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Just over 10 percent of registered voters in Stockbridge attended Monday’s annual town meeting. They also voted to keep Finance Committee members appointed by the town moderator, rather than by
The Stockbridge annual town meeting was marked by some controversy over continued annual funding for legal expenses connected to the Rest of River cleanup agreement.
STOCKBRIDGE — It was the most prolonged single-day annual town meeting, at least in the memory of longtime residents.
STOCKBRIDGE — Town taxpayers will see a lean operating budget for the upcoming fiscal year, reflecting an overall increase of $154,000, less than 1.5 percent, from fiscal year 2021, which
LENOX â It appears to be the final answer: The Environmental Protection Agency is going ahead with the Rest of River settlement requiring General Electric to clean up the Housatonic River from the toxic PCB pollution it deposited there over four decades ending in the late 1970s. The EPA unveiled the plan last February, at an event in the Lenox railroad station. A hue and cry followed when some, probably many, Lee and Lenox Dale residents saw that the less-toxic sediment would be stored in the grandly titled Upland Disposal Facility, aka The Dump, as opponents called it. Despite months of...