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		<title>Support, skepticism for center bike-crossing plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Auster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plans to use bicycle tracks to connect the fractured Minuteman Path in Arlington Center got plenty of support last night even as some identified potential flaws that could kill the idea. Comments followed a presentation of five different plans developed for the Town by Howard Stein-Hudson under a state-administered federal grant program, originally detailed here. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordonstreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8173502&amp;post=2599&amp;subd=wordonstreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alewife Sunnyside path entrance is open</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Auster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alert Menotonian* Stephanie Marlin-Curiel reports that the Broadway entrance to the northern segment of the Alewife Greenway is now open for business. (*Menotomy, from menhaden, which is in turn from the Algonquin word for alewife, was an old name for this part of town.) This means it is now possible to walk almost the full [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordonstreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8173502&amp;post=2572&amp;subd=wordonstreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Greenway-meets-Minuteman report</title>
		<link>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/greenway-meets-minuteman-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Auster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alewife]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Word on the Street&#8217;s far-flung foreign bureau has checked in with photos of the boardwalk being built that will connect the Greenway path along the Alewife Brook to the Minuteman Path. &#8220;Foreign bureau&#8221; means, in this case, &#8220;south of Mass. Ave.&#8221; Thanks to Doug Davidoff for the photo; he has are a few more here [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordonstreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8173502&amp;post=2562&amp;subd=wordonstreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arlington Center improvements</title>
		<link>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/arlington-center-bike-crossing-improvements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Auster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mass. Ave.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Town has $290,000 in federal funds from MassDOT to improve the intersection of Mass. Ave. and Route 60 in Arlington Center. There will be a public hearing on the design ideas at Town Hall on January 10 from 7–9 pm. Not part of the Mass. Ave. Project but I thought folks would like to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordonstreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8173502&amp;post=2547&amp;subd=wordonstreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alewife fences</title>
		<link>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/alewife-fences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Auster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alewife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alewife paths]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It took workers 3 days to build a low fence between neighbors&#8217; yards and state parkland along the Alewife near my house. The fence runs north from Cottage Ave. almost all the way to the Henderson St. Bridge. It overlaps about 20 feet of the ramp that brings the new path slowly up to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordonstreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8173502&amp;post=2490&amp;subd=wordonstreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The bollard-plinth-obelisk post</title>
		<link>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/a-post-about-bollard-plinth-obelis/</link>
		<comments>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/a-post-about-bollard-plinth-obelis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 02:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Auster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alewife]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Alewife path near my house got a few refinements this week, including a handsome new bollard, three feet tall, to discourage people from driving their cars onto the path along the brook. (Do not laugh, as I have seen people do exactly that, in fruitless search for the Northeast Passage to Somerville.) The above [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordonstreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8173502&amp;post=2421&amp;subd=wordonstreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Minor milestone on the Alewife</title>
		<link>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/minor-milestone-alewife/</link>
		<comments>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/minor-milestone-alewife/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Auster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alewife]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when I was wondering if we&#8217;d see any more work on the Alewife Greenway in our neighborhood before the end of the year, along comes this impressive granite plinth. The work was done last Tuesday, October 18. Now I know what those shallow circular wells are for. I have seen them in many locations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordonstreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8173502&amp;post=2396&amp;subd=wordonstreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>$3M Mass Ave. funding approved</title>
		<link>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/3m-mass-ave-funding-approved/</link>
		<comments>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/3m-mass-ave-funding-approved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 01:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Auster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Representative Will Brownsberger reports, Also approved by the MPO today [September 22] was $3.0 million in 2013 funding for Arlington’s Mass. Ave reconstruction project. The &#8220;MPO&#8221; is the Boston Regional Metropolitan Planning Organization,  which coordinates transportaion planning in the area. Brownsberger&#8217;s news comes almost as an afterthought to his report on his blog about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordonstreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8173502&amp;post=2389&amp;subd=wordonstreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MBTA drops most bus-stop consolidations on Mass. Ave.</title>
		<link>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/mbta-drops-bus-stop-consolidations-on-mass-ave/</link>
		<comments>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/mbta-drops-bus-stop-consolidations-on-mass-ave/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 02:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Auster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The MBTA, which last spring proposed to consolidate or eliminate some bus stops on Mass. Ave. to improve service, has revised its proposal, retaining nearly all stops at or near their present locations. The plan also calls for benches, trash cans, and, possibly, shelters at some locations. The T will hold a public hearing on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordonstreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8173502&amp;post=2383&amp;subd=wordonstreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, we have ramp</title>
		<link>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/alewife-path-ramp-construction/</link>
		<comments>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/alewife-path-ramp-construction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Auster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alewife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alewife paths]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly a year after crews poured the southern anchor of a ramp along the Arlington side of the Alewife Brook, carpenters bridged the last three feet and made a continuous walkway on August 5. Last month crews also took some steps to repair the problem-prone path entrance from Cottage Ave. The ramp, part of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordonstreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8173502&amp;post=2324&amp;subd=wordonstreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Patch of sidewalk</title>
		<link>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/patch-of-sidewalk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 01:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Auster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mass. Ave.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pedestrians]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Town replaced some 14 squares of sidewalk by the Arlington Diner last week, fixing a longstanding problem: This would not normally merit any ink here except that the entire sidewalk is scheduled for replacement during the impending reconstruction of Mass. Ave. As Arlington&#8217;s DPW Director, Mike Rademacher, recently told the Arlington Advocate, We’re not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordonstreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8173502&amp;post=2309&amp;subd=wordonstreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Landscape-design drawings add detail to the business district</title>
