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Monterey to hold annual town meeting Saturday morning

The opening of the 2024 warrant for Monterey, Massachusetts' town meeting.
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The opening of the 2024 warrant for Monterey, Massachusetts' town meeting.

The Southern Berkshire County community of Monterey is holding its town meeting Saturday morning.

Monterey voters will decide on a 22-item warrant at the gathering, including an almost $5.5 million operating budget for fiscal year 2025, an almost 7% increase over the previous year. The town’s finance committee and select board are split on a $30,000 appropriation to hire a scientist to help study an invasive aquatic weed in Lake Garfield, with the former not supporting the measure and the latter backing it. A citizens petition is aimed at gauging town interest in refrigerating the ice rink at the firehouse pavilion.

The meeting is set for 9:30 a.m. at the Monterey firehouse.

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Josh Landes has been WAMC's Berkshire Bureau Chief since February 2018 after working at stations including WBGO Newark and WFMU East Orange. A passionate advocate for Berkshire County, Landes was raised in Pittsfield and attended Hampshire College in Amherst, receiving his bachelor's in Ethnomusicology and Radio Production. You can reach him at jlandes@wamc.org with questions, tips, and/or feedback.
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