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Town hears regional public-health briefing; agent offers outreach on nuisance manure storage

Select Board (Town of Hampden) · March 19, 2026
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Summary

The board hosted Ryan Paxton, the new regional public-health director, who described shared-public-health staffing funded by a state grant and recommended outreach — not immediate enforcement — to a farm storing manure that neighbors say is causing flies and runoff concerns.

The Select Board heard a presentation from the Eastern Hampden shared public-health director, Ryan Paxton, who described operations, grant funding, and options for handling a resident complaint about an adjacent farm’s manure storage.

Paxton said the shared-services arrangement is supported by a state Public Health Excellence grant that supplies roughly $393,000…

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