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The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $22,275.00 be transferred from E and D for this purpose.
ART. 38. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $6,250.00 or any other sum for the improvement of Shawsheen Street, said money to be used in conjunction with any money which may be allotted by the State or County, or both, for the purpose, or take any other action relative thereto and will further vote to transfer the sum of $18,750.00 from the E and D account in an- ticipation of re-imbursement from the State and County for the work, or take any other action relative thereto.
Road Commissioners
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $6,250.00 be raised and appropriated and the sum of $18,750.00 be transferred from E and D for this purpose.
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ART. 39. To see if the Town will vote to continue the Highway Machinery Fund as established at the last Annual Town Meeting, and to appropriate an additional sum including the unexpended balance of the 1957 Highway Machinery Account to be added to the amount already accredited to this fund for Highway Machinery purposes, or take any other action relative thereto.
Road Commissioners
The Finance Committee recommends the adoption of this article and that the sum of $5,184.02 be raised and appropriated, also the transfer of $1,665.58, the unexpended balance of the 1957 Highway Machinery Fund and the accredited amount of $8,150.40 to the High- way Machinery Fund.
ART. 40. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to transfer from the Highway Machinery Fund for the purpose, repair and maintenance of Road Machinery equipment for 1958 or take any action relative thereto. Road Commissioners
The Finance Committee recommends the transfer of $11,000.00 from the Highway Machinery Fund for this purpose.
ART. 41. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $400.00 for Poison Ivy Control or take any other action relative thereto. Tree Warden
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $100.00 be raised and appropriated for this purpose.
ART. 42. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $300.00 for Nursery Stock or take any other action relative thereto. Tree Warden
The Finance Committee recommends the indefinite postponement of this article.
ART. 43. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,000.00 for an Asphlund Chipper for the Tree Dept. or take any other action relative thereto. Tree Warden
The Finance Committee recommends the indefinite postponement of this article. 2 Dissents
ART. 44. To see if the Town will vote to accept the following articles to be used by the Fire Department:
One E and J Resuscitator, one Portable Deluge Gun and three Life Jackets purchased by the Tewksbury Firefighters Association. Tewksbury Firefighters Association
ART. 45. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purchase of a piece of fire apparatus or take any
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other action in relation thereto.
Fire Chief
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $20,000.00 be raised and appropriated for the purpose of this article with only $10,000.00 to be used, if matching funds from Civil Defense are available at time of delivery of apparatus.
ART. 46. This Board voted unanimously to recommend the adoption of the following proposed amendment to the zoning by-laws:
To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Laws by striking out Paragraph G of Section 13 and substituting the fol- lowing :
Section 13, Paragraph G: No corporation, person or persons, owners, lessees, or other person in control of a trailer, trailer coach, mobile home, or other closed vehicle furnished for housekeeping and designed to be pulled behind another vehicle shall cause the same to be placed upon any premises in any district within the Town except within a duly authorized Trailer Coach Park with- out the prior approval of the Board of Appeals acting in accordance with Section 17 of the Zoning By-Laws and Chapter 40A, Section 15, and other lawful authority.
The Board of Appeals shall not act upon any application for a permit unless the Board of Health has submitted their approval of the proposed location to the Board of Appeals in writing.
Planning Board
ART. 47. To amend the Zoning By-Laws to change from a general residence and Farming that portion of the following described tract of land now zoned for general residence and farming to Heavy Industry, said tract of land being now owned by Edwin Osterman and described as follows:
Land situated in West Tewksbury and bounded by Whipple Road, French Street and North Billerica Road and consisting of the following parcels of land described by the following deeds:
FIRST: The land in said Tewksbury situated on the easterly side of North Billerica Road and the southeasterly side of French Street and thus bounded and described:
Beginning at the southwesterly corner of the granted premises on the easterly side of said North Billerica Road at land formerly of Aaron Osterman; thence running northerly along said North Billerica Road and northeasterly along said French Street by the stone wall, one thousand three (1003) feet to a stone wall at land now or formerly of M. N. Anderson and Sons; thence running southeasterly at an angle of 69° 30' along said last named land by the stone wall, eight hundred seventy-one (871) feet to a stone
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wall at said land formerly of Aaron Osterman; thence running westerly at an angle of 77° along said last named land by the stone wall, five hundred sixty-four (564) feet to the point of beginning: Containing seven and 5/10 (7.5) acres, more or less, and being shown on a plan of land entitled, "Plan of Land in Tewksbury, Mass. surveyed for Edwin W. Osterman," surveyed May 15, 1954 by L. S. Belanger, Land Surveyor, and recorded with said Registry of Deeds, Plan Book 86, Plan 194.
