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Select Board rejects Verizon conduit plan
Ashburnham's Select Board rejected Verizon's Bush Hill Road conduit plan and swore in a new fire chief. From our own coverage: Select Board takes up Verizon conduit plan for Bush Hill Road. Also in today's brief (3 items): Library awarded $20,000 federal grant for food literacy; Water c…
From Ashburnham News
- Select Board takes up Verizon conduit plan for Bush Hill Road. Ashburnham's Select Board weighed Verizon's request to bury broadband conduit along nearly a mile and a half of Bush Hill Road after residents warned the state-directed project could damage the narrow dirt road, and swore in Corey Leary as the town's new fire chief.Ashburnham News
Today in Ashburnham
- Library awarded $20,000 federal grant for food literacy. The Stevens Memorial Library has been provisionally awarded a $20,000 Library Services and Technology Act grant from the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners to fund "At the Table: Food Literacy from the Ground Up," a program addressing food literacy needs in Ashburnham.Stevens Memorial Library
Coming up
- Wed, Sep 30: Water conservation restrictions end September 30. Ashburnham's water conservation period, in effect since May 1, is set to end September 30, when the town's seasonal water-use restrictions are lifted, according to the town website.Town of Ashburnham
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