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Call to extend Leitrim s towns and villages to allow for houses Reporter: ); ); With no immediate solution to the one-off housing issue in Leitrim there are calls for the Council to help extend and develop towns and villages around the county to allow for more housing. Fianna Fáil Cllr Caillian Ellis has proposed that the Council “would look at the possibility of buying sites outside our towns and villages and put in the essential services and then sell sites to people from that area who are not able to get planning permission elsewhere due to the stringent EPA guidelines, and thereby enable people to build a house of their choice.” ....
Wicked Local The results are in: Bernard Greene will serve another term as Brookline Select Board member, joined by newcomer Dr. Miriam Aschkenasy. Aschkenasy will succeed incumbent Nancy Heller, who was not re-elected Tuesday. Aschkenasy led the pack with 3,518 votes, followed by Greene with 3,315, Heller with 3,171, Zoe Lynn with 2,731 and Donelle O Neal with 915. Brookline saw slightly higher voter turnout this year than in 2020, with 7,453 of the town s 39,790 registered voters 18.73% either heading to the polls or mailing in a ballot. Last year s turnout was 17.5%. Heller and Greene, the current Select Board chair, have both served on the board since 2015. They met with stiff competition in their campaigns for re-election, especially after the Gerald Alston discrimination case once again made headlines just a week before the election. The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the town had unjustly fired Alston, a Brookline firefighter, after he reported ra ....
Wicked Local Brookline’s town election got off to a cold and wet start Tuesday amid a heavy rainstorm, with early voting and mail-in ballots contributing to quiet polling places. Through 7 p.m., the town had seen 6,937 votes cast so far in the May 4 Town Election, including early in-person votes and mail-in ballots tabulated at individual precincts, according to Jeff Nutting, a consultant in the Town Clerk’s office who has led Brookline elections during Town Clerk Pat Ward’s leave. “In person voting today so far is extremely light,” Nutting wrote in an email. “I am not sure if the weather is affecting turnout.” ....
Brookline, Salem cautious as they continue local COVID-19 outdoor mask mandates By John Hilliard and Gal Tziperman Lotan Globe Staff,Updated May 2, 2021, 2 hours ago Email to a Friend Elin Roverud, left, and Al Momin play with their son in Griggs Park Sunday. Although Governor Charlie Baker lifted the mandatory use of masks outdoors, when there is social distancing, Brookline still requires their use.Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff Health officials in Brookline and Salem said Sunday they are continuing to require masks outdoors, even after the US Centers for Disease Control cleared the way last week for fully vaccinated people to forgo them outside when they can socially distance. ....