Ice cream and other topics: towns grapple with health insurance increase, Wendell budget & batteries, cop drama
About this episode
Sarah and Mike discuss various local news topics including health insurance rate increases, a tax vote in Wendell, and recent events in the Montague Police Department.
After an ode to ice cream and popsicles, Sarah and Mike cover a few irksome news items of the summer. They discuss the potential impacts of a regional health insurer’s sudden rate increase and the results of a recent tax vote in Wendell, as well as a pending solary array development in that town. They then give a very humane, un-sensationalized recap of recent churn in the Montague Police Department. Plus, school merger fantasies and BULBS BULBS BULBS ! Read, support, and check out the fall bulb fundraiser at https://montaguereporter.org/
Keywords
- ice cream
- popsicles
- tax vote
- solar array
- police drama
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