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Wicked Local The Winchester Select Board voted on March 8 to approve the borrowing of $350,000 from the town’s general fund account for the North Reservoir Dam project. The project was authorized at the 2020 Fall Town Meeting for just over $6 million. The reason for the borrowing is to start the project before permanent borrowing happens in July. “This allows them to spend money before the borrowing is done,” Town Treasurer Sheila Tracy said. “The Department of Revenue requires this process to set out in writing the approval of the (Select Board). Then in fact we can use that money before we actually bond the project.” ....
Wicked Local The Winchester Select Board unanimously voted to sign an emergency resolution regarding evictions during its virtual meeting Feb. 22. The resolution started off as a request from the local chapter of the NAACP for the Select Board to employ an eviction moratorium, which has been seen at the state and federal levels. “There’s issues with our authority at the local level, so I think we were looking for a resolution to encourage any sort of property owner or any dispute with tenants to really take a step back and work with us, and to work with the tenants and the local social service agencies to find some common ground to hold off on an eviction during this difficult time,” Chair Michael Bettencourt said. ....
Vice Chair Susan Verdicchio said the Board should put the override question to voters. “People have been waiting for 20 years on this culvert and getting the whole thing finished,” said Verdicchio, who also reminded Board members of the catastrophic floods from March 2010. “You don’t notice when the flooding when it’s absent and you think you really don’t know what the need is.” A debt exclusion is a temporary increase in the town s tax levy limit. A debt exclusion finances a particular project or projects and taxes increase for some time, usually 10-20 years, to cover the cost of the project. ....
Ithaca College Alexander Moulding, of Wareham, was named to the dean’s list for the fall 2020 semester at Ithaca College in New York. Northeastern University Sarah Miller, of Wareham, was named to the dean’s list for the fall 2020 semester at Northeastern University in Boston. Miller is majoring in behavioral neuroscience. Miller is also a member of the University Honors Program, which offers high caliber students the chance to further hone their studies and interests, live in special interest residential communities, participate in enriched, interdisciplinary courses and engage in research and creative endeavors, service and global experiences. Invitation into the University Honors Program is competitive and students must maintain a high GPA to maintain membership. To qualify for the dean’s list, students must carry a full program of at least four courses, have a quality point average of 3.5 or higher out of a possible 4.0 and carry no single grade lower than a ....