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New Stow Park takes shape
By Ann Needle Few words shout success in Stow louder than “on time and on budget.” And that was the phrase Stow Recreation Director Laura Greenough used to describe the park being installed at 323 Great Rd. At the July 9 Board of Selectmen’s meeting, Greenough joined Conservation Commission Coordinator Kathy Sferra in updating the…
Year-end tasks for Stow Selectmen
By Ann Needle During its final meeting before the fiscal year ends June 30, the Stow Board of Selectmen on June 25 tended to the annual routine business that keeps the town running. There were also other pieces of news sprinkled into that annual ritual. The Board officially approved a Conservation Restriction…
Town Meeting to vote on marijuana in Stow… Sept. 26, 2018
By Ann Needle Stow is gearing up for a Special Town Meeting this Monday, Oct. 1 that will help decide where and whether the state’s newly legal marijuana businesses can locate here. The STM has been slated for Oct. 1, given the town moratorium on the businesses ends Jan. 1, 2019. If passed at STM,…
Marijuana articles for Town Meeting warrant approved… Aug. 15, 2018
By Ann Needle Stow residents will be voting at the Oct. 1 Special Town Meeting on whether to ban retail marijuana businesses from locating here — and, if not, how to regulate them. At its Aug. 14 meeting, the Board of Selectmen unanimously approved 15 articles for the STM Warrant, all centered on regulating legalized…
Stow report tackles climate change… Aug. 15, 2018
By Ann Needle In what way could climate change impact Stow and how can the town mitigate those impacts? A standing-room-only crowd on Aug. 7 heard the results of a report with some answers to those questions, presented in a public listening session by Stow’s Planning Board and Conservation Commission. The 96-page Community Resilience Building…
Annual Town Warrant at-a-glance… 4/25/18
By Ann Needle At the May 7 Annual Town Meeting, residents will vote on 60 articles as part of the Town of Stow’s proposed fiscal year 2019 budget. Listed in the 2018 ATM Warrant, delivered with this week’s Stow Independent, the articles map how the town plans to allocate its operating budget for the next…
NRSD to request state help in assessing NRHS… Dec. 6 2017
Reduced pre-k slots/classes approved By Ann Needle At its Nov. 29 meeting, the Nashoba School Committee gave administration the go-ahead to request help from the state on a possible building project for Nashoba Regional High School. The SC also approved a proposal to reduce the number of slots and classes available in next year’s pre-school program…
Stow Resident in the Path of the Eclipse… Aug. 15, 2017
By Ann Needle Star-gazers everywhere are excited about the upcoming total solar eclipse on Aug. 21 – even in Stow, where only a partial solar eclipse will be visible. But one Stow resident has a particular reason to be focused on Monday’s celestial event, flying right into the path of the total eclipse in search…
Obituary: Paul Lapierre, 55… Services on Thursday, Aug. 17
Paul Lapierre, 55 Paul J. Lapierre, 55, of Hudson, formerly of Stow passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, August 3, 2017. Paul is survived by two daughters, Erin and Cassidy; his four siblings, Ann D. Anderson and her husband Warren of Stow, June E. Kolenda and her husband Brian of Stow, Donna R. Lapierre of Hudson…
Obituary… William Booth, 78
William C. “Bill” Booth, 78, of Stow, passed away peacefully Friday August 4, 2017 at Life Care Center of Nashoba Valley in Littleton surrounded by his loving family. He was the devoted husband of forty-five years to Isobel G. Booth. Born in Hornell, New York on September 10, 1938, he was the son of the…