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Buckfield select board hears questions over Jim Jordan estate language, voters to decide June 10
Summary
Select Board members and residents discussed discrepancies between the wording of several annual town warrant articles and the language of the late Jim Jordan’s will, including scholarship eligibility and property/residuary conditions. Town leaders said acceptance of the gifts would bind the town to the will’s terms; voters will decide June 10.
Select Board members and residents discussed whether warrant articles tied to the late Jim Jordan’s estate match the legal terms of his will and how the town would be bound if it accepts the gifts.
Resident Judy raised concerns that the warrant language does not track the will’s wording, particularly scholarships. “There are some things that have to be corrected because they don't match up with his will,” Judy said, pointing to scholarship articles that reference “residents of Buckfield” rather than beneficiaries limited to the Buckfield Village Corporation as written in Jordan’s will.
The board and other participants said the town and the estate’s attorneys drafted the warrant language together. One Select Board member…
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