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Selectmen Vote for Outdoor Dining to Return April 15, and End the Monday Prior to Thanksgiving

Last year, the town brought in $32,275 in fees from 20 restaurants. Branyan said the average fee, which paid for three parking spaces and 46 linear ft of barriers, was $1,617 in 2021. This year it will be, on average, $5,202. Continue Reading →

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One Land: The grass isn’t always greener. How our obsession with lawns turned toxic.

Lawns don’t sequester carbon, manage the watershed, support a food web and pollinators, prevent erosion and flooding, or oxygenate our air. Their maintenance produces more greenhouse gasses than they absorb, and they are ecological dead zones that contribute to the die-off of insect populations. Continue Reading →

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