Applications are due Jan. 3.
Easton's Community Preservation Committee is accepting applications for funding in the upcoming year. "The Community Preservation Committee is now accepting applications for FY2014 funding under the Community Preservation Act," the committee said in a statement. "All applications should be submitted no later than January 3, 2013 at 5:30 pm to the Planning and Community Development Department., Town Offices, 136 Elm St. Applications received by this date will be taken under consideration for the 2013 May Annual Town Meeting. Click here for the application." Community preservation funds are a product of the Community Preservation Act: a 3 percent property tax surcharge adopted by the Town of Easton to help fund affordable housing, open …
Fields display no environmental hazards, officials say. Complex may be named after Edwin Keach
The Chestnut Street property, which the town voted at Town Meeting to purchase with $2.37 million of Community Preservation Act Funds is environmentally safe, officials say. And, by the time it is in possession of the town this fall, the complex may have a name. Meredith Keach,president of the Edwin A. Keach Memorial Foundation, and Nick Ventresco, a member of the foundation's board, appeared before the selectmen Monday night to ask for the town's support in naming the fields after Meredith's brother, Edwin, who was tragically killed in a car accident on Chestnut Street in 2003. "Edwin met an untimely fate directly across from where the fields are being built," Keach said. "Part of our organization is giving back to the community in Edwin’…
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