Government & development in Berlin

Get the Berlin brief every morning, free. Everything happening in Berlin in one two-minute email: town hall, schools, road work, openings, and what is coming up. Sign up. Know a newsletter, official, or group we should be reading? Tell us.

Last 14 days

• Capital Planning panel weighs landfill, ambulance, demolition costs. Berlin's Capital Planning Committee took up landfill-closure engineering costs and a second ambulance life-support monitor, while a roughly $277,000 plan to demolish the old fire station and EMS building drew sharp pushback over throwing away town money.Berlin News
• Select Board opens fall warrant review on levy. Berlin's Select Board opened its fall warrant review with a $198,000 tax-levy increase on the table, alongside staffing costs, rising fuel and IT expenses, and a septic and water-line article for the 1870 House and First Parish Church that drew pointed questions about cost estimates.Berlin News
• Board of Health takes up Gates Pond Road septic. Berlin's Board of Health considered septic variances for a Gates Pond Road redesign, while its health agent pressed landlords over long-unresolved violations on Pleasant Street and Peach Hill Road, warning cases open past 30 days risk becoming condemnable.Berlin News
• Cultural Council tackles years of mishandled grant funds. Berlin's Cultural Council discovered it has been improperly rolling over state grant administrative funds for years instead of spending them annually, forcing a scramble to draw down the balance before an October 8 state filing deadline.Berlin News
• Capital Planning panel holds three warrant articles. Berlin's Capital Planning Committee put off votes on a 1870 Town Hall septic overhaul, a Complete Streets engineering quote that appeared copied from another town's estimate, and a revised firehouse demolition estimate, citing unanswered cost questions.Berlin News
• Select Board revisits staffing hours Finance Committee cut. Berlin's Select Board took up a $20,000 staffing request for the town administrator's office that the Finance Committee had just voted down, as members pressed for written justification before the fall Special Town Meeting warrant is finalized.Berlin News
• Council on Aging debates cost of its newsletter. Berlin's Council on Aging weighed whether its $1,000-a-month newsletter is worth the expense, as the director described gaps in the town's senior population data and possible changes to its Medicare counseling program.Berlin News

Updated daily from the Berlin morning brief.