Bristol council balks at 30 million highway bond approval
Bristol Republicans refuse to back the Democrat sponsored 30 million highway bond to be voted Nov 3. Council president Col Roderick cites missing East Shore Highway funds and past state communications. Citizens heard from candidates at a Bristol League of Women Voters event with spirited exchanges on the Home Rule Charter and town administration.
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Bristol
State Office of Transportation
Francis J. Fazzano
East Shore
Arthur R. Roderick
Council
Women Challenge Smoke Residents contest state health on nuisance
Broad Common Road residents Eileen C Baril and Sarah T Amaral petition Dr Joseph E Cannon to stop smoke from Russo Salvage Co on Gooding Ave They cite a Jan 30 1970 memo from Austin C Daley head of Air Pollution Control urging residents to prove air pollution For page 30 continued
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Broad Common Road
State Director of Health
Eileen C. Baril
Sarah T Amaral
Joseph E. Cannon
Russo Salvage Co
Gooding Ave
State Health Department
Austin C. Daley
Department
Cannon
Rego Land Offer Flairs At Council
James E Rego owner of Rego's Restaurant on Metacom Avenue and brother of councilman Anthony Rego is at the center of a legal tangle over town land once willed to Bristol by Davis Wilson. The town has charged nominal rent of 240 dollars a year for the land and two buildings where Rego rents apartments and runs the restaurant. Five years ago he offered to buy the land and the town tentatively agreed if he signed a lease as tenant on the land.
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Col. Roderick
Licht
Bristol
Col Roderick
Ohionel
Anthony Rego
Colt School
Bristol League of Women Voters
WPRO
Monroe Toews
John D. Faria
James E Rego
Rego
Metacom Avenue
Mr Rego
Davis Wilson
Restauranteur
Council Targets Rego Lease With Eviction Threat
Bristol councilors said Mr Rego agreed to sign a town lease but did not. A second appraisal valued his two parcels at 12000 and 18000 dollars. Council set Oct 26 to sign or face eviction by Nov 16 with total annual rent of 1740 dollars.
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Bristol
Rego
Wilson
Council
Arthur Roderick
Providence
J Walker
Town Clerks Reject Union In Town Hall Vote
At last night’s town council meeting it was stated that 11 clerks at the town hall rejected unionization last week by a vote of 7 to 40. The clerks would have joined District 50 Allied and Technical Workers of Bristol.
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District 50, Allied and Technical Workers of
Bristol
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Faria
Roderick
Fann
Frank B. Correia
Correia
GOP
Rego Land
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