Select Board

While holiday shoppers will enjoy all the usual early morning Black Friday festivities this year, the Dartmouth Select Board are looking to end that tradition in 2017. At Monday's meeting, the board reviewed Black Friday applications for the Dartmouth Mall, Walmart, and Kohl's in Dartmouth...

South Dartmouth residents and businesses are preparing to lose the Padanaram Causeway until 2018. MassDOT and John Rocchio Construction, the company in charge of the $8.2 million causeway project, discussed their plans at Monday night's Select Board meeting...

Dartmouth could be the home of a medical marijuana dispensary in the not-so-distant future. At Monday's meeting, the Dartmouth Select Board voted to provide a letter of non-opposition for a proposed facility at 350 Faunce Corner Rd, which is currently a nutrition store...

Plans for a permanent Dartmouth police station took a step back after Tuesday night's town election. Voters said 'no' to the ballot question 1116 - 992, which asked to renovate the current police building for $8.4 million, raising resident taxes by about $37...

The Dartmouth Select Board wants residents to know what they'll be voting for on Tuesday, April 5. At Monday's meeting, the architects behind the police building renovation project gave a final presentation on the design voted for at town meeting this past october...

Two current Dartmouth officials are looking to fill the vacancy left after former selectman John george's arrest last year. With Tuesday, April 5 being election day in town, Planning Board member Joel Avila and Finance Committee member John Haran attended Candidate's Night on Wednesday to answer questions from the crowd at town hall, and maybe win a few votes for the fifth Select Board position...

Dartmouth wants to think outside the box when it comes to their commercial area. The town recently completed their Retail Corridor Study, which looked at different options for unused areas around the mall and other shopping spaces such as empty parking lots and undeveloped land...

Dartmouth Select Board Chairman Shawn McDonald says we need new tactics to win the war on drugs. At Monday's meeting, the board discussed a recent letter sent by New Bedford's City Council regarding the surrounding area's resources for drug treatment...

Dartmouth officals are hoping two new sub-committees can help the town stay out of financial trouble down the road. Although Dartmouth has enjoyed a comfortable financial situation in recent years, officials worry that might not last. The Select Board met with the Finance Committee and Planning Board on Monday night to discuss recent projects and future developments in town...