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Panel recommends parking fine hike and fire engine funding
Bridgewater panel recommends doubling many parking fines and funding restoration of the town's 1850 fire engine. From our own coverage: Planning Board continues three cases over notice errors; Panel backs parking fine hike, fire engine funding. Also in today's brief (7 items): Bridgewat…
From Bridgewater News
- Planning Board continues three cases over notice errors. The Planning Board pushed an Approval Not Required plan for 0 Lakeshore Street and a 680 Bedford Street modification request to September 16, and continued a long-delayed site plan hearing to November 18 citing notice errors.Bridgewater News
- Panel backs parking fine hike, fire engine funding. The Budget and Finance Committee recommended roughly doubling many parking fines to match Bridgewater State University's rates, and backed $239,000 to restore the town's 1850 fire engine plus $58,000 for historic photos.Bridgewater News
- Board of Health fills two regional grant board seats. The Board of Health appointed Kevin Blomquist as primary representative and Michelle Gamble as alternate to a regional health grant board, after the town's last health agent departed; a new hire could take two months.Bridgewater News
- Tree Committee funds 12 new trees for common, Broad Street. The Tree Committee approved a $2,269 purchase of six trees for the town common and up to $5,000 for six trees on Broad Street, and is weighing trunk injections to save a diseased library beech.Bridgewater News
- Planning Board endorses hotel lot split, delays farm project. The Planning Board endorsed splitting the town's hotel development site into two lots and continued a proposed six-lot Plymouth Street subdivision with geothermal townhouses to October 21 pending a zoning review.Bridgewater News
- Bridgewater records 10 property transfers this week. Ten properties changed hands in Bridgewater this week, with the top sale reaching $985, according to the week's transfer records.Bridgewater News
Coming up
- Sat, Sep 26, 9 a.m.: Bridgewater-Raynham hosts Marshfield in freshman football Sept. 26. Bridgewater-Raynham's freshman football team hosts Marshfield in a non-conference game Saturday, September 26 at 9 a.m., according to MaxPreps.MaxPreps
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