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Turner voters approved a $3.2 million budget at Saturday’s annual meeting that also endorsed allowing stores to sell recreational marijuana and to begin paying for two firefighters to be on duty during the weekday hours when nearly every volunteer is employed out of town.
Kurt Schaub, the town manager, said that about 75 people showed up for the more than two-hour session in the cafeteria at Leavitt Area High School, “a little lighter” than normal but a welcome change from the necessity of canceling the annual meeting entirely because of the pandemic.
Schaub said voters agreed to revise a two-year-old medical marijuana statute, which had been part of the town’s zoning rules, to create instead a stand-alone ordinance that allows the production and sale of recreational marijuana for adult use as well. It took effect immediately upon passage Saturday.