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Last 14 days

• Belchertown logs 12 property transfers in September. County records show Belchertown recorded a dozen property transfers last month, though sale prices for most of the deals have not yet been filed.Belchertown News
• Select board weighs zoning fate, surplus split. Belchertown's Select Board took up a $340,896 cherry sheet surplus, a liquor license transfer for new restaurant Victoria Mexican Kitchen and Bar, and a push to strike a medical marijuana zoning provision from November's special town meeting warrant.Belchertown News
• Board of Health weighs septic waiver, fee changes. Belchertown's Board of Health weighed a septic system waiver for a Muscle Road property, a revised 2027 landlord-inspection fee schedule, and a pesticide and hazardous-chemicals rule after another town's health board warned a similar law proved unenforceable.Belchertown News
• Town lands nearly $2.3 million in state grants. Belchertown has been awarded nearly $2.3 million across five state grants that will fund new wayfinding signs, water and sewer improvements, support for the Cultural District, and work to help keep local roads safe.Town of Belchertown
• Board of Health weighs septic waiver, new fees. Belchertown's Board of Health considered a septic system waiver for a Muscle Road property, a revised 2027 fee schedule that would raise costs for rental-property landlords, and a pesticide rule it pulled back after another town's cautionary experience.Belchertown News
• Select Board debates zoning article, surplus funds. Belchertown's Select Board debated what to do with a $340,896 surplus, weighing a split between stabilization and capital reserves. Members also weighed a liquor license transfer and whether to strike a marijuana zoning provision from November's town meeting warrant.Belchertown News
• Registry records show 12 filings, few conventional sales. Belchertown's registry of deeds logged 12 filings this week, with few traditional home sales among them, in Belchertown News's regular look at local real estate activity.Belchertown News
• $1 million MVP grant to transform Tadgell School. Belchertown received a $1 million state Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness grant to begin turning the former Tadgell School into a community resilience hub, the town announced.Town of Belchertown

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