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By DOMENIC POLI

WENDELL — Residents will be asked to give their blessing to a proposed $3.7 million fiscal year 2024 budget when they gather for Annual Town Meeting on Tuesday.Voters will convene at Town Hall at 7 p.m. to take action on 30 articles pertaining to...

By DOMENIC POLI

WENDELL — Town officials are brainstorming ways to combat disruptive activities near the pond at the bottom of West Street.Mary Thomas, of the Wendell Conservation Commission, addressed the Selectboard last week to say she would like to find a...

By DOMENIC POLI

WENDELL — The Friends of the Wendell Meetinghouse has started a new public series driven entirely by donations.Thursdays at the Wendell Meetinghouse will consist of music, readings and other events starting at 7 p.m. every Thursday through June 29....

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — For high school seniors, spring is a time of accomplishment — graduations, college acceptance letters, job offers ... and proms.But bad decisions can quickly turn joyous occasions into unforgettable tragedies.With this in mind, Ralph C. Mahar...

‘Old Time Radio Hour’ coming to New Salem library NEW SALEM — The New Salem Public Library will be the site of an “Old Time Radio Hour,” hosted by Brian Casey, on Tuesday, May 16, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.Using a Bluetooth device, guests will listen to the...

WENDELL — Paul Doud was successful in his uncontested bid for a three-seat Selectboard seat Dan Keller just finished holding for 20 years.Doud, 75, spent most of his life in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and moved to Wendell from Whately in 2015. He worked in...

By DOMENIC POLI

WENDELL — Dan Keller has said he will not seek reelection to the Selectboard in the 2023 election, but he never promised his name wouldn’t appear elsewhere on the ballot.The 20-year Selectboard veteran opted to retire from the three-member board, but...

‘A Walk Through the Garden with Eleanor Roosevelt’ coming to library NEW SALEM — The New Salem Public Library plans to present “A Walk Through the Garden with Eleanor Roosevelt” with author and historian Carol Cohen in the library’s Community Room at...

By DOMENIC POLI

WENDELL — The newly official Wendell Historical Society has until June 13 to come up with $45,000 to buy the former depot store and post office, having reached an agreement with the longtime owner’s daughter in hopes of turning the building into a...

By DOMENIC POLI

WENDELL — Last year’s litter cleanup was held in memory of Ted Lewis, a former Selectboard member who had long been a partner in organizing the annual endeavor. This year, the weeklong event will actually bear his name.The 2023 TED Walk is set for...

Tuesday: ‘An Evening of Poetry’NEW SALEM — The Friends of the New Salem Public Library plans to host “An Evening of Poetry,” from 7 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, April 11, to celebrate National Poetry Month.The event will be held at the library at 23 South...

By CHRIS LARABEE and MAX BOWEN

A total of $223,079 in state grant funding is headed to four Franklin County and North Quabbin towns to help filter potentially harmful chemicals from their water systems.The Healey-Driscoll administration and the state Department of Environmental...

Three cheers for Warren Rice’s letter of March 31 exposing the reckless and dangerous sham proposed by our electric utility companies [“Inflation Reduction Act’s smoke and mirrors”]. Clearing our forests and farmland of trees to make room for solar...

By JIM THORNLEY

Johanna Newman’s March 22 column in the Recorder [“White House must take older trees off cut list”], a call to protect older trees from logging nationally, was a commendable piece; however, I would like to point out that some of the worst cutting of...

Scholarship applications due April 15WENDELL — Students who live in Wendell and plan to pursue any type of accredited post-secondary education in the next academic year are invited to apply for a Dollars for Wendell Scholars scholarship.Applications...

I write letters to the paper because I want to share my thoughts with humanity at large and for the ego boost I get from seeing my name in print.OK, that being said, I want to thank columnist Russ Vernon-Jones for his gentle Socratic nudge to folks...

Report dedicated to Pamela SmithORANGE — The Selectboard voted to dedicate the 2023 annual town report to the late Pamela Smith.According to her obituary, Smith died peacefully on Dec. 24, 2022, following a brief illness. She is survived by her twin...

By DOMENIC POLI

WENDELL — Voters at Thursday’s Special Town Meeting gave their blessing to every warrant article except the one pertaining to transferring money for a backup power generator.According to Selectboard Chair Laurie DiDonato, hose who convened at Town...

What joy to find Mary Kay Hoffman, former executive director of the Artspace Community Arts Center, gracing The Recorder’s front page. She had a unique ability to transform vision into programming that embraced many voices. I stumbled upon Artspace...

Morning Dew Cultivars announces next round of incubator program ORANGE — Morning Dew Cultivars, an artisan garden and curing library, has announced the April iteration of its incubator program providing free technical training to aspiring cannabis...