Issue No. 14 — with so many crucial decisions ahead for Orleans voters, EXIT 89 takes a look at the Town Manager search, the Fire Station stalemate, the Nauset Building Project increases, the Governor Prence properties, Community Center study and short-term rental registration
Orleans first responders are on the ballot tomorrow. There are six general
override questions that need to pass in order to fully fund the new Police and
Firefighters three-year contracts that were approved at Special Town Meeting
[https://www.exit89.org/preview-of-special-town-meeting-october-17-2022/] on
October 17.
Doors will be open for
Issue No.13: Orleans voters considered 36 articles over the course of a chaotic 3-hour-plus meeting full of passionate debates. Steps toward a residential fertilizer ban passed. Articles proposing short-term rental registration and a "code of conduct" policy, along with two others, failed.
Norman Rockwell used his neighbors and friends
[https://www.vermontvacation.com/norman-rockwell-home] in Southern Vermont as
models for his 1941 painting Freedom of Speech
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Speech_(painting)], depicting a New
England Town Meeting. From a series, The Four Freedoms
[https://www.nrm.org/2012/
Come join your neighbors and help shape the future of Orleans.
It's Monday, October 17 at 6 PM — inside Nauset Regional Middle School Gym (in
the back, just above the ballpark). Plenty of parking is available in the
athletic field lot.
What’s being voted on? Take a