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Selectmen and planning candidates outline fiscal priorities, growth and services at town forum
Summary
Five candidates for selectmen, planning and other local offices described priorities including budget discipline, managing growth along Routes 10 and 12, and restoring public-safety staffing at a March 4 town candidates forum in Whitcomb Hall.
At a March 4 candidates forum in Whitcomb Hall, six candidates running for local offices presented their qualifications and top priorities, focusing on town finances, managing growth along Route 10 and Route 12 and public-safety staffing.
The forum’s most repeated theme was budget restraint. Candidate Mike York, a planning-board member and selectman candidate, said his top priority was “to make sure that our budget stays in line,” and that the planning board’s work and testimony in Concord had influenced his view of protecting local control over zoning. “I believe that my 30 plus years as a manufacturing manager… I’ve developed…
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