Boxborough Select Board Defers Fire Station Vote Date, Eyes January Special Town Meeting

BOXBOROUGH -- October 20, 2025, Boxborough Select Board defers fire station vote timeline to next week while exploring electronic voting clickers for future town meetings. Meeting on October 20, the board accepted resignations from Brittany Zorn of the Community Preservation Committee and Christine Casebolt of the Board of Registrar, and unanimously appointed resident Mark Marlow to the Board of Registrar through April 2027. The board tabled both the date of an upcoming special town meeting, expected in January rather than December, and the question of calling a debt-exclusion ballot election, deferring to a Fire Station Building Committee decision expected Thursday and a follow-up Select Board meeting October 27. Town Moderator Dennis, on Zoom, cautioned that a May annual town meeting featuring an override or debt-exclusion vote could draw 500 to 600 voters and "cannot practically be accommodated at Blanchard," pressing the board to keep the Regency at Stow hotel for that session despite a $7,000 total cost for the most recent meeting. On clickers, a Littleton town clerk's office staff member confirmed his town borrows units from Harvard and Groton, "we had 20 seconds to vote, everyone voted, and it appeared right on the screen", prompting the board to direct town clerk Becky Harris and the moderator to research systems and costs, with any purchase targeted for a future town meeting warrant.