SECOND: The land in said Tewksbury situated on the easterly side of No. Billerica Road and thus bounded and des- cribed :
Beginning at the northwesterly corner of the granted premises on the easterly side of said North Billerica Road at land formerly of Aaron Osterman; thence running easterly at an angle of 104° 30' along said last named land and along land now or formerly of M. N. Anderson and Sons by the stone wall, nine hundred sixty-two (962) feet to other land formerly of Aaron Osterman; thence running southeasterly at an angle of 101° 30' along said last named land, eight hundred fifty (850) feet to a stone wall at land now or formerly of Melvin Rogers; thence running westerly at an angle of 84° 45' along said last named land by the stone wall, two hundred sixty-seven (267) feet; thence running northwesterly at an angle of 148° 15' along said land formerly of Aaron Osterman by the ditch, eleven hundred seventy-five (1175) feet to said No. Billerica Road; thence running northerly at an angle of 82° along said No. Billerica Road, four hunderd twelve (412) feet to the point of beginning.
Containing seventeen and 4/10 (17.4) acres, more or less, and being shown on a plan of land entitled, "Plan of Land in Tewksbury, Mass. surveyed for Edwin W. Osterman," surveyed May 15, 1954 by L. S. Belanger, Land Surveyor, and recorded with Middlesex North District Registry of Deeds, Plan Book 86, Plan 193.
THIRD: The land in said Tewksbury situated on the south- easterly side of North Billerica Road and thus bounded and des- cribed:
Beginning at a stone bound at the southwesterly corner of the granted premises on the southeasterly side of said North Billerica Road at land now or formerly of Frank H. Felker and Albion L. Felker; thence running North 10° 35' East along said North Billerica Road, seventy-two and 46/100 (72.46) feet; thence running North 27° East along said North Billerica Road, two hundred nine and 55/100 (209.55) feet to the center of a ditch at land formerly of Aaron Osterman; thence running South 56° East along said last named land by the center of said ditch, eleven hundred seventy-six and 6/10 (1176.6) feet to a ditch at land
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now or formerly of David Rogers; thence running southwesterly along said last named land by the ditch; two hundred eight (208) feet to a point near a pond hole, so called; thence running North 61° 35' West along said Pond hole, ninety-six and 21/100 (96.21) feet; thence running South 18° 25' West along said pond hole to a stone bound at said land now or formerly of Frank H. Felker and Albion L. Felker; thence running North 57° 10' West along said last named land, nine hundred ninety-seven and 4/10 (997.4) feet to the point of beginning.
Containing six and 802/1000 (6.802) acres, more or less, and being shown on a plan of land entitled, "Plan of Land in Tewks- bury belonging to F. H. and A. L. Felker," surveyed May 1899 by O. M. Snell, C. E. and recorded in said Registry of Deeds, Plan Book 86, Plan 195.
FOURTH: The land in said Tewksbury bounded and des- cribed as follows:
Beginning at a stone bound at the southwesterly corner of the granted premises at the junction of land now or formerly of one Rogers and of Aaron Osterman; thence running easterly along said Rogers land, four hundred fifty (450) feet to a stone bound at other land of said Rogers; thence running northerly along said last named land to a stone bound; thence running westerly at a right angle along said last named land, four hundred fifty (450) feet to a stone bound at land formerly of Aaron Osterman; thence running southerly along said last named land to the point of be- ginning.
Containing five and one-quarter (5 1/4) acres, more or less, and being a part of what is known as the Porter Livingston Farm.
FIFTH: The land in said Tewksbury situated on the south- westerly side of Whipple Road and thus bounded and described:
Beginning at the southeasterly corner of the granted premises on the southwesterly side of said Whipple Road at land now or formerly of Anna F. Sperry; thence running westerly along said last named land by the wall and fence, about five hundred five (505) feet; thence continuing westerly along land formerly of Aaron Osterman by the wall, about four hundred fifty-two (452) feet to other land formerly of Aaron Osterman; thence running northerly along said last named land by the ditch, about two hundred fifty-seven (257) feet; thence running northerly along land now or formerly of Martin Anderson by the wall, about three hundred seven (307) feet to Lot 1 on a plan of land here- inafter mentioned; thence running South 71 1/2° East along said Lot 1 by the wall, two hundred forty (240) feet; thence running North 34 1/2° East along said Lot 1 by the wall, three hundred twenty-two (322) feet to said Whipple Road; thence running
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southeasterly along said Whipple Road by the wall, about nine hundred eighty (980) feet to the point of beginning.
