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Telluride faces a choice with lasting impact this November. Four seats are vacant on town council, and with big holes to be patched in the 2010 budget, each of the nine candidates who’ve tossed their hats in the ring say they’ll bring a different kind of experience to bear on town’s problem.
Telluride finds itself amid strange times. Our revenues are lean and our land scarce. Our challenges mount and our options, seemingly, dwindle. We have to fix our roads, find ways to create affordable housing and increase tourism. And we must do it all with less money than we’re used to. Certainly, it won’t be easy.
EYES ON THE HILUX: Finalists of the bmobile BlackBerry International Power Soca Monarch gather around the Toyota Hilux grand prize yesterday following the drawing for positions at the offices of the Caribbean New Media Group (CNMG), Port of Spain.
Ann Brady thinks she’s a long shot for a seat on the Telluride Town Council. The former superintendent of the Telluride R-1 School District said she has no big issues, and no endorsements.
Rio says Ann Godbehere and Robert Brown would become non-executive directors of the boards of both entities, replacing Sir David Clementi and David Mayhew.
The nine candidates vying for four seats on the Telluride Town Council represent a cross-section of the community — from a late-20s video store manager to a retired schools superintendent, from a glider-plane-flying incumbent to a computer tech taking his first stab at council.
UNLAWFUL: Photo of sprinklers in use at Prime Minister Patrick Manning's St Ann's residence taken by a citizen journalist yesterday shortly after 9 a.m.
The Franklin County Commission Tuesday awarded contracts for renovation work on the historic courthouse, located in downtown Union.
Saying two terms are enough, Franklin County Presiding Commissioner Ed Hillhouse announced Tuesday he will not seek re-election this year.
A number of harp and hooded seals are finding their way to Cape Ann's beaches and iced-over harbors these days. And while seal sightings are normal around here in the spring, the number of the marine mammals appearing this winter is up from previous years, according to Mason Weinrich, executive director of the Gloucester-based Whale Center of New England.
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