring to our communities cheaper, faster, and better broadband services. The fiber optic network will be community owned. And the project will not raise taxes. Article 6 in Camden ...

Holt will remain an employee of Jay and will report to the town manager of Livermore Falls. He will spend 10% of his time on the Jay collection system, 10% on the Livermore Falls collection system and 80% overseeing the wastewater treatment plant. Each town would be responsible to pay its 10% share. The 80% would be paid based on the sewage flow formula. This year’s flow rate is Jay, 58.2% and Livermore Falls, 41.8%. The percentage of the flow formula is expected to rise on Jay’s side becau...

A stretch of the Housatonic River winds through Lenox. Legal filings are stacking up at the Environmental Appeals Board in Washington, D.C., as fights continue over the nature of the long-awaited Rest of River cleanup project. Photos by STEPHANIE ZOLLSHAN — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE LEE — “Ipse dixit.” That’s the Latin phrase lawyers for a group of elected officials use to rebut claims that Berkshires residents “overwhelmingly” op...

LETTER TO THE MARBLEHEAD EDITOR: Vote Yes on Article 42 Wicked Local The Marblehead Board of Selectman has a very unique service format – a one-year term.  No other Select Board or School Committee we know of has a 1-year term.  In fact, even multi-generation Marbleheaders often seem surprised by this fact.  The inevitable question is, “Why, that sounds crazy?  Why not the usual 3-year staggered term?” No one really knows why, but the reasons generally given are tradition and the abil...

ROCKPORT — After months of closed door meetings, consultations with attorneys and finally, mediation with Duward Parkinson, the towns of Camden and Rockport, along with School Administrative District 28, have come to an agreement over the $1.5 million district assessment error that over-taxed Rockport and under-taxed Camden for more than a decade of public education costs. In short, and with details still pending, the agreement as outlined Tuesday night, March 9, arranges for $750,000 to be ...

ROCKPORT — After months of closed door meetings, consultations with attorneys and finally, mediation with Duward Parkinson, the towns of Camden and Rockport, along with School Administrative District 28, have come to an agreement over the $1.5 million district assessment error that over-taxed Rockport and under-taxed Camden for more than a decade of public education costs. In short, and with details still pending, the agreement as outlined Tuesday night, March 9, arranges for $750,000 to be ...

Yarmouth Health Director Bruce Murphy called Wednesday’s news from the Baker-Polito administration “very disappointing.” There’s not enough vaccine on the Cape for individuals age 75 and up, who have been eligible since Feb. 1 to be immunized against COVID-19, he said. “It’s akin to having people waiting in line to see The Who, and five busloads of people show up to jump the line,” said state Rep. Timothy Whelan, R-Brewster. Whelan was one of more than 90 elected and appointed Cap...

Published: 12/28/2020 4:59:47 PM Several local favorite hiking and swimming spots remain closed this winter, after towns shut them down as visitors – often from out of state – flooded in when quarantine hit, cluttering town roadways, leaving behind trash, and causing overcrowding. State parks remain open, including popular hiking spots including Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey and Pack Monadnock in Peterborough. However, precautions to prevent overcrowding remain in place even now, in the off-se...