New London turns down spending for police station planning

Published: 03-13-2025 6:19 PM

NEW LONDON — During a floor meeting on Wednesday, voters rejected a $955,000 bond to continue planning for a new police facility on Seamans Road.

They also rejected an appropriation of $630,000 to cover the principal and interest of long-term debt.

Both of those articles will be reconsidered at an upcoming meeting, Town Clerk Will Kidder said in a Thursday email.

In other floor votes Wednesday, New London approved a general fund budget of $1.99 million; a public safety budget of $3.2 million; a highway, streets and sanitation budget of $3.25 million; a health and welfare budget is $314,000; and a recreation, culture and conservation budget of $1.07 million, as well as $1.16 million for capital and non-capital reserves.

Voters also supported an article to call on state elected officials to “uphold their duty to fiscal responsibility by rejecting any expansion of taxpayer funding for private education until we have full accountability.”

In ballot voting on Tuesday, Richard G. Anderson earned election to a three-year term on the Selectboard, beating out Thomas J. Carley and Cara M. Leone.

Anderson earned 496 votes to Carley’s 409 and Leone’s 88.

At the polls, voters also approved three zoning amendments, including one adding a definition of short-term rental to the zoning ordinance and another allowing lighting on the Sally Shaw Veitch Track and Field at Kelsey Athletic Campus, Colby-Sawyer College.

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