Deb Fountain spreads native planting throughout community By Jon Winkler September 9, 2019 at 8:27 pm
![PEPPERELL – The fall town meeting warrant will include a bylaw that, if approved, would ban single-use plastic bags from local retail stores starting next year. Six people attended a public hearing at Town Hall on Wednesday night to offer input on the proposed bylaw. The hearing, hosted by Town Administrator Andrew MacLean, was also […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/DSC_0288-1.jpg?w=132 "PEPPERELL – The fall town meeting warrant will include a bylaw that, if approved, would ban single-use plastic bags from local retail stores starting next year. Six people attended a public hearing at Town Hall on Wednesday night to offer input on the proposed bylaw. The hearing, hosted by Town Administrator Andrew MacLean, was also […]")
![PEPPERELL – The loudest sounds you’ll hear at Deb Fountain’s house are actually quite soft: birds chipping, bugs buzzing and wind blowing through the trees. Fountain has made sure her environment is as natural as possible, both at home and in Pepperell, through a passion for native planting “It’s sustainable gardening,” Fountain said. “So many […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/low-l-volunteer-1.jpg?w=132 "PEPPERELL – The loudest sounds you’ll hear at Deb Fountain’s house are actually quite soft: birds chipping, bugs buzzing and wind blowing through the trees. Fountain has made sure her environment is as natural as possible, both at home and in Pepperell, through a passion for native planting “It’s sustainable gardening,” Fountain said. “So many […]")
![PEPPERELL – Nan Quintin and her husband Peter were enjoying a visit to the USS Albacore Museum in Portsmouth, N.H., this past spring when she saw something at the stern of the submarine. “On the way out of it on the right there’s a whole bank of, what I thought looked like marshmallow men,” Quintin […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/nas-l-quintin-1.jpg?w=132 "PEPPERELL – Nan Quintin and her husband Peter were enjoying a visit to the USS Albacore Museum in Portsmouth, N.H., this past spring when she saw something at the stern of the submarine. “On the way out of it on the right there’s a whole bank of, what I thought looked like marshmallow men,” Quintin […]")
![PEPPERELL – Bishop Guertin High School sophomore Duncan Premus has been back in school for barely a week and had already found himself a hefty after-school activity: preparing a new town bylaw banning single-use plastic bags. Premus, accompanied by his mother, Denene, attended the Board of Selectmen meeting late last month to officially present a […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/nas-l-pepperellbags-1.jpg?w=132 "PEPPERELL – Bishop Guertin High School sophomore Duncan Premus has been back in school for barely a week and had already found himself a hefty after-school activity: preparing a new town bylaw banning single-use plastic bags. Premus, accompanied by his mother, Denene, attended the Board of Selectmen meeting late last month to officially present a […]")
![PEPPERELL – Doug and Michelle Wright sat through nearly two hours of recommendations and grievances against their plans for Rivers Edge Senior Living on Mill Street from members of the Planning Board and neighboring residents Monday night at the Senior Center. The Wrights were present for a public hearing the board held for their plans […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/nas-l-publichearing1-1.jpg?w=132 "PEPPERELL – Doug and Michelle Wright sat through nearly two hours of recommendations and grievances against their plans for Rivers Edge Senior Living on Mill Street from members of the Planning Board and neighboring residents Monday night at the Senior Center. The Wrights were present for a public hearing the board held for their plans […]")
![PEPPERELL – The Planning Board is looking to offer the community more options for access to solar energy through a zoning bylaw amendment. The board held a public hearing on Aug. 12 to discuss an addition to the town’s Table of Principal Uses. According to Lisa Davis, the board’s adviser, the board is looking to […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/nas-l-solarbylaw-1.jpg?w=132 "PEPPERELL – The Planning Board is looking to offer the community more options for access to solar energy through a zoning bylaw amendment. The board held a public hearing on Aug. 12 to discuss an addition to the town’s Table of Principal Uses. According to Lisa Davis, the board’s adviser, the board is looking to […]")
![PEPPERELL – Multiple state representatives, local officials and an auditorium full of residents voiced unified disdain towards the proposed use of a landfill at 161 Nashua Road on Monday night. The stage for said sour feelings was at the Nissitissit Middle School, where the Pepperell Watchers Group hosted a public information forum on Mass Composting […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/DSC_0032-1.jpg?w=132 "PEPPERELL – Multiple state representatives, local officials and an auditorium full of residents voiced unified disdain towards the proposed use of a landfill at 161 Nashua Road on Monday night. The stage for said sour feelings was at the Nissitissit Middle School, where the Pepperell Watchers Group hosted a public information forum on Mass Composting […]")
