With major uncertainties hanging over their heads, Greenfield voters passed their town budget and nearly every warrant article at Saturday’s Town Meeting at Greenfield Elementary School.The town’s $1,079,672 operating budget and warrant articles.
A car chase Tuesday morning ended in Peterborough when a police officer shot and killed a Michigan teen, according to police.Officers from Greenfield, Peterborough and the state police were involved in a chase that ended when Lane Lesko, 19, of Ann.
More and more towns have crossed the digital divide, rolling out broadband infrastructure projects to every address in town through grants and partnerships with internet provider Consolidated Communications.“We’ve had nothing but praise,” said Mason.
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Greenfield passed all articles at its 2021 Town Meeting Saturday, as more than 150 residents convened at the Oak Park pavilion, braving gusts of wind and blustery temperatures to motor through the warrant with minimal back-and-forth in just under two hours.
Residents passed a bond to install municipal fiber internet via Consolidated Communications 152 to 1. Broadband advocate Tom Bascom received a round of applause for his role in bringing the article to vote. It’s too soon to tell whether the bond would affect Greenfield s ability to receive funds from the latest federal infrastructure bill, Bascom said. Concord legislators are currently working on a bill for distributing those funds, and a proposed amendment would extend funding eligibility to any town without broadband as of January 2021. That would allow Greenfield to seek additional funding if it passed, he said.