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God bless her. She's probably a nice woman. Okay. And the same with uh the same with um sorry with Michelle Woo. What is motivating them to keep these people here? They cost too much. They're causing problems. They don't assimilate into our culture. What do we do about this? And what is the reason? I don't understand what's driving these people. The reason why is this is a power play by the Biden administration and endorsed by the Healey administration to bring voters to keep their power position. It's chaos in these shelters. There's no checks and balances. It's a lawless society. Um the shelters are set up for failure to even fail the migrants at itself. And public safety is 100% at risk. It's it's just totally unacceptable. And other budgets are being stressed in the Commonwealth. School budgets, public safety budgets are being stressed.
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You have to ask yourself why. What are we getting? What do you see? You know, on your drive to the studio today, how many potholes did you hit? How many bridges did you drive over that probably aren't in the best shape that you want? Uh you really have to start questioning like what are we getting for our taxes
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So, Clover Road Brewing in Hudson, Mass has now opened their second location here and we could not be any happier. Um, especially said is is completely accurate, but I think what what's hard to capture in words is really kind of the perseverance and the dedication uh of this couple here and what they've had to go through to turn this place into what it is today. And it is just remarkable. I mean, if you had seen what this place looked like before and and some of you have, hey, Lynn, maybe you could give us a, you know, a few stories. Perfect. It's perfect. Yeah. I mean, Beth's sitting there going, "If these walls could talk," and I'm like, "Please don't." You know, there's no telling what's being said. But let me tell you, you've just really turned this space into your own. And but at the same time you've respected the heritage and the history that is the Ashlin Fire Station built in what 1930 30 something 1920
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You don't just bring brewery and great beer to the town of Ashland. You're bringing a great place for to build community and to foster really great stories. And perhaps you'll be here when the fire department comes while we're all enjoying the space. That was awesome. Um, thank you very much on behalf of the ABA.
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So, um, welcome to Clover Roads Ribbon Cutting. It's official after this, John. I know you've been open for a month, um, but I had to make it official. There's something about, um, a ribbon cutting that just feels like it just makes it real. And
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And President Trump was 100% correct calling Mayor Ru a radical with her policies of her sanctuary cities. You know, government's first uh responsibility is to protect the vulnerable people. And Mayor Woo and Governor Healey are not protecting the vulnerable citizens and migrants in Massachusetts. And it's disgraceful. It's it's just totally unacceptable. And other budgets are being stressed in the Commonwealth. School budgets, public safety budgets are being stressed. And you know this lunacy needs to
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Folks, remember what this was like 10 years ago. Made it what it is today collectively as a community. It wasn't staff. It wasn't boards. It wasn't wasn't just the private sector. It was all of us together making this town what we want it to be. And that's special. You're a part of something
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We're 3 years into the migrant crisis here in Massachusetts. The legislature continues to pass funding to fund what we refer to as the Healey Hotels with no accountability and more importantly no no exit strategy to find permanent housing for the migrants. And the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has spent over $4 billion on this crisis. And there's no plan uh for housing for the migrants. And ultimately, the Commonwealth is failing the migrants. It's it's just totally unacceptable. And other budgets are being stressed in the Commonwealth. School budgets, public safety budgets are being stressed. And you know this lunacy needs to
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allow us to welcome you to this vibrant and robust community that you are spearheading with this fabulous renovation. Uh on behalf of the Ashlin Business Association, please make sure you pay attention. We have some awesome events on deck. We have town forums with Michael Herbert coming up. It's really important. Stay focused, stay involved, and the Ashlin business community can help you with that. think you can help us with
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But you know this tax assets handle that uh the commonwealth has earned and deserves at this juncture. Oh yeah. Is easily explained when you think about each individual tax. Now it's tax season. We all know that we have the personal income tax. It's federal taxes, state tax. We know that Massachusetts, John, has a uh a state income tax. Something that at one time or another they didn't have, right? Or was it was lower. But I have a list for you. Sometimes it's fun to go through lists, but this the list of the taxes we pay. Taxes in Massachusetts. Okay. Income tax varies, I think, between five and 9% depending on on how much you make. So, that's a lot of money. Okay. Added to the federal sales taxes, six and a quarter. Correct me, gentlemen, if I'm wrong on any of these numbers. Six and a quarter% sales tax, which by the way sends a lot of money to New Hampshire.
