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JAY The Select Board will spend $5,000 as part of a joint effort with Livermore and Livermore Falls to determine the value of four hydroelectric facilities owned by Eagle Creek Renewable Energy.
Eagle Creek Renewable Energy’s Riley hydroelectric facility in Jay is seen in 2017.
Sun Journal file photo
Two of the facilities are in Jay, while the other two are located in Livermore and Livermore Falls. Both of the latter towns’ Select Boards will also consider next week spending $5,000 to join Jay in working with Sansoucy Associates of Lancaster, N.H., on the valuation of the facilities.
Jay Town manager Shiloh LaFreniere said Thursday she estimates the most recent valuation of the four facilities was over $50 million.
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As enrollment declines in the Old Rochester Regional School District, Tri-Town officials at a July 13 joint meeting of Marion and Mattapoisett’s Select Boards and Rochester’s Board of Selectmen called for an enrollment study on the OR high school and junior high.
Marion Select Board member John Waterman said that a study could help the towns and district “to manage or better control” the cost of schooling long-term.
Marion Town Administrator Jay McGrail noted that he and Superintendent Mike Nelson are already working on it, and that he has a call with the UMass Boston Collins Center for Public Management later this week.
Hilltown police forces in transition >Worthington Police Chief Robert Reinke talks about the department. He is the town’s first full-time chief. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS >Worthington Police Chief Robert Reinke talks about the department and being chief in a small town, which voted to make his position full time. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS >Worthington Police Chief Robert Reinke talks about the department and being chief in a small town. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS >Worthington Police Chief Robert Reinke talks about the department and being chief in a small town. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Policing is changing in the hilltowns, and more change is on the horizon.
“Pretty much, Zoom is out”: Most area towns discontinuing virtual meeting participation >Published: 7/1/2021 5:13:11 PM
Virtual meetings became ubiquitous for town boards and committees over the past year. For some towns, the expiration of the state emergency order heralded a return to the pre-pandemic status quo, while other towns don’t want to give up the virtual format – and the wider access it provides.
The State stopped allowing exclusively virtual municipal meetings on June 11. Now, every meeting must have a quorum of town board members in-person at a publicly accessible venue. Once that’s established, however, boards may offer a hybrid option in which additional board members call or Zoom in. They can also provide an option for members of the public to participate virtually, or at least view the meeting remotely.