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Bolton Local: A grassroots group of people from Bolton, Massachusetts who believe that local solutions to today's challenges of fossil fuel depletion, climate change, and a faltering economy can help create sustainable communities.
Mosquitoes with Eastern Equine Encephalitis and West Nile Virus have been found in the Bolton Flats area of town off Still River Road. Mosquito spraying will be done with truck mounted sprayers from the roadside the evening of Monday, August 30, 2010 from 8 p.m. to midnight.
Information on spraying can be found at this website, www.cmmcp.org, or by calling (508) 393-3055 during business hours. Please contact CCMCP at 508-393-3055 if you would like to be placed on the "opt out" list for spraying scheduled for Monday, August 30, 2010 from 8 p.m. to midnight. Author visit of interest - September 14 at the Library
Al Lima, author of Preserving Community Character: A Citizen’s Guide to Saving Place and Halting Urban Sprawl, will be coming to Bolton this fall for a talk and book signing. The program will held at the library on Tuesday, September 14, at 7 p.m. in the Program Room. Mark your calendar in advance if interested, it could well be a popular program! The event will be co-hosted by the Bolton Public Library, Bolton Local, and the Bolton Historical Commission. Lima researched and wrote the Preservation Plan for the Town of Bolton back in 1998, under the leadership of the Historical Commission. He is familiar with the town. The Preservation Plan is available online on the Town website, on the Historical Commission page. His appearance and the important discussion around the future of the Smith property is a coincidence. From his bio: Alfred J. Lima is a professional planner who has practiced for municipalities and as the principal of his own planning consulting firm. His interest in preserving community character has evolved from his years of experience in general planning, open space protection and historic preservation. He has always been interested in the issue of why some communities seem able to preserve their character and others do not and decided to write this book to answer that question. His professional experience—and the lessons he learned as a community activist—gives him a unique perspective on how citizens can make government work to preserve communities.
Here is a link to a new blog that Roland Ochsenbein has created as a means to keep interested people in Bolton informed about the proposed plan for a shopping center to be built in the middle of our town.
The center would be built at the site of the former Smith Motors on Main St. and would include over eight acres of undeveloped land behind the former garage.
For more information, also check out the Planning Board's blog.
Help Feed Your Neighbor...
Bolton resident, Sharon Shepala, has announced that she is making twice-weekly deliveries of fresh food to the Hudson Food Pantry. She invites people with excess garden produce—even 1 or 2 cucumbers—to leave the produce at the back of St. Francis Church by 8:30 a.m. on Tuesdays and Saturdays, and she will deliver. (As she put it, your 2 cucumbers, and someone else's, and another person's makes half a dozen! Every little bit helps.) Community gardeners interested in donating produce will soon have a collection bin at the garden, with signage inviting people to leave excess produce there Monday night, Friday night, or before 8 a.m. on Tuesday or Saturday.
Lancaster Farmers' Market Starting in July, the Lancaster Farmers' Market will take place on Thursdays from 3:00 to 6:00 under a pole barn at the Bolton Fairgrounds in Lancaster. Bolton Local was formed in 2009, and in one short year, we accomplished a lot.
Click here to see. We are looking for new members who want to make positive changes in the community in 2010. As always, look for our original programs on Bolton Access Television Station - Cable Channel 10. Click for this week's schedule. |