Containing eleven and 42/100 (11.42) acres, more or less, and being Lot 2 on a plan of land entitled, "Plan of Land in Tewksbury, Mass., belonging to William H. Livingston," surveyed May 1906 by Smith and Brooks, Civil Engineers and Surveyors, and recorded with said Registry of Deeds, Plan Book 23, Plan 20.
SIXTH: The land in said Tewksbury situated on the south- westerly side of Whipple Road and thus bounded and described:
Beginning at the northeasterly corner of the granted premises on the southwesterly side of said Whipple Road at a point distant two hundred fifty (250) feet northwesterly from the northeasterly corner of Lot 2 on a plan of land hereinafter mentioned; thence running westerly along land now or formerly of Delia N. Livingston to the corner of a stone wall at land now or formerly of Martin Anderson; thence running southerly along said last named land by the wall, two hundred eigthy-five (285) feet to said Lot 2; thence running South 71 1/2° East along said Lot 2 by the wall, two hundred forty (240) feet; thence running North 34 1/2° East along said Lot 2 by the wall, three hundred twenty-two (322) feet to said Whipple Road; thence running northwesterly along said Whipple Road by the wall, two hundred fifty (250) feet to the point of beginning.
Containing three and one-half (3 1/2) acres, more or less, and being the southerly part of Lot 1 on a plan of land entitled, "Plan of Land in Tewksbury, Mass., belonging to William H. Livingston," surveyed May 1906 by Smith and Brooks, Civil Engineers and Surveyors, and recorded with said Registry of Deeds, Plan Book 23, Plan 20.
Planning Board
ART. 48. To see what sum of money the Town will appropriate to provide for leasing and maintaining suitable quarters for the Veterans of Foreign Wars Tewksbury Post No. 8164, in accordance with Chapter 40, Section 9, as amended, General Laws of Mass., or take any other action relative thereto. Harry Youney
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $600.00 be raised and appropriated for this purpose.
ART. 49. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to sell to the American Veterans of World War Two and the Korean conflict, Post No. 156, for the sum of one dollar ($1.00) Lot No. 7 as shown on ("A plan of land in Tewksbury belonging to heirs of Charles Livingston"). Said land located on Main St., So. Tewks- bury. Thomas D. Ray
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $1.00 be raised and appropriated for this purpose.
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ART. 50. To see if the Town will authorize the Moderator to appoint a committee to expend the money appropriated for the proper observance of Memorial Day, said committee to be taken from members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, Amvets and Disabled American Veterans. Thomas D. Ray
The Finance Committee recommends the adoption of this article.
ART. 51. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate an additional sum of $2,000.00 to cover insurance premiums due in 1958. Insurance Committee
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $2,000.00 be raised and appropriated for this purpose.
ART. 52. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00), under the direction of a playground commission of five members to be appointed by the Moderator in accordance with Chapter 45 Section 14 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, or take any other action relative thereto. Tewksbury Playground Commission
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $3,000.00 be raised and appropriated for this purpose.
ART. 53. To authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, to sign, seal, acknowledge, and deliver, for and in behalf of the Town of Tewksbury, a deed in confirmation of an earlier deed from the Town of Tewksbury to Maurice W. Blumsack, dated October 4, 1944, recorded with Middlesex North District Deeds, Book 1014, Page 38, covering property known as Lots 367, 368 and 369 on a "Plan of Land known as Shawsheen River Park," and located on Coolidge Road in Tewksbury, in which deed certain discrepancies exist impairing the validity of the title.
The Finance Committee recommends the adoption of this article.
ART. 54. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $17,600.00 to construct the following gravel sidewalk paths:
. a. Patten Road from Shawsheen St. to Whipple Road 2,112 lineal feet ;
b. Foster Street from Shawsheen St. to Kevin Street 2,800 lineal feet.
Work to be done under the supervision of the Road Commissioners. Sidewalk Committee
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $6,000.00 be raised and appropriated for the purpose of this article.
ART. 55. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum
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of $14,200.00 to surface with Bituminous Concrete the following sidewalks:
a. Shawsheen Street 3,500 lineal feet
b. Patten Road 2,112 lineal feet
c. Foster Street 2,800 lineal feet
Work to be done under the supervision of the Road Commissioners. Sidewalk Committee
The Finance Committee recommends the indefinite postponement of this article.
