League of Women Voters Hold Their Annual Warrant Roundtable

Town leaders preview the motions for the March 23 Annual Town Meeting.

For anyone who couldn’t make it to the annual Westford League of Women Voters Town Meeting warrant roundtable discussion, here are a few of the things you missed. MEDICAL MARIJUANA Since voters approved the statewide ballot measure to allow Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers here in the Bay State, many communities have been scrambling as to whether or not a Treatment Center should be places in their community. With many communities either delaying or barring any debate for a Dispensary in their community, the Moratorium allows for the Board of Health to work out all the details regarding zoning among items. The Moratorium will be extended until June 302014. “It could change, but this (Moratorium) allows the planning board and board of …

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League of Women Voters Invites Starratt to Explain What's Being "Built Around Us"

Westford's town engineer was on hand at the J.V. Fletcher Library last week to help answer resident questions on a variety of ongoing construction projects in town.

  What’s being built around Westford? The League of Women Voters invited Town Engineer Paul Starratt to ask that question as part of a presentation at the J.V. Fletcher Library last week entitled "What's Being Built Around Us?" There he talked about a variety of ongoing projects the town working on to improve the quality of life in town, most notably the failed Keyes Brook Culvert Project just off Groton Road near the Stony Brook School and the continuing Route 110 Reconstruction Project to help mitigate traffic along the road and Minot’s Corner in particular due to the nearby addition of Cornerstone Square. Starratt added that Minot’s Corner drew two to three times the number of traffic accidents an intersection of its size should receive…

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Golnik and Tsongas Spar in Sunday Congressional Debate

Both candidates for the Massachusetts' Third Congressional District race came together at Concord-Carlisle High School on Sunday in a debate sponsored by the League of Women Voters.

With just about one month left until Election Day, supporters and interested voters from across the Massachusetts Third Congressional District gathered at Concord-Carlisle on Sunday for debate between Congresswoman Niki Tsongas (D-Lowell) and challenger Jon Golnik (R-Carlisle) hosted by the League of Women Voters. For anyone not in attendance, here’s a recap of views on certain issues provided by both of the candidates. The Role of Government Tsongas noted the shift between the 800,000 jobs lost during the last month of the Bush administration and the 300,000 jobs added last month along with the support of Republicans such as Romney campaign advisor Mark Zandy to highlight the impact of the stimulus packages passed several years ago. She …

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League of Women Voters Set The Stage For Town Meeting

Last week's information session at the Millennium Building provided further insight into several warrant articles on this year's ballot.

Many questions remain for this year’s Town Meeting, but the League of Women Voters attempted to provide some answers last week at the Millennium Building. Here are the highlights from the event that organizers hoped would serve as a preview for what voters can expect on March 24 at the Abbot School gym. Articles 1 to 4 The first two articles, (accepting Town Reports and Fiscal Year ’12 Supplemental Appropriations) are uncontroversial and expected to pass easily. Articles 3 and 4 (Fiscal Year ’12 Budget Transfers and Paying Unpaid Bills from Previous Fiscal Years) were placeholders that were removed due to lack of need. Article 5 and 29 Article 5 allows the Selectmen to accept legal settlements obtained in litigation, and Article 29 …

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