		<link>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/mass-ave-landscape-drawings-75/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Auster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mass. Ave.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[75% plans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pedestrians]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Landscape-design drawings for the East Arlington business district, detailing the possible placement of trees, benches, and other features, were posted at the Town&#8217;s web page earlier today. The drawings appear identical to those presented at the July 20 meeting of the Mass. Ave. Review Committee, which were draft works in progress, not final blueprints. At [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordonstreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8173502&amp;post=2298&amp;subd=wordonstreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anchoring the Alewife ramp</title>
		<link>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/anchoring-the-alewife-ramp/</link>
		<comments>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/anchoring-the-alewife-ramp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Auster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alewife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alewife paths]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For three days in July, crews dug and poured concrete for an anchor to complete a ramp to Henderson Street just east of the bridge over the brook. The nearly finished ramp had been standing unchanged since mid-May. On July 18, workers dug trenches and poured concrete for the lower part of the anchor foundation, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordonstreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8173502&amp;post=2246&amp;subd=wordonstreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing for Thompson-Hardy commute</title>
		<link>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/preparing-for-thompson-hardy-commute/</link>
		<comments>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/preparing-for-thompson-hardy-commute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Auster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mass. Ave.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Selectmen last Monday tweaked parking restrictions on a short stretch of Mass. Ave. to create a morning drop-off area for temporary Hardy School students. Parking in the drop off zone, in the south-side block between Chandler St. and Edgerton Rd., will be restricted from 7:30 to 8:15 am. The change is designed to partly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordonstreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8173502&amp;post=2229&amp;subd=wordonstreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mass. Ave. design moves to trees and benches</title>
		<link>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/mass-ave-design-moves-to-trees-and-benches/</link>
		<comments>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/mass-ave-design-moves-to-trees-and-benches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Auster</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[75% plans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pedestrians]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Town&#8217;s Mass. Ave. Review Committee saw preliminary drawings for sidewalk and landscape design at a meeting in the Senior Center last night. The subsequent discussion emphasized the areas around Grafton Street and opposite Lake Street, and also an inbound bus stop proposed to be moved from the north to the south side of Milton [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordonstreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8173502&amp;post=2199&amp;subd=wordonstreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drainage plan</title>
		<link>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/drainage-erosion-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/drainage-erosion-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Auster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alewife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alewife paths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[erosion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Alewife-path construction team has a plan to prevent water spilling down Cottage Ave. from eroding the entrance and puddling on the path. Thanks to Wayne Chouinard, Arlington&#8217;s Town Engineer, for sharing the drawing. Wayne has the unenviable task of standing between people like me and the project team. The full drawing is here. It&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordonstreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8173502&amp;post=2172&amp;subd=wordonstreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seventy-Five-percent tidbits</title>
		<link>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/seventy-five-percent-tidbits/</link>
		<comments>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/seventy-five-percent-tidbits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Auster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mass. Ave.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[75% plans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[committee]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There has not been much to say since MassDOT&#8217;s low-key approval of the 25% plans for Mass. Ave. moved us into the 75% design phase last month. Things must have been moving behind the scenes, however, because the Town&#8217;s landscape consultants will unveil their draft design for the sidewalk space at a meeting of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordonstreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8173502&amp;post=2187&amp;subd=wordonstreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plan &#8220;in accordance with&#8221; requirements, Mass Highway finds</title>
		<link>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/plan-in-accordance-with-requirements-mass-highway-finds/</link>
		<comments>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/plan-in-accordance-with-requirements-mass-highway-finds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Auster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mass. Ave.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[75% plans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Mass. Ave. plan meets state guidelines, according to a letter from Mass. Highway to those who commented to the agency about the plan. This low-key endorsement of the Town&#8217;s 25%-plan submission means the general features of the design are approved. The Selectmen voted to proceed with 75% plans, the next stage, last Monday. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordonstreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8173502&amp;post=2154&amp;subd=wordonstreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Selectmen tout &#8220;major safety and mobility improvements&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/selectmen-tout-major-safety-and-mobility-improvements/</link>
		<comments>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/selectmen-tout-major-safety-and-mobility-improvements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Auster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mass. Ave.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[75% plans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Board of Selectmen last night approved a letter to MassDOT &#8220;affirming the Town&#8217;s commitment to advance the roadway reconstruction of Mass. Ave.&#8221; A scan of the letter is here, and the text follows the highlights I excerpt below. &#8220;The project underwent a conceptual design process that included 6 public meetings and 4 meetings in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordonstreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8173502&amp;post=2140&amp;subd=wordonstreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Selectmen move Mass. Ave. to next step</title>
		<link>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/selectmen-move-mass-ave-to-next-step/</link>
		<comments>http://wordonstreet.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/selectmen-move-mass-ave-to-next-step/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Auster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mass. Ave.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[75% plans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With little fanfare, the Board of Selectmen tonight voted to inform Mass. Highway that the Town would proceed into the so-called 75%-design phase of the Mass. Ave. Project. The vote was 4-1, with Diane Mahon casting the only dissenting vote, which she qualified by saying that she nonetheless supported the move to the 75% phase. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordonstreet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8173502&amp;post=2133&amp;subd=wordonstreet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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