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For municipal election, Swampscott polls open Tuesday Officials relocate town's six precincts to high school gym for municipal election Sign up for the Swampscott Reporter’s newsletter. If they have not already cast ballots, Swampscott voters get to weigh in on candidates running in the Tuesday, April 27 on Election Day. Election Day will arrive after Swampscott Town Clerk Susan Duplin offered a solid week of in-person voting inside Swampscott Town Hall, 22 Monument Ave. – which wraps up on Friday from 8 a.m. to noon. Absentee ballots must be dropped off at the town hall before 8 p.m. on ...

In Swampscott, four contests emerge ahead of 2021 municipal election Town clerk certifies candidates' nomination papers Sign up for the Swampscott Reporter’s newsletter. Four contests emerged among elective-officer positions up for grabs in Swampscott's 2021 municipal election, said Town Clerk Susan Duplin after she certified candidates nomination papers.  Barring candidates withdrawing their names, voters will see a mixture of political newcomers and incumbents who will be contested and uncontested on the Tuesday, April 27 municipal election ballot. Atlantic Avenue resident Charlie Pat...

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 of enforcement actions from the office of the Swampscott Building Commissioner to force the propert...

Officials promise fines for blight Town gave property owners until Sept. 15 to address issues and concerns William J. Dowd Support local journalism by subscribing  and sign up  for the Swampscott Reporter’s newsletter. A pair of Swampscott commercial property owners has for the third time been mailed official outreach notices by the local building inspector for allegedly violating the town’s blighted property bylaw. The dilapidated properties the town argues remain in violation include the old gas station at 182 Paradise Road – owned by Best Petroleum – as well as the old General Gl...

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’s site-eligibility letter to the state comes as WinnDevelopment undertakes a process to obtain a C...