Selectman Peter News Today

ESSEX — Town officials are planning to issue a request for proposals (RFPs) for running the town’s summer program at Centennial Grove.

A Bourne town employee who was at the center of a recent investigation by Bourne police into allegations of a secretly taped meeting and violations of privacy rights has been

The Bourne Cable Advisory Committee has a new member and will appoint another in the near future. A minor procedural issue prevented both from being named to the committee at

Swampscott selectmen question safety of Glover House property Call for inspection comes after the Jan. 26 basement fire Sign up  for the Swampscott Reporter’s newsletter. The Swampscott Board of Selectmen has asked local public safety officials to determine whether or not the town should condemn potentially unsafe structures on the old General Glover House site after a small fire broke out on the town-deemed blighted property. Selectmen’s informal charge follows more than a year’s worth...

The Town of Bourne and the Massachusetts Maritime Academy have reached agreement on a draft document to share resources. The memorandum of understanding, or MOU, between the two entities includes residential use of academy parking lot space and town use of office space in one of the academy’s Main Street buildings. The agreement also includes assurance from the academy that it will not resort to eminent domain to obtain additional property for its campus. The MOU was discussed during the B...

Elm Place proposal gets thumbs down from Swampscott selectmen 128-unit residential building too large for site Sign up for the Swampscott Reporter’s newsletter. The Swampscott Board of Selectmen has chosen not to support WinnCompanies’ 128-unit housing development proposed for the town, voting to express its opposition to the residential project’s current iteration in a so-called site-eligibility letter to the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development. The selectmen�...

Tremont Nail Factory. Photo by: Jaime Rebhan Aspen Blue Cultures is now one step closer to securing a host community agreement and lease to use the steel building on the Tremont Nail Factory property to manufacture and package a variety of cannabis products. The Board of Selectmen voted Feb. 2 to authorize the negotiation of both a host community agreement and a lease for the Tremont Nail Factory building at 8 Elm Street in Wareham. This is not the first time a cannabis manufacturing company ha...

Frustrated with what appears to be a refusal from the federal government to include money for municipalities in the upcoming coronavirus relief package, the Wareham Board of Selectmen voted unanimously to send a letter to Massachusetts’ members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. “As Congress wrangles over this stimulus bill, there seems to be quite a bit of fighting over whether there should be aid to states and municipalities included with it,” said Selectman Peter Teitelba...