Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 3/13/2021 9:39:19 AM
Antrim became the first town in the state to establish a community board after voters overwhelmingly approved the measure at Town Meeting Thursday night. The board is tasked with enhancing public health, prosperity, quality of life, safety, and general welfare of all town residents. Residents passed all articles on the warrant, and all five zoning ordinance amendments passed during ballot voting on Tuesday.
It’s been legal since 2008 for a town to establish a community services and care planning board, as one might establish a conservation commission, yet no town had gone through the process until Thursday night. Select Board members gave some pushback to the proposal and questioned if there may be good reasons why other town’s hadn’t attempted it, voicing concerns about the board opening the town to potential liability and future costs.
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 2/19/2021 12:11:45 PM
Antrim voters will decide whether to create a Community Board, dictate the fate of a number of Highway Department-related purchases and improvements, and authorize funds associated with replacing the town’s well this March, following the Select Board’s finalization of the warrant and budget on Feb. 8.
Town meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 11, at 7 p.m. in the Antrim Memorial Town Gymnasium rather than the Town Hall. The change is meant to accommodate social distancing, according to Town Moderator Arthur Merrill at the Jan. 11 Select Board meeting. The gym will hold 121 socially distanced clusters, and participants who refuse to wear masks can be accommodated in the back of the gym.
Competition conquers: After 100 years, Camp Spaulding in Concord closes doors and is up for sale
Snow covers the benches near a fire pit at Camp Spaulding off of Bog Road on Thursday. GEOFF FORESTER photos / Monitor staff
The entrance of Camp Spaulding on Bog Road in Concord on Thursday.
Snow drapes the deck chairs and benches in front of the overnight cabins at Camp Spaulding off Bog Road in Concord on Thursday. GEOFF FORESTER / Monitor staff
A sign for the Challenge course in the woods at Camp Spaulding on Bog Road in Concord on Thursday, January 28, 2020. GEOFF FORESTER Monitor staff
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Hopkinton purchase of 5.7 acres will preserve Contoocook River shoreline
The land that the Chesley family sold to the Hopkinton Conservation Commission in Contoocook on Tuesday, January 19, 2020. MELISSA CURRAN Monitor staff
A thousand feet of Contoocook River shoreline has been bought by the town of Hopkinton for continued recreation and agriculture but not development; the 5.7-acre site across the river from Bohanan Farm, with 1,100 feet of river shoreline. MELISSA CURRAN / Monitor staff
Shoreline across the river from Bohanan Farm has been bought by Hopkinton for recreation and agriculture. MELISSA CURRAN / Monitor staff
A thousand feet of Contoocook River shoreline has been bought by the town of Hopkinton for continued recreation and agriculture, but not development; the 5.7-acre site across the river from Bohanan Farm, with 1,100 feet of river shoreline. MELISSA CURRAN / Monitor staff