{"id":3395,"date":"2019-05-13T21:30:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T01:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/?p=3395"},"modified":"2019-05-13T21:30:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T01:30:02","slug":"annual-town-meeting-wraps-up-for-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/?p=3395","title":{"rendered":"Annual Town Meeting wraps up for 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear fellow Hanoverians:<\/p>\n<p>Hanover&#8217;s Annual Town Meeting was dissolved this evening (Monday as I write<br \/>\nthis), but not before we agreed to petition the General Court for 13<br \/>\nadditional liquor licenses for Hanover Crossing, and discussed the<br \/>\npossibility of reconsidering our approval of Article 36 regarding the<br \/>\nSylvester School.<\/p>\n<p>The Sylvester School article discussion dominated the evening, but<br \/>\nultimately, the two-thirds majority needed to reconsider our actions from<br \/>\nlast Monday was not achieved.  In the meantime, the Selectmen have voted to<br \/>\ncancel the current RFP that was responded to by Hanover&#8217;s own Dave<br \/>\nTraggorth and the Traggorth Companies.  Town Meeting&#8217;s actions from last<br \/>\nweek under Article 35 and 36 stand, include the decision to sell or<br \/>\notherwise dispose of the Sylvester School, and are described in more detail<br \/>\nhere:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.hanover-ma.gov\/sites\/hanoverma\/files\/uploads\/2019_-_special_annual_town_meeting_warrant_-_final_for_website.pdf<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to the good people of Hanover for the lively and engaging debate<br \/>\nof these issues!  Your participation is appreciated!  Particular thanks to<br \/>\nthe Advisory Committee for their consideration of these issues and their<br \/>\nrelated recommendations on Town Meeting floor.  The hundreds of hours they<br \/>\nspend behind the scenes in preparation for Town Meeting are without<br \/>\ncomparison.<\/p>\n<p>See you next year!  Mark your calendar now for the first Monday in May &#8211;<br \/>\nMay 4, 2020!<\/p>\n<p>For &#8220;Around Town on the Web&#8221;,<br \/>\nCathy H-B<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n&#8220;Around Town on the Web&#8221; (&#8220;ATOTW&#8221;) has been a valued push notification<br \/>\nsince the spring of 2004 &#8211; long before there were push notifications!<\/p>\n<p>For submission guidelines and answers to frequently asked questions about<br \/>\n&#8220;ATOTW&#8221;, please go to http:\/\/www.atotw.com.<br \/>\nTo search for archived &#8220;ATOTW&#8221; news, view the archive<\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\nIf you would like to be added to this distribution list, click here<\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\nPlease follow the link in the response e-mail to validate your account. You<br \/>\nwill not receive &#8220;ATOTW&#8221; e-mails until you complete this step.<br \/>\nIf you would like to be removed from this distribution list, click here<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; powered by phpList, www.phplist.com &#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear fellow Hanoverians: Hanover&#8217;s Annual Town Meeting was dissolved this evening (Monday as I write this), but not before we agreed to petition the General Court for 13 additional liquor licenses for Hanover Crossing, and discussed the possibility of reconsidering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/?p=3395\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atotw_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}