5 Things to Know About This Week
Here are 5 things you should know about this week in Barrington; mark each one on your calendar.
What’s coming up in Barrington this week, Sept. 24-30, the first full week of autumn, that you should know about for your calendar.
- Eat dinner with your entire family on Monday during Family Dinner Day – a date to increase awareness of the positive impact that families who eat dinner together can have on the prevention of smoking, drinking and using drugs.
- The Barrington Planning Board and the Technical Review Committee hold a joint meeting on Thursday, Sept. 27, to hear a presentation on the affordable housing development, Palmer Pointe Neighborhood, proposed for the Sowams Nursery site off of Sowams Road.
- Getting a bit tired of playing Words With Friends on your cell phone? Play the original word game, Scrabble, on Friday at 10 am at the Barrington Senior Center on the lower level of the public library.
- Empty your medicine cabinet of all expired and unwanted prescription drugs at another Drug Take Back on Saturday, Sept. 29, at the Barrington Police Staton from 10 am to 2 pm.
- The annual Rubber Ducky Race of the Barrington Education Foundation will be run on Saturday, Sept. 29, from 2 to 4 pm (race at 3 pm) at Woods Pond near the public library just off of County Road. Buy a duck, watch it race, you could win an iPad or an iPod or a Kindle Fire.
Pam
5:04 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012
We need your support! Let's preserve open space in Barrington and stop the construction of dense housing!
Please attend the “pre-application conference” between the Planning Board and the East Bay Community Development Corp. was scheduled by the Planning Board at its last meeting for September 27, 2012 at the Town Hall at 7:00 p.m.
Your attendance is needed at every meeting of any Board or Committee that deals with these questions to let our voice be heard.
We were told at the last Planning Board meeting that attendees will not be able to pose questions. Therefore we presented prepared questions to the Town Planner requesting that they be asked by the Board.
It is important that we all are familiar with the details of the proposed plan.
Save the date: The next monthly meeting of the Planning Board is October 2, 2012.
Also, if you have not already signed the petition in opposition to the proposed plan of development at the Sowams Nursery, please write to barringtonresidents@gmail.com.
Concerned Barrington Residents
Gary Morse
8:42 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012
The biggest affordable housing issue for Palmer Point is whether the majority town council is planning to grant a local property tax subsidy to this project paid for by the residents of Barrington.
Councilors Speakman and Weymouth granted this subsidy to Sweetbriar, and it is likely they will do the same for this project.
They are after all strong proponents of this public policy.
Lois Law
7:21 pm on Friday, October 12, 2012
please delete my to your Newspaper connection..
This was an error on my part.
Lois Law [lawlois2011@yahoo.com]
Lois Law
7:21 pm on Friday, October 12, 2012
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