ART. 56. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the Heath Brook School Account a sum of money to meet the obligations incurred by the 1954 School Building Committee for professional services rendered by Donaldson Ray McMullin Associates or take any other action in relation thereto.
1954 School Building Committee
The Finance Committee recommends the indefinite postponement of this article.
ART. 57. To see what term the Town will determine for the office of director of County Aid to Agriculture as provided in Chapter 319 of the Acts of 1957. Melvin G. Rogers
ART. 58. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $300.00 in support of the trustees for County Aid to Agriculture, to be expended by 4-H Club Agent, Home Demonstration Agent and Club Leader in conjunction with the Extension Service and the Town Director. Board of Selectmen
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $300.00 be raised and appropriated for this purpose. I Dissent
ART. 59. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Select- men to acquire by purchase or take by eminent domain in fee simple a tract of land consisting of approximately 55.49 acres for school purposes, namely, the erection of a high school, accessory buildings, playground, and other school facilities connected there- with, in accordance with Chapter 40, Section 14, and Chapter 79 of the General Laws as amended, said parcel of land being shown on a plan entitled "Plan of Land in Tewksbury, Mass., surveyed for the Town of Tewksbury, Mass., Scale 1" = 200 feet, Jan. 21, 1958, Dana F. Perkins and Sons, Inc., Civil Engineers and Sur- veyors, Reading, Mass." which plan is to be recorded at the Mid- dlesex North Registry of Deeds; said land with the buildings there- on being more particularly bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the southerly side of Pleasant Street in the Town of Tewksbury at a point distant westerly 165.10 feet
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from a county bound at a private way, and at the northwesterly corner of land conveyed to Robert Flucker et ux by Charles Wilson by deed dated June 10, 1941, and recorded at said Registry in Book 961 at Page 519; thence turning and running south 5° 0' east by said Flucker land 275.55 feet to the end of a stone wall; thence turning and running north 5 ° 58' 50" east by the wall, still by said Flucker land 171.88 feet to a drill hole at other land of Flucker and Wilson; thence turning and running south 44° 30' west by said Flucker and Wilson land and land now or formerly of Mark Roper, following the stone wall 387.89 feet to a point; thence continuing by said wall and land of Roper south 9° 42' 20" west 109.74 feet to a point at the end of the wall; thence turning and running south 0° 32' 30" west still by land of said Roper and crossing the twenty-foot easement of the Common- wealth of Massachusetts 330 feet to a stone bound; thence turning and running south 86° 45' 10" east still by said Roper land 212.70 feet to a point which is distant westerly from an old stone bound 35.31 feet; thence turning and running south 13º 31' 40" west by land now or formerly of Edna Small 383.6 feet to a point at land now or formerly of Sy B. Solomont, and being the northerly line of Lot 16 as shown on a plan entitled "Pine Street Park," recorded at said Registry of Deeds in Plan Book 87, Plan 18; thence turning and running north 86° 53' 30" west by the northerly line of Lot 16, Lot 15, Lot 14, Lot 13, the end of Avolon Road, and Lot 12, 452.10 feet to an iron pipe at the northwesterly corner of said Lot 12; thence turning and running south 22º 52' 50" west by the westerly line of said Lot 12, and Lots 11, 10, 9, and 8, all as shown on said Plan of Pine Street Park, 477.79 feet to a drill hole in the wall at land of Louis Small now or formerly; thence turning and rulnning north 88° 29' 30" west by said Small land 370.38 feet to an iron pipe at land now or formerly of Robert L. Innis; thence turning and running north 87º 1' 10" west by said Innis land 884.52 feet to a drill hole at a corner of a stone wall; thence by said stone wall south 89° 9' 20" west 40.76 feet to a drill hole at a second corner in the stone wall, at land now or formerly of John P. and Hugh F. Mahoney; thence turning and running north 4° 3' 10" east by said Mahoney land 164.85 feet to a drill hole in the wall; thence still by said Mahoney land north 4º 53' 20" east 291.18 feet to a drill hole at the commencement of another wall; thence by said wall and still by land of said Maho- ney, north 10° 51' 0" east, crossing the Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts water easement 410.89 feet to a drill hole at the junction of three walls and at the southeasterly corner of land now or formerly of Charles and Mary Wilson; thence turning and running south 86° 42' 10" east by land now or formerly of Emil and Avah Bernsson 241.97 feet to a drill hole in the wall at land now or formerly of Howard Whitten; thence turning and running north 1º 35' 30" east still by said Bensson land 249.80 feet to a drill hole in the wall at land of Harold C. Whitten; thence turning and
