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Gardner Board of Health reduces Anthony's Liquor tobacco suspension to one day after hearing
Summary
After a hearing on Jan. 27, the Gardner Board of Health voted to cut a three-day suspension for Anthony's Liquor to a single day, holding the remaining two days in abeyance for 36 months. The $1,000 fine tied to an Oct. 20, 2024 sale to a person under 21 had already been paid.
The Gardner Board of Health voted Jan. 27 to reduce a three-day tobacco-sales suspension for Anthony's Liquor to one day and to hold the remaining two days in abeyance for 36 months if further violations occur.
The hearing centered on an Oct. 20, 2024 youth-access compliance check in which an 18-year-old decoy purchased a package of small cigars at Anthony's. Joan Hamlett, director of the Tobacco Control Alliance and a Gardner tobacco agent, told the board that the inspection was entered into the state database and that under state regulation the first sale-to-minor violation carries a $1,000 fine and a one-to-seven-business-day suspension. "On October 20th, we went in…
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