Residents claim Hadley Select Board’s vote on mosquito spraying against ‘will of the town’
Hadley Town Hall GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
Published: 5/27/2021 2:31:44 PM
HADLEY A recent Select Board decision allowing the state to control mosquitos using aerial spraying may violate the spirit of an annual Town Meeting vote from three years ago, when residents approved taking a different approach to controlling mosquitos, according to a letter sent to the board this week.
“In their vote on May 19th to allow spraying through the state program, should it be deemed necessary, the Select Board is ignoring the will of the town as expressed by that May 2018 Town Meeting vote,” reads the letter signed by nearly three dozen residents and also sent to Town Administrator Carolyn Brennan and the town’s law firm, KP Law.