WBSM - New Bedford's Local Source For News, Talk, and Sports! » town meeting http://wbsm.com For over 60 years, WBSM has been the #1 source for News, Talk, and Sports in New Bedford! Wed, 22 May 2013 16:26:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Scouts Lead Movement for New Acushnet Library http://wbsm.com/scouts-lead-movement-for-new-acushnet-library/ http://wbsm.com/scouts-lead-movement-for-new-acushnet-library/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 02:28:19 +0000 Bryan Booker http://wbsm.com/?p=80436 A grassroots campaign to bring a new library and community center to Acushnet has scored another victory.

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]]> http://wbsm.com/scouts-lead-movement-for-new-acushnet-library/feed/ 0 Acushnet Girl Scouts eagerly await Town Meeting's vote on holding a special election for a new library and community center (Credit: TSM) Fairhaven Debates Wind Turbine By-Law Changes http://wbsm.com/fairhaven-debates-wind-turbine-by-law-changes/ http://wbsm.com/fairhaven-debates-wind-turbine-by-law-changes/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2013 04:53:20 +0000 Bryan Booker http://wbsm.com/?p=56108 Fairhaven residents testified for nearly two hours Tuesday at a Planning Board hearing on amending the town's wind turbine by-law.

The amendments would put greater limits on power output and height of new turbines, and increase the minimum distance between turbines and homes

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]]> http://wbsm.com/fairhaven-debates-wind-turbine-by-law-changes/feed/ 0 flickr Voke Expansion Gets Approval From Final Member Community http://wbsm.com/38149/ http://wbsm.com/38149/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2012 03:50:41 +0000 Bryan Booker http://wbsm.com/?p=38149 Fairhaven Town Meeting voters gave the green light to a proposed expansion at Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School. The estimated $17-point-1 million dollar project was accepted by state school building officials in October, and has already gotten approval from Dartmouth and New Bedford

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]]> http://wbsm.com/38149/feed/ 0 gnbvt.edu No-Go For Future Residential Solar Farms in Dartmouth http://wbsm.com/no-go-for-future-residential-solar-farms-in-dartmouth/ http://wbsm.com/no-go-for-future-residential-solar-farms-in-dartmouth/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2012 04:07:49 +0000 Taylor Cormier http://wbsm.com/?p=23872 Dartmouth Town Meeting members shot down a by-law amendment last night, that would have allowed special provisions for solar farms to locate in residential neighborhoods.

The amendment would have allowed the installation of neighborhood solar farms, provided the land was a designated brownfield or contaminated in some way

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