Pepperell's Planning Board voted to keep a contested zoning table of uses tabled, pushing a Main Street tattoo parlor request toward a separate special town meeting instead of the November warrant.
This week's Pepperell obituary roundup includes one notice: Vance, Thelma Minerva (Burton), age 96, who died Tuesday, October 13, 2026.
Nineteen property transfers were recorded for Pepperell between Sept. 18 and Oct. 17, with 15 carrying a sale price so far, ranging from $210,000 to $1,100,000 and a median of $570,000. The month's top sale was 57 Shattuck St. at $1,100,000, followed closely by 102 Mt. Lebanon St. at $1,069,000.
The Capital Program Committee reviewed a $350,000 free cash or stabilization request bound for the Nov. 7 Town Meeting.
Pepperell's Economic Development Advisory Committee weighed a regional tourism partnership but deferred any commitment to the Select Board.
Pepperell's Community Preservation Committee voted 5-0 to spend leftover Walton Cemetery restoration funds on more broken headstones.
Pepperell's Climate Change Committee said it was never notified about a Planning Board zoning proposal covering data centers, despite being publicly named at a hearing as a consulted stakeholder.
The Pepperell Board of Public Works voted 5-0 to recommend three Special Town Meeting warrant articles covering highway equipment, cemetery mowers and a cemetery bylaw update.
Pepperell Select Board recommended 12 of 13 articles for the November 7 special town meeting, splitting 2-1 on a right-to-farm bylaw expansion.
Pepperell's Board of Health approved a one-foot septic setback variance for a repair project at 18 Celestial Way in a 2-0 vote Tuesday, clearing a leach field design that avoids a costly pump system.
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