DEERFIELD A proposed bylaw requiring chain stores to consider “rural character in their designs” will be among the articles to come before voters at the June 12 Annual Town Meeting.Articles 17 through 19 will seek to implement a new “formula-based.
LEYDEN The Selectboard and Board of Health voted this week to opt out of state Department of Agricultural Resources’ mosquito control program, a decision many towns in the county have made already or are still discussing.Towns have been determining.
SOUTH DEERFIELD Planning Board member Rachel Blain, who was reelected Monday to serve another three-year term, will be joined on the board by newcomers Kathleen Sylvester and Andrea Leibson.Blain was reelected with 418 votes. Sylvester and Leibson.
Greenfield opts out of state’s aerial mosquito spraying
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Published: 5/5/2021 4:57:05 PM
GREENFIELD The City Council voted during an emergency meeting Tuesday to opt out of recent State Reclamation and Mosquito Control Board legislation that would allow aerial spraying in certain situations.
Board of Health Chair Nancee Bershof said the legislation authorizes the State Reclamation and Mosquito Control Board, under the Department of Agricultural Resources, to “engage in preventative, management and eradication methods whenever the commission of public health determines an elevated risk of arbovirus (arthropod-borne virus) exists or may exist for the current or upcoming year.”
“The difficulty is when aerial spraying is the recommended choice,” Bershof said. “The chemical adulticide used is Anvil 10-10. Controversy exists about the safety and efficacy of this treatment and of the effectiveness in general of aerial spraying.”
Five candidates seek election to three Planning Board seats in Deerfield
Published: 4/30/2021 2:10:21 PM
DEERFIELD Monday’s election will involve one contested race that sees five candidates vying for three seats on the Planning Board.
Polls will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Town Hall. Planning Board
In the race for Planning Board, Mark Brennan Jr., Andrea Leibson and Kathleen Sylvester are challenging incumbents Max Antes Jr. and Rachel Blain.
Brennan who said he is passionate about protecting the rural character of Deerfield, while also “allowing for healthy economic development” currently serves on the Capital Improvements Planning Committee and works as the director of development operations at a software company.