Dear fellow Hanoverians:
Town Meeting and Town Election season is upon us! As always, “Around
Town on the Web” is delighted to offer this venue to candidates and
town meeting participants to highlight candidacies or issues of
interest. Submissions will be edited for clarity, bias, and length,
but are welcomed and appreciated!
Our first submission comes from Hanover resident Chris Haraden, the
lead sponsor for Town Meeting Article 54, and is as follows:
A citizen’s petition article on the May 7th Annual Town Meeting
warrant asks voters to revisit last year’s decision to tear down the
1896 Curtis School.
The motion on the article, as printed in the warrant, reads:
“Article 54. To see if the Town will vote to rescind its vote under
Article 28 of the May 2, 2011 Annual Town Meeting, and to direct the
Town Moderator to appoint a Curtis School Task Force to conduct a
comprehensive review, involving any applicable town departments,
boards, committees, community groups, and private parties, of all
available data and options for the building and land at 848 Main
Street, including, but not limited to, repair, renovation, alteration,
adaptive reuse, sale or lease of structures. Said Task Force shall
issue its report and recommendations no later than the next Annual
Town Meeting, or to take any other action in relation thereto.”
Last year, Article 28 appropriated $75,000 to tear down the school.
The Hanover Historical Commission later voted to delay demolition of
the building for a year. More information, including reports,
research, and photos of the building’s interior, can be found by
visiting a blog created by Hanover resident Chris Haraden, Article
54’s sponsor, at http://curtisschool.wordpress.com
, or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/curtisschool
.
For more information, please contact Chris Haraden at
charaden@comcast.net
, or come to Town Meeting!
For “Around Town on the Web”,
Cathy H-B
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