By Beth David, Editor At its meeting on Monday, 5/1/23, the Fairhaven Select Board reopened the public hearing for discontinuing Shirley Street where it dissects A&A Auto. The hearing had been continued from the 4/18 meeting because of questions about ownership. Typically, when a street is discontinued, the abutters on either side take half the… [Read More]
Fairhaven Town Meeting to tackle budget deficit, 26 articles
By Beth David, Editor Fairhaven Town Meeting members will be asked to approve two budgets at the annual TM on Saturday, 5/6/23. The town faces a budget shortfall of $450,000. The Select Board/Town Administrator recommended budget, if passed, will require a Proposition 2 1/2 override to be implemented. So TM members are being asked to approve… [Read More]
Fairhaven town employee salaries
Fairhaven Town Meeting is this Saturday, 5/6/23, so it is time for our annual publishing of town employee salaries as they appear in the Fairhaven Finance Committee’s report/Town Warrant. This list has been taken directly from that report*. The amounts listed are actual dollars paid to employees from Jan. 1, 2022 through 12/31/22. Last year,… [Read More]
Bouchard Oil Spill…20 years ago
By Beth David, Editor On April 27, 2003, Bouchard Transportation Barge #120 hit a rock formation near Westport, Mass., just to our west. It ripped a 12×12 foot hole in the hull, and No. 6 oil started leaking into the ocean as the barge continue to Falmouth.. At least 98,000 gallons of the 4.1 million… [Read More]
Fairhaven BPW
By Mary Chassel, Neighb News Correspondent At the Fairhven Board of Public Works meeting on Monday 4/24/23 superintendent Vinnie Furtado announced that notices have been going out for water flushing. He said there will be town-wide flushing to remove sediment that is in the pipes so that the town will not have dirty water. They… [Read More]
Letter Three Blind Mice
Town Hall: Have You Heard of the Three Blind Mice? What has been happening in the Fairhaven Town Hall in the past year?! We have lost our Finance Director, Town Planner, two Conservation Agents, multiple building Commissioners, two Assessors, and a payroll clerk. Why have they all left? Is it due to administrative mismanagement? I… [Read More]
Letter BBC supports land protection article
Buzzards Bay Coalition Supports CPC Article As part of a five-town initiative to provide long-term protection and resilience to a shared drinking water resource, Fairhaven Town Meeting members are being asked to vote “Yes” on Article 12E on Saturday, May 6th. If passed, the article would approve the town allocating $85,000 from its Community Preservation… [Read More]
Letter No reason to support override
No Reason to Support Override Town Meeting Members and the voters of Fairhaven, I see no reason we should support a Proposition 21/2 override. I am a firm believer if you can read a P/L statement you can run a business and a Town. Adjustments could have and should have been made along the way… [Read More]
Letter Override: Get Accurate info
Get Accurate Info on Prop 2 1/2 Override I am writing to hopefully clear up some confusion about our Town’s budget and the Override. The goal is less to persuade but to present accurate information, so that voters can make the best decision for Fairhaven. Past budget shortfalls in the Town’s operating budget had been supplemented… [Read More]
Letter Ban Single Use Plastics
Ban Single-Use Plastics, Nips After examining the hazards that single-use plastics and polystyrene present to our coastal environment, human health, and surveying business owners in town for their opinions, the Fairhaven Board of Health and the Fairhaven Sustainasbility Committee have co-sponsored Article 21, a bylaw to reduce the distribution of these materials. The bylaw is… [Read More]
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