A special Town Meeting convening tonight will take up articles seeking additional funding for the Estabrook School building project and access improvements, along with a tax increment financing request from Vistaprint.
It'll start with a dedication, and then they get down to the money business. At 7 p.m. tonight at Cary Memorial Hall, prior to the start of a special Town Meeting, a ceremony will be held for the dedication of the building’s auditorium, to be renamed as Margery Milne Battin Hall. Over the summer, the Board of Selectmen approved the naming of the auditorium after Battin, a former longtime town moderator and role model for women who died less than two weeks after that decision. “I can’t think of anybody in this whole community who has made more of a contribution to the community,” Norm Cohen, a selectman, said at the time. The dedication came after a request from Bill Dailey, another respected resident, who suggested naming the auditorium …
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In recognition of her decades of service to the town of Lexington.
As if it wasn’t already, Marge Battin’s name will be linked with Lexington’s Town Meeting for at least the foreseeable future. In a move each of them said was fitting, the Board of Selectmen on Monday, July 30, approved the naming of the Cary Memorial Hall’s auditorium after the former longtime town moderator and planting a tree in her honor somewhere on the green in front of the town offices on Mass Ave. “I can’t think of anybody in this whole community who has made more of a contribution to the community,” said Selectman Norm Cohen. Approval of the dedication came at the request of another respected resident, Bill Dailey, who wrote to the selectmen suggesting naming the auditorium for Margery M. Battin in recognition of her nearly 50 …
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