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Cranberry voters OK road, reject restroom CRANBERRY ISLES Voters at the annual Town Meeting on Saturday authorized spending up to $115,000 for reconstruction of Co-Op Road on Little Cranberry Island (Islesford) but turned down a proposal to spend up to $50,000 to build a public restroom on Little Cranberry. Voters approved a municipal budget for next fiscal year of just under $2.47 million, including $814,000 for education. Selectman Cory Alley was reelected for a three-year term and Cari Alley was reelected for a three-year term on the school committee. The restroom proposal failed on a vote of 11-16. The warrant article stated that the restroom would be built adjacent to the town parking lot and would utilize the existing septic system that is owned by the town and shared with the Islesford Dock Restaurant. Water for the restroom would be from the Cranberry Isles Fisherman’s Co-Op well under an agreement to locate the restroom on Co-O ....
Budget, road, restroom up for Town Meeting vote CRANBERRY ISLES Voters at the annual Town Meeting on Saturday, May 1, will be asked to approve a municipal budget for next fiscal year totaling just under $2.47 million. That includes $814,204 for education, an increase of $40,523 over the budget for the current year. But the total proposed budget for next year, including education, is about $268,000 less than the overall budget approved for the current fiscal year. That is due largely to a reduction in the budget for public transportation from $575,244 to $257,429. A large portion of last year’s transportation budget, $400,000, was for two road construction projects on Great Cranberry. Those funds were borrowed. ....