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Yeah. And out of the uh revenue stream of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, property tax 1.04% that's an ongoing and that's also based on how much do you how much do you own? What's it worth? Uh corporate tax, John, is 8%, right? I believe. 8%. Yep. The millionaire's tax if you get over a certain amount of money, I can't remember the I'll never hit it myself personally, but it's an additional 4%.
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First of all, uh we have a housing crisis is what we have here in Massachusetts now, which has been, you know, uh made worse, substantially worse by the influx of all these new visitors. I call them guests. Um but those hotels themselves, the actual physical buildings, you the one in Malboro for sure, and some of the ones I've been to, they're not ever going to be the same. They have to be kind of like raised and rebuilt because they're just a mess. Is that not true, John? Oh, you're I I can just speak from experience of being in some of these that you're just going to have to tear them all down and redo them. And here's the thing. I mean, you know, if Bill's thing, you know, if I was the governor, I'd tear them down. And you you know you you hear the Healey administration right now talk about you know they're they're champions of affordable housing.
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came in. All right. Now, is that one yours or is that the parents thing? Certainly. Cara Castton here. Ken Dawson here. Charerel Fuller here. Jenny Hagstrom here. Terry Pavisich here. Don Runner here. Rehan Hashim here. And Jason Trijo here. Thank you.
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here. Folk present. Gorman. Papis here. Vulpi here. Wson here. Enfield here. Can you please stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for All right. Okay. All right.
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United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. I would like to call to order the statement of purpose hearing.
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I'm going to count. One, two, three. Everybody, so glad to see so many people here in this iconic space that is so new to Ashland. So old to Ashland, yet so new to Ashland. So, um, welcome to Clover Roads Ribbon Cutting. It's official after this, John. I know you've been open for a month. Um, but I had to make it official. There's something about um, a ribbon cutting that just feels like it just makes it real. And, um, for those of you who don't know me, um, my name is Beth Reynolds. I'm the economic development director here at the town of Ashland. Um, I was privileged to work on this project after the public safety building, the new public safety building was built, um, by the hard work of so many people. Um, and it vacated this space here and we went back and forth about what we were going to do with the fire station.
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of her chest. Low on faults her last mess crumbs on the bar top for red. She wouldn't get too far. She's got keys to drive to the neon lights. Listen to the story of her life. She left her car. I left my car at China Rose. At the China Rose. Sipping on my dice and blowing smoke.
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Tonight's match up for the with the East Law Meadow Spartans hosting the Long Meadow Lancers. Last year, Long Meadow was 16-6, losing in a quarterfinals to Hangingham. East Law Meadow last year split differences with Long Meadow winning our first game in 25 years as uh Long Meadow won the other one. So, East Law Meadow LA last year, I don't know where I have it. Law me Esau Meadow beat Long Meadow 17 to4 at home as Law Meadow beat Esau Meadow 20 to4. I have a special co-host tonight and Steve Veno. He's going to do lacrosse with me, not his specialty, but uh how you doing, Steve? Well, Jeeoff, people say that I usually don't know what I'm talking about. This might be especially true tonight, but I I just I don't know. I got, you know, I listened to some of the last broadcast. You're doing a terrific job and I just got a little bit nostalgic for the soccer and basketball days.
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textbook. Um, and um, we're excited as we modify the curriculum and um, meet the new state standards u with the goal of um, having our curriculum carry kids all the way through to the early 2000s that this is a textbook that can support that. Um, our current book is over 20 years old. So, we are in desperate need for a new text. Um, we went through an exhaustive process. Um, we had three primary books. We also had picked up this search about two years ago as well and evaluated a number of texts at that time and didn't find one that was suitable. Um, so with that search and this search, we've looked at probably about six or seven textbooks in total. Um, and we feel like this textbook um, finds a nice balance. We're using this textbook for both honors and regular ed classes and we feel like this really uh finds the sweet spot of um meeting the needs of both of those students.
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Thank you all for attending. Kate has offered to take the minute tonight. And before we start, I just wanted to hope that to wish you all and hope you all that you had a very pleasant vacation and Easter Passover holiday after a week off now. So back to work and picking up the brunch. So it was tough to get back after a week of work to catch up. So with without any further I think it's going to be lengthy conversation tonight any delay I'm going to turn this over to Mike Weaver and Angela so they can get started on the financial Michael you want to start and take it over. Yeah Rich thank you. I'm just pulling this up so I can share my screen. Mike, the page numbers are referenced. Don't you, it'd be good when you, you know, are discussing something, just make reference to the page number.
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