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Cadrin is advocating for Mashpee residents to help conserve and protect land by passing Article 8 during the Mashpee special town meeting at 7 p.m., Monday, May 6. Mashpee voters will be asked to ...
Nitrogen management plans move forward, but the future of quality fresh water in Mashpee is still at stake. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways ...
After the U.S. Department of the Interior placed hundreds of acres of land in Mashpee and Taunton — 151 of it in Taunton — into a protected trust in 2015, the Mashpee Wampanoags broke ground ...
Sandwich is governed by the open town meeting form of government. Day-to-day operation is led by a board of selectmen, which appoints a town manager. [18] The town manager is George H. "Bud" Dunham, who has served in that role for more than 30 years. [19] The town operates a police department, and a fire department consisting of three fire ...
In most New England towns, the adult voting population gathered annually in a town meeting to act as the local legislature, approving budgets and laws. Day-to-day operations were originally left to individual oversight, but when towns became too large for individuals to handle such work loads, they would elect an executive board of selected men (hence the name) to run things for them.
NH RSA 49-D-3 III. provides for representative town meeting, though no town has adopted this form of government. The representative town meeting is similar to that of the town council form of government, which acts under a charter and is the legislative and governing board of the town, but has different requirements for their respective charters.
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Winchester's town government of Selectmen and Town Meeting members has remained essentially unchanged for most of its existence, until the renaming of the Board of Selectmen to the Select Board in 2018. A 1970s survey listed Winchester as "one of the top fifteen suburbs" in the nation (Ladies Home Journal, August 1975).