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Transit board seat filled after years vacant
Select Board fills a long-vacant regional transit seat and moves to unseal old closed-door minutes. From our own coverage: Select Board tackles long-vacant transit authority seat; Planning Board clears address plan, weighs McHugh Circle bond. Also in today's brief (7 items): Longtime Ab…
From Abington News
- Select Board tackles long-vacant transit authority seat. Abington's Select Board took up filling a seat on the Brockton Area Transit Authority that had sat empty for years, after a resident complained the authority would not post public-safety information on its buses, and weighed whether to unseal a board member's 2024 closed-door minutes.Abington News
- Planning Board clears address plan, weighs McHugh Circle bond. Abington's Planning Board cleared the way for the new fire station to get its own address, then considered a McHugh Circle developer's push to shrink a decades-old subdivision's bond and an accessory apartment that would exceed the town's water-moratorium limits.Abington News
Abington on Wed, Oct 7
- Longtime Abington resident Leo Donovan dies at 89. D. Leo Donovan, a longtime Abington resident born in town in November 1936, died October 6 at age 89, according to The Patriot Ledger.The Patriot Ledger
Coming up
- Thu, Oct 8, 7:00 p.m.: Ted Reinstein returns to library with Revolutionary-era tales. Author and reporter Ted Reinstein visits Abington Public Library Thursday at 7 p.m. to share stories from the years before American independence, part of the library's fall program lineup.Abington Public Library
- Tue, Oct 13, 2:00 p.m.: Library screens Wuthering Heights Oct. 13. Abington Public Library shows the R-rated film Wuthering Heights Tuesday, October 13, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Copeland Room, with popcorn and no registration required.Abington Public Library
- Tue, Oct 13, 5:30 p.m.: Library hosts adult board game night Oct. 13. Abington Public Library opens the Copeland Room to adults for a free board game night Tuesday, October 13, from 5:30 to 7:45 p.m., with games provided or bring your own.Abington Public Library
- Wed, Oct 14, 3:30 p.m.: Lego Club builds at library Oct. 14. Kids in grade 1 and up can drop in for Lego Club at Abington Public Library Wednesday, October 14, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Copeland Room, no registration required.Abington Public Library
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