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Montague Town Meeting voters pass $10.8M budget, fully fund Police Dept. After a failed amendment to level fund the Police Department’s budget, Montague voters approved a town operating budget of $10.8 million at Annual Town Meeting on Saturday outside Franklin County Technical School. STAFF PHOTO/ MARY BYRNE Related stories MONTAGUE — After a failed amendment to level fund the Police Department’s budget, voters approved a town operating budget of $10.8 million at Annual Town Meeting on Saturday. The meeting, which lasted five hours at Franklin County Technical School, passed all 29 ar...

MONTAGUE — A proposed fiscal year 2022 budget of $27.1 million and several articles related to ongoing town projects, such as reuse of the former Public Works building and reconstruction of the Fifth Street pedestrian bridge, will be considered at...

Earth Matters: Green burial in a conservation cemetery A natural headstone in Cedar Brook Burial Ground in Limington, Maine, a conservation cemetery that provides a sustainable alternative to conventional burial. JEFF MASTEN/LANDMATTERS By JUDITH LOREI and KARI BLOOD For the Gazette Print Imagine your favorite walking path through a quiet forest or a scenic meadow, the songbirds flitting among tall grasses, at rest in the morning dew. Your natural pathway winds past native wildflowers buzzing with pollinators, and rocky ridges reminding you of the passage of geologic time. This landscape i...