[CPEO-IRF] Devens (MA) a new town?

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Devens moves to become state's first new town in decades


By JAY LINDSAY
Associated Press/Worcester Telegram (MA)
September 23, 2006


DEVENS, Mass. - The roads around Devens are lined by freshly planted 
trees, many with roots still bagged. A new hotel borders the town 
common, which is just two years old. The post office zip code wasn't 
even around during the last Census.

There's a new look on seven square miles that was once part the Fort 
Devens military base, before it was shut down in 1996. Now the emerging 
community wants a new title: the first town incorporated in 
Massachusetts since 1920.

Next month, residents in the three towns Fort Devens was created from - 
Ayer, Shirley and Harvard - will vote on a provocative proposal to 
incorporate Devens as the state's 352nd municipality, the first since 
East Brookfield was founded.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060923/APF/609231906

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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