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have cost an estimated $4 million.
The measure was shot down at
Town Meeting and never made it
to the ballot.
The fire department tried again
a couple of years later with a twostory
building with a smaller
footprint. It was approved by
Town Meeting, but lost at the
ballot box by 37 votes. Convinced
that it could win if presented to
the voters again a year later, town
leaders presented the measure a
second time to the voters, but
was defeated by an even larger
margin.
Other attempts fizzled when the
town tried to find a suitable tract
New Fire Station Opens Its Doors
of land other than on Haverhill
Road.
Then, in 2014, the town
authorized money for a feasibility
study and hired the Corel Group.
Two years later, after the architects
had designed a new fire house and
an expanded police headquarters,
the Board of Selectmen asked the
Town Meeting and the voters to
approve an $11.7 million override
to pay for the facilities. With
strong community support from
groups that included the Pine
Grove School PTA, the measure
passed.
The expansion of the
police headquarters is nearing
completion.
Broderick said with pride that the
two buildings had come in under
the $12 million budget. “I know
it is a big hit for the taxpayers, but
“It’s working out well.”
The chief, who expects to
retire in two years, thanked the
community for its support. “The
Selectmen knew we couldn’t keep
kicking the can down the road,”
he said, noting that the new public
safety complex would have cost $4
million 20 years ago.
“It took a lot of work by a lot
of people to make this happen,”
the chief said. “The town and the
department are in a better place
than when I came. We can now
build on what we have.”
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of the island’s architecture) was alternative exists or the building
Thirty-two homes are included the reason they bought their has been determined to be
in the new preservation guidelines. homes in the first place,” study structurally unsound.
Twenty-three homeowners opted committee secretary Bobbi New construction will
out of the district.
Klima said.
be permitted if the design
According to the proposed Opponents of the preservation is “compatible with the
bylaw, the purpose of the new district expressed a variety of architectural style and character
district is to preserve and protect reasons for opting out. Some told of neighboring buildings.”
“the unique character and the committee members they did When first appointed in 2017,
streetscape of Ring’s Island as a not want the town telling them the study committee was named
present day neighborhood with what to do with their property, the Ring’s Island Historical
roots as a colonial fishing village.” Klima said.
District Committee.
It accepts that the neighborhood’s Some homeowners, particularly Dondero and other members
character will evolve and continue on First Street, hope to sell their of the committee noted that
to change, but “not in a way that homes for a high price because this proposed district is now
is detrimental to the island’s they are next to the
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In the future, new or current District. “A historic district
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Some of those homeowners The commission, which will
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to preserve Ring’s Island,” said changes to homes, will act in
Diane Dondero, vice chair of the addition to and in cooperation
study committee.
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