![SHIRLEY – The Select Board’s short but substantive agenda Monday night mostly focused on grants, including applications in process and a grant in hand that will bring library services to people’s doors. Library Launches Home Delivery Program During the meeting, Town Administrator Mike McGovern talked about a new grant-funded program at the Hazen Memorial Library […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/low-l-hazenlibraryprogram.jpg?w=73 "SHIRLEY – The Select Board’s short but substantive agenda Monday night mostly focused on grants, including applications in process and a grant in hand that will bring library services to people’s doors. Library Launches Home Delivery Program During the meeting, Town Administrator Mike McGovern talked about a new grant-funded program at the Hazen Memorial Library […]")
Shirley Select Board meeting focuses on grants, programs
SHIRLEY – The Select Board’s short but substantive agenda Monday night mostly focused on grants, including applications in process and a grant in hand that will bring library services to...
![SHIRLEY – When Cheryl Matsukis launched a “Go Fund Me” Facebook page in December, 2021, she was facing a mortgage payment she couldn’t meet and a due date at the end of the month and hoped there would be some people out there who wanted to help. She needs an estimated $20,000 to allow her […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/low-l-withpinkerton.jpg?w=88 "SHIRLEY – When Cheryl Matsukis launched a “Go Fund Me” Facebook page in December, 2021, she was facing a mortgage payment she couldn’t meet and a due date at the end of the month and hoped there would be some people out there who wanted to help. She needs an estimated $20,000 to allow her […]")
![SHIRLEY – The Shirley Water District announced on Tuesday, Dec. 21 that the Catacunemaug well is back on line. The well was shut down this fall after routine tests showed e-coli contamination in some of its samples. Now, the well is good to go, rehabilitated, re-tested and DEP-approved, the district announced. The well was offline […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/sen-l-shirleytownseal.jpg?w=88 "SHIRLEY – The Shirley Water District announced on Tuesday, Dec. 21 that the Catacunemaug well is back on line. The well was shut down this fall after routine tests showed e-coli contamination in some of its samples. Now, the well is good to go, rehabilitated, re-tested and DEP-approved, the district announced. The well was offline […]")
![SHIRLEY — Montachusett Regional Planning Commission Executive Director Glenn Eaton visited the Select Board meeting Monday night to update members on the status of incoming funds from a Community Development Block Grant awarded to the town and two other neighboring towns. The town applied for the grant in partnership with Lunenburg and Townsend. MRPC oversees […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/low-l-shirleyCTH.jpg?w=107 "SHIRLEY — Montachusett Regional Planning Commission Executive Director Glenn Eaton visited the Select Board meeting Monday night to update members on the status of incoming funds from a Community Development Block Grant awarded to the town and two other neighboring towns. The town applied for the grant in partnership with Lunenburg and Townsend. MRPC oversees […]")
![AYER – Call it pre-emptive, or, perhaps more aptly, pro-active. Either way, the move the School Committee discussed at its Dec. 7 meeting whether it should and how to change the district’s policy on public participation at school committee meetings. Public, in-person attendance tends to be sparse and interactions friendly at School Committee meetings in […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/LOW-L-newSuperintendent45-1.jpg?w=127 "AYER – Call it pre-emptive, or, perhaps more aptly, pro-active. Either way, the move the School Committee discussed at its Dec. 7 meeting whether it should and how to change the district’s policy on public participation at school committee meetings. Public, in-person attendance tends to be sparse and interactions friendly at School Committee meetings in […]")
![SHIRLEY – The Select Board on Monday night discussed possible problems with some of the business licenses up for annual renewal in a couple weeks. “There are always concerns but not a lot of complaints this year, that I’ve heard,” Chairman Debra Flagg said as she opened the meeting. The town’s fire chief had some […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/sen-l-shirley-town-logo.jpg?w=87 "SHIRLEY – The Select Board on Monday night discussed possible problems with some of the business licenses up for annual renewal in a couple weeks. “There are always concerns but not a lot of complaints this year, that I’ve heard,” Chairman Debra Flagg said as she opened the meeting. The town’s fire chief had some […]"){kind=logo}
![SHIRLEY — Introducing a theme such as the evolutionary role of women in the military during a traditional Veterans Day ceremony might be unusual, but the ceremony held Thursday in Shirley did it seamlessly while keeping all the traditions in place. The event at the War Memorial Building, sponsored by the local American Legion Post, […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/low-l-shirleyvets-1.jpg?w=117 "SHIRLEY — Introducing a theme such as the evolutionary role of women in the military during a traditional Veterans Day ceremony might be unusual, but the ceremony held Thursday in Shirley did it seamlessly while keeping all the traditions in place. The event at the War Memorial Building, sponsored by the local American Legion Post, […]")
![SHIRLEY – With five articles on the warrant and 53 registered voters signed in, the Special Town Meeting, held in the Ayer Shirley Regional Middle School Gym Monday night, wrapped up in less than half an hour, and the only item that sparked controversy didn’t have a dollar sign attached. Although so-called “money articles” tend […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/sen-l-shirleytownseal.jpg?w=88 "SHIRLEY – With five articles on the warrant and 53 registered voters signed in, the Special Town Meeting, held in the Ayer Shirley Regional Middle School Gym Monday night, wrapped up in less than half an hour, and the only item that sparked controversy didn’t have a dollar sign attached. Although so-called “money articles” tend […]")
![SHIRLEY — A Patterson Road building project that was sidelined earlier this fall may resurface, if a new plan the property owner, Jonas Angus, is working on gains traction. Located at 3 Patterson Road and zoned commercial/industrial in a residential area, the property sits between Shirley Water District land and the railroad tracks. Angus has […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/P1020819.jpg?w=117 "SHIRLEY — A Patterson Road building project that was sidelined earlier this fall may resurface, if a new plan the property owner, Jonas Angus, is working on gains traction. Located at 3 Patterson Road and zoned commercial/industrial in a residential area, the property sits between Shirley Water District land and the railroad tracks. Angus has […]")
![SHIRLEY — Select Board member Brian Sawyer on Monday night told his colleagues — and the public — that a controversial proposal to provide a sewer hookup to the neighboring town of Lancaster is off the table. The proposed tie-in was for a planned industrial complex taking shape in North Lancaster, just over the town […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/sen-l-shirley-town-logo.jpg?w=87 "SHIRLEY — Select Board member Brian Sawyer on Monday night told his colleagues — and the public — that a controversial proposal to provide a sewer hookup to the neighboring town of Lancaster is off the table. The proposed tie-in was for a planned industrial complex taking shape in North Lancaster, just over the town […]"){kind=logo}