Shutesbury News

Police provided the woman a courtesy escort back to her dormitory room. The man was not located.

Mother, artist, organizer, daughter, wife, sister, aunt and friend, Kiran Sunrays Denise Bhowmik, 37, died Jan.

Will the Select Board authorize a vigorous legal defense of the Board of Registrars in the lawsuit challenging the board's decision to throw out a pro-library vote? That was the question raised by a library opponent this week, as Shutesbury braced itself for the latest twist in the ongoing debate over building a new $3.5 million library.

A group of Friends of the M.N. Spears Memorial Public Library have filed a challenge to the recent recount alleging that two no votes should not have been counted while a yes vote should have thus ending the tie.

Supporters of a proposed Shutesbury library filed suit Friday against the town's Board of Registrars over that panel's decision to accept two disputed ballots against the project and to disallow one in favor.

The Western Massachusetts Horse Show Series 2011 Awards Banquet was held Jan. 15 in Northampton.

SHUTESBURY - The next step in the long-running debate over whether to build a new library in Shutesbury was to occur Thursday, when the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners was set to hear a request to extend the deadline for accepting a $2.1 million state grant.

A recount Wednesday of the Jan. 10 vote over whether residents would approve $1.4 million in funding for a $3.5 million library project saw the town Board of Registrars throw out one vote in favor of the library, leaving the final vote tally at 522-522. The tie means the question fails.

Logging on to the Internet at the M.N. Spear Memorial library in the center of town is Megan R. Stokes of Boston.

Big-city cynics who believe one vote doesn't count for much these days might look north to the Franklin County town of Shutesbury , where a single vote tipped the scales in favor of a debt exclusion for a long-sought library project.

The town clerk ruled Tuesday that the previously uncounted vote on Jan. 10 was cast by an eligible voter and will be tallied in favor of a new library.

The house at 278 West Pelham Road is for sale now, but police have yet to find the person who killed the man who once lived there.

The single uncounted ballot that could break the deadlocked library vote in Shutesbury will remain sealed until the Board of Registrars determines if it was cast by an eligible voter.