Gill News

For the first time, according to planners, Turners Falls has a master plan created by the community rather than a lone industrialist.

Repaving of the elementary school parking lot, a new dump truck and associated plowing and sanding equipment and a $1.5 million general budget are among the proposals facing voters at the annual town meeting Tuesday.

By narrow margins, Gill voters put their weight behind incumbent Marjorie Levenson and non-incumbent Charles Kelley in the three-way race for two Montague resident seats on the Gill-Montague School Committee.

A was the scenario created by Mark Almer, chairman of the Grizzly Flat Fire Safe Council, for the council's table-top drill exercise in April.

The public is getting a chance to weigh in on what will be studied in relicensing the Turners Falls hydro dam and Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Project - including whether the 1,080-megawatt underground Northfield project changes its operation.