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Special election set on tech school funding

Whately schedules special election on multimillion-dollar Franklin County Tech School building funding plan. From our own coverage: Whately appoints Liz Sillen as town assessor; Community TV board again lacks quorum. Also in today's brief (3 items): Special election set on tech school f…

From Whately News

  • Whately appoints Liz Sillen as town assessor. Whately's Selectboard unanimously filled a monthslong vacancy by appointing Liz Sillen as town assessor, then turned to a weightier question: how large a debt exclusion voters may be asked to approve for the town's share of a regional technical school building project.Whately News
  • Community TV board again lacks quorum. Only three of Frontier Community Access Television's eight board members showed up September 15, forcing the station serving Deerfield, Sunderland, Whately and Conway to again defer a backlogged stack of votes, with a Comcast license renewal deadline approaching.Whately News

Whately on Sat, Oct 3

  • Special election set on tech school funding. Whately has posted notice of a special election on Franklin County Technical School's MSBA-funded building project, the same regional funding question Selectboard members warned could carry a large debt exclusion for the town. Details are posted on the town website.Town of Whately

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