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running north 73° 6' 0" east 178 feet by said Whitten land to land now or formerly of Agnes M. and Robert N. Aubut; thence turn- ing and running north 8° 13' 10" west still by said Whitten land 401.89 feet to a point on the southerly side of Pleasant Street; thence turning and running north 60° 30' 0" east by the southerly side of said street 198.52 feet to the northwesterly corner of land now or formerly of Edward P. and Doris L. Sweet; thence turning and running south 20° 46' 40" east by said Sweet land 227.59 feet to an iron pipe; thence turning and running north 61° 48' 40" east 198.20 feet still by said Sweet land to an iron pipe at land of one Sanford; thence turning and running north 46° 2' 40" east by said Sanford land 19.31 feet to a drill hole at the beginning of a wall; thence turning and running south 84° 32' 40" east by the wall and said Sanford land 204.22 feet to a drill hole at the junction of three walls; thence turning and running south 4° 24' 20" east by land now or formerly of Bernard H. and Thelma C. Greene following the wall 34.14 feet to a drill hole at the junction of three other walls; thence turning and running north 84º 14' 10" east by land of said Greene and one Kane and following the stone wall 443.92 feet to a drill hole in the wall at the southeasterly corner of land now or formerly of John C. Kane; thence turning and running north 5° 6' 20" west by said Kane land 313.28 feet to a point on the southerly side of Pleasant Street; thence turning and running south 87º 20' 0" east by the southerly side of said Pleasant Street 164.40 feet to the point of beginning. Excluding from said above- described premises the easement twenty-feet in width owned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the operation and main- tenance of its water mains as shown on said plan.
The owners of said land above-described being listed as follows:
Eugene L. Tougas, Jr., and Rose Marie Tougas - indefinite area
Mildred R. Cole - 6.53 acres
Agnes M. Aubut and Robert N. Aubut - 10.53 acres
Howard Whitten - 1.25 acres
Emil Bernsson and Avah Bernsson - 9.01 acres
Estate of Harry P. Nash - indefinite area
George M. Hazel and Barbara Hazel - indefinite area Pauline L. Simou - indefinite area
John D. Woodfin, Jr. --- indefinite area
James J. MacNeil - indefinite area
William M. Harrigan - indefinite area
Edward C. Malloy, Jr. - indefinite area
Robert M. Butler - indefinite area
Frank W. Mase - indefinite area Raymond Surette - indefinite area
Frank W. Mase - 11,040 square feet
Geraldine Proia - 11,176 square feet
Geraldine Proia - 12,249 square feet
Geraldine Proia - indefinite area
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And to see what sum the town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from the Excess and Deficienty Account for such purchases or takings or take any other action in relation thereto.
High School Building Committee and Board of Selectmen
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $19.00 be raised and appropriated for land taking by eminent domain.
ART. 60. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Select- men to acquire by purchase or take by eminent domain the fol- lowing described interest in a tract of land consisting of ap- proximately 72,000 square feet for the purpose of ingress, egress, and regress to and from Pine Street to the land now or formerly of Eugene L. Tougas, the location of the proposed new high school; said parcel of land and said purchase or taking being as follows:
An easement and right of way for the purpose of providing access and utilities over and through the land hereinafter described from said Pine Street to the land connected with the new proposed high school and the right to construct, maintain, and operate thereon and therein pipe lines and conduits for the conveyance of and transportation of water, chemicals, or any other materials and substances, and the right to construct, maintain, and operate telegraph, telephone lines, and electric power lines on, in, and over such right of way, said rights and easements to be owned and operated in common with the owner or any of his heirs, assigns or devisees, said rights to include the right to construct, maintain, and operate a hard surface macadam road or gravel surface road for the length and width of the land hereinafter described; said land being shown on a plan entitled "Pine Street Park Subdivision Plan by Dana F. Perkins and Sons, Civil Engineers and Surveyors" and being recorded at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds, Plan Book 87, Plan 81, and being shown on said plan as Avalond Road for its entire length and width extending from Pine Street to land now or formerly of one Eugene L. Tougas, being approximately 40 feet wide and 1800.9 feet long and being wider at its intersection with Pine Street.
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