Board of Health

Townsend Board of Health gives VFW Post 6538 a final seven-day window to obtain a food service permit or face suspension.

Townsend Board of Health unanimously approved septic variances for three adjacent Main Street properties, allowing leach areas to be installed on an abutting parcel rather than on the lots they serve.

TOWNSEND — June 8, 2026 — Townsend Board of Health escalates enforcement at a wetland-adjacent neglected property, approves a $60,638 waste invoice warrant. The board voted unanimously at its June 8 meeting to send a certified letter to the owner of 61 Edmonton Road, giving seven business days to submit

TOWNSEND — May 26, 2026 — Townsend Board of Health raises hauler permit fees and approves a pay-as-you-throw grace period for the July sticker rollout. The board voted unanimously at its May 26 meeting to adopt revised hauler regulations setting the annual permit fee at $350, up $100 from

TOWNSEND — May 11, 2026 — Townsend Board of Health closes public hearing on solid waste regulations and sends enforcement letter to debris-strewn Edward Road property. The board voted unanimously Monday to shut the hearing on new hauler rules that would impose mandatory recycling on both residential and commercial generators and

TOWNSEND — April 28, 2026 — Townsend Board of Health heard a pitch to loosen medical marijuana zoning rules and approved three septic permits at its April 28 meeting. Citizen petitioner Colby Streeter walked Chairman Dr. Christian Romney Ramirez and Vice Chair Charles Paul Serene through three Annual Town Meeting articles — Articles

TOWNSEND — April 13, 2026 — Townsend Board of Health votes to hire new recycling attendant and eyes mandatory hauler recycling rules. The board voted unanimously at its April 13 meeting to recommend Jeffrey Moon, 20, for the Recycling Center Attendant 1 position, with a projected start date of May 2 pending

TOWNSEND — March 23, 2026 — Townsend Board of Health approved three septic system permits and a $73,801.77 invoice warrant at its March 23 meeting. Chairman Dr. Christian Ramirez and remote Clerk Todd Arsenal, the only members present, voted unanimously on all items. Engineer Trevor Fletcher of Grass Engineering LLC

Townsend Board of Health approves one septic upgrade, continues another, and patches a fire-notification gap.

Townsend's Board of Health unanimously backed its own FY2027 operating budget and rejected a joint Finance Committee and Select Board directive to hold spending flat at last year's reduced levels. Chair Dr.